A World Alone - D.R.

fifteen

Jade had since returned to London, and was happy to be back in her semi-normal routine at the hospital. With everything submitted for Uni, a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders and was enjoying immersing herself in the treatment of the trauma patients that came through the A&E doors. Dan had been a little annoying, and had been texting her slightly too much throughout the day. And as she finished her lunch sat in her car, she made the executive decision to leave her phone in her car for the rest of her shift. She had things to do, and Daniel could wait, he was probably in high demand from everyone at the factory anyway.

Dan frowned. he knew Jade had a job that did render her unable to text a lot of the time, but that still didn't seem like an excuse to leave him on 'read' for most of the afternoon. His frown deepened as he stared at what he'd typed into the little text bar, 'You're not ignoring me are you?' with an emoji of its tongue sticking out. He signed, and held this thumb over the delete button. That was a bit clingy, he supposed, and he knew his girlfriend well enough. She wouldn't like clingy, no matter how charming he was over text. He signed, and out his phone back in his pocket, and sighed, heading out of the room Renault had put aside for his office despite him not even being at the Factory that much to need an office. It was helpful for times like these, where he did want a bit of privacy to text, or rather not text, Jade. He headed back to the simulator room and half listened to James the engineer going over some of the changes they were doing to this run. As he strapped himself in to the simulator seat, he reached to take out his phone, and sent a quick 'I love you' text to Jade. As least that was likely to be appreciated by her, he hoped.

Jade was sat in the drivers seat, replying to Dan's 'I love you ' text. He hadn't said anything else after he sent it, which was a bit surprising compared to his non-stop messaging earlier in the day. Though as soon as she sent her text, her phone started chiming with a sudden influx of new messages. She sighed, and gently tossed her phone onto the passenger seat, hoping the jumper it was resting on would muffle the noises it was making. She turned the car radio on, and let the mindless chatter of Talk Sport fill the car, as she navigated out of the carpark and through the familiar roads leading her home. She hated driving in London. There were always so many cars, and they were always in a rush. Her daily commute were the two times of the day were she really missed Germany. Even though she lived in the city there, everything was more relaxed, and she didn't have a chorus of car horns accompanying her every time she her car started moving a second later than when the traffic lights turned yellow. Dan never seemed to let impatient London drivers annoy him. His grin would stay firmly on his face and he'd chuckle, making a joke that they'd hate the formation lap or something like that. He was calling her now, as she pulled up her handbrake. She answered and despite how annoying his texts were, she was grateful to see his face through her phone screen, his smile lit up her car on the little London street all the way from Milton Keynes. He was one of those people that were rare, and she knew she'd do well to keep him in her life.

"Hey!" She smiled as she swiped across the screen to answer.

"Hey yourself!" Dan grinned back, "How was your day?"

"Busy," She sighed, busy was never good for an A and E practitioner, but sometimes that was how it was. It was never very fun.

Dan gave her a strained smile, "I've got some good news for you though!"

Jade pulled the left corner of her lips into a wry smile, "Oh yeah?" She said as dropped her phone face up in her lap, grabbing her handbag and carrier bag of her empty Tupperware lunch box from the seat next to her.

"I know you're off this weekend, and to celebrate last weeks win, there's a bit of a staff party at the Factory this weekend, I kinda have to got and I was really hoping you'd like to be my date?" He asked, his face brightening as he asked the underside of her chin.