Let Me In

The office felt colder than usual. I wasn’t sure if it was the temperature-change shock from coming from outside, where the heat was definitely merciless today and the humidity had us all up looking like lions, or whether today the maintenance people had slipped a couple of degrees lower. Either way, I wrapped my jacket around my shoulders and I quickly began to walk towards my cubicle.
-“Good morning, Annie,” I said as she crossed my way towards the kitchen. It was ten thirty and so it was time for her mid morning coffee. She was always very punctual and very precise. I learnt that the hard way with missing deadlines and hearing her scream off the top of her lungs.
-“Good morning, Sarah” I heard her respond as I was half way into my tiny and cozy cubicle. I unwrapped the jacket from around my shoulders and actually wore it properly to calm the shivers that were running down my entire body and dropped my purse under the desk before sitting down and opening my laptop. I had spent a couple of hours reading emails and editing some articles the night before and so there wasn’t much new other than another complaint from Frank Hastings, or how most people dubbed him Annoying Frank; this time it was about missing cups. Thing is, Frank is one of the dirtiest and most disorganized people I know, and so to teach him a lesson, someone in the office decided to hide all of the coffee mugs from the kitchen. As funny as it was to see him struggle, we knew he’d never learn the lesson.
-“Good morning, Sarah!” my friend Lisa said as she sat in the cubicle next to mine. She was always in a good mood and it was so comforting to have at least one person in this city that I could talk to. She was about my age, just a year and a half younger and so it kind of helped us to bond.
“Morning sweetie,” I responded, smiling back at her.
After a little chit-chat, each of us went back to work. Well, at least attempted. The big problem was that all I could think about was Mike and what had happened the night before. This pissed me off considering the idiot was just looking forward to fuck me and never call me again but a part of me was very intrigued by him and his charm.
The hours passed quickly yet very slowly; people at the office were always complaining about something and it always brought me down. Thankfully, lunch came along quickly and so Lisa and I went out for lunch to one of our favorite places “Nick’s Sandwiches”
“So, how was your weekend?” Lisa asked me and I didn’t know if I was comfortable telling anyone about what had happened but I figured if there’s one person who would understand my situation, it would be Lisa.
“So, I went out for some drinks last night to kind of blow off the Annoying Frank incident from Friday afternoon and this guy started hitting on me,”
“Oh wow, Sarah’s working her game now,” Lisa joked.
“Well not really, it was this drummer for this band from San Diego who totally thought he could get into my pants by charming me into ‘showing me his moves’ and so I totally blew him off,”
“From San Diego and all the way here in LA?”
“Yeah he’s living here with his bandmates, they’re just from San Diego,”
“Was he hot though?” she finally asked. If I must admit, he was pretty good looking. My kind of guy too but fuckboys are definitely not in my list.
“Well yeah, he had that whole rocker, tattooed look that’s kinda hot and the whole player game, which was what made me simply blow him off” I responded, leaving out the important piece of information that I had given him my number, but since he was probably never going to call, why even bother to say it. It’d sound humiliating if I never got the call.
“What was his name?I wanna look him up,” she giggled.
“Uhm Mike Fuentes I think he said?” I tried thinking on my feet but Lisa’s gasp was louder than anything else. I stared at her blankly. “What’s with him?”
“Sarah, are you truly telling me you’ve no idea who Mike Fuentes is?”
“The guy who hit on me last night?”
“No, he’s just the drummer for Pierce the Veil, one of the most popular bands in the metalcore genre right now!” She sounded way more excited that I thought she would be. I guess it makes sense, since she’s really into music and stuff.
“Wait he’s the drummer for Pierce the Veil?” I asked a little in shock. I’d heard their music occasionally whenever I played iTunes Radio or Pandora but I’d never seen a picture of them. She took out her phone and after typing something, she showed me her screen.
“Yeap, that’s the guy,” I said and her face turned red in excitement as she mentioned how lucky I’d been, but since I didn’t really know the band other than their current popular songs and the entire reason the douchebag had talked to me was because he thought he’d get into my pants, it was kind of whatever for me.
“Well, it doesn’t matter anymore cuz I’m most likely never going to see him again,” I said, ending the conversation as I took a bite of my sandwich. “What about your weekend?”
“Dude, after your weekend story, my ‘I went to the movies and watched Orange is the New Black’ from the beginning in preparation to watch the third season’ really sounds insanely boring,” she chuckled.
We finished lunch just in time to go back to our meeting and we were thankfully dismissed earlier. I really needed sometime to relax and stop thinking about my whole encounter with Mike. Following his stupid game had turned into something more complicated than what I wanted it to be and t was starting to piss me off a little. I got in my car and drove off to the GYM which always allowed me to clear my mind and that is exactly what I needed.

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