I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Katrina's Point of View-
I stood beside Abed hanging onto his hand and Shirley stepped up beside me as we waited for a waiter or waitress to come seat us, I looked around at his group seeing Jeff planting himself down on one of their cushioned benches texting on his phone.
"I'll be back." I said to Abed as he followed my look over to Jeff and he nodded as I slid my hand out of his walking over to Jeff, I heard Abed start talking to Troy and Shirley as I softly sat down to Jeff. "For someone that supposedly doesn't want to admit these people are his friends, they surely are here to have a dinner with them."
"It's for this one night..."
"Then why'd you go to Pierce's concert?" I asked.
"For moral support for Britta, her and Vaughn had a rough break-up and I wanted to talk to Abed."
"Keep telling yourself that, your not as bad as you try to be Jeff..." I said standing up to walk back to Abed and join their conversation, Jeff grabbed my hand turning me around.
"I came only to see those photos of your niece you said you have."
"That's it?" I asked and he nodded, "Softie..."
"I'm not a softie, I just like kids...you don't know how many cases I had that dealt with kids and it's hard."
"Your going to leave after I show the pictures?"
"Nah, I'll eat my food then leave..." He said smiling, I smiled and went to take a step but stopped myself.
"Where you staying tonight?"
"At a local hotel until I get an apartment ready...why?"
"Just making sure you had a place to stay...if you need anything or help moving, you know how to reach me." I said smiling.
"Thanks..." Jeff said as I walked back over to Abed, I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, he turned and looked at me smiling.
"A table for eight?" The waitress asked.
"Yes please." Shirley said as the waitress grabbed eight menus leading us to two tables that were pushed together and had four chairs at each table. Me, Abed, Troy and Jeff walked onto one side as Britta, Annie, Shirley and Pierce walked along the other side finding a seat in front of them, Abed pulled my seat out for me before he sat down beside me and pulled my hand into his lap to hang onto as we searched through the menus.
"My name is Lizzie and I'll be your waitress, may I start you off with drinks?" She asked.
"I'll take an Iced Tea with no lemon." Annie said.
"May I have a diet coke please?" Shirley asked as the waitress nodded and wrote it down.
"I'll have a coffee, decaf please." Pierce said.
"I'll have French Vanilla Cappucino with the whip cream." Jeff said pointing to this cool looking glass filled with brown cappucino and whip cream, it looked cool.
"I'll have water." Britta said.
"I'll have BlueBerry Pomegranate Tea Chiller." Abed said as he then turned to me.
"May I have a lemonade?" I said as the waitress nodded and looked to Troy.
"I'll have a Coke please." Troy said as the waitress nodded and walked away when she finished writing whatever she was writing, I opened my menu and pulled out the menu that was pushed inside that had the $2, $4, $6, and $8 meals on it and skimmed through it.
"What looks good, they all seem appetizing huh?" Abed asked doing his Batman voice only to get me to giggle.
"I heard your sister had a baby Katrina..." Jeff said breaking the silence.
"Yes she did...it was a little girl named Amy Rose...I have pictures." I said.
"That'll be nice..." Shirley said as I reached between my legs for my purse pulling it up onto my lap and dug in pulling out my camera. I turned it on and went to the review mode showing Abed first and it slowly passed it around the table.
"I just wish I was able to see my nephew and get a picture of him holding his sister...but next time." I said.
"What's the age difference? My boys are 2 years apart." Shirley said.
"About 4 years, he turns 4 next month."
"My kids are..." Pierce started out with going into this long story about his marriages until the waitress came with our drinks.
"Thank God." Jeff said as she set the drinks down in front of the right person.
"Do we know what we want to order?" She asked.
"I think we are close...I think the old guy wants a cow." Jeff said getting Pierce to give him a dirty look.
"Anyways...I'll have the Classic Burger." Troy said.
"How would you like that cooked?"
"Well-done." Troy said closing his menu.
"May I have a salad with ranch dressing?" Britta asked when the waitress was ready.
"I'll have the Shrimp Skewer." Pierce said.
"I thought you wanted cow?" Jeff said.
"Troy stole it." Pierce said as he talked to the waitress to get exactly what he wanted.
"I'll have the Everyday Value Slam." I said pointing to it on the $4 part of the menu and told her how I wanted the eggs.
"I'll have the same please." Abed said.
"I'll have the Lemon Pepper Grilled Tilapia." Jeff said closing his menu.
"May I have the Homestyle Meatloaf?" Shirley asked as the waitress nodded as she wrote down her order.
"May I have the French Toast Slam?" Annie asked as the waitress nodded and went back to the back as Jeff passed the camera across the table to Pierce to look through the photos.
"How do you work this thing?" Pierce asked as a flash went off while Annie leant over to try and show him how to work it, it only captured the most unflattering picture of her. Pierce looked at the picture he just took and said a loud "Annie, that isn't really flattering of you." Annie quickly snatched it out of his hands deleting that photo before she looked through it herself.
"She's precious..." Annie said.
"Yeah...love her just as much as I love my nephew." I said.
"It's instant love...once you lay your eyes on them, you just love them more...I know when I had my boys, I loved them more when I had them, I didn't even know it was possible." Shirley said.
"I think just looking into their little eyes that are staring back at you knowing that they have their whole life ahead of them and their so tiny." I said.
"How often do you see them?" Britta asked looking up at me from my camera.
"Not as often as I would like...I love seeing my sister, brother in law nephew and niece, my parents give or take." I said.
"Oh, what's wrong with your parents?" Shirley asked in her sweet concerned voice.
"No...they are just very nosy and very protective, they want to know everything and when it happened, they try to protect me from the real world, I try to tell them I'm a big girl." I said.
"My mom feels the same way, I talk to her everyday." Pierce said.
"Your just a momma's boy..." Jeff said.
"I wish my parents were like that." Annie said pouting a tad as the waitress came out with another waiter setting the trays down onto the two stands and slowly set the proper plates down in front of each person.
"This looks great." I said as I noticed Abed reach over stealing my bacon, "Uh!" I said as he smiled while he was chewing it, I reached over stealing his bacon. Britta handed me my camera, as I let the bacon hang out of my mouth as I turned my camera off and slid it into my purse. We ate at our food only doing small talk, Pierce and Jeff threw a few shots back and forth which I'm assuming is normal.
"You want to watch Wolf-Man tonight?" Abed asked as he wrapped his arm around me resting it on the back of my chair.
"Yeah, I may fall asleep during it, I got to study my monologue hard this weekend." I said looking at before I sheepishly moving a strand of hair to behind my ear.
"Yo love birds, you missed science, you have to do the review on page 172 for a quiz grade, it's due Thursday." Troy said when he groaned in pain from when someone kicked him under the table.
"Thanks...I told you there was going to be a quiz." I said in a 'in your face' manner.
"That was good..." Jeff said.
"It was..." Britta said as Jeff waved down the waitress and we all pitched in money for our meals and for a tip, I went to put my money in but Abed stopped me.
"I got it..." Abed said.
"Abed, I can pay for myself..." I said.
"Too bad, I covered you two already." Jeff said as he stood up collecting the money besides the tip and reciept.
"Jeff!" I said in a shock but yet anger voice.
"What?" He said mocking my facial expression, and I just stuck my tongue out at him.
"Everyone, don't forget no study group this weekend...and have a fun weekend." Annie said as we all walked out the door besides Jeff because he was paying.
"I'm going to walk Shirley and Britta to her car..." Abed said as I stood up on the sidewalk while Troy and Annie went to his car, I'm assuming they live nearby each other or she was on the way and Pierce went to his own car. Jeff walked up behind me sliding stuff in his pocket and stopped beside me.
"I'm parked next to you..." Jeff said as I finally turned to look at him, he was looking straight ahead.
"Okay..." I said rolling my eyes.
"You didn't have to wait for me to walk to your car."
"Don't flatter yourself, Abed told me to wait for him here." I said crossing my arms as I stepped off the curb walking towards the our cars.
"Glad you came with us to Denny's."
"Why's that?" I asked.
"From the person that didn't want anything to deal with us or me when I first moved you, you seemed pretty calm in there."
"That can be my acting side, I can be a good actor."
"I don't think that was your acting side, that smile was genuine, I could tell when it's a genuine smile..."
"How?" I asked curiously when Abed walked up behind me wrapping his arms around my waist.
"That smile right there is genuine." Jeff said pointing at me before he walked off.
"He's a weird man..." I said softly.
"Your weird!" Jeff shouted back getting us to laugh.
"Ready to go?" Abed asked.
"Yeah..." I said as he kissed my cheek before he walked around the car as I dug through my purse pulling out my keys unlocking the doors and pulled the door open.
