While he was looking at her, she looked up at him.
And suddenly they were just a few inches away from each other.
Her eyes.
Green eyes.
Definitely a color he'd never seen before.
Brown was the basic in Hawaii. There were too many ethnicities in the state to have many other colors.
Lexie's green eyes? He was going to be thinking about them.
A lot.
Maybe, he wondered, maybe it was the long day he'd had. Or maybe it was the jet lag.
But he had a feeling he'd still be this fixated on her eyes no matter how 'awake' he was.
They were just like her.
Unforgettable.
He hadn't planned to do it, but he lifted his arm that had settled behind her.
His hand brushed her back, and the sudden contact was like a jolt of energy that went through both of them.
Both of their eyes widened and started to apologize when she stammered, "H-house."
"W-what?"
She cleared her throat and lowered her chin for a moment.
He saw her tongue flick over her bottom lip before she opened her mouth and looked up at him.
"House. What house are you assigned to?"
Oh.
Yeah.
"Station House Twenty-nine."
"Oh!" She smiled at him and all of the awkwardness of the moment before bled away. "I know where that is. It's just a couple of blocks away from Cole Medical, the hospital I'm going to be working at after my last exam," she explained. "Well," she sighed, "if I pass my exam."
"When," he dropped his chin in a nod, "you pass it."
She tilted her head to the side. Her unspoken thought was likely wondering how he thought he knew.
"It doesn't take long to know that you're smart. You don't seem like the kind of person who'd fool around with something like this. I can tell that you want this. So I'd bet you've been studying. A lot. You're going to pass it."
Her smile brightened her face and made his heart swell in his chest. "Thanks. It's nice to know I have people who believe in me."
He nodded. "Yeah." He couldn't help but smile at her. "I believe in you."
There was a moment there.
A moment when he felt that he could probably lean in and kiss her and she'd kiss him back, but he didn't want to try it.
