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It was at that moment when Becca walked past us. "Hey, I don't mind finishing that table for you if you… have somewhere to go." She hesitated and glanced at my proximity to JD. He had already dropped his hand, and I instinctually shifted where we weren't standing so close.
"Thank you, but I already closed them out," I said to Becca. "I already got my cleaning done, so I'm leaving in a second."
"Okay. I was just making sure. Hey, JD." She looked straight at him, waving.
"Hey," he said.
Becca must have thought that JD's sudden willingness to be close to me translated to him being fair game for anyone, including herself. She was a friend of mine, and she smiled with puffy lips and flipped her hair at JD in a way that made me know she was trying to impress him.
I told myself to give her the benefit of the doubt. I had never staked any claim on JD, and before tonight, we had never so much as made physical contact. I told myself that Becca hadn't noticed the way he was touching me.Or was she just always flirty with JD and I never noticed? Was I stealing him from her?I felt confused for a moment.
"I'm going to the back," I said to him. "If you want to come with me, we can go out that way."
"Yeah, that's fine," he said, but neither of us moved. He stared at me, and I couldn’t move. I felt like my feet were glued in place. "I was going to walk you over to the Berk Building," he said.
"Tonight?"
"Yeah. A reservation fell through, so I have a suite empty. It's busy over there at night."
"I'm sure it is, but we'd run into all kinds of fancy people, and I'm nasty from work."
"I wouldn't say you're nasty," he said, looking me over.
I smiled at him and shook my head. JD was smiling and staring in a way he had never smiled and stared before.
"People are looking at us," I said, even though I hadn't taken my eyes off of him.
"Let them," he said. "I'll kiss you right here right now."
"You'll what?" I asked, laughing and not expecting him to say that. "You'll do no such thing," I said, still smiling at him.
"Why not? Would you not let me? Did you change your mind?"
"Did I change my mind about what?" I asked.
"About letting me kiss you."
He spoke so plainly that it made me laugh. "No, JD, I didn't change my mind." I looked all around. No one was within earshot, but there were quite a few other people still in the restaurant, and I was very aware of them. "Somebody's going to hear you," I said with a wide-eyed expression.
"Good," he said. "Let 'em. I thought you said you were ready for everyone to know about us, anyway."
I was speechless. "I-I you don't, you shouldn't, you can't do that. For yourself. Not me. I mean you."
"What?" he asked, his expression reflecting his confusion.
"You're an Alexander," I said.
"So, what's that mean?"
"Your family owns this whole place. Your name is literally on the sign." I pointed upward.
"So?"
"So, you shouldn't be seen with a waitress."
He flinched and blinked at me. "What do you mean by that?" he asked.
I shrugged, feeling shy. "I'm not trying to be down on myself or anything. I'm actually really proud of all I've done in my life." I leveled him with a stare, and he shrugged.
