The way Gianni finally met my family is a story. We were supposed to be driving there on the weekend and then a HUGE a sunday for dinner. My mom was making my grandmother’s pot roast, my aunts were coming down and one of my uncles, as well as my grandparents from both sides. It was going to be a whole family reunion. Everyone seemed excited when I told them I had a boyfriend. We never made it though. We packed up on Saturday morning. He was going to stay with my aunt and I was going to stay with my parents, just to keep it proper and my mom happy. We packed up my car and I figured once we got out of the city we’d make great time.

For the first time Gianni convinced me to wear my seatbelt. I thank him to this day… Heading up on the interstate it started raining heavily. So bad I had zero visibility and while I am a fast driver I can be sensible, so I slowed down. I could just see the taillights of the car in front of us when all of a sudden I remember hearing a crash… I really don’t remember much but I am told we were rear ended by an 18 wheeler. My car flipped when it went over the embankment, there was a fire and Gianni pulled me out, despite his own broken arm, before I got burned, or worse. I was unconscious. I was bleeding. He was almost unhurt aside from the arm and bruises…

I woke up the next morning in a hospital bed. Gianni was right there asleep in a chair. He refused to leave me! Now one thing almost all medical professionals will admit is we are the worst patients. I was no exception. I immediately rang the call bell and called for a nurse and when she didn’t come right away I rang it again… Finally a nurse came in.

“Morning Miss Richardson. My name is Annette”

“Yes, morning, I’d like to see my chart.”

“Well let me get your vital signs first. Do you know where you are?”

“Some hospital obviously.”

“Do you know which one?”

“No… I gotta get up and pee.. Oh fuck my whole body aches”

“Oh no you don’t not without my help!”

“I’m fine. I’ll be OK”

“No, you have a serious concussion, bruising and had one hell of a laceration on your forehead we had to stitch up. It’s 7AM.. We already have a crowd waiting to see you in the lobby when visiting hours start at 8.”

“Oh, god my family… They were supposed to meet my boyfriend who’s snoring over there today… is he ok?”

“Yes he was with you all night and refused to leave. He’s a keeper.”

“Yeah I know.”

She did help get me a little better cleaned up and I asked about my clothes, I was dressed pretty well on the way up. She said they cut me out of them. A bit disappointing, those were expensive jeans. Being an ER Doc I know it happens but I really didn’t like the thought of my best jeans being cut off and that I was probably laying there naked… Good thing I didn’t have my sexy panties on. We made sure Gianni was coherently awake and I asked to see my chart again and she told me to wait for the doctor to come by.

8:00 there was a crowd outside the room. “OK Four at a time!” I heard the nurse scolding them. “Fine, OK Maybe Five…But no more!”

The first group in was Kelly, my mom and dad, and his parents.

“Meg!” Kelly shouted as the nurse hushed her. “Gianni called me right away and I called your parents and we all agreed to meet here. Are you OK?”

“I’m fine. Oh mom and dad.. Grandma and grandpa? Ummm this is my boyfriend Gianni… I hate for you guys to meet like this.”

“Oh thank you thank you! Thank you!” My mom said to him, wrapping her arms around him. “I read the police report! You saved my Meghan. You wonderful man!”

He was pretty shocked by my mom but smiled and my dad and grandpa were looking over the stitching on my forehead, commenting on the good job the doctor did. Then my dad spoke. “So Meghan, are you going to slow down now?”

“I wasn’t speeding dad.”

“She wasn’t Doctor Richardson…” Gianni piped up

“No?”

“I was going 25 miles per hour tops! I was rear ended.”

“OK Good… But still SLOW DOWN… Buy a bigger car or something… I don’t know..”

“OK Dad..”

“Well how did you both meet?” My grandmother Emmie asked quietly

“OH he was a patient of Megs!” Kelly piped up cheerfully.

“Oh, really I was a patient of Danny’s when we met.” She said moving close to my grandpa.

“Yeah? Bet he didn’t have his finger in your butt the first time!” She said, bursting out laughing while Gianni and I both wished the floor would open up and swallow us.

“Kelly, that's enough!” I yelped out. While my grandmother was obviously holding back a chuckle of her own and holding my grandpa close while giving him eyes like she was a love struck teenager again.

Giannia excused himself with Kelly so my other Grandparents could come in. “Oh Meghan!” My grandmother Maurine said rushing over. “Oh gee you are so lucky! I said three rosaries on the way down!”

“She made me get up for the 6:00 AM Mass…” My grandfather snorted.

“Well Liam we had to go to Mass… Can’t miss mass on a day like today… Oh my little Meghan! Oh my.”

She was all over me but so very happy I was OK… And well I decided to push her over the edge. “Oh Grandma, Gianni is Catholic.”

“Oh Bless my prayers for you! A good catholic boy had the strength of all the saints to pull you out of that car with a broken arm! I mean too bad he’s I-Talian but we’ll take what we can get right Liam?”

“Oh he seems like a fine boy.”

Just then the doctor came in. “Hello, I am doctor Henderson.”

“Oh I am Doctor Richardson.” My grandfather, father, and I said in harmony.

“Oh my, all of you?”

“Yes, Johns Hopkins, internal medicine 1924.” My grandfather said.

“Harvard, 1955, internal medicine.” Said my dad.

“Oh I am Harvard class of 1978, Emergency Medicine. In my fellowship now at W.G. Morton Hospital.”

“Oh yeah umm… Umm Geisel 1960… Neurology… Well you have a serious concussion there Miss… Umm doctor…”

“Yes, can I see my chart please?” I asked.

“Of course.”

“Is there any danger of bleeding or complications?” My father asked.

“Well..Does this hospital have a CT Machine?” I asked.

“I’m long retired so don’t mind me.” My grandfather said, grabbing a few pages himself.

“No we don’t have a CT Machine, not yet anyways.. We did do Focal plane tomography but while not as sophisticated we didn’t see anything alarming. If we did we’d have driven you down to a bigger hospital. Umm yeah, though we should probably keep you here another day or two just to be sure.”

“What hospital is this?”

“Saint Phoebe’s”

“Yes, a good catholic hospital Meghan.” My grandmother Maurine interjected.

“But we are just a small hospital, 50 beds…”

“I’d like to see the X-Rays” My father piped up.

“I can arrange that.”

“OH me too!” I yelp out. “I’ve never seen a set of focal plane tomography films!”

“Well Ummm… I suppose I can get a light up here…”

Just then the nurse came back in. “Sorry to interrupt doctors… But I need to change Meghan’s catheter so everyone out.”

“WHAT! No, I will have a bedpan if you’re making me lay here…”

“Doctor Henderson?” The nurse asked.

“That’s fine as long as she’s passing urine.”

“Talking about urine and catheters in earshot of her boyfriend!?” My mom said, “Don’t embarrass my little girl!”

“Mom, it’s OK… He’s dating a doctor… He’s seen me covered in shiiiiii…. Poo… after a bad shift.”

“He’s seen her naked too!” Kelly piped up from just outside the door as I gave her a side eye.

“Well I do have to take out the one you have. So everyone out! Especially you doctors. I don’t want everyone looking over my shoulder thinking they know better.”

“I’ll go get your films…” Doctor Henderson said as everyone shuffled out.

Everyone was shuffling in and out in turns, My dad and grandfather trying to order tests for me, or talking to other doctors… I was kind of TRYING to be a good patient and keep my head down.. As much as I could… Then in the afternoon my aunt Mary finally came.

“Meg! I had a hard time getting out to get down here.”

“That’s OK Auntie. I just rang for the nurse, someone needs to empty this bedpan and they won’t let me get up.”

“Oh here I’ll do it.” My aunt said and just as she was coming back from emptying it my nurse came in.

“Oh that’s my job.”

“No it’s OK really.”

“Annette, this is my aunt Mary.”

“Oh, are you a doctor too?”

“Who Me? No, I am a nurse though.”

“Finally someone in this family who actually does something and not just stands around giving orders!”

“Yup I have to actually work for a living! But I’ve just been a school nurse for the last… Like 20 years. I was a floor nurse turned OR Nurse before that.”

“Oh so you have done real nursing. Nice to meet you! Tell your niece to let us actually do our jobs… and your dad, and brother…”

“Oh yeah.. Doctors are the worst patients, almost as bad as nurses. I once had to get our chief of medicine prepped for surgery…”

“Oh you have my sympathies dear!”

“Yes, we had some prima donnas and some good doctors… The surgeon may command the OR but I ran it…I dropped some coffee and donuts off at the nurse’s station so please go help yourself.”

“Oh your aunt is wonderful! Well visit with your niece and if you need anything let me know.”

Three days later I was finally going to be discharged. Gianni was coming to pick me up with Kelly and the rest of my family was coming in and out of my room all morning. My parents really wanted me to come and stay with them a few weeks but I wanted to go back to the city and get back to work. I also needed to shop for a new car and my dad kept bringing me newspaper ads for full size Buicks… My Aunt Mary had just showed up with a few baskets of vegetables from the farm for all the nurses, and Annette brought her in the room. The two of them friends like they have known each other for decades.

“Hello there Doctor Richardson, I’m going to let you see your boyfriend before the doctor comes in to do your discharge exam… But once he does everyone out!” Annette said sternfully.

“Gianni!” I smiled as I saw him come around the curtain. “How is your arm?”

“It will be fine Meghan. Ready to come home?”

“Oh yes! Been ready for days!”

“If you don’t mind… I brought the chaplain by he can give you a blessing?”

“Oh, I guess that’s fine.” I said as Gianni gestured for him to come in. “Oh Holy Fuck… Oh Umm… YOU! WHAT THE FUCK! Is this a sick joke! You son of a…”

“You know each other?” Gianni said seeing shock on both our faces.

“Yeah we sort of dated in college…”

“I am so sorry Meg… A lot has changed since then.” The priest said.

Now if you haven’t guessed that priest was the king asshole who deflowered me! I won’t name him again, just because I honestly don’t want to ruin his ministry. I took a deep breathe.

“I am sure.. But what happened?”

“After I graduated… I was lost, hit a rock bottom and ended up here.”

“You’re celebate!?”

“Yes…”

“Well now…” I was about to say something else when the doctor walked in.

“Oh my God! Meghan!”

“This can’t get any weirder… Johnny? What are you doing here?”

“I am doing a little work at some small hospitals… I thought you were in Boston still?”

“I was until an 18 wheeler hit me… This is my boyfriend Gianni everyone one… He saved my life… Ummm Gianni, this is Johnny I told you about… THAT Johnny… How is your wife and how many kids now?”

“Two… And she’s great.”

So every man who ever slept with me was in my hospital room. The Good (Johnny) the Bad, and the amazing (Gianni.) I managed to whisper to my Aunt Mary “Everyone I have ever slept with is in this room right now.”

“That’s OK Meggies, That’s only one more man than me.”

But anyways the exam somehow made me really shy. Johnny and Annette shooed everyone out of the room and closed the curtain, but Annette didn’t stay. He had me lower my gown down around my waist so that he could listen to my heart and lungs, but I felt really shy about it. Yeah he had done that before, and yeah he had even played with my breasts before, but that was then this is now… I couldn’t help it though, and I felt so confused by it, but I noticed my nipples hardening and I was getting aroused. I don’t know why. And when he pressed along the bruise on my shoulder from the seat belt… it hurt yet in my almost naked state… I just didn't know why but my body was just becoming aroused by every touch.

Johnny had me lay back and pulled the gown down to just around my waist, leaving me so exposed… I covered my breasts with my arms the best I could but… Even my touch felt so… good… He started feeling my belly and working his way lower, pressing so firmly, I laughed a little because I was ticklish but when he felt around where the seatbelt was I guarded a bit… he said that was OK… I finally was relieved when he covered my back up. Thankful he didn’t lower the gown even more because he’d have seen a very aroused Meghan…

He might have had a peak though… But just a peak because after I was covered up he checked my legs and my motion by pushing them back to my chest. I didn’t want to act too modest and despite my desire to put my hand there, i didn’t… Finally he had me get up and walk around the hospital room a bit… The back of my gown was open and somehow I didn’t mind showing him my butt….

Then it was over… I sat on the edge of the bed while Kelly came in with my aunt Mary to get me some clothes. I looked at Kelly and said “Do you mind not watching me get dressed?”

“What Megs, I have seen you naked before… and I am a nurse remember…”

“Yeah but…”

“OK we’ll leave.” she said smiling at my aunt.

Then everyone came in as we waited for my discharge paperwork. He got it back to me in record time doing me a favor, and I am sure Annette was happy to get rid of me, though told my aunt, and Kelly if they every wanted per diem work to just give her a call. Gianni, Kelly, and Brian drove me home to the apartment and helped me upstairs… I was honestly tired, you just can’t sleep in a hospital. But we all sat on the couch together while Kelly made us some junk food, and we popped open some cheap beers.

“Hey Gianni, if you don’t have to work tonight… Can you spend the night… and if you DO have to work, can you come by later…” I said cuddling up to him.

“Sure Meg, I can stay with you. My sister Eliana can be the chef tonight, I mean she does own half the business. I’ll give her a call.”

“Thank you.” I said as Kelly came back with Nachos and cuddled with Brian.

A little later that night I was three beers deep. “Want another beer Megs?” Kelly asked Brian’s arms wrapped around her.

“No thanks, I am as bad with alcohol as my mother… She just thinks being Irish gives her immunity… It doesn’t… That’s why my dad doesn’t let her have more than two drinks.. For me three I am ok four I’ll be bombed.”

“Well with Gianni spending the night… and Brian spending the night… you might want another so we don’t embarrass each other getting loud in our rooms.”

“Oh Geez Kelly…”

“Just saying…” she said opening up another beer.

“I hope Brian can ride me like he’s a stallion out to stud… it’s been a scary few days because of you… though with that broken arm Gianni might need the one to be ridden.”

“He usually is.” I said not thinking

“OH MY! Meg likes to be in charge.” She said with a wink.

“She does…” Gianni said with a chuckle.

“Well OH MY!” Kelly started giggling. “So Megs, you’d rather ride than be ridden?”

“Oh God Kelly! Stop ok!”

“Oh Geez kells you can tell me! Not one to take it from behind?”

“KELLY STOP!”

“Or have a powerful man on top of you, like a wildman!”

“Kelly please OK! Please…”

“Fine…” she said laughing until she noticed our embarrassed faces.

Well we watched TV until about midnight and slithered off to our rooms… I was both still aroused from my exam from Johnny but also.. Desiring Gianni… But if you are wondering both myself and Kelly were pretty quiet.