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in reception, she heard his voice behind her once again.
    “Going somewhere?”
    Cathy turned back and looked at him embarrassed. No good explanations came to her mind. He chased her to the reception area. He was standing there with the drinks in his hands. In the midst of uncomfortable silence, Cathy wished she could disappear like a smoke.
    “Let me escort you ,” said David, before Cathy could even think of opening her mouth. He put the drinks on the windowsill nearby, took his coat and they both went out.
    As if to some unspoken agreement, they took a walk. David started some small talk, being all so charming and attentive. Cathy kept on staring at him, minimally participating in the conversation. She still found hard to believe that she see him again. That naughty and cute boy, her first love she was high over heel for, was such a manly and matured grown up now. 
    Suddenly, it stroked her – he does not know who she was. He does not recognise her. He talked to her as if they have just met. That made things much easier for her. All the tension was suddenly gone. Cathy was happy to be just a random woman hooked at the party.
    She asked him if he would be much around after the merger of the companies they both worked in and got to know, that her department will get one more manager to take care of marketing. That will probably be the new Unlucky John’s position, as they all see it as the step back. Nobody from David’s office wanted to leave J.I.L. for some small company. 
    They kept on talking for hours, while walking in the nocturnal streets of city. The conversation flowed easily, changing from travelling to career plans, from movies to music, from anecdotes to the stories of their social lives. They had lots of fun and laugh, talking for hours, until met the sun rising in the tranquillity of morning city streets.
     
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    For three days, the memories of that night were so vivid for Cathy. She thought it is not possible see David ever again and was happy she could get to know how he was doing now and had an opportunity to talk to him.
    Just as the memories were fading away and she got her inner balance back, David reminded about himself. He sent her an enormously huge bouquet of flowers to her office. It raised the curiosity of all her female c o-workers, as nobody saw Cathy with anyone lately. By the lunchtime Cathy was tired of explaining to everyone, that she is not dating and the bouquet is from a friend, just a friend. Surprisingly, everybody found it difficult to believe and the gossiping increased until unthinkable.  
    The call came at the end of the day and David invited her to have a lunch tomorrow. He was not going to take “no” for an answer and she had no intention to refuse. Once again, she had an opportunity to make herself perfect and shine - in professional style this time.
    They met at the overcrowded corner cafe, involved themselves into interesting chat from the very first minute and David was not even trying to hide his increasing infatuation for her. 
    When David incidentally touched her shoulder, the pleasant shiver ran through her spine up and down and a bunch of butterflies whirled inside. It was almost as the first time when he touched her ten years ago, the entire world was waiting to be explored and lads were funny and mysterious creatures in it.
    She remembered a date, when they went to the movie and she expected the first romantic ki ss in the dark cinema hall. Movies were one of the semi-private places they could afford those days. However, it was “Star Wars” movie on and David was too much into it to notice her desire. While sitting there deeply disappointed, Cathy insensibly got into the movie as well. Later, they have left the cinema emotionally sharing the favourite parts and singing the soundtrack aloud and out of tune. They even replayed a part of it, running and