"What have you guys been talking about?" Pam asked as she followed Penny and Jim over to reception, trying to sound casual.
"Oh, she's told me all your deepest, darkest secrets," Jim grinned.
When you finally say it, it is absolutely not this huge romantic moment that you imagined.
It's 2022 and Pam has found herself in square one of the relationship game: single. Or, square two: single and ready to mingle. Lonely and ready to move on, Pam finds herself seeking companionship while she's away from home - just not a full-on relationship so soon after her previous one.
Oh what's that, a new match?
Set in the same world as my earlier fic December 23rd, Pam phones someone else after Jim tells her he's in love with her.
Another fix it, another interpretation.
Jim asks Pam to dance at Phyllis and Bob Vance, Vance Refridgeration's wedding.
It's fluff, it's a fix-it, it's just a story.
She was totally overthinking borrowing gloves. It's just that they were from a friend that she absolutely, definitely, had a secret crush on that she was trying very hard to suppress.
My submission for the Christmas 2022 Challenge.
6