The office day is drawing to a close when I receive an email requesting volunteers to attend a three day seminar in Germany for our employees, regarding the future of the company. I am on the verge of dismissing it when I suddenly think of you down South, with your team.
The very next day I message you to see if you know anything about it. You reply that something had been mentioned on your morning brief, which might have been what I was referring to. I ask you to check and see if it is and you hurry off to confirm. You soon reply with a message to say it is and they want some of the staff to attend. You ask me if I am going to go on it and I respond with a yes, if you are! Your mind starts working overtime, wondering if this is actually feasible or not, dozens of questions run through your mind, can you leave your boy, can someone look after him, can you take 3 days of a boring seminar! A multitude of if's and buts until you decide what to do. You mail me to check that I am definitely going on it and I confirm that i've already put my name down, anticipating that you'd do the same. Any chance that I could get to spend some time with you I was going to grab with both hands.
It had been a while since our encounter in the hotel, chances for a repeat performance never coming to fruit, so this was a chance, no matter how slim. That decided it for you! We both get the green light to attend the seminar and are delighted to inform one another. The only problem now would be who else from our respective work places had volunteered for it! You are pleased to find only a couple of your colleagues would be attending, both being only passing acquaintances. Myself on the other hand am disheartened to find a few of my colleagues have seen this as an excuse for a short break away, with all the perks that come with that. They are slightly surprised to find that i'm going but are happy that I am, unsuspecting that I have other plans for this particular excursion. I'm determined to not let their presence interfere with any time we might steal together.
The flights were booked and hotels arranged and we eagerly await our time away, teasing each other with how we were going to get one another alone! Over the preceding days before our journey we discover that the seminar is going to be one hell of a get together people going from all corners of the country. We find that our itineraries practically mirror one another, first meeting at a central point before moving to the airport by coach. The perfect opportunity to be close from the outset.
The day arrived and I secretly harbour the hope that the others from my office would drop out at the last minute but i'm sorely disappointed in that respect. My mood does not darken however, for I know I will be seeing your beauty within hours. It just meant we'd have to be all the more careful with our activities.
I arrive at the meeting point, looking around for your sweet face. I spot you through the crowd, you haven't seen me yet, you are wearing your loose grey top, tight jeans and brown ankle boots, your vibrant long brown hair is flowing all around your neck, making your beautiful face stand out, more striking than ever. I've seen this same look before in a picture you sent me once and you must have known it to be one of my favourites. I stand for what seems like an age staring at your form as you chat with several people, time standing still for me as you absently flick your hair over your shoulders from time to time, I will hold the vision of your loveliness in my mind for all of time.
You begin to scan the room through all the chit chat until our eyes and smiles meet across the crowded area. All others begin to fade into the background as you begin the winding path towards me, not taking your eyes from me as you press on through the throng of people. You arrive before me looking very much vision I remembered from our last meeting, the flesh always doing more justice to you than any picture ever could. We take one another off a little from my group, leaving them wondering at our greeting of each other.
During the formalities of booking everyone in, we become inseparable, not wanting to lose a single moment together and to hell with the questioning looks from our workmates. We eventually move outside with the herd to the waiting convoy of transport, not quite holding hands but as good as, ensuring no chance to part. The journey to the airport saw us as thick as thieves, sitting a little closer than most and enjoying the company we'd missed for a while, hands held together, protected from the view of others by my jacket between us.
We congregate in the airport, seperated once again to our groups for a while. I see you are given your ticket by your group leader and I my party's also. Before I distribute them I do a quick check of the seat numbers then walk to you, carefully and discreetly handing you a ticket, indicating that you should give me yours, which you do with only a questioning look, before I return to my colleagues and give out the tickets. Someone is extremely annoyed to find that they are sitting in a completely different area of the aircraft to everyone else but I simply offer my condolences, with a shrug of my shoulders. I give you a wink across the floor and you smile knowingly at what i'd done.