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Chapter 10: Riley Can Do the Robot

Jennifer woke up in an odd position. She was still sitting up, her legs curled under her, and the remote still in her hand. She groaned, and stretched her sore muscles.

"I should have put the big television in my room." Jennifer sighed. Her thoughts flipped back to the previous night and she remembered the movie. Who should I take now?

There was this one nice guy at work who she wouldn't mind spending time with, but she had no clue how to ask him. Would it be a date? Did she want it to be a date? What about Riley?

She shook her head tiredly. Riley has a girlfriend, so why am I still thinking about him like this? She got ready for work, her thoughts focused safely on what she had to do that day. She decided to just ask James if he wanted to go with her. Maybe if she went out with someone else she could stop obsessing over him. Or at least that's what she hoped.

-----------(Riley's Morning)-----------

"My head." Riley groaned, his hand reaching out to the nightstand automatically to get his glasses. For some reason he couldn't find them. His eyes sprang open, and he groaned again. The light coming in from the window caused his head to twinge painfully. He found his glasses on the floor, luckily they weren't broken. One glance around the room and he knew something was wrong. Clothes that were definitely not his littered the floor. He stood to find his pants right at the side of the bed. He pulled them on quickly, trying to remember what happened the night before.

Ok, so I was writing my book… and then Marie came over. We drank and I remember kissing her but… oh no. We didn't. Did we? I would remember something like that…. Right?

Marie walked into his room in his t-shirt. His eyes widened and he suddenly felt nauseous. He sat back down "Mornin' babe." She said, leaning over and kissing him softly on the cheek. "I brought all the essentials for getting over a hangover." She smiled at him and he just gawked.

"What's wrong?" Marie asked, tilting her head to the side in confusion.

"Why are you wearing my shirt?" Riley asked the first thing that popped into his mind.

"I wanted something comfortable to wear, don't you think it looks nice?" She asks flirtatiously. Riley blushes violently.

"It's not that." He stutters out. She hands him two Tylenol and a glass of water. He swallows them quickly, glad for the chance to think up something to say. Unfortunately, it didn't take up nearly enough time. And he still had no idea what he should say at this point.

Just come out and say it Riley. He goaded himself. "Did we…." Riley points at her and then at himself, trying to explain himself without having to say the words. He fails, and scratches his head in embarrassment.

"If you mean slept together, than yes. Don't you remember?" She pouted before sighing. "I thought I was pretty good."

Riley shook his head quickly and a new round of nausea swept over him. "How can I not remember?" He asked aloud.

"Maybe I can help you with that." Marie said seductively. She was suddenly in front of him, pulling him into a kiss and climbing on his lap.

"Wait." He pulls back, taking a few deep breaths to clear his mind. "We shouldn't be doing this."

"What?" Marie pulls back, her eyes suddenly filling with tears. "What was last night then? A mistake?"

"I…. I didn't mean…."

"Was I just a one night stand?" She looked angry and Riley suddenly felt horrible. He couldn't just ditch her after they slept together. If we slept together. Riley still didn't want to believe that it actually happened. He liked Jennifer, and he clearly remembered turning down Marie's first advances. What happened last night?

"Well?" She asked angrily, her hands on her hips. Riley realized he hadn't answered her yet.

"No, I meant that I usually like to date girls first." Usually? Right, like I ever had this problem before. "So what about breakfast?" He turned to look at the alarm clock on his bed and realized that it was already noon. "Make that lunch?"

She smiled and nodded, wiping the tears from her eyes. He sighed and didn't notice the smirk that marred her pretty features as she left his room.

-----------(Back with Jennifer)-----------

Her day had not been going well. She had spent the morning doing various menial tasks for her slave-driving boss. She hadn't been asked to get coffee since her first week at the job but her boss suddenly decided to treat her like an intern again. Apparently the month off had made her boss less than happy. And he no longer seemed to consider treasure-hunting a good enough excuse.

Her afternoon was spent trying to get up the courage to ask James to go to the movies with her. "I can't do this!" She eventually shouted out, louder than she meant to.

"Is there something wrong, Jennifer?" James asked sweetly. Jennifer blushed. Here's your time, go for it!

"Nope, I'm good." She forced a weak smile.

"You sure? You don't look so well." He reached out a hand to feel her forehead.

"I'm good, actually I wanted to ask you something. Are you busy Friday night?"

"This Friday?" After a nod from Jennifer, he shook his head. "Nope I think I'm free. What's going down?" He asked, an adorable smile gracing his face.

Jennifer giggled. "Well I got some free tickets to see an early showing of Spy Mail, and I was wondering if you'd like to accompany me."

"Are you kidding? Of course I'd love to go." He smiled back perfectly and even though she did like James, she couldn't help but think of him. Riley'ssmile was more quirky and adorable. It always made her feel all tingly and warm. She started smiling at the thought of it.

She shook her head and started planning with James.

The week went surprisingly fast for Jennifer. A few big assignments took her mind off of her boy troubles most of the time. And she even spoke to Ben. He had called under the guise of asking for advice and ended up quizzing her on her relationship with their nerdy colleague. It seemed Abigail convinced Ben to help in her goal to get Jennifer and Riley together.

Now that she knew the two were in cahoots, she decided to avoid talking about Riley with either friend. The decision proved difficult with the almost hourly e-mails Abigail sent, all trying to get Jennifer to call Riley 'one more time'. Jennifer didn't want to bother him though. If he had a girlfriend, who was she to interrupt? No matter how much she wanted to.

-----------(One Last Switch)------------

Riley throws himself onto his bed, utterly exhausted. It had been a long night.

He had spent the day typing up his last chapter when all of a sudden Marie called. She wanted him to go out on a date. He agreed and ended up going out to a club with her. He was honestly surprised he even got in. He supposed that with a girl that looked like Marie on his arm, they would let him in anywhere.

Unfortunately, she expected him to dance. And while he was pretty good at the robot, if he did say so himself, he wasn't quite up to speed at the whole club scene. He mostly just stood there awkwardly while Marie danced, if you could call it that. It was like fully clothed sex really. Riley made sure to stay away from liquor all together this time. She didn't.

He had climbed into a taxi with her to make sure she got home safely, when she spilled everything. She told him that they had slept together, but that was it. Just sleeping. She explained everything that happened that night. He walked her to her door and took the cab back to his place.

"Wow, I can't believe she did that to you man. She was psycho." The cab driver said to Riley after a few moments of silence. Of course, a complete stranger heard the whole thing. Riley was embarrassed. Even though he wasn't in love with Marie, he had to admit that it felt nice to be liked. Especially by someone as good looking as her. "But at least now you can be with the one you really like." The man looked back at him through the rearview mirror with a smile.

"How did you…"

"It's written all over your face." Riley smiled. Why am I feeling sad? This is terrific news! Now he was free to call Jennifer. Ben had explained how Jennifer had called him and how Marie must have answered it. Now he knew that Marie had just lied to Jennifer. And Riley needed to call her to clear the air. And to ask her out.

Riley wakes up the next morning, ready to call Jennifer. Before he remembers that she still works at her old job. One call to Ben and he knows her hours. She gets off of work at three on Friday's.

"OK, you can do this Riley." He says to pump himself up. It's 3:30 so she should be home. He gets off of the couch and grabs the phone.

"Hello?" Jennifer asks, clearly out of breath.

"Jennifer? It's Riley."

"Oh! Hey Riley." She didn't sound as happy to hear him as he hoped.

"You called a few days ago but I missed it and I was wondering if…" He was cut off by the sound of a doorbell through the phone. She just got off of work, who was visiting now?

"Sorry Riley, one second." She says hurriedly, before putting down the phone. He hears a clearly male voice in the background, although he can't be sure what the guy is saying. He hears her laughing, and he gets a bad feeling.

"Yeah, Riley? I called to ask you to this early showing of a movie I won tickets for but I didn't get you so I made other plans."

So good news, she called me first. Bad news, she had someone else to call second. Well, this sucks.

"So, I kinda have to go now." She says after a pause.

"Oh, yeah. Well, I'll talk to you later." Riley says dejectedly.

"Bye Riley."