Surely such friendly people would not mind her joining them? She got in a line at a table piled high with many foods, and got a small plate. She tap...ed the shoulder of the man in front of her. When he turned around, and then down to see her, she asked, "what kind food is that?".He smiled and said, "That's potato salad. Those are dill pickles. Do you like dill pickles?" I do not know. I never eat American food, except on airplane. I will try them."The man started to turn away, then. I went back to my media plans and also checked with my agency and was pleasantly surprised that we had actually planned for almost 2 crore of spend on that channel. I immediately told the agency that I would personally negotiate with this channel and not to communicate anything to them directly. Rashmi had taken to calling me up and texting me almost thru the day to check what was possible and in this way another 5 days passed. Her additional sales of some 40 lacs had happened but she was still. Thrown off by her question, I stammered, “Um ... well...”Her eyebrows raised up. “Both?”Nicole had one of those penetrating stares that were hard to break away. The answer-me-right-now look. And she was boring it into me. “Kelsea and possibly Zoey are waiting in my bedroom,” I confirmed. “Kinda had a brief make out with Kelsea before the fuse blew out.” I felt like hanging my head in shame. I was ruining my chances with Nicole.Yet my high school crush surprised me again. Nicole took a moment to. And then came the interruption. She was to leave for Spain and a rugged and remote coastal location the very next day! The tickets were waiting for her when she came home from work and her heart sank when she saw them. It did not matter that she had known for weeks that the day was soon to come - she was sick of the whole damned business by now. Her bruises had just about healed after the realistically filmed torture scenes and all her aches and pains had gone. Now she was to have to go through.