“She is beautiful” Shane agreed as she glanced over her shoulder. “Incredibly so, I’m sure she incites lust driven insanity from most people she comes into contact with. She’s just beautiful” she stated with assurance.

“Just beautiful? She’s not just beautiful!” 

At that, Shane turned to me with a dumbfounded look on her face. “I thought you said–“

“She not just beautiful Shane, she’s more than that. She is a gift from god, my reward I think, for being the model citizen the first twenty years of my life.”

I chose to ignore her as she choked on the second serving of marble cake she felt compelled to order to justify our prolonged stay. “She is an angel – no a goddess – no better! She is the result of a drunken night away from heaven and Olympia, the illegitimate love child of an angel and a goddess. She is my destiny.” I whimpered at the slight of the woman I was destined to be with brushing her cascading divine locks behind her adorable ear. “Look at her ears Shane, aren’t they just the cutest?”

“I shouldn’t have lined up those shots for you” she responded with a frown.

“Look at her ears!”

“I’m not going to look at her ears” Shane exclaimed nudging her desert to the side.

“Just as well, I don’t think I could handle you drooling over them, they are simple delectable. You know what I’d like to do?” I asked, not allowing a respond I continued, “I’d like to suck on them, maybe even bite them? Depending on how frisking we’re feeling when we get back to her apartment”

“Tina please stop! This is ridiculous”

“I – I know” I sputtered feeling my heart sink. What was she doing? “What is she doing?” I asked Shane desperately. I knew damn well what she was doing, it was obvious, I could see it, Shane could see it, the waiter hovering above us pleading with his eyes for us to finally make our exist – could see it. My girl was casting affectionate looks at that – that man cub. 

“Shane she’s cheating on me” I reached for my friend’s forgotten cake hoping a spoonful or two would help float my heart once again. “I can’t believe she’s cheating on me already”