I blushed. “It was a great trip, sir.”
He smiled knowingly. “I’m sure it was. Now, let’s take a look at today’s patient charts.”
The morning sped by, doing much of the same as I had before I’d left. Though I did get to learn how to use a hypo spray and how to program nanites using Xero. Lunch came far sooner than I expected, though my stomach wanted me to know it had indeed been nearly five and half hours since I’d eaten.
“Off you go,” Doc said, shooing us away.
“Aren’t you going to lunch?” Amy asked him.
“I’m having something in my office today while going over the parameters for the additional nursing recruitment with Xeranos.”
We said our goodbyes and headed out the door to the elevator.
“I honestly don’t know how Xero keeps track of so many things at once,” I said to Amy as we got in.
“I know, right? He has a lot of helper programs that are also sentient but more limited in scope. They report to him and handle certain functions like air and water, I heard.”
“Okay, that makes a lot more sense. I was worried he was practically god-like or something.”
“”Or something,” Xero piped up, making me jump.
“You startled me, Xero!” I scolded.
“Sorry, Mitchell. “I have a message for you. Jolar wished me to tell you that you are both having dinner at Taco Taco tonight and that he will meet you there at six. Also, that he arranged for Neal to go home with Larry, and he will be spending the night.”
“But it’s a school night!”
He said if you mentioned that to tell you that he has something important he wanted to talk to you about and that it is nothing bad.”
“Oh, okay.”
“That sounds intriguing,” Amy said slowly.
“Don’t I know it. I wonder what it is. Whatever it’s about, if he says it’s nothing bad, I trust that it isn’t. So, I have nothing to worry about. I just hope he isn’t wanting to plan three more weddings for our first anniversary or something silly like that.”
The elevator came to a stop and I got off. Turning around when I realized Amy wasn’t following me. She was standing there, staring wide eyed. “Did you say three weddings?”
“Hey, guys!” Darla called, hurrying over. “Come on, the shuttle’s about to leave.”
“Once we are onboard, you are definitely explaining what you meant by planning three more weddings.”
Darla’s head whipped around as we joined the line of people getting on the shuttle to go to the leisure ship. “What what, now?”
I groaned. “I’ll tell you once we’re there and order food. This story requires a lot of carbs.”
“Sounds juicy,” Darla said, eyes dancing.
“Mmhmm. Did you see this absolutely gorgeous ring?”
Darla’s eyes darted down.
“The line’s moving, come on.”
When I didn’t have any friends, I used to wish I did. Now that I had them, I found they could be a big pain in the butt. Though it was much more worthwhile having the aggravation they could bring compared to not having friends.
Once we sat down, Darla reached for my hand. “Oh! It’s gorgeous.”
“After we order our food,” I replied sternly.
