Aliya walked out of the room without looking back. She stood in the corridor for a long time, looking in one direction.
"Oh, Miss, are you leaving so soon?"
Aliya nodded at the enthusiastic nurse, who called her out of her mini-trance at the door. She averted her gaze from whatever had caught her attention, causing the nurse to glance in the same direction in confusion, but she did not see anything. Well, the nurse was coming from the opposite direction, so even if there had been anyone or anything in those corridors, she would not have seen it.
The nurse's question was a bit ridiculous because Aliya had been in Ian's room for the better part of the day. Her 'storytelling' had taken most of the time, and it was already late afternoon by then, but the nurses, who were thinking that 'love was in the air', felt that the time was not enough for the 'lovey-dovey' couple.