Wicked Games

Heartless

"OMG did you see him?" a random girl from my department whispers across the table.

"YES, he's is quite the eye candy" another girl whispers back.

I internally am rolling my eyes cause seeing girls fall all over guy is really pathetic to me. All the girls at the table I am sitting for at lunch have not been able to stop talking about this new kid at work. Literally it is all they have been talking about. For. Thirty. Minutes.

"I heard he has a girlfriend, though" one girl pouts.

Thank God, I think. Maybe they will finally stop talking about this guy.

No such luck. The guy struts into the break room and sits by himself at an empty table. All female eyes dart to him. All the girls from my department instantly starting giggling and gossiping some more. This lasts the entire lunch period.

*DING*

I check my phone. The screen reads : 1 new person has viewed your LinkedIn profile. Out of complete boredom, I check it. It's the new kid. His name is Brandon James. Why is he checking my profile at lunch? I think to myself. Then I just assume he is adding everyone at out job in order to broaden his network.

I go to leave the breakroom since I can't stand to listen to these girls practically fawn over this Brandon guy any longer. I mean sure, he's hot but no guy is worth acting that stupid over. I've definitely been on the anti-man train ever since I broke up with my last boyfriend. He was a piece of shit. He cheated. But even before then I was unsatisfied. Both sexually and emotionally.

I'm lost in my thoughts as I head for the stairwell to head back to my desk when – BAM—I open the door right into someone's face.

"Ohmygosh, I am SO sorry" I spit out before I can even see who it is.

"Ouchhhh... that's gonna leave a mark" replies the person I hit.

It's Brandon, the guy everyone has been talking about. He's standing in front of me rubbing his head and then he looks up at me.

"I'm really sorry, do you want some ice?" I respond.

"Uh, yeah sure that would be great" he smiles.

Oh thank God he's not mad.

We walk into a small break room that no one else in the company typically uses. I go to the freezer and grab some ice and place it in a baggie for him.

"Here you go...." I trail off.

"Brandon, sorry I'm Brandon James. I work in Finance."

"That's awesome, I'm Izzie I work in the Analytics department"

"Smart chica" he laughs. "Izzie? That's a really cute name"

"Yeah my full name is Isabella but I prefer Izzie"

As I am speaking his eyes rake up and down my body and land on my lips as I say "Izzie".

"Well Iz..." he says slowly while finally looking me in my eyes. I hate when people call me Iz-- but my thoughts are cut off by him taking a step towards me. He dangerously close.

"Next time hopefully you'll chose something else to assault me with, other than that door" he smirks.

I just stare at him. What the fuck did he just say to me? My mouth drops open and I am unable to form words. His eyes instantly fall to my open mouth and he bites his bottom lip. He quickly turns to exit the break room and tosses the bag of ice into the trash can. I stand there dumbfounded.

After a few moments, I head back to my desk and sit next to my best friend Alex. She immediately looks at me noticed something is off.

"What happened girl? You look really confused"

"You know that new guy everyone is talking about?"

"Yeah Brandon or something?"

"Yeah well he Is. An. Asshole." I spit.

"Whoa did he get your panties in that much of a bunch?" she laughs.

"What did you say?"

"Totally joking girl, what happened?"

I tell her everything. From me hitting him with the door to him flirting and checking me out and not trying to hide it. She just giggles in response.

"What?" I ask.

"He's totally into you"

"No way. He was so rude, plus I'm not dating right now"

"Izzie, its been over a year, maybe its time to get back out there?"

I sigh. I don't want to have this conversation again. I love Alex, but I just am really nervous about getting back into the dating scene. We end up just getting back to work and finish out the day without another mention of Brandon again.