Sunflowers
You remember seeing her at a farmers market once, not too long ago either.
Ending up in the ER was not on your list today. As you were carrying boxes up to your third floor, one of them fell and you slipped. Luckily you caught yourself holding one of the railings, but unfortunately your ankle did twist.
Fuck! was all you could say.
You grabbed your phone and dialed your best friend who didn’t live too far from your apartment.
Hours later you find yourself at the ER. Your best friend made sure to handle your paperwork while you guys waited. Your ankle felt tender and swollen, you thought maybe an ice pack and some Advil would do but your best friend insisted you might of broken something. Maybe you didn’t break anything but you certainly did mess something in your ankle since you couldn’t press down all the way to walk. So to be on the safe side you obliged your best friend.
Finally after what seems like hours of waiting you’re finally called in.
Your best friend helped you in the wheelchair they brought you in and they rolled you back in.
After settling in and having your vitals taken, the nice nurse said “Alright y/n, a doctor should be here in shortly”
You nod and smile “Thank you so much”.
You kept wincing in pain, trying your best not to focus too much on your ankle but it felt like it was non too throbbing.
Your best friend said “Maybe next time, ask for help?”
You roll your eyes playfully.
You hear a faint knock on the door, and suddenly a young, blondish haired woman with glasses walks in.
“Hi there I’m Dr.King,” she politely smiles.
“Hi, I’m y/n and this is my best friend”.
She looks at her and nods and smiles.
She walks to the sink and washes her hands,then she turns to you again and says “I hear you might have a fractured ankle?”
You nod “yeah, uh I’m pretty sure it’s not broken but it does hurt a lot if I try to press down to walk”
“Hmm okay” she sits down on a stool close to your ankle as she’s putting on some gloves.
She looks nervous yet so focused on what she’s doing.
“I’m going to press down on your ankle to check for tenderness, may I?” she’s lowering on her stool.
You nod “Yeah please go ahead”
She gently presses down her fingers on your ankle, you bite down your lip trying not to let the pain get to you.
“Hmm okay” she says looking down at your ankle and then at you.
“Well y/n thankfully nothing is broken but you definitely do have some tenderness. We can run a ct scan just to be sure” she’s now fully looking at you.
As you’re looking at her, it suddenly hits you, you’ve seen her before.
Two weeks ago you were at the farmers market picking up your weekly groceries, scoping for new goodies and flowers, and you couldn’t help but notice a woman contemplating what flowers to get. She looked very focused too, you couldn’t help but find it kind of cute, plus you loved anything plant wise. Your apartment was full of them. Your friends would sometimes joke and call you a crazy plant lady.
You suddenly get closer to her and clear your throat “Um, hi excuse me I couldn’t help but see you having a hard time choosing which flowers to get, may I add a suggestion?”
Mel looks at you a bit timid but then smiles “Oh uh yeah sure, please.”
You smile and bend down to grab a cute bouquet of sunflowers and hand them to her.
“Sunflowers are truly a good kind to have sitting in your house, doesn’t matter what room it just lightens up the vibe” you give her a sweet smile hoping you’re not coming off pretentious.
She looks at them and then at you “Thank you, really. These are beautiful” she smiles.
You shrug “No problem really, to be honest they’re my favorite” you chuckle.
She bites down her lip nervously and then looks at you again “Well thanks again, I’m Mel by the way” she shakes your hand while her other hand is holding the sunflowers.
You shake her hand “y/n” you smile warmly. You could get lost in those honey brown colored eyes.
You didn’t think much of the interaction but you also couldn’t help but think how beautiful and sweet she was. Her hair was golden under the sun and in a nice braid, even if she was wearing glasses her eyes were the first thing that caught your attention.
As Dr.King is explaining to you why a CT scan might be your best bet to rule out any broken ligament, you blink twice trying to focus on what she’s saying.
“Okay sounds good…um Dr.King?” you ask.
She nods, looking up from her chart.
“I’m sorry I hope this doesn’t sound weird but I think we’ve met before”
She furrows her eyebrows a bit but then shakes her head “Oh! Of course, y/n right?”
You nod and smile. You’re kind of surprised she even remembered your name.
“Yeah thanks again, the sunflowers I mean” she chuckles “My sister Becca said it brought a lot of light and character to our place” she smiles.
You felt a warm feeling in your heart “Oh really? I love that, I’m glad”.
There was a silence after that.
Then Mel stands up from her stool and says “Alrighty I’m going to put in those CT scan orders in, and they should be able to take you in no less than an hour”
You nod. “Thanks so much Dr.King”
“I’ll be back” she smiles to you and your friend and walks out.
You felt your cheeks pink.
Your best friend clears her throat and heads closer to you, “Um so what was that about?”
You grin “Remember when I told you I had met someone really cute at the farmers market?”
Your friend eyes widen and she grins playfully “Oh shit so that’s her? She is cute, and a doctor?” She playfully winks at you.
You roll your eyes “I don’t care about that, I just thought she was really nice.” And so pretty you thought to yourself.
A couple minute later Dr.King walks back in.
Your best friend says “I’ll leave you two alone I need to go to the bathroom sorry,” she’s lying of course.
You playfully roll your eyes at her.
“Okay y/n I put in your order and they should be able to see you soon”’she smiles.
You nod “Thanks so much Dr.King really”
She shrugs “Yeah no worries, and please you can call me Mel” she smiles again.
As Mel is typing in some orders in the computer, looking very focused you suddenly say
“Hey, Mel?”
She stops typing and immediately turns to face you.
“Yes?”
You nervously look down at your twiddling fingers and then up at her again
“Um, would you maybe want to hang out sometime?”
She gives you a surprised look and clears her throat.
“Oh um…”
You immediately say “Sorry, that’s really unprofessional of me, and kinda weird” shaking your head embarrassed.
She shakes her head smiling “No, um I would love that”
You smile “Really? Okay cool”
She looks around and then at you clearly wanting to say something else.
“To be honest, I did recognize you when you came in but I thought it might have been weird to tell you that” she bites her lip nervously.
You laugh “Oh my gosh, no please I wouldn’t of”
She smiles and looks down at her hands and then at you.
“Okay well um I can give you my number?” you say.
She nods “Oh here you can just put yours in my phone if you’d like”
You both exchange numbers. Both of you hoping the other texts first.
“Cool” she smiles.
“Okay well I’ll let you go and once they’re done in CT I’ll go over your results. In the meantime lots of nice, and some Advil if the pain doesn’t subside.”
You nod “Okay sounds good, thanks again Dr., I mean Mel” you grin. “Oh and next time hopefully I’ll be walking normally again” you try to joke.
She smiles “No problem. I’ll see you soon.”
Okay I thought of this cute fluff inspo for Mel! :) she’s one of my favorite characters. I feel like I don’t see much cute romantic fluff for Mel x reader.
Also the reader is Mel’s age
Hope you enjoy! And send me some ideas
