Nick couldn't believe Jess was actually going through with this to prove a point. Was she ever going to admit she was wrong and quit these shenanigans? Nick could feel the landlord's eyes bearing down on the both of them. This crazy freak of a landlord Remy wanted Nick and Jess to start the menage and make out.

Nick and Jess gripped their hands to each other's arms and stared at each other, swaying to the chill out music Remy had put on.

"All you have to do is admit you're wrong, Jess" Nick said, "We don't have to do this!"

"Never!" she exclaimed, always the stubborn one. "Let's do this, Nick!"

"Let's do this, Jess" Nick replied and grabbed her head to his with stretched fingers and pulled her lips up to his. Nick figured Jess would push him away at the very last moment and admit her defeat.

He was wrong. Their closed lips touched for a moment and Nick could feel that Jess was not pulling away. It almost felt like she was leaning into him, their lips just stuck in some kind of magnetic pull. Nick's hands moved slowly from the back of her head to cup her cheeks as he felt Jess's mouth open a little to let his tongue in. He took advantage of this opening, letting his tongue explore every inch of the inside of her mouth. He kissed her like he had never kissed anyone before, with a passionate fervor as though he would never be able to ever kiss anyone again.

She tasted like everything he thought she would. A field of dandelions on a spring morning. Pink cotton candy after a long day of carnival rides. A litter of kittens in a basket of freshly cleaned sheets. Everything he thought he hated but instead realized in that very moment that he loved.

"Well, apparently I'm not going to get any attention at this menage-a-trois," Nick could hear the landlord say in his scruffy voice, "I'll just see myself out."

Nick could hear the door shut behind Remy and realized he and Jess were still alone. Their lips pulled apart from each other's and Nick took a step behind to sit on the bed, taking Jess's hands.

At that moment, something popped into his mind. Something terribly important:

Julia.

He had a girlfriend. He didn't cheat on girlfriends. It just wasn't the healthy way another relationship should start. He knew he was going to have to cover up his tracks for the moment for the sake of both Julia and Jess.

"This was just for show, right?" he whispered. "We were just trying to get him to leave, right?"

Jess gave him a puzzled look, then pulled her hands away from Nick's grasp. She nodded her head and cleared her throat.

"Oh yeah, bro," she replied, and then laughed nervously. "We sure did fool him!"

Nick looked up at Jess and knew they were both feeling the same thing: confusion.

"Because I have a girlfriend," he said, "I'm not sure she would allow me to cheat on her outside of a threesome."

Jess moved to turn the music off of the stereo. "Well, as long as you admit that I was right," she said, her voice cracking a little.

"Yes, Jess, I will admit to you that you were right. You won this round," Nick said, softly. He got up to leave the room and turned back to look at her. They gave each other a small smile and he closed the door behind him.

She won alright, he thought. Won his heart.

He was going to have to break up with Julia.