Jesse was almost positive that he had never seen Leanne this angry before. Not even after her accident. When her grief was fresh and her anger at the world dwarfed all other emotions. He had never even seen her get this mad at Campbell before. And boy did he know how mad Campbell could make her.
"Leanne," Jesse reached out and placed a steady hand on Leanne's shaking shoulder, "you should try and calm down."
"I don't want to calm down!" She screamed, her face turning a darker red than it had been 5 minutes ago. Again, something he never thought possible. "What I want to do is slap that idiot across his perfectly handsome face!"
Jesse and Noa both tried to hide the chuckles that left their mouths but neither one was successful.
"Sorry." Noa offered apologetically, her hands reaching out for Leanne's shoulders.
The trio stood in silence for a few minutes, Leanne's sobs slowing down with every deep breath she let go. Noa and Jesse shared looks back and forth, both trying to convince the other to speak first. Both slightly afraid to face the angry brunette in front of them.
"Go on you two." Leanne's voice was quiet, her hands going up to wipe the remaining tears from her eyes. "Tell me how stupid I'm being."
Jesse chose to speak first, slowly making his way closer to the petite woman. "You're not being stupid." His voice was quiet, a frown forming on his face when Leanne dropped to the couch in front of them, her head dropping into her hands. "We're just trying to figure out what exactly is going on here."
"We just don't like seeing you upset Leanne." Noa added, praying that she sounded convincing enough.
Leanne choked back another sob and lifted her head, offering the two a weary look. "I'm an idiot." She sighed, dropping her hands to her lap. "A big, fucking idiot."
Jesse flinched, not just at her tone, or the fact that she was calling herself an idiot (which she definitely was not), but also at the fact that she cursed. "You're not an idiot Leanne." He sat down next to her on the couch, reaching out to wrap an arm around her still shaky shoulders. "What is this really about?"
"I thought…" She couldn't even get the words out of her mouth before she started sobbing again, Jesse's hug doing little to calm her down. She was an idiot. A big, freaking idiot. Why in the world did I think he was ever in to me? She felt like a teenager. A stupid teenager at that. This was the biggest mess and she couldn't wait to just get herself out of it. Taking a deep breath, she laid out the truth for her two friends. "I thought that Ethan and I had something special." She sobbed again, rubbing her eyes with her free hand. "I guess I was wrong."
Noa's heart broke for the normally strong woman in front of her. "Oh Leanne." She plopped herself down on the table across from the pair and offered her best sympathetic smile. "You two do have something special." Leanne shook her head back and forth and Noa sighed. "Trust me Leanne, he's in to you."
"Then why would he go and do something so stupid as to offer to get in bed with another woman!" Leanne knew that she sounded stupid. She knew she sounded petty. And yet, she didn't care. "If I was so special to him why would he flirt like that with another woman?!" There, she said it. She laid out all of her stupid insecurities and she knew that she should feel better about it, but instead, she felt foolish. She could feel a blush rising over her cheeks and she hid her face behind her hands once more.
Jesse let out a chuckle as he tightened his hold on his best-friend's shoulders. "Oh daddy. If only you knew…"
"Knew what?" She asked through a sniffle, lifting her head to look between the head nurse and the surprisingly quiet resident.
"How insanely crazy about you Ethan is." Noa blurted out, her hands going to her mouth afterward.
"He is?" Leanne's question was quiet. So quiet that Jesse and Noa almost didn't hear it. "So I'm not crazy?"
Jesse laughed, shaking her shoulders gently. "Well that's currently being debated." He laughed even harder when Leanne shot him a dirty look. "But, you were definitely well within your rights to be a little jealous."
Leanne let out a sigh that she didn't know she had been holding and leaned back against the couch cushions. "What do I do now?"
"Talk to him!" Noa and Jesse said in unison, laughing when Leanne rolled her eyes at the pair.
Rising from her seat, Leanne ran her still shaking hands over her thighs and took a deep breath. "I'm going to go get some air." She started walking towards the break room door but stopped, turning around to face the two. "Please do not follow me." She pointed a figure at both, a small smile forming on her lips.
"Yes ma'am." They replied in unison. "Good luck!"
Good luck indeed. I'm certainly going to need it. And with that Leanne headed towards the roof to collect her thoughts, knowing that she would need all the preparation she could get in order to deal with Ethan.
