Boss-Lady
It's weird for Catherine when she walks into work early in the evening, eerie even, and not seeing her four other coworkers. It was four o?clock in the evening and she ducked out in the locker room, awaiting the news of who she would have to supervise.
She was barely a day in and she already hated her job.
Ecklie had broken up the entire graveyard shift. Catherine still couldn?t wrap her mind around that idea. She was going to miss all of her coworkers terribly. It felt like a loss, not being around her coworkers?her best friends. She could almost compare the heart break to that of losing a partner in the line of duty, only they were on the safer end of law enforcement.
Catherine jumps a little at the sound of heavy footprints entering the locker room. She turned around and furrowed her eyebrows.
"Warrick?" She inquired. "What are you doing here so early?"
"I was told to come in at this time," he explained.
Catherine frowned.
"They put you on swing with me?" She asked.
He smirked and leaned against the lockers.
"Is that a problem?" He quipped.
Catherine softened her features and chuckled a bit.
"No, it's just that, you've always said that you've never been an evening person," she said with a smile.
He shrugged.
"I'll live," he said as he sat down next to her.
They sit in a somewhat awkward silence for a few seconds before Warrick spoke again.
"Catherine," he began. "Working this new shift together isn't going to bother you, is it?"
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What?" She began teasingly. "Are you afraid of me being your boss?"
She giggled and she inched closer to him on the bench, their lips getting dangerously closer.
"No," he chuckled.
Catherine looked into his eyes as she inched closer and closer, almost closing the space between them before she pulls away and sighs.
"We shouldn't be doing this," she said, looking away from him and standing up. "We should get to work."
Warrick wanted to touch her, wish her good luck, but he doesn't. He stood up next to her and looked deep into her eyes.
Catherine saw what she perceived as hurt in his eyes. She wanted desperately to tell him how she felt about him, but she couldn't. Not at the moment.
He only sighed with a bit of a smile and said, "You're the boss," before going past her and leaving.