((Author's Note -
Please note that this is Adult Fiction, so should only be read by those who qualify!
This is part 2 of a mini-series so makes most sense if read after part1!
However, I've tried to make it read stand-alone as well, so I hope that it works for you!
I sincerely hope that you enjoy ...
Duke ))
Part 6 - Friday Morning - Early
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Driving into work was a bit of a strain this morning.
It wasn't the traffic, it wasn't the weather and it wasn't the stupid idiot on the radio telling me what brand of cereal was least likely to kill me before I got to sixty!
Actually, the traffic was about the same as normal for a working day morning. Bad! But no worse than any other Friday.
The weather was really nice. It was a bright, sunny day in May. The birds were doing their bit to try and drown out the traffic noise, everything looked fresh and ready for a baking hot Summer, but at the moment it was just nice and warm. Perfect. Not!
I seemed to be covered by my own, personal, dark thunder cloud as I followed my usual route into the town centre and it was still with me as I pulled into the office garage. It wasn't as if I could actually put my finger on what was troubling me either. That's because I didn't know what I didn't know. If you see what I mean?!
To summarise the problem, I'd woken up early and was half-way through a carefree breakfast when I'd realised that I couldn't remember what I'd done on Thursday night. And not just bits of it, ALL of it! The whole time from leaving the office to going to bed was gone! It was if that key bit of memory had been wiped and copied over to the 'recycle bin', and unlike on the PC there was no 'retrieve' option!
It was weird because there'd been no sign of an hangover. I'd felt fit and well, buoyant even, and I can't ever remember drinking enough to blot out the whole evening anyway. So what the hell had I been doing?! It was a mystery, and looked like remaining so because I'd almost trashed my apartment looking for clues ... and to no avail.
Which was why I was power walking into the main office, because that fruitless search had made me late! Not that the majority of the people in the office took much notice because, after all, I was still a relatively junior analyst in the marketing department, so I made my way to the section I shared with another colleague, Angela, who was slightly less junior and infinitely better looking. For once she was in before me and gave me a suitably warm welcome.
"David Lothair! You young rascal, what time do you call this then?! It'll be the dunce step for you if you're not careful!" she laughed loudly, attracting the attention of the rest of the office, most of whom smiled as I reddened!
With the notable exception of the horrible Georgia's senior team across the office that is! They were the die-hards who'd been here 'forever!' and didn't generally deign to acknowledge the rest of us, but today I did a double take because they'd all turned round and were smiling as well, but theirs weren't warm 'matey' smiles like the others, theirs were more of the 'we're superior and we know something you don't' type of smile! Distinctly unsettling. The other reason for my hesitation was that Georgia, the team leader, who was rather on the chubby side for early thirties had winked mysteriously in my direction. For some reason it sent a shiver down my spine!
So, by the time that I'd thrown my jacket over the back of my chair and sat down I was feeling a bit flustered. I glanced back to my friend Angela who for some reason had broken the jeans habit of a lifetime and come to work in a very nicely tailored cream dress. The hemline was a couple of inched above the knee and as she leaned forward to look at me closer, with her neat legs crossed, the amount of bare thigh on display was incredibly distracting. I did my best to avoid staring at too blatantly, but some things are just physically impossible!
She didn't seem to mind though and was busy with her own train of thought as she studied me intently until her mouth opened in a big 'o' and she exclaimed, "Oh My God...wow ...oh my God ...you did didn't you?!"
Confusion reigned. 'Did what?' I thought dazedly.
"You got laid last night didn't you??!!"
This time it was my mouth that opened in a big 'o'!!
I should have just denied it straight off because, although women's intuition was a pretty murky area for me, how could she possibly know? But I didn't, because that was slap bang in my memory blank and for some reason, deep down, I had a feeling that she might be right which made my eyes widen even further. And then there was the even bigger question of with who? I wasn't is a relationship at the moment, so who the hell could I have been having hot sex with ... and then forgotten about it!?
Of course that reaction was tantamount to an admission of guilt and then there was no stopping Angela as she dived into me with question after question!
I'll admit that my response wasn't the English language in its finest hour.
"I ...err,... well... I mean ...errrrrrrrrr ...OH!"
Saved by the sight of my boss, Astrid, striding into the office just at the right time! Normally that wouldn't have attracted so much attention, despite my secret fantasies, but this time it did and Angela followed my line of sight and copied me, "OH!!"