Lori hugged Donna trying to comfort her friend a bit. She told her to clean herself up and to meet her outside to talk. She certainly didn't need the whole hospital to know what was going on.
Lori sat in on a bench on the side of the hospital facing a flowerbed of Black-Eyed Susan. It was always one of the places outside the hospital that she liked to sit when she was having a bad day. She loved the symmetry and the contrast of the black and yellow flowers -- they were always so sunny and bright.
Ironically, it occurred to her that the contrast of black and yellow and black and white flowers in the bed resembled the contrast of black and white men and women. She smiled sardonically at seeing this through new eyes and wondered if nature was mocking her. Not that very long ago, she wouldn't have looked twice at a black man and now it consumed her every thought.
She thought about Ryan- his smile, his easy personality. She thought about his lean body on top of hers, behind her, his thick black cock deep inside her and she shivered. She felt that emptiness between her inner thighs that she felt before and sensed her nipples were hard as pebbles against the soft bra. She was tempted to slide her hand between her thighs and rest it there lightly, touching herself, teasing herself but knew that she was already damp. She was deep in thought when she sensed someone standing beside her, looking down at her. She looked up to see her friend Donna standing there with her arms folded.
"Wow, where were you just now?" Donna asked.
Lori gave her a weak smile and patted the bench next to her. The young nurse had cleaned herself up and reapplied her makeup, so she didn't look like a raccoon anymore. She wanted so badly to tell Donna what had happened with Ryan but decided against it.
She turned to her and said, "You look a little better...you okay?"
Donna shrugged and nodded, looking down at her hands...Lori saw the pale line of finger where her engagement ring was and asked her why she took it off?
"I don't know -- it didn't feel right wearing it, Lori... I mean, my god, I could be carrying another man's baby!" she pouted and felt her eyes start to well up again.
"Or you could be carrying your fiancé's child too, Donna. Did you ever think of that?"
Donna nodded and looked away, staring into the field of flowers in front of them.
Lori turned to face her and said, "Put your ring back on. This damned hospital is full of gossip mongers and the last thing you need is to give these whores something else to cackle about. You're a beautiful young woman and they would kill to have your looks and your life."
Donna nodded and reached into the deep pocket of her scrubs and pulled out her diamond and placed it on her finger.
Looking down at the ring, she sighed with resignation written all over her face. She started to speak a couple of times and caught herself about to cry, so she stopped to compose herself a little before she spoke...
"Lori, I really screwed up. I know this could possibly be Marcus' baby...I can't keep it if it is...Kyle would never forgive me. My parents would disown me, my friends would think I'm such a slut. I can't believe I didn't use birth control, but I got so caught up in the moment that I threw caution to the wind and just took a chance. I make Kyle wear condoms until we're married -- sometimes we would get into some heavy fooling around and he's slip it in, but he never came inside me. I felt Marcus FILL me!"
Lori nodded her head...she really needed to tell Donna about her situation -- about how many times Ryan had cum inside her...about how she was just as reckless, but then she got her period. It would be like salt in the wound to the younger nurse.
"So, what are you going to do?" she asked Donna.
"I've already decided -- I'm not going to keep it. I can't. I've made an appointment to get an abortion tomorrow. Please don't tell anyone...!"
Lori felt her face burning. She was a good Catholic woman and the idea of abortion cut her to the core. She nodded and took Donna's hand. And as she did, she felt her stomach lurch and thought to herself, "I USED to be a good Catholic woman."
The girls talked a few more minutes and then Donna got paged and had to head back in. Lori hugged her again and told her to make sure she took care of herself and to call if she needed anything. After she left, Lori walked into the hospital coffee shop and poured herself a cup of coffee and walked up to the cashier to pay. As she flashed her employee ID for the hospital discount, the cashier grinned at her.
"No charge for you!" she beamed.
Lori looked at her puzzled and the older woman reached over and took a note she had taped to the pole in front of her.
"You're Lori Tolles, right?"
Lori nodded confused and then the cashier showed her a handwritten note, obviously in a man's handwriting that said, 'Lori Tolles - $50.00 credit'
Lori took the note from the woman and said, "I don't understand?"
The cashier flashed her a mischievous grin and said, "I guess you have a secret admirer!"
Lori thanked the woman and dropped a generous tip and walked away wondering who would have given her $50.00 in café credit? She was almost to her nurses' station when all of a sudden, it hit her. Marcus.
She put the coffee down and walked down to the lab to confront him. When he got down there, he was chatting with Rochelle. Upon entering, Rochelle's expression changed, and she gave Lori a dirty look and walked back into the lab. Marcus turned and gave the little blonde a grin.
"Nurse Tolles! For what do I owe the pleasure?"
Lori felt her heart pounding in her ears..."May I speak to you privately, Marcus?" she said quietly.
Marcus waved his arm expansively and told her to come into his "office" which was really just a side storage area for lab supplies.
Lori stood in front of him and looked up at him with her arms crossed in front of her and asked him if he was responsible for her free coffee today?
Marcus laughed and said, "But of course. I've been asking you for two weeks now to have coffee with me and you keep turning me down, so I figured if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, I'll bring the mountain to you!"
Lori started to speak and found she was stuttering instead, "You have no right..." she began, "I mean, who do you think you are to just gift me money like that?"
And as soon as it came out of her mouth, Marcus burst out laughing, which made Lori laugh too. And the madder she tried to be, the funnier it sounded to her -- pretty soon, they were both laughing so hard that she couldn't catch her breath.
She tried to be serious and said, "Really Marcus -- it's a nice gesture but that's a lot of money and wasn't necessary. Besides, what would people think?"
Marcus laughed and dismissed her by saying, "The only person who knows where that came from was that old lady cashier in the café and she thought it was sweet of me!"
Lori started laughing again and told him that the cashier had told Lori that she had "a secret admirer".
Marcus said, "And she would be right... I'm a big fan of yours...maybe next time, you won't be so tight assed and maybe even let me have coffee with you!"