Did you follow your fire?

DATE | Start June
TIME | Midday
WEATHER | Sun and warm
ATTIRE | Outfit + doctors coat


What a hell of a start it had been starting at Aston hospital. It was like they were in one of those drama tv shows, were there couldn’t be just one day without some kind of drama. At least Nia had steered clear as best as she could ever, she had lost Clay’s sister. She had even met Ethan again, poor thing seemed like he was losing the will of even getting up in the morning. And for what she could understand it had been quite a year for him as well. Cecilia with her ever-upcoming problems, that woman had to be a magnate for bad things. Then there had been Maeve being kidnapped and, she had seen the rapports and it was a nasty one that. No, the months hadn’t been kind to Tiny, and she wished that she could do something for him to make everything seem a little easier. But it was like he had retracted so much into himself that no one really could reach in and get him out of it again.

It also made her own problems seem small, which had been why she hadn’t sought Sebastian King and talked about the things that had happened. How could she? Where should she start, maybe about how much she had been lying after coming back to Gaia. The only one knowing of her transformation, Clay, as her mind drifted towards him again, she unconsciously bit down her lip. Funny how easy it had been for her to remember that crush she had had back in med-school. Grinning like a stupid schoolgirl as she had seen him on the halls quickly turning around and walked the other way.
“Nia there you are!” her fathers voice got her out of her small little imaginary world, and she turned around watching how her father came walking towards her. Being the president’s daughter didn’t bring a lot of perks as one should think. Mostly people were just afraid of you or thought you got everything handed to you without working for it. To be fair, her father made her work for everything. Sometimes she would rather have Ash on her ass than reporting to her father.
“President Lewis” she said with a strained smile, him coming up like that only meant one thing. He wanted something from her “No need for the formalities Nia” – “Doctor Lewis” she whispered under her breath, trying to correct him and looked at the taller elderly male smiling towards her. “So tonight, your mother and I found the perfect man to set you up with” she almost choked on her own saliva, it had been years since they had last tried to fix her up with some one “Dad, you promised!” she hissed, but her small outbreak just seemed to amuse him. “Now, now Nia, don’t say no before you have heard about him, he is just the right man for you, or so your mother says!” then words formed on her tongue and spilled over her lips before she had the change to stop them “Sorry Dad, but I already have a boyfriend, so it would be highly inappropriate to go to some dinner to be fixed up, don’t you think?” she said with a forced smile, everything was panicking in her. She didn’t have a boyfriend, and she knew that her father and mother wouldn’t just let her run around having a boyfriend without them meeting him. “You do? Well then, I think its high time we meet the fella, don’t you think? Then he should come to tonight’s dinner instead!” – “Oh I, yes, yes of course he should, it’s just” she wanted to be swallowed by the earth. Why, why had she lied.

The stare that her father gave was enough to make her wish that she wasn’t standing there right in front of him right now. But she had no luck in this just being a very bad dream.
Just as she was about to go to confession about her lying, and of course she would see them tonight and being introduced to this man. She felt the presents of another settling beside her, but before she could look at him his voice told her that Clay had come to her rescue. Just finished up a surgery? Wait was he doing, what she thought he was doing?
As the words, I’m Nia’s boyfriend left his lips her eyebrows shot up and she looked at him with a baffled look. Why was he doing this?

She wasn’t about to go to look that gift horse in the mouth. “Yes?” she looked at Clay and then to her father “Yes! this is my boyfriend” she said with a big smile and put her arms around the arm closets to her. This was how people did it, right? When they wanted to show affection, they would snuggle in close so people could see that the liked each other. But how was she supposed to know since she had never been romantically involved with anyone.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you Doctor Reyes!” Madoc said with a big smile, clearly already knowing he was dealing with “I’m so glad we could convince you to come back to Gaia, you are a real addition to the team” her father then looked towards her and gave her a big smile “Then I hope I see both of you to dinner this evening and I’ll make sure to call and get your mother to cancel that other meeting” Nia nodded but it was clear that she was holding in a breath and tension in her shoulders as her father walked away. Only to disappear when he was out of side.
“Thank you” she whispered breating out and looked up at him “I owe you one” she said with a small smile and closed her eyes, what a headache. Especially when she realized what that meant “Now you have to come and play my boyfriend tonight, you know that, right?”

“No biggie he says” Nia breathed and shook her head with a flabbergasted smile on her lips. Her eyes followed down the long hall they were standing in, how the hospital life had gone back to its normal ways. Doctors and nurses walking around, people coming and going from their loved ones they had visited. Its alright Nia.
She turned her attention back to Clay as he kept on talking about her father shipping her off to France. She would laugh, it wasn’t for the fact that he would actually do it. But the next bit actually caused a laugh to roll of her tongue. Ce and Ash being rocks? Had he heard himself sometimes, it was actually funny just how much the budded heads in them all wanting to be right in their own way. No one was going to come and tell them who was right, as they all three was hard-set in the ways of them having the best solution. Cecilia actually being the one that always found a solution that both Clay and Ash could agree on.

“Well, can’t leave you all alone now, can I?” she said with a teasing smile, and pushed herself up on her toes, now that Clay and she were ‘dating’, she better make the rest of the staff believe it or her father would find out. She placed a quick kiss on his cheek “This is going to kill me” she said with a slow voice and could already feel how her cheeks were on fire with such a small interaction. “I’ll pick you up around six, don’t be late” she said and blinked to him before she turned around and walked towards her next patient for the day.


She was sitting in her 911 Turbo Cabriolet Porsche, as her father had told her so many times as he had handed her the keys, going on about the motor and how good it was. She always took the public transport to the hospital, or carpooled. Mostly because she hated flashing off how rich she was, but when going to her parents she always drove in it. Otherwise, her father would start with the whole speech about her not being grateful. Which she wasn’t, to be fair. She didn’t want all of the gifts they were giving her; they had even tried to convince her to move to Midnight Street where they lived themselves. She had taken down the roof and made a disheartened smile as Clay walked towards her. “Get in stranger, I hope you’re ready for the third degree” she had actually been thinking about them using the ride to her parents to talk about just how their relationship had started.

”Har, har” she said with a slight despairing voice, at least he thought this was funny, she had contemplated multiple times on the way that she could just drive off a cliff. But alas, there wasn’t a lot of cliffs nearby that she could drive over. But his teasing manner still got a small smile to appear on her lips. She looked in the mirror and drove into the street and towards her parents’ house. If it hadn’t been for Clay taken the lead in the story, she would have shut down and forgot to even talk about how they were doing this.

As he continued the story, she was happy how much was sort of real. Besides what had happened after he had come back to Aston. About how he had invited her for coffee, instead she hadn’t been able to safe his sister, and he had pulled a very angry demon off her. She felt a slight blush creep up in her cheeks, as she almost wished it had been true. It sounded so much like how she always had wished it had turned out with any of the guys she had had a secret crush on. The fairy tale. The special moment when you looked across the room and there they were. When they kissed you, it was like magic, food popping up because it was so special. How you wanted nothing but to be around them. She wanted that. But why had it been so hard until now?

She pulled herself out of it, as he asked her what she thought about it. “Yeah, that sounds, really good” she mumbled and could have sworn a sour taste formed in her mouth. How she wished this could be true, instead of just pretend. “So, I invited you home for dinner, and we know me being a horrible cook that it went totally wrong, so we ended up with takeout and then it somehow just clicked?” she turned her eyes sideways and took in his profile before she kept them on the road instead. A slight sigh left her, was it so hard to find someone she could love and that would love her, so she had to fake a relationship to keep her parents of her back? Clearly. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have to be here, did she.