A Little Excitement

Amaya

I made it to work on time, but it was a close thing. I barreled through the door three minutes before my shift was due to start, but they couldn’t mark me down as late, so I would count that as a win for the time being. I hurried to my office where I found Darla waiting for me. She grinned as she saw me come around the corner, that broad, slightly crooked smile that seemed to light up her whole face.

“Hey,” she greeted me, and she looked me up and down. “Late night?”

“Shit, is it that obvious?” I asked, pulling a face as I unlocked the door and gestured for her to go inside.

“You want the truth or the nicety?” she asked.

“The truth.”

“It’s obvious,” she replied with a chuckle, and I glanced at myself in my reflection in the glass in the door. It was clear to anyone who cared to notice that I had been up late last night and maybe had a little too much to drink on top of it. Then, I remembered what Kristo and I had gotten up to, and I couldn’t help but smile to myself. It was wort