The pre-birthday lunch with Ele
Yesterday after work I went to the gym. I could feel my left shoulder starting to have that familiar pain, so I stayed away from the weights, and just did the bike and four sets of abs.
Late yesterday I sent an email to Ele asking her if she was ok from Saturday. She replied today saying she was and asked if I was free for lunch. I said yes and we tentatively agreed on around noon, just before I realised I was to have a conference with a cop sometime today (didn't know when exactly, I told the cop to drop in whenever).
Luckily the cop came at around 11am. She was...a lot more beautiful than I expected. Because the matter had progressed somewhat sloppily, I thought it'd be some old, tired cop sick of her job. But she was young and seemed to be full of enthusiasm.
As I walked her to the door, I walked into the damn blue bins they line up on the side of the wall. Damn, I must've looked like an idiot.
I probably wasn't prepared, or maybe she was indeed that beautiful, but I wasn't very good during the conference, looking like I hadn't gone through the brief. At one point we were looking at a CD on my computer, and she moved next to me. She bent forward to point to the monitor, and that's when I realised her gun was like 10cm from my face.
I don't know why, but there was something EXTREMELY sexy about that. Such danger...such proximity...such beauty.
I was kinda glad when the conference ended, cause I didn't want to miss the lunch with Ele.
We met at Home Thai, a restaurant on the street of her office. I nearly walked past it but she called out to me. She had already gotten a table. She said she called ahead but they wouldn't let her book as they needed four or more persons, so she got there and waited first. Wow.
She asked if today was my birthday, and I said it was tomorrow. We talked about property investments at first, and then we talked a bit about Friday night. We both agreed that Victoria was a bit of a control freak, lol.
Then she told me about how Evonne had lied to her about her grades, failing a course because she wanted to go clubbing instead. She also developed a habit of getting guys to pay for her meals, and asked me how she should 'fix' this problem. I told her my story of how when I was young I was a bit like her - I took her back to that dinner a while ago at Doma, where the girls had to guess the guys' high school scores, and how I turned out to have the lowest. I told her I didn't care much about school, until I felt like I was humiliated by guys from the better school.
She had a bit of a smirk on her face, but didn't say anything. I think usually people, especially girls, get a bit freaked out if I told them that, because then I seem like some sort of psycho ultra-competitive guy. But who knows what she was thinking.
I told her because of that, Evonne needed to be tested in life.
She caught me glancing at my watch (doh!) and we ate for a short while longer because I suggested leaving (it had been past an hour). We hugged once out on the street, and she said she wanted to have lunch tomorrow on my birthday. I didn't really want to, so I said I might have a conference on, but we did agree to organise to watch Transformers on Saturday.
I hurried back to the office. I always fear the worst when I go out for an hour lunch, so was surprised to come back to...nothingness. Nothing had exploded, no one was angry, and I felt a bit...ignored, lol.
I realised I had forgotten to thank her for lunch, so I sent her an email thanking her. To my surprise, what came back was an email of about four full paragraphs. It started by saying how I should just take it for granted, because we were such good friends. She went on about how good of a friend I was and thanked me for being her friend. It was actually a bit too much for me, and I felt that "shit, run away" feeling.
I skipped the gym tonight. I stayed back at work late then used the internet there to send out a group email about Saturday, and by then I figured it was probably a bit late. Hmmm...so it'll be my birthday tomorrow.
Late yesterday I sent an email to Ele asking her if she was ok from Saturday. She replied today saying she was and asked if I was free for lunch. I said yes and we tentatively agreed on around noon, just before I realised I was to have a conference with a cop sometime today (didn't know when exactly, I told the cop to drop in whenever).
Luckily the cop came at around 11am. She was...a lot more beautiful than I expected. Because the matter had progressed somewhat sloppily, I thought it'd be some old, tired cop sick of her job. But she was young and seemed to be full of enthusiasm.
As I walked her to the door, I walked into the damn blue bins they line up on the side of the wall. Damn, I must've looked like an idiot.
I probably wasn't prepared, or maybe she was indeed that beautiful, but I wasn't very good during the conference, looking like I hadn't gone through the brief. At one point we were looking at a CD on my computer, and she moved next to me. She bent forward to point to the monitor, and that's when I realised her gun was like 10cm from my face.
I don't know why, but there was something EXTREMELY sexy about that. Such danger...such proximity...such beauty.
I was kinda glad when the conference ended, cause I didn't want to miss the lunch with Ele.
We met at Home Thai, a restaurant on the street of her office. I nearly walked past it but she called out to me. She had already gotten a table. She said she called ahead but they wouldn't let her book as they needed four or more persons, so she got there and waited first. Wow.
She asked if today was my birthday, and I said it was tomorrow. We talked about property investments at first, and then we talked a bit about Friday night. We both agreed that Victoria was a bit of a control freak, lol.
Then she told me about how Evonne had lied to her about her grades, failing a course because she wanted to go clubbing instead. She also developed a habit of getting guys to pay for her meals, and asked me how she should 'fix' this problem. I told her my story of how when I was young I was a bit like her - I took her back to that dinner a while ago at Doma, where the girls had to guess the guys' high school scores, and how I turned out to have the lowest. I told her I didn't care much about school, until I felt like I was humiliated by guys from the better school.
She had a bit of a smirk on her face, but didn't say anything. I think usually people, especially girls, get a bit freaked out if I told them that, because then I seem like some sort of psycho ultra-competitive guy. But who knows what she was thinking.
I told her because of that, Evonne needed to be tested in life.
She caught me glancing at my watch (doh!) and we ate for a short while longer because I suggested leaving (it had been past an hour). We hugged once out on the street, and she said she wanted to have lunch tomorrow on my birthday. I didn't really want to, so I said I might have a conference on, but we did agree to organise to watch Transformers on Saturday.
I hurried back to the office. I always fear the worst when I go out for an hour lunch, so was surprised to come back to...nothingness. Nothing had exploded, no one was angry, and I felt a bit...ignored, lol.
I realised I had forgotten to thank her for lunch, so I sent her an email thanking her. To my surprise, what came back was an email of about four full paragraphs. It started by saying how I should just take it for granted, because we were such good friends. She went on about how good of a friend I was and thanked me for being her friend. It was actually a bit too much for me, and I felt that "shit, run away" feeling.
I skipped the gym tonight. I stayed back at work late then used the internet there to send out a group email about Saturday, and by then I figured it was probably a bit late. Hmmm...so it'll be my birthday tomorrow.
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