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I miss my best friend.
I’ve only been in my office building for a little under half an hour when Kendall comes waltzing in. I see her coming before she sees me. Several of my employees try to stop her to talk, but she brushes right past them like she doesn’t have a care in the world.
She enters my office and closes the door behind her, dropping her backpack onto the chair.
Kendall looks down at me, her arms crossed over her chest and her eyebrow raised. I don’t know what she wants me to say, but I get the sense anything I do say will be wrong.
Sneaking out of the house before she woke up was the only way to avoid the confrontation right away.
At least, that’s what I thought.
If I had known that she would come down to my office, I would have stayed at home.
“What are you doing here?” I ask when it becomes clear she isn’t going to speak first.
“You know, I know it’s customary to hit it and quit it, but a warning would have been nice. We are adults. I don’t expect anything more than what happened to come out of last night.”
“Kendall, it’s more complicated than that.”
“Yeah, I know it is. You’re geriatric and my boss. Oh shit, wait, that wasn’t complicated at all. So why don’t you tell me what the fuck you think is so complicated about waking up and talking about what happened?”
“I didn’t want to get into this first thing in the morning.”
“And when would you like to get into it?” Kendall smiles sweetly as she braces herself on my desk, leaning forward slightly. “If you regret what happened last night, you should talk to me like an adult instead of sneaking out.”
“When did I say that I regret sleeping with you?”
She rolls her eyes. “Actions speak louder than words. Taking off without so much as agood game, sport,is equal to regret.”
I laugh and the tension in the room starts to fade. “Why the hell would I saygood game, sport?”
“I assumed it went along with slapping my ass.” She gives me a cheeky smile before standing upright. “I’m serious. If you have a problem with what happened last night, then we need to talk about it.”
I sigh and weigh my options. I could argue with her and tell her that I don’t regret it, but I don’t think she’ll believe me. I hope that she doesn’t. I want her to move on with her life and treat our sleeping together as a one-time event.
At least then I won’t keep betraying her father.
“It was a mistake, Kendall. You and I got a little carried away.”
Her face falls and I can see her walls flying back up. I feel like I’m making another mistake, but this is what’s best for us.
No matter how attracted to her I am, this has to come to an end. It’s what’s best for the both of us.
I don’t want to do anything that’s going to put her life on hold.
Not that I think she would let me stand in the way of her ambitions, but I know that she’s young and impressionable. She might think that what’s happening between us can be more than it is.
You’re only telling yourself that because you want it to be more.
I push away the little voice in my head and lean forward on my desk. I link my fingers together and look up at her.
“Kendall, I think it’s best that we carry on with our lives as if last night never happened. It can’t happen again.”
She nods once. “That’s all you had to say before you left this morning.”
Her expression is neutral as she picks up her backpack and walks out. It bothers me to see her so calm and unfazed.
Why isn’t she as bothered as I am?
