Author´s Note: Sorry about the annoying E thingys, I think the spell check I used did that. Please read and review and be honest. ¨A kiss on the hand my be quite continetnal, but REVIEWS are a girl?s best friend!¨


Ch. 2: My Two Favorite People


A small burst of energy bolts through the door and envelopes Andrea and Rodney in one huge group hug.


¨I am so glad the two of you met. It was supposed to be a suprise but o well. I am just thrilled that I have my two favorite people in the same room.¨


Andrea and Rodney send perplexed looks over this munchin?s head. Andrea, again, spoke first,


¨Mar, what in god´s good name are you talking about?¨


Rodney relaxed a bit; apperently his best friend, Mar, knew this goddess, Andrea.


Mar puffs an exasperated breath and then began to explain the odd and confusing situtaion,


¨Andrea, this is Rodney, my best friend from college, who just came back to New York after spending a year in Africa with the Peace Corps. Rodney, this is Andrea, who I met just after you left to play with the lions. She moved here from the middle of nowhere and works as a reseacher at your girlfriend dad?s copmany. Enough with the plesentries, lets go ea...¨


Interupting, Rodney glared at Mar and growled,


Ex-girlfriend, we broke up before I left last year, I moved out of her place, I have my own apartment now, we?re not a couple anymore


Mar shruged and said,


¨Sorry, buddy, I didn´t know, and you better check that story with Alexis cause she doesn´t know either...well moving on, lets go eat!¨


Andrea, still trying to get a hold of the situtaion, followed Mar out of the museum, to a local cafe. She contiued to stare at Rodney, feeling like she has met him before, but not sure where. She figures it must have been at a work function, him with his ¨ex¨ girlfriend Alexis Pharol, daughter of the CEO of Pharol Pharmasuticals, were Alexis works as a reseacher. She was barley suprised that this smooth opporator, Rodney, went out with Alexis. And if she had to put money on it, she would bet that he would end up back with her very soon. Alexis was not just a beautiful girl, she also was the heiress to the largest fortune in New York City, and she wasn?t used to hearing ?no? either. Very few men could say no that much money and that much power, even if it came with a ditzy accesory. But Rodney is trying. Despite herself, she is sligtly impressed.


Rodey and Mar were deep in conversation, discussing Rodney?s adventures in Africa, what Alexis had been saying while Rodney was away, and also, very quietly and descritly, Rodney was wispering questions about Andrea to Mar. Andrea seemed to be deep and thought and was not paying attention to the conversation, so Rodney felt it safe to inquire,


¨Is she seeing anyone?¨


¨Well right now she seems to be ¨seeing¨ you. She can?t take her eyes off you. I?ve never seen her like this before.¨


Rodney beems at this information. Its not that he wasn?t used to women ogling at him, but not women this special. He knew he had to make a move for her before she lost intrest in him, a fear that hung heavy on his mind. Slowing his stride down a bit, he allows Andrea to catch up to him. Bringing her out of the dream world she was in, he asked,


¨Later on, after Mar is done with this family reuinion thing, I would love to hear some of more about your ideas.¨