Hi everyone! Thank you to everyone that review on Kiss and Tell. I realized that it had some grammar/spelling errors and I'm really sorry I'm working to fix them. I don't have a beta reader anymore and I really lack the time to try to re-read over and over again to catch them. I've tried to do better at this story and I really hope you like it.
This takes place three weeks after Kiss and Tell, but it's before "It's Like Jamais Vu All Over Again," but I will be working up to that/though that in this story. Anyways I'm jabbering and I'm sure you've skipped over this already but enjoy the first chapter of my new story.
What I Want
Chapter 1: Normal As Normal Can Be
Divya bit at her bottom lip before looking up and meeting his stare. Tears were brimming at his eyes and when they finally spilt over they left long streaks down his face. Sighing she looked back down at her hands. She didn't know what to stay to him to make him feel better, and nothing was coming to mind, hopefully when this was over he the tears would stop and she could continue on her way like this all never happened in the first place.
Blowing a few stray hairs out of her eyes Divya looked up one more time before and pulled gently on the needle in her hand completing the stitch. "All done." She replied tying it off into a small knot at the end and cut the needle free using a pair of scissors.
"Thank you so much." Replied the boy's mother as she picked up her son in her arm and cradling the child close to her body. "I really appreciate all your help."
"It's really no problem." Replied Divya smiled softly "Those stitches should dissolve in a week, just make sure you watch the area for infection and keep it bandaged properly."
Before she began to pack up her medical supplies she reached into her purse and snatching out a cherry lollypop and holding it to the boy, despite the fact that he was still crying he quickly grabbed the sucker, quickly removing the plastic cover of the candy and popped it into his mouth. His crying was subdued almost instantly.
The mother thanked Divya one more time and together her and her son made their way to the near by dock and disappeared into the parking lot.
Divya stood there for a few seconds watching them before bending down upon the small blanket and began to packing up her medical supplies she kept on hand.
Divya loved walking along this beach, it was relaxing, and not too far from her house. She often came here just to clear her head; however, today wasn't meant for her to be able to relax…
Her mother had called her this morning, before she had even had her coffee, wanting to discuss more plans about the wedding. She really hated lying to her parents, but how could she not do what she loved. She wanted to be a PA, she loved it, and maybe actually have a M.D. after her name sometime in her future but how could she do that. She was expected to marry Raj after she "graduated" with her MBA and move to London to work at his business.
After her frustrating phone call she had left her house in a hurry, and found herself walking along the beach. She had removed her flip-flops upon hitting the sand and she walked along the beach enjoying the feeling of the sand between her toes, however that didn't last long.
She had been half way along the beach when suddenly a group of children raced right in front of her, not paying much to them she continued walking till she heard a child crying. Turning quickly she noticed a child lying on the ground crying loudly Divya rushed over to the boy, quickly joined by the boy's mother, and examined him. He had busted open his knee pretty bad from landing in the sand right into some shards of broke glass.
Divya made quick work of the blooded knee. After pulling out a small medical kit, she kept in her purse, she use a set of tweezers to remove any remaining glass, cleaning of the bloody area and after a few quick stitches the boy was all better.
Pulling off her rubber gloves, she returned her medical kit into her purse and tossed the used gloves into a near by trash can she continued her slow walk along it lost in thought.
She didn't want any of that. Raj knew that. But how could she continue to work at HankMed when she suppose to be in London, and how could she marry Raj, when she knew she was in love with another…
A smile graced her features as her thoughts turned to Evan.
Sure things after that night had been awkward. She hadn't expected sleeping with Hank's brother wouldn't make thing awkward. She still can't look Hank in the eyes without feeling a blush come to her face about him seeing her pretty much in her underwear in his brother's bed, but, that night shook the entire foundation of her life. Three weeks later and she still couldn't get that night out of her mind.
Feeling her cell phone buzz in her pocket she pulled it out and took a quick glance at the caller id. A smile graced her features as she noticed its Evan calling her.
"Hello Evan."
"Hey Div's, Hank needs to see you and go over some HankMed business. Do you need me come get you?"
"No actually, I'm walking the beach right now; I can be over there in just fifteen minutes."
"Oh, ok." He replied and she could tell that he was a tiny bit reluctant to let her walk all that ways by herself. "If you're sure."
"I'll be fine." She said with a laugh in her voice. "I'll be there in fifteen minutes tops; I promise I'll call you if I run into any trouble."
"Yeah you do that." He replied a smile gracing his features, Divya couldn't see it but she knew it was there by his tone of voice. "See ya in a bit."
"See ya."
Divya slipped the phone back into her pocket and made her way toward the Lawson house.
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Evan clicked his phone shut, a smile formed still hung on his face from his conversation, and he turned to walk into the kitchen before noticing that his brother walking down the hallway going over a HankMed file. "That was fast, did you get her voice mail."
Evan smiled making his way to the fridge and grabbing a bottle of water out of it "Actually she picked it up on the first ring. Thank you." Unscrewing the top he took a long swig before turning to his brother that was smiling at him.
A scowl crossed Evan face and he leaned over and hit Hank on the shoulder. "Stop that."
"Stop what."
"That look, the look that say you know everything that's going on"
"Well finding you two getting dress in a ravaged bedroom kind of makes me know that something went on there. Beside I've seen the secret looks you give her all the time and the awkward hugs she'll give you, it's not that hard for me to look like I know everything that is going on, because I'm pretty sure that I do know everything that's going on."
"You don't know what you're talking about…" replied Evan, his phone ringing, and he turning to leave kitchen leaving his brother behind folder in hand. "Thank you for calling HankMed, how can we make you feel better today…?"
"Denial…" sighed Hank before grabbing Evan's water and taking a drink of it.
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When the doorbell rang Evan had to contain himself from almost rushing to the door. He walked to the door and pulled it open. Coming face to face with Divya he felt his mood lighten and a smile came to his face.
"Hey Div's."
"Morning Evan." Replied Divya with a smile. He moved forward giving her a soft kiss on the check and she smiled at him.
The woman before him wore a light blue sun dress; it came to rest just above Divya's knees with layered ruffles up the skirt. The rest of it was plain and just lay among her body leaving little to Evan's imagination. Not that was much he had to imagine anymore.
"Come on in Div's" he replied moving aside and letting the girl step inside, shutting the door behind her he followed her to their usual HankMed "meeting" spot and she sat down at the table placing her bag on the floor by her feet.
"Where's Hank?" she asked looking around the room and finding no sign of him.
"Gone off to answer a phone call," he replied shrugging and sitting down at the table next to her, Divya smiled at him, however the two of them sat in uncomfortable silence.
They hadn't talked much since the night they slept together, hell the car ride home was in complete silence till Evan clicked on the radio, a few choice love songs like, When a Man Loves a Woman, We Belong Together, and When I Fall in Love came on and the radio was quickly no more.
Divya didn't really know what to say to him, he knew that she was engaged, and her emotions had been high since she had been crying pretty much that whole day, but why did it feel so right to be with him. Was it because it was forbidden fruit, was it easy since they had been together since the brothers first came to the Hampton, or was it more? She did after all say that she pretty much was in love with him, but did he feel the same?
Before she could even talk to the man before her Hank joined them and Divya snapped out of her thoughts, best not to dwell on it now anyways.
"Good morning Divya." Hank replied with a smile.
Divya smiled back at him. "Good morning Hank," she replied taking the HankMed file he handed to her.
"Alright, first patient updates, um…Ms. Newburg called this morning, she think she's getting a cold needs a check up for her as well as Koufax since he's got the sniffles. Um…I gave tetanus shot yesterday, but the woman had a bad reaction to it, small amount of swelling at the injection site and redness as well so I'm going to see her this afternoon she said she was on a lot of medication and I'm going to give her a consult to re-evaluate her meds she taking." He replied flipping though a few folders in front of him. "Anything I need to be brought up to speed on Divya?"
"I did some stitches on a young boy just a half an hour ago on the beach, he had cut his knee open after landing on some glass on the beach, and…oh Evan you going to love this, I've got us a new cliental."
Evan glance at the woman sideways a smile coming to his features as he looked at her. "Wow, in a matter of six words you became the sexiest woman on earth."
Divya shot Evan a smile, along with a blush that was already gracing her features. She was about to bite back to that one if it wasn't for Hank interrupting rather quickly. "To stop this conversation from getting anymore awkward I'm going to ask before anything else happens. What cliental are we talking about here."
"The mother of the boy that I stitched up today is an assistant coach of a champion soccer team her in the Hamptons, anyway the soccer team I guess is behind on their checkups and she said that they will be denied their seat in the championship if they don't get the team check out, they've invited HankMed to do the checkup."
"Really?" replied Evan
"Yep, we've got it scheduled it for this weekend." Replied Divya
"Alright," replied Hank shutting the folder he had been looking through before, "I think that mean meeting adjourn."
Hank began to walk off tucking the folder under his arm before walking away from the table leaving the two alone. Divya look confused at Hank before looking at Evan with the same look on her face.
"Where's he…"
"Got a lunch date with Jill."
"Ah, I though they weren't dating anymore."
Evan shrugged picking up the folders on the table and stacking them into a pile in the center of the table. Silence filled the room once again and Divya felt rather uncomfortable.
"Evan…"
Evan looked up from stacking his folders and noticed her concern look in her eyes.
"Divya?" he replied
"Evan…about that night…"
Divya's cell phone went off a couple off and she groaned reluctantly holding up a finger to Evan and turned away from Evan to answer it…
"Hello?" she asked "Raj, um…hi…"
She turned back around and noticed that Evan was gone…"Damn it." she said softly.
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Saturday rolled around in the Hamptons and this entire week was rather quiet in the Hamptons. Divya's cell phone lay on her dresser by her bed unmoving since she had rested it there a few days ago when she had gotten home from a HankMed meeting a few days ago.
She was grateful for the time off, especially since the last month had been pretty crazy, but it also gave her time to think. Despite the fact that things were still weird between the two of them she couldn't stop thinking about him. Thinking about that kiss…that amazing...
Divya paused feeling a slight wave of nausea wash over her. Sitting up quickly from her spot resting on her bed and her hand rushed to her stomach. What was that?
Slowly getting out of bed she sighed softly. Her head hurt all of a sudden as she felt her stomach toss again. Why was she feeling like this? She was never one to get really sick before.
But Hank was waiting for her. She had to get ready.
Making her way to get dressed for the checkup of the soccer team, she felt her stomach toss again and suddenly she was rushing to the bathroom. She barely made it before she found herself throwing up into the toilet.
Slowly sinking to the floor she flushed the toilet. Resting her head against the cold porcelain she sighed. Her head really hurt now, worse then before, and now she wasn't sure if she could stand without tossing the contents of her stomach into the toilet bowl before her. What wrong with her?
Sighing she got to her feet, she had too. Hank was waiting for her; she brushed her teeth before leaving the bathroom.
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Divya was overheated. To say the least. Grabbing her next folder, she began fanning herself with it, as she glanced over at Evan who was currently hitting on one of the soccer coaches. Divya though this team was an all male soccer team, but when they arrived, much to Divya's shock and Evan's delight, it was a female team.
Most of these woman looked like could run laps around Evan without breaking a sweat but, for some reason they seemed almost intrigued by Evan…and Divya felt a pain in her gut. But it was most defiantly not jealously.
"Lisa Black?" she called out to the woman before her and a young redhead woman head shot up. She looked at Divya and a smile came to her face she held up a finger signaling one minute before turning back to Evan. She reached out giving Evan a hug and a slip of paper before coming over to Divya.
Divya felt another pain of something inside her but she shook it off smiling as Lisa came over to her.
"Good morning Divya." Replied Lisa.
"Good morning Miss Black, if you please sit down over here I'll make this as quick as possible so you can get back to our CFO over there."
"Evan?" she replied as they made their way into the small tented area they set up. Lisa sat down. "He's pretty funny, he's been passing out HankMed cards all morning, I was giving mine back with my phone number included. You know if he's seeing anybody."
"Actually…" replied Divya, however she paused feeling the nausea wash over her again. Lisa looked at her concerned.
"Hey are you ok."
"F…fine." Replied Divya. "Um…I'll begin the checkup now."
"Alright," replied Lisa with a small smile looking back over at Evan who was still talking to another woman, a blonde one. Divya scowled pulling on a pair of gloves.
"So, is he seeing anybody?"
"Yeah actually," replied Divya pulling out a needle and walked over to Lisa. "Hold out your arm please."
"He's seeing someone, damn, he's really cute," replied Lisa. "OW!" she replied retracting back quickly.
"Sorry, I missed the vain."
"Bad bedside manor." Grumbled Lisa softly rubbing her arm. "You're a doctor?"
"I'm just drawing blood to run some test on." Divya replied. "I'm sorry. I won't prick you this time."
"Anyways do you think that his girlfriend and him are serious, or are they an "open" couple?"
"We're all done here Ms. Black." Replied Divya. "I'm sure that everything is fine and we'll have your results in just a few days."
"Um…thanks." She replied holding a bit of cotton to her arm.
"You're…" began Divya, but she suddenly felt dizzy and the last thing she remembered before she passed out was someone calling her name.
Ok. Was it just me or did you jump for joy when Evan and Divya kissed last night. I was so happy I've watched that episode almost fifty times on Hulu just today "Am I blue?" is now my favorite Royal Pains episode. I loved that episode.
Anyways, please review. I hope you liked it and more to come soon.