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get started on the initial interview. 
She had her notebook on her lap and had already started to make some comments
on it while Eric had kindly taken away the coffee cups.  She looked at her
notes: 
    Daniel Spittle:  actor/model 
    Initial impression: 
    Good looking – yes
    Confident – yes
    Arrogant – perhaps
    Playboy – yes
    Other observations – late for
appointment!
    She sighed
and inwardly laughed.  This wasn’t really what her assignment would be
about.  These were just quick notes of initial thoughts, not the detailed
notes she would have to make.  Stereotypes would be touched on, but never
used as reality, unless of course, they did apply to Daniel.
    She fidgeted
in her seat, starting to feel prickly and slightly irritated.  She looked
at her watch, he was already over an hour late, even though he was just in the
adjacent room, doing goodness knows what to whoever was in there.  She
went red again at the thought. 
    Ella tapped
her pencil against the notebook.  This assignment should be quite
easy, if it ever got started.  The only bump could be her.  She felt
that she was pretty good at concealing her emotions when working, apart from
blushing occasionally.  But she had a feeling it was going to be
challenging keeping her cool around Daniel, as his outward appearance and
flirty behaviour,  was something that would affect most women with a
beating pulse.    
    She leaned
back in the chair, carefully hiding her notes.  She didn’t need Daniel to
see her initial observations about him.  To be truthful, she hadn’t even
wanted to do this ‘follow and write up’.  Ella had pleaded with her Editor
to let her write up on the actress who had been hounded by the media for
years.  It was rumoured that she had pushed her rich husband off his horse
to get his money.  Of course, nothing had ever been proved.  She had
gone on to marry another four rich husbands.  It would have been great to
be able to dig up some dirt, gauge her reaction to some well thought out
questions. 
    But no, her
editor had lumbered her with sex-on-legs instead!  Ella bet her Editor was
having a laugh right now.  He knew her personally, and was well aware that
her outer appearance on jobs was professional, aloof almost.  But he was
also aware how flustered and shy she really became in certain circumstances.
    She heard a
noise, that she assumed was the bedroom door, and turned towards to it.
 At last, a pure beauty of perfume and silk left Daniel’s bedroom.
  She gave Ella a knowing smile and then made her way towards the
exit.  She didn’t leave immediately though.  No, Daniel and the
‘goddess’ nearly devoured each other with a kiss in the doorway! 
    Ella
attempted to look away and swivelled slightly in the chair, but was drawn to
the goodbye scene.  She tried to be discrete, looking from under
her eyelashes, but the kiss was so passionate, she was sure her eyes were wide
and her mouth open in shock! 
    Oh, for
goodness sake, why hadn’t she turned around to give the lovebirds some
privacy?  As Daniel finished the kiss, he had looked straight at her, winked
and gave a huge smile!  How embarrassing to get caught watching
them.  She knew she had gone red, so she lowered her chin a few degrees
away from his smirk.   Ella had felt totally embarrassed, ridiculous
even.  And how arrogant of him to wink at her! 
    Daniel
closed the door behind Cassandra, silently laughing to himself.  Oh, the
look on the reporters face!  He knew she had been watching, so he put on a
big show for her.  Let her write about that!  But when he made it
known he had seen her watching; she had become embarrassed and blushed –
sweet!  Perhaps she wasn’t one of those hard-nosed journalists after all.
    Daniel put
on one of his best smiles as he took the leather chair opposite her.  He
wanted to be opposite her, so he could observe her during the chat. 
 “So sorry, about being late I mean.  It was all