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Life Goes On

Chapter 37

March 5th 2007, Monday, afternoon

Logan showed up at Spinelli's place unannounced, like usual, to try and buddy up with him. He was surprised when Jason Morgan opened the door instead of The Jackal.

Jason stared at him with suspicion. "What are you doing here?"

"Didn't expect to see you again. You live here?"

"You expect me to believe that you don't know that? Then why are you here? Are you going door to door selling girl scout cookies?"

"Funny."

Jason glared at him. "Don't come back here." He went to close the door.

"Hold up! I ain't here to see you. After our run in on the docks I didn't expect to ever see you again. I'm here to hang out with Spinelli."

"You know Spinelli?"

"Sure. We're pretty chill."

"For how long?"

"Well I ain't been in town but a minute but he's tight with my girlfriend, Georgie."

Jason looked suspicious still but he let Logan in and called Spinelli down. Spinelli vouched for Logan and Jason let him stay but Jason still looked at Logan like he was highly suspect.

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Serena loved her best friend Maxie. They had known each other their entire lives because their mother's are best friends. So there is nothing Serena would not do for Maxie.

Still she wasn't thrilled to be doing this particular favor today.

Serena got out of her car, which she parked around the corner like Johnny had told her to do, walked down the street, spotted the old beat up blue Ford two door that he told her he would be in (a piece of junk compared to the muscle car he had at the drag race the night they met). She walked over and climbed into the passenger seat, handing him a cup of coffee after she got in.

"Thanks, babe," he said, giving her a big grin.

"What are you doing out here?"

"This is a stake out. I gotta watch that house over there and when the guy who lives there gets home I gotta serve him with some papers."

"Sounds like it could be dangerous."

"Not really. Its actually pretty boring." He sipped his coffee. "So what makes me so lucky today to have you wanna meet up? I almost thought I was imagining things when I read your text saying you had to see me right away."

"I really need a favor and you can't say no."

"Okay. Yes."

She smiled.

He said "Look there it is again. Took a while but I got a real smile out of you. And it just cost me one unnamed favor. So go ahead and name it so I know the tab."

"A party at your penthouse Saturday."

"Well, that don't sound like too high of a price at all. Definitely doable."

"Really?"

"Yeah. If it means you're gonna give me another chance."

Her smile faded. "I said I needed a favor. There's no quid pro quo involved in this."

"I can tell your Dad's a lawyer by the way you talk. That's what I grew up hearing too. Trevor practically raised me after my mother died."

"The family lawyer, right?"

"You got a good memory."

They had spent hours talking last fall back when they first met and fell for each other. Hours over the phone until late into the night.

"Yeah, I got a real good memory," she spat out, feeling another wave of hurt that he had stopped calling her after they had sex several times over a few weeks. Just when she was sure she was starting to get over that the pain would come back again and slap her in the face.

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Logan and Spinelli walked into Kelly's diner to find Maxie at the counter talking to Cooper.

Spinelli raised an eyebrow at the pair. They looked awful cozy.

He felt jealousy, hot and vicious, spike through his veins. Maxie hadn't called him yet today, like she was supposed to do before five pm, and it was nearly the deadline now. She was probably paying him back for not calling her last night cause he was being hacking- with Winnifred, not that she knew the Priestess had been there.

"Princess Maximista," he said, coldly.

She startled and turned to look at him. "Finally pulled yourself away from your computer, huh?"

"Some of us do have to earn a living, you know."

"I work too! The hotel is going to re-open in a couple weeks and I'll be very busy again. My job is just as important as yours."

"Yet you show no respect for the Jackal's work."

"I just hate that you blew me off for work. Aren't I more interesting than work? You could at least pretend to be miserable about having to cancel our date for work but instead you were all jumping to run and do Jason's bidding."

"Very untrue. You distracted me completely from the way I normally behave when my master calls."

"Hmpf. That's not how I remember it at all."

"Perhaps you should see a doctor about the difficulties you are having with your memory then." Spinelli turned his attention to Cooper next. "And perhaps you should be made aware that when feeling emotionally rejected Maxie is liable to proposition any man who is within arm's reach."

"Whoa," Logan said. "Hey, man, that's going a little far, don't you think?"

Cooper said "She didn't hit on me, if that's what you think went down. And I don't appreciate being put in the middle of drama. If you two have issues leave me out of the mix."

Just then Winnie came walking in. "Greetings, fine friends!"

Maxie was hurt and mad so she lashed out. "There's your cyber slut crush, Spinelli! Maybe she'll get you off tonight cause it won't be me who does. I may hit on whoever is within reach but I just found some standards and guess what? You're below them!" She then moved closer to Winnie. "And you, I know you want him and I know you were trying to steal him from me. You weren't fooling anyone, you freaky, wanna be hot but look like you're playing dress up, little whore!"

Winnie's eyes welled with tears.

Cooper got up and yelled at Maxie "That's it! Shut your mouth right now!"

Spinelli told Cooper "Do not raise your voice to her! I will not stand for it!"

Georgie ran out of the kitchen. "What's going on here?"

Logan grabbed Maxie's arm and forced her out of the diner. "This is done. Lets go."

Outside Maxie jerked away from Logan. "Leave me alone!"

"Calm down. Its was just a lover's spat."

"I hate him! I gave him the best sex of his life and he doesn't even like me as much as I like him. All he likes is the sex!"

"I doubt that's true. He was just jealous over you. If you were just a piece of ass to him he wouldn't care if you were up on other guys. What was up with that anyway? You were flirting with Coop. It was plain as day."

"I'm a friendly person!"

"Yeah, I remember the Catacombs. You were friendly to me, Coop, and about twenty other guys. Just cause some man hurts you don't let him turn you into a skank cause that ain't paying him back. Sure you feel good for a minute. You get revenge and you get attention. But the next day what do you feel like? Garbage. I've been there. I got my own issues with acting out when I'm burning up with hurt and anger. It don't get a person too far. Don't fall in that trap."

"All I wanna do is go back in there and make up with Spinelli but I want him too much. He can hurt me too much. He's too important to me. I gotta let him go." With that said Maxie walked off.

Logan watched her leave as he shook his head at her crazy logic.