{"id":183,"date":"2009-11-27T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-11-27T19:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T19:41:03","slug":"chapter-71-love-at-first-sight-eleven-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 71: Love at first sight (eleven years ago)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">6 years years since Yami doubled, she found herself helping Mr Irfan with his white event research, Mrs Irfan would be helping too, but she had a new child to care for, and Anemone too was on the team, but it seems her child took up most of her time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When Mr Irfan left for lunch Yami felt the emptiness start to set in again, her father had died from a heart attack just one year before and it still got to her, and now everyone she knew was starting families of their own.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Floor Ninety four\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the elevator announced.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You&#8217;re back early.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yami said expecting Mr Irfan to respond, but it was not him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Actually I think I&#8217;m way overdue a visit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yami turned round and let her other body continue reading. Standing off the lift was a young man wearing a suit and thin spectacles. He had the Zee Industries logo on a button he had pinned to his suit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">And you are?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I&#8217;m Polot, CEO of Zee Industries, it&#8217;s nice to meet you miss&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yami.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s nice to meet you Yami and&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">oh, that&#8217;s also me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Oh? Ah I see&#8230; no, I apologise, I don&#8217;t see.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The reading Yami body put down her book and stepped up beside it&#8217;s double and both announced in an almost patronising way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We are both the same person in control of two bodies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yami curtsied for Polot and whilst he realised she was toying with him, he played along as a gentleman.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s a pleasure to meet both of you, good lady\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He took two of Yami&#8217;s hands, bowed and kissed them both.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yami was caught a little off guard, she had never met anyone who treated her nicely even after she teased them before.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I must say it&#8217;s a fascinating ability you have there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Polot complimented her.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ah, thank you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yami blushed twice, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what about you, a young man of but 18, running the largest business in the world, you&#8217;re something yourself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Well thankyou for your kindness, but I was brought up with training for it, I&#8217;m afraid it doesn&#8217;t leave me much time for pleasantries such as this.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ah of course, well Mr Irfan is the head researcher here but he is out to lunch at the moment. No doubt it&#8217;s him you want to speak to, I think he has a few technological innovations he wanted to put forward. Though I didn&#8217;t think he usually spoke with the CEO\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Well in truth he normally doesn&#8217;t, however I have taken a personal interest in white event phenomena myself, I find it very fascinating, much like yourself Miss Yami.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Oh, because of my ability?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Well that is fascinating, but I think even if you only had the one body it alone would be more beauty than this poor planet deserves, and certainly more than my eyes can take before falling in love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yami found herself blushing enough for four people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Floor Ninety Four\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ah, I think your boss is here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Polot turned to the elevator but hesitated, before telling Yami \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know a nice restaurant in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter, would you care to join me for dinner tonight?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 years years since Yami doubled, she found herself helping Mr Irfan with his white event research, Mrs Irfan would be helping too, but she had a new child to care for, and Anemone too was on the team, but it seems her child took up most of her time. 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