no strings attached - j.b

You don't know

"Okay, now let's go over this again so I really understand" Tris, whom Phoebe had just picked up from her grandparents' house so he too could go out with Kim and her, sat up straight in the passenger seat.

"Will broke up with Kim again. Kim is devastated and you're making her go out now so she'll be distracted, right?" he started to summarize. "Right" Phoebe confirmed.

"You called Sam to come with you, left Kim alone to pick me up, and are about to pick up Sam before we all go back to Kim's place together and walk from there to the nearest bar" again Phoebe confirmed with a nod.

"Ok, and why exactly did you invite Sam and me?" he asked. Phoebe shrugged her shoulders. "I thought she might be more distracted with the two of you there. Besides, she really wanted to see you again anyway, and four people is always a better number than three. Otherwise, someone is always left out."

"I understand. You invited Sam so you wouldn't be thirdwheeling. Does Kim still fancy me in that case?" Tris grinned.

"What, no, absolutely not. That was years ago. And in case you didn't catch it, she just got broken up with" Phoebe rolled her eyes. She had forgotten how little Tris thought with his brain and how much with his dick.

"So I'm not supposed to flirt with her a little? What am I supposed to do all night?" Tris mewled, offended. "Make conversation like normal people do and if I overhear you trying to make a pass at her after all, I'll kill you. You're the last thing Kim needs right now" Phoebe warned him.

"It's okay. I'm not going to flirt with her. But I won't promise you that I'll keep my hands off her if she makes a move in my direction" innocently Tris raised his arms.

"You won't do anything. Even if she is naked in front of you, you will shake her hand and leave. Got it? Kim is hurt to the core, she won't be able to think straight, so keep your hands off her or I'll castrate you" startled, Tris raised his hands protectively over his crotch.

Phoebe sighed, "Tris, we want to distract Kim tonight. Will and her will get back together. Like they always do. And I don't want her to make a mistake by getting involved with you, destroying her future with Will once and for all."

"So she's still into me after all?" Tris grinned. "Wow, you got that from my statement?" Phoebe rolled her eyes as she parked in front of Sam's house.

"As long as I'm getting Sam, you can go sit in the back" she ordered Tris and opened the door to get out. "Excuse me? You want me to sit in the back? Why can't Sam sit in the back?" Tris asked indignantly.

"Do you really think Sam has room in the back seat?" Phoebe scoffed. "Oh, but me or what? I'm built broad too" Tris crossed his arms in front of his chest in offense while Phoebe laughed up. "You're a dwarf against Sam, so sit in the back already" she ordered him again before slamming the door and walking around the car to Sam's front door.

Once inside the bar, the group of four sat down in an alcove in the corner so as not to attract attention if possible. They ordered drinks and started a casual conversation. Phoebe was relieved to see that Kim already seemed much more cheerful and composed than before.

"Tell me, Pheebs, what exactly did Katie want to talk to you about today anyway?" Sam asked casually, but this caused Phoebe to almost choke on her mojito.

"Oh, about the fight between her and Joe that half the staff overheard" Tris told for Phoebe, who tried to suppress the coughs until Sam gently patted her on the back.

"Oh, the argument, so not about...the other thing?" Sam asks, surprised. "The other one?" Tris questioned confused, looking at his cousin while Kim also looked at her best friend and pointed at Sam. "He knows?"

Phoebe nodded and took another sip of her cocktail. "He knows" she confirmed before turning to Sam. "She knows too" she explained to him. "Knows about what?" Tris asked, still confused. "He doesn't know" she pointed at Tris.

"Of both times?" Sam looked questioningly at Phoebe, who would have preferred to bang her head on the table, while Kim gasped loudly beside her. "Both times? It happened again?" she asked, surprised.

"What happened again?" Tris was starting to get angry as everyone seemed to ignore him while Phoebe drank more and more of her cocktail and was ambushed with questions by Kim. "When? How? Why? Why am I just finding out about this now?"

"Yesterday, according to them it wasn't planned and just happened. She probably still wanted to tell you" Sam answered for Phoebe. "And how do you know?" Kim asked confused.

"I was there" Sam explained. "you were there? Phoebe, you horny bitch!" Kim gasped. "Oh god, no. I was there after" Sam clarified. "So what now? Where do we go from here?" Kim asked.

"Now can someone please explain to me what's going on" Tris sighed in annoyance. "Oh my god, Tris. Are you really that stupid that you still haven't understood what this is all about?" annoyed Kim rolled her eyes.

"Think about it very carefully. The other thing, Sam and I know about it, it happened again..." Kim summed it up. "Kim, stop," Phoebe yelled out.

"Kim called Phoebe a horny bitch when she thought I was there too" Sam gave further help as Tris jaw suddenly dropped open. "No way, you fucked Joe Burrow. Twice?!"

"There you go, wasn't so hard after all" Kim sighed and raised her glass in a toast. "Wait, you really slept with him?" Tris looked at his cousin in surprise.

"thank you, both of you. You really are the best friends anyone could have" Phoebe gave Kim and Sam dirty looks before turning to Tris. "If you tell anyone about this, I will kill you" she growled at him.

"you better have mentioned that threat to those two" Tris pointed at Kim and Sam who grinned. "Besides, this is the second time you've threatened to kill me today. I'm starting to think it's either just empty promises or you need to be fucked again..."

"The first, Joe took care of the other yesterday" Sam interrupted Tris grinning. Kim laughed out while Phoebe just gave an indignant "Sam" and slapped him offended on the upper arm, which didn't hurt Sam at all.

"I didn't gather you guys today to make fun of my life" she pouted, but this only caused more laughter at the table.

"Get ready for some more poking fun, Pheebs. Look who just walked through the door" Tris nodded towards the entrance before taking a sip of his beer with a smirk.

"wait, isn't that...." "Joe" Phoebe finished Kim's question with a sigh, while Sam raised his hand beside her and waved wildly at Joe and Ja'Marr, who were looking around the bar searchingly. They spotted Sam and approached the table.

"Sam, what are those two doing here?" Phoebe hissed softly. "Right before you picked me up, Joe called and asked what I was doing tonight and I told him I was going out with some people. You said on our call that more people are good for distraction, so I invited him. Ja'Marr is actually with Joe all the time then too" Sam explained with a shrug.

By now Joe and Ja'Marr had reached the table and Joe eyed the group in surprise. "Not exactly the people I expected when you invited me, Hubbard" he noted.

He nodded briefly to Phoebe before extending his hand to Kim. "Joe Burrow" he introduced himself curtly. When he had also shaken hands with Tris, whom he had not officially met yet either, and Ja'Marr had also introduced himself, everyone slid together so that the two new ones had room as well.

Unfortunately, moving up meant that Joe had to take a seat next to Phoebe, which neither of them were necessarily comfortable with right now, but when Phoebe looked at the faces of the others, she realized that Joe next to her wasn't just a stupid coincidence, but planned by all of them, as they all stared at her with a dirty grin.

"this is going to be a great night" Phoebe mumbled to herself.

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