Dana got up the strength to work the walkway on her own. She was still a little groggy from the breakfast she had this morning. Vegan soy gelatin with strawberries were not her usual cup of tea. But the Earl Grey tea made up for it a little. The idea, with the walkway, was for her to walk to the other side with little or no help. Michael stood right behind her with every step. He knew that she didn’t need much help but his bosses didn’t. There was no time limit so there was no pressure.

‘Keep on going, Dana. You’re doing good’, Michael encouraged.

Dana sarcastically asked, ‘Enjoying the view back there, coach?’

Michael said, ‘No, she didn’t. No, she didn’t.’ He looked at his left shoulder and asked, ‘Did she just’, then he looked at his right shoulder and asked, ‘Did she just’. It was like he was expecting an answer from his nagging conscience.

‘Yep, she did’, his conscience told him from both shoulders.

Michael funny-like protested, ‘I know that you are not suggesting that I am staring at your professionally trained tennis player ass while I am on the clock.’

‘Well, are you’, Dana asked.

Michael acted funny-like and answered, ‘I will have YOU know that I have a girlfriend and she has a much finer ass than you could try and get a piece of in this hospital. She would make you drop to your knees and thank God you are a woman.’

Dana suggested, ‘She’s standing right there and she has you at gun point, right’ and she made her final step on the walkway and turned around to see nobody. Her face was suddenly crow black.

Michael said, ‘You see what you done did? You accused me of using your training to hit up on a patient without giving me, a man, the benefit of the doubt. I see another lap in your immediate future. Go, Dana. Go, Dana. Come get some. Go, Dana.’

‘You are so gonna get it’, Dana threatened.

Dana completed the lap with Michael just standing at the other end. He acted like he didn’t even care while he was whistling. She felt ridiculous over what she said and offered to apologize. But Michael was still stubborn, he wanted to have some fun, and he just loved the idea of torturing her.