The Boy At work, one of our branch offices closed down for renovation, so we received some temporary transfers. I had seen Kevin on previous occassions when I went to their offices, and sometimes he would come with his mother to mine. The first time I met him, there was the gay vibe. I mean, who shops with their mother on their days off?

However, at our location, the vibe has changed. I am one of only two male employees at the office, so the rest is staffed by females. He does not flirt with the girls at all, but in our interactions, it all seems very straight. I think it has partly do with the level of professionalism we are trying to show one another.

The other day, during my half hour break, I was having dinner when he comes into the staff area for his fifteen. We were alone. I had glanced at the clock out of the corner of my eyes, and noticed that it was 5:40. We got to talking, and I found out that he was taking general studies at UBC.

Conversation was very easy, we talked about designer brands, psychology, New York, San Francisco and on and on. I have never in my life had conversation flow out of me like it did at that time. And
weird thing is too that we got to talking about personal topics, BESIDES
WORK. Which is very very interesting on my part at least, because I always
find it hard to not talk about work with the people here, but with him, it's
different, especially since it had only been the second shift that I had worked with him. Not only on my part, but he divulged quite a few particular personal details as well.

After awhile, I glanced back up at the clock to see if my break was up, and I noticed it was 6:00pm, closing time. People were started to trickle into the staff area to pick up their belongings to call it a day, so our conversation had to end, but it seemed that he had taken some "extra time" on the clock. Interesting.

The honest truth is that I have a small crush on him. The thing is that it's all so inexplicable because he is only 19. A youngin'. I was talking to my friend about how I am attracted to people older, more mature because I felt so naive most of the time. But, then he pointed out that Kevin seemed really young, and mature. The way he carries himself, speaks, and acts, I had NO IDEA that he was so young.

We'll see how this goes. Since that encounter, I have not had any shifts that coincided with his.  ¶ 8:58 PM 0 comments