Invisible Man (Completed ) ✅

♥ Two ♥

"So, how are the plans for my bachelor party going?" Donnie asked Danny as he, Jordan, Danny, and Jonathan sat around Donnie's kitchen table, playing poker.

"How do you know you're even getting a bachelor party?" Jordan said, taking a large gulp of his beer.

"I know that certain people's asses will get beat if I don't," Donnie replied.

"Yes, Donnie, your party is coming along fine. Actually, we have nothing to do with it. Lacey's planning it all," Danny remarked, throwing some poker chips into the pot. Jordan's beer sprayed all over the table as he spit it out.

"Jordan! Watch it, dick!" Donnie said, jumping back.

"Lacey? What the hell is she doing it for?" Joe demanded

"She offered. She said it would be a night Donnie, and the rest of us, would never forget. She said it's part of her wedding gift to Oriana and Donnie." Danny got up to clean off the table, glaring at Joe

"Well, this sounds interesting!" Donnie said gleefully, rubbing his hands together.

"No, it does not!" Joe retorted, throwing down his hand of cards.

"What's the matter with you?" Donnie asked. "Lacey is a really nice girl. I'd go after her myself, if I didn't already have my sweet Oriana ."

"That's right, Joe Lacey is smart, funny, and talented. You also know she's not after your money," Danny pointed out. "Why won't you just ask her out and be done with it?"

"Have you looked at Lacey lately?" Joe asked . "She always looks like she threw all of her clothes into the air, and put on what fell on top. And those glasses. They're so thick! No way. I want a woman with a body that burns and a face to go with it."

"Her eyes are really pretty," Jordan said softly, annoyed . The guys all turned to look at him.

"Whatever, Jordan." Joe mumbled as he pushed back his chair and stood. "I'm outta here. I gotta meet with my manager tomorrow morning."

"Yeah, I gotta get up early and pick up Elijah at Kim's." Donnie groaned at the thought. He and his ex did not get along.

"Is she still gonna let him be in the wedding?" Danny asked as Donnie walked he and Joe to the door. Jordan lagged behind, cleaning up the kitchen.

"As of today, yes. Hell, she'll change her mind seventeen times between now and Saturday, I just know it." Donnie ran a hand through his blonde hair. "I wish she'd stop being a bitch for just ten minutes. What did I ever see in her?"

"A quick lay," Danny and Jon answered in unison laughing.

"You're right, you're right," Donnie grumbled. "Later."

Jon returned to the kitchen, where Jordan was rinsing out beer bottles and placing them in the recycle bin.

"J, you don't have to do all this," Jon began. He then looked at Jordan's face. "Man, you're pissed off, aren't you?"

"Joe can be such an ass sometimes!" Jordan burst . "He treats other people like shit, just because they're not his ideal."

"Lacey?" Jon  asked. Jordan nodded. "Well, she does kind of run after him."

"So what? You've seen Joe in action. 'Running after' the girl he wants is an understatement." Jordan stared down into the sink. "I think she's beautiful," he said softly.

Jon stared at him. "You really like her, don't you, J?" He asked gently.

"Yes but... I wish she's  just let me in."

Lacey was as busy as a human being could be the following week. She had a three-chapter deadline to meet with her publisher, which she accomplished by Wednesday. She had a two-hour conversation with Danny on Tuesday, convincing him to give her a key to his house, and to keep the guys out of the basement family room until around 8 or so on Friday night. She found a trio of "belly dancers" and scheduled them to arrive at Danny's around 7:45 on Friday.