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Post by knightc3 on May 7, 2008 2:22:43 GMT -5
Shane focused back on Karina. What she had said hadn't registered to his brain and at first, he just said, "Hmm?" After a noticable pause he smiled and said, "Oh nothing, was wondering what we are gonna do next? I got a deck of cards too by the way..."
There was no point in spoiling this excellent dinner he was having with her by telling her the story. It wasn't like it would do her any good or solve his problems. He would have to worry about that later. He would just enjoy her company for now. It was still early in the evening but he wondered when the nurse come in and chase him out to leave her to get some rest.
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Post by zyphan on May 8, 2008 15:41:49 GMT -5
Karina smiled and moved the noodles out of her way. "What game shall we play? I don't know all that many, but I will try my best to learn any you would like to play. I'm fairly good at Black Jack, but then again, who isn't?"
She glanced at the clock- only about seven thirty something. She wondered for a second when lights-out was at the hospital, but decided to push those thoughts out of the way and just focus on the now.
((black jack is where you have to have cards totalling 21 or less, right?))
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Post by knightc3 on May 8, 2008 21:08:02 GMT -5
(( Yep, thats the one.))
He followed her gaze to the clock and saw the time himself. He guessed, they still had some time before he was thrown out of the room. He smiled at Karina and nodded, "Black jack it is then... but lets make it a bit more interesting. Since we can't play for money, we will play for a chance to ask questions? The winner gets to ask the loser of the game a question and the loser will have to answer. You up for it?", he asked smiling at her.
There were a lot of things he wanted to ask her and this would be a very good excuse to do so, if he could win that is. He was trying desperately to get to know her better and get closer to her in the limited time they had. He just hoped she would agree with him.
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Post by zyphan on May 9, 2008 15:59:03 GMT -5
Karina smiled, and agreed to the questions-instead-of-money rule. "Yeah, sounds good. Let's get this game started." While waiting for him to deal, she thought about what she wanted to ask him. Now would be a good time to get to know him more, before they split ways and very possibly never saw each other again.
She settled on asking him about his plans tomorrow, wondering if he was going to entertain her again (well, unless the doctors or nurses shooed him out). When he left tonight, she would miss him. It was nice spending the time in a boring hospital with someone who was equally as bored and interesting.
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Post by knightc3 on May 11, 2008 3:47:14 GMT -5
He took the cards in his hand and started shuffling them to mix them before beginning to deal the first round. He grinned as something struck him. "Now, if someone asks me what I did in the hospital, I would be able to say I was playing blackjack with an amazingly beautiful girl." He looked up from the cards for just a second as he said this to see her reaction.
He had planned to ask more about her. He wanted to know her better and now he had the chance to. He would stay away from the crash and the island if he could. There was noo point in bringing up bad memories.
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Post by zyphan on May 12, 2008 15:45:15 GMT -5
Karina smiled at the comment, her cheeks turning a light shade of pink. "Oh, c'mon, I'm not that pretty all wrapped up in bandages like this. At least you can still flaunt your masculinity without the trouble of being bed-ridden and wrapped up like a mummy." That was the best response she could come up with, so she just waited patiently for him to deal. She wondered how good of a player he was at Black Jack.
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Post by knightc3 on May 12, 2008 22:08:28 GMT -5
Shane just smiled at the comment but didn't say anything. He didn't want to risk going too fast right now. He was young but not so immature. "Ok, lets get this started then...", he commented and started dealing the cards. It turned out so that Karina won the first round. He leaned back in his chair after picking up the cards on the table and smiled, "Go ahead, what do you wanna know about me?"
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Post by zyphan on May 13, 2008 15:42:30 GMT -5
"Hm..." Karina made an act of thinking really hard, though she already knew what question she would ask of him. "What are your plans for tomorrow if you're not banned from my room because of tonight?" She didn't know how well the doctors would take to Shane keeping her up, since the one guy seemed quite upset already with just her reading a simple book.
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Post by knightc3 on May 13, 2008 21:49:10 GMT -5
He smiled then thought for a while to give a funny answer. "Oh I will probably throw a tantrum like a small kid, maybe hold my breath till they let me see you. It that doesn't work, I will threaten them that we would sue them together for causing us boredom, I mean mental distress...", he said grinning widely. He then started dealing the cards again and it turned out he won the next round.
He smiled then barely controlled himself from asking the question he really wanted to ask which was to ask her out. Instead he asked something similar but a bit more subtle. "Ok, my turn, do you think of my only as a friend who entertains you while we are in the hospital or something more?"
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Post by zyphan on May 14, 2008 15:08:05 GMT -5
Karina laughed at his answer, and agreed that the tantrum would probably let him get his way. "I don't know if holding your breath would work, but not eating might. They can't exaclty force feed you if you're sane."
When Shane won the next round and asked his question, she wondered for a second what he was meaning, and tried to suppress a smile. "Well..." She didn't know how to phrase how she felt about him. "I...um..." Karina's cheeks turned a light shade of pink, slightly embarassed. After a bit of a pause and much looking at anything but Shane, she finally turned to him, opened her mouth, hesitated, and closed it again. Why was talking so hard all of a sudden for her.
Making up her mind, Karina looked him in the eyes, paused, and said, "I think of you as something more than just my hospital entertainer, yes." Then she quickly looked away, the red quickly overtaking her cheeks and making her face tomato-red. She didn't want to look at him now, embarassed that she had to tell him her feelings, but exhilerated as well, because he could only be asking this if he like her as well...The prospect put butterflies in her belly, but she still faced the other way, trying to hide her blush.
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Post by knightc3 on May 14, 2008 21:35:33 GMT -5
Shane waited for her answer but a smile played on his face when he saw her blush and hesitate before answering. Just her reaction was enough to answer his question but he didn't say anything. When she finally replied, he knew she was telling the truth, her true feelings. She could have easily made something up and answered his question straight away but she was too nice to lie or manipulate him like that.
He let the silence linger watching her cheeks redden more and more as the seconds passed. He smiled and finally broke the silence, "You look even more amazing when you blush..." He reached forward with his hand and took hold of hers for a few seconds before turning it over and putting the deck of cards in it. He then smiled and said, "You deal now..."
(( Think we should get the nurse or someone to interrupt so we can go on to the next day in a couple of posts. That should give Pinata somethings to post and make this situation more interesting. What do you think? ))
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Post by zyphan on May 15, 2008 15:28:31 GMT -5
((yeah, that sounds good. i'm very curious indeed to see what dr. york will make of all this!! XD ))
The pink instantly turned to a dark red with Shane's words, and she couldn't hold his gaze. Karina, still silent, took the cards, her hand lingering in Shane's grasp, and slowly shuffled the cards, trying to calm the butterflies.
Just as she set out the next set, she heard voices in the corridor, coming closer. "Uh-oh. Looks like we might be having our party crashed." She would be dissapointed if they made Shane leave, but she wouldn't have to worry too much; there was a high probability that she would see him again tomorrow.
((there. hopefully someone will take an interest and post in as a nurse.))
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Post by knightc3 on May 15, 2008 22:20:50 GMT -5
(( Or maybe Pinata would like to do it... ))
Shane's stomach did a backflip as he felt Karina's hand linger in his own. He had been right to guess she was beginning to like him too. He smiled as she laid out the cards, still blushing from his comment. Her next words and the noise outside the door made him to turn around towarsd the door and stop smiling. "Uh oh...", he said and quickly stuffed the empty boxes back into the bag he had brought them in.
He looked up at Karina and smiled, "We don't want them finding that now, do we..." He wanted to stay with her longer but knew he would have plenty of time with her tomorrow. He wondered if he would be able to sleep tonight in anticipation. He had never felt like this about any of the others in his college so he didn't quite know what to make of it.
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Post by piñata on May 16, 2008 9:08:19 GMT -5
(I'll post a profile for this character if we need her again. She's just a random nurse right now, though.)
Cheryl walked down the corridor on her rounds, checking on each patient in the ward. When she got to Miss Loveland's room, she was a little nervous... Dr. York had told the nurses that this patient was from an extremely wealthy family who might be interested in donating money to the hospital.
She knocked on the closed door, waited a few seconds and then entered the room. She was surprised to find another patient in there, but her surprise quickly faded when she realized how pretty Karina was. We're going to have a lot of trouble keeping male patients -- and doctors, for that matter -- out of this room, she thought to herself, smiling slightly at the thought. Cheryl had been a knockout herself at that age (she was still more attractive at her current age than most 36-year-old women were), so she knew exactly what Karina went through on a daily basis.
"I'm sorry, sir, but visiting hours are over... you're going to have to return to your room." She noted the disappointed expressions on their faces and added kindly, "But you can come back and visit again tomorrow, unless a doctor orders you not to." She looked around, trying to find the Chinese food she smelled. This hospital's cafeteria had better food than most, but it was still not uncommon for people to smuggle food in from outside. She had learned not to mention it, unless the patient's doctor had them on some sort of diet... these young people in this room, if anything, needed to eat more fattening foods.
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Post by zyphan on May 16, 2008 15:29:29 GMT -5
"Um..." Karina looked to Shane when the nurse mentioned that he needed to leave. "I'll see you tomorrow?" She knew he would be back, but the question was just for the nurse. No need to make a scene about early romances, right?
She secretly wished he could stay, but the hour was getting late, and she was felling a bit tired. "I don't know when I'll be up, but you can drop by whenever you're able to. Or at least so long as the doctors will let you wander and let me have my entertainment." She smiled at that last bit, but was dissapointed that he had to leave. Spending the evening with Shane had been so much fun; she couldn't wait to see what tomorrow had in store for her.
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