"You're not allowed to get changed into your gym kit at work anymore!"
Cat had snuck up close to me so she could lean in to say that right in my ear while i stood with my drink at the bar. It was a Friday night and a few of us had come out together, straight from work, for a few drinks.
We'd been out for a couple of hours, wandering around town, hopping from bar to bar. This was a new thing for us as a company; the monthly nights out were something Cat had instigated when she joined the company earlier in the year. I won't pretend that i wasn't thrilled when she came to work with us; to say the office was as lively as a graveyard was an understatement before. Now we have an outgoing, fun, socialite thrown in with us and suddenly it's worth getting up in the morning to go to work. It probably helps that she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure of meeting; although I'm not sure I'm supposed to admit that, considering we're both married to different people.
"Why, is it not a good look for me?"
"It is, that's the problem. How am I supposed to concentrate at the end of the day when you walk through in your lycra tops, with your muscles on show? It's a very good look for you."
I work out pretty regularly, most mornings before work and I go Thai boxing a few evenings during the week. I know I'm in reasonable shape but I never expected that I'd be able to illicit that kind of compliment, least of all from someone as beautiful as her. As a fairly average red-haid I don't often get to draw that much attention so when the stunning beauty you've spent the last few months trying not to get caught staring at across the office says that to you it's a huge ego boost.
Too bad she has to be drunk to say it. We've all had a bit to drink and even though it's only about 10pm quite a few of the crowd that started the night with us have already decided they'd had enough and gone home. She was slurring her words a little bit and put her hand on my shoulder for some extra support.
"That's good to know. But, now that you've told me do you really think I'm going to stop doing it?" I wasn't sure where she was going with this conversation so I tried playing it cool to start with; even if I was a giddy fourteen year old on the inside.
"Honestly I hope you don't stop. It's a nice treat at the end of a hard day."
At this point my ego is doing somersaults. I can't really stress enough how beautiful Cat actually is, or how perfectly she fits my 'type'. Tall, slim, with long brown hair hanging almost all the way down to her waist; tonight she has it loose with just a single braid running back from her right temple. Her eyes are piercing and shift regularly from green to blue and anywhere in between. Like me she's a keen fitness fanatic and she's wearing a short mini-dress to show off the kind of long, slender, toned legs you'd expect to see on a professional model.
"I'll be completely honest," she continued "I know you're married, and so am I, but if we were single I'd have dragged you to the toilets by now and fucked you into next week!"
Holy shit that escalated quickly! I was happy with the compliment about how i look in lycra but that was something else. I'd love to say I was able to come out with some kind of cool, witty response but, honestly, I was just standing there in stunned silence desperately wracking my brains for what to do next. Fortunately she came to my rescue by completely ignoring my silence and carrying on.
"I know I'm not supposed to say things like that but there's something about you that just gets me going; your style, your personality. It's not just the way you look."
"Trust me, the feeling is definitely mutual." That was the best i could manage at this point.
"I don't want you to think I'm just saying this because I'm drunk. I know people think you can't trust anything that drunk people say but I like to think it gives them the courage to be more honest than usual."
"I couldn't agree more, and I'm definitely glad to hear that you feel that way."
"I definitely feel that way. And believe me, I would do things to you that you haven't even imagined yet!"
"Really? Go on," I prompted. I was getting a handle on my own nerves and starting to enjoy myself. I had no intention of letting this escalate beyond the naughty conversation that it was but I still wanted to enjoy it while it lasted.
"I'm talking 50 Shades shit. I know I'm a couple of years older than you but that doesn't bother me, it just means I can teach you things."