She lay on her back on the hospital bed, her head resting on a pillow, appearing as though in a trance as she gazed up at the ceiling. Covered with only a bed sheet, she remained still. Apparently, she was waiting for the young male patient, a boy in his late teens, to make himself ready.
The boy had already "visited" the nursing assistant four times, each visit occurring on a weekend, and at the very same time in the afternoon. Each time he had demonstrated increasing confidence in his ability to perform. And with each succeeding visit the act had seemed just as new and exciting to the boy as the first.
This particular hospital room was located at the far end on an infrequently used "overflow" aisle, out of direct view of the nurse's station.
It wasn't clear whether the intent of the boy's visits were therapeutic in nature, prescribed by a doctor's order, or simply a recurring consensual rendezvous driven by the nursing assistant's interest in the boy.
Clean cut, youthfully handsome, Caucasian, the boy shut the door to the room, not particularly generous in its dimensions, then quietly padded a short distance over to the foot of the bed. On the wall above the headboard, a large clock with a red second hand displayed the time of day, currently 4:37. He gazed a long moment at the nursing assistant, a young woman possessed of Asian good looks. Eventually, without saying a word she issued a simple nod.