There was a chill in the air as the approaching storm drew near. It was late March with already plenty of snow on the ground from previous storms. The trees doing a naked dance as the wind blew stronger. A branch from a nearby tree snapped and flew against the side of Destiny’s new house in Connecticut.
She jumped with a start at the sound, waking her from her deep sleep. She groaned when she saw that she missed her alarm and was already a half-hour late for work. It being already 8:30 am. Destiny just started the job at Norfolk General about 3 weeks ago and already she was becoming late.
Destiny just moved from Norfolk, Virginia to Connecticut to pursue a new job career. Her parents had long since past, leaving her at a young age from a car accident. She had lived with an Aunt who she didn’t care for much back in Virginia. Destiny wished she hadn’t made such a drastic move without knowing anyone or anything in Connecticut. But she was here and determined to make the best of it.
Making quick time as she put her nurses uniform on and quickly brushed her long blonde hair. She quickly called the hospital and left a message with Jennifer at the nurse’s station to let her know she was running late and that she would arrive shortly. “Hey Jennifer” she said breathing heavily “ I just woke up and wanted to let you know that I will be there in about an half of an hour I am so sorry, thanks bye.” Destiny hung up the phone and grabbed her ID badge, car keys, night bag and jacket, as she was jamming her feet into her white nurse’s shoes. She went briskly to the garage and started her 98 Volkswagen Jetta and threw it into gear as she hit the button for the garage door opener.
Driving down past the little shopping center she took a right to head straight to the hospital. “Man I’m in some deep trouble this time” she said to her reflection in the rearview mirror. She wasn’t sure if it would be Rich or Tom supervising this morning. Destiny was hoping for Rich, he was much nicer than Tom was in the morning and more understanding considering he’s been late a few times himself for the love of sleep. He red Jetta pulled into the hospital’s nursing staff parking lot and squealed to a halt in front of her assigned parking spot.
Giving herself a once over in her rearview mirror, she jumped out of the car grabbing her night bag as she locked the doors. She walked fast to the front doors and ran to the elevator, as the doors were about to close.
Looking at herself in the polished elevator doors, as it was it was so shiny that it served as a full-length mirror. She stared back at herself at a 5’4 height, long wavy blond down to her elbows hair, her bright steel blue eyes, her high cheek bones and full mouth. She had long legs and wide hips. Not that bad for being 24.
Destiny never could see what everyone else claimed in herself. All of her ex’s (all 5 of them) said that she was beautiful. The low self-esteem was derived from her Aunt’s constant complaints about how she looked so much like her father, saying that he was a no good nothing and that she was going to be just like him.
Shaking her head out of her past, as the elevator dinged the 4th floor. The elevator faced the nurse’s station, and there sat Tom looking up, as she approached, from the charts he was going over and gave her a stern look. She groaned in her head, knowing that today was going to be a long day. Destiny threw what she hoped was a winning smile at Tom and said “I am so sorry Tom, I will do my best not to be late again.” Tom just looked at her with his dark brown eyes and said “ Get to work, you know I have to report you now.” Giving him a contrite look Destiny said “ Oh please Tom don’t report me, I just started here and if I loose this job I will loose the house I just bought.” Knowing that he had been late a couple to times himself he let her go this time. “Alright Miss. Klancy, I won’t report you this time, but be sure that if this happens again I will be reporting you to my superior.” “Thank you so much Tom!” Destiny exclaimed, “ I promise I will do my best not to be late again” “Now get to work before I change my mind” Tom said with a growl. “Jennifer has already started your rounds.”
Grabbing up her set of charts for the rest of her rounds she made her way down the corridor to find Jennifer. Relieved that she didn’t get into as much trouble as she thought she would. She found Jennifer in room 419 giving meds to a nice elderly man both Jennifer and her had grown fond of. “Hello there Mr. Detellio, how are you feeling today?” Destiny asked.
Going over to the sink to wash her hands, she passed Jennifer and whispered “Thank you.”
Mr. Detellio said to Destiny “ Oh you know how it is Miss. Klancy, these old bones ache with all this cold weather brewing.”
Jennifer gives Destiny a reassuring smile as she left her to finish with her own rounds. “How about that cough you have there Mr. Detellio?” She asked “Well it still hurts, but it’s only really bad when I sleep” He said. “Well we can give you something to help you while you sleep.” Destiny said. Feeling mournful for the elderly man in about his early 70’s his thin body constantly racked with pneumonia, she tried to make him more comfortable. Finishing up with his meds and giving his pillows a good fluff left his room to continue with her rounds.
She headed down the hall to get her medical tray and bumped into Jennifer again. “Jen I am so thankful that you helped me get my rounds started, I owe you one.” Destiny said. “You bet you do” laughed Jennifer. Jennifer was taller than Destiny. She had long brown hair and hazel eyes. She had long legs and a tiny waist. Her breasts were bigger than Destiny’s about 36C in size. Destiny was glad that she had a nice friend like Jennifer to help her out. Jennifer started a month before Destiny arrived there, they both coming from other states became fast friends.
The day did pass relatively quickly for Destiny as she looked at her watch and took her lunch break. Going to the elevator, pressing the B button to go to the basement where the café was to grab a bite to eat.
Destiny strode over to a table with her tray in hand after paying for her meal and sat down by the windows. After a few minutes of munching on her salad and sandwich she became aware of someone watching her. She glanced up and saw a dark haired man with the brightest blue eyes she had ever seen staring at her from a couple of tables away from her. She thought she might have seen him before. Feeling awkward, she glanced back out the window. Wondering why this weird man was staring at her she decided to glance back at him, but he was already gone. Thinking nothing of it she finished her meal, and walked over to the trash and dumped her remaining food into the trash and placed her tray on top.
Heading back to the 4th floor she saw the dark haired man again as the doors closed on the elevator. She felt her face grow red from him staring at her as the doors finally shut with mans face on the other side.
Thinking no more of the man she finished her day and headed home. Wearily taking her shoes off and dropping her keys on the hallway table and putting her purse on the floor. She picked up her mail from the floor that the mailman slipped through her drop hole in the door. Bills and more bills. She sighed thinking about how she was going to manage, knowing that she was going to have to work a little harder. Maybe pull in some overtime at the hospital to get some extra money.
She went to the couch and turned on the TV to relax. Hearing the wind she heard something scratching at the side of her house. Getting up to investigate what it was, she slides her sliding glass door that opened onto her deck. Peering around the side of the house from the deck she saw the branch that had earlier fell waking her. Walking to the side of the house she removed the branch and pulled it to the middle of the yard reminding herself to take care of it later.
She headed back inside the house and looked at the clock on her living room wall, rolled her eyes at the time and went to start dinner, it being already 5:30. She made a fast meal, and went upstairs to take a long hot shower. When she was done, walked down in her bathrobe and a towel wrapped around her head. Destiny unwrapped her hair from her towel and sat down with her cup of tea she just made and turned back on the t.v. Looking through the t.v. lost in her thoughts she began to think of her past and what was her life like back in Virginia.
She never really did have a lot of friends. But the ones she did have had said she was a friendly and a warm hearted person. Which was sometimes her downfall, she had too big of a heart; always giving people 2nd chances to stomp in her heart some more. Out of her 5 boyfriends she only had one serious relationship, and that was James. Their relationship last a long 2 and a half years with her breaking off their engagement and realizing how nieve she was in men. She had broken up with him once, finding out that she wasn’t the only one he was “seriously” seeing. And after all the begging that she was the only one he wanted in his life she took him back. Then it got worse, he had started hitting her after that, and he became a constant drinker with them always arguing about something. That’s what made her make the final decision to move away to Connecticut She just couldn’t stand her Aunt anymore and she was so sick of how people were to her there. So she decided to pack her things and start a fresh new beginning.
