Chapter 11

Heading back to her desk, Kara noticed that Mike wasn't there. But did he just walk out with his pants hanging over his shoulder? Did that really happen or did she just have a very vivid imagination?

It felt like she was doing the walk of shame as all her colleagues were looking at her. Of course! Mike just walked out in his boxer and she followed him out. Kara groaned loudly as she plopped on her chair. She didn't look at anyone and pretended to concentrate on the article she was reading.

Kara hadn't realized how fast the time flew as she saw her co-workers getting up and heading out of the office. She sat back and checked the time. Lunch break.

When she felt a hand over her shoulder, Kara jumped and turned around to see it was only Winn.

"Winny! I'm so glad you are here!"

"What's wrong, Kare bear?" Winn asked. "Don't you want to go to lunch? I'm starving and they have some great food upstairs!"

"I was just—"

Kara was rudely cut off as Mike walked towards her desk and plopped on it. "Hey Winn! Great to see you here, man!"

Winn smiled. "Mike? What are you doing here, buddy?"

"He works here." Kara rolled his eyes at Mike, who simply chuckled. She noticed that he had changed into dark blue jeans. Whatever happened to his other pants?

"I do work here. But that's only because the food here is great!" Mike said proudly.

"Really? What would you recommend?" Winn asked as the boys started walking out, Kara followed them quickly.

"Pizza and cheesy fries. The Chinese could be better, they just need to fire the cook." When Mike saw Cat waving to him, he told Winn and Kara that he would see them later and ran to join Cat.

"Whoa! He's with The Cat Grant?" Winn asked in surprise, turning to look at his friend.

"NO!" Kara exclaimed.

"You're jealous!"

"NO, I AM NOT!"

"Duh! You are." Winn smiled as he threw his arm over her shoulder and led the way to the elevator.

"Winn, I don't like him."

"I never said you did. I just said you were jealous. So obviously you like him."

Kara rolled her eyes at him. They walked into the cafeteria and Winn got them both plates. "I'm going for the pizza and fries with cheese. You?"

"I see potstickers!" Kara grinned. She went to get some potstickers for herself and saw Winn grabbing them a seat in the far corner. Grabbing two sodas for them, she joined him. As Kara took a seat, someone slid in next to her.

"What are you doing here?" Kara asked Mike as he sat munching some fries.

"Eating."

"No. I mean, here… at this table?"

Mike stood up and looked over and under the table; he even circled it once before plopping down next to her again. "Yo, Blondie, I don't see your name written on the freakin' table. Just eat. And let me eat."

Kara frowned and turned away. As she ate her potstickers, she heard Mike say, "Chinese. Even after I told you…"

"That's her favorite," Winn said. "Kara never says no to potstickers."

Kara smiled awkwardly with a mouthful of potstickers. Mike looked at her and smiled. He shook his head and turned his attention to Winn, asking him about his first day of work.

Kara could see Mike making an effort here. He wasn't that bad. Just smug sometimes. Suddenly, she felt her stomach rumble. Kara covered her mouth with her hand.

Mike looked at her with a smirk. "The restroom is that way," he pointed out. Kara got up and ran. Winn sat quietly, looking at Mike smirk before letting out a loud sigh and getting up to go after Kara.

Mike simply finished his lunch and went back to the office before Kara got there. She did unleash the devil. She had to pay the price.

Almost fifteen minutes later, when Kara walked into the office and towards her desk, she saw a small can of soda on her table with a stick note beside it that read, 'Drink me. :)'

Kara looked up to see where Mike was. When she spotted him in Clark's office, talking about something, she smiled and took a seat. Kara finished her soda and disposed the can before she went back to continue reading Valor's blog.

Kara turned on the PC and tried to open the blog again but the cursor wasn't moving. She kept moving the mouse around and managed to catch someone's attention. The guy seated right behind her turned in his chair and asked, "You need some help there?"

Turning around, Kara shrugged. "It was working alright this morning; I wonder what happened."

"Little mouse giving you too much trouble? You better get it replaced. The IT guys have few to spare. I'm Braxton, by the way! You can call me Brax." He smiled, holding his hand out for Kara to shake.

"Kara. Nice to meet you, Brax. And yeah, I guess I have to go talk to someone from the IT."

"If you need any help, let me know." Brax gave her a big smile before turning away.

Kara turned to face her desk again. Something made her turn the mouse around and she let out a small gasp. There was a small piece of paper stuck over the sensor. The minute she saw it she knew it was Mike's doing, because there was a troll face over the paper with a single word written over it, 'Problem?'

Kara threw the paper away and looked up to see if Mike was still talking to Clark. But he wasn't there. Where did he keep running off to?

Standing up, she looked around to see just how to get back at him. When she saw a full box of colorful rubber bands on Brax's desk, Kara decided to ask, "Hey Brax, if you aren't gonna use those rubber bands today, can I borrow them? I'll get you some tomorrow."

Brax looked up and nodded. "How many do you want, Kara?"

"All of them." She gave him a sheepish smile that he returned with a small chuckle.

"What? Do you really plan on using all of them? The entire box?"

"Something like that." Kara smiled and headed straight to Mike's desk, she plopped on his chair and realized it was way more comfortable than hers. Kara decided to swap their chairs. It's not like Mike would even realize.

And for the next half an hour, she sat in his desk, covering his office phone with colorful rubber bands; she had finished the entire box and looked at the phone proudly, there's no way Mike was getting all these off quickly, certainly not when he has an important call.

Grinning, she went back to her desk. Mike returned in less than ten minutes after she had settled down. He was busy texting on his phone that he hadn't noticed what Kara had done to his office phone. When he finally looked at it, his eyes fell on Kara first before narrowing. "Not funny, Blondie!"

Kara stuck her tongue out at him and grinned. "Very funny, you troll." She held up the little paper with the troll picture on it for Mike to see.

"I didn't do that." Mike shrugged before taking the scissors and cutting all the rubber bands at once.

"HEY!" Kara called loudly, making him look up at her again. "It took me half an hour to put all those on! How could you! Why couldn't you just let those stay for a while?"

"Stupid Blondie!" Mike made a face and went back to texting someone again.

Kara was furious. Not only was he playing pranks on her, he even dared to lie about those. Without thinking twice, she marched up to his desk and grabbed his phone right from his hands.

Mike jumped on his feet and demanded, "Give it back, Blondie, or it's gonna be bad."

"Really?" Kara smirked. "Let's see who you are texting! Oooh… Cat! A hot date, huh? You just wait!" Kara furiously typed something and pressed send just as Mike snatched his phone away.

Mike's eyes widened looking at the text she had just sent to Cat. 'Sorry, but I'm really not into older women. Kara is more of my type. Oh, I even moan her name in bed! And when I do i—' The text was obviously incomplete but he knew the damage was done. Kara was going to pay for this. Bad.

A/N: Well... cliffhanger! Can you guess what's going to happen next? :D

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