Chapter 25: Real Date

Everyone’s looking at the best looking couple of the night. Perhaps, Yves draws more attention than her but Zofi doesn’t mind at all. She too is mesmerized and proud to be his date among the many other girls in the office that he could ask to accompany him for the event.

“Do you know everyone in the company?” Yves asked to start the conversation.

“Not yet. I joined just recently. I haven’t had a lot of opportunities to meet everyone,” Zofi said.

“I just asked because truth is, even us in our department don’t know everyone who’s working there or who transferred in or out. The other day, one of our tenured colleagues was asking for someone who already left the company,” he said. Yves is a good talker.

“Your department must be very busy that’s why people there don’t know much about even their closest colleagues,” she said.

“Exactly. That’s why instead of bringing them to the beach or somewhere else, I decided to hold a social gathering for us. It’s also a chance to meet our collea