Chapter Two – Man, You DO Like Her
A/N : Heeeya ! Thanks everyone who reviewed the last chapter, it made my day :)
I don't really like this chapter ... I don't know why. It's really short though. Anyway, I hope you'll like it. And the third chapter will be the party :D
PS : In this chapter, Tony's the narrator.
Annie
"Alright everyone listen up ..." Ryan Chappelle said, when he walked out of my office. "Division wanted to congratulate all of you that've been here during this crisis, the day the bomb went off. We figured that since there's no active protocol right now, every each of you that spent the whole day and night at CTU during that day is allowed to leave his station and get some rest, today after 3 pm"
Some agents whispered thanking words to Ryan and everyone got back to his station.
"Alright, I've nothing to do here anymore so I'm heading back to Division" he said, opening slightly the door without bothering to enter my office.
"Sure"
"Make sure no one leaves before 3 pm"
"I will" I said, without even lifting my head to face him.
"Good" he said closing the door.
I was starting to wonder who the hell came up with this half-day off. Were they starting to become emotional because we lost a lot of people in here ? Yeah, probably not. Maybe they were just becoming a little human.
My glance felt on Michelle's station. She was focusing on something in her screen when she suddenly stood up, meeting my eyes. I blushed so I turned back to the screen to stare at nothing, my laptop wasn't even on. When I looked back at her, she was standing right next to an employee, both hands on her hips, she looked so sexy that way, even though she always looked sexy. She also looked serious and was showing him something on the screen, her head just beside his. I shook my head slightly. Oh goddamn no, I wasn't being jealous. I am not jealous. I can't be jealous just because Michelle Dessler's lips are just inches away from this random guy. The idea of Michelle's lips on mine just entered my mind suddenly. I could still feel her warm breath on my bare neck when we hugged that day. And her lips on mine ... they felt so soft, so warm, so sweet ...
Stop Tony. You can't allow yourself to think about her. You promised yourself you wouldn't date anyone from work after the whole Nina thing. Yeah ... so why the hell did I invited her at David's ?
Later that day, just before three, I was standing in the break room, with three other tech guys.
"So John ... did you get to grab a date with your neighbour ?" one of them asked.
"Uh ... yeah. I asked her about three days ago and she agreed right away" John answered sheepishly. "What about you Tom?"
"Well I asked someone like ... two weeks ago" he paused, took a breath a continued "but she said she didn't really want to. So I have no one ... yet." He stated, emphasizing the last word.
"Who did you ask ?" Nick, the third guy wondered.
"Michelle"
I almost choked when I heard him say her name.
"You mean Michelle from CTU ?" I asked with big eyes, joining the conversation.
"Yeah, why ?"
"Because I asked her too" I bursted out, immediately regretting my last sentence.
"You kidding me ?" he almost whispered.
"Not really. She agreed and said she was glad I'd asked her"
There was an awful silence. Everyone was staring at their feet, except John, who was checking if anyone was coming in. Finally, he broke the silence :
"You like her, don't you." It was not even a question about if I liked her or not, it seemed more like 'How much do you like her ?'
"Uh ... I don't know I mean ..."
John laughed out loud, "C'mon man, you DO like her !! That's almost cute of you"
Suddenly we heard heels clicking the ground, coming in our direction, and Michelle entered the break room.
"Hi" she said, obviously avoiding Tom's glance. "Tony I just wanted to say that I'm leaving, since it's five past three and ... I mean, y'know about what Chappelle said earlier ..."
"Uh yeah, right ..." The words 'I'll see you tonight' were just about to slip out off my mouth but she then smiled sweetly, preventing me from answering.
Out of nowhere, she smiled brightly at me, at me, in front of everyone before heading back to the main hall without a word. My face turned crimson.
"That was really sexy" Tom whispered.
John lauhed out loud again and started teasing Tony :
"Michelle and Tony, sitting on a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G ..."
"Shut up !" Blushing, I tried to sound very annoyed, even though the tree thing was an idea I really liked ...
