Doctors

Monday mornings. I hate them. It means it’s the start of a new week of school. Yay.

I was making my way to form with Finn when we both heard someone call us. Well not exactly call us by name but something like that.

“Beck’s friends. Hey.” We turned to see that it was Ethan. The stranger who showed up at our door on the weekend.

“Oh Ethan. Hi.” Finn replied. “What are you doing here?” Confusion was written all over his face.

“I’m starting school here. Hera didn’t tell you?”

“No, I didn’t tell him.” I answered.

“Okay. But how can you just start year 11 here just like that? You do know that this is our last year of school. That means a lot of tests and exams. It also means a lot of catching up.” Finn told Ethan. I mean he’s right. That’s exactly what I had been thinking.

I shrugged and said “That’s exactly what I told him, but apparently he’s a smart kid, so.”

“Well you should probably get to class before the bell rings cause you don’t want to be late on your first day. Have you gone to the office for your planner and timetable?” Finn asked.

“Yeah I got it and it says that I’m in 11BH. What does that even mean?” Great. He’s in our form.

“It means you’re in Mr. Hughes form with us.” Finn looks down at his watch. “We gotta go now or we’ll be in trouble. And with that, all three of us headed to form.

Ethan is like a celebrity now. Everyone wants to talk to him and be his friend. Beck and Ethan are all I’ve been hearing people talk about.

“Oh have you seen that new guy from America?”

“We’ve got two really good looking Americans at our school.”

“Imagine going to prom with one of them.”

“I talked to Ethan In English.”

“Beck and Ethan are both so hot.”

Uggh. And it just goes on and on.

I ate my lunch with my friends today, instead of hiding at the library like last week. I’m surprised and relieved that none of them asked me questions. I guess it means they understand that I don’t want to talk about my injury and football. So we talked about how we only have a couple of months until we have a whole month of exams to determine our future.

I’ve actually been thinking about that a lot. Like what I’m going to do after school. I still don’t know whether I want to go to college or sixth form. I’m not even sure about what I want to be. While the rest of my friends already do. Aya wants to be a vet because she thinks working with animals is easier than with humans. Mary just wants to open up a business, she actually started a small makeup brand for her project in Business. Well, Amy’s not really sure either, but she definitely knows she wants to work with kids. At least she knows that. Kellen and Ryan want to go into the medical field. They want to be doctors, just not sure which ones yet. Dylan’s been thinking about engineering. Sam wants to be a professional trainer. Finn told me he wants to be a surgeon. So basically like Kellen and Ryan, he wants to be a doctor. Basically, everyone has an idea of what they want except for me.

Maybe I should be a writer. Write novels or articles or something. But I don’t like writing. My mother’s a writer. So maybe not. I don’t want to be anything that my mother is. Should I be an oncologist like my dad? Would I be a good doctor? I’m too young to even be thinking about this. Right? I mean, I always just thought that we’re supposed to just go with the flow and take whatever the universe decides to give us. I hate having to plan things out. It messes with my head and makes me overthink.

“Hey.” I was snapped out of my thoughts by a voice.

“Hi.” I just realised that I’m standing in the middle of the school’s field with crutches under my arms. My bag is somewhere near the gates and I’ve been zoning out for a while.

“Shouldn’t you be at home Hero?” Sam asked me.

“Yeah.”

Sam sighed. “You wanna watch us practice?”

“Mmhhmm. Don’t worry. I won’t get in the way.”

Sam laughed. “Hera, you’re literally daydreaming in the middle of the field.”

“Hey. I wasn’t daydreaming. I was thinking.” I saw the guys making their way to the field for practice.

“I’m gonna just sit over there and watch.” I pointed to the side of the field that the guys weren't going to use for practice.

“Okay.” Sam replied.

I found a spot on the soft grass and tried my best to sit without bending my knee too much. I watched as the guys started warming up by running a whole lap around the field. And our school field is pretty big.

It’s been a while since I was able to run. The knee brace was getting annoying. It’s like extra weight on my leg. There’s nothing more I wish I could do than to just join the guys to run. I can’t even remember the last time I sweat like a pig. I’m not saying I want to be all smelly and icky, but I miss doing sports. A lot. Physical therapy has helped me but the doctor says it’ll be a while until my knee gains full strength without the brace.

I heard a whistle blow and it was Mr.Reece getting the boys in and talking to them about something. A couple minutes later and the guys were practicing passes. Mr. Reece saw me on the side and nodded at me, I smiled back.

An hour and a half later, practice was done. Everyone was making their way out of the field and into the changing room. Finn and Sam stayed back to wait for me to catch up to them. Then I had to wait for them to get their things from the changing room. A few minutes later, they were out and we made our way out of school. Rachel was picking Sam up today and she was also going to give Finn a lift home. Since I stayed back unplanned, I’m going with the two cause it just makes sense.

***

“Okay, I love Mer but look at Addison. Come on. She’s peng.”

“She is. I love her, just not with Derek.”

“You guys are weird.”

Me and Finn were watching Grey’s Anatomy in my room, and Gabe just came in to borrow a glue stick and criticise us. This is our third time watching the show. Finn and I just enjoy it that much.

“Gabe, you’ll never understand unless you actually watch it with us.” Finn exclaimed.

“Nah. I think I’m just going to finish my English homework.” Gabe said and then walked out of my room.

“This show makes me want to be a surgeon so bad.” Finn added, at the same time taking one of my pillows and hugging it.

“You’d make a great doctor.” I stated.

“We should both be doctors.”

“We’ve spent our whole life doing the same things. Imagine having the same carrier. We’re going to get tired of each other.” I reasoned.

“It’d be cool though. Twin doctors.” I smiled at that thought.

“It would be. Especially if we worked in the same hospital.”

“We should be surgeons.” He suggested.

“We should.” I replied.

“Isn’t it crazy how we’re in sixth form next year.”

We had a couple of months left until our GCSEs and then we’re going to be in sixth form next year. It is pretty crazy how soon we might not see everyone from secondary. Some are going to sixth form, some college and others plan on doing something else. Me and Finn already decided that we were going to sixth form.

“I know right. This year feels like it’s going by really quickly.” I replied.

“We’re five months into the school year and already a lot has happened.”

“Yeah.” I nodded and agreed. A lot has happened. I met Beck and Ethan, got Ace, played on the boy’s football team and tore my ACL.

“I like Sophie.” Now that surprised me. I mean, I’m not shocked since I’ve suspected it, but he just blurted that out of nowhere.

“What?”

“You heard me.”

“I did. It’s just that you said it out of nowhere.”

“I like her. Like, like-like. I want to ask her out.”

“Well, you should then. Sophie’s friendly, nice and she has a great smile. She’s always so calm too.”

“I know. I’ve had feelings for her since last year.”

“I know that.” Finn gave me a weird look.

“What?” I exclaimed. “You’re always smiling when you’re around her and you also stare at her sometimes, which is pretty creepy.”

Finn throws Klaus in my face. “Shut up.”

“I’m just saying.”

“Well, you stare at a lot of people. Does that mean you like them?” Finn snapped at me.

“I stare at people because that’s just my way of getting to know them.” I defended myself.

“Really?” He said sarcastically.

“Yes. I stare at them and just really look at them. Then from there I decide whether I’m going to like this person or not.”

“Now that Hera, is creepy.”

“Whatever.” I rolled my eyes. “We just missed a whole episode because of you.” I muttered.

“We were having quality sibling time talking about life.”

“Yeah, sure. Anyway, you should ask Sophie out.”

“I’m still gathering up the courage to do that.”

I patted my twin on the back. “It’s been more than a year.” I whispered. “Someone else might ask her out by the time you finally ‘gather up the courage to’.”

“You’re mean.”

“I know.” I smiled. “But I’m really just looking out for my little brother.”

“You’re only six minutes older Hera.”

“That means I’ve lived six minutes more than you, Finn. So I’m still your older sister.”

“Don’t say that. Older sister sounds weird. You’re my twin.”

I laughed. “That, I also am.”

After that conversation, we resumed watching a few more episodes of Grey’s Anatomy until 11pm. We still had school tomorrow sadly which meant another day of cramming in information for our exams.