Chapter Eight:

When Danny got to Jack's office, he looked through the glass mirror on the door to see if Jack, Martin and Katie are not there yet. He got disappointed when he saw it. Jack is there at his desk, talking to Katie and Martin who sat on the chairs in front of Jack's desk. Danny only see the backs of their brunette heads and Jack's face. Through the window, Danny saw Jack's serious looking face, pointing at them. While he was looking at Jack's face, Danny was thinking that Jack might putting some serious thoughts about Martin and Katie's relationship like NEVER doing it in the whole building and other expressions of love Martin and Katie might do. Danny decided not to think about some more because the image of they doing it anywhere else is going to be stuck into his brain for his entire life. A few seconds later, Danny was thinking about a very different view of Martin and Katie. What if that Martin and Katie are suddenly related. Come on, they had the same hair color, eye color, and the same habits like eating a lot when they are nervous. Danny also decided to stop thinking like that because he wanted his best friend to be happy for his whole life not so fking miserable.

A moment later, Jack was looking at the glass window and saw Danny. When he saw Danny, Jack gave the 'come in' nod and a few seconds later, the door knob was opening up. A few seconds later, the door was open and Danny came in. When Danny came in, Jack cleared for the fourth time that day and said to Danny, "I am glad that you came, Danny. Why do you stand up for a couple minutes because I am not going to sat on my chair anyway?" Danny walked over to Jack's desk a few seconds later. While he walked over, he felt Martin and Katie's blue eyes watching him walk. When Danny got to the desk, Jack looked at his three young colleagues and said to them, "you three knew why are you are doing here in this office instead at your desks, doing some hard desk work." All of the young colleagues's eyes and ears are belonged to Jack right now. "All of you are involved in this personal situation and you needed to end this right now before it get any bigger." said Jack. Bigger means through the whole building or even worse, through New York. Then one of the three had spoken up. "Jack. Why are you here if it only involved with me, Martin, and Danny?" asked Katie. Martin and Danny had also agreed with that question and now staring at Jack for the question. Jack answered that question by saying to them, "well guys. If one of you are about to kill the other person, I had to play referee and make you stop it." Katie, Martin, and Danny are now staring at each other and made a promise not to kill each other because a second later, Jack told them if they started fighting, they are going to get a month worth of desk work. When Jack see one of his team members doing a dumb thing, Jack threatened the team member with his favorite type of punishment, desk work. When he said that, the person go back to normal which always worked and he been using it for years.

After the staring between the three colleagues, Jack stood up from his chair and said to them, "You are going to start this right now and while you are doing it, I sit down on the couch and wait there to make sure that any of the things I had said a minute ago didn't start." When he was done, Jack went to his couch and sat down.

When Jack had sat down, the three colleagues are beginning to talk about it. "Danny. Do you wanted me and Katie to tell the truth?" asked Martin in a kind voice. Danny walked through the space between Martin and Katie's chairs and sat down on Jack's desk. When he got there, Danny said "Sure. You can tell me the truth." "Good." said Katie. Martin got up and said to Danny, "The only reason that we didn't tell you about our relationship right now is that we didn't want our relationship between me and you to change." Danny looked at Martin's face and asked, "How?" Martin's answer to that: "When you came into my apartment without any notice like last night, I don't want you to come in, seeing us doing something that couples liked to do." "Oh." responded back by Danny. "Yes. Oh." said Katie when Danny said that. After Danny and Katie said that, Martin told Danny more reasons why they don't want to tell Danny right away. One of the reasons is that if Danny had founded out right away, Danny is going to act weird around them. "I ain't going to act weird around you guys. You guys are my friends. I so not going to do that." said Danny in the eyes. "Great." said Jack from the couch. The three amigos turned around to the couch and saw Jack, sitting there very patiently. When Jack saw them staring, Jack's only answer to that: "What? I am supporting you three." All of them stared at Jack for a few minutes until they got tired of staring at Jack and went back to their talk they were doing a few minutes before.

When they got back, they forgot where they stopped at. While they were thinking, Jack spoke up and said to them, "You guys are that the part when Martin is probably going to tell you one more reason. I think." "Thanks, Jack." said Katie. Katie had turned back to the two younger men and waited to Martin to speak some more. When she figured out that Martin is waiting for his girlfriend to speak now, Katie realized that Martin wanted her to do the finale. "What, me?" asked Katie through her eyes. "Yes. Go!" answered Martin through his. "Fine" answered Katie back. Katie stood up and walked over to Danny. When she got there, she cleared her voice and said to Danny in her Texan accent, "Danny. We wanted to tell you last November at me and Martin's one year anniversary but we got a little busy planning it that we ended up forgetting about it." When she was done, Katie was waiting for Danny to talk some more. When she had waited for Danny, Danny wasn't talking. He was quiet which is unusual. Katie turned to Martin for help, but Martin just nodded "I don't know" at her. Both of them had turned to Jack for some help, but Jack did the same thing that Martin had given her, "I don't know." When those three are staring at each other, they heard something from Jack's desk. "Well. That was nice that you guys are going to tell me about it two months ago. Heck, it is your one year anniversary, you guys had to enjoy it." said the voice. They turned around and saw Danny smiled at them. "So that it?" asked Jack. "That is it, guys." said Danny. Both Martin and Katie had smiled at Danny.

When they are done smiling, Danny walked over to them to slap them on the back. After Danny had done that, Jack said to them, "Well that was over. So get out of my office before I give any of you more desk work." "Yes, Jack." said Martin, Danny, and Katie and opened the door to leave. After they got out, Jack got into his chair and finally relaxed but the relaxation was not there for long. One second after he had sat down, the phone had rang. Jack went to the phone to see who had call him. He looked at the phone and saw that is Van Doren's number. Jack got a little angry when he saw it. Jack had to calm down quickly because if he acted angry in front of his boss, anything can happen. Jack picked up the phone, put it to his mouth and said to the phone in a bored voice, "Malone."

When they got out of Jack's office and into the hall, Katie told Martin and Danny that she is going back to the office to help the girls with the desk work. When she was about to leave, Martin did the unexpected. Martin walked over to her and gave her the most passionate office kiss in weeks in FRONT of Danny. When they are done kissing a minute later, Katie begins to blush and walked to the office very quickly happy. When Katie had left, Danny gave Martin a slap on the back and said to Martin, "you little loverboy." Martin is beginning to blush and said to him, "Danny!!" After Martin had stopped blushing, Martin got in front of Danny to ask him something. "Danny. If you don't have any plans with Elena this Friday, do you liked to come to my place to play poker with me and Katie?" asked Martin. This will be the first time that Danny will be with the couple at the place where Danny had gone many times before. A few seconds later, Danny looked very confused by it since Martin is a very terrible poker player but when Martin stared the face Danny is making right now, with a smile on his face, "Not to worry. Katie taught me how." Danny smiled back after hearing that and said to Martin, Sure, I can come." "Great. We see you then." said Martin who went back to his desk to do some more work. A few seconds later, Danny did the same thing but to his. While he walking there, the only thing that was in Danny's mind is "Friday. Interesting."