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Chapter Eleven: Getting to know you
Lana was in Sinclair's room giving her one last examination before she was discharged. Her mind however was elsewhere. As Shane said he would, he had come back later that day, but he didn't say a word. Her shopping trip with Lilly got canceled as well. One of the nurses got sick so she ended up going in to work.
"So I am finally going to get out of here?" She asked Lana interrupting her thoughts.
"Yeah finally." Lana said a little more rude then she meant to be. "I'm sorry I had a rough night."She apologized.
"Wow, You might be the same girl, but the person I know wouldn't apologist to the likes of me." Sinclair said lightly.
"I don't like you. You care to tell me why?" Lana sapped. What the hell was wrong with this woman?
Sinclair laughed. "I will let you figure that out on your own." She looked at Lana with a guilty look. "I couldn't stand the way you looked at me. I don't think I will repeat that."
"Fine." Lana said writing in Sinclair's chart. "You are free to go once you get your discharge papers." Lana left the room irritated.
She paused at the room Emmett used to be in. She sighed. He was discharged yesterday, and she never even got to say goodbye. This did not improve her mood. She thought he cared about her, and the fact that he left made her hurt. Between that, and the fact that Shane had been avoiding her all day was not helping things.
"Okay you mind telling me what is going on between you and Shane?" Lilly said walking up to Lana holding an arm full of charts.
"Yeah things got a little weird yesterday." Lana said trying to shrug it off.
Lilly walked with Lana to the nurses station. "You care to elaborate?"
Lana sighed. "Shane all of a sudden has this want to date me." Lilly gave her a 'no Shit' look. "Okay well it wasn't obvious to me and he saw my drawings of Emmett yesterday. Lilly I don't know what the hell I am going to do."
Lilly shook her head. "I don't know. Shane will come around."
"Yeah hopefully he will." Lana said getting ready to walk off.
"Oh Lana you will have to take a bus home. I have a date." Lilly said winking.
"Who is the lucky guy?" Lana asked curious.
"His name is Bren. I met him last night when he came in for stitches." She said swooning.
"Well have fun, and be careful." Lana said with a wink before walking away.
Lana walked out of the hospital slowly. She had an hour before the next bus would show. She sat at a benched and closed her eyes. God what was she going to do? She missed Emmett and Shane was still avoiding her.
The sound of a motorcycle approaching made her open her eyes. It stopped right in front of her. She couldn't help the smile the spread on her face when she realized it was Emmett. His return smile made her blush. She stood and walked up to him.
"New bike?" She asked
"No my other bike. I have, had three." Emmett replied still smiling.
"Wow three? That must have be expensive." She said wondering for the first time how much money he made. She always assumed E Bledseo made quit a bit. He was just amazing. However she still wasn't sure they were actually the same person.
"I built them. So not to much. You want a ride? Maybe get something to eat?"
Lana stood in silence. He builds motorcycles? She nodded. "Yeah food sounds good."
"Cool." Emmett handed her a helmet. "Where too?"
"There is a little mom and pop diner that I like. It's just a few blocks from here." She told him.
"Yeah I think I know what you are talking about." Emmett said as she put on her helmet.
Lana climbed on and had a small flash of her doing this before. They seemed to be at a school. She put his arms around his waist, and felt a little tingly. It amazed her at how perfect this seemed.
"Would you like anything to drink?" The waiter asked once they were seated.
"I would like sweet tea." Lana said then looked to Emmett. She was about to asked him what he wanted to drink, but he picked up the menu and pointed to it.
"Pepsi?" The waiter asked. Emmett smiled and nodded. "I will be back with your drinks in a few."
Lana sat unsure what to say. Emmett didn't seem to know what to say either. After a minute she decided to start with the basics. "What is my name?"
Emmett looked at her with a small smile, "Bay. Your name is Bay."
She smile. Yeah Bay sounded right. "So.." She paused. She was not sure she really wanted to have this conversation, but she couldn't hide from it. "Were we together?"
"Yeah for a while." He answered slowly.
"Were we together when I left?" She smiled at the waiter.
"Are you guys ready to order?" He asked them.
"I will have the cheese ravioli with Alfredo sauce."She looked at Emmett. "They are amazing here."
When the waiter looked at him. Emmett pointed to Bay, then held up two fingers. "Make that two." The waiter said making sure he understood. When Emmett nodded the waiter left to put their order in.
"It's complicated. I think we were heading in the direction of being together again."
"So we broke up?" She asked confused. With the way she felt about him now while she barley knows him, she must have really loved him when she knew him. So why would they not be together. "I don't understand."
"Let's save that for another time." He said not wanting to bring that up yet. He wanted her to know him more first. He refused to loose her again.
"So are you going to go back home? Where is home?"
"Kansas City, and no I plan on staying here for a while." Emmett gave her a charming smile. She was nuts if she thought he would leave her behind. He had to live seven years without seeing her. That was long enough.
"Wow, all this time and my family has lived two days away." She tried to smile at him, but failed. "I'm sorry." She took a deep breath. "It's just a lot to take in."
Emmett took her hand. She felt his thumb circling on her wrist. "It's okay."
Lana looked into his beautiful eyes allowing herself to get lost. Images of them kissing came to her mind. She nearly quivered when she saw him kissing down her bare stomach. She shook her head and grabbed back her hand.
The food arrived and they ate quietly. So they had broken up, Why? She also wondered who else she was with. How had they met?
"How did we meet?" She asked as she put a ravioli into her mouth.
"Through Daphne. She is my best friend." He answered then also put a ravioli in his mouth.
"Daphne sounds familiar."She said. Daphne. Yeah it rings a bell. Okay great so maybe remembering will not be had hard as she thought.
"So do you have a boyfriend?" Emmett asked trying to keep a straight face.
"No, I have a friend who likes me but." Lana shook her head. Was she actually going to have this conversation with him. "Shane is wonderful and I would go steady with him if I felt that way for him. I kind of do but." She smiled at Emmett. "I just don't know."
Emmett nodded and went back to his food. He really didn't like that she had eyes for another man, but he couldn't help feeling that way. She was his Bay...But what if she was Shane's Lana? He sighed mentally. Well he know he would fight for her. That was for damn sure.
Lana felt sad to be home. She climbed off the back of his bike slowly, and handed him the helmet. She wasn't ready for him to leave. "You want to come up? I mean all I have to drink that I know is good is Smirnoff, but.
"Yeah I would love two." Emmett said then turned off his bike. He smiled big. He had wondered what her place had looked like for days.
He looked around slowly. Her place wasn't big, but it was homely. She lead him into her small kitchen. "Would you like one?" She asked referring to a Smirnoff. He nodded and took it when she handed him one.
He fallowed her to the living room and stopped when he saw one of his pieces on her wall. It was the one with the field and mountains that rose above the trees. It was a truly beautiful place, and he had taken this photo with Bay in mind. He felt the corners of his mouth pull up.
She was beside him when he looked away from the photo. "I love this photo. It was the first thing I bought when I moved in here." She smiled at him. "It's yours isn't it?" He nodded. "I love your work. I have some in the bed room too. I once went to a showing of your photos. It was wonderful." She looked at the photo. "This one gives me peace. I used to stare at it for hours when I first got it and was in a mood."
Emmett smiled at her. God this made his heart light. She loved his work. The fact that she had this made him feel honored. He loved her so much, and right now he was resisting the erg to kiss her.
She took his hand and lead him to the sofa. Once they were seated Emmett asked, "Do you still paint?"
"I paint?" Lana asked. It really didn't come as a surprise to her. Something told her that she had known this all along. "I draw some, but I haven't really painted." She said before he could answer her.
"Can I see?"
"Well...I um." She shrugged taking a deep breath. "Sure I guess there is no reason not to show you." Lana stood going to her room. There was no way she was going to show him her sketch book with him in it. But she had plenty others.
When she returned, she handed it to him, And sat back down as he looked threw them. He paused on a page and Lana closed her eyes. Oh yeah she had just given him the first sketch book she bought after her accident...Which meant she had also drawn some pictures of him in it.
He tapped her knee sending electricity down her leg. Her eye flew open and he looked as if he had just seen the world for the first time. "This is me." He said pointing to the picture.
Lana nodded. There was no use in lying. "I remembered your face. You have been in my head for as long as I could remember. So I drew you quit a bit."
"These are wonderful. All of them. Bay you are amazing as always." He said using her name sign without thinking.
"What does this mean?" Lana asked repeating the sign he used.
"Oh it is your name sign. Bay." He said. "I wasn't thinking. I'm sorry Lana." He said feeling like and Idiot.
Lana waited a beat before she answered, "Not it's okay. You can call me Bay. It feel right when you do it."
Emmett put the book down and stood bringing Bay up with him. He pulled her against him and just held onto her. When her arms wrapped around him he wanted to weep. It was still hard to believe this was real. He had often wished he would wake up and Bay would be alive, and now that he had, he has a hard time believing this wasn't all a dream. But right now this felt more then real. This felt true.
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