"You know this and that. Keeping afloat. Still waiting tables." Maria answered keeping questions inexistent.
"I am now Phillip's partner at the firm." Jesse said out loud, keeping the conversion away from Maria.
Isabel smiled and grabbed Jesse's neck. " I knew that someday you would make partner at a firm, but why did you not go to Boston and start with that job?" she asked.
"One because if you ever came back I wanted to be here when you did and two because I was needed here." Jesse casting a look over to Maria, who smiled at his grace.
"Thanks for taking care of her I mean them," Michael told him.
"Yeah thanks," the rest of them repeated.
Maria narrowed her eyes, and started to open her mouth and lash out, her temper rising because of the nerve of Michael, when a ringing started.
Everyone looked around looking for the source, which was coming from Maria, who was not paying attention and staring at Michael.
"Maria, that is your phone," Liz told her. "Can you turn it off?"
Maria jumped at the voice directed at her and reached for her phone. Jesse became tense.
