Opportunities like the community outreach that they were going to be talking about?
It was something he didn't want to miss out on. The best way to get a feel for the people was to go out and meet them.
Just as they crossed into the community space in the firehouse, Braun turned and gave Kaleo an apologetic smile. "Sorry about the tour I promised you."
Kaleo held up his hands to stop the lieutenant there. "No worries, Lieu. I can find my way around later. I'm pretty good at following the leader and my mom taught me to ask for directions."
Kennedy laughed at that. "A modern day man!"
Braun covered his mouth but he couldn't completely hide his smile. "This is going to be fun."
A few minutes later, Kaleo realized that the meeting was, in fact, fun.
LEXIE
Taking the NCLEX exam was a little like taking exams in high school. Either you thrived on the structure of it, or you didn't. The point was to get through it to the other side, hopefully with a license she'd been working toward.
Walking out of the room for her first break, Lexie took a moment to stand off to the side of the doorway and breathe in and out.
The attendees had been cautioned against speaking to anyone.
Any conversation, even with the most innocuous comments might be seen as something suspect, so as someone walked out of the room behind her headed down the hallway toward the bathrooms, Lexie didn't even turn her head in that direction.
The last thing she wanted to do was jeopardize her test score.
Stretching her arms up and over her head and then twisting and turning, she managed to summon up more energy and clear her head.
With that, she headed to the restroom.
They were allowed breaks on their own timing, but all of the time had to fit in the five hours that they were given from start to finish.
Lexie was fairly sure she wouldn't need all five hours to answer the questions, but she wanted to have as much time as possible to complete the questions. After all, once she moved from one question to the next on the computer, there was no going back.
It made sense, really.
After two years of meticulous studying and putting all of her efforts into her classes and degree, she was was finally taking that big step forward.
She couldn't wait to start working at the Emergency Room right here on the Cole Medical Campus.
Smiling to herself, she tossed her paper towel into the trash can and headed back to the exam room.
She had a test to conquer!
KALEO
Since it was his first day at the firestation, he did more listening than talking.
The ideas that Kennedy had for community outreach hit home with him and the other firefighters.
Not a single person had anything negative to say and there were a lot of good ideas that popped up.
Braun wrote them all down in a text chain that was connected to the firehouse.
Something that would be seen and typed up by Chief Campanelli's secretary.
There were a lot of people working at the station and Kaleo knew it was going to take a few shifts to get everyone and everything straight in his head, but he was going to have a great time doing it.
The meeting had to wrap up because the next shift was about to start.
