Syn's Deep In My Blood - Book 2

Not That Far Away

When I woke up, it was 7 am, and Pauline was gone from the reception already. I had to vanish from Jimmy's room before someone would see me there.

I pecked his lips, said goodbye, and went away, wanting to stay more. But I knew I could come back later that night, which was comforting me.

When I got home, the minute I placed the keys on the door, I heard his voice. That soft, muffled tone calling my name made my eyes close in shivers.

"Emily?" he touched my shoulder, and I instantly remembered. Pill time. "Where were you? I was calling you like crazy, only voicemail."

I breathed heavily once and turned to him.

"Well, I... I'm sorry, I turned off my phone last night and forgot to turn it on again. I was at... I was visiting Jimmy." yeah, I stuttered a lot here.

"What? You... managed to..."

"Yeah, that receptionist gave me a card so I could visit him at night. His family is not staying there, so that was my cue."

He pursed his lips and raised his brows in surprise. A kind of disappointed surprise, I supposed.

"Good... Good for you."

An awkward silence built up between us as we tried to stare at everything around us but into each other's eyes.

"Well, I brought your..." he showed me the vial in his hand, like every morning. He was very nice by bringing it every day to me. He hated waking up early. I knew that.

"Yeah, right... Thank you! Just come in."

Then he would come inside, and I would make some coffee, and we would talk about stuff. That was our daily routine. But I never let it escalate to other things. I was still mad at him. And it was getting harder and harder to look into his eyes and not return the love he was showing.

"Okay, what do you think about putting that plan into practice?" I drank a sip of my coffee. "We can go there early in the morning, and I ask Pauline to help us with the security guys when we bring the instruments inside. She can find some doc scrubs so we can pretend we are doctors or something."

"Emily, are you nuts? She already allowed you to get in. Are you gonna ask her for more favors? She can lose her job, you know that."

"Nobody will even notice we are there, so no trouble for her. And we don't need to play it loud. I have two tiny amps here; we can hide it very well. We just have to play for him to listen. It's not like we are on stage playing for thousands of people."

Brian stared at me skeptically for a few seconds and held his face in his hands.

"They are throwing us out, I'm telling you."

"They won't! That hospital is damn dead in the early morning! Trust me, please."

He shook his head, and I held a laugh. He was all scared of breaking the rules out of a sudden. He didn't even seem like a rockstar. When he saw I was trying not to giggle, he smiled beautifully, and I could only reply.

"Alright... I'm in. We're doing this tomorrow morning?"

"Yeah, by seven?" he nodded and then kept shaking his head.

"Okay. I can't believe I've just agreed with this." He stood up and walked towards my front door after finishing his coffee. Then I couldn't help but whisper:

"What a wuss..."

"I beg your pardon?" he smirked, pretending he didn't listen.

"Nothing, nothing... see you at 6:30?"