Monday eventually arrived signaling an end to one of the best weekends in their lives. Dan and Margie returned to work to face a myriad of questions from those that they chose not to accompany after the party.
"So what happened? Did she put out?" was the common inquiry from the men.
Margie faced similar questions from her female co-workers.
"Did you kiss him good night? Was it a French kiss? Did he try anything else?" she was asked.
Now Dan and Margie had anticipated this and had agreed on a standard response to their co-workers.
"Nothing happened," Dan responded. " I got a kiss on the cheek and that was it."
Margie's response was similar to Dan's.
"I kissed him on the cheek and bid him goodnight, " Margie answered with downcast eyes.
"I'd have done him right there on his front seat," one of the other girls in accounting responded.
"Oh, I would never do that," Margie replied in a shocked voice and managed to blush.
The questions soon stopped and everyone returned to their assigned tasks. Margie still brought items to the mailroom and still dressed in her typical moderate fashion. Dan still stared when she walked away incurring the wrath of the ladies he worked with.
"Stop staring at her butt, that is a lady and doesn't deserve your leer," the department head commented.
'Oh if they only knew,' Dan thought to himself.
Christmas was fast approaching which meant a three-day weekend plus an early release with pay, a small gift from the company. Dan would be the last one to leave as he had to wait to ensure that the mailbags and packages were picked up at the door to the mailroom.
He was a little depressed when she informed him that she would be spending Christmas in Florida with her parents. He was looking forward to a three-day weekend in her bed.
Christmas Eve at the firm was one of celebration. At the ten o'clock break a pastry tray was delivered to the cafeteria and all were invited to partake and enjoy. One of the girls hung mistletoe as an excuse for every male to kiss every female. Margie and Dan both accepted kisses from the other staff members and they managed to control their impulses to give each other a really long kiss when it was their turn.
At one o'clock the workforce was released amid wishes of Merry Christmas. The parking lot quickly emptied which meant that he was the last one remaining. Dan secured the mailbags and waited for the mail truck when the phone rang, he was summoned to the front offices.
Cursing silently to himself he headed to the front of the building.
"Some moron probably forgot to include something that needed to go in the outgoing mail," he said aloud as he walked across the empty office.
The front offices were deserted and the only office door that was open was one at the end of the small hallway, it had been recently vacated as the former occupant had retired. When Dan stepped into the office he found Margie standing in front of the desk and under a mistletoe.
He flew into her open arms and they kissed like long-lost lovers as they groped each other's bodies.