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Tanya woke to see her friend slumped over in a chair next to her bed. Slowly she sat up adjusting her eyes to see Mark with his arms tightly around Erica. "Mark?" She said loudly rechecking to see if it was actually him.
"Tan-yea? Tan-yay?" The nurse asked stepping into her room smiling at her.
"Tanya." She answered almost heatedly.
"Okay hon I need you to sign these, you get to go home. Aren't you happy?" The nurse said energetically.
"Yay wee." Tanya said snatching the pen out of her hand scribbling quickly across the paper.
"Erica!" Tanya yelled again, chucking a stuffed animal at her friend.
"Wha..." the red head said spotting her friend try to get out of the bed.
"No Tanny you need to use your crutches." The nurse said holding them up for her.
"It's Tanya, Bertha!" She snapped yanking the crutches away and hobbling down the hallway.
"My name is Betty, not Bertha." She said to her self handing Erica several pieces of paper. "Make sure she takes these twice a day just in case there's an infection and these three times a day for the pain, and these at night if she can't sleep." The nurse said explaining each subscription.
"Okay." Erica smiled toothily as she followed quickly behind her friend.
"I believe you're Tanya?" A tall muscular bald man said extending his hand to her.
"And who the crap are you?" She asked cocking an eyebrow up at him.
"I would be the guy you yelled at for calling my brother." He smiled.
"Ummm what was your name again?" she smiled almost evilly.
"Glenn." He smiled shaking her hand.
"Righty-o." She smiled turning her attention to Erica and Ashley.
"Where are we going tonight?"
"Yeah, Good question." Erica relented.
"Ummm." The small auburn haired girl said looking apathetically to Mark.
"You're coming back to our hotel." Mark chuckled wrapping his arm around Erica. "If it's okay with you I'll ride with you." He smiled pulling the redhead tightly to him.
"Right, yeah." Erica said dreamily almost lost in Marks eyes.
"And I'll be?" Tanya trailed off as Glenn opened the passenger door to his truck and adjusted the chair.
"I'll be driving you back." Glenn smiled softly and continued with what he was doing.
"Okay then, I'm about ready to go." Tanya chuckled shaking a medicine jar. Glenn smiled helping her inside then chuckled as she quickly fell asleep.
"Is she always so…"
"Feisty?" Mark laughed.
"Umm that's one way of putting it." Glenn said running a hand over his scalp.
"It just takes Tanya a while to warm up to you is all." Erica laughed climbing behind Mark on her bike.
"So until then I have to worry that she'll stab me?" He asked.
"She's an angry little girl, not a murderer." Erica roller her eyes, hugging Mark tightly as he kicked over the engine.
"Right." Glenn sighed to himself as he climbed behind the wheel. He drove silently, not even turning on the radio. He was too afraid of waking the very sleepy Tanya. Forty-five minutes into the drive Tanya finally woke up.
"Are we there yet?" She asked still wiping at her eyes.
"No not yet," He answered without taking his eyes off the road.
"Bummer." Tanya said staring out the window.
"Well, we're almost there." He offered.
"Rock on." She half smiled still staring out the window. "Ummm." She began as they pulled up to the hotel. "Thank you for putting up with me." She said quietly before Erica yanked the door open and helped her out.
"How the hell did you beat us here?" Tanya asked as Ashley killed the engine to her bike.
"Cause Mark has to be a big shot and show how fast he can go." Glenn chuckled as he passed by and held the door open to Tanya.
She didn't even get fully inside of the lobby when she spotted a very familiar face standing near the desk. "TANYA!" Adam squeaked from inside running over and carefully hugging her. "Are you okay hon? I would have gone, but I had a match and… I'm sorry." He sighed hugging her again.
"It's alright everyone and there brother where there." She laughed at her own joke.
"Question two, who are we staying with?" Ashley asked.
"Um Ashley you can stay with me….If you want." Adam offered blushing as Mark gave him an awkward look.
"I think me and you have a lot to talk about, Red." Mark said gently pushing a lock of Erica's long red hair out of her face.
"I agree." She smiled.
"And I will go stay on a bus stop." Tanya laughed.
"Or you could crash in my brother's room." Mark said smiling at Glenn.
"Umm…yeah…okay." Glenn said looking to Tanya half expecting her to be mad.
"That too could work." She laughed. "Okay then, why are we still in the lobby?" Tanya giggled as she started to make her way to the elevators.
Glenn shook his head and quickly walked ahead of her to push the button. Breaking an awkward silence, the doors opened and they all piled in. After a couple minutes of everyone staring at each other dumbly, Mark leaned forward and pressed the button.
"Soooo..." Erica said barely above a whisper. "Food." She chuckled.
"Lets get short stop into bed and we'll go grab a bite, Okay?" Mark smiled at her. Erica nodded a response as the doors opened.
"Wow." Tanya sighed as she carefully stepped out of the elevator.
"What?" Glenn asked.
"This is one mighty big hotel." She giggled. Glenn shook his head as he passed her by, leading her down the hall way.
"Are you okay with this?" Ashley asked as she walked with Tanya towards Glenn's room. "Yeah I'm fine. I'm too tired to care." She laughed. "Are you alright staying with Adam?" She smirked.
"I think I'll manage." The smaller redhead laughed evilly.
"Righty-o why don't you kids run off to bed then, and remember…safe sex." Tanya called loudly as Ashley lowered her head blushing and quickly followed Adam down the hallway.
Glenn shook his head taking the lead as he fumbled through his pocket for the key.
"You know if you felt the sudden urge to wait for me I wouldn't be offended." Glenn stopped suddenly realizing his pace. "Thank you." Tanya squeaked as she finally caught up with him. Glenn stepped to the right quickly opening the door for her. Tanya hobbled into the room and plopped down on the bed.
"You guys can go get food now if you want." Glenn offered as he stood in the doorway.
"Alright man, G'night." Mark said taking Erica's hand as he started down the hallway.
Glenn smiled as the door closed and slowly turned to face Tanya. "Do you need anything?" He asked as he made his way into the bathroom.
"No I'm good." She said not moving from her spot. Finally Glenn reappeared from the bathroom in a pair of what appeared to be running shorts.
"Um can I get a blanket off the bed?" He asked standing over her.
"Why?" She ask slowly sitting up.
"So I can get some sleep." He said smiling gently and pulling at the blanket.
"Aren't you going to sleep in the bed?" She asked scrunching her eyebrows up.
"Ummm…" He said trailing off. "I… I'm not a whore." He said awkwardly.
"Ummm yeah, I don't believe I said that." She laughed loudly. "Hon this is your bed. There is no way I'm putting you out." She said still laughing. Glenn sighed heavily as he slid in next to her. Quickly, Tanya wiggled around and pulled herself under the covers.
"Umm thank you." She said smiling up at him as he turned off the light.
"Uh yeah…No problem." He said nervously as she leaned up and kissed him briefly on the lips and rolled over quickly falling asleep.