Chapter 2
David could not regrettably go back and erase what he had said quite as he could not undo that he had hurt her. He had badly judged her in the time, but today things were very different.
Lisa Plenske was a formidable woman and she did not try to shape him as Mariella made him. No, Lisa accepted him like he was, she thought even like him. Lisa supported him whatever that was going on even without asking questions.
Furthermore, by thinking about it, every time something went wrong, it was to her, Lisa Plenske, that he turned to and not towards Mariella. The number of times when he had not fallen asleep at his assistant's. He really only trusted her. "Lisa I don't play at all. I kissed you because I wanted to and I want to do it again. What I said to Max this day, in the bathroom, was stupid and I did not know you then, I did not even try to know you, but today things are very different, believe me…"
Lisa had closed her eyes trying to hold so new tears which threatened to roll along the cheeks. She then fixed the carpet. "Lisa, look at me," he asked her by sliding his index under her chin to raise her slowly the head so that she looks at him in the eyes. How many times Lisa Plenske had not dreamed that her boss kisses her. And now that he had finally done it, she didn't manage to appreciate completely this moment because for a reason or another, she didn't believe him to be sincere.
"It's not fair--" began Lisa. She looked at him in the eyes while new tears cleared themselves a road along the cheeks up to its lips. "Lisa, tell me what it is… what is not fair? You didn't want me to kiss you?" He questioned her slowly.
"Yeah, rightly so, and it is precisely the problem," she says in bursting in sobs.
"How's that? Explain that to me." He asked her in embracing her.
"David promise me first not to laugh at me and to let me finish before saying whatever it is."
"I promise you…" Lisa slid the arms around David and will be him very strong before loosening sound put out(switched off) and to move back a little to be able to look at him(it) in eyes.
"I do not really know by where to begin," she sighed.
"Tell me simply what you have on the heart, Lisa…" She looked at him in the eyes during some moments even before taking a profound inspiration and began. "As much as I remember, the jokes began at the kindergarden and have really never stopped since… You know how the children of the kindergarden called me? 'Indian cobra', nice like nickname, isn't it?"
David answered nothing, he looked at her with sad eyes.
"The following years were not really better nicknames wise and my intelligence was the only thing I possessed and that I always possess. I only had a real friend: Julien. He never laughed at me, or even used me as quite a lot of world done: 'oh, anyway this idiot of Lisa will realize nothing…" Tears ran again along the cheeks.
David Seidel felt suddenly his throat squeezing up, he too had thought the same way at the beginning …
"Only this imbecile poor Lisa Plenske very well realized what the others wanted, idler to see nothing to have the impression of having friends. And this idiot was broken-hearted every evening … As for the boys…" the voice of Lisa became blurred and it wiped its tears of a furious backhand furious before continuing.
"They, they ignored me downright either then they deceived me asking me if I wanted to go out with them to roar then and say: 'but finally, my poor daughter, how can you believe a single second that I want to go out with you?' Then you see when I saw first saw you for the first time we bumped into each other and you looked at me from head to toe with a funny air and you pursued your road just like that. Then I saw you at Kerima and I…"
A total silence reigned in the room while David observed Lisa. Lisa looked at David. They were looking at each other in the eyes jus like before he fell in the swimming pool.
"And you what?" asked David slowly without leaving her eyes.
You cannot go back in time anymore, Lisa, So much to say to him. Go, throw yourself in the water, the hour of the truth is here…
"I -- I… fell… in love… with… you… Yes, Sabrina with all her jokes was right. I am in love with you since the first day I put my eyes on you, David, and when Sabrina said to me that if you ever knew it, you were going to fire me, Julien and I invented this story of engagement so that you believe that I loved the other one so that you do not fire me because I preferred to feel pain to see you with Mariella than not to see you anymore and if you were happy with her, I was happy for you. Your happiness makes mine," she murmured.
"Lisa, you love me that much?"
"No, David, I do not love you that much, I love you to death. It's not the same thing. I usually have habit of being rejected by men, that, it's not new. I had also already loved, but never loved no man like I love you. I never felt something so strong for somebody before… NEVER. I know that you don't love me and that you will never love me like I love you, but I prefer to feel the pain than to feel what I feel at this moment, what I feel every time you are in the same room as me. I would do anything for you."
To fall in love is the the easiest thing in the world, but also the most unverifiable. We are never prepared for it. We are not prepared neither for the strength that it can have nor has the pain that this can make.
Lisa still continued as pushed by a strength. She had to say to him all that she had on the heart because she would certainly never have the occasion and, if she stopped now, she could not face herself anymore because there would be always this emptiness.
"Julien calls me crazy, and I make him mad because of my stories, I only talk to him about you. Even when he calls back to remind me the number of times when you hurt me, I defend you and find you excuses, it is stronger than me. To love you sometimes hurts me so, David but I cannot make otherwise, even if I wanted it. I bear myself even for that and call me imbecile. There is only in fairytales this kind of things happen. A man like you falling in love with a girl like me. Sabrina was right. Another time when you see me as a friend and five minutes later, you blame me for something, I cannot count them anymore on my fingers so much there is and nevertheless I continue to feel this thing so strong for you. Tell me what I have to do? I know that for my own good, I should leave and go back to the country but, for a reason that I ignore, I can't do it. I can't go there. What do I do?"
David moved slowly to her, but Lisa doesn't see him. She continues to say to him all that she had on the heart.
"And the number of times when I provoked a situation -- the majority of the time accidentally without seeing it -- hoping that you would react in some way, you never saw anything or worse, your reaction was always contrary to what I hoped for. Like the lollipop that Julien made me in the hope that you finally see me as a woman and not a simple assistant… You needed three hours to notice it and then and you speak to me about a double marriage! While me, like an idiot, I had hoped that you would be jealous. Another stupid error of my part, I should really stop believing in fairytale… without speaking about the Paon island…"
He still approached her.
"Do you have the slightest idea of what I was able to feel when you put your jacket on me and when you were lying behind me putting your arm around my waist so that I am not cold anymore… All that I wished is that there was not a boat that comes to get us back the following morning. I wanted that night to never stop. All this will forever be some beautiful dreams and magnificent memories that I will cherish forever. I…"
Lisa was cut off in her speech by David's lips on her, but this kiss had nothing to do with the one that she had put on David's lips under the mistletoe. Oh no… It was a true kiss as the one that we see in films. Lisa was incapable to have a single thought, the head had emptied just like that of any ideas; everything was no more than sensations; the arms wound as by themselves around David's neck.
If she had to have only this kiss, so much to take advantage of it and to make the best, too bad for what would happen afterward.
David was either not prepared to what he would fell as he would touch Lisa's lips -- it's true, he had wanted to kiss her after what she had just said to him but he did not really expect to feel something special. It was her he turned to in case of problems, the one he confided in but it didn't mean anything …
Only, as his lips had touched those of the young lady, a chill had gone through to him and a knot had formed in the stomach, or rather butterflies. No, it was not possible, David couldn't have fallen in love with Lisa. And nevertheless…
Lisa began to answer to the kiss. She expected almost that he pushed her away but he didn't do it. On the contrary, he deepens the kiss and was the first surprised. He realized that he liked that, he liked kissing Lisa. He did not really know what had changed, if it was the declaration, fact that she was not afraid of saying to him some truths, …all that he knew was that now he did not feel only friendship for Lisa.
They parted by need of air. "Wow!" made both in agreement. David made her a kid smile. "Lisa," he still says out of breath by resting the forehead against Lisa's.
"David, I believe that it is better than I go away now. Otherwise, I am going to begin believing that you really love me, and I still don't want to be making ideas. I will love this kiss for the rest of my life…"
She wanted to get free but David Seidel did not release her, he tightened the arms around her.
"David, please, let me go!"
"No, Lisa, I won't let you go! I love you." Lisa Plenske closed her eyes some seconds, she thought she misunderstood or dreamed -- once again -- David's words.
"What did you just say?" She asked slowly.
"I have just said to you that I love you, Lisa Plenske, yes, I love you!"
"David, you are not funny."
"Lisa, I don't want to be funny, I don't tell you some stories, I don't play either with you. And if it can reassure you I am as well surprised and confused as you but I love you!"
"In that case, prove it to me," she asked him on a distrustful tone.
"Very well, but not here. Come!" A roguish smile was outlined on David's lips while he pulled her by the hand. David went to the door in holding Lisa by the hand. She followed him. He stopped in front of the door and turned to her.
"What's wrong?" asked Lisa who felt a knot forming in the bottom of her throat, thinking that he had decided otherwise.
He looked over them, a smile with lips. She raised the head and smiles. She got closer even more to him quite slowly and he slid the right hand along the arm of the young lady to let then the fingers caress the cheek and then support the head behind his ear before putting again his mouth on Lisa's.
This one continued however to doubt, although her doubts began to dissipate slowly because she wondered how a man like David, who had a fiancée such as Mariella who beautywise was more beautiful than her, could fall in love with her.
David Seidel loves me! He loves me finally! He has just said to it to me, I cant believe it, yes but why? How? After all I am always Lisa Plenske de Göberitz, a girl of the country. You should maybe ask him.
But let's wait to see where he takes me.
David opened slowly the door of his office and verified that there was nobody near his office. He didn't want to fall on this blabbermouth of Sabrina. He wanted that it stays their secret for the moment. It brought this small inciting side to a relation. Furthermore, Lisa and him needed to speak and to spend a little of time together.
He looked at her and made her a roguish smile… He made Lisa pass in front of him, opened the door and when they had gone out both of his office David closed the door. He took back her hand by going to the elevator.
"David, wait, my coat." He released her hand the time she get back her coat. David waited for her before pressing on the button of the elevator. When the young lady again came next to him, he smiles to her and took back again her hand.
Doors opened and they entered the elevator. Once the closed doors, Lisa made something that she would never have thought of being capable of doing. On the other hand, it is David Seidel who she had next to her in this elevator and they were alone, not three, four or five, no, they were alone.
She threw a fast blow of eye to the man that she loved since the first time that she had seen him then she thinks two seconds.
"Go at it, Lisa, dash!" blew a small voice. Lisa inhaled a big blow, made a step forward towards the panel of control of the elevator and stopped it in his race.
And I take myself for Gibbs now…
Surprised, David turned around towards her and looked at her intrigued. Lisa got closer to him, dropped her coat which she wore on the arm. She still moved up a step and slid the arms around the neck.
David rolled up to her his around her waist and Lisa put aside the head slightly and, closing her eyes, she captured David's lips. She well intended to show him that she was not a beginner and that she knew how to kiss. The kiss they had exchanged in his office would be nothing next to this one.
Lisa began kissing him fervently, pushing David against one of the walls of the elevator, letting then the fingers play in his dark hair. David thanked her mentally for having pushed him behind because he had the impression that his legs shied away under him. He put off slowly the head to break the kiss: if he did not take an inspiration, he was going to weaken. No woman had ever kissed him like that.
"Wow!" was all that David Seidel was able to say. Lisa casted down her eyes, feeling suddenly shy. "Sorry."
"Sorry? Lisa, look at me," he made in raising her chin by his index. "No woman had kissed me like that before. You know, it's not you who asked me to prove to you that I love you? We would say rather that it is you who have just proved me that you love me," he smiles. She raised on him a shy smile. "That does not mean that you do not have to make it any more."
"Don't worry, I well intend to prove it to you, Lisa."
"If it is my Christmas present, promises me that it will not be short-lived."
"It will be eternal, Lisa," he says in bending again to kiss her but he stopped in some millimeters of her mouth.
"What's the matter?" She asked on a slightly deprived tone.
"It would maybe be necessary to restart the elevator…"
"We really have to?" She smiles. He smiles in return, pressed on the button and got lost in a new kiss. He felt like a teenager. A sensation which he had not felt for a very long time. They parted little bit before the opening of doors.
"Where do you take me?" She asked in collecting her coat.
"Surprise…"