Inside, catherine's house,
"Catherine, are you a criminal lawyer ", asked albert after seeing her I'd on table.
"Yes, i am assosciated with an 'NGO', i fight on the behalf of the people, the NGO tell me to", answered catherin.
"So you'll stay here for how long", asked albert trying hard to maintain the casual face but his eyes sold him and told that inside he is worried for obvious reasons.
" um.... It Depends on how much time it takes to get the conclusion, of the case", answered catherine with a strange smile.
"So what kind of case is it", asked albert while maintaining his casualness.
"It's a murder case involving a man who is suspected to have kidnapped and murdered the girl, he loved", answered catherine.
"Is he really guilty", asked albert
"I don't know. His file has not delivered to me yet. so i have yet to read the case info", said catherine
"Here, your coffee", she gave him the coffee.
"Oh....Yeah", albert took the coffee but his mind is replaying the moment she gave him the coffee;her voice, her soft lips, her fluttering hairs, her satiny skin. In the short black dress she is looking like a hot bomb.
"Oooohooo.....Where is the shopping mall here", she made the noise to awake albert from his stupor and asked.
"Aaa....What do you want to buy", asked albert.
"Clothes, My last case was in Nigeria, so i dont have any winter clothes", said catherine while pointing at her dress.
Her actions again mesmerized albert.
"Hey wake up", said catherine while smiling at his behaviour
"Aaa..haha.., Well, my cousin owns a female clothes shop as well. I will take you there tomorrow", said albert hurriedly.
"Will that be ok. Won't you be busy", catherine asked concernedly.
"Its summer vacations so i am free for the whole month", said albert while patting his chest in pride.
"Hehe....,Where do you work albert", she smiled and asked him
"Well if everything goes well then Astro Motors", said albert
"Why_if!", Asked catherine;curiously
"Well if because.............. so that's why i chose astro motors.....", explained albert
"I have to say; You are quite picky", teased catherine
"Well i can't do anything about that. You tell me, Aren't you picky. Said albert
"Well not everyone is lucky enough to have choices", replied catherine with sadness.
"Why do you say that", asked albert concernedly
"Nothing, just some phillosophy;You carry on.", catherine deviated from the topic.
"Yeah, so in the end, i chose astro motors. After we are done with shopping, we can go to visit the company", said albert excitedly
"Will you really go, i hope you don't change your mind by tomorrow", said catherine smilingly
"Yes, since i've decided. i should sign the job contract as soon as possible, right! Sadi albert wisely
"Right!", said, amused catherine.
At this time the bell to the house rang - "Ding, Dong",
Catherine went to check; She opened the door,
"Mam these are your parcels; please sign here"At the door, is standing the deliveryman with some large boxes with him.
"Thankyou", she signed the document.
Standing at the door; she was thinking of how to take all the boxes in, When albert came.
"Let's put them inside", albert said without waiting for her answer and started picking the boxes.
"Wait ,I'm coming too", said catherine smiling sweetly
In a nick of time, both of them took all the boxes inside
"You know my grandfather used to say when you help you should help to the very end. Now i'm not going home till i help you adjusting these in the house.", said albert as if he really mean it, whereas in relity it was his another means to spend more time with her.
"Hehe... ok...",Catherine is smiling, don't know whether on his enthusiasm or something else .
She is very grateful to him for all his help, but apart from being grateful she is also having a different feeling for him. She has not felt it before, or maybe she did, but it was so early that she has forgotten about the existence of this feeling;The feeling of dependence.
"huh...",Albert very enthusiastically opened the box closest to him, but right after opening it he stood stunned.
Catherine got amused by his reaction and went to see the inside of the box.
"Ahh!, Albert you go and handle that box, i will handle this one", said catherine hurriedly in shame.
"I should not think that, I should not think that, it's wrong..it's wrong",Albert like a stunned mummy went on to other box while reciting this in mind.
But, the more he don't want it, the more his mind is replaying the pictures of lingerie's, even worse is that his mind is putting together the pictures of lingeries with..... .
He is an adult so he is aware of everything he should be, but he is also a young man; who just visualised a seductive image of the girl; he is infatuated with and is standing in the same room with . The whole situation is giving him an extreme level of adernaline rush along with a guilty pleasure. He wanted to stop the guilty thoughts rampaging in his mind, but he just couldn't. Finally After a lot of efforts, he finally supressed the thoughts and went on to do what he is supposed to with clear conscience.
"It's fine..It's fine...., It's just some lingeries, with his age,he should have experienced lots of it.
But his expression...
Well it's natural. It must have been awkward for him as well", She is trying to end the awkwardness created between both of them by making it seem normal to herself.
After a while she also got normal.
But; from now on, what will never be normal, is their relationship with each other.