Her alarm clock was going off way too early.
Donna groaned, wondering what she would have to sacrifice in order to sleep in five more minutes. Probably her trip to Starbucks, which she needed before she went to baby sit Josh.
She dragged herself out of bed, wondering why it was that she was the one to go get him, taking him home-his home, not hers.
It wasn't a very assistant-y thing to do.
She tried to convince herself in the shower that it was something friends do and that it did not, by any means, mean that she had a crush on Josh Lyman.
She threw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, cursing the record high temperatures and how it made her hair flat and she would probably get sunburn. She looked gross and there were dark circles under her eyes that refused to go away, even with concealer.
She wanted Josh to think that she could handle this.
She went to Starbucks, confident that a peppermint mocha with whipped cream and chocolate flakes would not only give her the caffeine jolt she desperately needed but would make her feel ten times better.
"Can I help you?" the Starbucks barista asked in a bored tone.
"Yes, I would like a grande peppermint mocha with whipped cream and chocolate flakes, please." She always made it a point to be nice to clerks and other staff. She spent a disastrous summer working as a waitress at a restaurant in Wisconsin and since then she considered it karmatically sound to be nice to waitresses, waiters and clerks, even when they were rude to her.
Donna waited while her drink was being made, eying one of the brownies that was calling her name, even though she was still technically on a diet. There was this great dress that she knew would just look amazing on her if she just lost two more pounds.
She walked out of Starbucks sans brownie but had the best drink in the world in her hands. She took a long sip, savoring it as she hailed a taxi.
"Where to?"
"GW, please."
Donna was surprised how easily it rolled off her tongue now, though she supposed she shouldn't have been too surprised. After all, she visited Josh there everyday. And after today, God willing, she would never have to go there again.