While you were sleeping

Chapter Two: Hotdogs and Accidents

"What'll you have Miss?" Ryanna looked up from her paper to the hotdog man.

"Oh, the usual please." The man rolled his eyes.

"And that is?" Oh yes another part of her oh so daily routine was to come to the same hot dog stand during lunch and always and always ordered the same thing. You would think the guy would remember a simple order

"Mustard dog, and a diet coke, please." The man shrugged and got to work.Ryanna blew her bangs out of her face and turned teh page to the sports section. The chicago whitesox lost again... great.

"Oh Ryanna!" Ryanna turned around and smiled at Kankton, her best friend's husband and her boss. "

Hey there Kankton, what's up."

"I am recommending you for Employee of the month. The usual please." The Hotdog man nodded and Ryanna cocked an eyebrow. Oh great Kankton came here twice with her and he remembers. Why did she have the feeling the guy selling hot dogs was sexist.

"Oh really I didn't know they had an employee of the month." Kankton nods and takes out a sheet of paper.

"Oh yes, now listen to this You'll love it. I Kankton Richards nominate Ryanna Coutsa'n for employee of the month. Ryanna is never late, and has always worked the previous holidays. Just because she worked Thanksgiving, She is also willing to work Christmas too." Kankton mumbled the last part but Ryanna had heard him.

"Kankton, I'm not working Christmas."

Ryanna turned to leave with her mustard dog (which was filled with relish and onions) and Kankton followed her. "Uh, you'll get a nice plaque with the mayor stamp on it."

"I didn't vote." She picked out some relish in disgust.

"You get to ride on the float St. Patty's day."

"I hate parades." The onions went next.

"Did I mention an extra holiday pat off?"

"I hate you."She turned to him glaring.

"Ryanna PLEASE! Sandra can't be there, and Nicholas has got this family and I promised Pan we'd go to her parents house for Christmas. Ryanna, you're the only one." Ryanna chewed on her hotdog grimacing at the taste of leftover onion and relish.

"Without a family... It sucks Kankton." Kankton sighs and nods.

"I know and I'm sorry." Ryanna sighed and threw away her trash.

"You owe me big time." With that Ryanna head for her apartment.

Christmas Day

Ryanna sat in her train booth bored as hell. It was one thing to work on Thanksgiving but Christmas... She really wanted to do something more with her time, not to mentions her life. She sighed as another coin beeped through, but was startled when she heard a voice. "Hi." She looked up and saw her onyx eyed man. God was he looking as fine as ever. Ryanna froze in her spot her cold cheeks now reddening from a blush. "Merry Christmas." He smiled at her and went through. Her loose bangs fell into her face as she went to say something but only managed to mutter...

"Uh huh." Ryanna winced slapped her head, causing her bini to loosen and mes sup her hair. She cursed herself and thought out loud. "Nice coat, Merry Christmas to you too. You're beautiful, will you marry me? I love you." She groaned the last part and banged her head on the desk. After that she kept her eyes on him over and over she repeated what a dumb ass she was. He was chatting with some guys that were touching him and flipping his scarf around. One of the guys pushed him too hard and sent him falling off the platform. Ryanna panicked she ran out while the guys who pushed him took off.

She saw him laying on the tracks not moving. Her heart beat fast as she looked around for help then down at her the onyx eyed man. "Sir, sir, are you alright? Somebody help me please!" No one answered, she was all alone. "Oh sir this is not good, not good at all." She jumped on the tracks and sat near him checking his signs. "Sir, can you hear me? Oh god you smell good." Damn it, she though to herself, this was not the time tobe ogling him. She got on top of him and tried to wake him up. "Please sir wake up. Somebody Help!" The sound of a train made her froze. "Oh god! Sir there is a train coming and it's very fast. It's an express!" He still didn't move and the train was getting very close. Thinking quickly Ryanna grabbed his body and tucked under the platform as the train approached.

The mans eyes fluttered open and he looked up to see Ryanna. Ryanna smiled slightly. "Hi." He smiled back slightly too before falling unconscious.

Okay I have no idea what to say so... um... review!