When we chose what to take, an unknown man began to pester me. He behaved casually, tried to clasp my shoulders, it was to me very unpleasant. I had felt a smell of alcohol – the drunken man, how he could be here. It all happened suddenly. Arthur quickly removed hands of the man from me and took him to the side. He said something the man, and it was gone. Arthur came back to me.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. Where did he come here?”
“He left and never dare again to approach you,” Arthur took my hand and looked me in the eye.
We embraced and stood like that. I felt the heat of Arthur; it was just okay.
“Let’s eat; lunch ends,” said Arthur.
“Let’s otherwise we’ll stay hungry.”
We took pancakes with different fillings quickly ate and went back to the office. Armen Georgievich was sitting instead of Irina behind the reception office. Probably, Irina left to lunch.
Arthur and I went to the office of Maxim; Arthur opened the door.
“Maxim, we came.”
“Come in, I’m waiting for you,” said Maxim.
He pointed us sit down. I remembered that I left the printing sheets with an advertisement the office of Arthur.
“I forgot something, come now,” I apologized and walked out.
Taking in the office of Arthur sheets with the advertisement, I’m back.
“What did you forget?” asked Arthur.
“Sheets with the advertisement, we need to start with something,” I laid the papers on the desk.
“Maybe you’re right,” Arthur took the sheets, looked and handed it to Maxim.
Maxim did the same thing.
“I will not now ask your ideas, Alexandra. I will tell our thoughts,” Maxim said.
“The first thought is we gave the company the name Absolute. This name does not indicate the security system. The Absolute can be anywhere. There is even vodka Absolute. However, the absolute is our name. It came as if by itself, and we didn’t even have other options. Do you remember, Arthur?”
“Of course, I do, Max.”
The second moment: What can be the advertising company dealing with security systems? It can be a picture of a house with a slit, to show the location of sensors, and their functions; the other option – the image components of the security system in a circle; or an option that we see a man with a remote control, maybe something else. I am not going to list them all. Companies mostly use similar images for advertising, and they are not individual. Third thought: what could be the company logo? Many companies use their name as the logo, applying one of the standard fonts for writing name. But in this case, the firm does not have its own image, and she is one of many that are difficult to remember. By the moment we don’t have its image. Arthur and I chose for the main page of our company website the picture of the house with a cut, and our logo now is just our name in a particular font. Now you say, Arthur,” Maxim gave the floor to Arthur.
“Well,” said Arthur. “About the fact that we already have, Maxim said. I’ll tell you what we want now. We are not going to change the picture on the main page of the site for a while. The first thing to do is to develop another logo. We saw once, for example, the logo in which was depicted a tiger and company name on the right vertically. This logo is already something individual, memorable. We would not want really like an animal, but we need something that will unite the security system and the name of the company Absolute in one memorable image.”
I had thought for some reason about the man and threads, even imagined them for a brief moment.
“If it is not an animal, is that man?” I asked.
“That might be so. But we don’t want to limit you,” replied Arthur.
“Alexandra, we understand that this is a difficult job. We don’t know what it should be: people, house, alarm system. Maybe it’s so because we didn’t see these images. I suggest you think about and draw what will come to mind,” said Maxim.
“Well, I’ll try.”
I realized that the conversation was over, and stood up. The condition was odd; I wanted to leave and be alone. Arthur stood up too; I went to the exit; he followed me.
We went back to his office; he tried to hug me and say words of support,
“You can do it. You can see the main thing.”
“I’ll try, Arthur,” I looked at him, smiled and kissed him on the cheek. “Can I use your laptop? I want to see something.”
“Yes, of course. Then I’ll be back to Max; we need to continue working.”
“Okay.”
Arthur came out; I sat at the table and turned on the laptop. I was ashamed to admit it, but I didn’t quite understand what means the logo. Searching the Internet, I found that it is “the sign, emblem or symbol used by the enterprise… to increase awareness in society”, etc.
I also decided to see what mean the security system, the security, and the protection, but it gave me nothing. Then I began to look at the different logos what I found on the Internet. I wanted to see many different logos. Tired of viewing, I started to look the advertisement of security systems. Watching ad nauseam, I went to the mini kitchen to make some coffee. After a few minutes, I returned with a cup of coffee and a sheet on which were the mobile phones numbers of all employees. Irina gave me this sheet.
I took a blank sheet of paper and tried to paint a human and house. The security system would be too big for a logo, so I didn’t draw it. I put aside what drew, “was meditating” for a while over a cup of coffee, drank it. Then I took my sketches with the staff in the office; I had to finish them. Arthur came into the room and saw me doing it.
“How are you doing?” he asked and leaned over to me, hugging me by the shoulders.
“I don’t know yet.”
“The working day is over; I can take you home. And again I will need to return: there are unresolved questions”.
“I understood. If you still have to work, I go home by myself, walk at the same time. And then you, maybe, will be released sooner,” I suggested.
“Today I will take you home. You will go on a walk the other day and with me, okay?”
I remembered today a drunken man accosted me during lunch. Probably, an insistent offer Arthur had a relationship with it. There was something odd in the behavior of this man then, but what I could not realize.
“Well, let it be so, only you don’t stay out here too long.”
“I’ll try.”
I gathered my pictures, deciding to take it; Arthur turned off the laptop and found another folder for my drawings. I returned a coffee cup in the kitchenette.
We went down; Arthur took me home. He came on with me from the car and came to the entrance of my house. At the door, he kissed me hard on the lips. I was okay with it and didn’t want him to leave.
“Bye for now. I’ll call,” he said, releasing me from the embrace.
“It’s a pity you can’t stay.”
Standing on tiptoe, I kissed him on the cheek and then went up to my apartment.
Opening the door, I entered, thinking about Arthur. Again, swing: only that he was here, and now I’m alone. Sweet, aching feeling of love – I wanted or to be with loved ones, or tell someone about my feelings, or at least watch a movie about love.
I took