Friday Morning

“Hmmhmm, hmmhmm, gotta get hmm hmm hmmmhmm,” Sabrina was humming to herself as you walked down the street from the bus stop.

“Babe, please tell me that’s not ‘Friday’,” Gemma said.

“It’s catchy!” Sabrina defended herself.

“Yeah, catchy enough to get stuck in our heads,” you said. “Thanks a lot.”

Sabrina just laughed and shook her head, leading you into the office building. Inside there were a few people in the lobby, but Becks wasn’t currently occupied so you all went up to her.

“Good morning,” Gemma said.

“Morning, guys,” Becks said, then flushed a little remembering your little back and forth last night.

“Morning, Becks,” you said with a smile and a wink, leaving it at that.

Sabrina wasn’t as forgiving. “Morning, Miss L,” she said with a wink.

“Sabrina,” Gemma warned her.

Becks waved Gemma off. “It’s fine,” she said, then looked at Sabrina. “Once.”

“I know,” Sabrina said, reaching over the desk to take Becks’ hand and squeeze it. “I’m just teasing you a little.”

“And that’s why I’m willing to forgive you,” Becks said, then dropped her voice low. “Bitch.

That made you and Gemma snort little chuckles, and Sabrina grinned. The three of you waved your good mornings to her and then headed for the elevator.

“Fuck,” Gemma said as the doors closed.

“What?” you asked.

“It’s in my fucking head,” she said, giving Sabrina a little shove in the shoulder. Sabrina just snickered.

Upstairs you all headed to the conference room - not the one you’d been working in for two weeks, but the usual one. The three of you spread out and set up your workstations again, and about five minutes before the start of the day Eric came in looking a little tired.

“Hey, Eric,” Gemma said. “How did the date go?”

“Um,” Eric said, glancing around at you and then out into the hallway. Then he broke into a grin. “It went good.”

On the one hand, you felt kinda good for Eric that he’d finally had a good date that wasn’t just a hookup. On the other hand, it looked like he’d possibly gotten farther with your Ex than you ever did.

“Like, good-good, or good-good?” Sabrina asked.

“The second one,” Eric said, moving around to his seat with a little shit-eating grin on his face.

“OK, but did Ludy have fun?” Gemma asked.

“She wants to go out again tonight,” Eric said. “Texted me this morning.”

“Wow,” you said, raising your eyebrows.

“Nice job, Eric,” Sabrina said, offering him a high five which he excitedly accepted.

“I’ll be honest, it started out a little rough. You never told me she was Asian. But she’s hot, so I went with it,” Eric said. “We had a couple of drinks at that pub you set us up at, and then we went out to a club and she was all over me. She had me come back to your place and we, uh… yeah.”

“Made the beast with two backs?” Sabrina offered. “Put the round peg in the square hole? Introduced the bull to the cow?”

“That last one is rough,” Gemma rolled her eyes.

“Yeah, that,” Eric said. It was kind of funny seeing him be a little squeamish talking about actual sex after he’d been so cavalier about wanting to find chicks to hook up with. “We did that. And then after some like, snuggling or whatever, I headed out and she wanted me to text when I got back to my place so I did. And then this morning she said she wanted to see me again tonight.”

“That’s great, dude,” you said, offering him a fist bump. “Now you can stop checking your dating apps every five minutes.”

“Why would I do that?” Eric asked.

“Eric,” Gemma said sternly. “You just went on a great date with a girl who wants to see you again.”

“Yeah, but she said she wanted to be casual,” Eric said.

“Casual isn’t two nights in a row,” Sabrina pointed out.

“But it’s what she said,” Eric argued.

“Morning, folks,” Mr Garrison said as he stuck his head in the door. “John, Gemma, Sabrina, great work on the files. The Associates are already hard at work. They got in early because I told them you would definitely be done, thanks for proving me right.”

“Our pleasure, sir,” Gemma said.

“Have you been to your office yet, sir?” Sabrina asked.

Garrison frowned and glanced at Eric, who had been the problem child of the Cease and Desist letter issue. “No, I haven’t. Is there something I should be expecting?”

“We just found a particular file late last night that you’ll probably want to see,” you said.

“Oh, alright then,” Garrison said. “I’ll take a look. Anything else going on for you folks today?”

“Actually, hypothetical question for you, sir,” you said. “If someone, let’s say Eric, were to go out on a date that went really well and the woman he went on the hypothetical date with said she wanted to be casual, but then she hypothetically texted the next morning asking to see him again that night - would you consider her a hostile witness?”

Garrison snorted hard and looked at Eric. “Check her purse for your nuts, son. If they aren’t already there, they will be soon.” And he left.

“Pfff-ff-fffft,” Gemma blew out her breath. That made Sabrina snicker as well.

“Thanks, guys,” Eric said dryly. The four of you got to work, not sure when Andy would show up with the morning coffee run.

About ten minutes later you caught yourself humming that fucking song, and when you glanced over at Sabrina she was biting her lip and trying not to laugh.

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