The Switch Up

5

October 10, 2016

"Hey," Harry whispers to me leaning back in his chair to do this; I respond back with a simple hello.

"How's it going? Busy?" Harry says in hushed tone once again causing me to smirk. Why was he whispering?

"Why are we whispering?" I ask him straight out leaning in close to see him doing the same, I follow the gesture.

"Because I want to bug Nadine." He told me as if the answer was obvious. Being so close to him I smell that cologne scent and it takes over my senses, damn he smells good.

"And how exactly is whispering going to bug Nadine?" I glance over at Nadine who is typing on her keyboard.

"Laugh!"

"What?"

"Pretend to laugh!" Harry provokes as I break out in a louder laugh then needed. Just as I quiet down my laugh I see Nadine look over at Harry and me who begins to giggle randomly at me.

"What are you two laughing at?" Nadine averts her eyes to Harry and I who are whispering random things to each other than chuckling. From here I then saw what Harry was doing and how he was going to bug Nadine. By us laughing and not telling her what we were laughing it was going to bug her.

"Nothing... It's nothing." Harry responds pulling away from me and laughing to himself while winking at me with a toothy grin.

"What are you guys laughing at?" Nadine asked me as I went back to doing some paperwork for my next file. I bit my bottom lip and smile trying to ignore Nadine like Harry had told me when we were randomly whispering to each other.

"Look I have a lot of work to do..." I bit back on trying not to smile but it was proving to be very difficult with Nadine staring at me. Her brown eyes concentrating on me as if I were her prey.

"Harry you are so annoying! I hope you know that!" Nadine shouted over to Harry who leaned back in his chair and smirked at her in a mischievous way. I wonder if Harry was like this as a child and this kind of behavior carried over or maybe he had a similar personality to my twin brothers.

The day went by quickly and I got a lot more done then I had thought with the two case files I was dealing with. From drawing up divorce papers to calling clients for meetings if Harry hadn't reminded me it was lunch I would have worked right through it. I tend to get lost in my work and I was making a conscious effort to stay on task despite Harry trying to distract me every now and again.

"In the event of getting to know Madeline, we should play desert island!" Harry says peppering his sandwich he had already pre-packed for himself. Nadine and I sat at one of the tables inside the break room waiting for Harry to come over and start this game he called "desert island".

"What is desert island?" I asked opening up my chopsticks to dig into my Panda Express I bought this morning before coming into work. My stomach gurgled just smelling the reheated orange chicken that made my mouth water uncontrollably.

"It's a game Harry made up. We play with the new people in the office from time to time." Nadine explains dressing her salad I should probably be eating. I should eat healthier then I do but I'm not a healthy b***h. It's not that I don't want to but I like Panda Express and cheese a lot more.

"Five movies you would bring to the island and keep in mind you will be watching these same movies for the rest of your life." Harry comes with his sandwich and sits comfortably next to me.

"Five movies I have to watch for the rest of my life..." I trail trying to come up with my favorite five movies. I try and think long and hard about this but finally come up with the five movies I would watch on repeat for the rest of my life.

"Alright, Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl because that is a classic." I brought out my pointer finger to begin counting out my five movies. "The Break-Up, The Hangover, Knocked Up, and Marley & Me," I conclude giving out my favorite movies.

"What the hell? Marley & Me?" Harry laughs at me as I suck in the chow mein I am eating. I try to act more lady like around my new friends because I didn't want to scare them away after I just met them.

"Listen I had a dog all growing up and I have a soft spot in my heart for that movie! And anyway Jennifer Aniston kills it! She makes me want to be a mom!" I defend my answer still seeing that Harry is laughing at me.

"Fair enough, fair enough. Five songs." Harry arches a brow, this is a little bit harder of a question. This was tougher since I loved music and was only able to pick five songs to listen to for the rest of my life.

"This was a tough one but I am going with Sweatpants by Childish Gambino, Tenerife Sea by Ed Sheeran, Radio by Lana Del Rey, Problem by Natalie Kills, and Everyday by Ariana Grande." I thought I would incorporate every genre I listened to and did my best to not to leave any of them out.

"Oh god, I love Ed! Nothing gets much better than that fine as hell carrot top!" Nadine indulged in her love for Ed Sheeran. "The way he plucks those strings makes me wonder what it would be like if he fin-"

"Oh, my hell Nadine you are so gross!" Harry covered his face peeking through his fingers at her. I noticed Harry wore rings on his fingers and that he also happened to have a cross tattoo etched on his hand. I wonder if he had any other tattoos that his suit covered up. "Gross Nadine!"

"I feel what you are saying actually." I look at Nadine who gives me a knowing look, "I think Harry here is just a little jealous because he is British too and not getting the attention he wants." I give Harry a pair of pouty lips and touch his arm learning his teasing ways.

"Well, aren't you quite the comedian." Harry smiles at me and I nod going in to take another bite of my orgasmic tasting orange chicken. Did I mention how much I love Panda Express?

"Yeah I am, I'm thinking I should quit my day job and try doing comedy full time." I joke around with Harry who takes a large bite of his sandwich.

We laugh and chat over lunch until our time is up and it's about time to head back into the office. My stomach is fully occupied with my Chinese food and I fell like rolling out of the break room instead of strolling.

"So what are you doing this weekend?" Harry and I walk side by side, not bothering to wait for Nadine who is in the process of cleaning up after herself.

"I don't know yet, why do you ask?" A smirk in playing off my lips as I stare down at my black high heels. If I could manage a date with Harry on the second week of knowing him that would be a personal record.

"Just wondering." I widened my gaze at my feet and shook my head internally. Who just asks about someone's weekend randomly? Probably a lot of people actually but I'm just salty our little encounter didn't go like this.

"So what are you doing this weekend?" Harry asks flashing those gem-like eyes.

"I don't know yet, why do you ask?" I flutter my eyelashes and stare into his deep green eyes that are taking my breath away.

"I want to take you out and make sweet love to you on the beach!" His tousled curls fan away from his face when he looks at me and breeze makes everything all that more dramatic.

"Oh, Harry! Take me now!" I fall into his arms and lay a hand over my forehead and look up at Harry who is about to pull me up and press his lips to my own.

However, this is reality and not some reality show bullshit. Even if I really wished it was with all my heart I knew this was all wishful thinking on my end.

"Madeline?" Harry says my name and I pause looking over at him for a brief moment. I see his very confused expression as I walk in somewhat of a zombie-paced slowness.

"Sorry I was... thinking." Yeah thinking about Harry all over me on the beach but I wouldn't ever say this out loud.

"What do you think about?" Harry questions when we get to our desks that coincide. I take a seat and check my phone to see Talia is texting me.

"You know the usual... periods... girl stuff... you never know when that s**t is going to take you by surprise." I shrug not filtering my mouth once again. No wonder he didn't ask me out back there I was a psycho!

Talia @ Madeline: So any plans with dream boy this weekend?

Madeline @ Talia: Nope... but I have the entire rest of the week to try and make them. Although I literally just talked about my period so that may be a minor set back!

Talia @ Madeline: Is it possible to slap you over text?

I slid my phone into my desk and begin to formulate a plan in my head. What kind of plan you may be asking yourself, a plan to get Harry to ask me out. Was he out of my league? Yes most definitely. Did he most likely think I was some weirdo who talks about her period too much? There was no way he didn't think that but, I had to come up with a strategy quick.

I was determined to have weekend plans with Harry and I was going to do everything in my power to make that happen. So the game is set, match, go!

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