.... .... A Chance Meeting - Part IV
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The Following Morning

Susie moaned tiredly as she stirred in her bed, awakened by the sounds of knocks at the door. She looked at the clock next to her bed, seeing it was only a quarter to nine in the morning. "Oh god." She moaned, still hearing the knocking at the door she forced herself out of bed, with a blanket wrapped around her nude form.

As he walked out of her room, she grumbled angrily at the knocking "Yeah, Yeah…keep it up, see ho long you last when I open that fucking door." She said to herself.

She reached the door and opened it slowly "What?" she asked, not knowing ahead of time before she spoke that it was Aaryn. Her friend smiled as she burst into the room, hugging her tightly "Oh thank god! Your alright!" she said, moving out of the hug, looking at her friends mixed expression of both confusion and frustration.

"Aaryn…it’s not even nine yet, I was up late. And what the hell are you talking about?" Susie asked, closing the door when she saw two guys walk past her open door, looking at her intensely when they saw her standing around in only a blanket.

"I’m sorry to wake you. After we got separated at the club, I went around trying to find you." Aaryn said, taking off her coat and following Susie around the room.

"So…you finally look here the next morning?" Susie asked sarcastically as Aaryn followed her to the bedroom, Susie closed the door, leaving a crack open as Aaryn stood at the door while she got dressed. "Well, I thought you and that other guy might have gone someplace else for the night.

Susie pulled on a pair of pants and shook her head with a tired smile "Uh, yeah, we did. We came back here." She said with more sarcasm. Aaryn burst through the door as Susie pulled on a shirt "How was I supposed to…" she began, but paused as she looked down to the bed, seeing that it was messy and had the look that she wasn’t alone during the night.

"Oh." She said with an odd tone. Susie looked at her and then to the bed, she hadn’t noticed that Gabriel was gone until now. Looking back at Aaryn who had this odd look, as if she knew everything without hearing a word from Susies point of view. Susie smiled as she shrugged shyly in front of Aaryn "Not a word." She said, pointing at her friend.

After Aaryn had left for a few things to put in Susies fridge (which she said had nothing good to eat), Susie roamed her small home. Seeing her school books and notes still on the desk, she sat down with a mug of coffee and noticed that they weren’t in the same place she had left them. Putting down her coffee she opened her notebook to the page where she was working on last night.

She smiled as she saw the work had been completed. She looked at the answer to the question that was assigned to her. It was a philosophy question that she was struggling with before. ‘Define what it is to be human.’ She read in her textbook.

She looked to the notebook to see the answer written down neatly in a writing style that wasn’t hers ‘Frailty. When we feel lost. When we feel terrible from the onslaught of sadness or grief. When we can feel our heart breaking. Even through all of this…even when we may not realize it, we are more human in these precious moments. It is an unusual gift that we have yet to realize that our limitations are what can define our being.’

Susie sat back in her seat, thinking about what she had read/ She noticed that a paper was sticking past the edge of the notebook, she reached for it and pulled it out. She smiled with pleasure as she saw a sketch of her sleeping. Her face against a pillow with a light smile across her lips peacefully.

She read on the back of the page ‘Sorry to leave without saying goodbye. I hope we meet again someday, live happily. ~Gabriel’

Susie placed the page down on her notebook and looked out the window to see a beautiful, sunny day outside. She closed her books, seeing as how she had nothing concerning school until Monday, she decided to wait until Aaryn returned and find something fun to do.

Later on Susie and Aaryn left the building on the campus, unknown to them was that a figure watched them from the dark, shadowed space between that and another building. The mans eyes watched Susies as a smile came over his face before he stepped deeper into the alley, and away from the day.

The End (for now perhaps.)