"I don't know. They like you and all, but I think they wonder about how this is going to work. They're nervous, I gave up quite a bit to come, you know?"I replied, sitting beside her and glancing at the movie on the tv screen.

It was a rather odd date, and I wasn't feeling butterflies at all. The next day at work I was willing to act like everything was normal as usual and sat at the ER bay, just waiting.