The next night, Tommy stuck to Jessica at the bar like bees on honey, so that Sam would quit busting his ass over Tara even though he wasn't done with her yet. With Hoyt having the nerve to bring another ditzy broad in front of her Jessica was feeling low and Tommy was gonna do his best to cheer her up, sweet talking girls and giving Jessica his tips and eventually asked her out while she was cleaning a table. Jessica nodded and said that she needed a friend, while Tommy was quite excited, she was a vampire and he really wanted to know if the rumours about the vamp girls was true. Sam finally got off his case but told him to keep the flirting to a minimum. They both ended up going to a local bar and he listened to her talk about her problems, she was beautiful but talked for ages, he didn't really ask about the vamp thing though, he didn't want to scare her. He walked her home and they agreed they would meet again. He had a spring in his step as he started walking home, but saw Tara coming out of the corner store and Tara turned away to avoid him but it was too late.

"Need help with that?" Tommy asked.

"Nah, ya have enough trouble carrying ya head on ya shoulders"

"You always this mean to good looking guys?"

"Dunno, I'll find one to find out"

"Saw ya with ya mama last night, she always lock ya out?"

"Tell Sam I said hi" Said Tara and Tommy grew irritated that she mentioned him, even though it was just normal conversation. He got back home and Sam tried to play father figure and asked him how his date went. "Cool" Tommy replied. "You gonna see her again?"

"She'll make sure of that" Tommy said full of bravado but not quite sure what he meant. "Tara said hi"

"Tommy, after all I've said..."

"Relax alright, I bumped into her outside the store"

"She ok?"

"She always looks good to me...yeah, she was"

"Get some rest, we gotta wake up early for work"

"K, saw her arguing with with her mama the other day"

"You stick around, you'll see than ain't nothin' new" Tommy found it impossible to act like he didn't care anymore.

"Is Tara as fucked up as me?"

"Tommy you ain't, but considering she's totally human, she's probably stronger than the both of us, now get some sleep and dream of Jessica, come on" Sam went to his room and Tommy did the same and sat on his bed, wondering if he could juggle two relationships at the same time.