The meeting with the creative team ran longer than Shawn was expecting, and he was almost late to the dinner. Fortunately, no one else had sat down yet when he got home.
"Hey," Jack looked up from the couch, "your girlfriend's in the bathroom freshening up and your boyfriend's in the kitchen."
Cory rushed out wearing an apron "You're finally here. I was getting worried about the brochettes."
"Oooh, I finally get to have the brochettes."
Jack looked up again, "What's the history with the brochettes?"
"Jennifer Bassett." Shawn responded.
"Was it Jennifer Bassett or Andy?"
"Who's Andy?" Jack asked
"A friend of mine, you've met him."
"Oh, with the earring?"
"No, that's Kenny. By the way," Shawn looked back at Cory, "How's Lionel?"
Topanga rolled her eyes. "Don't get me started on Lionel."
The fax went off right as they sat down to dinner, followed immediately by Shawn's cell phone, which he tried to fob off on Angela before Topanga noticed it.
"Cory, the company gave Shawn a cell phone and a credit card. What did they give you?"
Cory finally broke, and threw his key ring on the table in front of Topanga. "These, they gave me these. I'm a janitor, okay? It's all out in the open now. I hope you're happy."
This led to an awkward conversation in which Cory finally admitted to being jealous of Shawn, who mollified him with a compliment about the cleanliness of the executive bathroom.
Jack thought Cory being jealous of Shawn was a little rich, and decided to change the subject. "So what are everybody's Thanksgiving plans?"
"Dad got leave, so he's visiting us here," Angela volunteered, "what about you, Shawn?"
"I, um, didn't have plans yet."
"Well, what do you guys usually do?" Jack asked.
"Let's see, last year Dad showed up and took me to Denny's, the year before that was the time Cory came over to my place."
"Your parents had the Matthews over for Thanksgiving?" Jack asked.
"We all learned a very important lesson about class differences," Eric said, "at least I think that's what it was about. It might have been the Rwandan genocide."
"I learned never to make a goat angry," Cory volunteered.
"Anyway," Jack tried to get the conversation back on track, "the reason I'm asking is that my Mom called today and she and Dave are going on a cruise, so I was thinking maybe Shawn and I could do Thanksgiving here."
"Ooh…I'll come too," Eric interjected, "It'll be the three of us roommates." He pulled Shawn and Jack under his shoulders.
