After what seemed like forever doing work, it was finally lunch.
I got straight up to go to the break room for a snack, not even remembering to wait for Pam, I was that hungry.
It didn't seem like anyone else was as hungry, since I found myself sat alone with my food. That was until Dwight entered.
"In here all by yourself?" He asked.
"I guess" I said "Where's pam?"
"Probably too busy flirting with Jim to eat" he scoffed.
"Oh, of course" I laughed "those two are so cute"
Dwight scoffed again at my statement, as he sat down at my table with me.
"Cute? Please. All they talk about is pulling their stupid practical jokes on me. They lack sexual tension"
"Sexual tension?" I choked. I was not expecting that.
"Yep" he said through chewing an apple.
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Its not like I had been avoiding anyone, or had been feeling off, it was just that I hardly spoke to anyone that day.
But, I did find my self speaking to Dwight more than I had done for a while, which I'm not complaining about.
"So what about you, Dwight? You got any plans tonight?" Jim asked.
Dwight looked to Jim, then his eyes flickered to me, then back to jim.
He cleared his throat.
"I have a date"
A look of pure surprise, happiness and even proudness shone over jims face. He looked over to me and pam, who were the same. Except, mine was faker. Why wasn't I super excited about this? Why wasn't i as interested as Jim?
"Whos the lucky girl?" Jim asked.
"Confidential. Irrelevant"
"Well, I mean, its not really irrelevant considering its your date"
"Irrelevant, jim" Dwight said, annoyed that he had to repeat himself.
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"Pssst, y/n" Jim whispered, after Dwight had gotten up to go to the copier.
"It took a lot of effort, but I figured out where Dwight is going on his date". He said, with a huge grin.
"Wow, impressive to be honest" I laughed.
"Right? So anyways, me and pam are gonna sneak over there tonight undercover style and find out who his date is. We want you to come with us" he said excitedly.
I raised my eyebrows. I wasn't surprised that they had asked me to come with them, since the three of us were like a dynamic trio, I just felt weird.
It was strange, usually I'd be down with no hesitation, but considering that now I had actual feelings for Dwight, it took me longer to think.
I looked over to Pam. She gave me two thumbs up and nodded, with the same grin Jim had.
Their enthusiasm made me smile.
"Sounds like fun, I'm down" I said, just as Dwight sat back down at his desk opposite me.
"Down for what?" He asked "oh, let me guess..." he turned to Jim.
"Its not a prank Dwight, I promise"
"Its not a prank Dwight, I promise" Dwight repeated in a mocking tone. He scoffed.
"Thats what you'd like me to think"
Jim sighed, giving up. "Whatever you wanna believe buddy"
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The clock turned five o'clock, meaning we could go home.
Michael came strutting out his office. He always had something new to say at this moment.
"You are dismissed" he practically shouted, in a teacher impression. But as usual Stanley was already gone and out the door. Nobody loved the end of the day more than Stanley.
Jim, pam and I decided to let Dwight leave before us, to which we then give him a head-start.
When Michael noticed the three of us leaving together, he approached us quickly as we grabbed our coats.
"Ah, my three favourite sales people" he exclaimed.
"I'm a receptionist" pam said.
"I was just about to say that pam, before you interrupted me" he lied "my three favourite sales people, and receptionist"
"But now your saying that there's four of us?" Jim said "whos the third salesman Mike?"
Michael stared at a wall, trying to wrap his brain around how he could correct his sentence, then he noticed us trying to leave again.
"You guys got any fun plans tonight? You need a plus one?" He asked, pointing to himself.
The three of us looked at eachother awkwardly.
"Nope" I said.
Michael squinted his eyes at me, and then Jim and pam, as if he were trying to figure out if we were lying or not.
"Alright, you're dismissed" he waved his hands at us, shooing us off.
"We were already dismissed" Jim said.
" I know, jim. Youre just...double dismissed"
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We decided that the three of us would go together in Jims car to save time, and then drive back over to get our own cars afterwards.
We had all climbed inside, pam sat up front with Jim, and I was in the middle at the back. Jim paused before starting the car.
"It just hit me" he said "none of us have any idea what time he's going"
We all looked at eachother.
"I don't know why, but I thought he'd just go straight after work, but obviously he'd go in the evening or something"
We just sat in silence, trying to come up with something.
"Why don't we just go now and wait for him? And then if we get hungry then we can order ourselves something" I said.
"But we'd have to sit at a table. What if he comes and sees us? He would definitely just go somewhere else" Jim said.
"Well we can go right now to the store down the road, and then drive over there so that we can eat while we wait?" Pam said.
"Sounds like a plan" I said.
We decided to do exactly that. We drove down to the store and jim came back out carrying bags full of sodas and snacks.
"Jeez halpert, how long do you think we're gonna be waiting?" I laughed, with pam laughing too.
"Better to be safe than sorry" he shrugged.
