As the man whooshed up to the 72nd floor in the elevator it suddenly, with a bang stopped. The woman next to him was beside herself with fear and she let out a loud cry. Alexander, the business man edged over to her and comforted her. She seemed to calm at this, but she was still stricken with fear. However after ten short minutes the elevator began to move again and finally arrived at the destined floor. Alexander stepped out and the woman with the cream blouse and a long, whispering skirt followed. They had been deep in conversation during the elevator breakdown. Alexander stuttered
‘‘Would you like to join me for dinner tonight?’’
And Lea replied with a dreamy ‘‘Yes!’’.
At this both of their faces lit up and then they muttered ‘‘goodbye’’ and walked separate ways.
Meanwhile, another couple had just entered the hotel, the mans face was lit up at the sheer luxury of the hotel, but then the wife began to moan
‘‘That was the longest journey. Remind me again why we are here?’’, the husband replied, Sam said in a sarcastic
‘‘Look around you fool’’. Both Sam and Lucy checked in and journeyed up the stairs due to the lift breakdown, this fuelling Lucy’s anger. She continued to moan
‘‘Why do we have to stay at this hotel they can not even repair the lift’’ an angry look on her face.
Later that day, Sam and Lucy had journeyed to Fifth Avenue to do some shopping
‘‘Wow Sam thank you for taking me out shopping,’’ said Lucy in a pleased voice, Sam was enjoying himself too as the golden heat flooded the streets. They strolled along the cooking pavement and entered Tiffany & Co; as they entered they were blinded by gleaming gold and dazed by luscious diamonds. They moved swiftly over to the home of the rings and as they did Sam bumped into Alexander, ‘‘Sorry!’’ they both chorused, and both would be seeing each other later that evening!
Night fell over New York and inside the Plaza Sam, Lucy, Alexander and Lea were preparing for dinner at the Oyster Bar. Alexander and Lea met up outside the hotel at eight and hurried into a taxi to get out of the cold Sam and Lucy were getting into another taxi down the road, Lucy commenting on the way Sam looked, slanderous phrases coming out of her mouth like, ‘‘you look like a vagrant!’’ she yelled as Sam got into the cab closely followed by Lucy, of course Sam looked perfectly fine, wearing perfectly nice suit.
They all arrived at ‘The Grand Central Station’ and stepped inside into a large, limestone hall with a single gleaming gold clock in the centre, you could hear the train whistling in and out of the station, and the gleaming gold handrails, the large sets of stairs, it was such a wonderful atmosphere!
Lea and Alex were enjoying a fine lobster dinner whilst chatting away, both seemed deep in conversation, but were interrupted by Sam and Lucy on the table next to them; screams and shouts were coming from their table catching a lot of attention
‘‘I hate fish food’’, yelled Lucy
‘‘What the hell do you expect?’’ Sam replied sarcastically
‘‘You always do this’’, and at this statement Lucy stormed out of the restaurant leaving Sam sitting alone and awkward.
After dinner Alex and lea enjoyed a moonlit walk under the star spangled sky, whilst Sam sat on his bed in the hotel room watching ‘News Night’ with audio input from Lucy’s screams. That night Alex and lea fell deep into conversation and spoke for hours about each others interests, looks of excitement plastered there faces!
The next morning Alex and Lea woke up side by side, as they awake Lea jumped up, blushed and sped out the door, at this Alex just smiled and thought ‘ what could this mean?’. Of course he would found out later on that day. As Alex went down for breakfast he bumped into Lea, who emerged from behind the door and they began to talk again, leaving out last nights incidents, Alex seemed very pleased at this!
Sam and Lucy were sat in the hotel room packing in silence, clearly Lucy was still angry at Sam; Sam got up and slumped into an armchair and let out a sigh ‘‘What’s that all about?’’ Lucy blurted out
‘‘What? This has been a total waste of time and money,’’ Sam mumbled in an annoyed voice, at this they got their bags and left the room, Lucy’s footsteps quite a bit louder than Sam’s.
Various cars pulled up at the airport, but there were the most significant. Sam and Lucy emerged from as did lea and Alex’s suddenly a woman ran up to Sam and wrapped her arms around him and they locked lips, ‘‘what are you doing?’’ screamed Lucy
‘‘you treat me so bad and now this, you are with another woman, forget it, it’s over!’’ Lucy stormed off and disappeared into a crowd of people.
Meanwhile Alex and lea were sat in the departure lounge talking with the occasional kiss, all of a sudden Alex became all serious and said ‘‘well, lea I kind of need to ask you something’’
‘‘What is it?’’
‘‘well…’’ he stuttered, he fell no his knee and pulled a gold ring with the biggest diamond ever. This must have been what had bought when he bumped into Sam at Tiffany’s; he asked ‘‘will you marry me?’’……………………
