Tony had gotten used to seeing Kate all dressed up, Abby too, since they often had a girls night out. Tonight was going to be another one of those nights. He saw Kate first and she looked beautiful, as usual. What he saw next made him almost drop dead. It was his sister! She was all dressed up too.
"Whoa! What the hell is going on here? She's not going with you!" Tony gaped at his sister, then at Kate, and back to his sister.
"Tony, calm down, she's almost 20, she can come with me and Abby if she wants. She's not going to drink so calm down." Kate said as she ruffled through the papers on her desk to find her keys. "Here they are, ok, lets go."
"Wait! No! I'm not letting her go out looking like that!" Tony yelled across the room, stopping Kate and Amy in their tracks. Amy swung around and yelled back at him.
"Tony, you're not dad, you can't tell me what to do!"
"She'll be fine; me and Abby won't let her out of our sights." Kate reassured him.
Tony looked Kate in the eyes; she definitely meant what she said. Over the last few months Kate and Amy had become good friends, she wouldn't let anything happen to her.
"Ok, tell me what club you guys are going to, and I'll meet you there."
"Tony, no, I don't need a chaperone!" Amy whined.
"That's my offer, take it or leave it. Either I go with you, or you don't." Amy knew Tony was serious. She looked over at Kate. Kate just sighed.
"We're going to the Blue Starfish." She hoped he wouldn't remember them doing a sting there a few months ago, and he didn't. She gave him directions to the club.
"Ok, I'll be there in a half hour." He got his keys and walked to the elevator with them. "Stay out of trouble til I get the, ok?"
Amy just sighed. "You treat me like such a child Tony."
"To me, you still are a child." He walked to his car and drove off to go back to his apartment to change.
Exactly a half hour later he met them in the club. He saw Amy immediately; luckily she was dancing with Kate and Abby. His attention wasn't on his sister after he noticed Kate. He couldn't take his eyes off of her; she looked so sexy dancing there. Snap out of it Tony, he thought, she doesn't want you and she never will. Just then Kate saw him and waved for him to come over.
"I need some water" Amy said just as Tony got over to them, she motioned for Abby to follow her.
"Oh, me too" Abby said walking off with Amy.
"Ok, so I guess that just leaves us." Tony said nervously "Kate, you look beautiful tonight."
"Thank you Tony. You look pretty good yourself." C'mon Kate, just say it, tell him how you feel and you can get this all over with, she thought.
After a few awkward moments of standing there they decided to go find Amy and Abby.
"I trust her less with Abby than I do alone." Tony said breaking the silence.
"Yeah, same here, who knows what kind of trouble she can get your sister into."
Amy and Abby had gotten water from the bar and had sat down at one of the booths near the dance floor. They watched Tony and Kate just stand there on the dance floor.
"Are they always like this?" Amy asked.
"What, blowing perfectly good chances to tell each other their feelings, wasting anytime they have together outside the office? Yes, they are always like that." Abby replied, frustrated at them.
"You'd figure after he almost died that they would cut to the chase and kiss each other." Amy laughed.
They looked up and saw Kate and Tony walking towards them.
"Hello, having fun out there?" Amy asked, barely holding back laughter.
She looked at Abby, who started laughing too.
Kate and Tony looked at each other completely confused. What was so funny?
"Um, ok, are you sure there's nothing in that water." Tony said, grabbing a bottle and taking a sip.
"Hey, that's mine, go get your own." Amy grabbed it back from him. "And anyway, this is not what I'm like when I'm drunk."
"Ok, I don't wanna know about it." He said.
"Tony, unlike you don't go around work all day talking about what you did with your frat brothers and all your spring break trips. I'm sure you did your share of underage drinking." Kate said mockingly.
"I'm gonna go get a water, want one Kate?" Tony said as he got up, not wanting to be part of this conversation any more.
"Sure Tony thanks."
The three girls broke out in laughter after he walked away. Score one for us, thought Kate.
The three of them spent most of the night dancing while Tony sat at their booth and watched. He was thinking of Kate the whole time, how beautiful she looked on the dance floor and how sexy she looked when she danced.