I sat and stared at him for a moment. "Oh, Bob, that's really tempting."
Bob and I had worked together at the grocery store for about a year. While I usually worked up front at the cash register or service desk, Bob was usually in back stocking and doing inventory. We talked often, about all kinds of things, and found we had some interests in common. I really started to like Bob, but had been dating someone else for awhile when he approached me on break one day.
"If you say no, I won't bring it up again. You don't have to give me an answer now, or ever. I don't want to pressure you, ok?"
I thought carefully about what Bob had just offered me. "Okay... I'll take some time to think about it. It still seems surreal that we're even talking about this stuff."
Bob had confessed his attraction to me over IM a few nights before, but I didn't know how seriously he lusted for me. A quiet and heated discussion in the break room proved what we felt for each other, but the question in my mind was what about the people we were already with?
It was definitely something to think about. Just one night, just once... I was so eager for the evening's activities that I could hardly keep my mind on the register. I took care of customers on auto-pilot while my mind was dreaming up scenarios, thinking about what Bob's house would be like, what he would be like. Carefully I retraced the words he had written to me online, what he wanted to do with me, and that we would actually have a chance after work. I was excited, nervous, and already feeling a little guilty. I shook my head -- no one would know.
Time flew and customers dwindled. I suddenly found myself standing alone at my register, nothing to do for the last half hour of work. Jenny in the next lane looked just as bored, but I couldn't stand still. I checked at the desk and they agreed; I could help in back with stocking for the last bit of my shift.
I turned in my drawer and wandered back towards Dairy, looking for Bob. I found him in the Dairy cooler restocking milk. I half-heartedly asked if he needed help, or what I should do. He gave me a knee-melting look and said simply, "You'll help me with what I really need later."