Jessica

JACK AND BEATRICE

THE NEXT STEP

Beatrice and Lana

"Uh- so why did you want to go on a date on a short notice?" Jack asks as they sit down.

"well, I just needed a night out and that's all." Beatrice replies as she checks her phone that just beeped.

Lana: Hey, I won't be there anymore, i- I have an urgent meeting and well, I won't be there, just tell me how it goes.

Beatrice: Mark was outside, he saw me and the guy pull up, after that he just left, I guess the plan is ruined now isn't it?

Lana: Oh, then why are you still there? what are you waiting for? End the date and we will wait on Mark and if not, you will go on more dates and move on completely.

Beatrice: okay bye.

"Oh, it is nice to go on dates once in a while, so are you single?" Jack asks as watches her close her purse.

"No, so I would leave now, I am sorry for this, I have an urgent business to attend to."

"uh- you just want to end this right? It is totally understandable, so you feel free, Beatrice right?" Jack asks.

"I am sorry, i don't mean to make you feel bad or something, I am being honest and i- I just have to go, but I owe you one, I am sorry." Beatrice says as she drops her business card and leaves.

Smiling like a baby, Jack twirls the card on his hand.

He stands up and calls the Waiter. "I would like chicken Alfredo to go." Jack says and the Waiter leaves.

I finally found you, Beatrice Steele. Jack says to himself.

Leaving the restaurant, he heads back home to his condominium, where he and his sister stays.

"She doesn't recognise me." Jack says to his twin sister over wine and dinner.

"why would she? you guys were in the same situation before, she just needed someone to pretend back then, and when it was done you lost contact." His sister, Jenny replies.

Jack, a twenty seven year old Lawyer who met Beatrice, a while back over lunch, she was to meet her boyfriend buy he stood her up, she sits with Jack and they had their conversation.

It ended that day, but Jack took it to heart.

"it wasn’t pretence, Jenny. Her boyfriend merely stood her up and she needed someone to have lunch with and I was there for her." Jack replies his elder sister.

"Tomato, Tomato, it's the same thing." Jenny replies her twin brother.

"Well, if the same scene can happen to us again, I won't let it slide. I will do a follow up, she dropped her business card." Jack says as he shows the card off.

"Okay, let's say this is some kind of rom com, she is a hard catch you know, and isn't she dating Mark Smith?" Jenny asks as she finishes her wine.

"Uh, she is single, so I have a chance." Jack smiles as he leaves the dining table.

"Dream on, Lawyer Jack." Jenny replies as she takes dinner to her table. Jenny works as an accountant. Doing her final review, she takes her files and does her final review.

Jack smiles at the card. "Fate does play games in the wildest way." Opening the files, he arranges, working as a lawyer is as tedious as anything, he reads a case on a toxic wide beater and his lazy wife, they filed for a divorce, Properties to be shared should be 50:50 but the wife insists on it being 60:40.

He is supporting and defending the wife.