William Gorgain...is somehow a weird person for me

The meeting with Mr William Gorgain is planned in KM restaurant. It's a renowned place as I know. Daniel seems uncomfortable in those tight clothes. I should've picked the XL size. Jordan took me to a table at the corner and stopped Daniel.

Jordan-Uhhh...you can wait here or sit somewhere else, I think. You can't join this meeting. It's a business meeting. I hope you understand this situation.

Daniel-Yeah... I think so .. [He is looking at him with a smiling face ]

Myself- It's okay Jordan. He can come with us. It's not a big matter for me. If he stays with me, I can speak freely. [Then I turned to Daniel and held his hand .]Come.

Jordan is surprised. But he didn't say anything further and took us to the table.

Just in time, William Gorgain came to the place. He is young. Maybe 28 or 30 years now! Tall and good looking. It's surprising that he is eager to make film in my novel. He came to us with a smiling face and shook hands with us.

William - Hello, everyone. It's really nice to meet you. I was waiting for this meeting. It's really nice to meet you, Evelyn.

Myself-It's nice to meet you too Mr. William. It's an...

William - Please drop the formality. You can call me Will. I want to be friends with you. It's an honor for me to work with you.

Myself-Uhhh..okay then. I will try to call you Will. [Jordan is looking at me with a shocking face. It's written all over his face "What's happening ????". Well, it's nothing new. I am not that social. So somebody when approaches to me informally, Jordan is the first person who gets surprised! But it's shocking that Daniel is also looking at William with suspicious eyes. Uggh!! These guys !!]

William - Don't get me wrong . I am a big fan of your works, Eve! Actually...you can say a crazy fan. I even have your debut book.

Myself -What !! You have that! It was out of the market a long time ago. It didn't work out that much. You know...a kid's writing!!Haha.[ It's embarrassing.]

William- Not at all. Rather it helped me a lot during my hard times. I read it so many times to release my stress. And surprisingly it worked well too. It was like a medicine to me. You can say ..you were like a medicine to me!

Myself - Pleasure is all mine. [Isn't he being too informal for the very first time meeting? He is talking as if we know each other for a long time. But... it's okay though ..he isn't a bad guy!]

Jordan-So .. let's discuss the contract.[He is grinning at me. It means a threat. He is definitely going to tell everyone about today ]

William- Sure, let's proceed. [He told his secretary to put the documents out ]

Secretary-Here are the documents. It's a contract which states that you have no objection to our production company in making a film on your work. Please sign in here, Miss Evelyn.[He puts a pen on the documents and gives it to me ]. Please read it first before you sign.

I read the documents and signed them. There was no mistake.

William- So ... we are working together now. We may need some advice from you in further. I hope you will also help us.

Evelyn-Of course. I will try my best.

Secretary - I will let you know about the lead actors after confirmation and we will hold a press briefing on our project in the future. Your presence is a must. I will inform about it to Mr Jordan.

Jordan-Sure. No problem. [Again he is smiling and looking at me. I am sure he loves to torture me a lot. I don't like press conferences and he just wants me to attend them !!! I want to die !]

William - Okay...then everything is final . We should get going. I look forward to our next meeting, Eve![Then he took my hand and put his other hand on it. Smiling sweetly at me .]

Myself-[I took my hand out from his and tried to smile a little ]Yeah, me too, Will. I hope we will meet next time.

William- See you then. Bye, Eve!

William turned away and went outside with his secretary. Before going he waved at me for the last time at the hotel entrance. I also waved him back. He is so childish. I never knew I had a fan like him. My very first book which was a failure is still with him. That was surprising!

Jordan- It was a very quick meeting. We couldn't even order something to eat. I am hungry!!

Myself-Then let's order something first. This place has the best food. I heard from Jane once. Let's try, what do you say?

Daniel- Yeah ..no problem at all. We have time.

Daniel is looking excited. He is liking the outside world. The happy look of his face is really bright. Although it's under the mask.

Myself -Oi ....you can remove your mask now. There's nobody you need to hide. It was for my landlady. [I whispered to Daniel ]

We sat at the table and ordered some light food.

Jordan- We couldn't talk before. You and Eve are friends, huh? From when?

Daniel - Since childhood.

[Cough. Cough] Jordan started to cough. "How can you bbe a friend who had a gloomy behaviour before? "

Daniel-She wasn't like that before. She was very nice, polite and friendly. She became gloomy later on. Because of her fa...[I touched Daniel hand tightly and Shook my head a little as a no ] It was a personal problem that made her like that. It was nothing serious.

Jordan is looking at us with curiosity. He surely understands that we are hiding something.

Jordan- Hmmm....whatever. It's great to know that she had a friend. When I first saw her at college I thought she was a dead person. No facial expression and always alone. We had to work hard to fix her, you know. I mean me and her three other friends, Melissa, Aven and Jane.

Daniel -Yeah .. I met them before. They are really nice .

Jordan -When? How? [Surprised !] I mean when did you meet them?

Daniel- Evie introduced them to me before.

Jordan - Then I was the one who was left out to know you. Good that I know you now. We can hang out together sometimes. Finally another guy in our gang. [Suddenly Jordan's phone started to ring . It's Aven . Oho ...lovey-dovey.]Hey ...what's up?

What!!Are they really in a relationship?? Who says to there girlfriends "What's up?".

Jordan- Yeah ... just wait for five minutes. I will be there in a jiffy. [Jordan puts the phone in his pocket and gets up ] Hey, guys, I have to leave now. I will see you next time.

Myself - Yeah ... see you and say hi to Aven for me.

Daniel - Say her hi for me too. See you later!

Jordan - Alright guys. I will tell her. Bye. [He ran to the entrance and vanished in a second ]

Daniel- He didn't even eat his food fully.

I looked at Jordan's plate and then looked at Daniel's. He is still full. Look who is talking !!!

He didn't even touch his and he is talking about Jordan. So stupid.

Myself-And what about yours? You didn't even eat.

Daniel- I don't feel any taste of it!! Even the coffee you gave me had no taste.

Myself - What!!!

Daniel-Yeah... maybe...because I am not a human ..that's why.[He is looking at his plate. Kinda sad look. He was so excited just a moment ago. ]

Myself - There's a lot of things you can do even if you are not a human. Food is not everything you know ??

Daniel-Yeah...Thanks for the comfort. [Still gloomy]

It's not working at all. I didn't take him out here to be sad and gloomy!!! I got up from my chair and went to the counter, then came back to Daniel. Daniel has a question mark on his face...

Myself -Let's go. We are getting out of here.

Daniel But why? What happened? You haven't finished your desert.

Myself- Well... I am not gonna die if I don't eat it?

Daniel-And where are we going?

Myself-Somewhere where you and me both belong.

Daniel is looking at me surprisingly. His face is red (a little maybe)."I mean...Somewhere both a human and a non-human being can go ... "

I held Daniel's hand and took him out of that restaurant.....