Shades
“He still wore his suit, but had the jacket draped over the chair beside him. Every line in his body was tense. He stared out the windows into the parking lot. The two nurses at the admittance desk stayed busy handling the phones and processing patients. Isabel crossed the room. Jesse must have spotted her reflection in the glass, because he turned around to look at her. His clothing and his hair still held a fine layer of desert dust. Isabel resisted taking his hand or standing too close to him.... Roswell was simply too small to take such risks. Someone would see them, jump to the obvious… and right… conclusion, and word would get back to her dad. "You doing okay?" Jesse asked. "I'm fine," Isabel said. Not sitting beside him, not touching him, was hard, and it got more difficult every time she saw him in her dad's offices. "How's your friend?" Jesse asked. "She's okay," Isabel said. "Maybe a little stressed. But nobody got hurt." Jesse pointed at the television hanging from the ceiling in the corner by the admittance desk.MoreLess
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