Chapter 35: A Date
Walking into his private office Oliver found his wife sitting behind, her own computer desk that is horizontal to his own. Oliver walked straight up to Martha desk, leaning as he leaned his arm on top of the computer monitor.
Martha who hadn't noticed Oliver approach, was surprised, when he suddenly rested his arm on her monitor. Looking up she noticed he was standing in a slightly unusual posture, his body was slightly tilted, his right hand in his pocket.
The posture really accentuated his tall and lean figure nicely. However, rather then being attracted Martha herself was more puzzled than anything else. Oliver couldn't be said to be the best romantic at all, which wasn't really necessarily for him.
Oliver's looks and figur alone was outstanding enough that, there was never really any need for him the romantic type. His more suited to be the silent and cold man which went well with his overall appearance. In any case Oliver has never do this type of thing, before so all she could was give him.
A what in the world are you doing expression with her hazel colored eyes which were particularly bright.
Making Oliver feel a little embarrassed at his current actions, he had honestly never done this sort of thing before. He had just tried to copy some of the scenes his watched man doing in the romantic movies, that he would be usually dragged into watching with his wife.
Keeping his composure on the outside, Oliver finally spoke after a few seconds of the two of them just staring at each other weirdly.
" Uhmm.. So I was thinking the two of us should make plans to go out and have dinner together. Just the two of us at a restaurant somewhere. " Oliver invited maintained the same posture.
" Dinner? " Asked Martha a bit puzzled by the sudden plan to have dinner together. Even though the two of them were a married couple, Martha could count the number of times they had gone out on a date before.
The one she fondly remembers is when Oliver invited her to small dinner were he finally proposed to her. At that time they already had three kids by than but, them making their relationship official was something she remembered fondly.
" Yes, I was thinking that we should do something for ourselves. Since we haven't gone out on a date in a long time, don't you think. " Explained Oliver still standing in the same posture he looked away for a moment. As Martha stared at him a little surprised now as she hadn't really thought about it.
" Okey, that sounds nice. When are we going?" Asked Martha after finally getting out of her slightly puzzled state.
" Okey good how does next week Saturday sound for you?" Asked Oliver
" Next week Saturday? That sounds like you have big plans. Alright next week is fine I can't wait to see what you have in store. " Said Martha as smile from on her face as she was now looking toward their first date in a long time.
And the fact her husband needed nearly two weeks to prepare made her even more excited.
' Alright, I'll pick you up.. Uhmm I mean I'll get everything prepared." Spoke Oliver slightly forgetting that the two of them already live together.
After saying that Oliver slowly stop leaning his arm on the computer than walking backwards before turning around and leaving the office. Watching her husband leave after that unexpected turn of events chuckled to her. Feel really happy about Oliver finally asking her out on a date in a long time.
Meanwhile, Duke was now currently in another separate room inside the office building. The building itself was about 4 meters tall and 20 meters wide. There were three small separate rooms and one large room, where most of the seven person hired by Horizon worked.
Duke shared this room with his two sisters, his father and mother shared one room. While Tyler and Nathan shared the other office space just in front of the entrance. Duke main job was to manage the website for Horizon and keep it running, which he could currently handle by himself.
Duke is currently was helping his two siblings to learn how to operate and keep their website running. Duke could manage the operation by himself now but, right now he also had another project he was working on the side.
Blue Space a search engine that could find files on the Internet. Right now finding something on the internet wasn't easy unless you had a good understanding of it. Alex had brought this topic up to him during their discussion together, and he thought it was a great idea.
Right now they were currently using WHOIS a kind of search engine. WHOIS is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees.
These resources include domain names, IP address blocks and autonomous systems, but it is also used for a wider range of other information.
The protocol stores and delivers database content in a human-readable format. The current iteration of the WHOIS protocol is drafted by the Internet Society, and is documented in RFC 3912.
WHOIS was standardized in the early 1980s to look up domains, people, and other resources related to domain and number registrations. As all registration was done by one organization at that time, one centralized server was used for WHOIS queries. This made looking up such information very easy.
Duke was currently studying this software well along with Alex own notes, which weren't much about what type of search he envisioned. Alex had only given Duke small notes because he wanted his older to grow develop solutions to problems himself.
If he gave him a much more detail analysis of the eternal coding software it wouldn't help him much in the long run. Basically Duke was on his own when it came to this, he had been busy studying the WHOIS protocol and the website Alex had already created.
Right now he was trying to figure out how to start creating the software operating systems for the search engine. He already new how it needed to be to simple and easy to use for everyone, that was one of the things Alex emphasized. Duke second task was to create hardware that could allow for faster internet speed.
Alex and Duke had already setup Blue Space as a long term project for the future, so he isn't in a rush to get started on creating and releasing the software. Once the it was done none of them would be running the search engine themselves anyway, instead they would appoint someone else to run it.
As Duke was studying and researching on the topic, the door suddenly opened. And John his old friend opened the door without knocking, slightly peaking inside. His head looking around only found Duke in the room. Who looked back at him with a what are you doing here expression on his face.
After seeing Duke is the only one in the room he entered the room with the same smile on his face. He was currently wearing a long sleeve white button color shirt, black pants and shoes with a brown. He also on longer had his afro hair style but, a clean cut buzz cut with a nice trim.
Duke spoke up before John had the opportunity to say anything. " I see that you agnored my peel to knock before entering the room. "
" Uhmm...Yeah, Sorry about that." Said John dismissing Duke's words light. " There a game today with the guys you coming?"
" I already said I'll be there, so why did you come here? " Asked Duke, as John could have come during launch time to discuss this.
He most likely wanted to ask him for something else, and John had the tendency to ask this type of favor at the most inconvenient times.
" So this week there a Bulls game on Friday, Vic canceled on us so I was wondering if you can host at your place, if you're mom and dad are fine with it. " Said John with a smiling expression on his face as he said it.
" I'll ask them." Answered Duke wanting to end this conversation quickly, and get back to his work.
" Really? thanks man. I knew you're a real friend I can rely on." Spoke John happy before walking beside Duke and punching lightly on his left shoulder.
Duke gave him an instance star unhappy with John disturbing him for something like this, that he could have asked him at a better time. John seeing Duke's unhappy expression that was even more scray, especially now when no he isn't wearing his glasses.
" Okey, I'll be leaving than, I got work to do. " Said John hurriedly leaving the room after their discussion.
Duke stared at the door the door for sometime before turning back to what he was doing. Before hearing the door open again to as his two sisters entered the room after finally coming back from their launch break.
Which ended a long time ago but, was extended since their mother decided to give them a shopping list, of things they needed to get for tonight dinner. Duke was now even more upset with John interruption, as now he could no longer work on his research.
The problem with working with these two siblings off his, was that they would talk insistently making him unable to concentrate on other things. Duke begrudgingly put away the books he was reading.
Ashley and Jennifer obviously noticed Duke unhappy expression as they entered, the two of them looked at each for a brief moment. Before deciding not to talk excessively until there younger brother cooled down, as they both quietly took their seats. Duke was more of an older brother to his three siblings, as he seemed to be the most mature one out of the four.
Even the way he dressed had away been much more formal, beside a few sneaker and sport wear, he would only wear when doing physical exercise. His wardrobe was mostly compares of long sleeve button shirts, and formal pants and shoes.
The only difference now than when he attended high school was he that, he now wore a tie, along with a vest, along with formal pants and shoes.
Usually he would pare his long sleeve button shirt with jeans and a pair of snacker shoes when he attended school. Duke was too upset to notice that his two older sister unusual silence, so he just went on with his main task for the day.
In the meantime Oliver was currently trying to figure out what type of plans to make for his evening out with his wife. He was even considering just making it a day out than just a night out but, that just made it much more difficult for him to plan.
He would need to scout advice from another parties, as David had proved to be useless as he just gave him the basic of what he already knew. However, he knew that David was just like him and was a total a mess when it came to romance. The same couldn't be said for Damien who is a total chamer and good at romance.
He had twelve days to prepare for their date, he honestly didn't have any idea beside organizing a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant. He might actually need Damien help here.
" Hey, boss is there something on your mind." Asked Nathan who had noticed his boss who had been standing in the waiting lobby. For some time now, looking out of the window with a thoughtful expression.
" Oh, Nathan... I'm sorry I have a lot on my mind right now is there something you need to inform me about? " Spoke Oliver after breaking out of his thoughts.
" Yes, there is Johnathan and I wise to talk about something we think is important." Said Nathan in confirmation.
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