The Prescription

She didn’t intended on taking a vacation with Sumner, not at first anyway. When he invited her she thought he was joking. After all, he had been dealing with the family in room five and took thirty minutes to write three pages of orders on the newest chest pain admit. He seemed too busy to be thinking of anything but the normal quickness of a doctor on call. It wasn’t until he asked her for a prescription pad, scribbled a line and then handed it to her when Katherine sat for more than a minute trying to make out the last word: Maui.