This is a work of fiction. In this story I wanted to have both point of view so I sometime switch between who is telling the story (===== Him or =====Her) Enjoy! I welcome all comments
=====Him
I was looking forward to this trip. Our company would be participating in this event for a third year. It was a big conference/expo. We had a booth to showcase our product, a very specialized software. We started with a small space but it's been growing every year, and was curious to see if we would grow again this year. The best thing this time though was the location. The last 2 years the show had been in New York City. But not this year. This time it would be in Las Vegas baby!!! I think what excites me is more what the city represents than the city itself. After all, this is "sin" city. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, they say. It puts everybody in a different state of mind. At least I hoped it did because I was counting on it.
We got there early the first morning. We needed to finish setting up our booth. Things were progressing smoothly and we were almost done. I was bending under the desk plugging in the last power cords when movement on the corner of my eye caught my attention. From my point of view I could only see her feet and legs. They were nice, long and slender. Stretching her short skirt as she walked by. A low "mmmmm" instinctively escaped my mouth. I quickly got up to see the rest of her just in time to get a glance at her face. Oh my god!! It was her. I had looked all over for her the night before at the reception. She was not the prettiest but there was something about her that attracted me. I hadn't thought I would see her again, but there she was.
I arrived from the airport just in time to get ready for the reception. Every year there was a reception the night before the expo started. The company insisted we took part in it. Gave us a chance to network with other people, they claimed. They were right but it didn't make it easier or more fun. Pushing myself onto strangers while making small talk was not my strong point. At least there was free drinks and food.
After another boring conversation I decided to eat before the food was all gone. I was making good progress filling my plate when I saw a long piece of bread with some king of meat mix on it. There was only one left right in the middle of the buffet display. I reached and grabbed it exactly at the same time someone else did from the other side of the buffet. I guess we were both surprised because we both dropped it at the same time. I burst out laughing and heard her laughing from the other side. I bent down to look thru the hole and saw her looking at me, still laughing.
"Be my guest," I told her, pointing to the piece.
"You can have it. I had one earlier," she answered.
"How about we share?" Without waiting for her answer, I took a knife from the stand and proceeded to cut the piece in two. She took her half.
"Thank you sir," she told me with a big grin.
"You are quite welcome," I replied, winking at her. She winked back and disappeared from my view. I quickly finished filling my plate so I could come around to meet her. Unfortunately as she came to view her phone rang and since the room was very noisy she ran out and I lost sight right away. I spent the remaining of the evening trying to see her.
I thought I might not recognize her in the crowd. I was wrong. I watched her as she walked away from my booth. I liked how her nice ass swayed as she walked. She looked very nice in that skirt. She must have been in her early 30's. Light brown hair just below her shoulder. She reached a booth across in the next row. This was very good. With the space between our rows I could see her entire booth and I'm sure she could see ours. "Great!" It came out of my mouth without me realizing. One of my co-workers looked at me.
"What?" he said
"Uh... I said great, we're ready for business". I looked back at her just as she turned and looked in my direction. I smiled.
====== Her
Oh my god. It's him. I briefly saw him before I left the reception. Normally I'd be happy to have an excuse not to go to that function. I got stuck handling this crisis with one of our bigger customers. For some reason I felt mad I couldn't go back in. His green eyes and his laugh and voice played in my head last night. Hmmm... he's so cute. Dirty blond hair with just a touch of grey, broad shoulders. He looks in good shape. Giggle... he's waving at me... "Hi," I whisper as I wave back.
"What did you say?" asked my co-worker.
"Uh... I need your help with this box," I replied as I took him behind the booth, wondering why I was giggling.
======= Him
The day went by slowly. It got crowded and we were both busy. About mid morning she decided to rearrange some of their products in the booth. She then took a few steps back and seemed happy with the result. She turned in my direction and I gave her a thumbs up, nodding my head in approval of her work. She laughed and mouthed "thank you". We caught each other a few times looking at the other. Each time we just smiled and kept working.
Part of my job was to do the actual demonstration of our software. Just as I was about to start a demonstration in front of a large group one of the noisy booths close by started to play very loud music. I had to work very hard to keep my voice up and make sure I kept everybody's attention. After I finished my audience clapped their appreciation and I was happy to let the sales team take over. I look in her direction and she was clapping and nodding her head in approval of my performance. I gracefully bowed and we both burst out laughing.
======= Her
Good, I think I finally got rid of him. This customer has been flirting with me on the phone for months and now he seems to think he has a chance. He works for a really large company and generates large sales for us so I played along on the phone while trying not to encourage him to much. Now he's been stalking me for the last hour and a half. There is a limit to what a woman will do to get more sales. He left when I wasn't paying attention. Hope he gave up. If only he looked like Mr. handsome on the other side I thought, smiling to myself. "Shit..." he's back.
"Hi, I went to get us some coffee" he said.
"Thank you," I said trying to look busy.
"Hi..." I heard from the other side. I recognized his voice. I smiled.