Chapter 4

The next morning she did her usual routine. Took Aiden to school, came home, made her lunch, and relaxed till it was time to leave.

When she got to work, she showed the balloons to her manager. "I order pizza for lunch along with cupcakes" Kathy mentioned. "sweet," Melissa replied. She put her stuff down at her desk in the back. She turned her computer on, got the rooms ready, and started blowing up the balloons with her manager and putting them around the front of the office along with signs that said "Happy birthday Dr. Peterson."

As soon as they were done, the first patient of the day showed up and Melissa roomed them and got them ready for him. She heard him come in, so she went up to grab the Monitors that she heard being dropped off. "Feliz cumpleanos, Dr. Peterson," she said as she walked past him. "Ah Gracias, minha Beleza." he thanked her in Spanish and went in to see the patient. 

The day went on and the phones never stopped ringing. Melissa did have time to catch up on some work but lost track of time. When she looked at the clock it was 6 minutes past her lunch. So she clocked out, grabbed her water, and headed toward the break room. The pizza didn't arrive so she just sat in the room with the Echo tech. Another 5 minutes the pizza arrived along with the cupcakes but Lisa put it on the desk instead of in the break room. Melissa was confused so she just sat down and ordered a smoothie online to be delivered. 

Dr. Peterson ended up bringing the pizza in and Melissa finally got something to eat. He stood next to Melissa while he ate since there were no more places to sit. Soon lunch was over and Melissa clocked back and in and grabbed another patient. As she was going over the chart going, Lisa knocked on the door. "Melissa we need you for a minute". So Melissa got up and went out the door. "We are going to sing to Dr. Peterson," she said. 

Everyone gathered into the room and started singing to Dr. Peterson. While singing, Dr. Peterson kept touching her shoulder, like he was patting her back. On one hand, she was excited but on the other hand, she knows someone had to be watching and thinking anything. She didn't want her coworkers to think anything was happening, that wasn't technically happening.  After they got done singing, Melissa went back to the patients to finish up with them. 

When she was done she went back to her desk to check the voicemails. thankfully there were only four. The next couple of hours seemed to go by fast. It was finally time to go home. Melissa shut her computer down and grabbed her stuff. She bid farewell to her coworkers and boss and left. 

She walked down to her car and when she arrived she opened the door and took off her uniform shirt. She had a tank top underneath like always. As she put away her shirt in her bag she heard a car make noise. She looked to see where the noise was coming from and saw it was her boss. He waved at her and she waved back. 

He started walking towards her. "is something wrong?" she asked. He shook his head. He leaned towards her and gave her a hug. "Gracias" he thanked her. "When does your 1 year come up?" he asked changing the subject. "in 2 weeks" she replied. "OK good. You can grab yourself 3 more uniforms and we will talk about your evaluation." he said. She just nodded her head.  "Melissa, don't forget we have a work dinner next week." he reminded her. "I won't" she said. He placed a kiss on her cheek and left back to his car.

She stared in his direction for a minute before getting in her car. She got a text from her ex husband.

Ex: Hey I got Aiden

Melissa : OK good. Have a good night 😊

Then she drove home