The night before this morning at work had been a disappointment. The ex had been in town and despite always trying to see me when he was home and occasionally asking me to marry him in the meantime, he actually didn't seem to like me that much. This, then, usually meant that he had sex with me quickly and retreated even quicker afterward on his little trips home.
So, I was at work, slightly depressed, and ready to be bored out of my mind in the gift shop once again. It'd been awfully slow for most of the Christmas holidays, and somehow even our bigger money days were boring between actual customers.
I was standing in the empty store, we hadn't opened yet, and looking out at the slowly filling up parking lot through our picture window.
My coworker looked with me for a minute, then offered me her leftover cream cheese from her morning bagel. She knew I loved cream cheese and I started scooping it out of the single-serve container and licking it off my finger.
The Ranger guiding the parking was new and I had been checking him out for awhile now. I watched him while I finished my little decadent morning snack, and realized from the look on his face that I was milking the sloppy gesture for all it was worth. He didn't look away for a good two minutes so I just kept slowly licking and sucking the creamy white stuff off of my fingers. I admit to allowing a small, decidedly devilish smile to slide across my lips.
I went about my work that day as bored as usual, flirting with any cute males who came in and trying not to knock stuff off too many shelves with my big round butt as I restocked.
At lunch I walked quickly as I could across the balcony and went down the stairs to sit where I usually did in the back of the kitchen. Seeing how terribly busy it was down there, I headed back up to the usually empty offices where the conference table went constantly unused but had a great view.
I sat, sipping a diet coke and not really eating since the altitude made me feel weird still. The clouds slid out over the Tatoosh range and into the sun as it was already low over the horizon at my 2:30 lunch. Ah, midwinter in Washington.
The blue was endless behind those clouds and the snow on the ground was reflecting all that golden sunlight into the room and warming me. I was wondering what to do with the rest of my lunch when I heard the door open behind me.
"Hey." A deep voice said behind me.
I turned with my usual customer service smile on my face and it turned into a genuine one as I saw it was the new Ranger.
"Oh, hi!" I think I sounded a little more enthusiastic than I would've meant to. He grinned and I did an inward sigh over his totally sexy perpetual stubble. He was dark, and tall, and strong in the shoulders, a bulky guy who made my curvy self feel small and vulnerable in his presence.
I shivered just thinking about letting him playfully toss me around a bedroom.
"So, um... what's up?" I said, toying with my food that had been so uninteresting a moment ago. I looked back up at him through my lashes and realized he'd come close enough that I realized I was right at a level with his belt buckle. I followed the line of his shirt placate up his body and looked in his eyes, blushing.
He must've caught on to what I was thinking about because he raised an eyebrow and his hips did a tiny almost imperceptible jerk toward my face.
"Um... what did you ask me?" He said, clearing his throat.
"Oh... I said... What's up?" I replied, and I couldn't help a small giggle.
He laughed and sat down next to me, tension momentarily diverted.
"So... you aren't really eating lunch?" He asks.