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Leaning my head against the cool elevator wall and letting out small shallow breaths as I wait for the elevator to reach my floor, pulling out my earbuds as the old bell chimed as warning as the elevator door struggled to open with a few jolts as it slides and slots into itself half way open. Stepping out into the hall I instantly notice Maxs door slightly opened ajar with random TV talk playing inside, walking over in confusion and knocking I wait for a moment before calling in "max?" With still no answer I turn with a shrug and decide it"s better to go about my business.
Pulling my keys out and focusing on grabbing the right one to put in the door I nearly don"t notice the small purple gift bag on my welcome mat containing a few bath items and a fancy looking bottle of wine, Leaning down and grabbing the bag I notice a small hand written note within it all "welcome to the building" I smile lightly and can"t help the small grin that"s plastered on my face as I open my door and enter my apartment and begin to get ready for work.
I sit quietly in the doctors changing room and sigh thinking back to the women I"d just treated who was suffering from a case of taking bad drugs and was in a bad physical and mental state when she arrived bruised cut and bloody screaming for her life as she tried to get out of all the doctors grip. "Hey" pulls me out of mind as Sydney strolls in, "hey" i reply as she takes a seat next to me on the changing bench "Heard you had a long one" I nod "It"s been an insane day" I watch as she sighs leaning back slightly and resting a hand on her preagnt stomach "Rob and I are going out today, you wanna come?" She asks taking a sip of her water "mhm no thanks, think I"m just going to go home and get to bed early after today" I grimace for affect when a buzz from my phone beside me goes off, quickly my fake grimace is replaced with a real one.
"Your not answering you calls. Can we talk? -jack"
Pops up in blue on my phone taking over the screen. "You need to stop thinking about him" I turn and know before I even see that Sydneys got the pity half smile plastered on while shaking her head "he cheated on me in my own bed." I sigh "Everytime I look in the mirror, all I see is someone who wasn"t good enough" I look away emotionally drained even still from everything that Jack seems to continue to cause me "you were enough" she snaps "you are enough- more than enough" she shoots up and puts a hand on my back and gives me a standing half hug before moving to lean on the counter top in front of me "He"s an asshole, who wasn"t worth it. Who isn"t worth it" she says gesturing to my phone beside me "I gave up my dream to move to New York for him, and he just ruins it all like that" I grumble shaking my head, pissed off at how I got treated and how dumb I was, "it"s an art opening. It"s not gonna kill you, you"re coming" she tells me in a laugh leaving no room for arguments.