From Mountains to Lone Stars

School was about to start and no joke, the entire time we'd been training, I was developing a totally inappropriate crush on my boss. Every time it happened, I had to go and hit my head against the wall for a few hours. I was not allowed to have a relationship with my superior or any of my co-workers. It was called a mack and pack. And I needed this god damn job.

"Alright, guys, today is move-in day," Miranda said with a huge smile. "We have to be on our A-game today. This is their first impression of UNT, so let's get it started! Linda, Mikey, and Garrett, you guys are doing the intramural table. Carrie and Carter you guys are on cart check out duty. Sarah, Brittany, y'all are on recycling duty. Trev, Blake, Mark, you guys are with me on roaming duty. Mav and Matt, y'all are passing out resident keys!"

We all nodded and headed to our stations. I was a little pissed that I would be working with Matt. Seeing him interact with residents and parents would probably only make my crush worse. I swear, I did not need this crush.

"You ready, Mav?" Matt asked as he opened up the "dumb box." The dumb box was where we kept the room keys and various others. To get into the dumb box, you had to open the special smart box with a code that only you know. Every RA and HD had different codes. No one was supposed to know them.

"As ready as I'll ever be, boss." I flashed him a smile. He smiled back and my heart stuttered. This mother fucker had dimples. He had never smiled big enough for me to see them. "Jesus Christ on stilts."

Matt's head whipped to face me. "What?"

My cheeks turned bright red. "Nothing. Let's get this shit started!"

"No cussing," Matt said with a laugh. "Best impressions for the parents."
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"Welcome to Bruce Hall. What's your name?" I asked for the hundredth time today.

"Hi, I'm Leslie Jones." She was a short girl with purple hair and bright whiskey colored eyes.

"Okay, let me find you on the list. Oh! You're in my wing! Hi, I'm Maverick and I'll be your RA. Your room number is C203, and your roommate is already checked in. Welcome to Bruce, Leslie."

She smiled at me and took the key Matt handed to her. We had a good system working and still had about 400 residents to check in. At least we weren't Kerr. Kerr Hall was the largest hall on campus with about 1,000 residents in building. It was also a freshmen dorm like Bruce, so that meant today was their busiest check-in day just like most other dorms on campus.

Because move-in day was so busy, we had volunteers from various frats and sororities helping us. I hated that on one hand because frat boys were totally fucking douches, but my running buddy was the president of a frat, and he was working at Bruce today. I was excited for his shift to start. Maybe he would get me out of my crush funk.

"Mav, there's a resident trying to check in," Matt said quietly in my ear. Shivers rushed down my spine at the sound of his voice. Fuck, this stupid man was affecting me to much.

"Sorry. Hello, welcome to Bruce. What's your name?"
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"Lunch break, I'll take over." Matt patted my shoulder and I left, texting my running body, Kyle, to meet me at the cafeteria. I needed to talk to him about this crush I had developed. He used to be in housing, he might know what to do.

"Hey!" Kyle hugged me tightly as I entered the cafeteria. He was my favorite person at UNT. Kyle and I had met last year when we both worked at Bruce. He left cause he got this amazing internship, and I missed my running body.

"It's good to see you, Kyle. How's your boyfriend?"

"Brad's great. Your new hall director is fucking hot."

I spit out my water. "Kyle!"

"Girl, don't even start. I know you're crushing hard fucking core on that man, already. You know you have to let that shit die. You need this job."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Don't start, Kyle."

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