Tobias Cohen Uta of the Uta clan's Journal

Making his way back into her heart
Who: Tobias and Beth
Where: Outside her house
When: A day after she is released
What: Tobias wants to visit her but isnt' certain she'll see him

He stood in the shadow of the trees, looking at the picture perfect cut out of the home and house she lived in. He'd been here often in the last day or so, since she had been released from the hospital. It had seemed so promising, all of it; not that her being the hospital had been a good thing. But it had given him a chance to be close to her, at least for a little while. Of course, with less medicine in her, and her parents there, it had grown awkward; the warmness and closeness between them had grown slightly strained, and Tobias had felt it acutely and had gracefully excused himself, confused and mournful. Now, he wasn't sure if had been just the drugs talking in her, and he waited, hoping, for her to ask for him again.

But she hadn't; at least, he didn't think she had. It had been a parade of people visiting her, praying for her and with her, from her friends to her family and a litany of others. Tobias had felt awkward in the room, sharing her with these people but knowing that they were a huge part of her life. So, he had waited outside. And still she had not made any request; she had barely met his eye when he had poked his head inside. But he wouldn't leave; just being that close to her made him feel....special, and something more....like she needed him.

When it was clear she was not ready to talk to him, Tobias had finally been forced back to work and away from her. He took up a post, when he was off, outside of the clinic and when she had moved home, he took up a post there, outside of her house. He was waiting, waiting to approach her alone and when she felt better, to be brave and officially ask her out.

It was the afternoon, and he felt a difference in her, a healthy ease at being in her own house. With a deep breath, he stepped out to stand out in the open, on the other side of the road, across from her house, across from her window. He wanted her to see him. When she did, he would walk those steps and knock on the door and call on her.