Blue Dress

While not wanting to, I looked at my watch and realised that I had to be back at the office for a meeting in ten minutes.

I gave Stephany a long, lingering kiss and headed off. I looked back and saw the two of them back deeply engaged in conversation. I felt a twinge of jealousy as I felt that Stephany had been quite distracted and we hadn’t really had a good end to our rare lunch together.

Back at work the afternoon wore its way through the time as I dealt with a client who was anxious about getting approval from FDA for their first-in-man clinical study. E mails had stacked up and Stephany and Blue Dress were not in my mind. At 5:30, my phone chimed the arrival of a text message, just as I was getting ready to head for home. It was from Stephany, she invited me to come over to her apartment. I almost called her to find out what was up, but just decided that I would stop off on the way home and texted her back to say that I would be there soon. While it was unusual for Stephany to ask me come over unplanned, and I wouldn’t have usually been able to agree to do so, I felt compelled by some strange force to agree to see her. But, I assumed it would be a quick visit.