Stay with Eve

“I think it is better, not to get on her bad side,” you say carefully and take a short look at Eve, “you know she has connections. And … right now she kind of scares me.”

“Yeah, I know what you mean,” Kyle agrees but sounds kind of disappointed, “well, we can continue this later. I still want to know everything.”

“Sure, buddy,” you agree immediately and hand him some money for the pizza, “we will find a way. How about we take a drink in the evening?”

“That sounds great,” Kyle agrees happy, “well, I better go get your food. Eve can get very dangerous when she gets hungry. And we still have no open doctor’s office in town. See you later.”

Kyle leaves. You and the other adults give Eve a questioning look and she seems embarrassed for a while. After some moments of awkward silence, she takes a deep breath.

“Well … I … must admit that I … kind of … overreacted,” Eve mumbles uncomfortable and scratches her right arm nervously, “sorry. I … I better talk to him later. I didn’t mean to interrupt your friendship. Still, I don’t like the way he talks about woman.”

“I know,” you say gentle, “but that’s how he is. He has always been like that. You can’t change that so easy. However, you mentioned some photos.”

“Yes, right,” Eve says quickly and turns around, “let me get my makeup. We are going to make some shots of you and Nad at your workplace. And some more when everything is done. Please dress in your lab coat!”

You resist the urge to correct her, that your white grown is not a lab coat. Quickly you dress in your blue shirt and white gown, put the stethoscope your old mentor gave you at the beginning of your education in the chest pocket so that it peaks out and finally, you do your hair to look professional. Eve seems pleased and together you go to your office to meet Nadja. She is already dressed up too. And what she wears makes you speechless.

She wears a long white nurse gown, that is probably a little shot, white high heels and a small cap with a medical symbol on it. You have no idea where she got this stuff. It looks like a soft version of a nurse outfit from a sex shop. The fact that she left the two highest buttons of her dress open and shows her cleavage is not helping.

“Well, how do I look?” Nadja asks smiling and spins around, “do I look professional enough to work here? Or do I need to open a button more to convince you.”

“Stop drooling!” Eve demands angry, “Nad, where the hell did you get this thing?”

“Excuse me?” Nadja replies outraged, “this may be an old Halloween costume, but it was expensive and I checked that it is as close as possible to what nurses wear in real hospitals. Well it turned out that they wear something different, but I checked that.”

“But you are not a nurse,” you throw in, “at least not officially. I will get you some working clothes until that you can wear whatever you feel comfortable with. But not these shoes. You have to walk in these for several hours every day. For the photos, please just wear what you had before.”

“Alright doctor,” Nadja replies and grins, “I halfway expected you want me to wear even less and not more. But you are the boss.”

“Get dressed you little minx!” Eve commands with a strange mix of strictness and amusement.

However, when Nadja leaves to get dressed in another room, Eve can’t refuse to give her a playful slap on the ass. But instead of getting angry with her bossy friend, Nadja just wiggles her butt naughty and disappears. A few moments later, Nadja returns. Normally dressed now. Eve makes some pictures about you sitting in your office, you and Nadja standing in your office, both of you at the front desk and in the end a picture with her mom and you. It should look like the officially start of the doctor’s office and is meant for the mayor’s website.

While Claire, her husband and Eve go through the photos you and Nadja take a look at the computer. You still need to search for equipment and decide for a software to take care of all patient’s data. You think about just using the same software than back in your old working place, but it is much too expensive for a small doctor’s office like yours. However, Nadja thinks she can do all schedules, billing, patient sheets and data storage with free software. You are not so sure but she seems confident. In the end she convinces you.

And you both quickly find a shop not too far from here, that offers medical equipment from a dissolved doctor’s office. Claire and your father both confirm this. You would have to drive almost an hour, but the equipment is cheap and in quiet good shape. Some things are still originally packed. Even a whole, never used medical examination bench. This is a really good chance for you. Suddenly the doorbell rings. Kyle is back with the Pizza.

“Food is ready,” Kyle says happy and balances a pile of pizza boxes, “dig in friends!”

Everyone, including your mother this time, gathers in the waiting room, which looks really good now. With comfy seats and a small table in the middle. Everybody takes his ordered pizza and starts to eat. You chat with your old friends while your mother and Claire discuss, or rather argue, about the conditions of your new apartment.

You learn something about your old friend’s current lives. For example, how bad Nadja was is some of her former jobs or what Eve actually does in her job at the town hall. It appears she is responsible for much more than just arranging her mothers’ meetings. She also takes care of the organization of many courses in the community center and is the first contact for the organization of several public events.

Kyle turns out to have a job as a truck driver of the local forwarding company. His pickup truck is one of their decommissioned smaller cars, which he got for little money from his boss. However, he had some bad luck with woman lately. It seems he was in a short relationship with a girl that had connections to Trayo cooperation and she just used his friendship to Eve to get information about the mayor. When it turned out he had nothing valuable to say, she quickly lost interest and disappeared not long after this.

When you mention that Nadja and you found out about the shop with the equipment, he immediately offers his help again. Probably because Claire insists in paying him a small about of money from a town development founding. However, since he is the only one with a car that has a huge storage room, you gladly take his offer.

“Friends, parents, volunteers,” you begin after the last slice of pizza is gone, “I thank all of you for your great help. Thanks to you, I can probably start the doctor’s office right tomorrow, if we get enough equipment. Kyle and I will drive there immediately and it will likely take until evening until we are back, since we only have one set of keys and I don’t want to lock you in here, I guess your work is done for today. Again, thank you all.”

“You are welcome,” Claire says smiling and before you can react, she hugs you, “I’m so glad you are back here and help improving this small town. I will make sure you get all the money from the founding as soon as possible.”

“Speaking about that,” Eve suddenly throws in, “I think I better come with you. I have access to the towns finances and can help you get everything on account.”

“I would like to come with you too,” Nadja immediately offers, “if I work here from now on, I better get to know the whole equipment from the beginning.”

“Well, that could be a problem,” Kyle mumbles, “I have only a side seat with very limited space and two seat belts.”

“Well, then I sit on someone’s lab,” Eve replies and gives you a strange, interested look, “just like this morning.”

“Forget it!” Kyle replies immediately and surprising strict, “this was fine while we just had a drive over two minutes on a quiet street, but I will not allow this in my car on a drive over an hour. It is too dangerous and I would lose my driver’s license. Only one of you comes with us!”

“Well, then I guess I’m the lucky one,” Nadja says and smiles naughty, “I need to know the equipment. It could be a matter of life and ****. Despite this, you have your work at the town hall.”

“If I don’t come with you to vouch for your office, you probably don’t get any equipment at all,” Eve replies, even if you hardly believe so, “You have enough time to learn everything. Tomorrow.”

“Enough,” Claire’s husband interrupts sharp, “Max, you decide who comes with you. Pick one, the other stays here in town.”