"Come on, Maxine! You know I hate this!" I said to the nurse as she put the breathing mask over my mouth.
"Doctors orders....you know how it goes," she said.
"Uagh mugh chucl rephfs..." I tried to say through the mask. I took it off. "You know how my school reacts, I take my inhaler and they freak and send me here!"
"Well, I was told to give you the medication as usual....now if you'll excuse me I have another patient," she said as she moved the curtain separating me and the other patient.
He was about my age with brown hair and eyes...very good looking in my book.
He looked up at me and smiled. I tried to smile back through the mask, then I looked away.
"Keep that mask on!" Maxine said to me once she was finished with him. "Talk to him he's cute!" she whispered.
"You told me to keep the mask on!" I yelled.
I turned to him and smiled. He smiled back.
"Hi, my name is Meri," I said extending my hand.
"I'm Dave, I would shake you hand, but...." he trailed off as he looked down at his swollen wrist.
"Oh, sorry," I said. "How'd it happen?"
"I was playing basketball with my brothers and well, they beat me."
"Whoa, talk about major fouling!" I said jokingly.
"No kidding! I don't know how I'm gonna play tonight."
"Really, what do you play?"
He looked at me confusedly. "Y-you mean you don't know?"
"Know what?"
He smiled. "This is so cool.....I'm in this singing group called The Moffatts."
I looked at him puzzledly.
"Well, I play keyboards and I have three other brothers that are in the band with me. I can't believe you haven't heard of us, we're known like worldwide!"
"I bet my friend Ashley has, she's more into the boyband thing than I am."
After a while of talking I gave him my phone number and then left.
"Whoa.....who was that?" Clint asked as I walked away.
"That, was Meri Miska," Dave said with a smile.
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"Ashley.....I have a question for you," I said to my best friend sitting in my leopard print chair in my room.
"Yeah, what is it?" she asked.
"Have you ever heard of The Moffatts?"
"Whoa...They are like the hottest band around!"
"Okay, I guess you have."
"Scott Moffatt is so hott!"
I laughed at her. "Well, I met Dave Moffatt today."
"They sing this song called Mis....WHAT?!?!?!”
"Whoa, chill dude.....I said I met Dave Moffatt today."
"I know I heard you! B-but how...I mean this is so un....Did you meet Scott!?!?"
"Dayum, girl, just chill! Remember that guy I told you about, that I met at the hospital?"
"Yeah."
"Well, that was him....and no, I didn't meet Scott."
"Meri!" Ashley said excitedly.
"What?"
"Dave Moffatt has your phone number!"
"So....he's just another guy!"
"Just another guy! He's Scott freaking Moffatt's younger brother!!!" she said breathing heavily.
"Whoa...Aje sit down, dude you're hyperventilating!"
"Calm...Calm...You're right, he's just another guy," she said to herself.
After a few moments of silence she jumped up and screamed. "We can listen to their CD!"
I looked at her and burst out laughing.
"What?" she asked with a shy look on her face.
"You!" I said laughing harder.
"What about me?"
"You're going psycho!" I said now rolling on the floor.
She started laughing too. "Shut up!" she said as she put the Moffatts CD in my CD player.