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The moment I saw you

Orientation, was probably the worst thing that had ever been invented. Especially job orientation with a handful of people who all happened to be over twice my age and all had a slight smell to them. But the job was going to pay a lot more than what I was previously making and for that I was grateful.
"Take a break guys, use the restroom or go smoke and meet back here in 15 mins" the instructor said bringing me back from my zoned out reality. Finally I thought, grabbing my phone and my Newport's from my purse. We had all been in this stuffy room since 6 this morning, and as much as I enjoyed sitting, my back had begun cramping. I hadn't experienced being so relieved to stand up and stretch before.
I glanced down at my phone before unlocking it to read a message from my babysitter. Slowly I began to walk toward the door as I read:
"Shawn texted saying he wasn't going to pick up Cass up today, if so keep me updated on when your coming by to grab her."  I groaned of course Shawn would pull this shit, especially on my first day at my new job.
That's when our paths crossed, I literally walked right into his chest not even paying attention. Good thing he was able to grab my arms in order to steady me and keep me up right.
"I'm sorry, I was trying to text my babysitter back... But you didn't need to know that." I said hurrying he laughed, letting me go.
"No problem, you must be new." I nodded taking in his appearance. He was probably about 5 or 6 inches taller than me, making him around 5'10ish, with obvious muscles hiding behind his shirt. He had a few tattoos along his arms that I noticed off the bat, seeing as they stood out against his chocolate skin. But what I was really captivated by was his eyes. They were such a warm hazelnut color, and currently held an amused look in them. My cheeks flared up like a cherry as I realized he noticed me checking him out.
"Yup finishing up orientation now." He smiled, and I gulped. He had an amazingly white, and perfect smile.
"Quane, but people call me Q."
"Victoria," I said as my phone began to ring, noticing who was calling I sighed. He raised his eyebrows.
"I'm sorry but I have to take this, hopefully I'll see you around." I said as I walked away quickly before I could hear his answer and answered my phone annoyed.
"What Shawn" I snapped as I pushed open the door that lead to the smoking section outside.
"I wanted to let you know that I have plans so I can't take Cass for the night." I groaned, then lit the cigarette in my hand.
"Why do you always do this. You only see her two days out of the week. What makes you think you can pick what days you see her." I asked before inhaling deeply the mint tinged smoke.
"Because I'm her father?" I rolled my eyes. I was getting really tired of his shit really quickly. Let me explain, you see Shawn and I had been together through high school, and had just recently separated. I caught him cheating on me with someone I despised, while we were on vacation out of state. It went lovely, so lovely in fact let's just say Alabama and I won't be seeing  much of each other for quite some time.
"We will talk about this later, I'm at work and my break is over." I hissed out before hanging up on him, and shoving my phone into my pants pocket. My break wasn't over, not even close actually, but I couldn't do his drama at 10:30 in the morning. Not today. I sucked down the remainder  of my cigarette as if I was dying and this was the only way to save me, before slowly trudging back to the orientation room.

After a few more hours of training and safety information we were finally let go for the day, Of course to return the following day to start actually start work. After rounding up all my belongings I began heading out of the make shift classroom. Although this time without my eyes glued to my phone. My focus being on heading to go get my two year old daughter Cassandra.