Danke
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Leider drifted es ein wenig ins Kitschige ab.
Und der Teil ist nichts o lang.
Rory? Now their Campaign leader was confused. Jane seemed to have a problem with her eye, but Rory didn’t look as she would have any problems. He was wrong.
“Mr. Smith”, Rory said to the Campaign leader, “I have a problem, and I’m sure you think it’s nonsens, but it isn’t, it means a lot to me. And I know that I risk my job by asking this, but I have to ask, if not I’ll probably be unable to concentrate on our Campaign any more.”
The Campaign leader sighed, he had no idea what Rory wanted and so he wanted her to go, but friendly as he was, he promised not to fire her, at least if her question was not something like..
I am pregnant, what should I do?
“Well, we should go somewhere, where we can sit down”, Rory suggested, she didn’t want to tell him her problem as an aside.
So they went together to the lounge of the hotel. The Campaign leader wondered why Jane was with them and tried not to think about it, he was sure he would be wrong, and on the same side he was a bit curious.
At the lounge the three of them sat down and Rory started to explain her problem. It took a while, but the Campaign leader was very obliging and never interrupted her. He listened carefully and after Rory’s story he made his conclusion.
“So, Ms. Gilmore, you want to get free time to travel to San Francisco to tell Mr. Huntzberger that you still love him and decided to marry him?”
“No, well, yes, but no. Again, I want to tell him that I love him and that I think it was stupid of both of us to say it’s over like this. I want to talk to him, and see if he could live with another solution than all or nothing. I was too busy to talk with him about that, and I want to change it, you know I want to have assurance. If he really wants all or nothing with no exception, than there is no future for us, but if he is able to have an agreement I want him back.
I just want two or three days...I don’t want to call him, it wouldn’t be right to discuss that by phone.”
Rory was nervous, she knew that she explained herself as good as she could, but you’ll never know what other people think. She hoped her Campaign leader understood her problem.
“Ms. Gilmore, you’ll know for sure, that I’m not happy about something like that. I was confident that all of you concentrate on work while our trip. I thought all of you made sure that you’ll be able to do so. And now you tell me this.” He sighed and looked at Rory, irritated. He didn’t want to be part of such a story.
“Well let’s see, I can’t give you free time, but you know that we travel to San Francscio in some weeks, isn’t that enough for you? In San Francisco you will have time to meet him.”
“No, I don’t want to wait another plenty of weeks, I think it’s too late then, I think now it’s extremely tardy to talk with him, but him asking me to marry him is not that long ago…I want to do it now, but if you think there is no way to give me free time for doing that, I will accept it.”
Her Campaign leader sighed again and his thoughts went back to his youth. What Rory didn’t know was, that he was in a similar position when he was younger. He asked a girl to marry him, but she didn’t want to commit. She followed her career and he went to another state to get a job at a newspaper magazine.
Three years later, he was married to another girl. Looking at that now, he knows that it was a
preciptious decision, but at the time he married he was in love and didn’t think too much of their future. Two months after the marriage he got a phone call from Chicago. It was Joan, the girl who didn’t want to marry him due to her career.
He was overstrained by her call. But when he heard what she wanted he had to hung up, it hurt too much.
She told him that she had deeply regreted her decision three years ago, she now is sure to want him back. But it was too late, he was married and at that time happy, until this call.
He told his wife about the girl and she was extremely jealous. Their relationship wasn’t the best after that incident, but they carried on like nothing happened and didn’t talk abou it. One day it was enough, both decided that it would be better to divorce.
“Ms. Gilmore you hit the right part of me. I think I know how you feel. I’ll tell you what we can do. But I have to ask my boss if he is thinking that it’s okay to do so. I won’t tell him your story but I have to explain why I want you to go to San Francscio now. I’m going to call him , and in about two hours we’ll meet here again, alright?”
Rory was happy, she never expected that reaction, she was sure that he wouldn’t understand, but obviously he did, he thanked him a lot and promised to be here in two hours.
Two hours later Rory was back at the lounge and couldn’t wait for the Campaign leader to arrive.
She ordered a drink and her thoughts zoned out to Logan, when her Campaign leader finalyy arrived.
“Ms. Gilmore, I talked to my boss and I have good news, but only with one condition!”
“You can go to San Francisco, but you have to do research for us, you will have a harder job to do than now. We want you to check the situation in San Francisco, we want you to do interviews, stuff like that. And to help you with that, a good friend of mine at the San Francisco Chronicle will give you a room at their office. You will help them with their articles and you will not get more money than now. And you will not get any references. You agree with that?”
Rory was happy, she couldn’t answer immediately but noded her head.
Her Campaign leader condemned himself for being so compliable and went back to his room, after making sure that he will meet Rory at evening, to clarify the conditions of her trip to San Francisco. He wondered if she will be able to buy herself a plane ticket