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Lisa is thinking about buying a more suitable couch if they are getting spontaneous again. When he is done his cheeks is flushed and he looks triumphant, the colour upon Lisa' spread over her face to her body. One of Joseph's hobbies is purchasing houses, this is an instance of childhood trauma and it is pretty commonplace in other families in the country. "What first put you onto texting me? I mean the message comes from nowhere."Joseph is a cuddle-a big surprise; the emotional wounds of early childhood leave ineradicable scars. He is lying on the couch with Lisa in his arms and a guilty look on his face. His mind travels back to the hot sultry day at the airport four years ago.After his mother Lucy named him CEO of the family business, he thought it would be a great time for him to do some actual work for the company. It turned out he was too naïve, Lucy disapproved all his ideas, then they started to argue about how the company would grow. Finally, he yielded the palm to her, in
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Lisa truly understood the unpredictability of life, which often changed within an instant without being noticed. Just when it seemed life was going well, Peter's sudden death from acute myocardial infarction was devastating.Sometimes life hit you in head with a brick, two days later Charles took his place as the CEO of the company.The day before it all happened, Peter felt uncomfortable because he got a cold. Lisa asked him if he need to take the day off to go to the hospital, Peter interpreted his illness as being less severe. So he took some cold medicine and went back to work.Peter took good care of his body, he did not smoke or drink, eating healthy food and doing sports twice a week. When Lisa was about to go off work, she found out that Peter was fall sleep on the sofa in his office, she knew it was the pill so she did not care to wake him up.She had class the night and she told Alex that Peter was asleep, then Lisa left the company. The next day morning she had been told th
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"If you ever kiss my finance again, I will destroy you." Penny went around to see Lisa on Sunday afternoon, they talked about what happened last night. Lisa had vague memories of Joseph coming under the influence of alcohol, a certain hollowness that she tried to stifle. To think that she had kissed Raymond wildly, a wave of nausea and disgusting swept over her. But what Penny had said aroused her. "Penny, are you trying to make welcome with the usual pantomime of exaggerated words and gestures?" "Lisa, those are his very words. He was so cool when he said it. Since when are you and Joseph engaged? The story has taken a huge twist, one minute you and Raymond are enamored, next minute Joseph appears as your finance. Is there something going on between you and Joseph?" "Don't be ridiculous, we are just friends. What did Raymond say? Did he misunderstand my intentions? I am so embarrassed." "Don't worry about him. He had worse. He can survive that one of his ex-girlfriend cheated on
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Lisa began to walk faster to catch up to Penny and Rebecca, finally she caught them before they had gone far. Penny was both sad and angry, Rebecca patted her back and tried to comfort her."Penny, are you all right? I swear to God I don't know how this will happen. I felt awfully guilty for not helping you." Said Lisa who was still trying to gulp air after running."Lisa, things had moved too fast for my mind to keep up. But I think Kenny did not really like you. Penny, listen to me. What I have found was that Kenny knew that you would ask him, but he was too afraid to facing you. I have a friend who had a great tactic for dealing with unwanted chat ups -go nuclear early by saying her husband was a mercenary. Kenny went first in order to shut you up. According to my observation, he was very avoidant. Normally avoidant people want to be in relationships-because we are all programmed to get attached to other people- but they acted weird when they get close to a person. You can't hold b
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"Hi, Joseph, I have a good piece of news to tell you. I am not single anymore and I have a boyfriend whose name was Joseph."After knowing Joseph for three years, being friends with him over two years, Lisa was ready to update her relationship status. But when she texted Joseph the good news after work, there was no reply from him at all. While waiting at home in hopes that Joseph would show up next minutes, she did not hear from Joseph until she went to bed.If Lisa had ever had crush on a person, even if the man was her neighbor who grew up at the same neighborhood, she might suffer from the nostalgic was how of reverential awe and swayed lost. But she knew Joseph well and Lisa was aware that Joseph must be fully occupied by work. During these waits, her brain slipped away from the body and wandered about the sweetest dreams.The next morning Lisa wake up at six thirty, she checked her phone and found out there was no messages or calls. She had to get ready for work because it was M
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"Hello, Haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing? Lisa."Joseph was standing in front of her desk at the office, looking at Lisa with the smile showed he had got his way. Lisa felt shocked and totally disorientated by his unexpected arrival. They had agreed to keep a secret about their relationship until it was the right time. Lisa gave him a challenging look and stood up. Before she could say anything, Joseph walked pass her desk and went to Charles's office, Lisa took a few deep breaths to steady her nerves and went back on working.Joseph's visit would provide some juicy gossip in the tea room for a few days. Lisa pretended she wasn't interested but the expression on her face was a dead giveaway. Psychologist would say that women made better liars because they were psychologically more sophisticated, they made plans and have strategies whereas men were more impulsive. The biggest difference, however, was that women were much better at keeping their affairs a secret."I w
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Waking up with the pain in the part of her body she never experienced before, Lisa saw Joseph lying beside her completely naked in her bed. She was doubled over with pain and sore, but she still noticed the sheet was stained with drops of blood. Right off the bat she knew what had happened last night.It was beyond exciting. Often by the time people need to accept the truth that they were past being able to put words to feelings. It was just a sensation that Lisa had never felt before, the problem was, she had no remembrance of the process at all. How is that possible?Then a thrill of alarm ran through her.She put some clothes on and walked to the bathroom, she could barely maintain her balance and moved in a wobbly fashion. looking over the agonizing face in the mirror, she had forgotten what it was like to be that frightened for such a seemingly small matter. You would never know if you were drugged or not, but she didn't have any of the after-effects she would expect.Joseph was
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Joseph's Mother-Lucy looked very grave when she waltzed into the house as if she owned it and threw off her coat. As soon as she saw Joseph and Lisa she knew what was going on, she walked towards the sofa and sat down. Joseph and Lisa were standing in front of the sofa.Lucy was small, plainly dressed and wore no make-up, she managed to impart great elegance to the unpretentious dress she was wearing, as a veteran cadre still remained her philosophy of hard work and plain-living. Lisa could not gather form her expression whether she was happy or angry, it was tightly locked down. However, her tone was cutting and haughty. She managed to produce a dim, watery smile while speaking."Son, it seems that she is the reason you come to Dong city so often. "Lisa had never met Lucy or saw her picture, but Joseph would not stop talking about his bossy mother. From his story she was capable of being very difficult, and that was the understatement of the year. It was unfair to judge her on such
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