*Outfit*

The rest of the week went on just fine. Soph was getting better at waking up early on her own. I still had to knock on her door at times to remind her to hurry up, but it was a work in progress.

Early on in the week, something weird did happen. On Tuesday morning, I got a text from my father.

"Be careful." He texted.

The text was short and simple but very abnormal to me.

When I first saw his message, I stared at my phone for a few seconds. My father never sent me these types of texts. He never really texted me. He usually called if he needed something.

I knew it had to have been because of that phone call.

The guy on the phone must have really scared him if he's sending me warning texts, and my father doesn't get scared very often. It made me nervous and I really tried to put it out of my mind at work.

But as the days went on, I had an increasing feeling that someone was watching me. When I was in the hospital, in the break room, or getting my coffee, I felt like eyes were on me.

The longer it went on I had increasingly stupid ideas of who it was. I even thought it was the paparazzi one day. It was a ridiculous notion, though.

My father may be a billionaire, but he kept himself and us out of the limelight. No interviews, no TV appearances, there's not even a photo of all of us together. I would like to think it was for Sophie and me to have a semblance of a normal life but I'm sure it was mainly to benefit him.

No paparazzi would know my name much less what I looked like and even so, there's no way they would be able to film or take pictures in a bustling hospital. It was practically impossible.

So I realized that I was being fucking crazy and paranoid. It's that text from my father and the stupid call that had me on edge. I was just sleep-deprived and stressed. Nothing a good night of sleep couldn't fix.

By the time it was Friday, I couldn't wait for the day to end. The week was especially brutal, having to deal with co-workers, rude patients, and my paranoia.

Friday went on like a regular work day. There weren't many new patients coming in since most of the drunk people and drug users came Friday night or Saturday early morning. I went through my day and hardly noticed when my shift ended.

I signed out to the people on call for the night and left the hospital with my things. I walked outside, ready to drive away from here and start my weekend, but I didn't see the car anywhere. I pulled out my phone and called Vincent. He immediately picked up.

"Where are you guys?" I spoke, trying to ward off the annoyance of their lateness in my tone.

"Sophie had to talk to a teacher after school. We are on our way now."

I let out a silent sigh. A text would've been nice. "Ok, see you soon."

I hung up and walked to the coffee shop near the hospital.

Since I have time.

I ordered my usual and took a seat near the back. I gazed around the shop and saw that there was only one other person there. It's around 4:19 pm. Usually there's at least a few people in the coffee shop at this time.

I looked at the guy in the shop. He's on his phone wearing a hat someone who didn't want to be recognized would wear.

I understood it, though. Sometimes you want to be left alone.

He looked familiar but I didn't know why. I had this feeling that I'd seen him before. Maybe he's an obscure celebrity I saw on the news once?

I shifted my attention to my phone and read some of the news of the day to pass the time.

•~•

Ten minutes passed and Soph and Vincent still hadn't arrived. And the news I was reading was starting to get a little depressing. I got up to order a drink.

I walked up to the line. There were only two people. The one at the counter looked to be in a hurry, but the girl in front of me was still checking out the menu.

The ordering didn't take long and I soon moved to the front of the line. I walked up to the cashier and got a regular lemonade. It wasn't quite hot outside, but I didn't want to drink something that would keep me up for hours.

About 3 minutes later, my name was called and I got my order. I took a sip and walked out the door. I took out my phone and got a text from Soph saying that they were five minutes away.

I step into a brisk jog to meet them at the hospital, but I turn around when I feel a tap on my shoulder.

It was the guy who was sitting on his phone in the coffee shop.

"Hey, I was in the coffee shop and I think you left this there?"

I looked at what he was gesturing to and I saw my bag in his hand. My eyes widened and my mouth opened slightly.

Oh my god, I must have left it at my seat! How could I forget this?

I reached for my bag and he hands it to me. I grabbed the handle, examining the bag. "Oh my god, this is my bag. I must've forgot it at my seat. Thank you so much, really."

He gave a boyish smile and shrugged. "It's no problem."

He waved goodbye and walked away in the opposite direction.

A smile made its way onto my face. That was very kind of him. Most people would've taken my bag and sold the contents. And I would've freaked out once I realized my bag was gone, not to mention all of my notes gone, too. Now that I'm thinking about it, should I have given him something to show my appreciation?

Maybe twenty bucks would've sufficed?

I turned around to catch him before he was too far away, but I didn't see him. He was no where in the area. It was like he vanished.

I turned back around when I heard a single honk. I saw Vincent in the car, waving. I glanced over my shoulder, wondering where the guy went, but soon shrugged it off and walked over to the car.

Once I got in, I lowered the partition and turned to look at Sophie.

"The meeting with your teacher took mighty long. What did she need to talk to you about?"

She shrugged and took a sip of her coffee. "It was nothing just extracurriculars and stuff."

I nodded as Vincent pulled away from the hospital.

•~•

The drive home made me realize how tired I really was.

Once we got home, I told myself I was going to shower, get dressed and then take a nap. I only achieved 2/3 of those goals.

My eyes slowly blinked open when my senses came back to me. My blanket was half on the floor, half on my body and I almost immediately realized I was naked.

There's something about showering at night that makes me especially tired.

I groaned as I stretched and half my bones cracked. I walked over to my closet and pulled out a simple shirt and shorts.

It's always too damn hot in this house.

I opened my door and I heard my stomach grumble. Crap, I didn't have dinner last night.

I rubbed my stomach and walked down the stairs to the kitchen. I opened the fridge and the freezer multiple times before deciding what to eat.

Pizza Rolls.

I put a few pizza rolls in the air fryer and set the time for ten minutes.

Once it started to fry, I meandered around the living room, trying to kill time.

I saw my packet of birth control pills and decided to take today's early. I took out cranberry juice from the refrigerator and swallowed the small pill.

As much as I hated swallowing pills I would do anything to stop my period. When I first got my period, it was average, 5 days long, maybe a little cramping on day one, heavy bleeding first two days, but manageable.

But when I was around 22, my period extended to 7 days with extreme cramping for 4 out of the 7 days, nausea, diarrhea and I could barely sleep through the night. I couldn't go to class on those days and a few days after my period to recuperate.

My doctor said it had to do with my genes and prescribed that I take birth control to lessen the effects of my period. It worked like a charm and after a year and a half my period stopped. My doctor said it was unusual that a period as bad as mine stopped so easily, but I was just happy it worked. She later said putting an IUD in would be better and I wouldn't have to take pills everyday. I made time for the appointment and it's scheduled for next month.

Can't fucking wait to stop taking these pills.

I heard the air fryer *ding* and I rushed over to put my pizza rolls on a plate. I poured myself another cup of juice and headed up to my room.

•~•

I've decided to add outfits that Naomi will wear or is wearing. I'm not good with descriptions of outfits so I've just added pictures instead. There won't be pictures for every single person's outfits, only outfits I deem important.

**None of these outfits were made by me. I didn't design any of the outfits I will showcase.**

Also tell me if I did this IUD, birth control, period thing correctly. I looked it up and tried my best to explain it.

Thank you for reading,

NN😊