by Mia Archer
That did give me an idea that was just crazy enough to work. Either that or it was wishful thinking coupled with some pretty heavy self-delusion, but I had to try something.
She'd said we couldn't go out for drinks as boss and intern. Well she hadn’t said that in so many words, but the implication was clear enough. But supposing I asked her out on a date instead… It was crazy, but at the same time fortune favored the bold. I wouldn't be my father's daughter if I didn't take the occasional risk in the name of getting what I wanted.
Besides, I figured this was a pretty safe risk. I’d seen the way she looked at me from time to time. I even thought I’d caught her checking me out on a couple of occasions. There was tension in this cubicle, and there was no way it was all in my imagination.
I really desperately hoped it wasn’t all in my imagination. Otherwise I was about to make an ass of myself.
"So I was thinking…"
Nicole held up a hand almost immediately. "Oh no. I'm going to stop you right there."
I blinked and snorted. "What are you talking about?"
"You're about to ask me if I want to join you at a bar or something," she said. "It's going to be really tempting because I had a lot of fun that first time out, too much fun if I’m being perfectly honest, but it's just not right for the boss to go hang out with her intern. You know that. I say the same thing every time you ask."
A hint of frustrated exasperation crept into her voice at that last bit. I hoped she was frustrated because she really wanted to go out with me but was holding back out of a sense of obligation or professionalism or whatever the hell it was that was keeping her from enjoying herself.
"Well you're completely wrong about that," I said.
Nicole cocked an eyebrow and fixed me with a look that said she wasn't buying whatever I was selling. "What are you talking about?"
"I wasn't going to see about going out and having a drink after work with the boss.”
"But that's what you've asked every night since we started working together. Since that first night when we both had a little too much to drink."
"Maybe that's so," I said. "But that's not what I'm asking tonight."
"Okay then. What are you asking?"
I took a deep breath. Here we went. Fortune favors the bold and all that. I always hated it when my dad said that growing up, but now that I was a little older I was starting to understand the sentiment behind it.
"I was thinking I wouldn't ask my boss out for drinks after work. I figured it would be much nicer to ask a pretty girl out on a date?"
I winced as the last bit came out as a question. I’d been taught to never let something come out as a question like that. Not when I was trying to be confident.
Nicole blinked. "Excuse me?"
Well, there was nothing for it but to forge ahead at this point. I'd already done the crazy thing and asked her out. What other option did I have? It's not like I was going to take something like that back!
"I'm asking you out on a date," I said.
"A date."
"Yeah, you know. Two people who maybe like each other. Get to know each other a little better? That whole schtick?"
"I know what you're talking about," she said. "I'm just a little surprised. That's the last thing I was expecting!"
Well then. That might be the last thing she was expecting, but from the way she was getting flustered it seemed like she liked the idea. There was a blush creeping up along her chest and neck. She was embarrassed, but her mouth was open and her breathing was picking up. Yeah, I almost had her. I just had to reel her in. And hope she stayed surprised and off balance long enough to forget all that pesky professionalism.
"It's just that I'm pretty sure there's something going on here. I’d go crazy if I didn't see where it was going."
"But I'm your boss," she said. "That would be completely inappropriate."
Damn it. I was losing her. I had to think fast!
"Yeah, but it's not like it's against the rules," I said. "You're just breaking guidelines rather than actual rules."
"How do you figure?"
"I looked up the rules for fraternization in the workplace before I decided to ask you out.”
I did nothing of the sort, but she didn’t have to know that. This was another lesson from dear old dad. If you didn’t have a leg to stand on then it was even more important to bullshit like you did.
“It says of there is to be no relationship between a supervisor and their employee. The only problem with that is that I'm not technically considered an employee as far as the handbook is concerned. In the subsection where it talks about different employee levels intern is clearly listed as a separate category from actual employees. I assume they're trying to protect themselves with legalese, only in this case the legalese works out in our favor!"
"Bullshit," Nicole said.
"I swear it's not!" I also really hoped she didn’t check the handbook because I didn’t even know if there were separate employee classifications like that.
Nicole bit her lip. Stared at me for a moment that felt like it was going to stretch on forever. She looked over her shoulder in the direction of Christine in her giant glass fortress of solitaire. Then back at me. She grinned.
"I'm not sure if what you just said was bullshit or not, but I'm going to choose to believe it because I really want to say yes!"
I blinked. Was I really in? Had it really been that easy?
"Great!" I said. "So is there any place in particular you'd like to go?"
Nicole shook her head. "No you don't. You're the one asking me out, so you're the one planning the date."
I grinned right back at her. Planning a date. I liked that she was letting me take charge. Now to come up with something that would truly blow her mind!
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