Joseph kept on looking at the report in his hands.
Kathy was quick to leave however just as she reached the door, Joseph’s voice from behind said, “Something fell.”
She stopped and then realized that when she took the phone her purse had fallen to the ground.
Joseph picked it up and saw that there was a picture inside.
Kathy paused and then grabbed it back almost immediately.
However Joseph had already seen the photo. It was of the back of him wearing a mask in the laboratory; however it definitely wasn’t taken recently.
It seemed to have been taken about half a year ago.
“Why are you looking at my things!” Kathy was angry.
She wanted to take her purse back, however Joseph raised his hand up so Kathy couldn’t reach it.
“Your things?” He frowned and then took out the photograph from the purse and continued to say, “Then why do you have my photo?”
“I just forgot to take it out.”
“Really?” It was clear that Joseph didn’t believe her.
“Yes! Now please give it back!”
“Didn’t you say that there was nothing between us anymore? I am taking the photograph.” Joseph put the photo into his pocket.
Kathy paused and her eyes then flashed down to the photo that had disappeared into his pocket.
“Then can you now please give me back my purse?” She spread her hand open.
“Alright.”
After she got her purse she quickly left.
However it seemed that Joseph’s warmth was still on the purse which she felt on her hand.
She opened the purse and saw that Joseph’s photo was now gone forever.
It was empty.
She was not used to it.
Outside, when Bertie saw Kathy coming out, in a rather gentlemanly way he opened the door for her.
Kathy’s expression remained unchanged as she was still thinking about Joseph.
When he took the photo out, he had such a cold attitude.
What was she still thinking about, wasn’t this a good thing?
However inside she felt very uneasy.
“Kathy?”
Bertie was calling her name a few times until she finally came out from her trance.
At this moment he was already helping her fasten her seatbelt.
Kathy pushed him away and said, “I can do it myself.”
Although there was some anger inside him, he concealed it well.
After half an hour they finally got to the concert hall where Zofia was already waiting for them.
“Fortunately the performance hasn’t started yet. Let’s go inside now.”
Kathy then noticed that next to Zofia was another guy.
It seemed that the two of them had gotten quite close with one another recently. He was called Sonny Carr and was a student doing a major in neurology who was in the same year as Kathy.
“Kathy.”
Sonny took the initiative to greet her first.
Kathy smiled and then walked over to Zofia and said, “Is he one of your admirers?”
“He is a classmate, just a classmate!” Zofia clarified.
Kathy looked at her with some suspicion.
As they entered the banquet hall, Kathy noticed that Zofia and Sonny were in another area; however Bertie and her were in the front area.
It seemed as if this was becoming a date between Bertie and herself.
Kathy felt a little tense, but luckily it wasn’t long before the music concert started.
The area around them started to quiet down and the sweet sounding violin music started to play which made Kathy’s earlier slightly irritable mood calm down.
When you are at a music concert, it doesn’t matter who is next to you.
This was Kathy’s first time attending a music concert and although you cannot say she loved it, at least it helped calm her down and it was still a nice experience.
The concert lasted for three hours, and it wasn’t until everyone started to give a round of applause that she was knocked back out of her trance.
“What did you think?” Bertie asked her.
Kathy smiled and said, “The concert was great, I really enjoyed it.”
“As long as you enjoyed it then that’s all that matters.” Bertie’s voice seemed pleased.
Kathy felt a little dazed and quickly looked away.
When they were walking out of the concert hall, Kathy wasn’t paying attention and almost tripped over.
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