Serena trudged home after a long day, arms heavy loaded with grocery bags.

She would really have to thank Shauna for closing up for her earlier. After a quick call to Shauna at the shop to make sure her friend was fine, Serena decided to restock on some groceries and now here she was, using her elbows to press the 'Up' button.

As she finally entered her apartment, she heard frustrated voices yelling at one another in the living room.

"-is never going to respond!"

"He might've today if you had waited for me like you were supposed to!"

Serena set down her bags in the kitchen and went to see what all the fuss was about.

Kaiwe was sprawled on their couch, arms and legs everywhere while Dawn stood over him, her face contorted in rage.

"What's going on?"

They glanced her way. Dawn flopped onto a chair and pointed to Kaiwe in a huff. "He was supposed to wait for me after work today and he didn't."

Serena stared between them. Kaiwe lazily popped a peanut into his mouth from the bowl resting on his chest.

"Uh huh. And?"

"And the thing is, I think Lucas was almost at breaking point. I could sense it."

"'Dawn? Normally you're really coherent but right now, I'm not following," Serena replied sitting down on another chair.

Kaiwe sat up, holding the bowl of peanuts and setting it down on the coffee table. "Let me put it this way Sere. Dawn here has been showering me with her crazed expressions of love all week. Which, if I do say so myself, is really creepy. Today she came into work dressed as Tarzan!"

"Just because I wear a leopard print dress does not mean I'm Tarzan!" Dawn shouted.

"You might as well have been with the lack of material," Kaiwe shot back then turned to Serena once more. "So imagine, this crazy here is wearing practically nothing and in the middle of trying to actually work unlike someone else, she uses me as a chair and then suffocates me. This has happened every freakin' day!"

"It's so Lucas understands our lo-"

"Don't you dare say it," Kaiwe warned holding up a finger. "Right now the amount of love I feel for you can't even be measured with a teaspoon."

Dawn opened her mouth to speak but Serena said in a calm voice, "'Dawn? How about we have Kaiwe finish telling me what happened?"

Kaiwe continued. "Her boss is a dud when it comes to love. On a scale from zero to ten, ten being the highest, he has shown maybe a level three's worth of jealously. She's upset because I left early from work today instead of waiting for her and she thinks that it would've made some huge difference. Let me tell you, your precious Snappy is not anywhere near snapping towards you."

All while Kaiwe spoke, Serena looked back and forth between her friends. Dawn was curled up on the chair like a irritated 5 year old child.

Kaiwe's speech told Serena just how much he had not wanted to do this act and just how much he really did care about his friends for still going along with it.

"On top of that," Kaiwe said, apparently not done. "It's just a little awkward to work with someone you're supposed to make jealous!"

"Well maybe if you knew how to really act like a boyfriend, then he'd get more jealous," Dawn finally responded.

Kaiwe just groaned and shoved a fistful of peanuts into his mouth. He snatched the remote off the table and clicked the TV on, changing the channel until he spotted a tennis match.

"Girls are crazy," he said under his breath to which Serena couldn't help but mentally agree that yes, her gender could indeed be a bit off the rocker at times. But right now, she had to console Dawn. Serena could tell that despite vocalizing her hope that Lucas might get more jealous, Dawn really was afraid that he didn't think of her as more than an assistant.

Before Serena could tell Dawn that if Lucas was showing even a level three's worth of jealousy that meant he was interested, a loud knock on the door stopped her.

"Serena! Dawn! It's me!"

Serena rolled her eyes and went to the door, swinging it open. "Didn't we give you the spare key?" she asked as Shauna literally bounced in.

"Yes. But I accidentally left it here. Sorry," she said and then whistled as she slipped off her shoes.

"What're you so happy about?"

"I won," Shauna said in a sing-song voice.

"Won what?" Serena asked quizzically.

The other woman shook her head, her dark brown hair sliding over her shoulders like a silk sheet. She smiled and said, "Ah never mind. So Dawn where are we – whoa. What's with the gloomy atmosphere? Hey Kaiwe!"

Serena sighed and quickly gave Shauna the run-down.

"Hm. Look, Dawn, Kaiwe. C'mon, stop being so mad at each other," Shauna said, plopping down on the couch beside her cousin. She grabbed the remote away from him and flicked the television off. Kaiwe tried to reclaim it but she sat on it.

"You guys are supposed to be friends. It's Friday. Why don't we all go out and have some fun? Unwind a little! You're supposed to take me out anyhow," Shauna said.

Dawn looked up with a small grin. "And out comes your true motive."

"I'll admit that I am dying to hit the Friday night city scene but it's true that you two need some downtime from being together so much in a fake relationship. So how about it?"

Serena sat in silence as she watched her friends, deciding to let Shauna continue handling this one.

"Alright. Alright," Kaiwe finally conceded. "Sorry for not following the plan Dawn. I was just tired from the week."

"And I'm sorry for getting so angry over something so small. It's just that, he makes me a little crazy sometimes," Dawn responded.

"So I've noticed," Kaiwe mumbled with a shake of his head.

"Great!" Shauna exclaimed. "So where to?"

"Well I know this great little place downtown called The Indigo. We'll have to take the train," Dawn answered finally uncurling her limbs and dropping her feet to the floor.

"Fine by me. Kaiwe? Serena?"

Kaiwe agreed to go with the girls but Serena said she would meet up with them later. "I'll catch up to you guys later"

Dawn gave Serena the address of the venue they'd be at, before disappearing into her room to get ready.

Shauna went to Serena's room which she had been sharing, leaving Kaiwe to resume his tennis match while Serena headed to the kitchen to unpack her groceries, glad that the argument had been settled so quickly and peacefully.