If you haven't read "Working on a Raise" please do if you want the full content of this story.
The next day I arrived at work and after our first flight I went into Tiffany's office. When I walked in she looked up from her phone call and gave me a sly smile. I sat down across her desk waiting for her to get through talking. Looking at her today felt like the first time. The way her blond hair, her eyes, the way her breasts rose and fell with each breath she took made me start to flush. I was off in dream land when I heard her clear her throat.
Tiffany asked me what I was thinking about, knowing the answer was last night. My only reply was "you". She smiled at this and said that she figured that was the case as she had been thinking about it all day herself. A few minutes of small talk and she told me that she had an interesting conversation with her husband that morning. Taken aback with this I stammered simply "really". Another smile from her and then her just as short "yes". I sat there for a long few seconds and she finally broke the silence with a question.
"Do you want to know what we talked about Mitch"?
I was a bit guarded with my reply "I guess" was all that I could come up with.
Tiffany laughed and told me to relax and not to worry. I calmed down and asked her what they had talked about. Five or six minutes into her mundane recount of her conversation she shocked me.
"That's when I told him I wanted a divorce". Tiffany looked at me for my reaction to this and when she couldn't read my thoughts she asked "What do you think about that"?
There was a knock on the door followed quickly by Sarah coming inside. I gave her a "I think I have just screwed up any possibility of us being together" grin. She gave me a puzzled look and just as quickly turned to Tiffany. I wasn't paying much attention to them and was only taken out of my daze when I heard the door shut.
Acting as though no time had passed since her question she said "So....what do you think"?
I was attempting to to figure out how I was to tell her that I was happy for her if that is what she wanted while at the same time not coming off as I wanted to be with her. I finally thought of a reasonable response, or so I thought. "I am sure you will be much happier now that you don't have to worry about him being gone so much".
Tiffany then asked why I had given her such a generic response. I tried to explain to her that I didn't want her to base the rest of her life on last night. I also tried to tell her, without losing my job, that I didn't want to settle down with anyone right now. She surprised me when she told me that she didn't want me to settle down right now either and told me that we could continue what we started without any strings attached. Tiffany gave me a wink and told me to get back to work or she was going to have to give me a "verbal" warning.
I got up and walked out of her office thinking that I was going to be treading on thin ice around here. Knowing the complications that I had "screwed" myself into, I went throughout the next couple hours on auto pilot. I had been in the back sorting out luggage for our next flight when I felt a sudden bump on my hip that nearly knocked me over.
"You can't be doing that at work....." cut off in mid sentence I saw Sarah smiling at me. Shaking my head I told her that she really surprised me.
"Mitch...you started your sentence with YOU....who did you think I was"?