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“You need to stop thinking that,” she said. “Just live your life. You’re happy. We are all happy for you and that is what you need to focus on.”
“You’re right,” Heather said.
“So when your parents want to come and visit you again soon, are you going to introduce them to Luke?”
“I’m hoping they don’t visit soon, but I will tell them about Luke before they get here.”
“Just not before they say they are coming?”
“Probably not,” Heather said. “I know that is wrong of me. I just want to enjoy what the two of us have.”
“There is nothing wrong with that,” she said. Maybe now would be a good time to bring this up. “Speaking of enjoying… If I’m not working for your next doctor’s appointment, can I go with you? Your doctor is a nice sight I enjoy seeing.”
“Sure,” Heather said. “He is, if you like that type.”
“What type is that?” she asked. “Young. Handsome. Stable. Yeah, what a horrible type to be. Oh yeah, saving women from the side of the road after a car accident.”
Daisy was laughing when she said that.
Maybe over the past month she’d built this man in her head that didn’t exist. That could be why she wanted to see him again.
Just to look and have some good inspiration in her thoughts to go to bed with at night.
“You know he’s young looking for a doctor. And he’s good looking. You have no idea if he’s stable or not.”
“He’s got a great job,” she argued. “He has to be.” At least in her mind he had to be. Not that she’d been exposed to many stable men in her life until she started working at Blossoms.
“No, he doesn’t,” Heather said. “He could have crazy student loans. Maybe he’s a gambler. He could be a cheater. You don’t know those things.”
“I know,” she said, sighing. So much for that fantasy she was weaving. “He doesn’t come off as any of those things.”
“If you say so,” Heather said. “You’ve seen him what, two to three times? What’s going on?”
Daisy laughed. Normally she was more honest about her thoughts and feelings, but this time she was slightly embarrassed by them. “Nothing. All I want to do is look at him again. A girl can create fantasies in her head, right? Nothing wrong with that, is there?”
“Nope,” Heather said. “There isn’t.”
6
Bright And Cheerful
Theo looked at the chart of his next patient. His last of the day.
Heather Davis. She’d gotten an X-ray prior and the results had just popped up.
He was thrilled to see the bone completely healed. The one the pin was in was rock solid. The other one needed more time to heal and had.
Her last appointment she’d come in with Luke, the trooper. Guess the two were dating. He hadn’t known what was going on with them the day of the accident but had heard the nurses talking at the station that they’d let him in the next day prior to visiting hours.
Maybe it’d been the start of something.
Whatever it was, he was hoping maybe Heather would come in with her roommate.
Not sure why he thought that, but he couldn’t get Daisy out of his head when so many patients and their friends and family members waltzed in and out of his life like a dance that had no ending.
“Dr. James,” Casey said. “Your last patient is in exam room three.”
“Is she alone?” he asked the nurse. Casey had been here since before he started. She was older and more efficient. Not an RN but an LPN. Most RNs didn’t work in the offices now just taking vitals. It was LPNs or nurses' aides. He didn’t care one way or another but was happy to see more nurses in the hospitals now.
