“Let’s go.”
Already in the car, I redid my lipstick, examined my face picky to check if everything is in order, corrected a snake on the chest and were satisfied.
“You’re entirely different, very beautiful today.”
A compliment from my beloved – what could be better!
I turned to him, looked with love, and caught him a reciprocal look of love. We almost crashed into another car. Arthur stopped abruptly. He got there in time otherwise we would not have avoided the accident. I touched his hand,
“I’m sorry I distracted you.”
“Don’t worry, nothing happened.”
After that, Arthur was no longer distracted and took us to the business center without incident. He quickly got out of the car, walked around it and gave me his hand, helping out. When we were entering the office company, my hand still was in his hand.
In the office, we were greeted by Irina. She could not refrain from exclaiming,
“Alexandra, you look beautiful today!”
“Irina, good day!” I replied.
“Good morning, Irina!” Arthur said.
We went to the office of Arthur. Bag, folder, put off my coat….
We again embraced, kissed him, and froze. It seemed to me that my heart is beating too hard, and now pops out of me, and the heart of Arthur I felt as mine as if it was beating in my chest. Native, close, dear man….
It was difficult for us to pull away from each other; our thoughts were not about work. When we finally did it, I noticed that Arthur’s eyes were sparkling, the light in his eyes was coming from inside. It was lovely!
“Your eyes shine,” Arthur said.
“It is with joy that you’re here,” I replied. Hence, my eyes, too, were sparkling with joy.
Coping with our emotions, we went to the mini kitchen to say Hello to everybody and to determine the work plan today. All drew attention to my red dress. I think else everyone noticed the sparkle in our eyes. We have become the center of attention involuntarily.
“Sasha, you are irresistible,” Armen Georgievich gave me a compliment.
“You are such a beautiful couple,” other staff said.
Maxim coughed, returning attention to the work issues, but he also looked at us with interest. Vasily and Yegor already went back in the office – as it turned out, not for long because sales managers reported about new clients. Armen Georgievich reported on the situation with supply on current orders. Accountant Galina Semyonovna told about the payments, which she did and about received money. Maxim said about set deadlines to have time to fulfill some orders. Today Vasily, Maxim, and Arthur had to drive up to the facility to donate performed work to the customer representative and sign the act of executed works because all equipment of the security system already was installed and connected. Maxim didn’t ask me about my job this morning, and I just listened to the other employees. The meeting was over; all dispersed to their jobs.
“Arthur, Vasily, let’s go now,” said Maxim.
They left on the object; I went to the office of Arthur, took the pictures from the folder, looked through them. Taking the blank sheets and a pencil, I began to develop a logo. First, I wrote a chain of words, not knowing where it came from in my head: “Security system, protection, control, thread, person, Absolute.”
I drew a man sitting at a desk – hands in front of him, and instead of legs words “control” and “protection.” Writing “Absolute” right vertically, I held a pencil “line-threads” between each letter “control” and his right hand, each letter “protection” and his left hand. Something wasn’t right. What if I write “control” and “protection” vertically on the sides, also drawing a “line-threads” between them and hands of the man, and “Absolute” will be at the bottom? I drew – this was even worse than the previous version. I decided to replace threads on rectangular buttons with labels “control” and “protection,” and index fingers of the right and the left hands began to “press” buttons.
After that, I also “removed” rectangular buttons with labels. Drawing one after the other options, every time, I removed something extra and, as a result, I left one right hand; her index finger pointed to the rectangle above it. I wrote “security system” in the rectangle, and in large letters “Absolute” below under the hand. I left the office to rest. The clock on the wall above the reception desk of Irina showed the beginning of the third; the lunch had already passed. Irina was talking with some guy. I walked past to the toilet and on the way back, asked her who it was.
“He is an employee of the company that provides services security in our office.”
“Services security?” I found it strange that we use the services of another company to protect its office.
“Yes, all the business center has signed a contract with it for the protection of offices after hours. That guy checked the alarm system – a scheduled inspection.”
“How often such inspections occur?”
“This is the first checks for the year that we are here.”
I went back to the office Arthur, looked at my sketches for the logo, tried to replace the rectangle on a schematic image of the house in the last version – it looked worse than it was. Then I took a blank sheet of paper and again drew a rectangle and under it the right hand of the man as if it points to this rectangle. I wrote in large print “Absolute” in the rectangle and added in two lines a smaller font “security system” under the hand.
When the drawing was ready, I put it aside. Thoughts flowed randomly: how many time our men will be meeting outside the city? I miss Arthur. I’m hungry; some candy would now….
I took my bag, searched it and found a peppermint candy – as well, I am thrifty. I unwrapped the bonbon and put it in my mouth with pleasure. Probably, soon the men will come back. Meanwhile, I decided to finish my outline for employees; it was quite a bit of work.
I came to Irina with ready-made sketches and showed it to her first.
“You’ve got a talent, Alexandra. I would want to draw so too. Oh, I took a figure with me home; it’s still there.”
“He’s already yours; I gave it to you. Your loved ones liked it?”
“Yes, they said it’s very similar. Thank you.”
“You are welcome. I’ll go to give the rest of the drawings.”
I went through rooms of the office, giving my drawings colleagues. For Yegor, was a surprise that I painted him and Vasily when they were in the manor outside of the city. Everyone from the office wanted to see his image and the images of his colleagues. The people began to go to rooms to visit each other, the sound of laughter was here and there. My thoughts were far away. Something strange happened to me. Although it was my pictures, I almost didn’t listen to what they said guys, and waited, when Arthur with Maxim and Vasily will return.
I had heard Irina welcomed returning from the object men, and came toward them.
“We passed the object,” Maxim said. “We can celebrate this event the entire firm for the weekend. Irina, you must know how the guys with days off, and decide where we will celebrate. The answers should be ready tomorrow evening.”
“Well, I’ll do, Maxim Vitalyevich,” Irina replied.
I walked up to Arthur and took him by the hand, and together we walked into his office. Barely staying alone, we again embraced and kissed.
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