Chapter 10

At last he was able to dodge some bullets from his sister and get out of the house. He couldn’t deal with it anymore. He had to get out of there. Even though her lecture lasted only an hour and a half it felt like a whole day. It would have been better if she had been upset with him for showing up so late, to top it all his brother-in-law joined her today. He couldn’t believe the day he was having. He knew where his friends would be at this time of the day; he was on his way. He knew very well his sister had his best interest at heart; but setting up with a girl giving her number, that he had not anticipated. He loved his sister but he was upset, decided not to visit her for a few days or until she promised not to do any crazier thing like this. He knew the girl must have been pretty, he hardly had a chance to look at anyone in the party, and he had been wrapped up with the shenanigans of his three year old niece whom he adored. His sister had no idea what had happened four years ago and how hard it had been for him to get back on.

He was reading a book and having a cup of coffee in a small coffee place near Oxford. She asked if the seat opposite to him was taken with a French accent, since the coffee house was unusually crowded that day. She was pretty, about five-six, long legs, blond hair, and was wearing a beautiful spaghetti strip top and a black leather miniskirt, occasionally reveling a little waist. He guessed her to be twenty three, upset and ambitious. He nodded indicating that she can have the seat. Her eyes were bubbly and kind of felt she was in some kind of distress. She was staring out the window and hardly had a sip of her latté. He had buried himself into his book, but couldn’t help notice that something was bothering her. He looked at her and asked her if she was feeling okay. She didn’t hear him. He repeated his question the second time and she sort of nodded her head. He went back to his book and didn’t really notice when she had left.

Couple of months later he had accidentally run into her at the same coffee shop, and she recognized him instantly and they had talked about their career and politics among other things for hours and had exchanged each others phone numbers when they had left. They were starting to spend time with each other and like each other. As he had expected she was modeling for a small agency and wanted to be among the top models in the world. He saw that she was talented and had the ambition and was willing to work hard. One day she invited him to watch one of her photo shoots and they had planned to go out for dinner. Due to technical reasons at her photo shoot they got delayed unexpectedly and had settled for Chinese take-out and drove back to his house since it was the closer of the two.