Arthur soon noticed something very extraordinary about Carol. When she enters your life, she really entes your life.
With all she has to offer, her talents, her listening, her care, her time. In short, her love.
She takes an interest in you. With all her enthusiasm and still with respect of your individuality and choices.
Arthur became the center of Carol´s attention. And love. She became his family, and that was what he really wanted.
Arthur´s first measure was to get an assistant for Carol.
“She will help you get organized and take care of small tasks. This way, you will have more free time for yourself and for me.”
“Thanks, honey. Can I choose the assistant?”
“I´ll have my human resource´s manager making the first selection and sending you three candidates for an interview. How about that?”
“Sounds great to me.”
“Also, Carol, I want you to c
A few days after his parents´ arrival from Japan, Mark decided to talk to his mother about Mandy´s visit.He avoided talking to his mother about any subject, because she seemed to get upset when he did it.Since an early age he had simplified his life and kept to himself most of the time. Only urgent matters were brought to his parents’ attention, and even so, most of the time through notes or through the maids.But he realized that Mandy´s wishes were more important than his need of distance from his parents.He talked to his mother one morning, while she was gathering her things to go to the hospital.“Mother, can I talk to you for a minute?”“If it´s quick, then OK. I can´t be late.”“I just want to inform you that I am going steady with someone.”“And?”“Well, she has been my girlfriend for some time now.”“An
Since time has a way of passing whether we want it to or not, the day of Mandy´s trip finally arrived.Previously she had endured the crazy packing her mother had provided. It included survivors’ items.“Just in case the plane lands on a deserted island.” Carol explained in details. Mandy knew that it didn´t make any sense, because there was no island on her route.Arthur had come up with the idea of Mandy having some tracking device, if that was the case. What amazed her the most was that Arthur had made this trip hundreds of times and he also knew that there was no island involved in any part of this trip. But Mandy knew that he did it mainly to calm Carol down and help her cope with the short time separation. He continues his line of thought.“I´ll suggest something else. What about, after you have your taste of freedom, with your independent trip and tours of the capital, we join you for the last two days? Onl
After both planes land safely at the capital of the country, Arthur gets a suite for Carol and him, at a very nice five stars hotel.The suite has all the comforts they could need and besides the large bedroom, it had a living room and office area, with plasma TV and last generation computer to say the least.While Carol is taking a relaxing warm bath, with flower aromas in the jacuzzi, Arthur instructs George about last minute tasks that need immediate attention.When Carol joins him in the living room, they sit together on the soft satin finish couch, and without further explanations, he turns on the TV and Mandy is alive on the large screen.She is giggling and talking to her friend Rose. The sound is mute, but the image is perfect.“How is it possible, Arthur?”“Steve has one of our guys following Mandy and recording her in real time. She won´t notice, since he was trained by our Special Operations Squad. The came
Mrs. Chilsony hurried the girls to get ready and join the others for breakfast at the hotel´s restaurant. It was very enjoyable. There was a fellowship among the students that came from many parts of the country to compete. The truth is that they shared the love of math and found it enjoyable to discuss these matters with their peers.They were accommodated in a long table for more or less thirty people, and the other hotel guests would be impressed when eavesdropping on their chats, “Did you find the coseno and cotangent at first try?” “Nooo. It took me a while. How did you do with the hypotenuse?” And so on… The competition was only on Saturday. For now, they saw each other as friends with a similar interest. Many of them kept in touch for the years to come.But what impressed everybody the most was the beautiful roses bouquet delivered to Mandy there. They were from Mark. And they kept coming every morning to her surprise and del
Carol joined Mandy on Thursday for dinner, pretending on having just arrived. Of course, she would confess all the charade to her daughter when they were back home. She just didn´t want to worry her so near the important day.But surely there was not a place for lies between them. Their love wouldn´t permit it. And also, it was unnecessary because they supported one another, no matter what.Mandy was so happy to have her mom and Arthur joining her cheerful group.Professor Jackson was very optimistic for the results.“Then, are you planning on reviews of the topics for tomorrow?”“No, Arthur. These kids will be tested on their deep knowledge of the mathematics, not on some eve memorization of a couple of formulas.”“And is that good or bad, Jackson?”Everybody at their table laughed heartedly at Arthur´s question.”“It´s good, my friend. It will allow them
Mandy said her goodbyes to The Mathemaniacs on Sunday after breakfast.“See you back home, guys?”“Aren´t you flying with us?” Clayton just couldn´t let this one pass without a remark. “Are we not important enough for you?”There was an akward silence, soon interrupted by a helpful Rose, “And don´t we smell as good as that gorgeous boyfriend of yours?”“Aren´t our hairs as soft as Mark´s?” Ronald added with a smile.Mandy was giggling now. It was all a joke.“Come on guys. It´s easier for me to go with my mom.”“And that´s the reason.” Rose kept teasing Mandy to distract everybody from Clayton´s rudeness.“Sure. That and the reason that I´m completely in love with my handsome perfumed soft-haired boyfriend.”The girls laughed at that. Ronald was busy pushing Clayton´s
Arthur had told Mandy that after watching how serious Steph was about her career, he had decided to invest on it to help her achieve fame.“She will be making an unbelievable amount of money. And this from the shows alone. Not to mention from marketing of her image and launching of products related to her.”“Oh, that´s so exciting. Can I tell her right now?”“Of course, you can. But I have a better. Why don´t you bring her over here tomorrow morning, so she can meet our showbiz staff?”“That´s great. Thank you, Arthur.”“Don´t mention it. Go make your call now. I can see you can´t wait to tell her.”With a cheerful ‘yep’, Mandy left his office and ran to get her phone.MUSIC CAREERArthur was explaining to a very attentive Steph about his vision of her career.“You´ve built an internet presence and shown that y
WEDDING PLANNINGCarol had only a few months to plan her wedding. Of course, budget wouldn´t be a problem. And she immediately hired a professional wedding planner. She took her three assistents to her meeting with her.“Mrs. Wannago, should I worry?”“Absolutely not, dear bride Carol.”The Planner referred to her as bride Carol. She didn´t mind.“What are the main things to check?”Since Mrs. Wannago had a long checklist, Carol took a copy and went home to underline the main things from the list.She had a talk with her assistents.“Well, I think it will be very productive if Grass is in charge of checking the groom´s things, like attire and. Green will help with the bride´s tasks. Oh, dear, I´m the bride! What a thrill. So that will be the dress, makeup, hair, you know. And Gray is in charge of everything that is not related to the bride and groom. Like t