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leaves, Josh announces, to my surprise, “Dinner is on me, by the way.”
    “Yeah? Why is that?” David asks.
    “Booked a national commercial.” Josh answers
proudly and they high five across the table as Jess claps.
    I throw my arms around him “Oh my God. That’s so
great!” and he kisses me, his chest all puffed up and rightly so. Eleven to
seventeen hundred actors are submitted per role for a commercial. To book one
is an achievement!
    He says to everyone, but mostly to me, “Perfect
timing, huh? It’s like I got a gift from the gods for moving in with my girl,”
which makes me so proud and happy. Jess grins at us.
    “Well done, man. On you then! I’m starving,” David
says. “I want to order soon, if that’s okay with you guys.”
    “Me too, so hungry,” Jess says, dutifully opening
and scanning the menu to hurry her choice.
    Some random gorgeous woman – of which there
are many in Manhattan – saunters by and I see what Jess doesn’t; David
watching the tall brunette’s ass for longer than is polite. My eyes twitch, but
I let it go. He looks at me and smiles like it’s nothing. It’s probably
nothing. Guys look. I know this. I just hate it. The thing is… Josh doesn’t look.
It’s like he became blind to other women after we met. I feel completely and
totally secure with his loyalty towards me. David? Well, David has given me
eye-twitches on more than one occasion. But I’m probably being overly
protective of my girl.
    Looking at the menus, we take turns commenting.
“The prawns look amazing.” “Interesting that they use garbanzo beans.” “Who
came up with the word ‘garbanzo?’” and “Should we order a bottle of red or
white to go with the meal?” “Sure, white.” “Crab cakes appetizer?” “Yes!” “So
good.”
    Decisions made and menus closed, David reverts the
subject back to our exciting news, “I can’t believe you guys aren’t home
packing tonight.”
    “Nah.” Josh says, “We hired movers.”
    “Yeah,” I add, “We’ll be un packing.”
    “Unpacking is the funnest part!” Jess smiles.
    David nods, “It is. We had a lot of fun with
unpacking.” Jess giggles and it’s clear what kind of fun they had.
    “We’re going to have more fun than you guys had,”
Josh challenges.
    “I doubt that you could,” David retorts and Jess kisses
his cheek.
    “Amber!”
    Smiling, we all look up to see Jake Lombardi
standing above us, looking at me. My smile vanishes just like that. He spots
Josh and says, “Josh! Holy crap! Hey buddy. How’s it hanging?”
    Jake knows Josh? And Jake is here ? I say nothing as my Josh half-stands to shake my ex-lover’s hand, and sits back down. Josh answers,
less than jovially, “Hanging to the left, man. Hanging to the left. Long time.
How the hell are ya?” He doesn’t like the way Jake just looked at me, and he
takes my hand possessively. I throw a look to Jess, who knows exactly who Jake is.
      “I’m
great, man, great. And wow, Amber. You look amazing,” Jake stud-smirks,
mentally undressing me in front of everyone.
    Beads of fear-sweat form between my breasts as I
choke out, “Thanks.” Josh’s eyes cloud over. Jess and I stare at each other,
helpless. Although she knows about my super hot affair with Jake, she doesn’t
know I had him audition for my film a couple weeks ago, and that he did well,
and is called back to see the director and producers this coming Monday. She
also doesn’t know I lied to Josh about the auditions. Nicole doesn’t, either.
I’ve been sitting with my guilt haunting me all on my own. I’m terrified
they’ll hate me.
    David sticks out his hand, “David. Saw you in the
play, Menace . Good stuff.”
    They shake hands. “Yeah? Thanks man. Jake.”  
    My mind sends him telepathic orders: Leave, Jake. Please leave.
    But he doesn’t hear me. “So you and Amber, huh?”
The egomaniac asks, crossing his arms and looming above us, cocky as fuck.
    Josh’s hand tightens around mine