She walked out side of her 6th-floor condo balcony the sun was starting to set over the ocean. She looked out to the ocean as she raised her Jack Daniel's and Coke and took a sip. She leaned up against the railing as she stared out to the ocean, her mind running crazy about the situation that she was now in. The wind blew and her straight brown hair blew into her face. She shook her head pushing her hair aside. A scream from the beach caught her attention as she looked down at the couple playing.
"I wish that was me, but how could I be such a fool?" She thought to her self as she looked down at her glass and shake it side to side. She took another drink and looked out to the ocean.
The music was loud and it was hard to hear each other talk. She turned around her glass raised high in the air as she danced. The girls around her doing the same screaming the lyrics to the music as they danced.
"If you stare any harder you burn a whole into her," Glen said as he wiped his brow pushing the sweat into his short dark hair. "Just go speak to her."
"Nah, look at her. She knows she is beautiful beyond the outer shell. She lights up the room. Her friends follow her ever movement. She will never give me the time of day."
"Well, if you're just going to sit there and wait you will never know." Glen said as he turned towards the girls "Maybe here is your moment." He watched that girls gather and starting to head to the bar for more drinks.
"Sir" He called the bartender "You see the lady with the brown hair wearing the gold top and black skirt. Please put her drink on my tab."
"Yes Sir," The bartender said and went to help the girls.
"Well Mark, that will get her attention," Glen said and Mark took a drink of his beer.
"Yeah well, its a small step" Mark smiled as she placed his hand through his hair pushing it back. He watched the girls as they ordered their drinks with a smile and chit chat with each other. She leaned over the bar a little her top tugging down a bit as the bartender leaned down and spoke into her ear and pointed over to Mark. Mark raised his glass and so did the brunette as she smiled, her eyes glistening a bright green, and tilted her head towards him and the two took a drink together. Her one friend tapping her on the shoulder. Her eyes moved from him to her friend.
"Kassie, who is that?" She asked as she pushed back her blonde hair.
"I am not sure," She said with a smile and she took another drink as she pointed to the dance floor as she smiled and danced to the music. Mark and Glen chatted for a while as Mark stared off to the brunette that was attractive to from afar.
Kassie walked into the elevator as she started her new job today. She wore a black slacks with a pearl color top with a loose neckline. Her hair was straighten with a natural makeup look she pushed her hair back behind her ear. She smiled to her self and talked herself up as the elevator finally stopped. She walked into the the office.
"Kassie, your right on time!" Jessica said as she walked up to her in a short maxi dress and her blonde hair straight and messy. "Girl, look at you"
"Hi Jessica," Kassie said with a smile as Jessica wrapped her arm around her.
"Come let me show you around," Jessica said taking her down the one hall. "First let me show you your desk"
Glen leaned up against the counter as Mark poured himself a cup of coffee. "I have so much to do today," Glen said as he took a deep sigh.
"Then get a big cup because you will be chained to your desk" Mark snickered and laughed a bit "It's a Monday every week there is so much to do."
"Agree," Glen said and grabbed himself a cup and started to make himself a coffee. Mark turned the around and see Jessica pointing around the office as she spoke to a female behind her "Fresh meat"
"Oh good, maybe we can make that person get us coffee." Glen joked as Jessica and the female walked closer to them. She pointed over to the two guys and Jessica walked over with Kassie behind her.
"Oh, shit Glen look" Mark forced him to turn around "That is the girl from the club."
"Well get ready for introductions"
"Here is another kitchen area. Most people use this one for coffee" Jessica said "Since it is close to the offices. Glen" Jessica pointed to him and he waved " and Mark this is Kassie." She smiled and waved.
"Welcome aboard," Mark said and put his hand out to shake hers. She took his hand and shook it.
"Thank you," She said with a smiled her cheek turning a bit pink as she looked up at Mark her eye sparkling.
"Come I will walk you back to your desk," Jessica said as she tilted her head and as she noticed about how Jessica and Mark acted. "So, do you know him?"
"Who?"
"Mark" Jessica shrugged at her a Kassie just smiled.
"I think he bought me a drink at the club the other night."
"When you were out with Amanda and Jennifer?"
"Yeah"
Amanda and Jennifer stood at Kassie's desk and greeted her "Hi ladies" Jessica said as they walked up to them in Kassie's cubical.
"So, you're still planning to stay here and work" Amanda laughed at Kassie.
"Yes, I am not afraid yet" Kassie responded and Jessica could not wait.
"So apparently Kassie knows Mark and Glen from the club"
"Really?" Jennifer asked as she gave Kassie a look.
"You remember that guy that bought me a drink?"
"Yeah,"
"That was Mark?" Kassie looked at Jessica unsure if she picked the right name
"Yes" Jessica
"Well, isn't that unexpected," Amanda said and Jennifer shook her head. The girls got Kassie all set up and then back to work for themselves.
Mark walked out of his office and grabbed himself another cup of coffee. He put his cup under the machine and waited. He looked around the office and then he spotted Kassie. He started at her wondering what she was working on. He wanted to get to know her. Jessica walked into the kitchen.
"Mark your coffee"
"Oh sorry," He said and picked up his coffee "Jessica you know Kassie outside of work?"
"Yes," Jessica said as she turned on her coffee
"Um"
"I heard you ran into her at the club the other night."
"Yeah, I went out for a few drinks"
"Oh yeah," She said shook her head and smiled
"So, is she taken?"
"No, she is mingling"
"Oh, um," Mark said and took a sip of his coffee "good to know" He started to walk away and Jessica just gave him a weird look. Mark walked into Glen's office and closed the door.
"What's up?" Glen said as he looked up for a second.
"She is single," Mark said and Glen took a deep breath and lean back into this char, putting his pen down.
"Mark, how are you going to get her if you are not going to stand up and be bold?"
"I am not sure... I just need her to notice me."
"Look if you are so sure that she is single. Then maybe staring with the places that she looks for men."
"Like those plenty of fish site?"
"Yeah, but maybe you want to change your appearance a bit... after all, she just meets you today."
"Yeah, your right," Mark said and stood up and opened the door to Glen's office and headed back to his desk.
Kassie, Jessica, Ashley, and Jennifer sat in the lunch room. The three of them chatting it up as they ate lunch. Kassie scrolled through her phone as she listened in to the conversation. "Kass, you have to go out with us Friday night. It is going to be fun."
"Um, yeah maybe... It all depends on what is happening." She said as she looked over at Jessica.
"What is happening?" Jessica asked as she shoved food into her mouth and Mark walked into the lunch room and headed over to the coffee maker.
"I am hoping to possibly go on a date." Kassie smiled and Mark slowly made himself a cup.
"With who? Another swipe right swipe left?" Jennifer laughed and the girls laughed. Mark smiled his back towards the girls as he continued to take his time.
"I still have hope," Kassie said with a smile as she took a sip of her water and the girls moved on about what else was happening this weekend. Just like that Mark had the great idea to do just what Glen said and join that website that Kassie was meeting men on.
Kassie bounced around her condo as she got dressed in a short tan v-neck sleeveless style sequin top cocktail dress paired with sexiest silver sandals. She flat ironed her hair and put on some natural makeup. She grabbed her phone and walked over to the small table in front of the mirror before the door. Kassie stopped and looked at her self in the mirror. She pulled up the profile of the man she was going out to meet on her phone. She smiled and then grabbed her clutch and headed out to the restaurant.
Kassie parked the car and got out of it. She reached down to her phone and see that Jessica message her. She messages her back and smiled as she walked into the restaurant. She stopped and looked around as she tried to find the bar. She smiled as she passed several of the staff making her way to the bar. She looked around and walked slowly towards a man who had several people's ears.
"Hi Are you Freddie?" Kassie asked as she smiled at a man with short hair and a beer in hand.
"Yes, Kassie right?"
"Yes, How are you?"
"Good good. Come sit down" He pulled the barstool out alongside him. Kassie's eyes widen as she could already tell it would be hard to understand him with an accent. Kassie sat down and Freddie sat down too "What would you like to drink"
"Um, a Jack and coke are fine, Thank you," Kassie said as she looked over at Freddie. She noticed that he was very nicely dressed for drinks. He wore a dark blue button-down shirt and dark tan pants. He had dark brown hair buzz very short. His eyes were a shade of brown. Kassie smiled as she watched him order a drink for her. He was very good looking must work out at a steady pace.
"So, Kassie, what do you do for a living?" He asked his accent hard to understand Kassie pushed hair behind her ear.
"I am work in statistics for the government." Kassie smiles and waited for him to ask from more questions, but little did she know he was going to start on his monologue soliloquy about himself.
"That sounds so interesting. I am a 38-year-old and looking to finally settle down. I am love to go out on a Friday and Saturday night. I graduated from Yale and I have been working at Commerce Law for ten years. I am hoping to make partner one day. I enjoy cases that make me think and have to do a lot of research, but my favorite thing to do when I am not researching is fantasy football. Are you into fantasy football?" He finally took a breath and Kassie tried to swallow her dink down as fast as she could to get a word it with no luck. "No worries I can teach you how to pick the best team. I suggest that you spend the time researching my picks and seeing what makes them the best picks and go from there. Good luck beating me! Besides winning the office league almost every year. I won online a few times too. I also have a dog, Pearl. She is a golden retriever. Are you a dog lover?" Kassie smiled and nodded as she finished her drink and put it down.
"I love dogs," She paused "Can you excuse me for a moment."
"Sure" He paused and Cassie grabbed her clutch and headed to the bathroom. She walked into the bathroom and sat in the little sitting-room. She pulled out her phone and started to message the group text.
"OMG, this guy is so much into himself. I doubt he knows I am in the bathroom" She messaged.
"I would run" Jennifer texted
"Yeah ding dong ditched," Ashley wrote
"Be polite just go back excuse yourself." Jessica wrote
"Yeah the cat your don't own is sick," Amanda said and put a laughing emoji
Kassie leaned back in the chair and crossed her legs. She took a deep breath and put her phone back in her purse. She stood up and fixed her dress in the mirror and then made her way back out. She walked over to Freddie as he was already talking to someone else at the bar.
"Hey, Freddie. I am sorry, but I am going to have to leave" she said and placed her hand on the back of the chair.
"Aw, I hope everything is okay," He said his accent thick.
"I am sure it will be fine," She said as she smiled shyly.
"Well, I will call you later"
"Sure, not a problem" Kassie smiled and Freddie leaned in for a hug and she reluctantly gave one to him and then made her way to the door.
Kassie slowly walked to the car. She was catching eyes as she walked out. She knew that she had eyes on her. She just continued on her way to her car. She sat down and took a sigh of relief. Freddie was not the type she logged into the application and moved him off her list of potential.
Kassie walked into her condo. She reached down and took off her shoes as she carried them in her hand. She placed her keys on the small table next to the door as she closed the door with her foot. She sighed and slide her phone out of her clutch.
"At home taking care of the cat" Kassie texted and laughed to herself as she thought how funny that text sounded. Kassie walked into the bedroom as she caught a look of herself in the mirror as she passed by it. She stopped and looked at her self. She posed flirtily and pulled out her phone and started to take photos of her self. 'No reason to waste good makeup' she thought to herself and started to have her mini selfie session.
Kassie woke up the next day and slowly walked around the kitchen turning on the coffee as she leaned up against the countertop and looked out the sliding doors to the beach. She turned back around and grabbed a mug from the cabinet and pulled out the coffee pot before it finished and poured her self a cup. She grabbed her phone and walked out to the balcony. She took a deep breath as she watched the sunrise over the beach. She took a sip of her coffee and pulled her knees up to her chest. She put her cup down and grabbed her phone.
She looked at several text messages that came in overnight. She sighed and then got back in the group text. "Who is ready to go out tonight?" She knew that no one would be awake yet since it was Saturday and Friday was supposed to be a fun night. She swiped to her dating app she started to look through the photos. There was one guy there he had brown hair brown eyes sort of mysterious. "Caleb," Kassie said out loud to hear his name off her lips. She started to scroll through his photos and started to like a bunch of them to see if he would take the bite. She put her phone back down and picked up her coffee and held it with both hands as she sipped it, closed her eyes, and smiled into the sunshine.
Mark slid into the booth across from Glen. "Hey sorry I am late. I am starving tho." Glen looked up from the menu and seen Mark not looking as put together as he normally was.
"Sounds like a good thing" Glen laughed "So, tell me how was the date last night?"
"Um, it did not go so well"
"What? Why?" Glen asked a bit shock and the waitress took the order for their drinks "I thought you were going to go out with Kassie."
"Um, yeah I did, but as Freddie"
"Freddie?"
"Yeah" Mark shifted in his chair a bit "She doesn't know me... so there was no way she was going to go out with just me."
"Yeah, but I thought at least you two would be able to talk." He paused as Mark did not say a word "Well, how was the talk?"
"Not well, see I made Freddie be so self-absorbed she didn't like that."
Glen just started to laugh and the waitress came back and delivered their drinks and took their food ordered. Glen could not believe that Mark made up a whole new person to meet Kassie and not just be himself. The two men chatted a bit longer and laughed about last night. Mark's mind continuing to go back to that short date with Kassie.
"So, how are you going to have a second date with her?" Glen asked and was serious about it. He could tell the way Mark was talking he was not going to give up on Kassie so quickly.
Mark sighed "I am just going to make another guy she might go for."
"How about you just go as you?"
"She doesn't even know me."
"That is the point get her to know you. You're running a risk that you going to mess it up." Glen said seriously.
"You want to go out tonight for a beer?"
"You want me to go with so you can stalk her"
"Well yeah, and I will buy you a beer" Mark laughed at Glen as he shook his head.
Mark sat at the bar alone as he chatted with the bartender a bit. The music blasting as the crowd started to come in. He slowly slipped on his beer. He looked around the bar as he tried to find Kassie and her group of girls. He looked down at his watch and then back around the room trying to spot them.
The girls stood at the door getting stamped on the hand. Jessica was in front of the group as she looked over at Mark and spotted him right away. She turned around and looked to the group and said something. Mark took another sip of his beer as he watched her and then noticed she was heading straight to him.
"You could have hid yourself in a corner?" Jessica said to Mark as she stood up against the bar.
"I am sorry?" He tilted his head towards her
"I am not that blonde" She laughed at her self and ordered her self a drink "I am pretty sure you like Kassie."
"I am just here listening to music and having a drink."
"Yeah, I hear you. Why not just go up to her and tell her?"
Mark took another drink from his glass and cleared his throat "Not my style"
"Oh, yeah," Jessica said slowly "Stalking is right?" she said as she wrapped her hand around the glass. Mark looked passed her and seen the group was now in the room. Kassie wore a small tight black dress that was low cut more then he would like, but what could he say about it. His eyes swallowed up as much as he could take in as she walked over. She wore a silver necklace that plunged between her breast and black heels. Her hair was down in bouncing curls. She looked beautiful and eye-catching. Kassie walked over to Jessica and Mark.
"Hi," She said with a smile and leaned over Jessica a little allowing Mark to take in a deep smell of her perfume along with a deep look down her dress. Mark took another drink from his beer "Can I get a jack and coke?" She told the bartender and he nodded. "Sorry about that... your Mark right?'
"Yes," He said as he cleared his throat once again.
"Mark likes the music here," Jessica said with a smile and Kassie laughed and smiled a bit as she tilted her head.
"Wow?" Kassie asked him as she turned her head towards him her hair bouncing against her skin.
"Yeah, the music is not that bad and the drinks are reasonable."
"Totally," She said with a smile as she paid for her drink and reached for it. She took a nice long drink from the glass as the bartender brought back her change. Kassie put her glass down on the bar near Mark. Amanda ordered her self a drink next and the Kassie picked up her change and put it in her clutch. Kassie picked up her glass from the bar and took another drink.
"Hard week at work?" Mark asked and Kassie smiled
"No," She took a small sigh and looked over at Mark. 'How could he understand. Look at him women have to be falling over him. He had the board worked out body frame, tattoos, big heart, kind, and smelling so good like leather. He would just be my type... that I need to stay away from.'
"Well, I can tell you that my work life is rough." Amanda said and the girls laughed "Come on girls..." Amanda grabbed her drink and Jennifer and Jessica followed closely behind them. Kassie smiled at Mark and leaned over and grabbed her drink. She took another sip and turned away and made her way back to the group.
Mark sat for a while as he finished his beer and watched as the four girls continued to dance out on the floor. Mark knew that Jessica and Ashley were married and those two girls sent off the vibes that they were not looking for anyone. Jennifer, Amanda, and Kassie were the center of the dance floor making themselves noticed by any man out there. Mark pulled out his phone and pulled up the dating application. He put his username and password and the name 'Caleb Writer' showed up at the top. Mark smiled as he looked up at the girls and then back down at his phone and noticed that Kassie liked one of his photos on the site. Mark finished up his beer and headed towards the bathroom.
Kassie finished her drink and spun around and looked at Ashley and Jessica dancing with each other. Jennifer and Amanda were both bumps and grinding up against guys. Kassie shook her glass and as she got Ashley and Jessica's attention. Kassie made her way to the bar she looked around for Mark and he was nowhere in sight. Kassie leaned up against the bar and ordered her self another drink.
"Put that on my tab," A man said at the corner of the bar.
"No thank you," She said with a smile as she turned towards the voice. Her eyes meet his eyes and smiled his bright smile. He pushed back his long brown hair and moved closer.
"Hi I am Caleb"
"Hi, I am Kassie," She said with a smile and paid for her drink. She placed her hand over the top of the glass.
"You come here often?" Caleb leaned in and asked Kassie.
"You could say that," She said with a smile as she placed her drink to her lips and took a sip. Caleb took a drink of his beer and Kassie scanned the bar once more.
"You alone?"
"No, I am here with my girls," Kassie said and pointed to the floor. She took another drink from her glass and looked over at Caleb and smiled. She started to walk away to the dance floor and Caleb down his drink quickly and headed out to meet her.
The girls made their little circle and danced around as Kassie walked right overtook a drink and raised her glass in the air and started to dance on her own. Caleb came right up against her and started to dance right up against her. He took in a deep breath of her scent as he enjoyed every time their bodies touched one another. It was like a fire between the two of them. As the night kept progressing Kassie and Caleb danced until the girls were ready to call it quits. Ashley and Jessica gave the sign and they all started to wrap it up. Jennifer and Amanda started to trade numbers with the guys that they were dancing with.
"Let me get your number... I can take you on a real date" Caleb said to Kassie as he looked into her eyes.
"Um, yeah that sounds like a good plan," Kassie said with a smile as she took Caleb's phone from his hand and started to enter her number into his phone. She leaned up against the time as she finished up and then took a selfie to save on his phone. She laughed as she handed back his phone.
Caleb took the moment and leaned in and stole a kiss "Come home with me" He whispers to Kassie as she smiled her cheeks blushed a bit as she was not sure if it was the whiskey or what just happened.
"No thanks," She paused as Jessica walked over and leaned on Kassie.
"Come Kass let's go," She said her words a bit slurred.
"Come on your not driving," Caleb said and looked as Kassie since he did not want this night to end.
"Nah, who you come with you leave with," She said and wrapped her arm around Jessica.
"Your name is not Mark is it?" Jessica said and looked at Caleb.
"No, Sorry I must look like him."
"Kass, come on," Jessica said and leaned into her.
"See you later," Kassie said to Caleb and the girls walked out together.
Mark and Glen stood in the kitchen at work and started to chat about what the week held and also the weekend. Mark and Glen both had natural gray pants on with a dress shirt top. Mark ran his hands through his short hair. Glen placed his mug under the K-Cup machine and hit the button as leaned up against the counter. "So, how was the drink on Saturday night?" Glen asked remember that Mark was going to go out to watch Kassie.
"Amazing. We have so much chemistry. I even got a kiss-in at the end of the night." Mark said and he was beaming.
"Wait, what?!" Glen's head almost flew off his shoulders as he looked over to Mark yelling his question. The office staff that was starting to file in stopped and looked at the two of them catching all the attention.