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“My job.”
Me
drinks tonight?
Abigail-Ann
hey, zz, sure.
Me
great, see you then.
I needed this. I needed a drink or several.
5:00 pm finally rolled around, and I started packing my things to leave. Today was a rather boring day. I filed things and responded to his emails. I had no idea that there was a list of email responses set down for every kind of question possible. This man really was a control freak.
For someone who claimed not to care about what anyone thought, this affected me deeply. I spent the whole morning convincing myself that the conversation would mean nothing to either of us, but when presented with the confirmation, it hurt my feelings deeply. I didn’t know what the hell I expected him to say, but it definitely wasn’t that.
It was a mistake? Let’s keep things professional? What the fuck what that?
I said the apology out of courtesy, not because I wanted to, but because it felt like the right thing to do.
“Keep them coming,” I told the bartender. As I left work, I met up with Abigail at Jerry’s.
“Easy girl,” Abigail said. “Are you okay?”
I swallowed the entire glass of scotch in one go. “I’m dandy.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I apologized to him out of courtesy for Friday night and he told me it was a mistake on both our parts and we should keep things professional.”
She froze and almost broke the glass. “You’re lying.”
“I’m serious.”
“Are you sure he didn’t just say that because you apologized.”
I shrugged. “Maybe, but either way. I shouldn’t care. It’s not even that serious, I just didn’t expect that answer.”
“It’s serious to you because you enjoyed the conversation and you like him.”
I almost choked on air. “I don’t like him. I’m attracted to him.”
“What’s the difference?”
“Shut up.” I rolled my eyes. “Why aren’t you doing an internship?”
“I did mine from September to January, babe.” She laughed. “I told you and you said that you have all the time in the world.”
“Can’t believe I said that.” I drank again. “Anyway, it’s fine.How are you?”
“Confused, mainly.”
“About what?”
“It’s a long story.”
