Though Adam and I had decided to be official, we wanted to take another week or two before telling everyone. We knew that once we came out with it, people would be projecting past stories and opinions on us like crazy and we just didn’t want to deal with it right now.
Rob in Radiology had dated a Doctor from the peds floor and they were hot and heavy, told everyone, couldn’t stop posting photos together to Instagram. Then they had an awful breakup which ultimately led to the female Doctor transferring to a different program, at a different hospital. “Don’t be like Radiology Rob” was a saying in our hospital which meant don’t dip your pen in the company ink. Hell, I’d even said it to a nurse a year ago about dating a tech.
We were sitting on Adam’s couch one Monday afternoon—one of our very few days off amid the COVID drama—and I was drinking iced tea. The windows were open and the sunlight was shining in on us, warming our skin and giving us much needed brightness to contrast our rather dark work days. I was reading something on my phone, leaned back on the couch, my feet in Adam’s lap, soaking up every moment of this peaceful and happy day. I looked up and Adam was holding his phone up, pointed at me.