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Samira looks up at them from her place on the ground. “I don’t need any help getting dates guys, I don’t need anyone you know i’m busy with work” She looks at trinity pleadingly but trin only grins. “I think it’s a good idea I mean we all know you’re pretty lonely” Trin says bluntly but not unkindly. Samira puts her head back down groaning. “We don’t have to if you don’t want to mira, ” Dennis bumps her shoulder from beside her, “we wouldn’t wanna do anything to upset you.” Samira smiles at him softly, a thank you and a breath of relief wrapped into one.

“Yeah you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do but it could be nice right?,” Emma adds, “I mean i’ve heard you talk about how you’re a little lonely” Samira frowns but nods anyways. “Okay fine, what’s your idea” Safe to say she gave in rather quickly but who can blame her? she’s a little lonely. “We should help you message guys on tinder, just mirror your phone to the tv” Trinity says from beside Mel. “That’s a good idea then we could help you pick a good guy and also help you form your messages” Mel says as she curls into trin.

Samira let’s trinity take her phone and mirror her tinder to the screen and they start their search. The first guy is giving samira nothing, still she sits on it for a minute to let everyone discuss.

Elijah, 32

- Barista

- Graduate from SNHU

The first photo is him wearing a flannel and jeans sitting in some field against a tree. “He looks nice” Dennis comments from beside her. “He only looks nice to you denny cause he’s your type” Trin says laughing loudly. Samira shrugs unsure on why she doesn’t feel anything. The second photo he’s on a couch reading “The second sex”… of course. Samira practically gags. “This is awful” she finally says. Dennis does it for her and reaches over swiping left.

James, 35

- Technical Engineer

- Graduate from MSU

The first photo is him hanging out with a bunch of friends wearing sports jerseys and cheering with beer. “Yeah no” Joy says from emma’s side. “This is awful already” Emma adds. Samira scrolls to the next photo and it’s him and some super hot woman in a bikini kissing his cheek pushed up against him sexily. “Who puts this on a dating profile, like who is that his girlfriend or something cause I would hope it’s not his sister” Cassie says fake gagging. Victoria laughs burying her face in cassie’s side. “Yeah please swipe left mira” She adds.

Samira does swipe left, they go through a few more profiles swiping left every time. None of them are catching her attention and she’s starting to get bored of this and then… a text slides down from the top of the screen. Jack <3 : Hey! Found this medical journal, I was reading it and immediately thought of you, let me know what you think mira :). Trinity gasps loudly “Samira!! Is that abbot?!”. Samira feels her face warm, she looks down. “That totally is!,” Victoria laughs “this is killing me.” Dennis takes her phone before she can react and tosses it to trin.

Samiras already protesting this idea but they’re not gonna drop it. “I think abbot might be into you” Cassie says smugly. “He definitely is, he called you mira instead of mohan” Trinity adds as she opens the text messages. “Oh god he really texts like an old man, do you guys just send medical journals back and forth?” Victoria laughs as trinity scrolls. Samira tries to get her phone back but gives up as she decides that maybe she should just let them help her. “Do you really think he’s flirting with me?” Samira says slightly nervous. The fear of being rejected by someone she really cares about taking over.

They all look at her confused on how she couldn’t see it. “He one thousand percent likes you mira,” Dennis nudges her “you’re gorgeous and you’re smart and you’re great with your patients why wouldn’t he like you.” Samira smiles at him, squeezing his shoulder. “You’re sweet dennis but I really don’t know” She says quietly. It doesn’t take long for everyone in the room to start complimenting her, she bury’s her face in her knees unable to accept the praise. “Okay enough before she explodes” Cassie says from above her patting samiras shoulder. Samira breathes a sigh of relief and glances up thankfully.

“Can we help you text him please” Emma smiles sweetly trying to convince her. It works, how is she supposed to resist those sweet doe eyes. Samira nods “Okay fine, but don’t do anything crazy” she glared at trin who’s still holding her phone. “We would never do anything crazy mira” Trinity smirks. She starts drafting a text back to Jack. Samira: You thought about me? “How is this, it’s flirty but not too flirty,” Trinity asks samira “we can always change it.” Samira shakes her head “No this sounds good I think.” Everyone else agrees that this is good and they send it.

Then another text comes through. Jack <3: i’m always thinking about you, you’re the only person I send medical journals to. Samira smiles as she reads the text practically screaming inside. “Oh he definitely wants you” Emma giggles to samira as joy moves down in front of her so she can braid her hair. “Holy shit! He really wants you, what do I say next?” Trinity squeaks. Mel takes the phone from her. Samira: You’re sweet jack, I only send medical journals to you too. “That’s not true, I send vic medical journals too” Samira says turning to face them. “Yeah but he doesn’t need to know that mira” Vic laughs. “It’s cuter if you pretend it’s just him.”

Emma nods, “It’s best if he thinks it’s just him, if you wanna tell him truth do it after you’re together” She goes off joys braid and joy joins her back on the couch. Samira relents letting them send the text. Jacks reply comes immediately. Jack <3: Good :) Have you read the last medical journal I sent? "Well did you read it?" Joy asks. "Of course I read it, Jack sent it to me" Samira says quietly. "Okay what did you think about it?" Trinity asks getting ready to type up a response. "It was good, they had some really great ideas on how to do some really cool procedures" Samira almost starts to rant before remembering they aren't going to want to know all of that.

Trin takes the phone back from mel, the two of them passing it back and forth to reply to Jack. Samira: Yeah I did! It was so good I loved it. "I think that's good" Samira says so trinity sends it. It never takes Jack long to reply to Samira. Jack <3: That's great! I'm so glad you liked it :). Samira can't resist how happy she feels just reading his words. "I think now you should ask him out for coffee to discuss the one he just sent you, how about sometime next week" Vic says grabbing the phone from trin. Samira: How about next week we go for coffee to discuss the one you just sent me?. Vic hits send before Samira can even say anything. Samira bury's her face into her knees scared to see what Jack is gonna say.

Her phone dings but Samira keeps her face hidden. "Mira look!" Dennis nudges her shoulder. She shakes her head "I don't wanna see, denny." He nudges her again trying to get her to look. It takes a minute but she finally lifts her head. Jack <3: I would love to! How about The Garden Café on wednesday?, you have it off :). A gasp sounds from the right and samira turns to emma. "He knows what days you have off!" She squeals and samira has to hide her face to stop from doing the same. Samira finally takes her phone back. Samira: Wednesday sounds great! I'll see you then :). Jack texts back immediately. Jack <3: You'll see me before then but I'll be excited to see you at any time.

Everyone squeals excitedly "We did it we got mira a date!!!" Vic jumps up and grabs samira's hands as trinity turns on music to dance to. They all dance and have fun the rest of their residents night till they drift off to sleep. It's the following week and this time the girls are at samira's apartment to help her pick an outfit for the date. She stands in front of her closet practically throwing clothes everywhere as she digs for the perfect outfit. "Mira you know he's going to like you in whatever you wear right?" Mel reminds her, despite digging through the stuff samira has thrown around. "I swear, he's literally seen you in scrubs- well actually you're one of the few people who make scrubs look good- that besides the point what I'm trying to say is he would like you even if you were wearing a paper bag" Vic says as she goes through mira's shoes.

"How about this" Trin pulls out a soft pink short dress that would look absolutely incredible on Samira. "Oh, I forgot I even had that" Samira says quietly. She doesn't really go out, she's only recently become proper friends with all of them and she never had a reason to go out before. The only reason she even bought the dress in the first place was cause she thought she deserved to have it after a hard case. She has been eyeing it for a while and that pushed her to finally buy it. "It would look really good on you mira" Mel says softly taking it from trinity and holding it up in front of Samira. Victoria squeals as she pulls out a pair of silver flats. "These would be perfect with that dress, please mira" She begs and who could resist Victoria's big brown eyes.

Samira takes the dress and the flats into the bathroom and changes. When she comes out of the bathroom to show them all three of the girls squeal. "You look absolutely perfect Mira!" Trinity hugs her squeezing her tightly. "Can we do your hair please" Victoria begs already leading Samira back into the bathroom. They have samira sit in a chair and quickly begin getting her ready. Trinity begins fixing up samira's curls making sure they frame her face softly making her glow. Then mel and vic work on her makeup giving her a soft pink makeup look to match her dress. For the first time in a long time when Samira looked in the mirror she was happy with what she saw. She's going on a date with someone she really cares about and her friends helped her.

A knock sounds at her apartment door and her heart starts to race. Jack is here and they're going on a date. She smiles to herself as she goes to open the door. Jack stands on the other side in a dark blue button down and nice slacks. He clearly took the time to do his hair and Samira felt giddy that he would do that for her. He holds out a bouquet of Lillies and Daisies. Her favorite flower she only remembers mentioning that to him offhandedly but he remembered. She takes the bouquet and sets it on the counter knowing the girls will take care of it when they come out from where they're hiding behind the wall.

She takes jacks arm when he offers it and the two head out on their way to the cafe. "You look so incredibly stunning Samira, I mean I swear I almost had a heart attack when you opened the door" He said it so sincerely she couldn't help but lean into him. "Thank you Jack you look nice as well" She squeezes his arm. "I don't look stunning?" He jokes and Samira laughs loudly. The first real laugh shes had in a long time. "No you do look stunning" Samira relents with a smile. They reach the cafe and are led to a table with another bouquet on it, the same one Jack brought her. "You prepared this?" Samira feels tears well up in her eyes.

"Is it bad, I can have them take it away I didn't mean to upset you" Jack freaks out at the tears in her eyes. "No! no, it's perfect, its just no one's ever put this type of effort into taking me somewhere" She says quietly trying not to be embarrassed. Jack feels his heart break at the look on her face, "That's awful Mira, I'm so sorry no one has treated you right." Samira ducks her head. "It's okay it's really not that big of a deal" It's unconvincing the way she says it, she can hear it in her own voice. "Can I try to?" Jack asks softly, it makes Samira raise her head to look at him.

Making sure not to be spotted and majorly confused you follow dennis up the stairs to the unused eighth floor. Once you were sure he wasn’t anywhere to be seen you followed down the hall. Light spilled into the hall from a room near the end of it. Not to mention the singing and dancing that could also be heard. Intrigued you head to the door, dennis is dancing with his back to you. He does a little spin and practically jumps out of his skin when he sees you. “Holy shit! W-what’re you doing up here” He shrieks.

“I-I saw you come up here um… did you- what’re you doing up here?” it’s confusing shouldn’t he be going home? “Well I stay here sometimes, after shifts” he says quietly, like a kid who’s afraid he’s gonna get in trouble. “Do you like have a place to stay? like actually?” you ask softly. He shrugs like he’s not sure what to say. It takes him a minute to get his bearings, “i’m kind of between places right now…” he says slowly. “Do you have a car?” he shifts on his feet before he shrugs “you’re kinda… between cars?” you add. He nods “yeah i am..”.

“Listen I have a spare room and it’s got its own bathroom…” you trail off hoping he understands what you’re trying to say. It doesn’t seem to hit him as he looks off “good for you” he says slightly sarcastically. “do you want the room or not dingus” you stare at him. “oh yo-you’re offering me the room? that’s nice but i can’t really afford rent” he looks like he’s about to freak out. “Are you good at cleaning and fixing things?” you stare at him. “well i know how to muck out a stall” you sigh and laugh. “come on dingus, let me walk you home” you help him pack his stuff up… not that it’s much.

You lead him back out of the hospital, helping him carry the small amount of things he has. It takes about ten minutes to get to your apartment, unlocking the building and heading up to your floor you sigh. “take your shoes off please” you say as you open the door, both of you sliding out of your shoes and jackets. You lead him down the hall to the room that’s his. You can see the relief enter his body as he walks into the room. He must not have had his own room for a while or ever.

“Take a shower or something wash the day off properly, i’ll be in the living room until you’re done and then i’ll take mine” You turn and leave his room letting him settle in. About a half an hour later he comes out of the shower. He looks properly washed and like he’s ready to rest properly. You smile at him unable to help it. “I’ll go take my shower now” You head to your bathroom and shower. You come out to say goodnight to dennis trying not to let how happy you are that he’s here show on your face. You both say goodnight and head to your rooms.

You’re only half asleep when you hear something down the hall. A whimper but the way it echoed through the house felt like a scream. You shoot up in bed immediately crossing the apartment to dennis’s room. You open the door not really thinking about it. “Dennis?” you cross the room to his bed. He’s soaked in sweat. You tug at his arm trying to wake him and it takes a few minutes but it works. “Are you okay? what’s going on?” You ask softly but you know what it is. A nightmare you can feel it hanging over him.