Miss: She's gone home

"She's gone home," the orthopedic ward's unit assistant tells you. "She wasn't feeling well, and I have to say she looked rather out of sorts."

"Thank you, Nadia," you say. The young woman sitting at the ward's desk has her dark hair in a short cap-like bob cut. Is that a lesbian hairstyle? You remember seeing a book on Gina's desk, "The History of Lesbian Hair", showing a smiling Mona Lisa with a shaved-on-the-sides cut, but you figured it was some kind of humor or gag book. Was it for real?

With June Phillips gone, you have to call in help from other departments and pitch in with nursing care rounds. You're careful to have someone else attend to Brian Forbes. You just don't know what you'd do. Fortunately you do have another pair of panties in your locker against the risk of an unexpected double shift, so you don't have the constant reminder of being naked inside your white nurse's slacks.

You're in the middle of washing up after attending to one of your ward's patients when your mobile handset chimes, reminding you that you've made an appointment with Gina Palatino.

Who, at your last sight, was masturbating in her office after lunch, her thighs spread wide with one heel up on her chair, orgasming as she gazed at the picture of her lesbian wife on the desk.

You feel unsteady on your feet. Your heart thumps and your face flushes.

But you want to know the truth. Is Mary Forbes part of something bigger at the hospital? Something involving Julie and Cara's adulterous lesbian affair? As an insider, you hope Gina can tell you something.