Hart 1
Kristen is a General Practitioner at Arlington Memorial Hospital, where she completed her fellowship three years ago. She really loved the New England area when she was completing medical school in Boston and decided she wanted to plant some roots here after graduation. She loves her job and saving lives, one sim at a time. As a doctor, she is constantly on call and always busy with work. She's always had a vision in her head that by now, she should have been married with kids, but figures it just wasn't in the cards for her. So for now, she continues to bury herself in work and spends whatever free time she has with her girlfriends exploring what downtown Arlington has to offer. There is something else she's been doing a lot of exploring of lately, too.
This is Dr. Jack Connors, a coworker of Kristen. The two have been secretly getting together for almost one year - and no one at the hospital suspects a thing. They are very professional and cordial when others are around, but when the lights go out in the on-call room you can bet that Dr. Hart and Dr. Connors are up to no good. Naturally, the hospital frowns upon dating in the workplace, but more specifically this is an issue because Dr. Connors is married. He has a wife and two children that live in Middleton, a suburb about an hour outside of Arlington. He says he's going to leave her, once the kids are old enough to understand. And the two of them will finally be together and start their life together. But Kristen is no fool and she knows the odds of him actually leaving his wife and kids is slim to none, but alas a girl can dream can't she? She never in a million years thought that she would be "the other woman" but he is so miserable with his wife, and it's only for a few more years. She hates that she has to keep this a secret because their love is one of a kind. Sometimes, it feels as if she is living a double life. But, for now, the romantic dinners in the city, the sleepovers at her place, and the extended breaks in on-call rooms will have to suffice. Kristen birthday was this past week so her two best girlfriends, Sarah and Victoria, treated her to some Mexican food at La Boca Grande. Margaritas, shrimp tacos, and gossip were on the menu. The girls don't get to see each other all that often because they are all so busy, Sarah is also a workaholic and is recently engaged so that takes up a lot of her time. Victoria is a Winthrop so she doesn't exactly spend her time working, but she manages to keep busy nonetheless. Her friends are usually sick of hearing about the married doctor who is "too good to be true" that Kristen rarely brings him up anymore but Victoria did ask about Mr. Wonderful. She just wanted to see if things were still going on between the two and was disappointed to hear that yes, Kristen was still smitten with the doctor. Her friends will support her no matter what she does, but they can't help but wonder what she is thinking dating a married man? The next morning, Kristen woke up feeling extremely sick. One too many margaritas have been known to have this effect on her, so she didn't give it much thought and just went on with her day and proceed to work. A few days later, she woke up again and had the same feeling. Something was not right, and as a doctor she knew exactly what she needed to do. Awaiting the moment of truth, Kristen was unsure how to feel. She had always wanted to be a mother but didn't think that would become a reality. She always wanted kids but because her life was so busy, first medical school, then the fellowship, three years of working flew by. She had no idea where the time went and just put the idea of motherhood on the back burner. Then a sudden flush of emotions came over her - what about Jack? What is he going to say? What is he going to think? She didn't want to get her hopes up but she imagined their happy little family together and thought just maybe this is what they needed. This might be the way he could leave his wife and start a new family with her.
Who was she kidding? What was she thinking? What a silly, childish notion that idea was. That is not at all how it's going to go down. He will never leave his wife. As she sat there on the bathroom floor waiting for her future she couldn't help but wonder about all these different scenarios. Forget Jack, what am I going to do?
The timer went off and she slowly reached for the test that sat upon the bathroom sink. She closed her eyes and counted to three. Open. Two pink lines. A sigh. This is something she has dreamed of her whole life, so why does it feel like such a disappointment?
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