Nursing Student Lessons Ch. 1

Their family Sunday dinner done, Samantha turned to her brother and asked “Andy, would you mind driving me back to the residence?” Sam was a student nurse at St. Vincent’s and even though she lived in the same city she, as with all the other student nurses, was required to live in residence “so they can put us on shifts in our later years” she said. But she was allowed to return home for weekends.

“Sure,” said Andy; “I’ll bring my truck around.” Only a year older than Sam (“Irish twins”, he and Sam told their friends) and a year ahead of her in school, he was studying engineering. He found his truck excellent for his summer landscaping work.

As they headed toward the hospital Sam leaned over to Andy and said “can we stop for coffee? I want to talk to you about something.”

“Sure”, and Andy pulled up at the first coffee shop they spotted.

They each got their coffees and Sam led them to the back of the shop, choosing an isolated table far from the other customers. Andy wondered what was up. Sam stared out the window for a few minutes, sipped her coffee and seemed interested in everything except talking. But Andy knew her well; they’d always gotten along very well, never argued or fought as some of their friends did with their siblings. So Andy knew to wait. Finally Sam began. “You know that Julie is leaving town, right?” Julie was Sam’s best friend, one of Andy’s old classmates; for some reason Julie and chosen Sam, a year behind her in school, as her best friend.

“Sure, Mom told me a while ago.”

“Well, what do you think about it?”

Andy was mystified; “what do you mean? Why would I have an opinion?”

“You don’t know why she’s leaving, do you? No clue?”

“No, I assume for work or something?” Julie worked for a bank and he assumed she was taking a transfer.

“What a doofus. Andy, Julie has had a crush on you for probably eight years. Didn’t you know?”

“What? No. I…I had no idea. She’s been around our house for so long she’s almost like my second sister”.

“Well, I had no illusions at first: she chose me as a friend because it allowed her to get closer to you, but after a while we became best friends for real. I think when she realized you weren’t into her she was happy enough just to be around you.”

“I’m shocked, Sam, I didn’t know. So why are you telling me this now?

“She wants to do one last thing before she leaves town and it concerns you.”

“What’s that? What can I do?”

Sam hesitated, looked out the window at the parking lot, sipped her coffee, and finally said “she wants to sleep with you.”

“WHHAAA…?” was the best Andy could reply as Sam glanced around to see if any customers had overheard. “Are you kidding me?”

“No. I’m serious. SHE’S serious. She said she wants to start a new life and have no regrets, no looking back. She wants a kind of a goodbye shag, I guess.”

“I don’t know what to say. Sam, I told you Jules like a sister to me. It would be, well, weird, like having sex with a sister” and looked down at the table, not noticing Sam’s immediate blush at his words.

“Think about it for a couple of days. I’ll call you Wednesday evening so we can talk, ok?”

“Ok, but I still think this is weird.” And with that they finished their coffee, got into Andy’s truck, and drove to the residence.

On Wednesday evening Andy’s phone rang and seeing it was Sam and picked up immediately.