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The next day I barely had time to eat breakfast, and Arthur called immediately. He said he would come to my house at twelve o’clock and I should be ready to go to work. Wow! I even jumped for joy. I was full of energy and didn’t know how to use it.

I cleaned my apartment, got dressed, preparing for a meeting, and the clock on the wall showed only eleven o’clock in the morning. Time passed very slowly; I changed clothes a few times, even found a dress suitable for the office in my wardrobe. In the end, I decided not to experiment with my look, and wear jeans and a shirt. Arthur saw me like this, and he liked it.

Finally, Arthur arrived and called me on my cell phone. He waited for me in the yard, I went downstairs, got in the car and we went to work. My new life! How quickly things changed. The day before yesterday I thought that everything in my life worse than ever, and today I feel so happy!

The ride was close, only three blocks from my house to the business center, which housed the office of the company Absolute. We arrived and climbed to the fourth floor, in the company Absolute. Once inside, I saw an attractive girl behind the reception.

“This is Irina, our administrator. And this is Alexandra she will work for us,” so Arthur introduced us to each other.

In appearance she was older than me, I would give her is 26—27. Irina had blond hair short cut and moderate makeup; she was wearing in a strict gray suit and white blouse as a woman of business. I looked next to her, like a Sparrow, had flown to the wrong nest.

Arthur took me to the office of Maxim.

“This is Maxim our General Manager and my best friend.”

“Nice to meet you, Maxim” I looked at the dark-haired young man, whom I already knew the stories of Arthur.

“I am also happy to meet with you. Have a seat,” Maxim looked at me a penetrating look from head to toe and apparently was satisfied. He smiled.

“Arthur told me about you, Alexandra. He sees you in our company. Company two years, we are engaged in security systems. The team is small, ten people. The company has employees who sell, deliver and install the system; you will promote a firm Absolute. You have to create a bright, memorable image of our company, which becomes recognizable in the market. Arthur said you could do it. He will show you the ropes.”

I turned to Arthur, not knowing what I have to say.

“Thank you, Maxim. I’ll introduce Alexandra with our team, and then we’ll go with her to an object to Mironov,” Arthur said.

“Okay. Something will need, ask.”

We left the office Maxim; Arthur explained to Irina, what I would do in the company. Then he showed me all the rooms introduced me to the other employees who were in office at the time. Temporarily, my workplace was in the office of Arthur. When we came there, I went weak in my knees. I sat on the chair that Arthur had offered me and said barely audible,

“Arthur, I can’t create the image of the company.”

“Why do you think so?” he sat down in front of me, took my hands and looked me in the eye.

“I’ve never done this before and do not know how I will come up with the image of the company.”

“Maxim scared you,” he smiled. “We already thought about it and had some ideas. We need someone who will be able to capture our ideas and draw. This is really for you, is that right?”

“I don’t know I’ll try,” I spoke the words with difficulty because my throat is dry with excitement.

“You can do sketches. I saw that you draw well and you like it. And when we decide the image of the company, the next already connect those who know graphic programs and is engaged advertising in professionally. So it’s not that scary and overall really. Let’s have lunch now. There are several options on where to eat. Then we take a trip to one business object. You will see one of the safety systems, its components, and its installation process. Today I was going to be there to see how our guys work, maybe, there are some unresolved issues.”

We went for lunch at fast-food restaurant Home cooking across the street from the business center, which I chose. Arthur said that he often have lunch here. In this fast-food restaurant, all meals were home-style: borsch, solyanka, pelmeni, vareniki and others. Arthur ate borsch beef stew with boiled potatoes tossed salad and cranberry drink; I ate fried fish, rice and the same salad and cranberry drink.

I was silent during lunch and didn’t even feel the taste of food because of the excitement. Arthur, to reassure me, told his story. Seven years ago Max and he got a job in a company, selling security systems. They had neither the experience nor the knowledge about security systems. After five years, they had already founded the company Absolute. And it’s growing every year.

“For the past two years, we have been faced many times with what we didn’t yet know – mastered and continue to grow. And you can do it.”

“Arthur, I didn’t study to Institute.”

“So you still will study. And now let’s go see how the Mironov’s object.”

We went to the Parking lot to his car sat down and went to Mironov. The object or the building, in which he installed a security system, was outside of city. At the entrance gate, we were greeted by the guards. Externally, the house resembled an estate of the aristocrat of the nineteenth century. I asked,

“And whose is that mansion?”

“This is a mansion owned by the person who is an important client for us. He ordered a security system with all the bells and whistles. Do you see two men dressed in camouflage? They are our installers Vasily and Yegor, Vasily older then Yegor. Vasily, my father, and the father of Yegor were militaries and served together only several years ago.”

The house design was original and beautiful. The mansion had one section in the center and two on the sides. The side sections had a different design and height. Located in a semi-circle of white columns emphasized the main entrance. Elements of stucco adorned walls and windows of the house. Windows were of two shapes: rectangular and arched. Neat turrets in the wings on the sides looked like turrets from a fairy tale.

In front of the mansion, there was a fountain, which has not yet worked. Between the trees behind the house could be seen two pavilions with columns and a roof in the shape of a hemisphere, a garage for several cars and a house for staff were a little further.

Vasily and Yegor were both busy with something at the open window outside the mansion. Arthur and I approached them.

“I’d like you to meet Alexandra. She is our advertising specialist.”

“Vasily Mironov,” a man introduced himself.

“Yegor,” worked with Vasily guy introduced himself and held out his hand.

“Yegor, please show Alexandra what you set here. And explain how the security system works,” Arthur left me with Yegor, and he along with Vasily gone to discuss business issues.

Yegor looked at me, puzzled. A curly red hair on his head ruffled. His face was freckled, very light eyebrows and lashes, green eyes with imps inside, the nose is narrow at the top and widening toward the bottom, with a small hump. Trimmed red mustache had been over thin lips. A little stubble was on cheeks. Cheeks were sunken, and this was strange compared to his tight physique. But maybe, just camouflage visually extended figure. I gave him twenty-five years he was almost a head taller than me his height was above one hundred ninety centimeters for sure.

“How are you ‘in the know’? What do you know about security systems?” Yegor even more ruffled hand own hair.

“I know nothing” I replied.

“So, everything is clear. I’ll upload knowledge in you. Let’s go,” he waved his hand where to go.

We toured the rooms in the house – I searched the built-in cameras and sensors, listening to the explanation Yegor. After that, Yegor led me to the DVR. It was not connected yet. So Yegor just told me about how it works. Then he showed have not yet installed devices of the system. I might even take them up if I wanted. Yegor told about each. In the end, he was tired, because it was not just to explain something to me.

News to me was too much for this day, and I was very grateful to Yegor that he tried to “upload” me without technical details. Yesterday, “after the shoe store,” I even could not imagine that I will get a job in a company dealing with security systems.

Yegor proposed to go out for smoke, and I agreed gladly. I just stood next to him, because actually, I don’t smoke. We talked about life while Arthur and Vasily came.

Vasily was probably forty years old: his gray hair was shining in his blond hair. Military bearing felt throughout his appearance. Camouflage and army boots also reminded about the military. Then on the way back, Arthur said that camouflage is only for objects, and in the office, men wear regular clothes and look different.

Saying goodbye to Vasily and Yegor, Arthur and I went back to the office. There we made ourselves a cup of coffee and went to the office of Arthur. Arthur opened his laptop and turned it on. I noticed that on the lid of the laptop was a scratch that resembled the letter Z. Arthur turned the laptop to me stood over me and began to explain,

“Here are the materials on security systems. This is a website of our company. Watch it. You can also search the Internet advertising other companies dealing with security systems. So, you are doing something for yourself, and I will go to Maxim,” said Arthur and left the office, taking his cup of coffee.

The first fifteen minutes, I couldn’t figure out what I should do, and aimlessly clicked the mouse. Then the numbness passed; I began to look a website Absolute and websites of other companies, offering security systems. Arthur was not returning; I was given a room to myself until the end of the day.

At six in the evening, he returned, asked how I was doing. I said I watched pages of websites and asked him to print me a page from the website Absolute, and several pages of other companies that I have selected for myself. Arthur printed out and gave me papers.

“You can go home. I’ll take you home and then come back here,” he was worried, apparently, at work.

After some ten minutes, we pulled up to my house. Arthur kissed me, said tomorrow he’s picking me up at quarter to nine and, maybe, give me a call later today. And he left.

I was glad to return home. At once, too much all changed with the advent of Arthur in my life. I was holding the printed sheets from the office of Absolute. If yesterday I was full of romantic feelings for Arthur, but today I didn’t felt a romance, just work. “It’s like on a swing,” I thought.

Dressed in my room, I went to the kitchen to have dinner. Here I warmed frozen vegetables and cooked eggs cut sausage. I did all this mechanically, but at this time my mind ran through the events of today. I realized that I wanted all my experiences of this day to put on paper. Dinner was ready; I ate what I had prepared, drank the juice and went into the living room.

In the living room, I turned on the TV, dimming the sound to a minimum. I wasn’t going to watch, but so it was the illusion that I was not alone in the room. I took blank sheets of paper, thick folder to put under the sheets, a pencil and comfortably settled on the couch. Yesterday I needed a brush and paint today – a simple pencil.

At first, I decided to draw Irina in front of the reception office of Absolute. I drew the strokes the contours of the room, its details, and the reception and moved to the figure of Irina, showing her a sideways. On my sketch, Irina was holding a folder, and when I drew her face, I allowed myself to paint glasses. They added to her solidity. “Irina on the job” became such.

For the next picture, I imagined Vasily and Yegor at the house, where we were the day. I wasn’t sure I remembered all the details of the mansion. I drew the main contours of the house that remained in my memory, and in front of the mansion, I portrayed Vasily and Yegor as they are doing something, opened the window.

The last picture I portrayed Maxim and Arthur in the office. I drew as Maxim sat at his desk, leaning back in the chair, holding hands behind a head and legs under the desk and looked at the laptop screen. Arthur, with a cup of coffee in his hands, stood behind him and also looked at something in the laptop Maxim.

Arthur called me when I finished the drawings, washed and went to bed. The clock on the wall showed almost midnight. He and Maxim left the office at ten in the evening. Then they drove to dinner. After dinner, back home, he decided to call me. He talked about himself and asked me how I spent my time in the evening. I intrigued him by telling about the pictures. He wanted to know what I depicted in the drawings, but I said that today let it be a mystery, and tomorrow he will see them himself.

“You’re a real woman with own mystery. I so want to hug and kiss you right now. I’ll wait for tomorrow impatiently.”

“And do you work late often?”

“Sometimes I have to work late. You are going to angry me for it?”

“In our family dad often didn’t happen at home, at his work he traveled a lot on business trips. But he loved my mom and me, and we felt his love even when he wasn’t with us.”

“Your dad was lucky that he met your mother. And I was lucky that I met you.”

Rather, it is lucky for me. My life was dull and boring until I met you. I even didn’t draw these two years after the death of my parents. And now I wanted again….

“My dear artist, you and me it is time to sleep. Sweet dreams.”

“Sweet dreams. See you tomorrow.”

“In the morning I’ll pick you up. Bye.”

I was tired for the day and fell asleep quickly.