<div class="floatleft">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6b/67/85/6b6785c1e261f131337715404a2c3885.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Kristine Anderson<br/><strong>Sortment:</strong>School Nurse<br/><strong>Mood:</strong>sympathetic<br/><strong>Clothes:</strong>Just like the image, jeans, dark gray cotton tank top and sneakers.  Hair up in a messy bun<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Hayden Sky<strong><em>[Closed]</em></strong><br/><strong>Location:</strong>#8; Kris' apartment<br/><strong>Date and Time:</strong>October 4, 2016 7:18 PM<br/><hr/><br/>She knew he was actively trying not to talk about the reason he'd shown up on her doorstep so out of sorts.  It made the normally comfortable silence between them awkward, if only because she wanted to tell him how she really felt.  About Karen of course, because that's what this was all really about.  She firmly believed she only wanted so badly to make his pain disappear because he was one of her best friends.  That she only cared about him as a friend and brother.  Kris would laugh at anyone who suggested anything more about the way she felt for him.<br/><br/><strong>"Keep telling yourself that."</strong>She teased him with a crooked little grin.  She had to admit, it felt damn good to be sitting with him and in close enough proximity to give him a hard time face to face on the regular.  She'd missed it more than she ever wanted to admit.  Of course she had friends in Tennessee, a few lovers and people she cared about.  None of them were Hayden though.  None of them would dish it right back at her.  And really, given the gravity of her work she'd sort of shoved this part of personality in a box.<strong>"Gladly."</strong>She remarked on finding something else to watch.<br/><br/>She polished off her drink and poured out another as she flipped through the channels finally settling on one that played all the old sitcoms,<em>Bewitched</em>,<em>I Dream of Genie</em>,<em>Three's Company</em>, etc.  These were the kinds of shows she tended to have on when she had the television on at all.  Feel good shows.  She got enough drama at work previously.  Currently it appeared to be an episode of<em>Green Acres</em>which made her give a good chuckle when he mentioned the farm.<br/><br/><strong>"You know if you stand me up I'll still go see your mom and tell her you abandoned me, right?"</strong>She smiled and leaned back against the sofa getting comfortable once more, this time with her drink in hand as she'd eaten all the food in her container.<strong>"I haven't even been back to Kansas but once since we left for college."</strong>She sighed.  While it held wonderful memories, those memories were the very reason she'd not been back.  After Karen dropped Hayden she figured he'd marry and build his own house on another part of the family farm.  Raise a dozen kids and be happy forever in Lawrence.  Kris didn't know stability like that.  It felt foreign and like she never really fit there.  She'd moved so often with her family that she never truly let herself put down roots.  Heck, the boxes her stuff was in on the truck had so many things written on them and crossed out from move after move that she was pretty sure she'd have to get new ones next time just to be able to put a clear label on them.<br/><br/>Throughout college whenever she had a long break from school she either flew to be with her family wherever they were or in the case of Spring Break road tripped with her sorority sisters.  During her graduate studies she was working and so even when school was out, she had work.  She'd kept in touch with Mr. and Mrs. Sky only superficially with the occasional phone call and email for the first few years, as time passed and she grew further away from Hayden she'd also lost contact with him family.  She'd been at his father's funeral, but could only be there the day so her condolences had been made quickly and she stayed on the outer fringes of things.<br/><br/><strong>"Yeah, I think I would like to go with you."</strong>She finally said softly with a genuine, soft smile.<strong>"Back to the farm I mean."</strong>It would be nice to see his mom, fill her in on how she turned out and how she ended up working with Hayden.  God it was such a small world sometimes.<strong>"I wonder if they ever found that joke issue I stuck in the archives with all the ones from senior year?"</strong>