Through the waiting room.

If Andrea quickly walked through the waiting room, maybe she could avoid attention.

She walked into the room, covering her butt trying to quickly walk out. She felt the cold icy stares of the people waiting for their appointments. ‘Don’t look at them,’ she told herself ‘Just go to the door.’

She was about the make it to the door when a woman jumped in front of her. It was the nurse who had done Andrea’s examination.

“Good thing I caught you!” She said with a relieved smile, “You almost forgot to give back the hospital gown.”

“Oh!” Andrea blushed, almost having forgot about that. “Um! See it’s just… I don’t have any clothes. Could I maybe borrow the gown and bring it back?” Andrea pleaded.

“Sorry Ma’am it’s hospital policy. If I don’t dispose of it properly I could get in real trouble.” The nurse insisted.

“Uh! But I’ll be… naked” Andrea shyly squeaked as she looked over to the waiting room crowd and saw a variety of looks of second hand shame, disbelief, disgust, judgement, and even a couple snickers of amusement.

“Ma’am I’m very sorry, I can’t allow it.” The nurse said losing the smile. “Now are you going to hand over or do I need to get a male nurse to help you out of it?”