Chapter 7

"What's wrong?" Leon asked. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah. I'm letting the drugs wear off. I don't like the whole fuzzy thing that happens when I'm on them." She turned to the roses by the bed.

"How did Dom know what color to get?" She asked.

"I remembered what you said that day we met in the airport."

"I surprised you can remember that far back." She said, lifting her good arm to caress the roses.

"I remember the little white dress that stopped a little above your knee. And I remember how you stared at the flowers in the gift shop. The yellow roses to be exact."

Gia extended her hand to the late blossom rose, the cream yellow adding a shimmer to her skin. Her favorite flower was in her reach.

And she only had two dollars and some change on her person for someone had just stolen her purse.

"Excuse me, do you need help?" A voice behind her called.

She turned and could only stare into the deep brown eyes that held her entranced. A smile crept across his face as he crossed his arms.

She shook her head as though a fly had landed on her cheek and blinked.

"Uh, oh. I uh, see my purse was just stolen and I reported it and I just keep staring at these roses. I love these roses, but I can't buy them cause someone just stole my purse." She took a deep breath and shuddered on the release.

"I can get you the flowers. But only if you do me this one thing."

"I so can't ask you to buy me those flowers."

"You didn't ask. I offered. However, I do need a bit of information"

"Oh, and what's that?"

"Your name."

She paused briefly before erupting into laughter. "A pick up line. I can't believe you just used a pick up line on me."

"That was not a pick up line."

"That so was a pick up. I'm glad you didn't use, 'Hey baby, is your daddy an astronaut? Cause you are out of this world.'"

"Well how about 'Did it hurt?'" He leaned into her.

"Did what hurt?" She asked playfully, having heard and joked about that pick up line numerous times.

"When you fell from heaven."

They shared a laughed as Leon paid for the roses. She smiled and took them openly.

"I'm Gia. She said, extending her hand.

"Leon." He brought her hand to his lips and brushed a kissed across her flesh. He then slipped her arm into his walked back to the information and security desk were her stolen purse waited for her.