I was going to work today in a completely broken state. I wanted to sleep, but at the same time, raging adrenaline was seething inside. Beitz and I haven't seen each other since that awkward situation in his apartment, and I'm a little uneasy. .

Upon entering the restaurant, the first thing I do is head to the dressing room, where, after saying hello to the pastry girls, I change my casual jeans and turtleneck for a blue knee-length skirt and a white blouse with three-quarter sleeves. I pin my hair in the form of a bump on black openwork hairpins and fix it with varnish. There is no usual...