Meeting 11

Ana almost pinched herself as the two o’clock meeting ended and she was once again left alone in the office. In two hours, she would be finished with the meetings, and anything after that would be someone else’s problem. Maybe she could trick someone else into holding follow-up meetings for those who requested them. Ana knew she would give just about anything to avoid having to hold those. She just wanted her old job back; it was nearly all she could think about in the time between her meetings that day.

She sighed and sank into her chair. She had five minutes until the three o’clock meeting was set to start, and Ana half hoped the people she expected would be early. If they were, she could just get started ahead of time and tell herself that the wait between the end of this meeting and the next one wouldn’t be awful and drawn out.

Pulling out the form she had to fill to report to the Ministry on the two o’clock meeting, she filled it in record time and set it in the drawer she had designated for the files. Ana traded the form for the files of the next two people, giving them a once over as she checked the time. With only a few minutes at most left, she resigned herself to going over whatever information she thought might be useful to convince the two that their match could work. That was always the hardest part.

The door had been left open so she wouldn’t have to move to open it, and her coffee mug refilled itself as Ana leaned over the desk to read.

Andrew was late,  something he hates being even if was a meeting as stupid as this.  Although it wasn't his fault,  he and Sophia were helping take care of patients and lost track of time.   Luckily he remembered or else he would really be in trouble by the ministry for missing his meeting.  Grabbing his stuff from his office Andrew apperated to n the ministry.  Appearing with a pop in front of the office, Andew opened the door and walked in.

"Hello Ms. Levski,  I do apologize for keeping you waiting busy day at St. Mungo's."said Andrew before taking his seat.  Apparently he was a little early cause his matched wasn't here yet so they could start.  Andrew hoped this would go quickly,  they're very busy at the hospital,  and Sophia can't do all the work herself on top of the patients files.  Although she told him she could handle it, Andrew knew better. Plus Andrew was a gentleman,  he hated leaving a women doing all the work when it should be half and half.  It was just how Andrew was raised, his parents drilled it into him.

Looking down at himself,  Andew realized he was still his white healers robe which made him chuckle to himself.  Apparently whoever his match was,  would see that he was clearly a healer  due to his robe.  But it wasn't like Andrew cared,  it wasn't like he wore it on purpose showing off his occupation.  Of course he was a 'doctor' as muggles call it,  but he didn't brag about it.  Of course he made good money,  but it wasn't about the money to him but the love of helping others.

Melopmene Tait was late. As she rushed through the halls she hoped to be there at 3. She checked her watch. 3:01.
Darn it. Melopmene though as she ran through the halls.
Finally she arrived at 3:15 and threw the door open. Her peaks of hair coming out of her neat bun.
The door finally opened and she saw a healer.
"Hello. I believe I'm supposed to be here?"

“Not to worry, Mr. Darling,” Ana replied lightly as he entered, “it appears that your match is also running late today. We’ll give her a few minutes in case something happened with the lifts or something.”

Although she did try to come off as patient, Ana was frustrated more than she cared to admit. She was going to be shoving them out the door if it made her next meeting run over time as well; she’d been doing too many of these things, and would be quite put out if she ended up stuck there later than she needed to be on her last day. Finally, far too late, the door opened again and a girl came in, looking rather frazzled and almost frustrated at her tardiness. At least Ana wasn’t the only one.

“Miss Tait? Yes, this is the right room for the meeting.” Ana nodded in reply, gesturing towards a chair, “Please have a seat; we’ll jump right in.” After waiting for the woman to sit, Ana sat up straighter in her chair and settled in to get to business. “Allow me to explain the next few weeks and what is expected of you. Firstly, you’ll have the next two weeks allotted as time to get to know each other. At the end of the second week, you’ll need to set a date for your wedding, which needs to happen by the end of thirty days. It doesn’t have to be anything huge if you don’t want it to. Just needs to be officiated and filed with the Ministry. After the wedding, you’ll be given three years to get settled in and have a child.”

Her words sounded painfully rehearsed, but Ana was just so close to being finished that it didn’t matter. “Do we have any questions about the timeline? If not I can go on with what we need to get done during this meeting.”

Waiting and waiting for his match Andrew twirled his wand in complete boredom. He was usually a patience person, but he had a very big day ahead of him. Smiling softly at his match he turned his attention to Ms.Levski. Nodding his head a couple of times to show he understood. " What the hell, I had nothing going on for me anyways, who knows maybe this might turn into love. "Andrew thought to myself.

Andrew hated this stupid law ruining his and his friends lives. The only ones that came out lucky on the were three couples he knew of. That was Kenneth and Taranee, Shane and Olivia and Ryo and Maura. He was glad some of his friends didn't have to go through this horrible nightmare. They were happy with their soul mate and true love, something Andrew wouldn't have. He haven't had a girlfriend in so long he forgot what love was.

He was happy with his life, of course he was a workaholic but he loved what he did. Maybe just maybe this marriage thing would change that. He doubted it seeing how he had trusting issues with people he just met. It wasn't his fault he been like that since he was little due to being back stabbed by his friends. He remembered it took him ages to warm up to the friends he had now because of it. But years later, he couldn't of asked for better friends then them.

Smileing as she went in Melopmene looked around at the ocupients in the room. Ana Leveski, and a healer sat there.
I hopr he's not a compleate idiot. She thought looking at the healer who was to be her matched.

When she gotot her seat she sat down with a straight back.
She though of all the people who utterly hayed this rule.
And those who were trying to bring it down.
And at that moment she wished for nothing more than her life to not include this rule.
She had important bisnuess you know! As the head nof Gryffindor and Transfiguration, she was working 24/7, 364 days a year.
She did not have anytime for a marrige, or children. Or really anything except her work.
But she still sat down with out complenit and smiled.
"Now can we start? I would like to get this over as quickly as I can. Thank you very much."