1. Make it right.

The look on everyone’s faces is incomprehensibly stunned the moment I re-enter the hospital with its director in tow. The nurses at the reception all stand up as they see him approach, and Clara’s face pales.

I feel a little bit guilty about what I had done. I know that I am misusing a power that I have on hand. But what choice have I been left with? Ever since I entered this world, I’ve tried to treat people with compassion and kindness. But it only backfired on me and made me look like a right idiot. Now, it seems, that the wisest way was to treat people the same way they treated me.

“Who is the nurse manning the reception front desk today?” Pat demands as soon as we come to a stand in front of the reception table.

The nurses look at one another and Clara takes a step forward.

“I am at the front desk sir,” she says in a voice that is close to shivering.

I tamp down the feeling of guilt. My friend is in the ER getting treated after being shot. I cannot afford guilt.

“Nurse Clara, isn’t it?” The director asks and Clara nods.

“Well, Nurse Clara, care to tell me why you refused to put down Mr Greyson as the accounted of the shooting patient that was just brought in?”

swallows. “Sir, Mr. Greyson was making a

tell me, Nurse,

her head mutely.

bells? He is the son, the only son, and heir, of Joseph Greyson. Yes, the owner of Greyson Consolidated, multi-billionaire, a household

at me, staring with astonishment. I try my hardest not to shift from foot to foot out of awkwardness. Perhaps calling Pat was not

part, “he was

other nurses. “Tell me, is this the truth? Was Mr. Greyson making a scene? Was he threatening the nurses? Was he disturbing the process of

look at one another. Finally, one of

ill of my workmates, but the young man over there only wanted his friend’s hospital bill to

of grown adults?” condescension drips from his voice as he sneers. “Tell me the truth and truth only, from the beginning to the end. Lie to me again, and I will fire you on the spot. Nurse Clara, why did you call the security

from start to finish. She doesn’t gloss over her behavior, nor on mine. She hangs her head in what looks

reception while she talks, so her voice carries through the hall. At the end of

cruel behavior could’ve spawned? Gross negligence of a patient’s needs, legal discrimination, assault I’m not a lawyer, so those are the ones I can name off the top of my head And there are many, many more. We could’ve been sued into

with no choice because I do not enjoy. seeing people be reduced to quivering messes like this. Why the

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