Yes, Cynthia felt much better without being observed.

As she was working as an independent assistant, she didn‘t have to work every day, at least not as an assistant. Her job at the cemetery was 5 days weekly in the late afternoon so she had lots of time to herself.

She could do what she had decided to. Every day she went to the pool to get more experienced at swimming.

At least twice a week she went footing to work and her condition got better and better.

One day, while shopping she knew a young man and, making acquaintance, she noticed that they had the same interests.

He asked her if she had a partner and when she told him that she had not, he looked deeply into her eyes and said that he liked her looks.

She didn‘t know what to think about it but she was pleased to hear that he lived in the same street as she did.

He admired her for working at the cemetery and even more when she told him that she worked in the morning hours as an assistant.

He said: “Then you surely are not a lazy person“.

He invited her to the theater a couple of times and they spent some nice moments together.

He even had visited her at home and invited her to come over to his place one of these days.

He lived on the other side of the street and every time when she threw something into her trashcan, she looked at his house, wondering if he would be home.

One morning she went there and rang the door bell. He opened the door and invited her in. He introduced her to a friend with whom he shared the house.

As she hadn‘t seen him before, she felt kind of shy and as she didn‘t know how to act, she just started to do their household without being asked to.

Her friend looked a bit amused but the other young man did not like that. He said that she was a busybody moving around their house and he sent her away.

She felt horrible to be sent away and most of all because John hadn’t done anything in her defense.

Once outside the house she noticed through the window that the two boys where talking about it. John said: “Now, you have sent her away… how do you expect that I can manage to get her?” The other boy laughed and said “Well, that‘s a good one. Why are you worried about her? You can get 5 girls on each finger.
John answered: “Yes, I know but it‘s more interesting to get somebody difficult and once she falls for me then I will show her that I‘m not interested anymore“. They laughed out loudly.

Cynthia felt like another bucket of cold water had been thrown over her head. She felt very unhappy and didn‘t want anything anymore with other people. Fortunately she had overheard them because otherwise it could have been worse.

She decided that she would never ever again trust anybody and she turned out to be a very lonesome young woman who only was happy working at the cemetery.

That‘s how she changed from a young adult to an adult again, without witnesses. Nobody was there to accompany her celebrating her birthday.

To be continued.