Smitten the moment I saw her, not going to lie.

Her name was Maggie May, but as she would remind me many times if I called her Mags, Mag, or any variation of that, I would be corrected with “Its Miss May, to you”.

40 something, single, and attractive in that way a confident, mature, and well seasoned lady could only be.

And then there was me, just turned 21 and honest, until I met her, I did not know how or why such a woman would bowl me over but it happened.

In lucked out early in life and had a great knack and business sense that scored me a job with a large marketing firm, "Schlop, Baken, and Dunn Asc." at 19, and a year later with what I was doing for them, decided to move me up and out to their Seattle office as of the 5 locations they had in North America it was the lowest in numbers, and the shareholders wanted bigger numbers, so i went.

This is where I met her. She was the secretary for the firms regional manager, and apparently had been an employee for nearly 20 years there. It was let known to me that she is not a normal secretary either, she knows so much of the business and about its clients, a kind of intuition, that has helped boost the companies bottom line and keep them going at this office. I was there now to help push that further however. Anyway, it was a plesant greeting and then I, In my infatuation addled mind now because, i dont know why, lost my mind, made the mistake of tossing out,
“Mag, would you care to join me after work for a drink perhaps?”

After a loud “thats Miss May to you, young man, and the possibility of that happening, hell no.” The expression and look she gave me could have melted steel.

The look softened while I was wishing i would sink into the floor and she just added, "Your more than half my age and human to boot, It would end badly."

Defeated, but not out yet, At least once a week, I would pop my head in the managers office alcove and ask her out for a drink, always got the look, the slow head shake, and the hell no, now go away…

This was a regular thing for damn near a year, along the way though I managed to use my gift to boost our office 120 percent, so there was that, and then the manager retired, and I was selected to replace him, I was on a career roll for sure and now I had her, sort of - My secretary now, been a year, im getting there!

King of the world at 21 near 22... except for one thing I cant have, im still madly infatuated with her.

Whats wrong with me?

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Heart beats silly like a big bass drum,
Losing all equilibrium.
Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I'm freed
Maybe this woman's just all I need