Rudy Takes On Boston

promised

I went back to my room and put some music on to clean my room before heading to the library. I began to do my weekly clean as I get a FaceTime from Rudy. I smile and answer,

"Long time no talk"

"I made it home safe" he states.

"Good..." then there was some silence.

Rudy begins again, "So I'm thinking you're in the hospital working Monday and Tuesday right?"

"Correct."

"And I'm filming all day Wednesday, so Thursday afternoon I'll come by and stay the night? I know you have class Friday morning but to be honest I'll probably sleep through it and then we have all of Friday as well. Then Saturday morning is my flight so I'll have to leave Friday night."

"Yes yes yes," I say over excitedly, "sorry..." I trail off. As I apologize Rudy does a dance and tells me never apologize for showing my feelings and that he feels the same way. We hang up and I get a pep in my step as I finish cleaning my room.

-Fast forward to Thursday afternoon-

I watch Rudy pull up and I go downstairs to let him in. I give him a long hug because I'm excited he's here and we head up to my room. I explain that I do have homework and studying tonight so we'll be in my friends room. We get there and by studying I mean we look over our notes and do some assignments but mostly we talk and eat. We ordered Chinese food from our favorite place  and had the tv on in the background for Rudy. As we are going through flash cards Rudy interrupts to say,

"Seriously props to you guys because I could never do this. Like I probably could but I would fail."

We all laugh because even we feel that way even though we are in our third year of nursing school. It's about 11 o'clock when we call it quits for the night and we head back across campus to my room.

"Okay I have an 8 am tomorrow I hope I won't wake you."

"Don't worry about I fall back asleep easily if you do."

"Okay good."

We get ready for bed and as we lay in bed we end up staying up for talk for another 2 hours.

"Okay wait," I say laughing but turning serious, " I have an important question and it might determine the fate of our friendship" I state.

Rudy becomes jokingly serious and responds with "Oh bring it."

"Okay I have my assumptions but what side of politics do you side with..."

"Oh I'm a leftist for sure."

"Thank goodness" I say laughing and we continue our light hearted conversation. We end up falling asleep at some point and I woke up to the awful sound of my alarm. I carefully get up and get ready for class. Before I leave I walk over to my bed, rub my hands through his hair, and kiss his cheek. I turn and leave for class not knowing that Rudy smiled at my actions. Class was actually interesting but it dragged on because I knew Rudy was here. I come back to my room to see Rudy on the phone, I'm assuming it was for work, and my bed was made and floor was cleaned of it's mess. I set my bag down and unpacked it for the day as I only had one class-thank goodness. Rudy gets off the phone and asks how class was.

"Eh it was okay but now I'm more excited for the rest of the day!"

"What shall we do?" Rudy asks.

"Wanna go for a walk in the woods and then grab lunch?"

"Perfect."

There are some woods right behind my school so we walked for about 30 mins and then went to the dining hall for lunch.

"Okay our food is not great by the way."

"Oh it can't be that bad," before he tried it and then stated, "okay it is that bad" he laughs after he tried it.

We finish up lunch and decide to just hang in my room since New England fall was in full swing and the afternoon got chilly fast. The afternoon seemed to speed by as it was already 8 pm and Rudy had to leave so he could pack and sleep before his flight. My eyes started to tear up but I held it back. I didn't want him to see me cry. He hug for a solid two minutes while saying goodbye.

"Okay as soon as I get in SC you need to visit."

"I have school you dummy" I said as I lightly laughed. I wanted to be as happy as I could because I knew this was his work.

"When your semester ends okay?"

"Deal" I said and we pinky promised.

"Bye Rudy."

"Goodbye Margaret."

Rudy got in his car and pulled away leaving me to finally release my tears I was holding back. I quickly texted him, "Make sure you text me when you land safely. Thank you for these past 2 weeks." And to that he responded, "Of course Mags-see i promised you nickname." I smiled at the text and headed back to my room.