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After I slipped onone app on his tablet and opening another It looked like a calendar

"Your next appoint "Next appoint to need to sign soet your records and test results"

I signed the papers and got copies of my tests and records transferred onto a flash drive that Adaave it back, I snatched it and stuck it in ive him access to pictures of my maimed boob Hell no

If Jordan, Ada Adam up on "hot dates" lately, then Ada elbows--and God only hoped no other parts--withof the swarroupies" They liked to catalogue what he wore to work and rate how hot he looked fro to sit around and listen to that shit day in and day out while atteht he’d ever date any of those interns They were like eighteen and nineteen But they had perfect bodies and I was sure not a one of the divot taken out of their left breast Nor would any of them soon be balder than Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise

I caught Ada me a couple tiyour eyes to hinet

"What?" I said finally

He shook his head, unlocked his car and opened the door for et in

I paused and foldedto hi"

He frowned "Why do you think that?"

"Aside fro, you haven’t nosis nue of the open door and looked at"What’s there to say, Mia?" Then he took a deep breath and looked away "Those nuent woist If you were in that doctor’s place, ould you recommend your patient do?"

It suddenly felt a little harder to breathe, like a band had been wrapped around , I dropped ently closed the door for me and came around to the left side of the car to slide in behind the wheel I bentof a headache His use of the word "hopefully" was not lost on nancy I would not be starting medical school any time in the near future

He didn’t start the car, just sat and watchedat him I shook my head "I can’t do this He is one opinion, one estiht"

We stared at each other for a while--long after it had beco e…if I wanted him to hold me so much, why didn’t I ask, or--better yet--lean forward and take hi

"I need to stop off at the office for a few oing into work today?"

He gavehim that and turned to start the car

Twenty minutes later, at the campus of Draco Multimedia, Ada hiot his stuff done inside He promised me no more than ten or fifteen minutes but I knew better, because his secretary would catch hiet stopped a half dozen tione in with him, but I wanted to avoid that aard return to work The Friday before, I’d hurriedly packed up my desk with no explanation whatsoever while Mac, my superior, and the interns I worked atched h All I could think about at that point was the pregnancy test I’d just taken and the subsequent angry confrontation with Ada to sit and think about everything that was happening I’d done too et exhausted and nauseated by it