I know I haven't updated this since I first posted and I'm sorry! But hope this little chapter makes up for it.

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Giving Peter a dazzling smile, Mary Jane got up and gave him a hug. Not for the first time, Peter thought that she just felt right in his arms.

"I was wondering what was keeping you," M.J. looked at him with concern.

"Yeah, there was-"

"A disturbance?" Mary Jane asked softly, giving him a knowing smile.

Feeling his face go a bit red from that worn-out excuse, Peter chuckled and simply said, "Something like that. But everything is fine now."

They sat down so they could look at their menus. They only got to glimpse at them when they were interrupted.

"Excuse me," said the guy from other table, he now had come over to theirs. "I know I've met you somewhere," he said to M.J. He completely ignored Peter.

Mary Jane didn't say anything for a minute, seeming to think about where she knew him as well. Finally, she must have remembered. "You're Johnny, and you're in the NASA program, right?"

Grinning, the man nodded. "Yep, Johnny Storm. But I'm afraid I don't remember your name, miss. I know I would remember a pretty face, especially with that red hair of yours."

"Thanks," M.J. gave him a smile, but Peter could tell it was more like the ones she had smiled when she was in high school, not the genuine ones that she gave to him. She continued by saying, "I'm Mary Jane Watson, and this is my fiancé, Peter Parker."

Turning to Peter, Johnny sized him up. "So this is the mystery man that no one knows about?" He asked. Johnny had to be referring about all of the Bugle's rival newspapers that had a field day when Mary Jane left John Jameson at the alter. "It's nice to meet you," Johnny smiled and held out his hand.

Peter didn't like Johnny's cocky smile. The guy seemed too sure of himself. Not to add that he must think he was God's gift to women. Peter didn't like him one bit.

"Hi," Peter shook Johnny's hand with a forced smile. He decided to ignore Johnny's question about M.J.'s 'mystery man'. Peter only thought, Let him think what he wants.

To make matters worse, Johnny took a seat at the table. He plans on staying? Peter asked himself.

He noticed the woman from the other table come up to them. "Johnny, Ben is here and I was hoping we could say hello to him," she stated putting her hand on his arm.

Johnny wasn't going hear any of it. He looked at Mary Jane again. "This is my sister, Susan, or just call her Susie."

Sue smiled at them, but didn't release her hold on her brother. "It was nice to meet you both. Johnny, come on," she said, politely, but Peter could tell there was a under tone for the younger sibling to obey the older.

Peter guessed that Johnny must have known that as well. Getting up, he unwillingly left with his sister. But before that, he turned back around and said with an enticing grin to Mary Jane, "I'll see you around."

"I was wondering if he was going to stay through dinner," Peter said once they where out of ear shot. He didn't try to hide his displeasure on that.

Mary Jane laughed at that. "I had thought that myself."

Peter knew that M.J. had known Johnny from some time before… Had she met him when she had been seeing J.J.'s son? It didn't really matter did it? But regardless, Peter knew that Johnny Storm was nothing but a flirt where a pretty face was concerned.

"Peter, I can see you want to know how I know Johnny, right?"

Looking a bit sheepish, he said, "I was curious, but it isn't important."

Mary Jane raised an eyebrow, she wasn't buying it. "It's not?" Not waiting for him to answer her, she continued, "You already know that Johnny was in the NASA program. I met him a few weeks after The Importance of Being Earnest started."

Some months before…

"I'm dying for a drink, and I need to sit for a minute." Mary Jane told the man she had just danced with.

"Could I join you?" the guy, Kyle asked. Was that his name? M.J. wondered, she couldn't remember.

"No, that's alright. I need a breather. But you'll save me an another dance right?" M.J. asked, giving Kyle one of her actress smiles.

"You bet, baby." Kyle grinned back; he left Mary Jane unwillingly. But she was relieved, never less to get a break.

Going to the booth that had her and her friends drinks, M.J. sat down and let out a slow breath. Tonight had been fun, but she was getting tired. But her friends didn't look like they wanted to leave any time soon, as Mary Jane looked for them on the club's dance floor.

And why not? This was their second week running The Importance of Being Earnest. They wanted to celebrate. The play which was only suppose to run for two weeks was going to run for another month.

Mary Jane couldn't be more happier. It looked like her acting career was taking off with superlative success. Everyone she knew seemed to be coming to see her, her friends and family.

"You're going light up Broadway."

But there was that one person that seemed to keep invading her thoughts. Peter.

That reminded her of the phone call she had gotten from his aunt just today. She had promised Mary Jane that she would see the play sometime this week. But that hadn't been the complete reason. Aunt May had asked if she would like to help her throw a surprise party for Peter's birthday that was in another two weeks.

And as much as Mary Jane wanted to, she said yes instead of no. Oh, Peter was her best friend, but she hadn't seen him in… Well, in a long time.

I have to call Harry too about Peter's birthday. After all they were roommates at one time. But friends? Mary Jane knew from what Harry had said that Peter hadn't kept in touch with him just as he hadn't been in touch with her.

"Mary Jane?"

M.J. was jilted out of her thoughts by a familiar voice.

Turning she saw her boyfriend, John Jameson. With him was a guy about her age.

"John." Mary Jane smiled at her boyfriend. She moved over to make room for him and his friend.

"Hi, hon, it's a surprise to see you here." John touched her cheek and leaned in for a kiss. M.J. kissed him back, but she didn't let him linger.

Must be because he brought a friend. But I didn't know I was going to be here after the play… how could it be that we both ended up at the same club? But Mary Jane didn't worry too much about these questions running through her mind.

"Who is your friend?" Mary Jane asked as she looked at the other man sitting on the other side of John.

"This is Johnny Storm, he's in the same NASA same program as I am."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Mary Jane offered her hand for Johnny to shake.

"The pleasure is all mine. John talks about you endlessly," Johnny said as he grinned at her. He gave her a once-over. "And I can see why."

Notes: Sorry again that this is was late in coming, and also with another cliffy. Also, I want to thank htbthomas for bringing John J. in, I hadn't planned to have him in the fic, but it does make things…interesting.

Thanks for reading, please review. Jenn