Chapter 4.
They had been sitting in the train for about ten minutes now. A nice, old lady sat between them and Ryan kept looking over the woman at the girl. The elder woman smiled at his antics.
"Would you like to sit next to your girlfriend?" She asked him, sending him a soft smile.
Ryan smiled back at the lady. Instead of saying, 'She's not my girlfriend' or something like that he said, "Thank you very much. I'd love to." She let out a small chuckle and moved to his seat after he had stood up. He sat back down in the older woman's seat. He looked over at the girl and smirked at her. She rolled her eyes and looked in the other direction.
"So, what's your deal, Ryan? You in Newport on business?" He asked himself. She turned to him and bit her lip from smiling. He was something. "Me? Oh.. uh.. Well thank you for asking." He said, looking at her like she had asked the question. "No, I'm actually here visiting my brother. He's a doctor… well he's going to be. He's in med school, so…" He trailed off.
"Is that what you want to do, too?" She asked, looking into his eyes. There was something about his eyes, she couldn't get enough of looking into them.
He looked back at her and smiled slightly that she had said something. "I don't know. I just finished school" He said.
She smirked at him. "Don't people graduate in June?" She asked him.
He looked away from her and then back at her to find her still smirking. "Yeah" He said, reluctantly.
"It's almost a year ago," She stated, not breaking the eye contact. "you still don't have a job?"
"What are you, my mom?"
"I don't know, when you look at me, do you see your mom?" She asked, smirking at him.
His smile faded off his face. He looked her up and down. She started to laugh as he did so.
And with that the train started to slow down and as it was her stop she started getting up. He saw that and stood up too and grabbed her bag. She smiled at him. "What sign are you?" She asked.
He looked at her, confused. "What sign am I?" He said, asking her if that was what she had asked.
She just looked at him, waiting for him to answer her.
He looked out the window as the train was now almost stopped and then back at her. "Pisces" He said.
"Strike three" She said, looking away from him. She walked to the door as the train was now stopped and the doors were about to open.
Ryan walked over to her and handed her her bag. He smiled slightly at her.
"Thanks" She said, smiling back at him. The doors were now open so she walked out and turned around so she was facing him again. "It's Marissa" She told him.
"I'd have never guessed Marissa" He said, smirking at her.
She rolled her eyes. "Don't get mugged" And with that the doors closed.