WHO: Maureen Tucknott and Kaitlyn Bell
WHAT: A random run-in between the two characters
WHEN: Monday, September 8th in the afternoon after classes at NYHS end
WHERE: At a New York hospital, the lobby and then down some random hallways
RATING: TBD

Had it been a month yet? A month since Maureen had started her freshman year at New York High School? Well, it almost seemed like time had just flown and it was the middle of September. But who knew how long that feeling was going to last for? According to many of the older students she had just met, things slowed down immensely when midterms were around the corner. Frankly, Maureen didn't care either way. It was high school, her first year here, new people in almost every single one of her classes. She rather would have time go a little slower so she had the chance of meeting new people and forming new friendships.

At the same time, if time went by fast, she wouldn't mind speeding through her schoolwork, exams and homework. And maybe spare herself from ever having to go to a football game and see people she just met turn into monsters and injuring the rest of the students. She hadn't been there herself but she knew plenty who had been and had told her most of what they could remember.

Was high school supposed to be this scary? It didn't seem so when her mother was talking about it. Yet, she was hearing things that normally came right out of a really crappy teenage horror flick. That would one side of her that was thankful that didn't go. And yet there was one other side that went "damn, you should have gone to help". Help what? Help those people? What was a mere fifteen-year-old like her going to do? She could barely open the jam containers when they were brand new. But it was just a strange feeling that she should have done something.

Well, weird feelings aside, Maureen was just glad she had gotten through the day without having to experience that incident, hands on herself. When the bell marking the end of her last class rang, she put away her books and headed out. It was pretty warm today but at least it hadn't been pouring cats and dogs like it had been on Saturday. She didn't mind rain that much. It was fun to walk in if you were wearing the right amount of clothes. The idea of walking in it when you're carrying a not-so-waterproof bag to hold your books, however, was unappealing.

The first stop after school was not home, but, as she had told her father that morning, the hospital. All summer, she had been hoping she could start a volunteering job there, maybe something to occupy her for a couple of days a week. She wanted the experience. It was going to look really good on her school record, especially when she decided to go to graduate school. Medicine was interesting, but there were so many health-related fields, she hadn't been able to stick to only one just yet. That's where volunteering was going to come in handy. A bit of experience at everything and maybe she'd learn what she wanted to do.

Getting her way around and to the hospital wasn't much of a problem. The bigger problem was finding this volunteer office. The security guard there, having been engrossed in a conversation with a pretty young female nurse, had pointed vaguely down one hallway. Glowering slightly, she walked down the hallway, looking back and forth at the doors. Just her luck.. she had to get brushed away like that because the dude was far too busy flirting to help him out. There was another hallway that Maureen started to head down, but, nope, no volunteer office that way. She turned back and walked into another corridor. After minutes of walking, she stopped and looked around. Had she just walked in a circle?

She crossed her arms with a frustrated growl and practically glared at the doors within her view. This wasn't supposed to take long. By now, she could have been home having some pound cake and a glass of milk and just relaxing in the couch before starting on her homework. Why had she bothered coming here at all?