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let me know when you’re finished
thinking about it and ready to do something!” She smiled at Jewell
as they both got up to clear their trays and head back to their
respective jobs.
    * * *
    When Jewell got back to the nurses’ station,
no one was there. She looked at the charts on the desk to see if
anything needed to be done. She knew the supplies were all stocked;
she had checked that before she went to lunch. There was a little
boy in a room with a broken arm, but there was already a doctor and
two nurses in the room. She had some notes she had to type into the
computer; she thought she should probably get that done while she
waited for Nurse Yohanan. Nurse Yohanan hated it when she had to
remind her charges to put their notes into the computer.
    Jewell sat down at the terminal and grabbed
her notes entering the information. When she finished, her mind
started to wander. She could use the computer to look up what room
he was in, maybe just walk by to see how he was doing…no, probably
not a good idea. Ashley was right when she called her infatuation
“creepy.” In her opinion, that was the best term to label her
freakish obsession.
    She opened the internet browser and checked
her email. Nothing except the hundreds of spam emails she received
every day. She glanced over the computer’s desktop and noticed the
desktop icon for the application for looking up patient room
numbers. She quickly went to Google and tried to think of something
that she needed to research. Nothing. At this point, her mind was
only on one thing. She opened the application and quickly typed in
his last name “Sykes.”
    While she sat staring at the screen, she was
so lost in her thoughts that she didn’t hear Ashley walk up behind
her.
    “Looking something up, are we?” Ashley
grinned.
    “Um, no. Just checking on some things.”
Jewell said as she quickly closed the open window. Jewell could
feel her face burning at being caught. “What are you doing here?”
She asked, trying desperately to pretend that she wasn’t doing
exactly what Ashley had suggested she do.
    “You forgot this,” she said handing over
Jewell’s small leather wallet with a smirk before walking away.

CHAPTER 7
     
    At the end of her shift, Jewell was just
reaching for the handle on her car’s door, when her thoughts turned
back to Collin. She hesitated, before turning back to the
hospital.
    “Did you forget something?” Nurse Yohanan was
on her way out as Jewell walked past her.
    Jewell tried to sound casual as she answered.
“I just thought I’d check on that MVA they brought in the other
night. I heard he’s doing a lot better and they’ve moved him into a
room. I thought I’d go up and see how he’s feeling.”
    “That’s sweet Jewell. Don’t stay too long,
you’ll need to be back to work before you know it.”
    “Yes, Ma’am, I promise not to stay long.”
    Jewell walked slowly to the elevators. As she
pushed the up arrow, she had the sudden urge to bolt; the urge to
run, not away, but toward him. She looked at the numbers above the
elevator doors. Both elevators were near the top floor and not
moving. In her urgency, she decided to take the stairs not even
considering that she would need to ascend six long flights.
    She turned towards the stairs, glanced back
at the elevator, and pushed through the fire doors into the
stairwell. And then she ran. She took the steps two at a time up
the first two flights and then taking them one at a time as she
tired but continuing as fast as she could. When she reached the
sixth floor, she stopped, winded. She was surprised that she felt a
little dizzy from her exertion so she sat down on the top step with
her head between her knees, and concentrated on long slow breaths;
in and out.
    When she felt like she could stand, she
walked through the door into the hallway. Collin’s room was on the
opposite side of the floor from where she had come up. As she
rounded the second corner, into the hallway with the