Seeing Ray for the first time in a month

I must confess that I work with Ray and that he is older than I . . .  but now that I am 35 it doesn’t seem all the strange to me. I think my friends have a hard time with it because they’ve never met him and all my past boyfriends tended to be younger than me. My girlfriends at work, Sara and Ruka were a little apprehensive at first by our flirting but over time they realized that there’s a realness behind it. In fact Sara quietly disapproved of the flirting as she was friends with Tom and thought Ray was a player but when I almost got fired and Ray called me twice to calm me down from across the world, she announced to me that she approved and thought we had the makings of a great romance.

Ruka was on pins and needles to see the reaction between Ray and I after all the long distance intimacy. I was standing in the lobby when he arrived and we slyly smiled at one another and greeted each other with a drawn out, “Hi Lady…” and “Hi Ray, welcome back.” After witnessing the reunion, Ruka was both excited and a little mortified that she was in the lobby at the time. She was in on the secret office romance.

I’m sure that I blushed but luckily the office has dimmed lighting to hide it a little. And not to be too obvious we both walked to our offices at either direction of the building without more words to give us away.

The rest of the day was filled with emails back and forth, a few fun flirty moments in the kitchen, and a short conversation about what time he was picking me up that night.