Melanie’s POV
I didn’t speak for fear that, Hayley might laugh and tell me she was joking all along. I allowed myself to process what she had said thinking I might have heard her wrong.
“Say something, Melanie. Aren’t you excited?” Hayley asked.
“I don’t know,” I whispered and she frowned.
“You don’t know if you’re excited?”
“No, I don’t know if what you said is real or you’re just trying to mess with me,” I said.
“You think I would joke about a surgery as complicated as a Whipple!?”
“I don’t know what to think, okay!” I replied. “I thought student nurses weren’t allowed to scrub in on surgeries.”
"It's not a strict rule. Doctors choose interns for their surgical team all the time. How else do you expect to learn?"
”This is really exciting,” I finally allowed myself to admit. “How
