Under the mistletoe with the new girl

There's nothing like the holidays to stir up a little drama, and nothing quite like a holiday party to top it off.

Elizabeth and I were still seeing each other, but less and less. Work had become overwhelming, frankly. My publication had laid off several employees and I was doing three times the work. Our company party had been down scaled to the office. My boss had recruited me and a few other employees to move aside several desks and set up the the dance floor, food and beverage area with the promise that we would get an early start on the partying (aka wine).

I was moving aside a desk when my phone started to ring. It was the fifth call from Elizabeth that day. I hadn't invited Elizabeth to our company party with me and similarly she hadn't invited me to hers. We were still too new and neither one of us wanted to be "outed" in our place of work.

"Hey baby," I answered.

"Hi. I missed you. I thought I would call to see how you were," she said. For the past few weeks I kept reassuring Elizabeth that I was not dating anyone else, but all of her questions seemed suspicious. I was beginning to wonder if she wasn't cheating on me with someone else and projecting it.

"I'm a bit busy. Can I call you back later?" I said as I shoved aside the desk.

"Why? Who is there with you? What are you doing?"

"Um. I'm at work. Moving desks for the company party. Do you want a play-by-play? Listen I got to go. I'll call you later. Ok sweetie?"

"Oh, that's right. OK. Later then. Whatever. " she said. "Hot date?"

"God," I sighed."Listen, I'm not cheating on you. I'm at my company party. I will see you later."

"Baby. I love you," Elizabeth pleaded. "You're mine. You know that right?"

"Yes. Bye baby." I hung up and groaned softly.

"Here. This will cure your ails," an unfamiliar voice from behind me said.

I turned around and came face to face with a beautiful woman holding garland and a glass of wine. "Someone is not in the holiday spirit," she said.

"Thanks," I replied startled.

This beautiful woman was new on our sales team (even though our company had recently laid off employees, she was hired before our board had decided) and was a load of fun. I couldn't believe that I had never met her before. We were just about the same age.

We had just finished doing the YMCA and had finished watching my manager embarrass himself when sales girl started pulling me toward an office. "Hey come in here with me," she prodded.

"What's up?" I laughed in my tipsiness.

She dangled a mistletoe above my head and giggled. Then kissed me. Really kissed me.

"What? Wait, wait. You have a boyfriend!" I said. "And I...."

"Shhhhhhhhh." She covered my lips with her finger and looked into my eyes. Those big blue eyes. Her one hand was sliding slowly back and fourth up my thigh and then higher up my skirt. Her other hand had me pinned up against the office wall. She was breathing close up against my neck.

"Have you ever kissed a girl? This isn't like me," she whispered. "But I'm extremely into you. There's just something..."

"I'm with someone," I answered and smiled."Besides what on earth would you want with me?"

She pushed me against the wall harder and her hands.... Well, you can guess where they were and what they were up to. "I'm not sure, but I do. I do," she said.

"Ok there, Xena Warrior Princess, but I'm not that easy or that drunk, " I laughed and pushed her back, even though more than a part of me just wanted her to keep on going. "Take it easy. We work together! Let's go out and enjoy the rest of the party. I need a dance partner and they are playing our song."

I grabbed my seductress sales girl's hands and led her back to the dance floor. - Ruby