Better and Better

Chapter 1.

My name is Evangeline White, most everyone calls me Evie. I am a Pediatric Nurse at Royal Hospital in London and have a flat here as well.

"Evie!" Ethan, who was running the Emergency Room tonight called.

"Yeah?" I asked, jogging to the desk and pulling brown wisps of hair from my face. The ER has been absolutely crazy tonight. This is why I usually steer clear from the ER, but of course Sarah's big date was tonight.

"There's a kid in Trauma 2 with a pretty big cut to the left arm and needs stitches." I nodded, grabbing one of the nurse carts and hauled in to Trauma 2. I gave a light knock and let myself and the cart in.

"Hello everyone, my name is Evie." I looked around the room and there were two small blonde children, and the person with them was a man looking like he was in his twenties. "It's very nice to meet you all, but with circumstances I doubt you feel the same so I will try to make this as quick as possible." I smiled and brought the cart next to the bed and had a seat.

"And who are you to them?" I asked the man.

"They are my niece and nephew." His voice cracked. He seemed really upset over what had happened to his niece. I nodded, focusing on my job.

"Hello!" The boy on the man's lap said with a smile from ear to ear.

"Hi there!" I returned his smile.

"Can I have your name? I want to make sure I'm stitching up the right little girl." I joked, making the teary eyed little girl smile.

"Hannah." She went back to her pout. I put on my gloves.

"Well, Hannah let me explain what I have to do here so you have absolutely no surprises. I'm going to give you a little shot and then you'll be all numb so I can stitch you up and you won't feel a thing!" I gave another little smile.

"But I don't want a shot." She started crying harder.

"Oh, Hannah please don't cry you'll be fine it'll be okay." The man finally spoke.

"How about this Hannah," I paused and handed her the small teddy bear I always kept in the breast pocket of my scrubs along with my pens. "You can hold onto my bear for now and squeeze him really hard when it hurts and it'll be over before you know it." She gave me a reluctant nod. I discarded my gloves and put on a new pair since I had just touched that bear.

"Are you sure you absolutely have to?" She tried pleading with me.

"Those accents don't sound like they're English, where are you from Hannah?" I distracted her as I prepped the needle. The man caught onto what I was doing and gave me a smile. She told me all about how they were all from South Africa and I quickly plunged the needle into her arm when she least expected it.

"Ow- wait you were right, it doesn't hurt anymore I'm all numb!" She said very excitedly.

"See I told you!" I gave her a big smile. In no time her stitches were finished and my hands were washed.

"May I speak to you outside for just a moment?" I asked the man. He quickly agreed and gave Hannah a quick kiss on the head and followed me out. "So what happened? I'm sorry this is just protocol for paperwork and all."

"Oh yeah okay," He ran his hand through his blonde hair. "I was filming with them- oh right I do YouTube videos. And I turned my head for a second and Hannah had sliced her arm on the edge of my desk. I feel awful their parents and mine are on Holiday and I was supposed to be watching them and-" His eyes were welling up a little so I stopped him.

"Hey, they're just children, they get hurt like it's their job. Don't upset yourself too much over this, it wasn't your fault." I gave him a supportive pat on the shoulder and a small smile. He just gave me a huge hug. "Oh." Was all I managed to say with a small laugh as I hugged him back.

"No just you were so good with her and you made me feel a lot better so thank you." He pulled away and gave me a small smile and turned back into the room. It's not typical to have men who look like him around in the hospital, so today has been a plus.

I returned to Hannah's room around twenty minutes later to make sure she wasn't having any pain and to have the man sign some papers and they were free to go.

"Bye, thank you." Hannah gave me a big hug.

"Oh my this family is full of hugs today," The man blushed. "And you're so welcome sweetheart it was my pleasure." I hugged her back. The family left and I cleaned up the room for the next person and got back to work.

At 3 A.M my dreadful ER shift was finished. I got in my car and drove myself back to my flat. I walked in to see the flat dead quiet, as I suspected. It's 3:15 in the morning, Sarah has to be fast asleep. I did my nightly routine as quietly as possible and fell asleep.

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The sunlight peered through my bedroom window and I groaned, closing my eyes tighter before sighing and sitting up. I looked at my phone and it was only 8 A.M.

I yawned and padded into the kitchen and saw Sarah sitting at our breakfast bar eating fruit loops in her dark green scrubs.

"Good morning." I yawned again and grabbed a granola bar.

"Hey thanks again for covering for me last night, Connor proposed!" She screeched.

"Oh my god! Sarah!" I jumped up and hugged my best friend of 13 years.

"Look look look!" She broke the hug and showed me a gigantic diamond on her ring finger.

"That's bloody huge!" I gawked bringing her hand closer to my face.

"Wait okay enough about me," She said after about 30 minutes of talking about her new engagement. "How was the shift last night? It wasn't too terrible was it?"

"No it wasn't too bad, a drunk idiot with a broken arm hit on me a few times, some man swallowed his house keys- don't ask, and actually I gave stitches to this adorable little girl and the man who was with her, I think he said he was her uncle was so attractive so that was nice."

"Sounds like a typical ER shift minus the attractive uncle boy." She laughed. "By the way Melanie told me to remind you to not take a night shift next Friday because we're all going clubbing."

"Yeah alright." I nodded and went back to my bedroom to get ready for work.

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