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As Jake walked over to the house he put his hand to his throat to feel his pulse. Surely it wasn't possible to be beating THAT fast was it? If he had a heart attack right now he would have even more reason to Murder Kevin.
He found Cassy Kevin's assistant in the hallway. He grabbed her arm strongly. "Where is he?" Jake asked.
"Jake…Um…I think he's in the living room…they've kinda set it up as his office." Cassy said slightly shaken from Jake's behavior
Jake was off towards the living room of the large house before she finished. He found the heavy oak door that had a makeshift sign reading Kevin James on the door. He stormed through it to find Kevin and two of the assistant producers talking.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" "After EVERYTHING I've done for you…THIS is how you repay ME?" Jake yelled staring down Kevin.
Kevin looked at the two scared assistants calmly. "I think that will be all for now." He said shutting the notepad he had been writing on.
They two scurried out of the room as quickly as possible.
He walked over towards a wall that had a small bar in it. "Care for a drink…you know to take the edge off?" He asked still calm.
"DON'T you dare change the subject! How could YOU?"
Kevin sighed and put down the drink he had mixed his back still to Jake.
"I take it you either found out or met your new costar?"
"You rotten…..no good...WEASEL!" Jake yelled now pacing back and forth across the room.
"You….YOU….YOU did this on PURPOSE didn't you!" Jake asked now shaking his finger at Kevin now positively fuming.
"Of course I did this on purpose Jake!" Kevin said now raising his voice to match Jake's.
Jake was momentarily silent.
"I did this FOR YOU! You ungrateful jerk." Kevin said plopping down on the couch.
"ME? How on this EARTH is this supposed to be for ME?" Jake said standing across the coffee table looking down at Kevin.
"Because you NEED this! You needed to see her again Jake! You've been avoiding everything but work since I've met you!"
"I LIKE my work!" Jake yelled. "I don't need you to go meddling in my personal life just because you feel like it!" Jake said motioning wildly and pointing his fingers at his chest.
Kevin laughed. "WHAT personal life Jake?"
All the fight seemed to escape from Jake as he matched Kevin's stare. He deflated and sat on the chair next to the couch and put his head in his hands.
"Look Jake…." Kevin started sincerely. "We've been friends since you came to my high school. We roomed together in College. You were the best man at my wedding…and in ALL of that time I haven't seen you be even close to being serious with anyone."
"Kevin…Just because I haven't found anyone…." Jake started saying.
Kevin interrupted him. "No Jake. Don't pretend that I don't know what this is about. You might be able to spin that story to the press or your other friends… but not me. The problem is that you DID find someone….you may have been really young when it happened but you did find someone….you just… lost her."
"And since then you have turned yourself into a workaholic doing movie after movie and then going home to that enormous empty house every night. I KNOW you Jake. I KNOW you want more than that." He said sincerely handing Jake the drink that he had mixed earlier.
"I just couldn't let my best friend go on forever hiding himself away from people because he's afraid of getting his heart broken again."
Jake took the drink and looked at Kevin again saddened by the truth of what his best friend was saying.
"So…how long have you been planning this?" Jake asked the fight almost completely gone from him.
Kevin shrugged. "Honestly I didn't know that the reason that you weren't going out with anyone was still because of Miley until we saw that movie of hers last year. I saw the look on your face when you saw her on the screen and it was pretty obvious that you weren't over her…. It's been running around in my head since then."
Jake looked at Kevin with sad pleading eyes. "Why couldn't you just be like every other friend and just set me up on a series of ridiculous blind dates?"
"Well…. I considered it… but after I saw you that look on your face I knew it wouldn't do any good unless there was some sort of closure with Miley…..So….I sort of arranged it."
Jake gave a dark laugh. "You sure did…didn't you? I'm betting you're not going to let me quit this little movie version of the dating game either…are you?"
Now Kevin laughed. "Are you kidding me? I'm not stupid Jake…there is a clause in your contract giving you a substantial financial liability in case you decided to try and run. Plus you're perfect for this role."
Jake just shook his head sadly.
Kevin shrugged and smiled at Jake. "It's like you always say. If you're going to do something…do it well huh?"
Jake took the drink and gave him a death glare. "So…what exactly is your diabolical plan? Have me watch Miley and Mark be ridiculously happy for the next 6 months and be so miserable that I try and find a girlfriend?" Jake said with sarcasm.
Kevin sighed. "Jake….I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe you guys will spend some time together and realize there are still feelings there and try and work things out. Maybe…. Mark is the guy for her. I really don't know…I haven't even met the girl. The only thing I do know is that you hiding yourself from her and everyone else who might make you happy isn't working out for you. So…. either you're going to do something about it with Miley or…. realize that it's time to move on."
Jake looked over at Kevin. He knew he was right about all of it. He hadn't moved on. He had never wanted to move on. He had only wanted to love Miley for the rest of his life. He was just too afraid of getting his heart broken again to try. He put his head in his hands.
Jake sighed. "Do you think I can sue you for entrapment?" Jake asked only half joking with his head still in his hands.
Kevin looked over at his friend and smiled. " Sure….but that means I get to show Miley the video's of you drunk in college singing those Hannah Montana songs into your hairbrush."
Jake looked up with horror in his eyes. "You swore that you burned those."
Kevin smiled and got up to pat his friend on the back. "I'm only doing all this because I love you…you know that right?"
Jake gave Kevin a half hearted death glare. "How about a divorce? I want custody of the courtside Laker tickets that we have back home." Jake said still half way serious.
Kevin smiled again. "You WILL thank me!" He yelled as he walked towards the door leaving Jake slouched back against the chair, looking up at the ceiling.
Before leaving he turned around putting his hands on the door frame. "Oh and by the way Jenna wants you to come over for dinner tomorrow. You in?"
Jake sighed heavily and put his hands on his forehead. "I don't have much of a choice do I…The way you're going if I say no you might just have someone come and kidnap me and bring me anyway."
Kevin smirked. "Nice to see you're catching on. See you at dinner tomorrow."
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