Josh pauses as the girl next to him, his sister’s best friend, explains why she wasn’t feeling well and came into the lodge early.

She was lying on the bed next to him with her head buried into the pillow and a blanket pulled up to her shoulders. Her arms draped around her stomach in a protective manner as she explains the situation.

Period cramps.

He doesn’t say anything as he picks up a lavender essential oil bottle that was in the bedside table and spreads the oilmen evenly onto his hands. “I didn’t spend four years in medical school for nothing. Turn around, lay on your back.” Josh says calmly as he watches her shift to that particular position.

Slowly, his hands lift her shirt up enough so her stomach was visible and begins lightly massaging the ointment into her stomach. Gently pushing his hands into her stomach then rubbing the area where he had touched her repeatedly.