Your Desk Mate Dwight

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Chapter 11: The Year 2000

Jim Halpert was pulling up into the Dunder Mifflin Scranton parking lot. He didn't know whether he was ready to go into the office. Being away from Pam for the last couple of weeks had been absolute torture for Jim, and the mental image of her smile kept him going through every day until work started. Jim was incredibly excited for the day of work, and that was something he would never expect him to say when referring to a paper company.

Jim checked himself out in his car mirror, before walking confidently into the office. There was as slight chill in the air, and he saw Oscar driving into the office, and by the look on his face he was obviously not looking forward to work as much as Jim was.

Jim held his breath when he saw the outline of Pam in her pink jumper through the Dunder Mifflin door. He mustered the courage to walk through the door and walked up to reception. He stood there a moment, and said to a unknowing Pam,

"Hi, stranger." Jim said flirtatiously. This got Pam to look over, and saw Jim standing there beaming at her. Her face curled into a smile when she saw him. She was even prettier than he remembered. She had that look on her face which Jim knew

that he had done something right. He wanted her to keep that smile forever.

"Hey, how was your new year?" she asked him, as Jim put his coat on the hanger.

"It was great, you know it was standard, partying, drinking and a 2000 tattoo on my back." He said, jokily. Pam laughed and said,

"That's great."

"Yeah, how was your new year's?" Jim asked, "Not in the three olives bar, I presume?" Jim said, referring to them bumping into each other after Christmas.

"No," She said, grinning. "Roy and I just went out with a couple we have known since high school."

"Sounds great, what did you guys get up to?" Jim asked, pleased that he was back where he liked, at reception, with Pam. There pleasant conversation was interrupted by Michael who had gotten out of his office.

"Woooaaaah! Jim Halpert in the house everyone." Michael announced, clapping by himself. "How was your new year, my young sir?"

"Great." Jim responded, not wanting to go into detail with Michael. Michael nodded at him before saying,

"Any new millennium resolutions?" Michael asked.

"Um, yeah I want to lose 10 pounds by the end of the year." Michael looked at him, as if he must be joking.

"Jim if anything you need to gain weight man, put some fat on you." Michael said, hitting Jim on the chest and making him very uncomfortable. He left and said, "Peace out, Seacrest!" leaving Jim and Pam alone.

"It's something to think about." Pam said, looking at him, jokily. Jim felt a little self-conscious after she said that, even though that he knew that Pam was just being playful with him. He always knew he was skinny, but he never saw it as a problem.

"Well, I better get to work. You up for lunch in the break room?" Jim asked Pam, just as when he was leaving.

"Sure, sounds good." Pam smiled.

….

Dwight had become incredible interested in Star Wars over the Christmas holidays, and had brought in a figurine of Han Solo. Jim had asked him why he had brought it in, which Dwight replied, "It's not any of your business Jim."

Naturally, Jim tried to think of a way to mess with Dwight. He then thought of the perfect idea. He planned to put his figurine in Jell-O. He had done this before with his brother Pete, where he put his baseball which he constantly bragged about, in the Jell-O. This is perfect. Jim thought, smiling to himself.

Jim was having a very busy day, trying to catch up with his work after his couple week break. He didn't even know it was the end of the day, until Michael said, "Quitting time folks! It's time for you all to leave, I will see you tomorrow."

Pam went up to Jim a few minutes later and asked, "Hey, Jim can you walk me out to my car? Roy's 'sick' so I have to drive my crappy old car."

Jim told her, "Can it wait, I am in the process of something right now."

Pam looked confused, as he was obviously not doing any work, "What are you doing?"

"I am putting this," Jim said, picking up the figurine, "In Jell-O for Dwight to see tomorrow."

Pam smiled at this and said, "That's a good one, he's been bragging about it all day."

"Yeah, and he hasn't been messed with in a while, we don't want him to be too confident."

Pam shuddered at this thought and said, "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah, have a good night." Jim said, watching her walk out of the office. He sat down in his chair, before starting the prank.

…

It was a cold, and miserable Tuesday morning. Jim was walking into the office, accompanied by Pam, and Roy. Pam asked Jim about the prank he was planning to play on Dwight the night before.

"Yeah, you'll see." Jim said mysteriously, Pam raised her eyebrows at this, clearly excited about what was coming.

After saying goodbye to Roy, Jim and Pam walked up to the office. Jim took Pam by the arm and showed her Dwight's figurine in the Jell-O. Pam burst out laughing,

"No way! Jim you have a gift for this kind of thing." She said, making Jim smile.

"Thanks Pam, I try my best."

"Yeah, you know what?" Pam said.

"What?" Jim asked, looking at her.

"My resolution is to get better at pranking." Pam realised.

"Beesly, that's a great idea because if you are going to talk to me, you're going to have to get better at it." He said comically. Pam said flirtatiously,

"You better watch out, Halpert I'm coming for ya."

Jim watched her walk to her desk, biting his bottom lip. He enjoyed their flirtatious conversations, it made him think that she secretly like him.

As Jim had arrived slightly earlier than normal because of the prank with Dwight, it was a while for Dwight to arrive into the office. Dwight walked assuredly towards his desk, without a word to Pam or any of his colleagues. He stopped when he saw the plate of Jell-O on his desk, and his expression was of pure rage. "Dammit! JIM! I know it was you!" Dwight seethed, attracting a lot of attention. Michael heard this and said, "Dwight calm down, the commander n'chief is in session. What is going on?"

"Jim put my Han Solo collector's figurine in Jell-O." Dwight said, obviously very irate. Jim heard Pam laughing at this, and Michael thought that it was funny as well.

"How do you know that it was me?" Jim asked, acting as calm as possible.

"To be fair Dwight, you were bragging about it all day yesterday." Michaels said, nodding towards Dwight, who couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"One could say that Dwight did this to himself." Jim said, philosophically.

"Are you kidding?" Dwight exclaimed.

"Just let it go Dwight." Michael sighed, walking to the kitchen. After he left Jim caught Pam's eye and they did an air-five from across their desks. Good start to the year. Jim thought.

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