“Welcome home, honey..." Amber drawled in a low voice. She was sitting in an armchair wearing nothing but one of my ties. Specifically, my favorite tie and the one I'd worn to my first day of work.

The damn thing never Looked that good on me. Right now it was nestled into the valley between her two glorious breasts and pointing straight down across her flat tummy to her neatly trimmed blonde landing strip leading the way to a pretty, pink pussy.

I was getting to like this whole playing house thing.

“No way, man. Nothing beats a Red Robin burger.”

“Come on! You can't go wrong with Islands."

“Islands? Those things are tasteless bricks compared to Red Robin."

“Why are we having this conversation in a Fuddruckers? We all wanted to come here because THESE burgers are so delightfully AWESOME!"

I grinned and just looked at the three Enginerds arguing. Dan, Vipul, and Marshall were all on the same project team as me and we were all absolutely starving on this Tuesday Lunchtime. I thought back to the conversations I had with Nate or Kevin about fast food joints and recalled the same inane arguments about who had the best burgers. Some things just never change no matter how old you get.

Dan was just a year ahead of me and he'd been the newbie on the project until I joined. Vipul and Marshall had both been hired at the same time a few years earlier. The four of us grumbled about forgetting to eat after getting Lost in our work on repeated occasions.

Fortunately, our food was ready with relative speed and the four of us were soon chomping down with wild abandon. If any pretty girls could see us now, they'd probably mock us for being such slobs.

“Slow down, boys! The cow is already dead! It's not going anywhere." A sweet voice sounded off behind me.

I turned to see Brianna and Kathy behind us, each holding a buzzer waiting to announce when their own food was ready.

In a deep, raspy voice, I growled, “Mmm... Meat..." and then took a massively big bite out of my burger.

Brianna laughed and then slapped my shoulder, her emerald eyes sparkling. "You're so gross, David. Can we join you guys?"

With my mouth still full, I simply gestured to the empty seats at our six-person table. Brianna sat next to me and Kathy took the spot across from her.

In the corner of my eye, Vipul and Marshall exchanged significant glances and Marshall looked like he was going to go into adrenaline shock just from sitting next to Kathy.

I swallowed my bite and said, "I assume you all know each other?"

The guys nodded but the girls seemed ever so slightly unsure.

“Hi

Brianna, hi Kathy," Dan offered with a nervous little wave.

“Hi, uh... Dan, right?"

Dan was beaming that the pretty brunette knew his name. But when the girls hesitated another moment, Vipul and Marshall quickly volunteered their names.

“Right, right."

There was about thirty seconds of awkward conversation, and then both girls' buzzers went off and they left to go pick up their food.

The three Engineers immediately focused in on me. "HOW did you get those girls to sit with us?" Vipul immediately asked.