It was past one-thirty when I left Tatiana's place. Then it was straight to work, after getting a small coffee. I glanced at the clock as I pulled into a parking space, five minutes to spare. That was when I was able to relax my body, and drink my coffee. Another minute had passed, deciding it couldn't hurt, I got out of my car and headed into the building.

It wasn't smart to be so distracted, especially in this line of work, but she remained on my mind. It was a busy day, with the holidays coming up, more rooms filled. And then we had to use the hallways for some others. 

Our main goal was to clear up rooms, so we did what we could while trying to give the best care to each person. Some were fine, barely had a scratch they just wanted to be sure it wasn't anything serious, those were the first to go. I didn't see any of those ones, all the patients I saw all needed some care of some sort, one or two was able to go home but the rest would have to stay for a couple of hours at best.

After making rounds we cleared the hallway halfway, we had to prioritize who would get rooms and who would have to wait a little longer. 

                                                         ***

My brother was on my couch when I got home. 

I was going to say something but I was going to fall asleep any second, so instead a took a quick shower and got in bed. I questioned how he even got into my house before I fell asleep. Hours passed and I got up somewhat rested. I could've slept longer but like always the thought of it gnawed at me so I got up. 

"Hey," he said not looking away from the tv. 

"You really need to stop breaking in," I replied, walking into the kitchen. "seriously."

"Okay, could've ya know been nice, to begin with. Could've begun with a 'hey' back but Nah you start with a 'stop breaking in," he paused for a second then continued. "I didn't even break-in, I unlocked the door."

I poked my head out of the kitchen, "I don't remember giving you a key."

"That's cause you didn't." he held the 'that's' longer than needed, emphasizing it. 

"How'd you get it then?"

"You had an extra."

"If I have a real break in ever, I'm blaming you," I said, and decided to leave it at that. He seemed to be okay with that cause he never replied back. I came into the living room with a fresh cup of coffee and sat on the couch opposite of Dylan. "There's coffee in the kitchen if you want any."

He got up and went to the kitchen. There was a knock at my door. I placed my cup on the coffee table and got up to answer it. "Oh, Emily. Do you need anything?"

"Is your brother here by any chance?"

"Uh yeah, he's here. Do you want to come in while I get him?" as soon as I said those words Dylan was there standing behind me. 

"Hey, what'cha need?" he asked.

"Could you come out here for a second?" she asked him. I knew it wasn't my conversation so I went back to the couch for my coffee.

A few minutes later, the door opened and Dylan walked back in. He went into the kitchen, I assume to finish making his coffee. He came into the living room. I didn't say anything about the visit and he didn't say anything either.

When the commercials came on he placed his cup on the coffee table, "Do you have any plans on Saturday?"

"If you're setting me up on a date, then yes. Very busy."

"No, nothing like that, Emily is throwing a party and wants us to come. Which yeah, Tatiana will be there, but you two are together now technically and it's obvious that she'd be at her own best friend's party."

"Sounds like a setup, but I guess I can go," I replied. "What type of party is it?"

"She said she'd tell me the theme later. I'm assuming it's because she hasn't figured that out yet."

"If it's going to be on Saturday, I'm sure she knows the theme,"

"For a sane person, it would make sense,"

"Oh, so you think she's doing what you would do."

"Shut up."

"Just saying, you two are on the same level of crazy, Tatiana agrees," I teased.

"You talk about me?"

"You break into my house and think I'm not going to talk about it?"

"Kinda the point," he said. Then the show came back on so I got up and let him watch without interruption, for the last time.

I'm so sorry it took forever to update, and that it's so short. I had an outline that I was following but something happened to the app I had it on and it got deleted. I'm working on making another one. On paper this time. So the next chapter should be out soon.