T. Let the Secret Out

As I mentioned earlier, T. and I have had our ups and downs as co-workers.  She was essential in my break-up and helped me through that hard time.  However, as a friend she could be a bit catty.  My steamy work affair  was pretty much coming to a close at this point, or so I thought.  A. was very confusing as a love interest, very hot and cold.  It was hard to write about my experience with him in a concise manner, because I had to see him every day, our affair was drawn out longer.  Although we had only hung out a handful of times, there were times he would try and be sexual or flirty at work, and there were times he would ignore me completely.  It was very confusing.

By this time I had made a couple other close friends at work, girls that I would chat with about A., because they knew him well, and I would ask their advice.  Apparently he had already partaken in an office relationship, with the CEO's assistant, about a year prior to when I started with the company.  This girl had apparently broken his heart and then moved away, all the while stringing him along.  I came to the conclusion only recently that he must have been trying to get over her by fraternizing with me.  It's fine though, I have no hard feelings towards him now, he's still so young.

However, the problem I soon realized with confiding in select people, was that one of them would let the secret out.  It was (surprise!) T.  About one month after our last rendez-vous, I received a text from a close co-worker, that T. had let my secret out to the admin dept. at our company.  Since A. was in the admin dept, he was confronted about our affair by a couple of his fellow admin staff.  The rumour then slowly made it's way back to my department.  I knew it was T. and I confronted her immediately.  She said that she told her close friend, who told his close friend etc...how any rumour gets spread around.  She, however, did not think there was anything wrong with this confession of guilt.  She gave me some lame excuse about not keeping secrets.  So the tiny circle of knowledge had grown exponentially.

I managed to keep relatively calm throughout this, no one in the important upper ranks of the company are aware, (that I know of eeeeks).  And still to this day I play it cool.  I secretly think it's really pretty cool that I pulled off a somewhat incognito, steamy affair with the office bad boy :)