Filling up (m)y (f)oreign coworker

I worked for a huge company, in the LA office. We had this ridiculously over-the-top company party one year that involved to flying people in to the NYC office. I'm still not totally sure what they were thinking putting that many 20-30somethings from across the planet in the same hotel with unlimited booze for a whole week, but I do know that it never happened again.

I had been working with Madeline for about a year at this point, but only through email. When I first saw her the thing that really caught my attention was her shimmering blue eyes. She was from the London office, had black hair, was somewhat short (maybe 5'3"), in good shape but not super skinny, and a perfect, huge smile.

Throughout the course of the week, we ran into each other somewhat frequently, and would generally just chat about our lives outside of work, since talking about actual work was the last thing we wanted to do. Nothing flirtatious really, it was very casual.