Blind Date

"Oh good! I was worried you'd already be gone." She giggled a little, smiling warmly as she tucked a lock of hair behind one ear, "Work today was a nightmare wasn't it?"
"Uh..."
"Oh you're right, we shouldn't talk about work." She blushed and smiled, "You know when I asked Anne if you were single I never expected her to say yes, let alone help me set this up!"
He blinked, "You, you set this up?"
"Oooh, she told you it was a blind date, didn't she? Well, only for you."
He swallowed a little, unable to let his self-doubt get the better of him, "Why would you want to date me?"
She tilted her head curiously, as if surprised he would ask that, "Well you're sweet and kind, you always help me with work when I need it and unlike all the other so called 'men' in the office you aren't constantly hitting on me or just... Staring. Even Charlene is guilty of that, though I have no idea why... Honestly, I thought you were spoken for!"
"I er, no I just, you know. Thought you were a little, you know."
"A little what?" she asked, a smirk on her full lips.
"You know, out of my league?" he asked and to her surprise, she laughed, reaching out with a hand and resting it on his, her touch warm and soft.
"Oh Anthony, you're funny." She giggled, smiling happily and he found himself laughing a little too, albeit uncertainly.
She quickly lured him out of his shell, her bubbly bright personality and insistent conversation all but forcing him to enjoy himself, not that he needed forcing, just that he was trying to figure out at which point the rug would be pulled out from under him.
As the date progressed and the wine flowed, his paranoia began to ebb away as they talked more and more. Despite her beauty and her skill at her job, he had expected, from her reputation as a bit of an airhead, that there wasn't much more to her than he already knew, but he couldn't have been more wrong.
He quickly discovered that she loved sports, watching it daily and keeping up with the news, playing more than a few herself, including tennis, which he too enjoyed on occasion after having played for his team in college. Though that was a main factor in her life she had a wide variety of interests outside of sport, many of which they also shared, their love of films, their love of music and, much to his surprise, a lack of luck with the opposite gender.