I watch in bewilderment as Kim drops the phone to her side after telling who'm ever she was recently speaking to on the phone our adress. I continue to stare at her waiting for her to tell me whats going on but she remains a statue, looking into the distance, her mouth open a bit, she's not even blinking. Without knowing what else I should do in this situation, I begin yelling her name and waving my arms in front of her face trying to get her to snap out of this daze of panic she seems to be in. Right now I don't know if she's ignoring me or can't hear me because she is acutely in the middle of an internal freakout. Without knowing what else to do I roughly grab her shoulders and begin shaking her vigorously. With jus my luck, she finally snaps out of her daze and stands up walking side to side muttering.

"Kim! What the hell is going on?" I ask, she turns her gaze towards me and sighs before sitting back on the couch next to me, flailing her arms back out of exasperation. "My dad and I never really got along... my family has this tradition where all the Crawford woman are vet's but being a vet...I can't do it Jack. Imagine having to go up to a little girl and her mother telling them their cat didn't make it out of surgery. The whole practice just depressed me. So when I told my father that I wanted to be a teacher which I am doing right now...my passion, teaching children. Ever since I told him, we would fight, argue, yell. It got so bad we couldn't be in the same room as each other." I listen carefully to ever detail she's telling me about her past, fascinated on how strong she is, enduring the pain of not being able to have a normal conversation with your own father for years. "So anyways, my mom told him about the breakup and he asked where I lived, like you heard, I told him how I was living with you guys and now...he's coming over. No matter how much my father hates me, he will rip you to shreds, all of you. He is super protective of me." I gulp nervously, not knowing what to say. I know that if it were just Eddie, Milton and I, we would probably be fine but Jerry is the most un-predictable person I know.

I make a daring move and grab both her hands with mine and look her right in the eyes, "Kim, I will do the best I can to make your dad like me and the rest of us. I- I mean we really care about you. I promise we wil get threw this smoothly." This brings a smile to her face and she gives my hand a squeeze making me smile as well. "Ok."


"Guys listen up! Now we have brought you here this afternoon to tell you something extremely important." I exclaim to the three guys in front of Jack and I looking at us with scared eyes. Milton raises his hand up and begins waving it around wildly like a child. "What Milton?" Jack asks as he comes stands next to me, his bicep brushing my arm. "Is the news that you guys are finally dating? Because the chemistry you both have in undeniable" the other two men begin to nod their heads in excitement.

I loo over at Jack and see him looking down with a red tint on his cheeks but a small smile plastered on his face. Chemistry? Jack and I have chemistry? I mean he is extremely attractive and he always makes me laugh and smile, also ever since that night with Ricky standing me up, he came threw for me... I feel my cheeks begin to burn but I can't help but to smile at the thought of dating Jack.

"What? No! Listen guys, my dad is coming over in like an hour I need you all to be on your best behaviour please, this is really important to me so I have some rules. 1. Jerry no begin a dick one mentions the whole Ricky thing or how I was acting about my break up with Brett up what a great teacher I am and how much the little kids in my class seem to love me. Everyone got it?" They all nodded their heads. "Good. Let's do this."

As if right on time, I hear a knock at the door. I begin to walk over but a hand pulls me back, I turn to look at the owner and see Jack smiling, he lightly puts both his hands on my shoulders and sits me on the couch while he walks over to answer the door.

"Hey how ya doing I'm Jack" the brunet saying with a smile and an extended hand, my father looks down at his hands like its poison and shifts his gaze to me. "Hi dad." I greet quietly. "Hello Kimberly, so these re your roommates?" he asks looking over the four men smiling sheepishly. "Yeah this is Eddie, Milton,Jerry and you met and rudely ignored Jack" I say crossing my arms over my chest.

My father begins analyzing the loft, looking threw the bookcases, all I can think of is Jerry better not have any playboys in there. "Yo , I just wanna say that Kim has been taking the breakup with Brett pretty well, I mean her and Jack have some flirty thing already going on they-" Jerry was immediately cut off by Milton slapping his hand over Jerry's mouth. My jaw dropped as did Jack's and my father's.

Once again...

Shit.