Jasmine returned to where the party was at, still fuming over the earlier incident.

"Jasmine! What took you so long?" Eve asked, standing with Randy and Samantha.
"Yeah… Hey, what happened?" Randy asked, looking at Jasmine's shirt which had a little bit of milkshake stains.
"Oh… I bumped into a dude and kinda had a little accident with my milkshake." Jasmine replied
"I've got a spare shirt in the car. I'll go get it for you." Samantha said
"It's okay, Sam. I'm going home after this. So, I'll just stick with this shirt." Jasmine said

Samantha smiled and nodded before hurrying to her daughter who was crying. Jasmine passed Eve her milkshake as she reached for a serviette on the table to try to clean off the stain.

"Why didn't you get the guy to pay you?" Randy asked
"Well, I was the one who bumped into him and he had gotten a much bigger stain on his tailor-made dress shirt. Although I did make it a whole lot worse after I tossed the remainder onto his shirt." Jasmine replied
"What did he do?" Eve asked
"He's such an asshole! I apologized to him about 3 times and gave him my tissue pack to clean or at least try to get rid of the stain on his shirt but he had to be such an ass wipe about it." Jasmine said
"So you got angry and emptied the remaining contents of your cup on his shirt?" Randy said

Jasmine nodded, "Pretty much. Can't help it if I have to waste good milkshake on an ass wipe like him."

Randy and Eve both laughed before each of them handed her some cake to keep her mind off the incident that happened earlier. She smiled and accepted their kind gesture as they continued to enjoy Alanna's birthday party

"Yes, okay, I got it."

Ezekiel ended the call and looked at Stuart.

"Sir, they found him." Ezekiel said
"Good. Let's go." Stuart instructed

The big, black BMW 3 series sedan drove towards an opening of alleyway and came to a stop. Stuart got out of the car when Mason opened the door. Due to the incident earlier at the boardwalk, Stuart changed out of the shirt for a black dress shirt.

"Sir."

Stuart nodded at a group of guys surrounding a man, as they moved aside showing him a guy who had been badly beaten up.

"S-Sir…" the injured man managed to say.
"Where's my $5 million worth of marijuana?" Stuart asked
"I'm-I'm sorry! I-I-I didn't mean to lose them!" the man replied
"Didn't we tell you not to lose them?" Mason yelled, kicking the man in the stomach.

"That's not a way to treat our men, Mason." Stuart said, "Give me the gun."

"N-No! Stuart, sir! P-Please! Give me one more chance! Please, sir!" The man begged.

Stuart didn't utter a word but gave the man a cold smile as he pulled the trigger which dispelled a bullet that went through the guy's head. A second later, his body landed limply on the ground.

Stuart turned around and handed the gun back to Ezekiel and said, "Clean up the place and get rid of that body."

"You heard the boss. Do it properly." Ezekiel said to the group of guys surrounding the body.

The men nodded and got down to the instructions given just as Stuart walked back to the car with Mason and Ezekiel.

The next morning, Jasmine woke up to find Eve's note and breakfast on the table. The note read, 'Hey sweetie. I know you've got an afternoon class and decided to sleep in but I've got to head to the studio first. Here's breakfast! Love, Eve.' Jasmine smiled and put the note away as she looked at the breakfast in front of her. It was scrambled eggs with pancakes. Eve knew her so well. She smiled and tucked in happily before deciding to visit Randy later.

At around noon, Jasmine headed to Randy's café before going to work. She pushed open the door as she walked into the café, towards the counter where Matthew was at.

"Welcome to- Hey cutie! What are you doing here so early?" Matthew asked
"I'm here to see Randy and snag some free coffee." Jasmine replied
"If you give me a kiss, I could throw in some muffins." Matthew said, with a grin.
"As enticing as that offer sounds, I'll just have the coffee." Jasmine said
"No problem. I can get the kiss another time. So, your usual?" Matthew asked

Jasmine nodded, "Yup. Make it a large. And a medium cappuccino for my boss."

"No problemo. BTW, broski's in the back." Matthew said
"Thanks Matt." Jasmine said

She pushed open the door to the back room to see Randy talking to another person who was dressed in a suit and had his back turned to the door. As soon as Randy spotted Jasmine, he stopped talking.

"Uh, Jasmine! What are you doing here?" Randy asked, looking a little surprised
"I came to get free coffee." Jasmine replied

The guy in the suit turned around and Jasmine immediately recognized him.

"I thought I'd recognize that voice."

It was none other than that British guy from yesterday. What was he doing here? He seems pretty chummy with Randy so what's the deal?

"The two of you know each other?" Randy asked
"He's Mr ass-wipe." Jasmine replied.
"I've got a nickname already? Sweetheart, I didn't know we're already at that stage." The British guy said

Jasmine gave him a disgusted look and said, "Who's your sweetheart? I'd rather have a pig call me its' sweetheart then have you say it."

Realizing Jasmine might go kendo on his friend, Randy stepped in between the both of them.

"Okay, Jas… Chill. Stu, stop it." Randy said to the both of them.
"I'll chill when he stops being such a prick!" Jasmine said
"And I'll stop when she learns to love and not hate." Stuart said
"Oh, I'll show you how I love, alright!" Jasmine said, sarcastically.

She was about to lunge for Stuart when Randy held her back.

"Stu, stop agitating her. She's a skilled kendo master. She can break your arm with a stick." Randy warned

Stuart sighed and said, "Fine. Since Randy asked me to, I'll stop."

"Thank you. Now, Jas, I'm going to let you go so please try not to kill him?" Randy said
"Fine… I'll try." Jasmine said

Randy let go of Jasmine and stepped away from in between them as Stuart made his way to her.

"I'm Stuart Bennett but you can call me Stu." He said, putting out his hand for Jasmine.

She looked at Randy, who gave her a look that said she should be nice too.

"Jasmine." She replied, shaking his hand
"Beautiful name." Stuart said, still holding her hand

Jasmine gave him an 'are you kidding me?' look and quickly retracted her hand from his grip.

"Yeah, you can save it and use that on other girls cause I'm not falling for it." Jasmine said

She turned to Randy and said, "I gotta go now. I'll babysit tonight so I'll be there around 7pm."

Randy nodded as Jasmine said 'good-bye' to him without acknowledging Stuart's existence before she pushed open the back door to go out.

"Randy, you didn't tell me you have a feisty friend." Stuart said
"She's not a friend. She's my god-sister and you better watch yourself if you still want me as your friend." Randy said
"Okay. Relax, Randy. I know how much she means to you." Stuart said

Randy looked at Stuart seriously, "Yes. And, if you are interested in her, you will have to tell her the truth about yourself and, stop being such an ass."

"You know I'm not really an ass… It's just an occupational hazard." Stuart said
"Yeah… But, if you want Jasmine to have a different opinion of you, you've got to stop that." Randy said
"I know… Well, I'd best be off." Stuart said, standing up.

Randy nodded, "I'll see you tomorrow night then for the dinner."

"Yup. And I'll drop off Alanna's birthday present since I didn't manage to give it to her yesterday at her party." Stuart said
"No problem. Come by anytime." Randy said

Stuart nodded and pat Randy's back before he put on his sunglasses and left the back room.