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was definitely not the
vibe I got from him.
    At around 4:55, when I was shutting down
the computer and straightening the desk, Camden turned to me and said, “So do
you have plans for after work?”
    “No,” I said absentmindedly, putting the
pen I’d been using back in his pencil holder.  I never had plans for after
work.
    “We should go out again,” he said. 
“I had fun last night.”
    My eyes widened slightly.  He was
asking me out again?  So soon?
    “Okay,” I said, feeling caught off
guard.  “What did you have in mind?”
    “Well, I’ve been craving some Italian,”
he said.
    “Italian’s good.”  I smiled. 
“Just let me run to the restroom first.”
    I walked into the restroom with a goofy
smile on my face.  I’d had fun last night, too.  True, I’d caught
myself wondering about Kieran more than once, but that was clearly a lost
cause.  I felt a little pang in my chest when I thought of the woman’s
voice I’d heard through the bedroom wall when I arrived home last night. 
I didn’t know why.  Kieran and I were friends, nothing more.  No
reason to be upset.
    When I stepped out of the stall, Greta
was standing in front of one of the mirror’s reapplying her lip gloss.
    “How was your day?  Are you picking
it up quickly?” she asked, studying her reflection.
    “It was good.  I think I’m learning
pretty fast.  I’ve missed you, though,” I told her.
    “I’ve missed you, too.  I had to
talk to Teena all day.  Now I know a whole bunch of stuff about that loan
officer, Brian, that I really didn’t want to know.”
    I gasped.  “Brian in loans?  No
way!  I didn’t think he was her type.”
    “Why not?  Her type is everyone.”
    “I guess.”  I paused, wondering
whether or not I should bring it up, but then decided it wasn’t a big
deal.  “So, Camden finally asked me out.”
    “Camden asked you out?” she asked,
surprise coloring her voice.
    “Yeah.  I know you don’t like him,
but he’s really nice.  You should give him a chance.”
    “I never said I didn’t like him.  I
just don’t think you should date him.  You work together.  Dating
colleagues is almost never a good idea.”
    “It’s just a date.  It’s not like
we’re serious.”
    “Do you want to be?  I mean,
eventually?” she asked.
    I shrugged.  “I don’t know.”
    She sighed.  “Fine.  Just be
careful with him.  He’s…” She tapped her lip with her index finger as she
searched for the right word, “Shady, okay?”
    I laughed.  “Okay.  I will keep
my eyes peeled for all forms of shadiness,” I said as I exited the
bathroom.  When I reached the front double doors, Camden was there waiting
for me.
    “Have you been here before?” he asked as
we entered the small Italian restaurant a few miles from the bank.
    “No.  I don’t really go out that
much.”
    “Really?”  He raised his brows.
    “Nope.”  I shook my head as he
pulled my chair out for me.  Great.  I shouldn’t have said
that.  That probably made him think I was some sort of hermit.  Of
course, if he did think that, I guessed he wouldn’t really be that far off.
    “So you’re friends with Greta, right?” he
asked as a waiter set a basket of breadsticks in front of us.
    “Yeah, sure.  We don’t really hang
out outside of work, though.”
    “Oh.  So you haven’t met her
fiancé?”
    “No, why?”
    “I met him once.  Seemed like kind
of a douche to me.  Just wondered how you felt about him.”
    “I don’t know.  Greta seems to like
him.  They spend every waking minute together.”
    He bit his bottom lip and nodded. 
Then he picked up his menu.  “I’m starving.  How about you?”
    “Yes.  What’s good here?”
    “Everything, but I recommend the seafood
fettuccine Alfredo.”
    I smiled.  I loved anything doused
in Alfredo sauce.  “That sounds good.  I think I’ll have that.”
    The rest of the date went fine. 
There were a few awkward silences, but I thought that