Chapter 3 The Plan

Interestingly, Janet was also trying to have a glimpse at the face of the man who was clumsy enough to cause an accident at the ball. Since luck was on her side, the guy (Peter) had also turned around to check her out and their eyes widened at the same time on recognition. Her mind was racing trying to decide on what to do since she attended the ball with an agenda.

Specifically, Janet needed to not only woo people to donate cash for the charity she was running but also she wanted to find out if she could get lucky and get a date. As a matter of fact, the latter agenda is one of the reasons she arrived late at the party. To be exact, spicing up her dating life is the main reason why Janet decided to defile all the odds by wearing a knee length black dress that did not adhere to the general ball dress code.

Janet was not sure whether they literally stared at each other for a few seconds or longer because she did not want to be the first one to break eye contact. All she knew was that it took her a while to snap out of it and see the indecisiveness on Peter's face. The expressions on Peter's face tendee to give Janet a clear picture on the various thoughts running through his mind. This is more so when it came to whether Peter could continue with his journey or not.

Based on the reality that conversation among the formulated groups would digress and focus on the commotion that had taken place for a while, Janet made the decision to excuse herself and approach Peter. It was when Janet was moving towards him that she noticed Peter blink severally before slowly appraising her. She quickly also did a one over appraisal and showed appreciation of what she was seeing with her eyes.

By the time she was close enough to communicate, she had decided Peter was definitely a candidate for the second and long term plan. Regarding Peter's potential for the donations agenda, it was yet to be determined.

Peter could not believe the girl who never paid her any attention earlier in life had overlooked his misdeeds in the function and taken the initiative to come to him. This is mainly because he was fully aware that anything that took away attention from Janet always irritated her.

In addition, despite coming from similar backgrounds, Janet had always claimed Peter had nothing to offer her. So for now, he was definitely interested on what Janet would say. This is taking into consideration the neurons in his brain had decided he liked her. What the actual intent for pursuing her was yet to be determined. For this reason, Janet was still a subject of interest. The period of interaction and contact, manner and end of their potential relstionship would be determined with time, Peter concluded.

After exchanging pleasantries and Janet offering her sympathies for the misfortune that had befallen Peter, they settled on some small talk. To be exact, the two acquaintances tried to summarily catch up but avoided talking about their careers deliberately.

In exactly 3 minutes, Peter told Janet he had to leave because he had other engagements. This move pissed off Janet because she was sincerely enjoying their conversation. Besides, she is ghe one who normally left conversations and the other way round. This move left Janet a little unbalanced.

However, in order to ensure they would stay in contact, she asked Peter for his business card and offered him one of her own. Thereafter, they said their goodbyes to each other.

Once Peter left the room, Janet chose to slowly walk back to the group she had left behind. This is while swinging her hips and ensuring the attention returned to her. The heels she had worn announced her approach by clicking loudly.

For Peter, things had taken a new turn as he left the ball with a huge smile on his face. As a matter of fact, a plan started formulating on how he was going to handle most if not all of the things that were stressing him.