Us Against All Odds (En)

Gabriella

'Well, you know it's love when you can't get enough of each other, and it's mutual.'

Nicholas Sparks

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The next day Carina was in her office, she had hidden the picture of her and the woman she loved and was listening to music while filing.

She had put on her special Maya playlist. It was the only music she could listen to since the accident. Songs with explicit lyrics.

When someone knocked on the door, the obstetrician invited the person in. She didn't know who it was; they hadn't given each other a time.

- "Captain Bishop! It's early!"

- "did you want me to come later?"

- "no, not at all, I didn't know you were a morning person..."

- "I got my ass kicked at 4 a.m. in a park..."

- "I don't call it morning, I call it insomnia"

- "you make a good point."

Carina retrieved her phone to stop the music.

- "no, leave it, I like music... I mean, if you want."

The Italian had then put back reading on her phone.

- "well then, how can I help you?"

-"You see there are different colors of files, pink is obstetrics, purple is gynecology, green is non-obstetrics gynecology and so on. I would like to sort them by last name and year. Then scan them and put them in the computer. Papers and I are two of a kind.... You have to live with the times."

- "ok and here they are put how?"

- "right now I have the last two years sorted by name, but you have to separate the 2020 from the 2021 move and the colors."

- "okay, I'll do that"

- "really Maya?"

- "yes really why?"

- "It bothers me actually..."

- "not me. Spending my time with you filing or in my room watching TV..."

- "no visit today?"

- "the A-team is on call... My mother is in Kentucky, my brother, Jack still hasn't found him..." At the mention of Gibson, Carina had had a face. "What was that?"

- "that what?"

-"I don't know, but I got the impression that when I mentioned Jack... You flinched..."

- "no, I ... I don't think so."

-"Carina we spend a lot of time together... And yes you had a reaction when I said.... Jack!" Maya laughed. "You just did it again!"

-"Jack... As in Jack your ex... Who you slept with a few months ago"

- "ohhh so you're jealous?!"

- "from a guy who saw you naked and made love to you? .... Hummm no, I don't see why I would be jealous"

-"Jealousy suits you very well..." Said the blonde, blushing. "It's really cute."

- "Can we stop?"

- "I quit, I quit, boss!"

- "thank you captain"

They had started to tidy up and Whitney Houston's How Will I Know was playing on the laptop.

'There's a boy I know, he's the one I dream of
Looks into my eyes, takes me to the clouds above, mmm-hmm
Oh, I lose control, can't seem to get enough, uh-huh
When I wake from dreaming, tell me, is it really love?