Save Me

3| Lauren

"Christian! Babe, where are you?"

It my first day of class in the nursing program and I was so amped to tell him about it.

"Christian!" I yelled out his name hoping at some point he would answer me. I started going through each room looking for him, but he was nowhere to be found.

Finally, when I got to our bedroom I heard the shower running. I went to our bathroom and decided that I'd surprise him by hopping in with him.

I was caught off-guard by the moans that started to fill the room.

"Yes, papí!" I heard a woman's voice before turning the corner to see Christian penetrating in the woman's backside as they leaned forward on our glass with their eyes shut. Their faces displayed pure ecstasy.

I went in my side of the closet and grabbed a bat. I had no idea what I'd do with it, but I'm smashing the first thing I see.

With no warning, I swung at our bathroom mirror hoping to get their attention. Sure enough the bitch who Christian was pleasuring screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Oh, now y'all hear me?!"

I shifted my thoughts back to present day, not trying to dwell on the past.

"That's where we differ mother. Maybe you should marry Christian yourself and experience what I did." I told her without telling specifics.

Granted, I haven't told anybody about my husband being physically and verbally abusive. It just doesn't ever feel right to reveal that to anybody so I always told about the excessive cheating instead. Plus, I don't want to ruin his public image.

"Perhaps, if he was a few years older." My mother had a small grin on her face, but I didn't see anything funny about her comment.

"Bye, mother."

I grabbed my purse and strolled out of her house to my car. I needed too because I had stayed in there any longer, an argument would ensue...as it always does.

When getting to work, I clipped my badge on my scrubs, tossed my purse in my locker, and prayed for a peace of mind this shift.

"Hey, girly. You're late...surprising."

I playfully rolled my eyes at my co-worker, Gloria, as I washed my hands at the sink. "Got into it with the mother today. She always on my case."

Glo furrowed her brows and shook her head. "Ooh, spill the tea!"

Together we walked to the ER as I told her. "She basically doing what she always does. Trying to convince me that I need to go back to being a housewife and bow down to my husband."

"And let me guess, you're not having it..."

"Hell no! And being a housewife was never an issue for me. It was the fact that he thought it was okay to continously disrespect me because he paid all the bills."

"I hear you, boo."

"Anyway, any patients I need to be monitoring heavy tonight Glo?" I asked.

"Yeah, patient in 105, patient in bed two from 107 and another in 110. They should be sleep now, but they're due for meds in a few hours." I took their files and examined what had they prescriptions for.

"Alright, no problem."

"Yep. Other than that, it's been pretty slow tonight."

"Just how I like it..." I said with a smile while penning in the times that I would be going to visit each patient within the next few hours.

"Damnit, you jinxed it Lauren!" Glo sighed. I looked up to see a woman being wheeled in with a man not too far behind her. The doctors took her in a room to examine while the man was yelling at the top of his lungs.

"He's losing it. Let me go calm him down," I said, rising up from my seat.

Glo got a hold of my wrist before I could move. "Lauren, be careful with that one." I gave her a intrigued look.

"Sounds like you know him..."

"Of course I do. He's a detective and he tends to come in here with his anger bottled up. Haven't seen his fine self in a while though."

I shook my head and started to approach the man. "Only you would notice how attractive a man is, despite working in a emergency room."

"Hello sir. I'm RN Lauren Santos and if could walk with me to the waiting roo--"

"This girl is the only damn witness I have for this shit! I'm not going anywhere right now. Let me talk to her before she goes to surgery." He turned to face me directly and I furrowed my brows at him. I knew his face, hadn't seen in it forever but I was familiar with him.

"Bam?" I uttered with a smirk and he turned away, not answering.

"You know what, I'll come back. Can you just have someone call me when she's available to talk. I'm sure that Gloria still has my card."

He started to leave, but I jogged after him. "Hold on, wait up! You just ignore me." Bam kept walking until I finally caught up to stand in front of him.

"How can I help you?" was all he said.

"Bam, you don't remember me? Lauren, or bird legs as you used to call me." His face was blank like I couldn't read him at all. It was weird.

"I remember you. Now, can I go?" I stepped aside and watched him leave for a moment before going back inside. He was nothing like I recalled.

"Wow, you got him out of here quick. How you do that?" I shrugged.

"I went to high school with him."

"Oh, okay. Was he a mute back then too?" Glo questioned with her hands on her hips.

"Nah, he seems like a completely different person now."

"Life will do that to you. On another note, patient in 102 needs to take a piss. Have fun."

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