Us Against All Odds (En)

The gas effect

Becoming intimate with someone, anyone, meant telling them about your past, and that idea alone made him cringe.

Nicholas Sparks

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It had been a few days since Maya's interview with McCallister. The firefighters were having breakfast in the break room. Carina was also there. Today she was working a shift.

- "Vic, can we talk to you for a minute?" Maya asked her friend.

- "yep"

The three women had then stood up and the rest of the group had followed them with their eyes.

- "Are you okay?" Carina asked.

- "hummm ... It's okay... You are... Weird ... We've been together at the table, for twenty minutes already, and it's been three times you've asked me this question..."

- "excuse my future wife. She is... worried"

- "why, what's going on?"

-"Vic we want to ask you..." Maya began embarrassed.

- "not a sexual thing I hope? You're beautiful and all, but, girls aren't really my thing... And then I have Ruiz..." She said embarrassed

- "but no! If we could do the whole wedding at your parents' restaurant!" Carina replied as if it were obvious.

- "aaaahhhh.... You were so secretive and all... I was a little scared..."

- "so would you ask your parents?" Maya asked.

-"Yes, yes, of course! I think they would even like it! They were so sad to cancel the meal last time..."

-"We would also like to do the ceremony there," said the captain.

- "Yes, yes of course, I would ask them all that. After we saved it during the fire, I don't think they could deny the captain who saved their baby anything."

-"and to you..." The Italian woman intervened

- "well, yes... They prefer their restaurant to their daughter".

- "you know very well that's not true... They had all these clippings in the office..."

- "ok, maybe but they don't know how to show it... Well, is it all good? Because I love you but I'm hungry"

- "Yes, it's okay... Thanks Vic" said the firefighter.

- "and you'd be lucky to sleep with us!" The OB-GYN clarified, which made her future wife laugh.

Vic was ahead of the two women to return to the break room. Maya leaned toward her fiancée.

- "you're forgetting something, right?"

- "what?"

- "there's no way I'm sharing you..."

- "I didn't like it, it was more of a statement... An image ... She would be lucky to have our talents".

- "certainly ... But I prefer to keep them to myself"

-"I don't intend to show them to anyone else." She said as she leaned in to kiss her.

They were back in the break room, Vic had already resumed her meal.

- "Warren, can we talk to you?" Carina asked.

- "yes I'm coming"

- "You're going to do this with all of us?" Travis asked.

- "no, after Ben we'll be good" replied the blonde