1980 Memories V

The next day.

"Good Morning Larry" said Ivanka as she smiled and she walked into Larry's office, she was surprised, he had arrived early this morning.

"Good Morning" said Larry as he cleared his throat and he looked at her, she laughed silently, was he still shy about the kiss she had gave him last night?? It was not even a kiss on the lips and yet he was acting so strange.

"How was your night?" asked Ivanka as she smiled and she sat down across him at his desk.

"*Ahem*, good, and how was yours?" asked Larry.

In all honesty terrible, her back was aching, she had to take out some men when she went back to the office.

"It could have been better" said Ivanka as she smiled.

"I see" said Larry.

"Yes" said Ivanka as she smiled and she put her hands on his desk.

"What happened to your hand" said Larry in concern as he held her hand in his, she had bruised her hand, her soft light skin was now red.

"Ahh this…" said Ivanka as she panicked and she withdrew her hand from his.

"I… I just banged it on the door last night" said Ivanka as she rubbed her hand and she did not make eye contact with him, she felt bad for lying to him, but he did not know her at all, the truth was that she had hurt herself fighting those men last night, she did not know how she could have been so careless, she never got hurt… never… but maybe her mind was just preoccupied with other things that she did not focus well enough.

"I see" said Larry and Ivanka nodded.

"You need to be more careful" said Larry.

"Have you rubbed some ointment on it?" asked Larry.

"Yes… I have… thank you" said Ivanka as she looked at him and she smiled.

"For what?" asked Larry.

"For caring about me" said Ivanka as she smiled, she only have one other man that truly cared about her… while the rest… well they only saw her as a weapon, a tool for their disposal.

"You do not need to thank me" said Larry and Ivanka smiled at him, he was always so nice to her.

"Can I tell you a secret?" asked Ivanka as she smiled.

"If you want to" replied Larry.

"You are the first man I ever kissed" said Ivanka as she smiled and Larry looked away from her, just what was she saying??? But he was not going to say that it was the same for him as well, besides, they did not kiss, she only gave him a slight peck on his cheek.

"I see" said Larry as he did not know what to say and Ivanka giggled, she knew that he would react like this.

"Anyway, let's get back to work shall we?" asked Ivanka as she smiled.

"Yes" said Larry as he cleared his throat and Ivanka smiled.

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Over the next past few weeks, Ivanka and Larry had been working closely together, and they became very close as well, Ivanka learnt so many new things about Larry, for one she now knew that his middle name was Tim, his mother had passed away earlier in the year, he preferred to work for different companies for a short time, he had plans to start his own company.

He was a very realistic but funny man, he had a great sense of humour that he never told anyone about, he loved the colour Grey, because it was simply, bland and could be worn on basically anything, and most of all, he was very shy… which was something she knew already.

Ivanka could not explain it, but she felt very close to him, like she could trust him with her deepest darkest secrets, and over the time that they had spent together, Larry had once given her a rose, and she smiled, she appreciated his kind gesture, but she did not know if he felt the same way that she felt about him… she did not even know what she felt about him… but all she knew was that it was different from anything else she had felt before.

"Mr Richardson asked me to tell you that he expects the records tomorrow morning" said Ivanka as she smiled and she walked into Larry's office.

"Alright, I am done with them already, I will send them to him" said Larry.

"Okay, do you want me to give them to him?" asked Ivanka.

"No, I will take them to him later" said Larry.

"But for now… I have something for you to do" said Larry.

"Alright" said Ivanka as she smiled and she sat down at his desk.

"Take a look at these" said Larry as he handed her some papers and she looked through them, but there was one paper in particular that did not look like it belonged her at all, in fact she was sure that it did not belong here at all.

Ivanka removed the piece of paper from the others and she read what was written on it, it read "Would you like to go to dinner with me?" and it was written beautifully in Cursive writing that belonged to someone Ivanka knew well.

"Yes" said Ivanka as she looked up at Larry and she smiled at him as he pretended like he did not know what he was talking about as he looked so clueless.

"What do you mean?" asked Larry, and Ivanka smiled, he was just so shy, he did not want to put himself out there so if he was rejected he would be able to back down which Ivanka found funny and charming at the same time.

"Yes I will go to dinner with you" said Ivanka as she smiled at him.

"*Ahem*, great" said Larry as he cleared his throat and he stood up.

"Well I am going to give these to Mr. Richardson" said Larry as he walked away quickly as if he was being chased and Ivanka laughed as she shook her head, he was just so sweet… so sweet and scared.

…

"Hello" said Ivanka as she was outside of the office in a rather dark alley, it was almost closing time, and she had a call to make as the other person on the line replied.

"How far with the mission?" asked the man on the other side of the line as Ivanka held the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x in her hand.

"I have the documents" replied Ivanka.

"Good" replied the man.

"But…" said Ivanka as she paused.

"But what?" asked the other man coldly.

"But do we have to do this?" asked Ivanka.

"What kind of nonsense question is that Ivanka?" asked the other man on the line as he snapped at her.

"I just…" said Ivanka as she hesitated.

"You just what?" asked the man.

"Are you sleeping with him?" asked the man as he scoffed.

"No… no of course not, who do you take me for?" asked Ivanka in anger as she snapped back at him.

"I am just checking, because why else would you refuse to do something you have done to countless men when it comes to him?" asked the man coldly.

"Well because he is innocent, he does not deserve to be framed" said Ivanka.

"No one is truly innocent, they always have something to hide in the end, and you know that Ivanka" said the man.

"But he is different" said Ivanka.

"Ivanka, enough of this nonsense, remember your duty to your country or else" said the man angrily, he was tired of this nonsense that Ivanka was saying, he thought that she was better than this.

"No one is indispensable, and you of all people should know that" said the man coldly.

"Yes Igor… I know that" said Ivanka.

"Good to know, so do your job, or I kill him… he is not important anyway" said the man named Igor as he laughed and it made Ivanka angry.

"Do your job devochka (girl), I warn you once more" said Igor as his tone was chilling.

"Ya budu (I will)" replied Ivanka.

"Good" said Igor as he ended the call and Ivanka sighed, she did not know what to do, she wanted to reject this mission, but she was too far in, and now Larry would suffer because of her...if she had known she would have found a way to reject this mission, even though she knew that it was impossible.

"Ivanka what are you doing here?" asked Larry as he opened the door to the alleyway as he saw Ivanka standing there as she sighed.

"Ahhh well I had to take a call" said Ivanka as she smiled.

"I see, well shall we go now?" asked Larry..

"Ahhh… well the thing is… I have a meeting with my family, it just came up" said Ivanka sadly.

"Can we rescheduled, how about we go to dinner tomorrow?" asked Ivanka as she smiled.

"And believe me I am not saying this because I don't want to go with you… but I really need to go, it is very important" said Ivanka as she was honest with him, because she did not want him to think that she did not want to go out with him.

"I understand, it is alright, we can go tomorrow" said Larry.

"Oh thank you Larry, you are really understanding" said Ivanka as she smiled.

"Goodnight Ivanka" said Larry as he smiled.

"Goodnight Larry" said Ivanka as she smiled and Larry walked away as she sighed… what was she going to do??