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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:09 am
“Sure it's okay” even to Arian's eye there was easily more cupcakes in box than one person could eat – okay so he had maybe gone a bit overboard on quantities. “Feel free to take more than one if you want.”
He considered the fellow Meadowview student's offer as he waited for her to make a decision on the cupcakes. “I'd live to” he added. “Come over sometime that is.” Maybe Gigi had been serious about the offer, Arian could maybe bake something as a hospitality gift, maybe a small cake. “If you like maybe you can come to our place for tea sometime once my cousin's better.” A slight hesitation. “If you don't mind small that is.” Saffy's apartment was a bit of a shoe-box of a place space wise.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:05 pm
"This is so generous of you!" Gigi said, beaming at him and reaching carefully into the box again. "I'll just--"
She broke off, tiny cupcake in hand. Her father had emerged from one of the long corridors off the waiting area, a white-coated doctor walking with him. She'd intended to take just one more cupcake, because they really were so cute and irresistable, but her dad's expression was grim, his brow furrowed beneath dark curly hair. He stopped with the doctor just inside the mouth of the corridor, nodding along to medical mumbo-jumbo. Don't let it be serious, she thought. Just some tests, maybe surgery. A small surgery. It had to be okay this time.
Gigi realised she was holding her breath, and let it out with a quick huff, refocusing on the dark-haired boy before her, and setting a second tiny cupcake onto the palm of her hand. She smiled her daffodil smile at Arian again, because it was going to be okay, for his cousin and for her aunt. There was nothing to worry about.
"I'll just take one for my dad, too, if you don't mind. Yes! You can visit me, and I'd love to come and visit you! It'll be fun! I hope your cousin gets better really soon."
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:48 pm
Something seemed to have distracted Gigi as she suddenly broke off mid-sentence, however she was smiling at him again before Arian could ask if there was anything wrong.
At her query about taking a cupcake for her Dad, Arian nodded automatically. He didn’t see any point in adding anything else about the subject since he’d already said earlier she could help herself., although at her mention of his cousin he nodded again. “Thank you. I hope your Aunt gets better soon too.”
A dark-haired man with wavy hair seemed to be trying to catch Gigi’s attention – perhaps a relative – so he finished simply with “Maybe we can arrange something while at school about visiting each other’s houses. Thank you again for the flowers”
He was closing the box with the cupcakes back up when he heard his own name being called. Looked like he was finally going to be allowed up to the ward. Arian made a note to himself to ask the nurse on the ward if he could have a vase for the flowers – they were bright and cheerful and he was sure that they would brighten the space up for his cousin.
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