Lily looked over her shoulder to see Bug pulling out of the parking lot. She took the last few steps and got in Jordan's car. As soon as she sat down, Jordan looked at her with a very big smile.
"I wasn't sure if you were going to change your mind and go home with Bug instead" Jordan laughed, "You two looked like you were enjoying yourselves" Lily swatted her on the arm.
"Yeah, you could tell?" She giggled. She still could not believe what had happened.
"Oh, just slightly" Jordan joked, "Was it at all awkward kissing Bug?" Jordan asked Lily with mock seriousness. But, in a way, she was a bit serious. Bug and Lily had had feelings for each other for quite a while now, but they were close friends, and colleges. It was true that her and Woody had sort of been colleges, but not as directly as Lily and Bug had been. They were also moving at a faster pace than Jordan and Woody ever had. Jordan smiled at the though of kissing Woody like that the first day he had told her he loved her. She didn't know how she would have felt then.
"No" Lily laughed back in response. "Oh Jordan, it's so great to finally be with someone that loves me back, even if it's only been a few hours."
"I'm so happy for you Lily!" Jordan told her friend, as she pulled out of the garage. Then Jordan burst out laughing.
"What?" Lily asked, she had no idea what Jordan was laughing at, but she was pretty sure it was something to do with her.
"Oh, nothing. It's just… Detective Seely! The next time he's in the morgue, he'll start to hit on you the way he always does, only Bug will be more jealous than usual."
"Jordan! That's not a very nice thing to say." Lily told her with a smile and a swat to the arm before she, herself started laughing. There was a time within the last few weeks where she had thought she was in love with Matt Seely, and maybe she had been. But, his conceded attitude was too much for anyone to handle. Even her. There had been times where Seely had shown a side of him that wasn't self centered and obnoxious, but he didn't show it enough. Lily did believe there was a sweet guy in there, but she obviously wasn't in love with him enough to stick around and wait for it to come out. Bug was a sweet guy, all the time. Lily really did love him, and it did feel good to laugh off Seely, she had to admit.
"Speaking of Bug…" Jordan smiled, hinting she wanted to hear about their confessions of love, and the kiss, of course.
"Oh, Jordan, he's amazing! He came into my office all shy and smiley, and I knew something was up. You must have talked to him. He pulled the chair over until it was right beside my chair, and he told me he loved me." Lily said with a faraway smile on her face.
"Wow! Way to go Bug!" She laughed, not expecting her friend to make such an out of character move.
"Yeah. And then he looked straight at me, deep into my eyes, and he kissed me." Lily smiled, remembering the kiss.
"Gee, I wonder what got into him." Jordan laughed, "Then what did you do?"
"Well… I kissed him back, of course." Lily told her, "We kissed for what seemed like forever, and then I realized that Slokum could have walked in at any moment, and what do you think he would have done then?" Jordan shook her head and Lily continued. "I told him I loved him too, and we started talking, about nothing in particular. We were just staring into each others eyes, and talking. He offered to take me to the coffee shop that we ended up going to, and that's when you and Jake walked in. That brings me to my question for you. Jake." Lily told Jordan in about one breath.
"Yeah, I feel bad for interrupting your plans, but that brings me to the answer to your question, which wasn't really a question." Jordan told her, "I was getting ready to go when Jake came to my office. He asked me if I was doing anything, and I didn't have the heart to say no when I looked at him, so I told him that I wasn't, and he asked me if I wanted to go get something to eat. Not wanting to sabotage any chance I had with Woody now, thanks to you," She added giving Lily a grateful smile, "Then I said I thought you two were going out for something, trying to make it seem casual enough. He agreed, reluctantly I may add, and that's when we went to your office. Then, we headed out, and on the street…" Jordan broke off with a small smile, "We were walking down the street and I asked him how Boston was, and he said something like: Oh, it's great, so much fun. And at that same moment, he tried to hold hands with me." Lily half gasped and half laughed, which ended up sounding pretty funny. For any normal person, on a normal dinner acquaintance, it wouldn't have been a big deal. But, this was Jordan, and Jordan was no normal person, and the circumstances with Woody, and her just meeting Jake and him not knowing anything about her past, it made it a bit of a deal. Before asking any more questions, Lily just waited for Jordan to continue. "Then, I pulled my hand away, and told him I sort of had a boyfriend" She said with a laugh. Lily smiled too. It sounded funny for Jordan to refer to Woody as her boyfriend, but she figured it would sound just as funny with her and Bug for a while. "Then, he proceeded to tell he that he had heard things around the office about me and Woody. Apparently, we've been going out for the last four years, and when he was shot we broke up." Jordan said. She knew this shouldn't get to her as it was, but she felt tears coming to her eyes. "How could people think that about me Lily? How can people think that I had been with Woody for four years, four years dammit, and then leave him because he got shot? What kind of person does that?" Jordan asked, tears streaming down her cheeks. Lily patted her friend on the back as she pulled into a parking spot in front of Lily's place.
"Why don't you come up, and we'll talk for a while?" Lily suggested. In the state Jordan was in now, she didn't want her driving. Lily knew it was a paranoid thought, but she had a feeling something would happen to Jordan if she let her drive home by herself from here. So, she had to convince her to come upstairs with her, for a little while anyway.
"No, I'm okay Lily. Really…" Jordan protested, but Lily had a persistent look on her face, so Jordan just got out of the car. "Lily?" She asked as the two started towards the building.
"Yeah Jordan?" Lily replied softly.
"Thanks for being such a great friend." Jordan told her, and Lily smiled.
"You too." She replied, in the same soft voice. By the time Jordan left Lily's apartment, it was the early hours of the morning, but Jordan felt much better. She hugged her friend goodbye, and headed home to get a few hours sleep before going to see Woody at the hospital.
