Holiday Party Hookup Part 1
That's right. It's been almost exactly a year since I posted my last story on here and I still have been receiving messages almost daily about when my next story will come out. Well, I thought it was finally time to stop blaming work/life/basically everything and just sit down and write. So, without further ado, here goes! (Fair warning: writing this sentence after finishing this part, and it's mostly just background information... kinda got carried away, guess it's been a while haha! Next part will get into the good stuff ;) )
It was the week of Thanksgiving, and we only had work Monday through Wednesday that week, so the office was cramming things in in order to finish everything that needed to be done before the holiday. It was the Monday of the week and I was away from my desk most of the day in various meetings/client calls, and finally got back to it at about 5:30. I started to go through my emails to see what I had missed throughout the day and saw a new hire email. (Disclaimer: whenever a new person is hired in the company, their boss emails the entire company and states their position, where they came from, some interesting facts about them, etc. A picture of them is attached as well.)
I opened the email and saw that a guy, named "Graham" was joining the finance department doing something-or-other-who-the-hell-knows. One thing that's always included in the email is the new hire's hometown. I was surprised to see that his hometown was just a town over from mine. (I'm not from anywhere close to where I live now, so whenever I come across someone who's originally from the same area as me, it's always kinda exciting.) Normally I just delete the emails once reading them, but I decided to email Graham and welcome him to the company/ask him where he went to high school, (one of his interesting facts was that he was on the tennis team all through high school, and so was I) and just get to know him better.
I typed up the email, saying I was from the town over and that I also played tennis, etc and sent it. I then opened the attached picture on the email and no joke almost spit out the sip of water I had just taken. The guy was fucking HOT. The picture was of Graham after a hike at the top of a mountain, wearing just a tank top and shorts. The tank showed off his chiseled arms and developed pecs, and he had one arm around who I assume was his mom. It was hard to tell if maybe the mom was just short or Graham was fucking huge (I soon found out it was that he was actually huge- 6'7!!!). He had short brown hair with just the perfect amount of stubble on his tanned face. He looked about 25 years old.
Needless to say, I was glued to my email awaiting a response from Graham, but it didn't come that day since I had gotten back to my desk after most of the office leaves. Guess I'd just have to wait.
The next morning when I got to work and checked my email, I saw he had responded.
"Hey man, nice to meet you too! Always glad to hear from someone from the same area out here. I played tennis for (high school) and graduated in 2013. What about you?"
The school he played from was in my high school's division, so there was a huge chance that we played each other, which was crazy. We continued to email back and forth for the rest of the day, just getting to know each other and taking about how we were excited to go back home for Thanksgiving, etc. Finally, the day ended, and so did the emails, and I went to the airport to go back home.
When I got back to the office the following Monday, I had a meeting on the finance floor of the building. As I got off the elevator on the floor I looked around to see if I could spot Graham, and saw him sitting at his desk, which was faced to opposite direction, on the phone, so I decided not to go over and introduce myself. After the meeting I looked again, but he had left to probably get lunch. I didn't see him at all the rest of that week or early into the next week, but that Thursday we were having our office holiday party, which I was sure I would run into him there.
Thursday arrived and my work buddies and I headed to the bar the company had rented out to get our party on. Of course, one of buddies wanted to do a round of shots since it was an open bar, so we had a couple and I was feeling pretty good since the food had yet to be served. I had almost forgotten about Graham at this point, but when I turned around from the conversation I was having to get another drink at the bar, I saw an insanely tall guy standing at the bar waiting to be served as well. That's the moment I realized just how huge this guy is. It's one thing to be tall, but to be that tall and still pack on the amount of muscle he had? That guy definitely took good care of himself.
I went up to the bar and stood next to him. Now, the only reason I knew what he looked like was because of that picture in the new hire email. He had no idea what I looked like at this point, so I wasn't quite sure how to approach the introduction, but I was feeling a good buzz so I just went for it.
"Hey man, are you Graham? The guy that started a couple of weeks ago in Finance?"
He looked really confused. "Yeah..." He said, kind of hesitating.
"Hey I'm the guy you were emailing back and forth with about playing against each other in high school and being from the same place!"
"Oh hey man what's up!?" He said and actually went in for a hug rather than the hand I had extended for a handshake. Friendly guy!! Plus the alcohol but very friendly haha. We stood there for a while and just talked and got to know each other more. While we were talking I could get a better look at him. He still had that stubble on his face he had had in the picture (big plus in my book) and was wearing a button down shirt with the top 2 buttons undone, just enough for me to get a glimpse of the top of his chest, which was lightly dusted with short hair (another plus!!)
We finally parted ways to go on to talk to some other people, and I assumed that was the last I'd see of him for the night. The hours went by and soon it was 1 in the morning... on a work night, and I was pretty damn drunk. My buddies and the people we were with all made the consensus it was time to head out. People started splitting up into cabs according on where they were going, and just as I was about to get into a cab by myself after not wanting to cram into a cab heading my direction with 6 other people, I saw Graham walk out of the bar. He was pretty damn drunk too when he was me, and came up and gave me another hug (dude was VERY friendly haha.) I asked him where he lived and it was just a couple of blocks from my apartment, so he got in the cab.
We started on our way toward our places when I saw him fumbling with his phone, desperately trying to text someone.
"You know that's a terrible idea right? Especially when it's this time and we're this drunk?" I said as I laughed at him.
"Yeah I know, it's just my ex won't leave me the fuck alone and has been texting me all night!" he said.
"I know that game. Best to just ignore it dude, seriously. Nothing good is gonna come of it."
"I know, and I'm completely over it, we broke up 4 months ago, but he just won't stop trying to get back together, even though I've told him it ain't gonna happen."
At this point I was thoroughly taken back, surprised and shocked. Had he really just referred to his ex as a "he"? My mind was racing. At that moment, things had the potential to get very interesting.
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