When Joey came down showered, shaved, combed, gelled, dressed and primped in general, Allison, Justin, and Brandi were giving Susan, Lance and JC a very animated recount of the happenings of the club the night before. Right when he came down the trio were explaining a fight that had occurred around 1:30 am, Chris throwing in a bit here and there. Joey also noted Lance's arm around Grace, which irked him even more, but he tried to ignore it. JC glanced up noticing the almost dazed looking man "Well, someone looks better!" JC said.
It took Joey a second to realize his blue-eyed bandmate was talking to him, "Oh…uh, yeah, I guess. I smell better and look better, just wish that shower would make my head and stomach feel better, but you know, I guess I'll survive." He smiled. "Lets just say, if I have any significant amount of alcohol, AKA, more then one drink, hit me, smack me as hard as you can in the back of the head, okay?" Joey sincerely asked to which his friends replied "sure, no prob.," Or somewhere on those lines. "Thanks a bunch y'all." Joey smiled then went to the kitchen for a little something to settle his stomach and find that Tylenol from last night as Brandi, Al, and Justin resumed their story.
Joey stood in the kitchen absently staring into the refrigerator when an all too familiar voice came from behind him, "You don’t buy it either huh?"
Joey spun around startled coming face to face with Chris, "Oh, hey! What don’t I buy though?"
Chris looked around, "Them, Grace and Lance. You don’t actually believe they're a couple…do you?"
"Sure," Joey shrugged "Why not? They seem genuinely happy. I mean, especially Lance, his eyes light up to just hold her hand."
"Why not? Did you just say why not?" Chris asked in disbelief.
"Yes I did, so?" Joey replied.
"So? Well don’t you find it the least bit funny that neither one of them said anything about liking the other but now they're both totally, like, head over heels crazy? Isn’t that kinda weird to you?" Chris hinted.
"Well, sure it's kind of strange, but I mean, they don’t have to tell me everything, as Grace made it painfully clear to me just an hour ago." Joey bit out with some resentment.
"Oh! Hey, I'm sorry, dude, that hurts." Chris offered apologetically.
"I know but it's okay, don’t apologize, its not your fault, don’t worry about it. But really, you know you're right and I did ask Grace. What do Susan, Brandi and JC think? Do they think they were … "Joey was cut off by cheers from the other room. Chris and Joey dashed into the family room. "What you guys watching? Who scored?" Joey asked sending Justin over the edge in hysterics. Then, between laughs Justin managed to gasp out "Jay…JC" Pointing to the man who a moment ago was quite startled.
"What?" Chris asked a little taken aback at this.
"Brandi…Brandi just got up and sat in JC's lap. His face was priceless." Justin laughed while JC awkwardly wrapped his arms around the girl in his lap and placed a kiss in her cheek quickly, then leaning back with her still in his arms JC very quietly said in her ear "So does this mean…that you like me too?" as everyone else resumed their conversations. Brandi only looked into his eyes and smiled before giving him a soft kiss on the mouth. JC smiled and settled back into the couch happily with Brandi lying on him in heaven.
"So Grace, have you told Joey yet?" Brandi asked.
Upon hearing this he turned from his conversation with Justin and asked, "Tell me what?"
Grace shot Brandi one of those looks that, if looks could kill Brandi would be six feet under, then glancing at Joey dismissed it as "Nothing."
"C'mon," Joey whined, "tell me, tell me tell me…you know you want to."
"No, Joey, I really don’t, I can't."
"Why not? Please tell me." Joey almost begged.
"Joey, please, you're making this very hard…" Grace started but then was cut off as Lance squeezed her shoulder and said "Grace, its okay, just say it quick and get it over with, then at least you'll have said it and he'll have heard it." Soft enough so Joey didn’t hear.
"Okay," She started. She took a deep breath, "Joey, I need to talk to you upstairs." Then she moved to get up but before she did Lance gave her a quick peck on the cheek and said "Good Luck!" Then Joey and Grace headed back upstairs.
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