"It's gonna hurt." The nurse named Stella gave a warning before dabbing the cleaning solution on her knuckles.
The sting wasn't the worst thing Iris felt throughout the process, it was his silence. When he didn't talk during the drive to the restaurant either, Iris mustered up a little courage to start a conversation at the dinner table, "How was your day?"
The most basic of questions was all she could think of with her nervous system on fire. Sebastian looked up from the menu, shut it close and said, "Boring. How was yours?"
"It was good." Iris smiled tightly. "Um, I wanted to show you my new intern badge. Dr Carlos upgraded it to a blue one."
There were three levels of interns in the hospital. Iris placed the lowest for her first month given that she didn't have a certificate of
