Chapter 2
I turn my head to the side and try to quiet my sobs hoping that whoever is coming her way pays no attention to her.
My sobs finally cease but the tears are still flowing like a river, distorting my vision. The footsteps get closer and closer and then they suddenly stop. I have this strange feeling that someone is watching me. Finally, I look to see someone towering over me. I could not make out what his face looked like due to the tears.
After what seemed like an eternity I finally speak, "Can I do something for you?"
"No."
"Fine," I say hoping he would leave but he doesn't. I couldn't be strong anymore so the sobs return. A normal person would run away from this kind of reaction but he stays. I feel him slide down the wall next to me, he lightly touches my arm, and it is oddly comforting. Not thinking, I grab his hand needing it to try to pull myself together.
"Do you need anything?" he asks.
With him being near me to comfort me I am starting to get better. The tears have slowed and the sobs had ceased. "No, I'm OK now. I'm Trinda," I say quietly.
"Nate," the boys says as he slowly gets up and extends his hand towards me to take. I do and we are both standing. He is quite a bit taller than me, about a foot, and he is quite a bit muscular. He is wearing a pair of tight skinny jeans with a button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up just below his elbow. His face was … well… cute, adorable, and gorgeous. He has amazingly deep, chocolate eyes. His hair is a shade of dark brown and is extremely curly. He looks familiar but my mind is in such a distraught place right now I can't think of where I've seen him before.
"Well I guess I should get back to work."
"Oh right," he says softly. As I am about to walk away he calls for me, "Trinda?"
"Yeah?"
"Um … do you know where the nursing station 22G is?"
"Yes that is where I work I can show you now if you'd like."
"That would be great!"
As we walk down the hall, we make small talk, and I find out that I really like him. It feels like he is my best friend.
When we finally arrive, the nurse working the front desk and gets up to greet him, "Mr. Grey, it is so nice of you and your brothers to take time out of your busy schedule to come and visit some of the patient."
"Oh, it's no problem. Me and my brothers really enjoy doing stuff like this," Nate says with a dazzling smile.
"Speaking of your brothers, where are they?"
"They stopped in the cafeteria. We ate an hour ago so of course they are famished!"
Right then I finally realize were I have seen him, a million times on my bedroom wall where my Jonas Brothers poster hangs. OMJ I am standing a foot away from Nate Gray. I'm not one of those fans that fall over or bawl when I see them but it is still awesome.
"Trinda, I was wondering if you would guide Connect Three around the pediatrics' wing, or anywhere else in the hospital."
"Sure!" I say eagerly.
"Dude this place is huge we're never gonna find it!"
"Come on! We've been looking for like what? Two minutes?"
"I told you we should have stopped in the cardiac unit for directions."
"We don't need directions! I know exactly where we're going."
"Sure you do."
I can see them now. The missing two missing Greys have arrived. Although we could see them they were still could not find us.
"Guys! Over here," says Nate
They automatically look towards us and jog over. "See I told you we weren't lost!" said Jason Grey.
"Well," said Shane, "there was that one time in Kansas we got lost in that grass stuff."
"We were in a corn maze!"
"So."
"Guys stop!" Nate says.
"Sorry," they both say.
"Ok," the nurse continues, "Trinda will take you around the hospital so you can mingle with the patients. At 5 you guys can go get food and then leave or come back or whatever. Any questions?"
Shane raises his hand, "Yes?"
"Do we get a snack time?"
Nate and Jason both simultaneously smack him in the back of the head.
"Haha!" I laugh, "OK if you don't mind I would like to make a pits stop right across the hall. Is that OK?"
"Yeah, sure," the boys all agree.
We all walk down the hall until we get to Jake's room. "Knock, Knock," I say quietly.
"Who's there?" says that beautiful voice that brings a smile to my face.
"Me!" I announce as I walk in, "Just checking in you before we go."
"We?" he asks hesitantly.
"Me and the boys," I say as they all file in.
"Hey man!" Shane says as he goes up to do some funky handshake thing.
"Hey?"
"That's Shane, Jason," I say pointing them out, "and that's Nate." Was it just me, or does Nate seem very quiet?
"Hey you look familiar," Jake announces.
They laugh and proceed to introduce themselves again.
"Hey I'm Shane."
"I'm Jason."
"And I'm Nate and we are."
"Connect Three!" they all end together.
"Oh right, you're that little boy band." Jake always acts like an ass when he's jealous but why should he?
"Yep," said Nate in an equally hostile voice.
"OK," I spoke trying to stop the tension in the room, "we should get going. Bye Hon."
"Bye." Jake said. As I went to turn around and leave, Jake grabbed my arm and spun me around. Before I knew what was happening his lips crashed on mine. He eagerly molded his lips around mine with an urgency that I had never seen him have. Like always, when he started kissing me I forgot about everything just concentrating on the amazing feeling that jolted through my body. His tongue soon ran across my lips and I realized then that we were not alone. I quickly pulled away as chagrin flushed my cheeks.
The boys were all turned away acting like nothing out of the ordinary was happening. My eyes rested on Nate's face. His eyes had this odd look in them that resembled what I saw in Jake's when I came in with the boys.