I sit alone, bored at my desk. Another lonely day, pulling medical files, doing payments.. blah blah... Now that everyone on my floor is off on a two-day meeting in Jersey, I’m all alone. Well at least I can listen to whatever I want on the radio. My cd player is spinning Pantera right now and I keep it low. Good thing too because my boss comes upstairs to my floor. “Kristin, could I talk to you?”.
“Yeah, sure, what’s up?”. She stands next to my cubicle and explains that she hired someone new. ”His name is Dustin. He sounds like someone you could get along with, which is good because I need you to play babysitter and show him around.”
‘Oh goody’ I thought to myself. ‘Someone to get on my nerves not knowing where anything is.’ My boss says, “He’ll be in around 9 today, so be nice.” and smiles. “I’ll try”, I say with a fake smile. I look at the clock as she walks away and it reads 8:45. Well, maybe today will just be a lazy day looking over someone’s back.
Before he comes in, I clear off the empty desk in front of mine because that’s probably where he’ll be put because nobody uses it. The last file folder of payments is a big one and I lift it up, setting it on the top shelf of the cabinet. I turn my head and looked at the door, where he stood. He must have been watching me because he turned his head and smiled.
“Uhh...”, I stuttered, “You must be Dustin.” He cleared his throat and said, “Yeah, Mary told me that you would be helping me out today.” I took a good look at him as he talked. His brown hair was slightly long, layered. His smile was incredible. My first thought was how handsome he was. I noticed a small scar on the left side of his face. It looked painful, but now, it looks sexy. He had dark gray eyes, warm and comforting opposite of his slightly pale complexion.
“So, where shall I call home?”. I looked over at the empty desk and said, “Well, I guess this one will be yours because no one is using so...” My voice trailed off as he placed his jacket and bag on the desk. “I really don’t know your name yet.”, he said, I laughed and introduced myself. He shook my hand, “Well it’s a pleasure to meet you.” His right eye twinkled slightly as I felt my face curve into a smile.
“So, Dustin, uh.. Have you ever worked with medical files and billing before?” He explained to me that he was transferred from our Bucks County office. “Yeah, I worked up there, and then moved for, well, personal reasons, so I asked to be transferred closer to home.”
“So, you basically know what you’re doing then? Good.”
He sat down at his desk and started to get situated. I really couldn’t put my finger on it, but something about him intrigued me. I pretended to work as I watched him out of the corner of my eye. He was dangerously attractive and the most handsome part of him was his hands. They mesmerized me as he unpacked his bag, placing papers on his calendar mat next to his computer. He pulled out a picture frame, stared at it for a few moments before putting it down. I couldn’t make out who it was but whoever it was brought a smile to his face.
He sighed and said, “So why don’t you give me a tour of this place so I know where everything is and you won‘t need to hold my hand the whole time I‘m here?” He laughed a little as I said, “Sounds good. Alright, I guess we’ll work our way up from the bottom.”
I guided him to our basement. “This part here really doesn’t have anything important. We store paper and useless stuff down here. It’s basically a dead zone. No one comes down here.”. Dustin laughed and said, “I guess this is a bad place to cry for help?” I laughed while showing him to the first floor, introducing him to everyone and showing him the equipment. Then I showed him the third floor file room. “We moved all of our files to the third floor storage room. Only a few people actually come up here, mainly the pullers who are here three hours a day and pull our files.” He looked around and rested his back against a cabinet. He smiled crossing his arms. “So for a part of the day this is a dead zone too, I guess.”
I guided him to our second floor office. I pointed out the desks, the copier and the extra medical files on the side. “Well, I guess I know this place pretty well. Thank you.” He sat down at his desk and I said, “Is there anything else you need?” I really didn’t want to get back to work yet. “Um.. Well, you could help me set up my passwords on my computer. I was never really good at that.” He rose form his seat letting me sit in front of his computer. It was already turned on and I adjusted his personal settings. He stood directly behind me, leaning over my shoulder. He out one hand over the back of my chair and his face next to mine so close I felt his breath on my cheek as he answered my questions.
I couldn’t take it. He’s my co-worker! I can’t have this now. I stood up and said, “Uh, looks like you can handle it from here. I’ll be right back.” I stepped away from his desk and walked in to the bathroom, locking the door behind me. ‘What am I going to do?’, I asked myself. I lifted my skirt and slipped off my underwear, sitting on the toilet. I looked down and my underwear was wet.
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