It was a Friday night and Daphne and Jessica were in the living room. It was Jessica's fist weekend off since starting at the coffee shop and the girls were having take out and movies. Jessica was already in a pair of loose bottoms and a baggy t-shirt and had secured her place on the sofa. Keeping a eye on the clock she was glad when she heard the door finally open.

"Finally! I thought you were never coming home."

"Sorry, the office was busy annnnd your boyfriend stopped me in the hall." Daphne placed her briefcase down and then took her hair clip out. Shaking her hair loose she ran her fingers through her hair and shook it up. "Ah, that's better." Sitting on the arm of the sofa she pulled off of her shoes and flung them in a corner. "Not going to ask what your boyfriend wanted?"

Rolling her eyes she turned back to the telly. "No, because he's not my boyfriend. Can we just order?"

"Funny, I'm sure just the other week I came home and found you naked with him here. Granted there were others, it was like some kind of orgy." Daphne smirked at her and swung her legs up over the arm and slid into her seat.

"It was not a orgy and please can you just drop it? That was the worse day of my life, yet you keep bringing it up."

"He wanted to know if you were ok."

"I don't care."

"And that he hoped you weren't feeling too bad after what happened."

Standing up Jessica made her way to the phone and picked it up. Waving the phone at her cousin she headed towards the kitchen. "I'm going to order our usual and you're going to change the subject." Entering the kitchen Jessica opened the draw that had the take out leaflets and searched for the Chinese one.

"You should invite him in."

"You don't like him."

"I think he looks weird, I never said I didn't like him."

"You've constantly told me not to go near him."

"Well that was when I thought you had a chance with the rest of the male population. But he looks desperate and you definitely are."

"Ignoring you." Jessica placed their order and was glad to see Daphne had left the kitchen. Heading back to the living room Jessica curled up on the sofa and waited for her cousin to return hopefully with a change of subject. Daphne returned showered and changed along with a bottle of wine and two glasses.

"Seriously, why have you gone off of him? Has something happened?"

"Oh Daph do we have to do this?" Taking a glass Jessica held it out so that Daphne could fill it for her. Taking a sip she murmured her pleasure at Daphne's choice.

"Yes. I just want to make sure everything's ok. You went from wanting to get it on with him to acting like he has some contagious disease."

"How would you act if the guy you liked saw you freak out over a spider. Naked? Not just him, everyone he works with. How can I even consider trying to 'get it on' with him when every time I met his friends they'd be thinking of that."

"What did grandpa used to say? Roll with the punches? Look if you like him and he likes you then you should try. If he likes you he'll tell them to not mention it, and if they respect him as a friend they wouldn't need telling."

"But they'll be thinking it." Draining her glass she held it out for a top up.

"Look, I'm away from Monday to Thursday, invite him in one day. If when I get back it didn't work out or you haven't we'll hit the town and get you laid."

"I don't want to get laid, well not by some random guy."

"Then get laid by the weirdo next door."

"He's not a weirdo." The door went and Jessica got up to get their order. "He's a really sweet guy, and a gentleman and-" Opening the door she found him standing on the doorstep holding their take out. "Oh…" Jessica stared at him in surprise.

"Knocked on the wrong door. I paid for you. Now you owe me." Taking her food from him she noticed the person standing in his doorway. She blushed bright red when she recognised him as Morgan, Looking at Spencer she opened her mouth a few times and felt Daphne come up behind and steer her back into the living room.

"She's on her own from Monday til Thursday so she'll buy you dinner." There was a pause and Jessica stood there horrified, from where she stood she could see that Daphne was leaning out the doorway and talking to the man called Morgan. "Tell me about it! At least if there's shoving both ends I won't need to stick a rocket up her backside." Daphne closed the door and turned to face her. "Oh don't look at me like that. If that guy hadn't pushed your little weirdo to pay you wouldn't have a date."

"What-In- Ah! How could you think I want you to set up a date like that? You've made me look stupid!" storming into the kitchen Jessica dumped the food on the side. "You've ruined my life. Tonight was meant to be a nice evening and you've ruined it. I have to sit here with him knowing he's only here because he's been forced."

"Oh please, I hardly doubt his friend had to force him to pay via gunpoint. What else has he got to do? Oh yeah probably the same as you. Sitting in front of the computer."

"He doesn't own a computer. He likes watching Star Trek and Dr Who-"

"And you think he wouldn't want a date? Jeeze all nerds want to do when they grow up is be able to get off with a girl while a Star Trek rerun is on in the background. C'mon, a Star Trek DVD, a female, that's like a porno to his kind. You're so getting laid."

Laying as still as she could Jessica pressed the pillow further onto her face, why was it not finishing her off? She screamed into it and kicked her legs against the bed like a child would if having a tantrum. Why was the ground not opening up and swallowing her? Sitting up she threw the pillow across the room and wiped the tears away. Getting up she stared at her reflection in her dressers mirror. She looked rough, like she had not ventured out of the apartment for two days. On the side her phone buzzed, a quick glance showed Daphne's face on the caller ID.

Flipping the phone over Jessica hurried out of the room and stared at the mess in the living room. Empty take out cartons lay on the coffee table. The rental DVD lay open and empty in front of the TV, which was still on but with the blank screen that meant the DVD had finished. Also on the coffee table was a empty bottle of wine, with two glasses; one almost full the other empty. Putting her head in her hands Jessica sank down onto the sofa, this could not be happening. The house phone rang again but she ignored it, it would only be Daphne again.

She knew she should clear up but she was beat, there was not a single ounce of energy left in her. She heard a key in the lock and glanced up as the door flew open and Daphne rushed in shouting her name.

"Oh thank goodness! I popped by your work and they told me you called in sick and then you didn't answer! What's wrong?" Daphne glanced at the room and dropped her things. "What did he do? I'll string that creep up!"

"He didn't do anything!" Jessica sighed. She should of tidied up and then she could of avoided this. "Apart from break the sound barrier as he fled." Daphne sat down besides her slowly and brushed her hair out of her face.

"What happened?" Jessica looked at her cousin, the worry was written all over her face.

"Don't worry, nothing criminal, just disastrous."

"Ah. Bad date?"

"Worst ever."

"You didn't order the Indian from the place that posts the leaflets through the lobby door did you? I told you to avoid that place."

"The food was fine, he ordered it from his favourite Indian."

"Did you get the right Star Trek film?" Biting the inside of her cheek Jessica stood up and glared at her cousin. "I knew it, I knew you'd just make fun of me! The film was fine!" Storming past Daphne she was stopped in her tracks when her cousin grabbed her arm.

"Oh Jess, I'm sorry. It's just. You've had a bad date, if you don't laugh about it, all you have left is to cry. What's the point of crying over something that's already happened?" Daphne patted the seat Jessica had just left. "Come on."

Sitting back down Jessica sighed. "It was fine until I finished the wine." She watched as Daphne leant forward and picked up the empty bottle.

"Would you have by any chance started the wine?" Jessica nodded and gestured towards the glasses. "And would that almost full glass be our little weirdo's by any chance?"

"Minus a sip or two."

"So…you drank all the wine apart from what's in that glass?"

"Yes. He was talking away and I was drinking."

"Makes a change, normally you're the one yapping and they're under the table. So?"

"Well we're sitting there and he's talking about…something and I'm looking at the telly. The film had been on the whole time and I didn't even know who the characters on the screen were let alone what they were talking about…."

"When was the last time you got any?"

"Two years…"

"Well maybe you could make a excuse..?"

"You don't understand I had a…handful…" Daphne burst out laughing, to the point she was holding her sides. "And he ended up with a mouthful. Trust me the moment I realised what I was doing I thought of excuses." Covering her mouth she giggled slightly. As horrifying as it was it sounded funny now. "How can I ever leave the apartment again? If I see him what do I say? Sorry I slipped. I was reaching for the remote. Was that not a poppadom?"

"Well, this proves it."

"What?"

Daphne stood up and smiled, picking up her things she nudged her head towards next door. "He's a weirdo. Cleary he was interested in you or he wouldn't of paid for our food. He wouldn't of agreed to coming over knowing it was a date. Yet he freaked when you hit on him. Weirdo."

"Hit on him? I had a handful, I molested him." Laughing Jessica got up and helped her cousin with her things. "Oh well, looks like we're hitting the town."