Lost Without You/A Jordan Knight FanFic✔️

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On Saturday, I don't play gardener to Alice while she and Lucy are at the dance competition. With two weeks until the wedding, I feel like the nicest thing to do is to let her get married and move to Chicago.

As I make dinner, Lucy messages me.

Lucy: Don't be mad. Mom thinks you had a woman stay the night last night.

I narrow my eyes at her message.

Me: Why would she think that?

Lucy: Because I told her.

Me: Why?

Lucy: Because we have to know.

Me: Know what?

Lucy: If she's really ready to let you go forever.

Me: By lying to her?

Lucy: You can tell her the truth. She's dropping me off at Racer's house.

Me: I think you need to tell her the truth and then come home so we can talk about your issues with acceptance.

Lucy: She's really bothered by it. She hasn't said anything to me on the way home.

I stick her filet of salmon in the fridge and sit down to eat mine along with green beans and rice. Two bites into my dinner, the doorbell rings.

"Just great." I sigh when I see Alice's car parked in my driveway.

"Hey." I give her a tentative smile when I open the door.

"I'm not okay with you having random women stay the night when Lucy's living with you." She barges past me.

"Come in," I mumble. "Random women?"

I shut the door.

She pivots, hands balled at her sides. Her unruly dark hair partially pulled back with strays all around her face, clinging to her red cheeks.

"Lucy told me there was a half-naked woman in the kitchen this morning when she awoke. AND ... she heard you and said half-naked woman last night. She called her a screamer."

Dear lord ... Lucy is quite the storyteller. A screaming woman?

"Screaming is a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe deep moaning, but not screaming."

I don't know why I'm playing this game. Maybe because I didn't expect Alice to be so enraged.

"Lucy's seventeen not seven."

She flinches.

"It's inappropriate."

"Dating? Having sex? Have you not had sex with Luke with Lucy in the house?"

"That's different?"

"How so?"

"Because Luke isn't some random guy I brought home."

"What makes you think this woman was random?"

"Uh ..." She drops her jaw. "Because Lucy said you couldn't even remember her name. Jordan! What is wrong with you? Why would you even sleep with someone if you didn't know them well enough to remember their name in the morning?"

Oh Lucy ... This story just keeps getting better.

"I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. I'll write my date's names on my palm so I remember in the morning."