Chapter 15

                                    

                                          
Nai'a,
These thirty days can't be over soon enough for me. I know that before you left, I told you how attracted I had been to you while you were still unconscious, but I have to explain now how I'm even more attracted to you now that you're awake. When you first woke up, all you had was your voice and your ears, and I couldn't help but to melt a little at your voice. Yes, I know, I sound like a kid again, but you do bring me back to those days when a simple comment could make me blush. Oh, and boy did I blush those first few days around you when you held my hand and then flirted with me. I think I enjoyed it most that you flirted with me and seemed attracted to me without even seeing me. That meant a lot, as in the past people just hit on me before they even had a chance to learn my name just because they liked the way I looked. Yes, I realize that makes me sound conceited, but a lot of women have that issue.
The day we took the bandage off your eyes I knew I was in deep trouble. I'd already felt my heart clench when I first got there and you were so upset about having a rough night, and then the whole Russell incident happened. I have never gone after one of my coworkers like that, and to do that for someone I was feeling things already for was completely unprofessional. But Russell was an ass that had been after me for almost a year, so I guess I should thank you for providing me an excuse to get him off my rotation.
And then I came back and saw your eyes. Oh, wow. That was when I realized that this wasn't going to stop. The way you looked at me, and the way I felt just gazing at you, it was like I'd known you for ages. I have never felt like that towards any patient, or any person before, and I never wanted it to stop.
I'm not writing about the sponge bath. If you can't tell what that did to me, then just take a little sniff of the panties I sent along with you. I might have made a mess in them the morning I gave them to you. Hopefully it gets you through the next month with a lot of naughty thoughts!
As for the scars, I am so glad that I was there to help you through finding out about them. I know it wasn't easy, but seeing that side of you, and knowing you trusted me enough to be vulnerable at that time, made me fall for you a little more.
Heidi must be an amazing person. I say that, because you have become an incredible woman at a young age without the benefit of parents to take care of you and instill values that most people take for granted. I hope you don't think I was pressuring you to make the decision you made about the revenge plot. It takes a lot of inner strength to resist that temptation to keep a war going. Being the first to back off showed a remarkable level of maturity for someone who still makes me feel so young. I do hope those people get what they deserve though.
I will not deny that I have an overwhelming physical attraction to you. But I also have an immense amount of attraction and respect for the rest of you. Your sweetness, intellect, kindness, respect, and everything else. I am truly looking forward to spending more time with you, because I think that what we have could be truly special.
Yours,
Syd
I had a giant smile on my face and unshed tears in my eyes when I was done reading that letter. I'd waited until I was in my own master bedroom until I read it, because as much as I appreciated all that Heidi does, this was still something I wanted to keep private. I picked up the pair of panties she'd enclosed, a dark purple lacy pair that matched the color of her scrubs, and inhaled her sweet scent. I couldn't believe I had to wait another month to see her, to hold her hand and kiss her. It was going to be torture!
I just lay in my bed, clutching the panties to my heart, just enjoying the feel of being in my own bed and the scent of the woman that was drawing me ever closer to a relationship that might be the best thing I could have hoped for. I wouldn't let that slip away. The bullies didn't matter. Principal Clark and Officer Berry didn't matter. My parents and whatever crap they were going to try and spring on me don't matter.