Chapter 7:
Jasmine woke up in the morning glad to have the morning shift off. She had to report at noon and stay until seven instead. She had a killer headache and she had barely gotten any rest the night before. She kept having nightmares about what her dinner with Danny would be like tonight. Thankfully everyone was out and about when she woke up. They probably would have agreed that she looked like a wreck.
"I can't believe this. I don't want to go with him tonight!" She kept repeating to herself.
She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't hear the door close lightly as Evelyn walked in.
"Jas I am so glad you are in here!"
Jasmine turned away from the mirror where she was fixing her hair and stared blankly at her. When Evelyn didn't continue she finally spoke.
"Why are you glad I am in here? Where else would I be? Out on the deck of a ship watching sailors and getting a tan?" Jasmine got a thoughtful look her face. "Ya know that last bit doesn't so that bad."
"Oh stop playing!" Evelyn said coming to sit down on the bed next to where Jasmine was standing. "I am glad you are in here because we are one person short over at the hospital."
"What? What happened? I thought everything was covered?"
"Well apparently there was a mix up with the shift schedules and so one of the new trainee nurses thought she had the morning shift off as well. She disappeared from the base and no one knows where she went either. Can you cover?"
Jasmine could feel her headache growing bigger by the second. But what could she do? She couldn't say no because she was that only one left on the base not working morning shift.
"Yeah sure left me finish getting ready and I will be there in a few minutes."
"Great! Thanks!"
Evelyn got up off the bed and headed out the door.
"Ten says I will have to stay there until 7 anyway. Great." Jasmine muttered.
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"Ugh, sailors! Can't they take care of themselves? Showering would be nice." Jasmine complained after she had finished patching up a sailor that had taken a bad fall and cracked his head off of one of the sharp corners on the deck of his ship.
Betty looked at her and laughed.
"Whats the matter Jas?" she asked. "Sailors are cute!"
"Nah pilots are better." Jasmine said, going to sit on the bed across from her. She checked the clock on the wall. Could time move any slower? It seemed like it had been 6:55pm for the longest time. But really she didn't want time to move ahead because that would mean…
"Oh hey girls check it out!" Betty said with a grin, "Pilot at ten o'clock! Oh and doesn't he look scrumpicious!"
"Betty please don't say that it sounds as though you want to eat him not date him." Jasmine said without looking.
"Well if she ate me then we would have a problem. Wouldn't we?" A voice said from behind her.
Jasmines back stiffened. Slowly she put down the pen and the file she was updating and turned to face him.
"What do you want?" she asked although really she already knew. But maybe if she pretended to forget then he wouldn't make her go.
"You can't fool me. You have probably been staring at that clock wondering if time could stand still so that seven wouldn't come at all. Right?" he said with a twinkle in his eye.
"Dang it! How did he know?" Jasmine thought at the same time she said "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Ha that's funny. But you are still coming to dinner with me." He said as he took hold of her arm and grabbed her sweater off the hanger.
Jasmine glanced frantically at the faces of her co-workers hoping they might take pity on her and stop her from leaving with this mad man. He had to be a mad man! He was dragging her to dinner with him without her consent. What kind of man would want to have dinner with a girl that obviously wasn't interested in him?
"I hope you don't mind the diner. I can't afford much else." Danny said as he walked, holding her hand in a firm grasp.
Sadly her friends just smiled, waved and made encouraging thumbs up signs.
"You probably all think he is so great don't you?" Jasmine thought harshly. "You wouldn't think that if you had known him from when he was younger! You would think the same thing I do. He is crazy!"
Authors Note:
Hey thanks for reading and commenting peeps! I love the comments that I get. They help inspire me. You may think I am being silly but comments really do help! Sorry it took so long for me to update this. I know I should work on it more often but stuff has been crazy right now. So hopefully it will work out that I will get the chance to write more. This chapter probably isn't the greatest…but I wanted to update nonetheless. Let me know what you think! LEAVE A COMMENT! THAT'S THE BEST WAY! Lol.
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