"I laughed. It wasn't because of Allison's discomfort but just the strangeness of life.Betti gave me a smoldering kiss as she dropped me at my house b...fore she headed for the hospital. She was working days then, as I was, while I was going through mandatory training at the fire station. She had grabbed me the first day I showed up patient in tow in her emergency room. I was the butt of a lot of good natured humor around the fire station for having landed "the unobtainable" Nurse Betti. Somehow. She’ll lie blatantly through her text that she’s relatively new as well and you’ll both trade numbers. Gabbie tells you that she knows a place that you could meet and eat. Followed by a disappointing text that they are closed. Blaming covid she tries to convince you over, offering her place up to hang out with beer in the deal. Though, without actually putting her address in her texts.Going along with the casual text conversation you chat about who can come where. Eventually settling on the. I called Kat and let her know I would not be up there over the weekend she said that was fine as her other son was taking here to a concert. Guard duty went well boring though driving an old school jeep with a ratty 4 cyl engine around gets old after 3 hours. The only thing we had to watch out for was 1 buffalo. well the next week was quiet with 1 live fire exercise on Tuesday thru Thursday which was fun due to me being the drive of our vehicle. Friday was spent cleaning vehicles weapons and. ’ Dillon hung up the phone and smiled. ‘One usual and one cold chai, whole milk and whipped cream.’ Debbie gave him a suspicious look as she started his order. ‘Are you seeing someone? If you are you should have told me.’ ‘Met her last night,’ he said as he handed her the money with a shit-eating grin. ‘I’ll see you at nine for practice!’ He bolted out the door before she could say anything else, leaving Debbie with a slightly bemused look on her face. ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` When she couldn’t.