#fenixtj

Fortunately there's plenty

They prepare the food "You want music, television, or talk? " He asks

"Talk? I mean.... you know how my day went. How was yours?"

"I put a Tattoo on your sister... to help her find her way home if she ever gets lost." he confesses "She told me she had had a scrap with you and that you might need consoling." He sets the sauce down "I told her to mind her own damn business unless she wanted rude words mixed in the pattern"

The last said firmly

Perhaps oddly, Jessica doesn't 'over' react.

"But here you are." She points out, forking noodles onto her plate along with fried rice.

"Yes, not consoling you" he says "Also.. I was hoping to have a meal with you anyway. I'm not going to do the OPPOSITE of what she wants either. That would be just as yielding in it's way"

He claims some shrimp

"I suppose you're right. And you did ask me on that picnic. I'm glad you came by." She perches on the couch to eat.

He settles near her "Now, other than that.. my business is down. My OFFICIAL business. I'm trying to fight the flow of weapons ..mixed results"