#arranged date

It was a rare quiet moment at work when Alexsis’ phone rang. She looked at the screen and rolled her eyes when she saw ‘Mom’. She took the phone in her hand and looked at it, but didn’t answer. She replaced it on her desk and continued the reading of another unsolved case. A few minutes later, she received a text, she took the phone back and opened it. [Mom: Pick up!] [Alexsis : I’m in a meeting, I can’t.] she lied, because she was avoiding her mother since weeks. Actually she was avoiding conversations with her mother since December in 2011 when she came back from Boston, crying all the time without giving anyone an explanation. [Mom: Well you can text! Come tonight, your brothers and your nephews are coming. Be there at 7PM.] Her mother’s authority could have been funny, but it wasn’t to Alexsis. How could she say no to that without making is sound weird? She couldn’t. [Alexsis : I’m working! Fine I’ll be there, but maybe not at 7PM exactly. See you tonight.] she answered after a long moment of hesitation…

Now that she had plans for the evening -even if it was a silly night at her parents’ place- it was impossible for Alexsis to concentrate on her work. She was thinking about so many things. First of all, she can’t go there knowing her nephews are there and not bring them some gifs! But she can’t find real gifs in so little time… She quickly decided to buy a lot of cupcakes after work. But that wasn’t it.. What was she going to wear? Her brother’s wife was a very unique person; respectable, but really annoying sometimes. She always compares Alexsis’ life to hers, every little detail, she had been like that since the very first day. Alexsis found this habit stupid because their lives are way too different to be compared! But does it mean that Alexsis was going to give her the possibility to make her feel bad about anything? Of course not. Alexsis got up from her desk and took the file she was studying before leaving her office.

It was only 5PM and she was already in her apartment. How? Simple… She went to the boss’ office and told him everything she discovered about the case she was working on. He listened to her quietly and then said “what do you want Evans?” with his annoying serious voice. Lieutenant was used to Alexsis’s habits, he knew her way too well to believe that she was just here to tell him about the case. She never does actually share informations, she keeps them to herself until she was sure about them and of course she was sure to be rewarded for her hard work. She smiled politely and simply answered “I’m leaving earlier… I hope you don’t mind." She didn’t really ask him, but there she was, off work two hours earlier…

She had time to take a bath, to take care of her nails and her hair before finally thinking about her outfit. She choose a blouse with black skinny trousers with a lovely vest.

She left her apartment around 6:30 PM and stopped by the nearest bakery still open; she simply bought two boxes of cupcakes and a pie for her mother…

When she arrived, a silly smile appeared on her face; she was always avoiding everything that has anything to do with serious conversations with her parents, but it didn’t mean she wasn’t happy to be near them… Of course, Alexsis had a key; Mr Evans wasn’t the kind of man to let her daughter outside in the real world without a key of her real home (as he calls it)… She looked for the key and opened the door a few seconds later, the pie in her hand. She could hear her nephews laughing inside as soon as she opened the door, and that made her smile even more. ”Daddy, your badass is here!" she shouted, laughing already about this old joke they had. Her nephews came to her, running very fast, she was surprised but amused. "Slow down, little devils ! There is something for you in the car, go get it !" she said, giving the keys to the older one.

Her parents came to say hello, she kissed and hugged them,  giving the pie to her mother. It was weird because her mother didn’t tell her anything like ‘you’ve lost weight, again’ or  ‘you look tired’ yet. No, she was lovely, and that freaked Alexsis out for a moment.

She followed her parents to the living room and said “Hello Evans!" with a  gesture of her arm, to the whole little family. “Alexsis… Hum… You know Clara…" her mother began, standing at her left, pointing someone behind her. "Alexsis, let me introduce you Mark"…