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Sarah only had one thought entering that hospital: security here sucked. It took her weeks to get that fake ID and she didn’t even get a chance to use it. Nope. Just walked right on in, no questions asked. The lady at the desk didn’t even ask for her name. Honestly, it was quite underwhelming. She had this whole thing planned to a T, she even memorized all of the information on the ID and created a tragic backstory for her new persona. Her mother had just passed away, it was all terribly tragic. Her only saving grace would be getting some useful information out of this place and getting out without getting caught. But that wasn’t too much of a worry. She got in just fine. Getting out should be a piece of cake.
But there was one slight problem; She had no idea where she was. You see, while she spent so much time judging their lack of questions, she didn’t actually ask any questions herself. Just took a right here, a left there, and now she was hopelessly and utterly lost. It also didn’t help that all the doors and halls looked the same. She thought about grabbing a lab coat and just following someone, but she already had the perfect subject in mind: Stephanie. Now she just had to find her. She spent the next few minutes hiding behind various trash cans and scattered hospital beds in an attempt to find her muse. It’s not like anyone would notice, even if she was slightly humming the mission impossible theme as she went. At least that’s what she thought. There were a few people walking around who noticed her, but didn’t care enough to do anything. They just silently judged her and carried on with their busy day.
And then she saw her, blue scrubs and everything. She was kind of hoping for a cool coat though, but it was fine. Stephanie turned the corner, reading something on a clipboard and tapping a pen against the top. This was perfect! Studying her right in her natural habitat! Sarah quickly pulled out her phone and typed down a very important note: Clipboard. Yeah, that was pretty much all she got. But that was probably more than Addy Miller-Lee had and at that point, that’s all she cared about. Stupid Addy.
Addy had always been her rival at Ravenwing Studios ever since Sarah took the lead on Red Sails and left Addy to lead on Mansion’s Heartbreak. No one liked Mansion’s Heartbreak. No one. But this was her chance! All she had to do was- wait. Where was Stephanie? Sarah was so lost in her own inner monologue about Addy that she lost track of her only info source. Sarah hoped Stephanie had just entered the nearest hospital room. She decided to try and follow, opening the first door she saw. Unfortunately, there was no Stephanie in the room. Fortunately, there was a Frances, and that was always a good source of drama.
There was another person in the room that Sarah had never seen before. But it seemed like he and Frances were pretty close. She stepped towards him and then they were pretty close physically as well. Like, really close. Frances had a hand on his arm and leaned in to whisper something just loud enough for Sarah to hear. Sarah quickly pulled out her phone to type up some more notes.
* insert dialogue here*
Sarah decided that she probably couldn’t include that kind of language in her PG-13 story anyways and simply wrote down, ‘flirting in dark room with the beds.’ She looked over to one of the beds and made eye contact with someone lying on the top bunk, most of their face covered with the blanket. She looked back down to Frances and the other man and decided that was her cue to leave. She was feeling rather proud of the information that she gathered and decided that it was time to go. She walked down the white halls but felt someone grab her shoulder and pull her back.
“Hey, why is there a patient walking around without supervision?” A nurse questioned, her hand still gripping Sarah’s shoulder. Sarah quickly pulled out her fake ID.
Then she realized it wasn’t actually her ID.
Instead, it was a coupon for a free egg roll from her favorite Chinese restaurant.
It was also expired.