Spider Luck

Fortune cookies

After Lena has finished tidying up, MJ and I move with her to the cash register to pay and, although MJ wants to pay because it was her idea, eventually I convince her to let me do it since I'm the one whose hair was cut.

With the promise that I would no longer cut my hair on my own, Lena makes me pay less than what she usually asks and she gives me her availability in case I want her to cut them again in the future.

Once we are finished, the three of us leave the salon and, when Lena asks what we will be doing now while she locks the door, I tell her that Mj and I are going to dine at a restaurant chosen by MJ.

I would like to ask her to come with us, so that it becomes more difficult for other intimate situations to arise between me and MJ, but, as if she had guessed my intentions, Mj precedes me when I am about to propose it to Lena.

As MJ hugs my left arm, she tells her friend that we have to go now, since the time for our restaurant reservation is coming up, and she's sorry we can't spend the rest of the evening with her.

From the expression that Lena makes following those words, it is clear that she has understood what MJ wants to say to her, therefore, to support her friend, she tells her not to worry. 

According to the girl, she couldn't have joined us anyway, since she's meeting her friends tonight, so we decide to meet again on Halloween, since Lena and her friends are having a party that night, and spend time together during it.

After saying goodbye to Lena, MJ and I return to the redhead's car and on the way to it, MJ pinches my arm and she playfully scolds me for trying to invite her friend to dinner with us.

"On another occasion, it wouldn't have bothered me if someone else had joined us, however today I want to be alone with you, so don't think that you will escape me, little tiger." MJ says and then she gets in the car.

Once I get in the car, we only take a few minutes to get to our new destination, which turns out to be a Chinese restaurant.

When we enter, we are greeted by a waiter who asks us if we had booked a table tonight and, after MJ gives him her name, the waiter takes us to the table once he has confirmed the presence of the reservation.

I initially thought MJ was joking about her not liking her last name, however, since she booked using her first name instead of her last name, I'm starting to think she was sincere.

'Something definitely happened with her family. If I remember correctly, MJ said that the men she owes money to are friends of her father, could it be that the two things are connected?

I would like to understand her situation better, to be able to support her, however I promised her that I would not ask her any questions about that...'

After having sat down at the table, the waiter who accompanied us there gives us each a menu and then, after we tell him what we wanted to drink, the waiter leaves to bring us the two bottles of water we asked for.

***

"Well, I'd say you had a lively day yesterday ahah."

"Lively is an understatement, but even these discussions are the beauty of being part of a theatre company. Yet compared to what you did yesterday, it must seem like nothing really happened."

"I don't think I've had a busy day like yours, I spent the morning at school and the afternoon I went to help Dr Connors' colleagues at the lab, that's all. It had been a boring day." I explain to her, hoping that her allusion doesn't mean that she might know something about last night.

Unfortunately for me, I just need to see the expression MJ makes when I finish my summary of yesterday to understand that my hunch is correct.

"You're forgetting that in the evening, at an auction house where they were auctioning the confiscated assets of Wilson Fisk, you risked your life to take some photos of a terrorist attack that happened there for the Daily Bugle. It was definitely a boring day..." MJ says with an ironic tone while she takes a dumpling in the plate in front of me with her chopsticks.