Elise - S01 E47

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Elise - S01 E47

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 47

Driving to the office my mind was not on the contract but on the woman that I love and cherish. She was everything to me now and there would be no way I would do anything to lose her from my life.

The drive to the office seemed to pass in a haze and I got out my car and headed to the office block attached to the main factory. I went directly to the conference room and set up my laptop before going for a coffee. I got back to find the senior executives and Rhuaridh milling around the table. On spotting me, Rhuaridh came up and warmly shook my hand.

“Ger! An absolute pleasure to see you again. I hope that this little hiccup does not cause you any problems.”

His accent was as I remembered, clear English with just a tinge of his Scottish heritage.

“Great to see you too Rhuaridh, no problems for me as far as I know.”

“Great, good man indeed and to make it easy for your companions here I have just told them to call me Rory as that is the easier version of my name. These chaps have been struggling with the formal one.”

“Not a problem, Rhuaridh. Rory!”

He laughed and the meeting was called to order by my boss. It dealt with a lot of the specifications and a couple of very minor modifications to the support equipment that although it was not part of our machine it did require some adaptation of pipework and extraction.

We broke for lunch and Rhuaridh sat down with me and we talked non-work things as we ate.

“So you have a woman in your life now. She must really be special looking at the change in you since we last met. Your boss was talking to me earlier saying that you were going to stay past the install of the contract. As I said, I spoke to Annabel about your girlfriend and she said she would look after her no problem while you are busy with this project. Hopefully it all goes well and on time. I am looking forwards to meeting this woman that has given you a new vitality.”

“She is Rory, very special and has made me happier than I have ever been in my life. Elise is one of a kind and she is just incredible.”

“Elise? Does she have some French roots in her family tree? We can do a few things to make it memorable for her when you take your holiday break. Annabel is organising a ‘surprise’ birthday party for me, she just cannot keep anything a secret, that girl! You must come with your Elise.”

“She is pure Californian as far as I know, her father just liked that name and it suits her so well. She will be over the moon when she goes there as she has never left the country before.”

“In that case we will make sure it will be something special for her. It looks like they want to get down to business again so back to the grindstone then!”

The rest of the meeting was mainly discussions in regards to finance and support clauses that were dealt with by the legal guys there and not really of much interest to me but I kept myself aware of the proceedings. The whole thing wound up around 5 pm and my boss was going to take Rory to dinner later. He came across to me and shook my hand.

“I’ll look forwards to seeing you in a couple of days, Ger, until then it has been a pleasure to see you again.”

“Thank you Rory, I’ll see you in the UK then.”

As I was packing up my laptop my boss came across to speak to me.

“Ger, we are all depending on you making this go as smoothly as possible, this could be really big for us.”

“I’ll do my best and hope it does.”

“OK, good man, now I’ll let you away and Sort yourself out for the trip. Bye.”

No great biggie then resting on my shoulders, as if! I got out of the office and called Elise. The phone rang for ages without an answer. I wasn’t too concerned as she must be busy and I would try again later. Driving back I pushed the meeting to the back of my mind and thought on how the next two weeks were going to be a real pain in the ass as they would be without Elise. I got broken from my thoughts with my phone ringing, it was Elise.

“Sorry, Ger, I missed your call when I was down in the bar. I just popped up to change and saw that it had a missed call. What were you wanting to tell me?”

“I kinda guessed that you would be busy. It was to let you know that Rory and Annabel are looking forwards to meeting you and that we have an invitation to a birthday party for Rory.”

“Wow! Makes everything seem closer now that there are some plans for when we are together there. Great!”

“OK, I’ll be back in about an hour as I need to go to my house to change, I smell like a wet dog.”

“Yeuch! Go get yourself presentable then and I’ll see you soon. I love you.”

“I love you too, bye.”

I pulled into my drive and left the car out as I would not be long. A quick shower and a change of clothes and I was on my way to the bar. Pulling into the parking lot I saw a big tour bus with blacked out windows and a couple of medium panel trucks alongside.. I parked in an empty slot away from it and looked at it. Maybe some tourists decided on some refreshments before continuing their trip.