Waking up to Mina's call

By the time your alarm goes off in the morning, your eagerness has been replaced by a tired grogginess, and the belief that everything that happened yesterday was just a dream. Only half-awake, you turn off your alarm and go back to sleep.

45 minutes later, your phone wakes you up again, this time with an incoming call. With a groan, you pick it up and grumble, "H'lo...?"

"John?" you hear a woman's voice say, "This is Mina. You told me to call you before I left for work."

You bolt upright in bed. The memories of what happened yesterday come flooding back. You end up slapping yourself in the face, both to wake yourself up and to confirm one last time that this wasn't a dream.

"What was that?" Mina asks you.

"Nothing," you say quickly, then continue, "Um, right, I did tell you that. So. I want you to come pick me up. I'm going to be coming to work with you today."

"Yeah, I figured as much when you told me to give myself an extra hour to get to work," Mina says neutrally, "So where do you live? It's not like you gave me your address yesterday."

"Oh yeah, you do need that, don't you?" you say with a nervous laugh. You could practically hear Mina rolling her eyes at this point, so you say, "I'll text it to you. Speaking of which, good job shaving last night. Your pussy looks much nicer hairless."

"Thanks," Mina replies halfheartedly.

"Anyway, I'm not sure how far away you live from me, so I should probably let you go," you say.

"Not to mention you need to get ready," she says, "I can tell you literally just woke up, but I hoping you can not embarrass me in front of my co-workers and make yourself look at least somewhat presentable by the time I get there."

"I wouldn't be worried about me if I were you," you say to her, "But yeah, you have a point. Okay, I'll do my best to look professional. Just call me when you pull up and I'll come out. Oh, stop and get me some coffee on the way too. I'm gonna need it."

A half-hour later, you are showered, dressed, and heading out the door. You managed to find a button-up shirt and some dark pants to wear, as well as a pair of half-forgotten loafers in the back of your closet. Not quite the power suit and tie you were hoping to magically find at the last minute, but it was at least nicer than what you had on yesterday. Making your way out to the street, you spot the white sedan that Mina told you she would be in. From the looks of it, it was either relatively new or Mina took very good care of it. Either way, you were happy she was the one picking you up, as your 'Ol' Reliable' wasn't nearly as easy on the eyes, and knowing what you did about Mina, she'd say something about it.

Seeing you approaching, Mina unlocks the passenger door so you can open it. As you get in, Mina picks a coffee cup out of the cup holder and says, "Here, this is yours. You didn't tell me what you wanted, so I just got you black. Hope that's okay."

"Yeah, that's fine," you confirm, too tired and in need of caffeine to be picky. You take a sip, then say, "Hope I didn't keep you waiting too long."

"Don't worry, the line at the drive-thru took longer than you did," she said, starting to drive off, "I'm honestly a little surprised you were able to pull yourself together so quickly."

"Thanks," you say, not too thrilled about the back-handed compliment. You want to give her one of your own, but she was wearing a similar business suit to yesterday's, and quite frankly she looked really good in it. So instead you just give her a genuine, "You're looking nice too."

"In my position, it's expected that I look my best," Mina says, more focused on the road than you. You're still too tired to engage in much further small talk than that, and truth be told, going to work with Mina was about as far ahead as you actually planned. Oh sure, you had several ideas milling about in your head about what you wanted to do, but you still haven't come to a decision on which one, if any, you were willing to go through with. So for the moment you simply sip on your coffee while debating in your head exactly what you want to do with Mina first.