NORA'S VISIT

     Faith woke up when her phone rang. She glanced at the screen, it was Nora. She heaved a sigh of relief. Finally, she had someone to talk to. She quickly slid to the green icon. 

        "Hey, Nora." 

        "You didn't even call me after the date!" Nora scolded. 

        "I figured you will be busy attending to patients." 

        "I'm driving towards your place, you have to give me all of it. Danny's not in town." 

          "What?!" Faith gasped. 

          "What? You don't want me to come to your place anymore?" 

         "Did I say that Nora?" 

         "I'll hang up now, I'm almost there." 

        "Alright," Faith said and hung up. She ran to the bathroom mirror, her eyes still looking like she wept. She took the liner and applied it to her eyes, tied her hair in a ponytail.

      She stepped out of her room, Ethan was there with Charlotte, but they didn't not look at her when she passed them to go open the door. She opened the door for Nora who stared at her. She was still looking pale. 

         "Hi, Nora." Faith said.

        Nora stepped into the living room. "Are you taking care of yourself?" Nora asked. 

        "Yes. Please come in." Faith was happy that Nora came to visit her but she was kind of exaggerating it. They walked past Charlotte and Ethan. 

        "Hi, Ethan," Nora greeted. 

        "Hi, Nora. How has it been?" 

        "I'm great." Nora's eyes trailed to the girl that kept her head on his shoulder. "Hi," she greeted her. 

       Charlotte smiled, stood up and took her arm. "My name is Charlotte. It's nice to meet you."

        "Call me Nora." 

     Faith stood there, arms folded across her chest. Nora turned back to look at her. She signalled Nora to go to the room. Nora stand up and followed her. 

         "See you guys," she waved. 

         "See you too!" the couple chorused. 

      Once inside her room, Nora sat at the edge of the bed. "I have come to this boring zone." Nora scowled. "Is that the Charlotte girl?" Faith nodded. "She looks adorable. Aha, Faith, one of my colleagues wants your contacts," Nora chirped. 

      Faith glared at her. "How did your colleague know me?" 

        "I showed them your killer pictures and they were mesmerised. This guy walked up to me and said, your friend is very beautiful, can I be friends with her? But I collected his numbers for you." 

       "You are not serious." 

         "Of course, I would have brought him over to see you instead." She took out her phone from her purse. She scrolled through the gallery and brought out the picture of a handsome young man. She handed it to Faith. 

      Faith took it and looked at the guy for a while. Nora stared at her. 

       " I see you are totally smitten." 

        "Who is smitten? " Faith retorted and gave her back the phone with a scowl on her face, sighing. 

      Nora took the phone and kept staring at the man. Before she could say anything else, Faith put in. 

         "I made jambalaya." 

     Nora's eyes widened. "And you are just telling me? Go get me something to eat, will you?" 

        Faith smiled and stood to go get the food.