Chapter Three: So He Speaks
The rest of the week for Gia was long and slow. She didn't make friends the way she wanted to, so she ended up spending her breaks and lunches wandering the halls after eating her lunch in the library. She didn't mind it as much as she thought she would. She knows it'll take some time, but she'll eventually find a friend or two.
Gia doesn't want to complain about her not making friends problem to her mom. She knows it'll end up making her mother start to regret ever moving here and Gia can't have that. She's never seen her mother happier than she has been since they've moved.
It is now Saturday afternoon. Rosa called Gia that morning, saying that she wanted to go out to lunch with her. She asked Gia to stop by the hospital around one-thirty, and then she'll take them both out to eat.
Gia decided to take the bus to downtown Oakwood, where the hospital is on fifth and Lavender St. It wasn't a far drive, but because the bus had to make quite a few stops along the way, it took a lot more than it should to get there.
Getting there, Gia enters through the North wing of the hospital, where she knows her mother is stationed at. The receptionist at the front desk, lifts her head up, showing her gray roots. She raises her eyebrows, looking expectantly in Gia's direction. "How may I help you, dear?"
Gia smiles slightly, "Uh, my mom is a nurse here. I was supposed to come by, we're going to lunch together."
The receptionist nods, "Yes. Well you're not supposed to go see your mother while she's on duty, but for the mean time until she goes on her break, you can wait in the waiting room over there," she gestures to the waiting room to Gia's left.
Gia looks at the clock above the receptionist's head and realizes that she's a little early, even with all the stops the bus had took. Giving a curt nod, she says, "Alright. Thank you."
Turning to the left, she goes and sits in the waiting room. Her mom doesn't start her lunch break for another fifteen minutes. Gia didn't even realize that she had left the house that early, but she didn't mind the wait.
Gia isn't sure exactly, what this waiting room is specifically for. She knows this isn't the Emergency room area, but looking around she realizes that there's no signs saying what specialty this is. There's a total of probably twenty-five seats and all of them are the same- brown with an ugly pattern. There is approximately around ten people sitting there, within all ages.
She takes a seat near a person she didn't even bother to glance at. She raises her legs and sinks herself into the seat, resting her head on her knee tiredly. She was up awfully late last night watching YouTube videos. It's an addiction, really.
The person sitting two seats away from her immediately stands up. Instinctively, Gia lifts her head. Her eyes widen when she notices the familiar black jacket and hood.
Their eyes accidentally find each other's. It's awkward, to say the least. Gia clears her throat, feeling a bit uncomfortable.
She's seen Griffin only a handful of times this week. Mostly in her English class. He showed up one other time to her Physics class that week, but that was it.
He hasn't spoken one word to her. Neither has she though. There was a weird tension between the two strangers and she couldn't help but feel intimidated by him. The sight of him even looking at her is scary.
She doesn't know why now out of all the time she's had this week, she chooses right now to say something to him.
"H-Hi," Gia stutters. Her eyes are in a locked and heated stare with his bright and beautiful blue ones.
