Check Up or Check In? [Carter]

It seemed that Melissa wasn’t the only person who was less than pleased with her day as the girl before her smiled at her, though her eyes said otherwise. She introduced herself as Steven Carter and she had a check up with the rest of the high school a few weeks ago and was told that she had to come back. There was a pause before Melissa looked at her computer, typing in Carter’s name incorrectly before correctly and then found her file. “Oh yes! Here you are. Sorry about that,” Melissa told her with a small smile as she looked through the files around her, making a noise of delight as she found the girl’s file. ”If you’ll come with me, Ms. Stevens, we’ll get you into a room and then I’ll grab a doctor,” she said with a smile as she stood up, thankfully, and headed down the hallway towards a room for them to be in.

Melissa hadn’t looked too closely at the file in her arms, but she had a feeling that if the hospital had asked her to return, there was a reason for it that shouldn’t be discussed in front of everyone in the waiting room. So, the two walked down the hallway, not taking too long to find a room. Melissa pushed the door open and motioned for Carter to step inside and take a seat. As she did, Melissa shut the door and seated herself on a rolling chair. “So how are you liking Beacon Hills High?” She asked, making small talk before she opened her file and looked things over. These were not good things. In fact, these were things that Melissa did not want to discuss and did not want to tell the girl. This was news no one wanted to get and Melissa was anything but thrilled to be the one to give her this news, especially when she was in the hospital with her alone.

Tag; Carter Stevens
Words; 330
Notes; What sort of bad news did you want for Carter again?

The girl seemed less than please with Melissa’s small talk. In reality, she did want to know how on earth she would feel about the strange high school, after all her son did go there and she wanted to see if there was anything the girl would feel like sharing. That wasn’t the case, of course, and Melissa could understand why. She could understand why she didn’t want to prolong whatever information she would eventually get. It wouldn’t make things any easier or any harder so the best choice of action would be to just come out and say it, although, Melissa wasn’t quite sure what she would be saying. There wasn’t much to say¸ save for the fact that…well…the girl had a high white blood cell count and they would need to do more tests to see what it all meant. It wasn’t the most perfect plan, and Melissa hated being the one to tell people this because, well, what they really wanted to hear from was the doctor, not some nurse.

Something told Melissa that they wouldn’t be able to get the possibility of cancer out of the girl’s head. After all, she seemed smart and no nonsense from what Melissa could see, so it would be hard, she figured, trying to keep her positive until the results were given outright and that would take time. The girl had apologized before asking for them to skip the chat and for her to give it to her straight. Melissa nodded her head and sighed a little before she closed her file and looked at Carter, wanting to make sure she had her full attention. “We got your blood test back and the doctor found that your white blood cell count is rather high. So, we wanted to do a few more blood tests to see what’s going on. Sadly, that requires us taking more blood since the blood you gave us was already used for the previous test,” she explained, not wanting to touch on the “c” subject.

Tag; Carter Stevens
Words; 340
Notes; I did what I could. I'm sorry if it's crap. XD