“Do about what?” I squeak, looking at Claire for help, only to find her still inspecting her salad.
“You know, your V-card.” She waves her hand around the middle of my body with a shrug of her shoulders.
This day can’t get any worse.
“Ladies, are these seats taken?”
No-no-no, please don’t let them, of all people, overhear our conversation. Brad, Chad, and Barry are the three horniest interns at the hospital. They’re doing their Burn rotation right now in our department. They have a reputation for hooking up with a nurse in each one of their rotations. Claire, Kelly, and I are the only three single nurses in the burn unit, not that having a boyfriend or husband has ever stopped those three from going after someone they want.
Not waiting for an answer, they proceed to sit down at our table. Chad, in between Kelly and me, with Brad and Barry on each side of Claire, trapping her body with their larger ones.
Claire keeps her eyes focused on her salad, pulling her arms closer to her sides in a failed attempt not to let Brad and Barry touch her. Her face turns a deeper shade of red, extending down her chest.
I watch as Brad and Barry try to look down Claire’s scrub top, moving in closer so that she is now tightly sandwiched between them.
I look at Kelly, silently willing her to help Claire, but she is too busy laughing at everything Chad says to her, running her hand up his arm before squeezing his flexed bicep.
Knowing Kelly is no help. I stand up, reach across the table, and grab Claire’s arm. Her fork falls from her fingers and lands on the table with a loud thud, “Our lunch break is over. We have to get back to work. Right, Kelly?” I nod.
“But you didn’t finish your lunch, Claire bear.” Brad grabs Claire’s fork from the table and waves it at me, Kelly, and Chad, “Why don’t the rest of you go back to work? Barry and I will take care of Claire.” He smirks, stabbing the salad with Claire’s fork and putting it in his mouth. Licking the fork clean, he moans, “Fuck, I can still taste your sweetness.”
“What does she taste like?” Barry leans in, smelling the fork.
Gross.
“Like a sweet, untouched virgin peach,” Brad replies, giving the fork to Barry.
Barry licks the fork, groaning, “We don’t mind sharing you, little peach.”
Crap, they heard our conversation. “We’ve got to go.” I pull a still-stunned Claire away from the table, rushing toward the elevator, leaving Kelly to fend for herself.
Once inside the elevator, with the doors closed, I turn to Claire and ask, “Are you okay? Those guys are such creeps.”
“I’m fine. I don’t know why I froze like that. I can usually brush them off with a smart-ass comment, but having them sitting that close to me while they know I’m a virgin caught me off guard.”
I brush Claire’s hair off her shoulder and wrap my arm around her in a side hug. “It’s okay. They’ve probably forgotten all about you and are hitting on Kelly. Knowing how sexual Kelly is, she’ll probably take care of all three of them at once.”
“I wouldn’t doubt it.” Claire snorts, putting her arm around me and returning the side hug.
The elevator stops on three different floors, letting people on and off before finally reaching our floor. When the elevator doors open, we face Kelly. Her arms are crossed over her chest, and her eyes glare daggers at us.
“How did you beat us here?” I question Kelly, looking around the bank of elevators.
Holding up the emergency elevator keycard in her hand, she shakes it in front of our faces, “I bypassed all the other floors using this.”
“Kelly, you shouldn’t have done that. That keycard is only for emergencies.” Claire scolds, grabbing for the keycard.
Kelly smirks, moving the keycard out of Claire’s reach, “You need to loosen up a little bit, Claire. If Belle hadn't interrupted, you could be in the doctors’ lounge with Brad and Barry right now, losing your virginity.”
“Fuck you, Kelly.” Claire whips around and stomps to the nurses’ station.
“Do you always have to be so crude, Kelly?” I step around her to follow Claire back to the Burn Unit.
Kelly grabs my arm, stopping me, “Come on, Belle. I was just kidding. Besides, I have a plan for how you can lose your V-card.”
“I never said I wanted to lose my V-card. Even if I did, it wouldn’t be to any of those three horndogs.”
I try to pull out of her grasp, but she squeezes my arm tighter. “Not them. Remember that firefighter Greg I dated a couple of months ago? He’s a member of a sex club, and he took me there a couple of times.”