Three nights later Janet was surprised to see Eddie standing at her front door. He asked to come in and she obliged. They sat on the couch in silence for a while before she asked him if he wanted to talk about it. He didn't really but knew they would have to.

"I'm sorry" she said
"I know you told me" Eddie replied un enthusiastic
"No, I'm not apologizing for sleeping with someone else well of course I'm sorry for that but, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you who the guy I was shooting darts with was" Janet said
"You still haven't learned when to keep your mouth shut" Eddie asked not wanting to hear about the guy
"I can't lie to you, Eddie" she said
"Fine, who was he"

"My first…." Janet knew she didn't have to finish that sentence by the look on Eddie's face
"Is that supposed to explain why his hands were on your ass" Eddie asked not impressed with the explanation
"No, he only did that because he knew you were watching" Janet snickered
"You can't still be that naive, He grabbed your ass because he wanted to show you the backseat"
"No that's why he grabbed my boob when you went to the bar for another round" Janet explained
"I turned him down while we were playing darts, Eddie" Janet said as she pulled her feet onto the couch to get comfortable
"You know the guy's nearly ruffed him up" she added gaining a slight smile out of him

"So, how pissed was Rory" Janet asked laughing
"You know you only added fuel to the fire" Eddie replied with a grin
"Yeah, maybe but it was worth it; you said you wouldn't and I believe you"
"So your not going to be pissed when I tell you she came by the house that night" Eddie said cautiously
"You saw Rory and didn't tell me" Janet asked
"No, Phil and Pizza Girl knew I had someone in my room so they sent her up and she overheard us, Pizza Girl said she was pretty ticked when she left.
"How did they know someone was in your room" Janet asked and Eddie tried to stall why he thought of a nice way to put it "Eddie" she said eagerly awaiting the answer
"Alcohol may have affected our modesty"
"how affected" Janet asked scared to death of the answer
"at least they don't know it was you" Eddie offered as a positive sign and Janet was completely embarrassed so Eddie pulled her to him while he laughed and she snuggled against him under his arm that managed to find its way across her hip. Eddie turned on the t.v. and started to flip through the channels settling on a movie.

"Do you remember when we heard the announcement that Jimmy Kornduffer was going to be in the spelling bee" Janet asked
"How could I forget, if that hadn't come on I would have taken you to bed, one more kiss and I wouldn't have stopped myself" Eddie replied and Janet could feel his fingers tense around her
"Why didn't you, I wanted you to like really bad" Janet informed him
"I know, it's just that I was afraid of messing things up, I didn't want you to freak out worrying about my past and I didn't want to freak out worrying about the future" Eddie answered.

They managed to watch a whole movie with out so much as a kiss. They talked and actually enjoyed spending time together. Eddie was the one to bring up Rooster. Janet wouldn't have if her life depended on it. The conversation quickly became heated but Eddie didn't run, and Janet didn't cry. They discussed it like two adults and managed to put a lot of it past them.
"Why did you grab him of all people" Eddie asked and Janet explained the whole dry run thing which is when she found out Rooster had feelings for her. Knowing that piece of information she called him wanting so badly for someone to care about her, it was wrong and she knew it but it happened none the same and nothing she did would ever change that.

"okay, I can deal with that in time but I can't promise I want kill him the next time he tries to rub it in my face" Eddie was being honest and Janet knew if it came to that there was nothing she could do about it. He was a little insulted by the whole dry run thing but was pissed that Rooster had been after Janet the whole time.

"I want you to know that night wasn't some big romantic evening, it was just broken hearted drunk stupidity and …………….." Janet was stopped by Eddie's finger across her lips

She walked him to the door and he kissed her goodnight "The details of that night, the when the where the how, it doesn't matter I don't want to know , I'm not going to ask and you can't tell me, that's one secret you have to live with." Eddie asked her to do the one thing she found the hardest…Lie…. Stopping at the bottom step he turned around "I was thinking about maybe trying that French Restaurant you had such a fit over, you still interested" Eddie asked "Yeah, I'm interested" she answered in a sexy voice "Saturday at seven, then" he replied and walked away.