Convincing her

Lucas had finished washing the dishes and snuck up the stairs to his study to do some things from work. He was not purposely being antisocial, he hadn't expected guests and had hoped that he would spend the evening with Jen. He assumed that she wanted to catch up with her friends and wisely left them to their own devices as he went to keep himself busy.

The girls ended up talking for hours on end about why Jen ended up moving to City X which made up for a teary conversations and also about how Rachel has not dared to date ever since she left, even though she had been propositioned numerous times which also brought about tears.

Lucas had been going to get a glass of water but paused on the stairs when he heard their teary voice.

When he realised that the atmosphere was heavy, he silently went back to the study glad that he had chosen not to join them as he couldn't imagine how awkward the atmosphere would be if he had.

After another hour Jen knocked on his study door and entered with a wide smile and slightly reddened eyes. Lucas turned to look at her from his computer and pulled her to sit on his lap when she was close enough.

"You cried" Lucas stated not really asking her.

"Mmh, it's not a big deal, we were just catching up" Jen said with a smile and leaned against him. He looked at the clock and saw that it was almost midnight.

"Tired?" Lucas asked.

"Not really" Jen said and slightly lifted her head to look at him.

"That's good, you can start compensating me tonight" Lucas said teasingly as he suddenly leaned over and quickly brushed his lips against hers before pulling back just as quickly. His sudden actions had startled her making her widen her eyes in surprise which made him smile in amusement.

"Lucas!" Jen said surprised and then laughed when she saw that he was smiling. He had moved so suddenly and surprised her and it turned out he was only teasing her.

"I won't be letting you off" Lucas said.

"Although I did not agree to this, I won't be trying to get out of it. Let's take the girls back to their place then you can do whatever you want" Jen said as she poked the place where his dimple appeared when he smiled.

"They are still downstairs?" Lucas asked and received a nod from Jen.

"Shouldn't you have told me that first?" he asked again as he tapped on her lower back so she would get off his lap.

"I was instructed to take my time" Jen said and laughed again when he looked at her incredulously.

"Let's go" Lucas said and pulled her up with him since she had made no move of getting off his lap. When they got to the living room he saw that Jen had made the girls something to snack on which made him feel much better since they were not idly sitting there.

"I told you to take your time" Laura said as she put a spoonful of ice cream in her mouth. Jen laughed and helplessly shrugged her shoulders as she pointed at Lucas who had just discreetly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ah~ Mr. Lewis, do you want us to quickly leave so you can spend some quality time with Jen?" Laura asked bluntly making Rachel almost choke on her ice-cream.

Lucas was dumbfounded by her accusation. Those thoughts hadn't even crossed his mind as he looked at Laura he couldn't help but think she bore a resemblance to someone he knew.

"Please call me Lucas" Lucas said. There were five Mr. Lewis in existence. If he let people refer to him like that, it would create a misunderstanding if he was with any of his relatives, with the exception of his mother.

Jen laughed when she heard him. The only thing he garnered from Laura's accusation was the way she had addressed him.

"Don't tease my boyfriend" Jen said and provokingly hugged Lucas' waist and leaned her head against his shoulder. Lucas had automatically rested his hand on her shoulder without realising it.

"I see it wasn't Lucas that was chasing us away but you right? Don't worry, we'll go" Laura said and put her empty bowl of ice-cream on the coffee table and stood up dramatically. Rachel calmly looked at Laura and made no move to stand up as she continued eating her ice cream.

"Shouldn't we go?" Laura asked as she looked at Rachel who made no move to stand up.

"Can you at least pretend you were stalling for time to finish your ice-cream" Rachel said as she looked at Laura with her bright blue eyes that were filled with sarcasm.

At that moment Lucas remembered why the girls seemed familiar.

"Don't you think these two are just like my brothers?" Lucas asked Jen with a low voice that only she could hear.

When she heard this it looked like a lightbulb had been turned on in her brain. She looked at her two friends and laughed.

"Now that you mention it, I can see the slight resemblance in personality" Jen said and smiled.

She used the word slight because there were more differences than similarities but she understood why Lucas thought that way. Laura was shameless, honestly even more shameless than Daniel and Rachel was more reserved than the chic James.

When Rachel finished her ice-cream she looked at the pair that was observing them with fascination and cleared her throat to get their attention.

"We should go now" Rachel said as she stood up with Laura who had stopped talking when she saw Jen and Lucas whisper at each other, completely unaware that they were talking about them.

Jen and Lucas escorted the two girls to their suite since they wouldn't have been able to open the elevator themselves.

"Do you two have plans tomorrow?" Jen asked once they had gotten in the elevator.

"Nope, she'll start being busy on September" Laura said and pointed at Rachel who was silently leaning against the elevator wall.

"Good, let's go to the mall then, we can do some shopping" Jen said with a relieved smile.

"We should, I have to do some shopping" Laura said making Rachel roll her eyes.

"Then we'll go out for lunch before we go for shopping" Jen said with a smile since she had seen Rachel roll her eyes.

Soon the elevator doors opened and they dropped off the girls before going back home.