“Good morning, crew. What’s on the agenda for today?” Izzy walks in looking freshly showered.
“Well, I have the day off, so I thought Angelo and I could go buy him an air mattress.” He starts to speak, but I hold up my hand to stop him. “No arguments.” Then to Izzy. “Then I thought I might go find a new outfit. I haven’t done anything fun in a while. Bash is paying me nicely, so I thought I would treat myself.”
“Mani-pedis, girl. We are going for mani-pedis. My nails are dying for some TLC.”
I chuckle at her. “Okay. Let’s do it. Girls’ day?”
She smiles.
“I’m calling Sof now. You go get ready.”
I go to walk down the hall but turn back to Angelo.
“You too, Angelo.”
He just chuckles as I hurry to get ready.
∞∞∞
An hour later and we are sitting in a booth at our favorite brunch place, White Rabbit. Bottomless mimosas all around. Well, all accept Matt and Angelo.
“So, what spurred this impromptu girls’ day trip?” Matt asks.
“Do we have to have a reason, Matty?” Izzy raises her eyebrow at him.
“I guess not, Isabel.”
She throws a biscuit at his use of her formal name.
“Hey! No wasting food.” He picks it up and takes a large bite.
“Here, have some jam with your biscuit.” She takes spoonful and acts like she’s going to fling it. His hand shoots out so quick as he grabs the spoon and spreads the jam on his biscuit.
“Thank you for caring so much, Izzy.”
We all laugh at their antics. These two act the most like siblings between all of us.
“We needed a day out. Away from all the stress. Besides, this is my first day off. I needed to relax,” I share.
“How is it going anyway?” Sofia asks.
“Good. I’m learning a lot. She also gave me her personal medical books. I’ve been reading those in my spare time.”
“She means she has been reading them when she finally comes home and stays up most of the night studying. She’s been running herself ragged,” Izzy pipes in.
“What? Why?” Sofia turns her concerned gaze on me.
“I just want to be as ready as possible to take over. Dr. Fields is obviously itching to leave. She’s so cagey lately.”
Matt and Angelo each give me an odd look but keep quiet.
“Or it has to do with Lorenzo. She’s obviously still hung up on him,” Izzy admits.
“Izzy!Why would you say that?”
“The way you call out for him in the middle of the night when you do sleep.”
My face turns red as I realize my dreams aren’t as secret as I thought. I look to Angelo. He gives me a look telling me he heard them too.
