"Bitch what?"

"Get over here now. I already ordered the ice cream and tacos." I say into the phone, Jessica squealing into the phone.

"Give me ten minutes, only a hop and a skip away." The dial tone comes through when she ends the call, me throwing my phone onto a nearby table.

Messages pile into my phone from Ares and I have to restrain myself from messaging back. The simplest thing would be to block him and move on, pray he never comes into the diner again, the other is to make it complicated by opening the messages and letting myself be convinced he's different and I over-reacted.

"Hey bitch!" Jessica runs in, the taco bag in hand from where the delivery human left it on the concrete walkway.

"He's shady. Like hella shady."

"Oh no. No dick? Babe." She grumbles setting down the bag to walk over and give me a hug, "Do you need me to put on a strap on for you?"

"Jessica you're straight."

"Like I say, you are the only woman that could make me abandon men." A subtle growl is heard in the background and we both look around for the culprit, "Was that you Vee? Are you that hungry?"

"I thought that was you..." What?

"Either way, let's get tacos in you. They are the closet thing to sex we both are having tonight." Jessica says grabbing the tacos out and tossing them out to both of us. We have had so many nights like this that we just know what each other are going to want making life so much easier.

"So true." I unwrap my cheese roll up tossing the wrapper back into the bag, "Look, you remember James? Think him but that much hotter."

"Another controlling asshole that wants you to bend to his will?"

"He was talking about love at first sight, his care for me and he 'enjoys' me," I make air quotes around the words, "Even told me about real love takes time and commitment, and I quote 'both of which I plan to give you.'"

"What? Do tell more!" She takes the whole taco and puts it into her mouth.

"When I tried to leave because it made me hella uncomfortable, he grabbed my wrist and told me he wouldn't be able to leave me, and then followed me to my cab."

She barely keeps the lettuce in her mouth at the coughing surprise she has, "Dude," She finishes swallowing with her finger held in the air, "That's bat shit crazy."

"Glad I'm not overreacting here."

Jess rolls her eyes grabbing her next taco, "You couldn't have fucked him one time before saying goodbye?"

"And have him that much more obsessed with me? No." I finish off a taco and go for my next.

"You don't know if he's obsessed with you. He's just dedicated."

"Here." I hand over my phone where over twenty messages are lined out from Ares, all begging me to call him so he can explain.

"Okay. Even I can't give the guy a break on that one. Girl you're going to have to block him. That's next level rich crazy."

"And his eyes did the same thing that your guy did!"

She pauses to think back to work, her eyes shuffling left and right as she does, "The gold thing? Yeah I thought that was lighting."

I peel my eyelids up with my fingers for effect, Jess laughing at me, "No, chic, it was real. They were like melted gold in the night watching me ride off the cab. It was wild! Changed before my eyes."

"So what are you going to do?"

"I have no idea. Part of me, well most of me, is the dumbest bitch alive and wants to message him back. Another part of me wants to break my lease and move to another part of New York so he doesn't know where I live."

"Both great options."

"Jess." I mumble pinching the end of my nose.

"Yes bestie with a fatty?"

"You are useless sometimes." My sigh is loud, and she gives me a large ear to ear smile.

"I know."

A knock rolls over the door drawing both our attention. I grab my phone and walk over expecting the ice cream delivery like I had ordered earlier. Yanking the door, the rain that was in the forecast pours over the night the loud smacks against the concrete blocking me from hearing anything else outside.

"Vee? Everything okay?"

"Yeah... I think so?" I yell back finally landing my eyes on a silver card laid at the base of the door.

I pick it up between my fingers walking back into the room where Jess is strung out over the couch taco trash over her stomach, "Holy shit Jess, look at this."

"Ares Gray request your presence. Please see compensation for inconvenience inside."

"Well open it!" She screeches snatching it from my hand.

I yank it back smacking her across the head with it to tug open the envelope a check for a hundred grand dropping to the floor, "Vee."

"I think- I think I am going to pass out."

Black.