“So he didn't say anything?” Asked Logan

Jessica watched as he dipped his Oreo in the tub of peanut butter then took a bite.

God I'm going to throw up, look away, look away.

“Um...no he didn't” she replied

“Well no surprise there Javier doesn't like answering to anyone”

“I can see that.”

“You know what you need? You need to get laid. One night of hot wild passionate mind blowing sex.” he closed the jar and tossed it along with the cookies in the cart.

“I need that? Or do you?”

“Is that an offer?” He replied wiggling his eyebrows up and down

“Ew! Logan come on!”

“Well baby I know you offered but slow down, not here and now.”

“Oh my God” she replied then pushed the shopping cart down the isle.

“Yes! I love it when my women scream oh my God!” He shouted

Jessica sent a embarrassed smile the other shoppers that stopped to look at her then at Logan, then she turned to glare at Logan.

She moved to the next isle and picked up breakfast items, all the while ignoring Logan's calling for her. Just as she was about to move to the next isle she yelp in surprise when something knocked her in the back of her head. She turned around and saw Logan holding rubber balls.

“Did you just hit me with a ball!?” She asked

“That's not the only ball I want to hit you with” he said with a smirk

“Logan?”

“Yes?”

“Run”

Without hesitating she started chasing him around the supermarket, not caring about they way everyone was looking at them like they were crazy. Just as she was gaining on him he released a girly earsplitting scream that cause her to stop and erupt in a fit of laughter. She laughed so hard tears fell from her eyes, it didn't help when he picked her up and spun her around.

“Feel better?” He asked her as he lowered her back to the ground.

“Yes. Thanks Logan, I'm glad you decided to spend my day off with me”

“You promised me free food how could I say no?”

“A man after my own heart”

“Marry me?”

“I think I will”

She started laughing again as he grabbed her hand and started humming here comes the bride then pulled her back through the isles trying to locate the shopping cart she had abandoned to go on her high speed chase.

By the time they finished shopping they went driving aimlessly around town singing Sam Smith songs on the top of their voices as they snack on food from a drive thru. By the time they got back to her apartment they had another surprise waiting on her doorsteps.

“Where the heck have you been?” Asked Javier

“Oh I'm sorry I didn't know I answered to you even when I'm off the clock” Jessica replied, her voice laced with sarcasm.

“You don't seem to mind when he does it” said Javier jerking his thumb in Logan's direction

“That's because his company doesn't leave me depressed and curled up on the couch, listening to Drake while crying over a tub of ice cream as I question my own existence!”

The hallway went silent as they stood there glaring at each other.

“Alright well I'll just take this” said Logan slipping her keys from her hand so he could let himself into her apartment.

A few seconds later Jessica stop glaring at Javier so she could go inside, she didn't have to turn around to know that he had follow her in.

“Can't you leave so we can talk?” Javier asked Logan

“She promised me dinner and I'm hungry so I'm not leaving without it. So here's what I'm going to do, I'm going to go in her room and listen to some music. Anything other than Drake. Last thing I need is to be calling up all my exes to apologize, that might take me at least three days to call them all.”

Jessica couldn't hide the giggle that escaped as Logan walked into her room and closed the door behind him. A few minutes later she heard Taylor Swift blasting from behind her closed room door and she couldn't help but laugh.

“You never laugh with me that way”

She turned to look at Javier. His expression looked almost torn. He swallowed and looked away from her probing gaze.

“Why are you here Javier?”

“I hate the way things are between us”

“Us? There is no us”

“But you want there to be an us.”

“What I want doesn't matter in this case”

“Yes it does!”

“You seem to be forgetting that your bride to be is in town. Someone you just conveniently forgot to mention”

“She's not my bride to be! I haven't even asked her to marry me.”

“But you're going to that's the point!”

She walked away from him and straight to the kitchen where she started cutting vegetables to make a stir fry dinner.

“I never once told you I'm going to marry her.” he said from behind her.

“I don't care”

“Don't you?”

Don't respond, don't respond, don't respond.

“That's besides the point”

You couldn't just keep your mouth shut now could you?

“That wasn't a no”

“It wasn't a yes either”

“Jess”

“Javier! I don't get what you want me to say right now” she exclaimed as she turned to face him.

He raised both hands in the air as if saying he surrenders and she got confused for a moment until her eyes looked to the knife she had pointing in his direction. A traitorous smile broke loose and  she turned around quickly trying to hide it.

“I know this all looks bad but its not easy for me either. I might not be sure about what's going on between us but I'm sure I don't want to deny it at all!” He exclaimed

She sighed before putting down the knife because her hands were trembling uncontrollably.

“Javier I've been through so much, more than you could imagine.” She said in a soft tone but it was loud enough for him to hear.

“Then tell me, don't shut me out”

“That's just it, I'm tired of being the woman with a sad story. For once I want to be the happy go lucky one, but how do you expect me to open up to you when you're so closed off like government secrets?”

“Its not easy for me to open up to people”

“And I know that” she said turning to him.

“I know you do. That's why things are so complicated for me right now. I feel like I don't have to say much for you to get me, you just do. No one as ever seen me before”

“What are you talking about people know you”

“People know of me but they look at me and see the rich kid from the privileged side of town. No one sees me, as just me, no one excepts you. You see me don't you?”

Jessica turned from the stove and looked at him, really looked at him. He looked lost, torn, lonely, unhappy, angry, confused. He looked like he needed a lifeline and as much as she knew this could end with her getting badly hurt yet another time, she wanted to be his lifeline.

“Yes Javier, I see you.”

Just as he took a step towards her, her room door flew open.

“OK I've been in there a long time and the smell of food is making me even more hungry so time's up”

She bit her lip to try to hold in her laughter but the adorable look on Logan's face and the annoyed look on Javier's caused her to erupt in loud unladylike laughter that would have her brothers giving her a scolding.

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