"You going to Johnny's after work?"
Tia looked up and saw her coworker leaning against the door of her office. Regan was wearing that tight white sweater with the black pants. She had her hair in a French braid and Tia would bet a million dollars that she didn't know how sexy she actually looked at that exact moment. Regan was flicking the tip of her tongue against her upper lip and the shiny ruby stud was showing just a bit.
"I don't know. Are you?"
Tia tried acting nonchalant about this situation, but it wasn't working. Of course, she wanted to go. Since starting at the advertising agency, she had been desperate to go out to the weekly Thursday evening bar night. It seemed, however, that there was always a reason not to go. The first week, she had been so overwhelmed with her new job that she had stayed late at the office. The next month, she was dealing with the crap that Warren had left her with and now, she was finally able to go.
"Of course. I can't imagine a better evening than socializing with the same geeks that I work with all day. I mean, you think I don't just absolutely love when Charlie tells the same 'Jackass' jokes every week."
"Then I'll go too." Tia smiled. She was so nervous about Regan and it drove her crazy. Regan was always so hyper and bubbly and here she was making a cute joke and all Tia could do was smile.
Regan smiled and then, just before walking down the hall, she glanced up and down and said, "You look cute today. You should wear red more often."
Tia blushed as red as the silk blouse she was wearing and watched as Regan walked the few steps down the hall and then turned into her office.
A few hours later, the two women were sitting in the dark, loud cave of Johnny's. Johnny's was a tiny bar in the basement of a building where the main floor was a sushi restaurant and the top floor had two law offices. It was right in the downtown area of the city. Tia always wondered what urban planner thought putting apartments, bars, restaurants, law offices, and a dry cleaners on the same street was a good idea.
Tia was sitting next to Regan and across from the two women were Charlie and George. The two men had just finished their second pitcher of beer. They were laughing and swapping stories about their girlfriends. Tia and Regan just smiled and continued to watch the entertainment. The entertainment, of course, was watching these two forty something geeks try to compare each other's girlfriends. So far Charlie was winning in the category of 'whose girlfriend is more neurotic about the bathroom being clean.'