Each time she's invited to meet someone from his life for the first time, she feels jitter. Not sure why she's meeting this person when he doesn't really bring her out to meet people around him and yet on the other hand, she wants to know more about his life, the people around him.
Many thoughts crossed her mind. "Why am I seeing his colleague now?", "what changed?, "why this colleague?". He has always seem like he had lead such a private life and there's not much people in his life apart from his family and a handful of friends. So, why is she suddenly invited to meet his colleague? It might be a joyous occasion, but it wasn't the first in their journey being together so what's the different in this joyous occasion that he decided to bring her along? All along, he make it seems like she does not have to meet the people around him as they are either just working colleagues or just someone of not much attachment with. No idea why, but maybe there's just differences or judgement between people.
When the day come, it was like though there were butterflies in her stomach trying to get out. The dinner was awkward. 7 people having dinner together celebrating the union of 2 person. But yet, 2 pairs of couple, the newly wed and a cheerful man who's the witness for the union of the newly wed. Different type of people on the same table, no common topic, it was really awkward. A conversation that all could speak in was just about the food on the table, telling each other to help themselves, not to be shy and stuff like that. The dinner lasted 1.5hours and was it finally over.
Through the one a half hours, apart from eating the not so tasty food, she was also observing the newly wed, the colleague of her man. "What kind of person has my man been hanging out and learning from?" She asked herself. But yet all she see in his colleague are traits she wouldn't want her life long partner to have. The lifestyle, the attitude, the bossiness. It makes her wonder what kind of people are there around her man. "Are they going to be an influence or him?" she questioned herself. Although knowing that the chances of him turning into like his colleagues are slim, but who knows what will change as the year goes by.
When dinner was finally over, she was so relieved. Like though the butterflies from her stomach has finally manage to escape. With question running through her mind still, but yet the first question would still be "Why am I meeting people in his life now?"