My Fake Lieutenant Boyfriend

Chapter 6: Katie

Well, my first day of work was interesting. Needless to say when I got off of work, I headed straight for the store to get a bottle of my favorite wine. It was almost too much. Just, almost. After getting home and making my dinner for the night, I placed my leftovers in a clear plastic tupperware container for work first thing in the morning. I sigh as I get a shower and then sit on my couch to binge watch my favorite show. I did my best to unwind while I was in the shower, but my mind kept flashing back to the assault earlier today. I was scared, I won’t lie about that. Getting attacked and almost getting stabbed while at work is never a good thing. I just didn’t think it would happen on my first day of work.

I sigh as I let the hot water from the shower roll down my head and shoulders and drop like rain at my feet. I didn’t realize just how tense I was until now. Maybe it is a lasting effect from just getting out of nursing school combined with everything that happened today? No, I wasn’t super stressed like this during school. I was a straight A student. I graduated at the top of my class and everything. I have plans to continue my education and go back for my nurse practitioner degree as well. I just wanted a break from school. You know, get a couple of years of experience under my belt before I go back.

With every passing second of being under the water, I keep going back to that moment. What could I have done differently? Was I truly doing something I wasn’t supposed to be doing? No, I was just standing there watching the code unfold. I think what is bothering me the most is the fact that I keep going back to the look of Nick after I was freed from that inmate. Not just the look on his face, but also his body. How strong he was and how fearless he seemed to be. Why would he do something like that? I just don’t get it.

Without me realizing it, I felt my body flutter to life and I shook my head. I can’t think of him that way. He was my highschool bully and he is Josh’s best friend. Even if I wanted more with him, which I don’t, it would never happen. Hell, he didn’t even treat me like I was a human for several years. It finally took me and him getting into a full on fist fight when I was about eight years old before he would even treat me like a human being.

I turn the hot water to cold and stand under it to shake this feeling of something for him. He has no business being stuck in my head like this. The last time this ever happened, I was about seventeen and the guy that made me feel this way didn’t even acknowledge my existence after the day he kissed me on the cheek. I still have no idea what happened to make him never even speak to me again, but I didn’t like it. Maybe I was just unattractive or unloveable? I have no idea.

I sigh as I turn off the water and get dressed in my pajamas. I grab my phone and turn it on to all sorts of messages and missed calls from several people. The one that stood out to me the most was a missed call from Josh. I sigh as I decide to call him back and figure out what he wanted to know.

The phone rang about twice before he picked up. “Hello,” came his clear voice.

I sigh as I shake my head. “Hey, you called me earlier? What’s up?”

“I was just calling to check on you. I heard about that f*****g bastard attacking you. Needless to say, Nick and I took care of it.”

I feel my eyes squint as I shake my head. “What do you mean that Nick and you took care of it? What was there to take care of? The guy got beat up by Nick in the health care unit and then he went to the restrictive housing unit. What more is there to be done?”

Josh sighs on the other end of the phone and I hear someone else mumble from the other side as well. “Look, just know that we are getting the guy shipped to a different camp. His ass will never be back and he will never touch you again.”

I roll my eyes as I feel my anger flare in my chest. “Josh, I know that. I know that he is going to be shipped out of the camp and I know that he is never going to touch me again. Hell, Nick beat the T-total f**k out of his ass and he didn’t even bother to look at me while Nick was dragging his ass off of the floor.” I hear someone snicker in the background again and I get a sinking feeling in my gut. “Josh, who is there with you?”

“Uhhhh,” he starts and he seems to realize he has been caught red handed. “No one is here with me. It is just me and the birds.”

“Uh huh… Tell Nick he can eat s**t and die since I know he is listening in on this conversation. I thought you were going to move out and get your own place. What happened to that?” I cross my arms over my chest and shake my head slowly.

“I’ll eat s**t and die when I am good and ready for it, little miss Katie Bug. Just be happy I saved your ass today.” I hear a loud pop and Nick grunt in pain before Josh sighs again.

“Could you two at least pretend to like one another? f**k me. Anyway, I was going to move out, but since both of our names are on this lease, I have to stay here or else it screws him out of the lease as well. If I break the lease contract, it breaks the contract for Nick too and I am not about to do that for my best friend. Anyway, I thought you were moving too. What happened to that?”

I roll my eyes. “I did move. I moved closer to the prison and I even got an apartment by myself. Sammy is still living at the old place and she seems to be thriving there.” I sigh as I start thinking about my best friend. “I really do wish her the best.”

Josh sighs and I know he is shaking his head at me. “Well, are you at least going to get a dog or a cat? Hell, even a f*****g goldfish would be better than showing up to an empty apartment every night.”

I scoff and roll my eyes. “Says the one who shows up to one every night too.”

“I at least have Nick,” he says.

“You’re right, Nick is more like a dog than anything else really.” I hear him growl and bark in the background before Josh punches him again and he grunts in pain. “Would you two just f**k and get it over with? Damn, why the hell do you have to be so abusive to each other?”

“You’re one to talk. Hell, at least he and I communicate with one another. You two just give each other evil glares and keep going.” Nick snickers in the background and mumbles under his breath.

“Anyway, if we are done here, I need to get going so I can go to bed. I have to be at work in the morning and I don’t even know what the f**k I will be doing.”

“Ten-four, baby sister. Get some sleep. I love you,” he says.

Nick screams in the background like an obnoxious child, “I love you, Katie Bug.”

I groan and roll my eyes. “I love you too, Josh. f**k off, Nick.”

He snickers hard before Josh pops him again and I hang up the phone. What the hell did I get myself into when I agreed to work at the prison with those two? Lord, I already feel like I am back in high school and having to make sure the two of them don’t kill each other or anyone else.