Once upon a time I worked at the Lowe’s in my town. If you’ve ever worked in retail, you already know that even though the job is shitty as hell, usually you’ll meet fun people. My time there was no exception.
I was in my early 20’s at the time, and Cassie was probably 10 years older than me. She was tall and lanky, but fit. I think my favorite thing about her was that she was always smiling and had a sharp wit. Despite being a no shit adult among what felt like a bunch of kids (most of us working at the store were pretty young) she would still crack the same stupid jokes that the rest of us would.
She was generally fun to be around, and I thought she was pretty damn cute. The only problem was that she was married. Even despite this, she would always flirt with me, I assumed because she knew I was attracted to her and it was a way to tease the shit out of me.
The first time I got a sense that anything else might happen came one day when we were resetting some shelves.