Alice was walking towards her office when she noticed something unusual. Everybody had this shit eating grin when they said morning to her. She felt weird, but just ignored it thinking that it was not about her. She opened the door to her office and was shocked when she saw a beautiful bouquet of roses sitting on her desk. Then her assistant came to her.

“Someone sent this to you early in the morning. I received it on your behalf.”

“Thanks. Can you please make me a cup of coffee?”

“Sure.” Her assistant gave her a mischievous grin. Alice furrowed her eyebrows, puzzled.

“Thanks.”  

Alice closed the door gently and made her way to her desk. She took the roses and fumbled around looking for card. She opened it immediately after she found it.

Hi Alice,

  Please say yes.

Dana Fairbanks

A smile crept up across her lips. She was out of her trance when she heard her phone went off.

“Hi Alice Pieszecki speaking.”

“Hi this is Tommy, morning.”

“Morning boss.”

“So what’s your answer? Have you figured it out yet?”

“Hmm yeah. I’m in.”

“Great to hear that. So I’ll get my secretary to confirm on the flight ticket and you have to depart to LA the day after tomorrow.”

“Yeah, aware of that. Thanks.”

“And remember the dateline for the article. We’ll have to get it out on our next issue.”

“Yes, boss.”

“Ok, good luck and have fun working with the tennis player. Hmm, do you like the roses she sent?”

Alice could hear her boss chuckled at the other end.

“So you all knew huh. No wonder everyone had this shit eating grin when I was on my way to my office just now. Prrrfff.”

“Don’t be angry Al, they just care about your well being.” Alice rolled her eyes when she heard her boss laughing at his own statement.

“Well thanks everyone for being sooooo caring.” Alice said sarcastically.

“Ok, ok Al I won’t tease you anymore. But really I think it’s great because it means that you can get more from her. I can’t wait for the article to print out. Our readers will be impressed.” Tommy said happily.

“I certainly hope so.”

“Great. Take good care of yourself while you are there. But I think it won’t be an issue since your pursuer will do that for you.”

“Tommy!”

“Ok, ok really need to go now. Got a meeting to attend. Bye Al.”

“Bye.”

Alice hung up and exhaled. She chuckled when she thought of her conversion between her and her boss. They had been friends since college and knew each other quite well. Damn he knew, she muttered and smiled broadly.