What if? An anthology

Turn back Time...continued

It was Christmas time, everyone was in a happy mood and gleeful. It was wonderful, I liked it. Everyone was very competitive about having Christmas time off, I didn't really care it wasn't like I had a family to go to. Andy was coming in with the Christmas tree. I followed him in the foyer with her who was holding a cup of tea.

"Are you having fun?" She asked him.
"Yeah, loads. Oh I need a star to go on the tree, would you be able to get up there." He grinned.
"You'll need to give me a leg up first." They both smiled at each other.

They were so cute together, I could easily imagine them both as a couple at Christmas time. They would have a one child together with his son coming to the day to celebrate Christmas. It would be hectic but they wouldn't care. I could see them be together, being happy and supportive. They'd be a cute couple.

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I was walking down the hallway when I saw Andy walk up to us with Abby. I came past looking like I was doing something.

"I just wanted to let you know I can see your knickers." He said to Abby.
"Why are you telling me you can see my knickers, that's borderline sexual harassment."
"No I was just." Andy defended himself, Abby just smiled while she was laughing at his embarrassment. Abby left the both of them laughing with each other. They were far too much comfortable with each other to embarrass themselves, it did sound like Abby was joking that's why they were laughing at themselves.
"That was embarrassing." He admitted.
"It was a bit."
"So how are you?"
"I'm fine, you."
"Good."
"It was a bit cold today. I had to wear my sellopettes."
"Maybe a little bit later, I could see you in your sellopettes."
"Maybe I'll let you." She smiled her smile and he grinned.

It was a day later and I couldn't help but think about the incident with the sellopettes, did she really show him her underwear. I didn't know what they were but I'm guessing that's what she meant. It was weird though that they were quite open with their sexual lives in front of others, they weren't exactly hiding it. I thought it was a bit immature. I wouldn't be if I was them. Were they having sex? I needed to know what sellopettes were.
I went up to the team leaders on shift, I went up to Claire and Mike.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked.
"Yeah, what do you need to know?"
"What are sellopettes, are they some sort underwear?"
Mike and Claire just laughed.
"Sorry we didn't mean to laugh, when you go skiing you wear it over your clothes so you don't freeze to death. Why?"
"Oh no reason, I overheard a conversation between two people the other day. I thought she was talking about her underwear."

I left both Mike and Claire looking skeptical and went back to work. It was getting darker, it was the  evening when we were closing that it was just myself, Mark, Adam and Jimmy. Mark was helping out closing as he was a BeMore and everyone was getting annoyed with him as he wouldn't stop. It was slightly frustrating, even I was getting pissed off but so was she. Her frustration was off the beaten rack, I guess she just wanted to be home in bed. I didn't blame her, I guess he just didn't want to go to bed. 

"Mark, I want to go home." She constantly said.
He was being nit picky about his cleanliness.
"Mark, are you done yet?" She asked getting annoyed again.
"This side needs a wipe down."
I looked at him rolling my eyes at him.
"Oh come on, will be finished soon." Mark smiled. "Now wipe down these sides."

She was wiping down the sides for him and then he continued for another five minutes and she looked like she was about to lose more than just her patience, Elle looked she was going to get angry. She was getting really irate but then so were the others.

"Oh."
"Sure Mark I will wipe it down." She said grabbing the cleaning liquid and took it to his face and laughed. "I'm joking."  Her face just went when the spray came from the nozzle quite quickly. "I'm so sorry Mark I didn't mean to, it just happened. I'm so sorry, I was joking, I'm so sorry."
"It's fine, it's fine." He said.
She looked at me, she felt bad for what she had done.