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Edward
It feltgood working at my downtown office today. Things were feeling rather strange with Julia living at my house. She was still always a heavenly sight to behold. Nothing had changed in that department. I guess it was just her being there. After all, I was a happily single man who never had to answer to anyone for anything. A part of me wondered if I had acted too hastily in having her move in with me already. At least for now in the peace and quiet of my office I could enjoy a bit of solitude.
Or so I thought. The door to my office suddenly opened and Julia appeared with my Starbucks in hand.
“Here ya go Mr. Armani! Your usual venti latte just the way you like it; with an extra shot of espresso and a whisper of cinnamon!”
“Julia! What are you doing here?”
“When I got up, Nigel told me you’d already left for work. So I decided to come down too. I do still work for you don’t I?”
“Yes of course you do. But you really don’t have to come in everyday now that we live in the same house and you can do a lot of your work from the home office.”
“I figured that was true but I thought you’d get a kick out of me coming down and surprising you with your coffee. Were you surprised?”
“Yes very. Thanks for thinking of me Julia. That was very thoughtful of you.”
“Oooooh but you know what was the best part of all Edward? Driving that car into work! And parking it in the garage downstairs like the other business people do! It was incredible!”
“If you’re trying to passive-aggressively make me feel guilty about you having to take public transportation down here for so long, you have certainly succeeded. I do feel bad about that and I’m sorry. I’m really starting to see what a crappy boss I was to you.”
“Oh no Edward! I’m sorry! I wasn’t trying to make you feel bad. I just really love that car that’s all.”
“Well since you’re down here, do you mind answering a question for me?”
“Yes I am wearing panties, Edward you naughty boy you!”
“No Julia that wasn’t what I was gonna ask you at all.”
“You’re wanting a blowie?”
The sip of coffee I had just swallowed was suddenly propelled out of my nose!
“Julia for god’s sake my question isn’t even the least bit sexual!”
“It isn’t? Well that’s not normal… What do you want then?”
“Earlier when I was looking through my appointment book I noticed you wrote a shit load of stuff in it. Stuff that isn’t even related to my business in any way. Why did you do that?”
“Well I wrote in some things that I thought you might want to consider doing. And I think they are related to business. That is, if you consider your inheritance to be business. As your publicist it’s still my job to put forth the public image that will best serve you at all times. And right now that happens to be convincing the world that we are a real couple in love. That way when you propose to me and we marry, it will seem like a natural progression rather than something suspicious or strange that just came out of left field.”
“So that’s why you wrote in the names of various five-star restaurants in the ‘evening appointments’ section?”
“Exactly! And if you look at your schedule over here on this page, you’ll see two afternoon appointments that week with Madame Francesca?”
“Madame Francesca? Where? Who’s she?”
“She is our wedding planner and those are very important appointments. She is in high demand.”
“Wedding planner? What the fuck Julia? I haven’t even proposed to you yet. You can’t be talking to a wedding planner when our engagement has not been formally announced yet?”
“Oh don’t worry. I scheduled the appointments under a fake name. Nobody will be the wiser.”
“Fake name? What name did you use?”
“Brianna Doe.”
“Brianna Doe? No……..that doesn’t sound phony at all!”
