"Er..deal," Max nod his head in agreement. This girl is already making him crazy about her. "We will be moving out soon. I'm living away from my parents due to my work. I heard you work somewhere near the place I stay. As what? Clerk or something?"
"What?! Hello? I'm a eye specialist!" Max was taken back by her pride.
"Oh, you are? Ok,"
"You are? I heard you work in an IT company, one of the worker is it? Right?"
Max was still dazed and he nod to her, "Yeah, worker,dealing with paper stuffs." In actual he is a the Manager of the International ICT. And she didn't know that.
The deal was not to tell any of their family members that they are up to this relation. For Anna its still awkward t act as a wife towards Max. Max respects hr decision and falling for her was easy.
They came out of the room. Anna went to her mother in law to help her with the cooking. Max kept an eye on her because it hard for him to get away from her. He loves her smile. The way she thinks on what to talk next, he smiled like a retard.
"Way to go, you are staring at her too much," Max cousin sister poked her.
"What?" he gave her a poker face.
"So how was last night?"
"What? What are you talking?" He gave her a blur face.
"Like nothing happened? 'Nothing'?" She pointed out the word 'nothing'.
"Jamie, that's too much," Max pushed her away but after she was gone, he smiled at himself.
Jamie could be very childish at times even though she is 20.
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"Ok, mum, I will," Max bid goodbye to his mum and dad while they were on the car to his own house which is a few hours ride.
The journey of their own married life starts.
Anna will be minding her own business, she usually goes to work before Max in the morning. She works in a eye specialist hospital. Max goes after that. But breakfast would be ready on his table though. Anna makes breakfast before she goes off.
"How is your wifey doing Max?" One of his Co-worker asked.
"Doing good," He quickly hide something he was writing away from the file he was holding.
"We have an invitation to New York for some International Conference on the Mobile Exporting.
"Sure put that aside, I will take a look at it later," Max's friend put the card aside and went out.
Max took the paper he was scribbling and looked at it.
He called Anna.
"Hello?" She took her phone.
"Anna? Can you come over our house in 15 minutes?"
"Max, I can't I am busy right now," She said.
"Come on, I bet it will be good,"
I can't, can't you see, I'm busy,"
"Ok, maybe later dinner?"
"I will be tired Max, next time ok?"
Max tried but she pushed it.
He kept the phone.
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Anna was home and she was playing a piano when Max came into the house.
Its the first time Max listening to her playing piano. And she was marvelous.
"You play piano?"
"Yes," She said with a final key hitting the note.
"You?"
"Err...I- Yea, I do, I love Beethoven, Picasso's sheets,"
"Picasso is not a pianist, he is an artist," Anna told him doubtly looking at him.
"Oh.yeah yeah, a little confusion that's all," He kept his bag on the couch and move closer.
"You read novels?"
"Novels?"
"Like Dan Brown, Paulo Coelho, J.K Rowling?"
"I know J.K Bowling,"
"Its Rowling,"
"Yeah the guy who write magazines right?" Max was trying to talk out something.
That made Anna laugh.
"Haha, first J.K Rowling is a women and she wrote Harry Potter Novels,"
"Oh, really?"
"I made lunch today, since you came home early you can eat,"
Max looked at her. Usually both of them eat outside during their work time lunch break.
Now it feels weird to be sitting together and eating. Max was happy with it.
"We are going on a dinner party next week. My err..my boss invited us to his house for some opening on our IT product," Max reasoned out. Actually its a congratulatory ceremony for the idea of him that the product is launched.
"Sure, maybe I can try asking him for promotion?" Anna looked at Max. Max nearly spitted his food.
What? "Oh? Oh.." Max realized Anna doesn't know his real job description yet. How funny.
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"Anna you ready?" Max knocked the door to make sure she is there.
"Yes, I am," She came out with a most elegant dress. She was wearing a black knee cut dress. Max couldn't talk back and he kept quiet.
"How do I look?" Anna asked for Max's comment.
"Erm, wow! You-look, you look breath taking," Was the word he was thinking.
Anna laughed at how stunt he looked at her. She waved her hands in front of him because he keep staring at her while she was walking around the house checking before going out.
"We can go now," She told him.
He nod and walked to the car.
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Anna and Max separated because of the crowd in the party.
Anna was walking around when she met one of her hospital colleague and she started conversing.
Max was being congratulated, Anna saw him being hand shaken and frown. He is just a worker, why are they congratulating him?
Anna started walking around looking at him from far away. It's when she realize how he looks. All this time she was busy with her job she didnt even take a look at her own husband.
Max, he is tall, he looks gorgeous with his coat suit, broad shoulder, black eyes and slick hair. He have a smart look and cunning smile. She immediately had a weird feeling growing. Shews looking at him all this while that she didnt realise she bumped into someone. "Oh!"
"Oh, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" She was apologizing continuously.
"It's ok, you must be Max's wife?" The guy she bumped asked.
"Oh, yeah," She stood still.
"I'm James, Max's second assistant. I've seen your picture in his office," He said smiling.
"His assistant? You work under him?" She was surprised.
"Oh, yes madam, he is the manager of the International ICT Company. Everyone works under him,"
Anna just gave him a shocked face and thanked him before walking away.
She was finding for Max.
Then she heard something familiar.
Something that she played in her house. The piano verse!
Someone is playing it.
She walked towards the key and she found Max sitting in front of the piano and playing.
She went closer to him and asked, "You play?"
"I learned,"
"And you are the Manager of the company. Why would you hid it from me?"
"I don't know," Max shrugged. But Anna couldn't contain her smiled and she smiled widely.
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Anna has maid coming to house to clean the house every week since they are busy with their own work.
That day Anna wanted blessing from elderly because its her birthday.The maid was an elderly so she asked for blessing. "Thank you for the cleaning, and please do bless me, its y birthday, my mum is not here to bless me,"
"Oh, ma'am. Why are you asking me, but bless you child. All will be good in you life,"
Max who was passing the kitchen saw Anna being blessed and heard her saying its her birthday.
In Max's break time, Max got to a book store and got a heart shaped card and a bouquet for Anna.
He wrote in the card and was ready to give it to her at night.
At night after Anna took her shower Max was waiting at the balcony. He heard Anna inside the room removing the comforter to go to bed.
"Anna, erm.."
"Yes?" She stood waiting for him to ask.
"Err..err..here," He gave her the bouquet he was hiding behind his hand first.
"Oh?"
"Happy Birthday," He wished her.
"How did you know?"
"I overheard you talking to the cleaner,"
Anna smelled the roses in her hand. It was so pretty and she was happy.
"What's that on the other hand?"
"Uh?" Max was wavering on whether to give it to her now or not.
"Behind, what are you hiding,"
"What? Nothing!" He showed his empty hand and at that time there was a phone call for him and he answered it turning his back to him.
Anna just ignored and looked at the flowers. She put it in an empty vase and went back to sleep.
After answering the call, Max return into the room and saw her already sleeping peacefully figure.
He thought maybe next time. So he hid the card in between his books in the rack.
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One month has passed and Anna and Max has to the friends level.
Anna makes coffee in the morning for Max before he goes to work nowadays. There's been an improvement in their relationship.
One day when Anna was cleaning the house with the cleaner, she caught the card in between the books in the rack when she took out to clean it.
It was the heart shaped card that Max bought for her Birthday. She opened it and it was return.
"Would you be my other half?"
Happy Birthday.
Max.
Anna couldn't contain her smiled and she smiled at it.
She took the card to her room and she wrote on it.
"I am"
She kept inside her file.
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Inside Anna's office cubicle, she was staring at the card.
She was looking at Max handwriting.
She wanted so badly to give him but she decided to give this on his birthday.
She know that she already had fallen for Max now.
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