Cotton
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will take me? “
“In New York. Of course, there are no fields, but can we can go to the countryside, if you prefer. “
“No, no, that’s okay. What'll do there? “
“So you want to work?”
“Somehow I have to survive?”
“Yes, you’re right. We’ll talk about this tomorrow, ok? “
“Okay, see you Mrs. Susan.”
“Goodbye.”
So, ultimately a better solution to get rid of all evil! The next day, Susan came to me and we went away with her car. Along the way she explained that I will help her work. I really love her job and she said if I’m good enough I could have her place in the company one day.
We arrived in New York. For me a whole new life started! Susan and I walked around the houses in town, the houses in the suburbs and I was of course in her office, where every day was a lot of people. We lived alone somewhere near her office. She had a flat, fairly large but we can live peacefully in it. I really liked her work and if I had an advice for someone she let me give it. It wasn’t that difficult.
After two years, Susan was attacked by a strange disease, so I took the job for some time until she recovers. All her clients are asking why I'm alone every day, and every day I have to tell them the same thing that she is sick and I don’t know when she will get better and now I’m replacing her. But the truth was crueler. Susan was slowly dying. A month later she died and I was very sad, because another person who cared for me – died. I announced in newspaper her death and told where the funeral will take place. There were a lot of people. All people wore black of course. The funeral was really sad, but I survived somehow. Then I invited some people in our (actually now it’s my) apartment. All wanted to know what will happen with her company. I told them that I’d took it myself, in addition I’ll have help from her best friend Amy. Amy was still a trainee for social worker, but I think we will work together perfectly. I think they were all satisfied with the answer.
Week after the funeral, I went straight from the store and I bumped into a man. He was Matt. First, I didn’t know what to say, because we didn’t even say goodbye before my departure.
Then he just said, “Kate! How nice to see you! “
“Matt! What are you doing here? “
“I moved here half a year ago. You know I got very rich making cotton and now I have production here.”
“Really? And I've never seen you before. “
“Me either. Would you go to a cup of coffee with me sometimes?”
“Sure, you say when.”
“... Let 's say tomorrow at one o'clock.”
I looked in my itinerary.
“I'm sorry but I have a client at one o'clock, maybe at two o’clock?”
“Okay, two o'clock it is.”
The next day we go to lunch, not the coffee. It was that time of day and we were hungry. It was a good chat with him again. I learned that Jake was arrested, although the family still have maids In time we got really close. More than ever before. In other words we fell in love with each other. And I finally got the answer why two years ago he didn’t want to speak to me anymore. Obviously he liked me then but didn’t want to admit it. But let’s forget the past. The present is what counts. And it is rich, beautiful, calm and in love,…
In work Amy covered up for something.
“What do you know Amy? Something about clients?”
“No.”
“What then? Will you get married?” she had a boyfriend for a long time but he didn’t asked her for marriage yet.
“Not me, but you.” she slipped.
“What? How?”
“Well I said enough already. Yes, Matt is going to propose to you. I even helped picking up a ring.”
I was really happy but I still couldn’t believe it. But it happened. The same evening Matt and I had a dinner and there he asked me:” Kate will you marry me?” Of course I said yes. Finally life is good for me.
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