Free Love lines by Diana Nixon

been anything like this for a
long time already.”
    “Absolutely, I think Amanda would love this idea.”
    “Excellent! All the guys would love it too. There are so
many things to be done!” clapping her hands, said Anna, and walked briskly
toward her room, muttering something on the way.
    In a few minutes, Amanda returned... holding another
bouquet.
    “This one, I hope is for you?” I asked.
    “No. Today you are a star,” she said, handing me the
flowers. “However, this time everything’s clear - these are from
Christian.”
    Even without her explanations, I already knew that. Having
barely touched the bouquet, I immediately felt the familiar warmth.
    “Too bad, I don’t know the language of flowers,” I said,
disappointed, after reading the note.
    “Actually we have Anna for this,” Amanda suggested.
    “I don’t think we should bother her so much. Besides,
she is too busy now with the preparations for our party. By the way, we both
need cocktail dresses; the theme of the parties is the casino.”
    “Really? Then we definitely need shopping tomorrow! As
for the bouquet, the message can be deciphered with the help of the handbook. I
signed up for an additional course of Embry, so they gave me this book in the
library,” pulling the right one out of a pile of books, said Amanda. “Okay,
let's see what we have here. Purple hyacinth means “please, forgive me” ,
camellia means “admiration” and the peach blossom – “I am your
prisoner” ,” smiling broadly, she summed up. “It looks like someone managed
to finallymelt my brother’s icy heart,” she added, looking at me
meaningfully.
    As much as I did want to deny her words, I knew that thered blush on my cheeks, had said it all for me long ago, so I asked her
about something else.
    “How do you know so much about flowers? I’ve never seen
any of them before.”
    “You seem to have forgotten whose daughter I am,” Amanda
said. “In our interior garden you would find all of the above.”
    “Yeah, I still can’t get used to the idea that there are
so many geniuses around me,” I said, joking.
    “Well, if you can’t get used only to this idea, the
progress is obvious, sweetie. I thought that you were more worried about your
own being unique. By the way, about the meeting... I think, you should go.”
    “Who said you could read someone else’s notes?” I said,
blushing even more.
    “Who is talking about someone else’s ? Thenote
is from my brother to my best friend,” Amanda said innocently.
    “You don’t think it’s a date, do you?”
    “You don’t need to be a genius, Eileen, to guess,” she
chuckled, hiding behind the bathroom door.
    The rest of the day I spent in futile attempts to find
the answers to some questions. Was it possible, to become attached to a man,
knowing him only for… how long? One and a half days ? The fact that there
was some connection between Christian and me was obvious. That in itself scared
me even more than the question of how strong the connection could be. Just
thinking about him made me feel nervous, in a good way, of course, not to
mention his touch that spread fire all over my body. But the weirdest thing was
our constant awareness of each other’s feelings.
    The clocks already showed half past seven. Did I really
want to go to the meeting with Christian? Of course! What a stupid question!
Despite my attempts to suppress some feelings towards him, I couldn’t resist
that invisible force of gravity that was between us. Forgetting about every, or
at least some of my doubts, I primped and went to the western gate. While my
thoughts were connected to Christian, I felt my own excitement. Or maybe it was his excitement? I couldn’t understand.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 11.  The
lake ( Christian)
     
     I hadalready been waiting for Eileen at the
gate for an hour. No, she wasn’t late. I couldn’t stop pacing my own room, and
went straight to the appointed place, not even