Jameson Browne

"I think we should build a new wing for the hospital," said Mr. Drew, one of the oldest members of the board, we do need a new wing. It's been hard to accommodate everyone during emergencies.

"It's going to take a lot of time. We need an instant solution for the patients in ER," said Mr. Sharma and it makes sense.

We are in a crisis and the hospital is full because of a motorcade accident on the highway. We are trying to accommodate new patients without moving the old ones, hence we are having this emergency meeting.

"For now, let's move them to the Oak Ridge branch Mrs.Cooper said. Make sure the other branch is ready for the surplus of patients." I told the board members and everyone agreed with this.

I glanced at my secretary so that she remembers to call the other branch and inform them about the new decision. My secretary Theresa is a 35-year-old lady, 5.7" fair with glasses who has been working with me.

"But that's a short-term solution, what are we gonna do in the future, if we have the same situation? We'll have to expand this branch or build a new one." Said Mr. Drew reclaiming his previous statement.

"We know it's a temporary solution, but we also have other things to do right now. We recently started the new saline plant and all the Board of Trustees are not here to get everyone's opinion on it," said Mr. Wilson the Chairman of the Board.

I have been on the board of Global hospital for the past 3 years. The Owner and the major shareholder of the hospital is Arthur Browne, my uncle.

He built Global Care hospitals, so my parents can work together. When he wanted to retire, he transferred all his shares to my name as he doesn't have any kids and he considers me as a son.

Uncle Arthur is the only relative we have, and he is the only reason I got into this business, he is my mentor and he inspires me.

His retirement was the biggest shock for all of us, one day out of the blue he announced the wanted to retire and go on a world trip, and immediately after that, he said that I will be the sole owner of his property.

I refused because I was 22 without any experience and I was scared that I wouldn't live up to his legacy. But he gave me courage, So I wanted to learn about the hospital first, so I asked Mr. Wilson to be the Board Chairman until I feel confident enough to take over.

"Let's talk about that in the next meeting then. All I want us to expand to other states too." Mr.Drew said and the meeting ended.

"Mr.Sharma, keep me in the loop. Let me know if we have to redirect patients to other hospitals. We have to care more about people's lives than the business." I said to him as he is the only one I could trust to make the best decision on this Board.

"Believe in your father Son, even if the whole world protests he will stand up for the patients." He said with pride about his friend and my father as we walked out of the conference room.

Shaurya Krishna, my father is a Chief Surgeon and the Director of this hospital, and Analise Browne, my sweet mother is a Neurologist and the head of Neurology at Global Hospitals.

Theirs was a love story similar to Romeo-Juliet. My father is a Hindu-Indian, coming from an extremely conservative family. His parents didn't approve of my mother as she was an American and Christian, and the deal-breaker was she had my brother (Daxton Browne) when she was 18 with another man in high school.

Daxton and I are really close, we grew up together and he never treated me like a step-brother. We both grew close to each other even though we have an 8 years gap between us and my mother never differentiated us.

But, My father likes Dax more than me, he always prioritizes Dax's interests over mine and it never bothers me, I just use that to tease my father sometimes.

Dax moved to London a few years ago with his wife Piper and the angel of our family Layla, to manage my stepfather, Bruce Reginald's company.

"Mr. Browne, the hospital wanted a list of selected players, for the sports sponsorship program from Northwest High." said my secretary looking at her tablet as we were getting out of the hospital.

"The list is in my office, Theresa. I'll share it with them as soon as we get back to the office" I told her walking towards my car.

My best friend Andrew Jones and I started building our own company Global Technologies during our college days at Harvard. We basically fund new and upcoming technologies and tools and if needed build them together. It started from 10 employees and grew up to 20,000 within 5 years.

As far as I remember Theresa was our first hire for Global Tech, she was an accountant at that time. She resigned from the job when she had her first child, but she wanted to get back to her job with a flexible work schedule, we asked her to be our secretary, so she can have less workload and enjoy her time with her kids.

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I got back to my office and started working on a few other things. Before I knew it the time was 6 p.m. I had to leave as I was planning to have dinner with my parents tonight. That is our family tradition, we try to have at least one meal together once a week.

Andrew's family lives in New York, so he attends our family dinners with me. He is a part of my family too, my parents treat him like another sibling of mine.

When I reached home, I saw Andrew settled comfortably in the living room in a short and tee, relaxed watching T.V.

I freshened up in my old room and came downstairs and talked to Andrew about a few updates and new clients we had coming our way from next month.

"Guys! I told you like 1000 times, DO NOT discuss work at the dining table!" yelled my mom at Andrew and me as we were discussing the upcoming project with the DOD.

"Is dad coming today?" I asked my mother as I couldn't find him in the house.

"Yes, He is here already." saying that my father came in and went straight to my mother to give her a kiss.

If my father is in the house he is always around my mother, it's been 35 years, yet they act like lovesick teenagers, I feel for my dad sometimes, he has no one except us here, he left his whole family in India just to be with Mom and Dax.

"You guys look so good together, but it's gross seeing old people kiss," Andrew commented looking at my parents, to which my mom threw a spatula at him.

He ducked and missed the hit, everyone laughed at his stupidity.

My dad left upstairs to freshen up, and we started eating, my mother makes the best pizza in the world.

Once she tried to make Indian food for my dad when I was 10, as she felt bad that she was the reason that his family never talks to him. And that delicious food gave us diarrhea for 3 days straight.

"Anything interesting going on in your lives boys? Any girls we should know about?" my father asked us wiggling his eyebrows.

"It's the same old stuff Shaurya. Your son is so boring, it's always Office, hospital, and home and he turned me into him too. Can you believe it's been 2 years since I went to an NFL game? I used to go to every single one of them." Andrew as usual whined at me.

To be honest, he is more of a workaholic than I. If he sets his mind on one thing, he never gives up. But the other thing he is good at is being dramatic.

"Shut up idiot! I don't work too much Dad, Who asked you to work? And we did watch that high school football match last week remember?" I said to him and my parents, so they won't think that I don't have a fun aspect in life, while my dad eyed and I knew that there was a lecture about having fun coming up to me in the near future.

Everyone's parents I've ever met in school always wanted their kids to study, do good, and get better grades but not mine. My father always told me to have fun, enjoy, and relax because he says that education is part of life, not the whole life.

"Yeah, it was good but not as good as my Packers. Although, We witnessed a hilarious conversation in the lunch area. We saw a high school kid ask a 23-year-old out on a date. You should have seen the look on her face, Poor girl, she was so scared and worried, she was ready to run out of the school." Andrew told my dad about the girl on the day of the football match.

I couldn't see her face as my back was facing her face and I didn't want to make her more uncomfortable than she already was. The whole day Andrew was laughing like crazy thinking about the look on her face.

"She looks 5.3" and doesn't look m.." before he could say anything. I cut him off, If Andrew started talking, he could go on for the whole night about that girl.

"Stop talking man! My ears are bleeding with your stupid rant about some girl. Papa, I wanted to ask you who designed the web application for the Global Care Hospitals. The one we are using is 5 years old, and we want to update it." I asked him as I liked the one, we are using at the hospital.

When I asked the tech team at the hospital, they told me that they were dad's friends. They told me I would get a better chance if I went through him.

"Oh! It's United Technologies, my friend is the CEO there. If you want you can go next week, I'll let him know you will be coming." Said my dad looking through his phone.

My mom came in from the kitchen and snatched the phone from his hands and replaced it with a beer, we talked to Dax, Peyton, and my niece Layla on a video call, it was fun.

Soon the weekend was over, and my dad got us an appointment at united technologies at 2 P.M. on Monday.

We are currently at the court waiting for the approval for the new delivery drones. We have been here from 8 in the morning. They wanted to inspect it without us in the room, and we have been waiting since then.

We have an appointment with United Tech in 10 minutes and we are stuck at the court. Since someone has to be here for the result we decided that I will go to United Tech and Andrew is gonna come back to the Court after dropping me off.

I hate being tardy, I am a man who lives within the schedule and the slightest of changes like that annoy me to the core. So, right now I am driving like a maniac to reach the United main building.

"James, STOP the car we are going to hit her, SSSTTTOOPPP" yelled Andrew at me as I was looking into my phone about the court decision while driving.

I looked up from my phone and I could see a girl running but with the speed, I was going, I was sure that I will hit her. My foot went on the brake and I floored it.

Here comes the screeching sound and the car beeped out loud and all the screens turned red.

"Dude, Let's get out and look for the girl. Do you think we hit her?" he asked me with worry written all over his face.

I rose up from the seat and looked around and found the same girl lying on the road trying to get up. I got out of the car not able to move my eyes away from her.

She looks like a Mexican may be Indian, Her straight and shiny black hair covers half of her face, and her eyes are almond-shaped and dark brown orbs, showing me pain peeking behind her hair.

As I walked closer I could see a mole above her right eyebrow which accentuates her eyes. My eyes immediately dropped down at her glossy delectable lips.

Get your mind out of the gutter and get a hold of yourself, Jameson.

"What do you think you are doing? Running in the middle of the road like a monkey" I yelled which startled her as she was trying to get up making her fall again.

Good going man you scared the poor girl into falling back.

"I am sorry, I forgot my car keys in the car I came down to get them. I was in a hurry as I have a meeting." She said justifying her running and trying to get up from the ground.

My eyes scanned her as she stood up. She is a petite woman, she wore a pink shirt and black slacks, with a black blazer on top. I could see her shirt and pants ripped at her elbows and knees.

Is she hurt? Should I ask her?

Before I could walk to her, Andrew went by her side to help her get up, which gave me this uneasy feeling.

"Who in the world forgets their car keys in the car? Are you that dumb?" I asked thinking that making fun of her would get rid of this uneasy feeling in my heart.

"I said sorry because I was running but that doesn't give you the right to call me dumb. I can do whatever I want it's my car and my car keys. You are the dumb one for not being able to drive properly." She replied scrunching her eyebrows together in a serious tone, taking her keys from Andrew's hand.

She looks cute when she is angry, her nose flared making me smile. Andrew gave me an angry look before I could say something to annoy her.

"I'm sorry about him, my name is Andrew and You are not hurt anywhere right Ms.?" Andrew asked her with worry written all over his face.

Why is he worried about her it's not like he knew her right?

"Sarah, I'm fine thanks for asking, and get your friend an etiquette and a driving lesson before he kills someone else," she said scowling at me and started running towards the building to our right.

"What happened to you man why were you so mean to her? It was our mistake." Andrew asked me looking in the direction she ran to see her slowly fading into the building.

I am mad at him, Why is he supporting her? And I don't want to talk about her.

"Let's leave before I get late for the meeting." saying that I got into the car. It was a 1-min drive from the accident place.

"You don't remember her? That was the girl from the football game." He told me and left leaving me bedazzled.

Hello Everyone, so do you like how they met?

Are you guys clumsy like Amaya?

I am clumsy as hell. My hands always have band-aids on them. Let me know what you think in the comments

Thank you for reading

Please let me know if this has any writing errors, Thanks in advance

Love

Sneha