Page 40 of Somewhere in Seattle

"Oh my gosh, you weren't home all day yesterday, and I wasdyingto know what happened with that guy!"

"Hey, Rachel," I said, as I turned to lock the door to my apartment. "What are you doing?" I asked since she was out in the hallway for no apparent reason.

"I'm going out for some coffee. Tristan and I were out till three Saturday, so we just slept it off yesterday. I had the day off today."

"I went fishing yesterday," I said. "I caught eleven trout."

"You're kidding. Fishing? With who?"

"JD."

"He was smoking hot, Jordan. Is that the guy you're always talking about from work? Your boss's son?"

She knew it was. "Yes," I said. "Same guy."

"Were you up on one of those balconies?" she asked.

I nodded. JD's third-story apartment had a balcony that overlooked that nightclub, and we had so much more fun watching the action from up there rather than being down in it. "We only stayed up there for a little while," I said.

"If I had that apartment, I would be out on the balcony all the time. That room is so cool, even when nobody's in it. I can't believe he owns that place and he'd rather rent it out than live there."

I shrugged. "Neither of us really care about going out."

"And you hung out with him again yesterday?"

"Yes."

"Fishing?"

"Yes," I said, laughing. "Why aren't you at work?"

"I have off today and tomorrow, since my brother is in."

"Oh, yeah, I forgot."

"So, are you supposed to be dating that guy now?" she asked.

"I don't know. But yeah, I think we are. We like each other a lot." I was smiling and staring into space, and knew I looked like a lovestruck teenager, but I didn't care.

Rachel and I ended up riding the elevator together. She was really curious about JD, and she asked questions about him the whole time we were together. We parted ways when we made it to the street.

I smiled the whole way to work, and I kept smiling once I got there. I was in the best mood, and it was because I was in love with JD Alexander. I loved this man, and it felt really good.

I was still in that same blissful state later that day when I had a game-changing conversation with Isaac near the kitchen service station. Both of us were waiting for our dishes, and we took a couple of minutes to catch up. It had been a busy morning, and we hadn't had much time to talk.

"I heard you went to the lake with JD," Isaac said.

"Yeah. I'd never been fishing before."

"Never? Are there no fish in Oklahoma?"

"Yeah, I'm sure there are fish, but no one ever showed me how to catch them, and it never occurred to me to try to learn on my own."

Isaac shook his head, smiling at me. "I knew my cousin had it for you from the beginning. I told Rita something was going on with him before he ever set you up in that apartment."

"Yeah," I said, smiling blankly even though my heart began to race.

It was one of those times when my thoughts directly correlated to a spike in my blood pressure. Isaac had said one simple sentence…before he ever set you up in that apartment. But it led to a whole flood of thoughts.

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