In the morning emily was sitting in this boring board meeting,disscusing current cases and figuring out ways to how rub people for money-allegedly-,but what was making it worse was her boss snoby voice as he declaired the end of this meeting.
''well,it's barely a month a go to the trial,i'm depending on you guys''he says getting up from his chair while fixing his tie,''and gals''he adds looking torward to the only two women present in this meeting,Emily and her coworker Aria.
He informes them before leaving''those of you attending the MACNEMARA confrence,you're schedueled for nine o'oclock''.
Emily confused about this piece of information turns to her friend as they walk out of the office to head to their own small not so fancy cubicals,''tomorrow's Saturday,right'' ?
''he means tonight'',says Aria,as she hands her a case folder.
''we could be here till mid-night at least''emily says feeling frastrated already.
''i thought you wanted to make partenrs''Aria reminds her''this is an unreal opportunity''.
''i know,i know''she whined in response ,as both ladies pushed an other door in their very suddenly busy office.
''you know i'm counting on you too,i expect you to pull an all nighter if you have to''Aria says tone dead serious.
''well how am i supposed to get my beauty sleep,i have a blind date tomorrow night''emily says half joking,half begging.
''it's called concealer,put three daps on each eye,you'll still look fabulous''Aria says,giving her a pat on the shoulder and walking away.
Emily stood there feeling frustrated mostly,and just looking for this day to end ,''oh,great'' she mumbles as she heads to get some work done.
It was Saturday afternoon,so here she was,sitting on the bench of this big tennis club which was the meet up point with her blind date,looking down to her agenda -why agenda? Well she doesn't put her trust into a cellphone which can be very tricky thing,the batterie could die on her,no reception,it can get stolen,so she decided she would stick to something more certain- to check out the descriptions she wrote down of her blind date so she wouldn't miss her.
CeCe,blonde hair,5'8,black tennis bag,those were the descriptions.
She looks up when she hears the door behind her opens,then walks in an attractive blonde girl,with a small black tennis bag,she walks torward the tennis court without paying attention to a sitting emily.
''hey,cece ?''emily says uncertain about if it's the right person.
The girl turns around suspecious,waiting for another piece of information.
Emily notices this and gets up to cross the small distance between them,''are you CeCe''she asks this time more sure.
''Cece,me,no''the stranger answers now fully facing emily.
''i'm meeting someone here for a blind date,and she's already seven minuts late''she says explaining her mistake.''well obviously it's not you,i'm so sorry to have bothered you''she apologizes again.
When she turns around to go back to her chair,the stranger called her''hey,have fun''.
Now again facing each other,she awkwardly says''thank you, that's really sweet''cursing her luck for being such a mess in front of this beautiful girl.
As she makes her way to her chair,she sits down watching as the gorgeous girl walks to the court, puts down her bag just to be pulled in a bone crushing hug and spinned around by a very handsome guy, emily sights,of course she'd be with a guy,girls who looked like that were always taken or straight,only did she know.
She was pulled out of her thought by a voice''tennis anyone''
Emily turns around looking at the girl behind her,matching her mystery date,and says with a smile''CeCe''.
The weekend was uneventful,apart from her date on Saturday,that contitute a light game of tennis,having a quick bite after,emily knew that this won't go any further,yes Cece was nice and goodlooking,but there is just something was in her early thirties she wanted something special,sparkle,magic,she wanted fireworkes.
Making her way down the street Monday morninig to get her much needed doze of caffeine from her regular coffee shop ''BONRIGHTON BEACH BAGGELS'',it sounds lame but it was on her way to work,and she made friends with the employees there, so she can get her order much faster,plus they make the most delicious bagles.
As she makes her way inside,she walks to take a ticket with her number on it,''great,85''emily said feeling dissapointed as she takes her place in the waiting line in front of the counter,as the barista yelled 71.
From behind the counter she caught a hand waving at her to come over the other side, she recognized the girl with the cap on her head-with the shop logo- covering her hair that was pulled in a poneytail ,and the green apron as one of the employees there,yes she served her a few times before and they even had a chit-chat when she wasn't in hurry,but right now as she made her way to the far end of the counter she rememebers her name.Paige.
''hey,''emily said smiling with slight shy-ness.
''a cinnamon raising,and a decaff''said the girl smiling,and handing her a brown paper bag and large cup of coffee.
''thank you so much''said emily turning around to make her way to the door.
''hey,i haven't seen poppyseed for a few weeks now''asks the coffee girl.
''oh,Samara,oh yeah we won't be seeing poppyseed any longer''emily adds''thank god''then turns around to the door to leave.
''hey,i got some stuff for your co-workers'' paige offers ,as she reaches down the counter and pulls out a huge paper bag full of goodies and drops it on the counter.
''paige,this really isn't necessery''emily said feeling overwhelmed by the kind gesture
But paige was having none of it as she once again reaches down to grab more containers of cheese and jam.''my first customer when we opened last year,you deserve no less''she said as she puts the two packs in the bag.
''i'm starting to feel a little indebted''emily says flustered.
''yeah,well you know,there is something,actually i'm gonna ask you''paige blurtes.''it's a wedding''she continues.
Emily keeps looking at her, face laced with shock and surprise.''what''.
''yeah,i want you to come''paige says.
''ehh''emily answers suspious.
''as a favor''paige cleares to the confused girl in front of her.
''what''emile says feeling how ridiculous this whole situation is.
'' you see it's an old friend from school,long story short ,i got this plus one invite ''paige lowered her voice and looked around tp see if anyone was looking''and i can't bare it to go alone''she finishes.
Emily sights feeling very touched by the request,but she doesn't know her that well,and even if she said yes her work schedule is insane and right now she can't afford any wasted time as she was this close to make her dream come true, but the girls honesty as she looked at her with a dreamy stare waitting for her,she couldn't say no either.
''why don't you ask that red head girl,that comes in all the time with the platter,she's cute''emily says trying to find a way out without sounding like a jerk.
''yeah,i did,she freaked when i told her it was out of town''paige says feelling embarrassed to no end.
''it's out of town''emily says dead serious.
''you see,my friend ,she's from this little town called rosewood,and she always wanted to have her fantasy wedding on one of the secluded areas in the middle of the woods,or something like that''paige offers an explanation.
''well,when is it''emily asks,gives it a last chance.
''three weeks''paige answers hope in her voice.
''that's plenty of time to find a real date''emily replies with high tone trying to sound supportive.
''hmmm,okay''paiges says as she noddes her head feeling more dissappointed than she imagined.
Emily sees this and tries to cheer her up,and she goes saying''i'd be happy to find you a real date,i know a lot of amazing women,i'll think about it,i'm late for work,i got to go''she assures now the girl who has like a sad poppy look on her face''i will think on this'' she says holding up her coffee hand pointing it torward her as a name popped into her head ''you know who would be amazing Angie ,she's got a great body''.
Paige just kept nodding feelling as stupid as ever and said a simple ''okay''.
''don't worry,i'll think about this''emily turned around not looking where she's going as she bumped into a body entering the coffeeshop.
As she goes to apologize for her being so clumesy''oh,i'm sor—'',she lookes up to the other girl,only to find the girl from the tennis court standing in front of her.''oh,hey''she greets.
''so was Cece everything that you hoped for''asked the stranger.
''As matter of fact,no,but what do you expect when your dental hygienest sets you up with a girl a month after your ex-girlfriend of three years cheats on you with her ex fiancé,now i sound like i wasn't over her,which i'AM''emily cursed her rant and blame it on her being a lawyer and the need of always to prove a point.
As they stood in frond of the door,a customer trying to make his way in made them enter the shop once again,as paiges voice yelled number 85,emily looked down at her ticket and handed it to the girl''here you can use mine''.
''thank you''the blond politely said,and they make their way to the counter to place her order,emily totally forgetting she was late.
''so,how was your date''emily asks,feeling a bit nosey.
The girl didn't seem to be bothered by the question and said''it wasn't really a date''.
Emily felling a bit confused''well,wasn't that your boyfriend or something''.
As she was about to get an answer a voice cut in''85''paige says,reaching her hand to take the ticket,''oh,thank you''and looking surprised to who she was serving.
''i thought you had to rash off to work''paige says looking directly to emily.
''yeah,i did,then i run into umm''emily high pitched voice cut out when she didn't know her plus one name.''her''she finishes awkwardly.
''i see''says paige,not buying it ''so what can i get you''her attention now on the blonde girl.
The girl looked around the shop trying to decide,only for her gaze to linger on emilystanding beside her,and said''i'll have what she's having''.
Paige huffed,unimpressed by the cheesey move,but obviously it was working cuz emily looked like a lovestruck teenager.''okay,one cinnamon,and one decaff coming right up''.
''you know caffeine makes me lose my focus''said the blonde girl,trying to struck the conversation again.
''yeah,me too''emily agrees with a smile.
''oh,and the guy from the tennis club,it's just my brother coming down to check up on me,you know i just moved here from chicago,he had a buisness here in philly and we decided to spent some time together before he goes back to chicago''. She answers,''you know it's nice to have a familiar face around,even if it' only for a few hours,with this new job i have,and long working hours i don't have a lot of time to meet—''.she gets cut off by a slamming sound of a carboned cup of coffee and a brown paper bag.
''three bucks''says paige behind the counter,a fake smile on her witnessing the whole exchange btween the two customers.
''there you go''handing paige a 5 dollar bill,telling her to keep the change.
As emily and her still anonymous encounter try to make their wayout,paige jumps in and askes emily''so see you tommorrow''?.
''yeah'' emily hissed, trying to play it cool in front of her crush.
As paige followed with her eyes the two heading out of her shop,and seeing how flirty they were to eachother,and how sickenly goodlooking and collected the blond seemed to be,she shouted ''87''.
Outside the two walked side by side,each sipping on their drink,suddenly the blond girl stopped and turned to ask emily''so what's your name''.
''Emily …fields''emily said sounding too formal for her liking.
''emily fields,i'm Alison DiLaurentes''Ali replied pulling out her iphone from her designed purse.
''you actually like those things''emily said pointing to the highly technological object.
''can't live with out it''says alison looking down and sliding her fingers across the screen,''you should get one''she suggestes, remembering emily looking down on her little pink agenda the first time she met her.
''oh,and give up the satisfaction of crossing things out,not in your life''she took a gulp of her coffee.
''there is always delete''offers alison.
Emily shakes her head disapproving and scrunshing her nose as if saying no,and that delete just doesn't cut it.
''i'd love to get your number''alison cuts to the a smile emily's way.
Emily taking a back by the request,so she like girls smiles back at Alison as she hands her the phone so she can put her number in,''i don't even know how this works'' she mumbles.
Alison reaches so she can take emilys cup and walk her through the process of how the advanced technology device works.