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career and no play. It always made for a dull date. “Look, it was
very pleasant to meet you Ms. O’Conner. I’ll see you around.” He
hated to think this would be the end of it. He had never been one
to pursue a woman who had her head above the clouds over a
career.
    The excitement of the kiss and the thrill of
being caught all drained out of her with his last words of
disinterest. He was brushing her off. She would rather save face.
“Merry Christmas John Tally.”
    He laid a gentle kiss on her check and rubbed
the back of his hand down her face and along her neck. “Merry
Christmas to you Callie O’Conner.” He turned and headed back behind
the bar before he made a fool out of himself. He was almost forty,
and she looked shy of twenty-five. He did not think he was too old,
but that she might just be that trouble he was thinking about when
he first laid eyes on her.
    He watched her slowly walk out the door. He
wondered where she lived. If it was close to here, and if she might
stop back in before he headed back to the coast.
    She walked slowly towards her subway station
back to her office and could think of nothing more than the kiss
and feel of him everywhere. A man with more packages than her
bumped into her and caused her to drop one of her bags. As she bent
to pick it up, she realized she was in front of the very store that
had brought her to tears over a stupid jacket. Through the window,
she saw the nasty clerk cutting open a box and then taking out the
very jacket she was looking for. She felt a new bravado enter her
soul. This was going to make her and her nephew one happy
christmateer.
    She should never have gone back to work.
Claiming she picked up a few things while visiting her sporting
goods client was an ok way to explain coming back with all the
packages. Her mind was on John Tally and every inch of him. How he
felt, tasted, looked and how she wanted him naked so badly her body
created an ache and an uncontrollably desire for him. Than the pile
of messages and dozens of emails were making her head ache. She
thought just this once she was going to leave by five and get home
on time.
    With a quick bribe to the shipping
department, she got her gifts off without a hitch. It was going to
cost her a promotional ticket to the Nicks game. However, this
ticket that she was giving away was from the weird client she had
to go out with Thursday night. He gave it to her in hopes she would
go and sit next to him at the game.
    With her tennis shoes on for the walk to the
subway station, she realized that six was better than her normal
seven p.m. of leaving work, and she was not going home until she
hit the grocery store. She could not seem to keep from smiling at
total strangers and humming the holiday music that was playing
outside some of the stores along her way home.
    The corner store by her apartment was
decorated for the three main winter holidays; Christmas, Kwanza and
Hanukah It made her feel so festive she bought a few decorations to
throw up in her window in her new apartment. She could not stop
smiling just thinking how her new neighbors and only friends would
stop hounding her for not getting anything up for the holiday. They
even threatened to sneak into her place and do it themselves.
    With her keys ready to open her apartment
front door, she heard a noise and froze. What if it was a burglar?
What if it was a rapist? With her heart beating fast and her hands
shaking, she turned and knocked on her neighbor’s door across the
hall. They were always home and cooking dinner around this time.
Their relationship often made her jealous. There was no answer. She
heard a faint familiar giggle and then realized it was not coming
from their apartment, and she had not been interrupting anything.
It was from her apartment, and those sneaky neighbors were in her
place.
    She opened the door to a loud “Surprise!”
Laughter from her two new friends and neighbors barreled out into
the hallway. They went and