Today, before I left work to have dinner with Ryan, I sent this email to Dwight:

To: Dwight Schrute

We don't like you anymore. We're going to find someone better.

When Dwight went to the bathroom, Jim moved all of Dwight's bobble-heads off his desk and onto Stanley's.

Of course, as you can imagine, Dwight repeatedly peered over his computer at Jim and I… since throughout the day we talk at the front desk. We enjoyed watching him look around the office, frantically searching for his missing bobble-heads that had come alive.

After work, sitting across from Ryan all I could think about was if Dwight ever found his dolls, so I texted Jim.

New text message: Jim - Dwight locate living toys?

While I waited for Jim to text me back, I tuned in to what Ryan was saying to me. "-really fantastic woman. I like her a lot."

I nodded along, "Yeah, Kelly is nice."

The same time my phone vibrated, Ryan stopped talking. "What? No. I wasn't talking about Kelly…" He looked puzzled and a little embarrassed.

"Oh? Then who?" I wasn't really interested, but being polite Pam I asked anyway. Not waiting for Ryan's response, I tuned him out again and checked my text message under the table.

Jim RE: sadly :'(

I laughed out loud and immediately covered my mouth with my hand. "I'm sorry, that was rude of me."

Ryan looked hurt. "I didn't know my feelings were that funny…"

"Oh, no! They're not!" I sort of panicked. "Your feelings, they're great. They're wonderful. Really."

He smiled. "Oh, terrific." We both sighed with relief.

After that, we made small talk; mainly we discussed work related things like the logo and Dwight.

Jim wanted me to call him when we finished eating, so after the bill was paid, I dialed Jim's number and walked out of the restaurant alongside Ryan.

"Hey." I said to Jim when he answered the phone. "We just got done eating."

For some reason Ryan wasn't walking to his car. "Goodnight Ryan, have a good weekend." I gave him a small smile. I turned away from him so I could unlock my car, but before I could hit the button on my remote-starter, he had spun me around and kissed me square on the mouth! I pushed him away, my face contorted angrily.

"What the hell Ryan!" I couldn't comprehend what had just happened. "Jim, I'll have to call you back." I snapped my phone shut, not hearing what Jim said.

"Wait, Jim?" Even in the dark of the parking lot, I could see the confusion on Ryan's face. His mouth hung slightly open.

"Look, I can't deal with this right now, ok?" I backed up. "We can talk about this another time."

"No, Pam." Ryan didn't move towards me, and for that I was thankful.

"Yes Ryan. Goodnight." I hopped in my car and locked the doors. I leaned my head back with my eyes closed, then thinking of Jim I sat up, took my hair out of it's elastic and called him back.

"Hi." My eyes were starting to water. I was tired and shocked. "Ok thanks, I'll be right over." I had never been over Jim's this late before, but it would be nice. He would be nice. He would hug me and make me feel better, I knew he would; Because that was Jim, that's who he was.