Travis pulled on his shirt and started to button it up. “What's up?”
“The situation with Jimmy,” Juan answered.
Travis made a face and sat on the bed. “I thought we talked about this last night?”
“Uh, we came to no conclusion,” Juan answered. He walked in and flopped onto a couch.
Jenni slid in and eyeballed Katie. Her friend looked back with an innocent smile that Jenni didn't buy for a moment.
“Didn't we agree that Nerit needed to deal with it?” Travis asked.
“No, we didn't. Curtis was all for finding a way to discipline him. ”
“I don't know if we have to go that far,” Travis answered, his brow furrowing. He tugged on his socks one by one.
Jenni noted how very comfortable he was in Katie's room. Again, she looked at her friend and gave her a sly smile. Katie responded with a wide-eyed innocent look.
“He almost got Jenni killed!” Juan's anger was about to get the best of him again.
Jenni put her hand on his shoulder, but she could feel his Latin temper building up to an explosion. “He just freaked. ”
“And almost got you killed!”
“Well, it was bizarre with that zombie having that big ol’metal thing in his head!”
“Again, he almost got you killed!”
Travis shook his head. “Juan, we need to drop this. ”
“I'm not going to, Travis,” Juan answered firmly. “What if it had been Katie left alone in a room with three zombies? Huh?”
Travis looked toward Katie and his look said it all.
“Exactly,” Juan answered, and stood up. “You know what? I'm going to deal with this man to man. Fuck diplomacy. ”
“Juan,” Travis said softly.
“No, fuck it. ” Juan walked out, and slammed the door behind him.
“He's having anger issues,” Jenni said.
“Obviously,” Travis responded. He stood and grabbed his new denim jacket. “I better go after him. ”
Katie moved to his side. They shared a sweet little kiss that had Jenni grinning. It was good to see Katie and Travis together. She felt a little less guilty about moving on now that Katie had, too. She knew it had been much harder for Katie.
“See you later,” Travis said.
“Okay,” Katie answered, and walked him to the door.
Another soft kiss, then Travis was gone.
Jenni lifted her eyebrows at Katie as her friend shut the door.
“What?” Katie asked, then broke into a huge grin. Jenni tackled her.
Like schoolgirls, they hugged each other and jumped around laughing until they collapsed into a heap on the bed.
“You have FFG!”