So my Fiance… It was about a year after the Doctor Grayson incidents. Kelly and I were actually roommates by then. I was what I called “Suitably Single” and I really didn’t date. Kelly on the other hand seemed to have a new boyfriend every few weeks. She couldn’t understand why I didn’t.

We were grabbing a shower in the locker room after a shift. I had taken a nap in the Doctor’s Lounge and she had waited for me, so it was an off hour and we had the showers to ourselves “Hey Meg, we both have the same days off this week. Why don’t we go check out that new restaurant that opened a few blocks away, then go hit up a club.”

“Nah, maybe dinner, but Italian food gives me heartburn… and I hate clubs.”

“It’s fresh, some sort of new farm to table thing that’s the rage… and come on! Girls at the club! Maybe you’ll meet a guy?”

“I don’t want to meet anyone. Anyways guys want to hit on you because you’re hot… I’m short and curvy.”

“Pfft really Meg? Don’t you ever have needs?”

“Needs?”

“You know… NEEEDS”

“I can deal with those myself…”

“It’s better with a man than a toy Meg.”

“Yeah you’re certainly not shy about it.” I said with a chuckle.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Nothing Kelly, we are both addicted to orgasms but you want a partner, and I am just… Happy doing it myself, that's all.”

“Come on Meg, we’ll have a blast, then the next morning we’ll go for a ride.”

“Unless you have another boyfriend over…”

“Well then we can take you for breakfast.”

“We’ll see..”

The same afternoon as our girls' dinner, I think it was two days later I was exhausted and was really trying to think of a way to get out of that night, but Kelly made sure I had a good dress and my makeup with me so I could enjoy myself… She popped her head over to me. “I made sure to give you the patient in bay seven.”

“Why’s that Kelly?”

“Young man, with your birthdate, who won’t tell any of the nurses what’s wrong other than he needs to see a doctor for abdominal pain. Those are always interesting.”

“My birthday?”

“Well you’re a year older but it caught my eye.”

“I’ll be right over.”

Kelly led the way and I pulled the curtain back and Kelly, chipper as ever “Hello Gianni I brought doctor Richardson by to see you.”

“Oh God, a girl doctor.”

“Is that ok? We could wait for another doctor but it might be a while.”

“No, no, no that’s fine…”

“Well what brings you in today? Abdominal pain?”

“Well ummm… you see I was ummm… in the shower…. And accidentally fell on my… on a… marker… and it went in my butt… and I thought it would pass on it’s own… now I am in pain.”

“Fell on it?” Kelly said trying not to laugh as I gave her a side eyed, this will be funny later, look.

“Yes. Fell…”

“How long ago?”

“Two days…I really did fall…”

"No one falls on a marker... Look, we don't care. Right Kelly?"

"I'm not gay though."

"I didn't say you were."

"I just liked... I am under a lot of stress starting a business that's all... but i am not gay ok..."

"No, it doesn’t mean you’re gay. you like things in your butt that's not gay, if you wanted a penis up your butt that might be, anyways this is pretty mild for the ER Shenanigans we see, and we won’t spread it around OK? Now let's get you to X-Ray and if I can get it out I will.. If it’s too deep I am going to have to call surgery.”

When the XRays came back Kelly came to get me, thankfully it was a slow morning. “Well good news for Pen Boy, I think I can get that out… Can you go start him on an IV on him. I’ll go get the orders in and be there in like 20 minutes.”

So I actually got over to him in like 20 minutes! ER Doctors are never on time. Kelly had him sedated and on some muscle relaxants, he mentioned he had to work tonight but I said I think he’d be OK in a few hours. He was really embarrassed still but i kept everyone else away, and trust me when you’re looking at an XRay of a foreign body in someone’s bum the staff wants to look around… I got it out pretty easily with an anoscope and some Surgical Forceps.

“Want to keep the marker?”

“No, please throw it out.”

“Just to be sure you’re OK I am going to have Kelly give you a fleet enema.”

“No need, I think I need to go anyway… like now..”

“Kelly can you help…” but before I could finish my sentence there was excrement everywhere… two days of it… “Kelly will you help clean Gianni up… I am going to go change, umm.. I’ll check back before I discharge you…”

“Oh God I am so sorry.”

“Don’t be… trust me this is nothing here…”

I checked on him again the next hour and he was fine… kept apologizing for the mess… I just politely smiled and told him not to worry. “Next time… Use something designed for back there… Not a random object…”

“Designed for back there?”

“Yeah ummm go to an adult store and umm they should know…”

“I can’t do that…”

“Do what you want but don’t put things in your butt because I don’t want to see you in here again because of that.”

Honestly I never would have thought much about him again. Nice and polite person with an embarrassing issue, but before the day was out we had a trama case, and a lot of easy cuts, bruises, and sprains… Just another day in the ER…

So later that night Kelly dragged me out to dinner and it was amazing. Menu had the names of the farms the ingredients were bought from and I saw ‘Richardson and Roy Farm and Dairy’ “Look Kelly it’s my family’s place.” I said scooting in next to her. “Wonder if the owner knows my Aunt?”

“Well let’s ask.” Kelly called out to the waitress and asked to meet the owner. We were still seated next to each other, our backs to the kitchen, helping each other pick through the wine list.

“Hello Ladies the waitress said you wanted to meet me?” He came around to face us and stopped.

“I think you already have!” Kelly said before I had a chance to look up.

“Oh no…”

“Oh… Yes… Umm… how are you feeling?” I said, not sure what to do.

“I am doing great. Ummm… thank you again..”

“Well you had the best medical team in the city!” Kelly said chipperly.

“Ummmm” we both said in unison “Gianni right? Well my first name is Meghan. I’m not Doctor off hours…Do you know Mary Richardson or Mark Roy?”

“Not personally, I just order their products…”

“Oh that’s Meg’s aunt and uncle!”

“Oh small world… I’m really sorry I need to go cook more umm… yeah about today, really I am sorry… I’m not gay…umm..”

“Neither are we!” Kelly said all of a sudden “Just friends… Even if we are sitting next to each other in a restaurant booth…hey I’m dragging Meg to a club after this… Come by and find us!”

“I am probably going right to bed we close at 11:00”

“Oh yeah see kelly, he’s tired and we both had a long day, let’s just go home.”

“Oh not tonight Meg! Come on! Here Gianni we’ll be at the Palm Grove until close… and I can tell Meg thinks you’re cute…”

I was blushing as he excused himself and ran off to the kitchen. I really didn’t want to go out after dinner but we did…

“Meg what if he comes looking for you!”

“What if he doesn’t.. Be easier if he doesn’t”

“What does that mean?”

“I don’t want a relationship, or a date, or even a lay…”

“You need yourself a man Meg, you don’t know it, but you do. He probably won’t come by but if he does never know…”

“FINE”

A few hours later we are sitting at the bar and he actually walks in. Dressed really nice and Kelly waved him over. He sat with us and despite me grunting through my teeth not to leave us she disappeared onto the dance floor.

“I’m her ride at least so she can’t leave me here…” I joked.

“Yeah… Ummm Meghan?”

“Yeah, Gianni…”

“Yeah… Ummm…”

“I’m kinda shy around boys… I haven’t had a boyfriend in years… It’s busy being a doctor.. And I really don’t want to date another doctor.”

“Yeah I have been trying to start my own restaurant since I was a kid… If I wasn’t in culinary school I was cooking or working somewhere…”

“I understand that…”

It was a little bit of an awkward conversation, but very sincere, he told me about his parents being Italian Immigrants after world war two, and I told him about my dad and me being the third doctor but first one to stay in the city… Then he stopped. “Ummm Meghan is your friend OK over there?”

“What’s going on?”

“She’s sitting on some guys lap…”

“Oh no… she must be in the mood…”

We walked over and she was like “Oh Hello you two this is… You are?.. Oh yeah this is Brian, he’s a lawyer you know”

We all ended up back at our place. Kelly and Brian were making out on the couch in front of us and we very quietly went into my room. We were just talking. Actually we were making each other laugh pretty good and I was trying to tell him how to make my grandmother’s pot roast and my aunt’s vegetarian dishes but every time I was mid sentence I heard “Harder!” through the thin walls…

“Yeah my aunt…”

“Harder!”

“Eat meat. And my mom..”

“Oh God harder! Yeah Yeah! That’s the spot! Harder!”

"My God does she know she's that loud?" Gianni said with a laugh

"I never say anything but the walls are pretty thin… but yeah umm…” I got up and yelled into the wall "Oh geez! just fuck her brains out so we can have a quiet conversation in here! You need to be on your A game with Kelly!” then turning around seeing a shocked Gianni, I said “sorry, my friend can't keep her legs together if she's in the mood..."

We fell asleep not too long after that, still fully clothed, I didn’t even bother taking my makeup off, and we slept till about 10:00 the next morning. I heard Kelly and Brian up first and Gianni and I went into the kitchen. Kelly only had a half closed silk robe on and he was just in high tighty whities and a T shirt.

“Hey Kelly” I said. “Have a good night?”

“Oh yes… GREAt NIGHT right Brian?” He just smiled “Oh he is going to take me to the MFA Today to see the Monets. Sorry I need to cancel our day together.”

“That’s OK, Gianni, do you like fast cars?” I said, wrapping my arms around him.