THE SECRET

This is a story about two people who hate each other, or is it hate?Read to find out. And please tell me what you think. It is very important for me so please review this story.

She nervously entered the white, pretty clean room. No one was in it. She went over to one of the lockers. On it was the name Charlotte Banks. She hated that name. Her friends never called her Charlotte, she was Charlie for them. She opened it. There were still some old pictures in it. Charlie didn´t care, she trew her stuff in it and closed it again. She opened the front door and stepped outside. A lot of people walked around, some small some tall, thin or thick, women and men. Charlie looked at them, no one seemed to notice her. So she just walked to the reception, where a woman was working busy. " Excuse me." Charlie stuttered. The woman looked up to her. " Can I help you?" she asked not very nicely. " I am new here, Charlotte Banks." the woman smiled. " Sorry but some people just come here to annoy me. So, I guess you want to know where you have to work. Just follow me." She got up and they walked through different rooms. Charlie didn´t realize that this building had so much rooms. Finally they arrived in a complete different place. Charlie looked around, here hardly were people. Just at the reception sat these two women, who were talking and laughing. " Hey!" the woman said. The two looked up at her. " Hey, Jes. What´s up?" one of the women said. " Here, this is your new assistant." She said and pointed to Charlie who stood beside her and played nervously with her short hair. " Oh hey, Charlotte Banks, right?" the other woman said. " Yes." " I am Elizabeth Mannings, but just call me Lizzy." The shook hands. The other woman got up. " I am Josephine Richards. Call me Jo or Joey." The shook hands as well. In this moment Charlie felt reliefed. The people seemed to be nice, but the doctor wasn´t there yet and everybody had told her that he was pretty mean and people who showed they were scared he treated very bad. But since Jo told Charlie all those things she could handle him pretty well. He was very surprised. In the break Charlie went to Jo. " Hey, how did it go with Doc Collins?" " Pretty well." Charlie replied and smiled a bit. " Why are you smiling?" Jo asked. " He is kinda...well cute." " Oh no, don´t do this, do not fall in love with him." She warned. " Hey easy there, I said he is cute not that I am in love with him." Charlie said. Jo looked at her worried. She knew Dr. Collins, Joshua, better than she wanted. And she knew what he did with girlfriends. Lizzy entered, she looked sad.

" He did it again." Shs said. " What?" Charlie asked confused. " He critizied her in front of the patients." Jo asked dryly. " But he can´t do that!" Charlie said. " I told you, he is maybe cute but in his heart our ´Joshy is a monster." Jo said. " Well, well. First, I am not a monster and for you Ms. Richardson I am still Dr. Collins!" Joshua said angry and left the room. " Now I am so scared!" Jo said. Joshua slowly re-entered. Lizzy and Charlie sat down, they were both scared. But Jo stood there, not scared maybe angry but not scared. " You know I can fire you." Joshua said calm. " I know you can but I know you won´t." " Don´t count on it." he said and left. " Wow, weren´t you scared?" Charlie asked amazed. " No way, I was never scared. It is just DR. COLLINS. I hate him but I am not scared." For the next few days Jo and Joshua just didn´t talk. Charlie watched them when they walked past each other. When she saw Jo´s look, she knew there was something esle.

She didn´t know what it was, or why she felt that way. One day she decide to talk with Joshua, she was scared like hell. It was late in the evening and they were the only ones there. " Dr. Collins, could I talk with you?" she asked trying not to sound too scared. " Yeah, sure." He replied and looked at her. Charlie had learned, from her grandmother, to read in other people eyes. Joshua´s eyes were like the ocean, deep and blue and she saw pain. " You wanted to talk with me." Joshua said. " I forgot what I wanted to say." Charlie said and left the room. Talking with Joshua was impossible, she didn´t know him but she knew Jo. Jo sat alone in the room, reading when Charlie slowly entered. Jo looked up and knew at once that was something wrong. " Hey has he done aynthing?" Jo asked and Charlie nodded no. " Then what is up?" " Can we talk?" Charlie asked, her voice almost a whisper. " Sure." she laid her paper on the table and looked waitingly at Charlie.

" Well, I was wondering...you and Dr. Collins...is there anything?" she finally chocked out. " What do you mean?" Jo asked confused. " You don´t like each other, and I wonder why." " That is wrong, we don´t dislike each other, we HATE each other, ok? And there is no real reason for it expect for the fact that he is a pig." " But there must be a reason!" Jo looked at her. Tears building in her eyes. She suddenly felt like she should tell Charlie. " Ok, Ill tell you the reason if you promise, PROMISE not to tell anyone." " I promise." Charlie replied honestly. " Listen, Joshua and I, we know each other since we were like 10 years old. He lived across from us and he, his brother, my sister and I always played together and when we got older we just hung out together. Josh and I, we fell in love. You know this kind of love which lasts forever. We even got engaged and I got pregnant. One day, we all so plus our siblings, went to a party. Joshua was the only one with a driver license, he got drunk. But we had to go home, or our parents would have found out. On the way, we had ..." she stopped and looked at Charlie, she looked shocked and surprised. Jo continued. " Then we had this accident... I lost my baby, my sister and he, he lost nothing. His brother and he, they got out of it without serious injuries. Our relationship was over at once. That´s why I hate him, ok?" it was hard for her not to cry. " That is terrible." Charlie said very shocked. " Well, you get over it after some time but I never forgave him. I hope that was enough for you." She stormed out. She had to cry, letting all of this pain go. Charlie, still shocked and probably out of mind, walked back to Joshua. She looked at him, not knowing if she should angry or sorry for him. Jo had said he didn´t lost anything, but he did lost something, his baby, his girlfriend, and he had to deal with the fact that he had killed, even if it wasn´t on purpose. " Do you know now what you wanted to talk with me about?" Joshua asked. " You didn´t even tried to talk with her about it, you didn´t...nothing you did nothing." Charlie said. Joshua looked at her confused. " You killed her sister, your baby but nothing.." " She told you?!" " Yeah, cause I was wondering why she felt so much hate for you. Well, I understand that now. But why do you hate her?" Joshua looked down. Then up and directly in Charlies eyes. " I do not hate her, I never did. The only thing I feel for her is love." He looked down again. " Talk with her, she doesn´t hate you either. She says it, and she herself thinks that, too but deep down in her heart she knows that she can´t hate you." Charlie walked away, leaving Joshua standing there unsure what to do now. He decided that Charlie was right, he had to talk with her. That was the least thing he could do...

So, first part. If anyone wants the second part, tell me. And even if you don´t want the second part and that was the worst thing you ever read, tell me!!

Written by Anika