There's Nothing to It: Chapter II
Do This and Do That
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Introducing Sissy Castleman, the person in the office who everybody counts upon to get their place to function free of any incidents. Nobody gave her such a task, as it seems that wherever she may be within the workplace, it becomes convenient for others to task her, not ask her, like when Sissy is at the coffee machine, one may task her, “Can you get me a cup too, with three sugar packets and three creamer packets,“ and before she leaves the coffee machine area, she is taking four cups of coffee to their respective ordered fellow workers, according to their being placed within the office ending with the last cup nearest to where desk may be.
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Another point about Sissy is that she has a fantastic memory, as to which cup goes to which person, and by grabbing all the cups according to their placement within the office, she delivers them righteously. Free of incidents, and all participants will tell her where to place their coffee, “Not near my busy phone,” or “Away from papers,” and one thing that bears mentioning is that none of the four coffee recipients thanked her for either making their coffee as requested or delivering specific said coffee to their area on top of their desk placement’s. Yet, in the end, she is behind in her work and does a quick assessment as to where she’ll begin, to where she’ll let up.
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Albeit that they all can wait while she checks in with their boss, saying, “Checking to see if she needs anything,” to which she shook her head side-to-side, indicating that she is good to go. She then tackled her work and had most done before lunchtime, and of course, many bid her to join them, to which she all declined. She leaves to meet with Adam, her lunch partner, where she supplies her homemade meal for both of them as usual. He enjoys her meals and nothing more than just that, and he relatedly made it quite clear to her that he’s not interested in a relationship of any kind, but deep down, Sissy felt that way, being overweight. The reasons Adam’s adamant approach stems from, resourced, adamant, was what he was named after.
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She enrolled in a fitness class and a weight reduction class involving nutritious, healthier meals. So, she informs Adam that he will need to bring his own lunchtime meals or buy something for about a couple of months, as she intends to avoid him until her transformation takes place. Meanwhile, she meets John Avery, a British socialite, at one of the weight reduction class’s suave affairs. This is Sissy’s day two and a half of the month’s weight loss. And she looks ravishing, to have caught a man about the world so much into her, but she had to maintain her demeanor because after all, she is still a student, and not as a single person, but with her classmates and teacher, still being graded.
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As the luncheon affair had ended, and the class was cleaning up afterwards, John stood near her looking totally uninterested, as not to arouse any suspicions, he offered to which she accepts a casual dinner invitation from John. Later that evening, she joined him, arriving a tad late due to traffic from the countryside, as the dinner date was at his hotel, where he stayed while attending the luncheon, for reasons of his presence there. He compliments her, knowing the class was about weight reduction, though he maintained focus on her and not the class. Exchange of contact information was ascertained, and the regained its eloquence.
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Charmingly fitting for a person who did menial tasks for others, to have found her true love in John, a distant memory, from the adamancy of Adam, a harsh reminder of an overweight past, both in her size’s struggle, and coping with it, and her dealing with life as a gopher at her workplace, which has abruptly ended, saying, “I’m too busy, you’ll have do it yourself, stirring her coffee mug, on the way to her desk. Thinking of hooking up with John later that night, and the next night, and…anyway. She bumps into adamant Adam, who didn’t recognize her at first, until after she made herself known to him, “Yes, it’s all me, and yes, a newer me, and a better me.” He left his mouth gaping, voiceless, saying to him, “Ta-ta.”
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In a short while, John proposes to her of which she readily accepted without any malice or forethought in mind, just loving the world mosey on down the road, its bright and merry way. Just thinking that she had done was to impress upon Adam her ability to better herself was all due to Adam and his adamant posturing towards her, which caused her to effect a better change of herself, and surely not her personality for that is why he attends luncheon with her, and both are enjoying each other’s company, for a few times she’s running late unable to make a homemade meal, of which Adam always takes her to lunch and ends up paying for the meal, of which he adds, “The least I can do after all these times, you did it all.”
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Presently, she feels remorseful and is really foolish at herself, treating Adam in her new look, which was all caused by him, but not her snobbish alternative, which was her own self doing. So, she heads back to him, telling him what she did to get the way she looks now, “Me!” As they both laughed, and that is what she was looking for all her life, was to enjoy, and there is Adam again, not being adamant, but charming in his own endearing way, so she may have a new life with dashing John, but Adam will always be there for her, either way. Adam’s attraction to her was personality after a ho-hum busy day at work; Sissy was his release to being human once again.
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She’s now married and introduced Adam, who was away taking care of his ill father until he passed away, and has now returned home. And you guessed it, Adam took them to lunch, both of them regaling their lunchtimes, and laughing about the time that she forgot his allergic tendencies, causing him to convulse at one of her homemade meals that was laced with enough of it for him to throw up, not something one would bring up at a luncheon, as they all break out laughing. Soon, Sissy will be leaving work as she is carrying a baby and will start living the family home life. She was entertained with a baby shower that was hosted by Adam, for which he was adamant. Adam, being the only man there, kept John company.
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Adam became a closer friend than any of their friends, until one day he didn’t come to work, and co-workers called Sissy to check up on him because nobody had heard from him for more than a week, and they were more concerned that something was amiss. So they took a long drive to his home, but the landlady said that he had paid up and had his things moved to his dad’s home in the country, which they had visited once before as an invite from Adam, not too long ago. They found Adam bedridden, tended by a hospice worker. Adam has the same illness as his father, saying it was hereditary. Saying he does not have much time, and deducted that the hospital will do what they do with no living relatives. He knew of his dad's ailment, as to why he hadn't married, and decided to stay single.
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Other than the distant step uncle who would not give him a time of day, he asked them if they would take care of his affairs, as the house is all paid for, he could leave them that. Still, they both declined the house but will attend to his affairs and donate the house’s monies to whomever the beneficiary is, to which he discloses, his family church in the town’s square. On that day, Sissy was so downhearted and couldn’t stop crying. Her once-beloved lunch partner has passed away and was soon laid to rest. They bought the downtrodden home, and had it torn down as a safety precaution for vagrants not to occupy whatever its conditions may be.
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Sadden by the recent events, they returned to the several acres of land that they now owned, and signed over to Adam’s town church by the square, and attended a prayer there, and placed flowers at Adam’s grave, before leaving as usual, with Sissy in tears and a clueless baby boy, “Let me tell you about your dear Uncle Adam…”
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