Work had been a tedious day after tedious day recently. I guess that's usually what it comes down to especially when you're working in the food court for the student center. Every day it was the same basic thing. Cut up tons of bagels and make them into assorted items for the same old customers, then once we close time is filled with cleaning then off home I go to wait for the next day. It's almost as if I'm stuck in some sort of horrible ground hog day loop.
Well today was no different than the rest. As par the rest of the employees and myself had all done our best to sell the bagels and just try to get home before it got too hot. We were just about finished with closing up the store when I saw one of the hottest little foxes ever. She was a perfect 5 foot 6 inches with slender legs and the sexiest brown hair with just enough streaks to make her look almost like a celebrity. She was wearing a short skirt and a tight fitting top that was perfect for the hot weather as of late.
Really all I could do as she walked by was stare at her beauty. Suddenly she turned and our eyes met. From that point on I knew I had to have her regardless of what it took. She continued on her way to a seat by the window drawing several other looks from guys along the way. As she was sitting down I hurried to finish what was left so I could clock out and catch up with the catch of the month.
After clocking out I pulled off my work shirt and put on something a little less fast foody and made sure I didn't smell too much. Slowly I approached her from behind trying to calm my nerves. "Come on man you can do it," I thought to myself.
Standing next to her I gently cleared my throat. "I umm...I couldn't help but notice you sitting alone and well umm...thought you'd umm...umm...like some company. May I uhh...join you?" Once the words left my mouth I instantly regretted them. Why did I have to go umm... so damn much? There was definitely no way she'd say yes. Words of failure filled my vision and clogged my ears that I barely noticed her looking at me questioningly. I shook my head to clear away all the distractions when I heard her soft voice.
"Yes I'd love some company." I smiled at her and sat down looking out the window. "Are you all right? You stood there doing nothing, not even reacting, for a minute."
"Oh yea, sorry about that. Kinda was kicking myself for the horrible talking I did just now." She giggled. Her giggles were like words to a song they sounded so damned good to me.
"Hey don't worry it's cute. Plus having a hard time asking a question is better than not asking it at all, right?" I nodded my head in agreement. "So you work at the bagel place?"
"Yea it's mainly just a temporary thing right now but at least it pays in the end. So are you currently taking summer courses?"
"No I'm actually an incoming student. I'm here for preview, doing all that annoying stuff. Was preview a real nerdy type thing for you? Because all we've seemed to have done is play weird games that I had never played."
I laughed remembering my own preview day. "Yea basically. You guys are even playing the same stupid games that we played. I remember having to spell my name with my ass several times because of certain penalties that my coordinator had brought into the game. Definitely wasn't fun," this brought even more giggles from my beautiful conversation partner. "What do you plan on majoring in?"
"I haven't completely decided yet but I'm thinking something in biology. This school really has lots of great resources when it comes to biology. What are you studying?"
"Well something biology related really. I'm actually a chemical engineering major but I'm also studying biomedical engineering. So basically a lot of the stuff you'll be going over in biology I'll have taken a more advanced course of it. By the way my name is James. What's yours?"
"Karen, Karen Williams. It's a pleasure to meet you James. I guess I really should get going. I think they're going to go take a test sometime. It was a pleasure talking to you."
"Hey it was nice talking to you too. But just to throw this out there, maybe if you wanted to hang out some tonight once you're done with all the preview stuff you can give me a call." I wrote my number down on a piece of paper I had in my pocket just for this occasion. "Don't be shy now." With a smile Karen left to join her group heading off to begin one of at least two tests for the day.
It was almost nine and I had yet to get a call from Karen. Too bad how I wish I could have seen the rest of that dynamite body. I lay on the couch catching up on the baseball highlights for the day when the phone rings. I casually pick it up thinking it's just one of my friends calling me for a ride home from one of the many bars in town. "Hello?"
"Hey James, it's Karen. Sorry if I'm calling too late for you. But umm...did you still want to get together tonight? I just can't take anymore of this preview thing for now."
