It's amazing how you can judge someone instantly; and without knowing their true self, a life time of perceptions are made. Some people are stubborn and won't see the clearing in the fog, then there are some people who will think hard and give that certain someone a chance.
In this case it was a certain young man who got on the wrong side of Olivia, but she saw past her head and gave her heart a chance to forgive. This young man; James was quite tall and had light fair brown hair. Olivia was fighting temptations, her mind was pre-occupied with the reactions of her peers, she was frightened to open up to them about her forbidden fruit. On the other hand she wanted to give James the benefit of the doubt, I mean what's the harm in friendly banter?
It all started when work wanted all the employee's to go on a training weekend, the two them were paired up as team mates on the journey. Reluctant to talk to James, Olivia sat silently looking out onto the road and surroundings. After a while James stood up and walked to the other side of the coach for briefly, when he returned he just sat there fiddling with his mobile phone. A few minutes later, Olivia heard her mobile phone go off in her bag.
She reached down into the bag and noticed that she had a text message, the message said: 'Hey, how are you? I'm a good person you know. J. xx.' Olivia looked slightly dazed and turned to look at James. He was turned away from her and she couldn't see the expression of his face. She decided to text him back: 'Hey, I'm ok thank you, you? I'm not doubting you are a good person, I have no problem with you Olivia. xx'. He smiled to himself and they both carried on texting each other the entire way there.
They immediately hit it off and conversation came easily to them, it was even sure enough to say that Olivia had a bit of a crush on James; in fact I think these feelings were mutual in both cases. They all arrived at the holiday inn hotel at about 12.30am and it was time for all the colleagues to settle down for the night. Just as James was unlocking the door to his room, Olivia, courageously tapped him on the shoulder and said hello vocally. James was quite taken back by this and invited her in for a drink.