Convincing her

Lucas left the kitchen with her still holding her from behind as they went to the dining room. After pulling out a chair for her, he sat next to her and watched as she put food on her plate.

"Aren't you going to eat?" she asked when she noticed that he was just looking at her the whole time.

"I am" Lucas said and started serving himself some food. Once they started eating Lucas couldn't help himself from teasing her.

"I thought you said that you wouldn't wait for me so we could eat together" Lucas said after the first few bites of food.

"You came earlier than I expected" Jen said as if that was sufficient explanation.

"You have a point" Lucas said as he relented and continued to have his meal.

"Mmh" Jen answered and continued eating her meal. She realised that Lucas doesn't tease her as much as he used to in the beginning because if it was before he would not have given up on the topic so easily. Jen turned her head to look at him and saw that he was quite distracted while he was eating.

"Is something wrong?" Jen asked, her voice laced with concern.

"No, I was just thinking about work" Lucas answered once he snapped out of his thoughts.

"Is there any problem at work?" Jen asked worriedly.

"No, not really. Do you have any plans for next weekend?" Lucas asked abruptly changing the topic.

"None, why?" Jen asked as she too decided not to press him for answers.

"We'll have a product launch party on Saturday, do you want to come with me?" Lucas asked.

"Is this what you were thinking about?" Jen asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yes" Lcas replied with a chuckle, although what he was really thinking about is whether Tyler would come or not because he had to invite him out of good manners.

"Of course I'll come. Did you get nervous about asking me to accompany you as your date?" Jen asked as she laughed.

"Mmh" Lucas said seriously as he looked at her. It was a happy misunderstanding and Lucas was not willing to clarify. At least not yet.

"Your cute" Jen said and smiled, her eyes crinkling from happiness.

Lucas became dazed as he looked at her and his gaze gradually became more intense. Jen's smile faltered and she returned her focus to her food.

They pretty much stopped talking about work from that point on and they kept the conversation light with Jen commenting about Michael's new haircut.

"Hey, Is Dave seeing anyone?" Jen asked as she put her fork down, she was already full and was just accompanying Lucas to eat at this point.

"Not that I know of, he hasn't really dated anyone recently" Lucas answered as he continued to enjoy his food.

"No one?" Jen asked with raised eyebrows.

"Although he looks young, he is about the same age as James.

"I don't know how old James is" Jen replied.

"He is 28, I think Dave is 27 if I'm not wrong" Lucas said not really thinking about why en was so curious about Dave. If David knew that Lucas was so willing to volunteer his personal information then he wouldn't have been so tight lipped about him.

"So he isn't seeing anyone…"Jen said and left her sentence hanging. After she had gone quiet Lucas became suspicious and looked at her.

"Why are you asking about David?" Lucas asked when he finally realised that something was up.

"I'm asking for someone" Jen replied as she leaned on the back of her chair.

"Who?" Lucas asked wondering who might be interested in that block of ice's love life.

"Nancy" Jen said, readily volunteering information.

"Is she interested in him?"Lucas asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yep" Jen said with a laugh and stood up from the table with her plate and other empty dishes.

"How can you just leave like this?" Lucas asked as he too got up from his chair and carried the rest of the dishes that were left on the table.

"How did you want me to leave?" Jen asked while laughing.

Lucas followed her to the kitchen where they cleared the dishes and put them in the sink. When Jen wanted to start washing them she was already being nudged away from the sink.

"I'll wash the dishes," Lucas said and replaced her position on the sink.

"Alright, i'll go shower then"Jen said and as she was leaving, her hand was grabbed by Lucas.

"You didn't tell me anything yet, how are you just going to go?" Lucas complained.

"Fine, Nancy has liked him since that time he went to pick them up from the party" Jen explained strategically avoiding mentioning the happenings of that night.

"Party?" Lucas asked in confusion.

"When we both got drunk" Jen said her face already turning red.

"Ah~" Lucas said as he finally remembered.

"Did you forget?" Jen asked starting to feel upset.

"How can I forget? I just didn't see the girls at the party so I wasn't sure which party you were talking about. I thought it was the one we had on the weekend" Lucas said smoothing out her ruffled feathers.

"Oh, yeah, so they practically met the same day we did. She was interested since then" Jen explained.

"Uh huh, well I hope it goes well since Dave is a workaholic. I also want to see him date and loosen up. If you didn't notice, he tends to be a bit stiff" Lucas said humorously.

"Hehe, it would be strange if I didn't" Jen said as she let out a sarcastic laugh.

"I can arrange for her to go to the launch party with Dave, just let me know if she'll be free on Saturday" Lucas offered.

Jen looked slightly frowned as she felt like they were really acting like matchmakers.

"I'll ask her. Let me go shower" Jen said and kissed his cheek before leaving the kitchen.

Lucas watched her leave and turned to the sink so that he could start washing the dishes. As he was doing so he found himself unconsciously smiling.

The fact that Jen's friends seemed to like the people in his social group is something that would bring them closer. If they had to break up it would be too weird for everyone, a concept that he found amusing. Of course, he had no intentions of breaking up with her in this lifetime.