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stayed any longer. She giggled as the door was closing.
    “Who was that?” Jasmine asked, suddenly
right next to Abby. She nearly screamed at her sudden arrival, but
was just able to hold it back.
    “ Oh, his name was Tom, he
asked me out to lunch tomorrow.”
    Jasmine smiled, “First day on the job and
you already have a date, good job. He was really cute too by the
way.”
    Abby blushed and turned as the bell rang,
signaling new customers. She was curious as to how her first date
would go.

Chapter 4
    The next day she took extra care to make
sure she was up early so she could actually wear something cute,
and fix her hair. As she was grabbing her purse and keys to head
out the door, she felt an odd feeling in her stomach. It felt as
though her stomach was twisting and turning in ways she had never
felt before, and she wondered, is this what butterflies felt like?
She had never been on a date before, so she didn’t remember ever
being this nervous about anything.
    She shrugged her shoulders figuring this was
something every girl felt when she had a date coming up and as she
went to open the door, it suddenly flew open as though someone had
pushed it open from the other side.
    Her heart started pounding and she grabbed
at her chest, as though trying to keep her heart from jumping right
out of it and gasped so loudly that she wouldn’t be surprised if
her father had heard it from his house. She slowly leaned forward
trying to see around the corner, checking to see if someone had
opened the door from the hallway, but there wasn’t anybody lurking
in the hallway.
    She looked down at her phone seeing that it
was still early, so she hurriedly locked her door behind her, ran
for the elevator, and hit the button for the lobby. Once she
reached the lobby, she practically ran over to the elevator on the
other side of the room for the right wing hitting the button and
cried out in glee when the doors opened right away.
    She pushed the button for
the 20 th floor and tapped in the code Jasmine had given her for the
penthouse and sighed in relief when the doors closed and the
elevator started to go up.
    She fidgeted as the elevator continued to
climb, feeling like she was in the slowest elevator invented. When
it finally stopped and the doors opened, Jasmine was standing there
looking down at her watch. She looked up and saw Abby standing
there, her face as white as though she had seen a ghost.
    She stepped in the elevator and pushed the
button for the lobby and looked over at Abby, “What’s wrong, you
look like you’ve seen a ghost or something.”
    Abby took a breath and told her about how
the door had flown open as though by itself, not stopping until she
got to the end of the story.
    Jasmine looked at her for a second before
she finally replied, “What were you thinking about when the door
flew open?”
    Abby was surprised at this question and
tilted her head to the side as she answered, “I don’t know, I
remember thinking that I had butterflies because of my date, then I
looked at the door thinking I needed to hurry and get to work and
that was when it flew open. Why does that matter?”
    Jasmine smiled at her, “Oh, I was just
wondering, I’m sure it was just a fluke, the wind or something.
These old buildings get crazy drafts in them sometimes.” Jasmine
reached over and patted Abby on the shoulder, “Don’t worry about it
sweetie, I’m sure it’s fine.”
    Abby smiled at her; there was something
about her that made Abby feel safe and calm, and with her
reassurance she could go back to being excited about her date.
    ***
    When her cell phone beeped telling her it
was two o’clock she waved to Jasmine, letting her know that she was
going to lunch and after checking her hair and makeup in a mirror,
walked out of the shop and down the street to the sandwich
place.
    She looked into the window before she walked
in and saw Tom already sitting at a table by the window looking
through a menu. He looked so cute sitting