I decide to leave work early and call a leave of absence. Then arrange to meet Odd Todd for lunch tomorrow and spend all the rest of my day thinking about this. This is crazy. He used to be Odd Todd. What if he turns odd again? How will this all pan out? Does he feel that way about me? How to keep this a secret cause Otto would be exacerbated if he found out. But I can't deny my feelings for him any longer.
When Todd received the invite he couldn't think of why it was so sudden, so urgent, and why Olive wanted to see him so soon. He wasn't odd anymore, so it couldn't be to team up and he doubted she wanted to work in his garden, however he accepted.
Otto on the other hand remained at work. Well his body was there, but his mind and heart weren't. His heart still in pain, wanting and longing to be with Olive again. And his mind couldn't figure out why Olive wanted this separation. They weren't without their small fights and occasional squabbles, but it had never been like this. I mean they had been going strong for three years, I mean three years! It was both their first relationship and at there age that was RARE. He just didn't understand why she'd walk away from that. He thought to himself. "Olive has been frustrated the last few months, but I didn't think much of it. Maybe I don't take things serious enough. He may not have known what was going on with Olive, but he did know that he was glad there wasn't much odd cases today. He wouldn't have been able to focus on them if there were. At the end of the day he stopped by Debbie's Pizzeria and ordered three large. He'd already like to eat and with the present situation he would get by without it. He makes small chit chat with Debbie and tell her what's going on. She just tells him. "I know you feel like your life is over, I've been there, but I promise it will get better and you will find the the one." Otto in his state of mind, only takes this with a grain of salt. He leaves the restaurant. Then Debbie's phone lights up. "I've made reservations for us at special place tonight, babe- Delivery Doug
It is soon the next day and Olive goes to meet Todd for lunch. Before she arrives she has all kinds of thoughts in her head. This is crazy. I can't believe I'm doing this. How happy I'll be If Todd and I become something, some kind of friends, more than friends. What I realize my heart has been yearning for. For years. I turn the corner and Todd is already there looking handsome and dapper as ever. In a black sports coat over a white shirt and black pants that similarly match my black dress, and his hair is perfectly parted and styled. "Greetings." Todd says, snapping Olive out of her mesmerization. "Come join me Olive." It was the way he was, so confident and debonair that made my heart soar. When we finally reach the table he has picked out for us he pulls out my chair. "Olive dear, what is it that you wanted to see me about?" I don't know how to tell him so I just start at the beginning and our conversation goes a little like this. "Remember four years ago when you and I first joined the academy and you aced it and I eventually got there.
Then we became partners, then we became friends, then I...I staaarrtted to feel something for you more than friends." Todd looks up at me and says. "Say no more Olive, I've always liked you a little bit from our first days at the academy." Then he picks up my hand. Remembering that he used to be Odd Todd, I worry he might drop it, but he doesn't, he leads me away with it!
