Wednesday evening, April 13, 1988, Amanda Lewis had a quiet dinner with Bruce Temple after they'd gotten off work and then he drove her back to her house. She invited him in for a drink, knowing full well they'd probably end up in bed together again. Bruce was insatiable for her and she was doing her best to try to use the passion and desire she felt from him to help her forget the love she still felt for Jack Nicholson. She had a feeling it would take a while for that to happen...
Just as she and Bruce were moving things from her family room sofa to her bedroom, the front doorbell sounded. Bruce set her down and waited at the hallway while she went to the door to get rid of whoever it was. As soon as she started to open the front door, she was forced backward when it was pushed open and Jack stood in front of her glaring at her menacingly.
"Whose fuckin' car is that parked in your driveway, Amanda?!!!" he growled angrily.
"Jack... what the hell are you doing here?!!!" she yelled back.
Jack's seething gaze shot past her when they heard Bruce's voice. "What the fuck is Jack Nicholson doing here, Amanda?!!!"
She stepped back and turned so she could look back and forth between Jack's dark, angry scowl and Bruce's confused expression of surprise. "I'm not really sure why he's here, Bruce. He has no right to be!"
Jack advanced on her and grabbed her arms. "What do you mean, I have no right to be!" he gritted through his teeth. "I came over here because I needed some reassurance from you... someone I trust... after my disappointment at the awards ceremony the other night... and I find a strange car here! And I have every right to check up on the woman I love and make sure no one else is messin' with her!!! And from the looks of things, I got here just in time!" he stated angrily as he took in her disheveled appearance and Bruce's unbuttoned shirt.
Amanda yanked herself from his grasp and backed away toward Bruce. "No you don't, Jack! You don't have any right to be checking up on me! I do NOT belong to you! And besides... you're too late. Bruce and I are getting back together... and we've already had sex!!!" She stopped when she felt her back come in contact with Bruce's body and he put his hands on her shoulders.
The anger in Jack's eyes more than doubled in intensity as he slowly advanced toward both of them. "What the fuck do you mean by you and he are getting BACK together?" he growled quietly.
Bruce spoke up, his voice reflecting his increasing anger over this interference from the big star he'd been such a fan of for years, not fully realizing the implications of what was going on between the woman he loved and his favorite movie star of all time. "Amanda and I were college sweethearts, Mr. Nicholson, and we found each other again about six months ago and we're picking up where we left off. And I'm really starting to wonder just what the hell is going on here!!! How in the hell do you two know each other?!!!"
Jack glared up at the younger man who appeared to be a bigger, leaner, meaner, and slightly better looking version of himself, except his eyes weren't quite right... Bruce's were greener and he didn't have Jack's expressive eyebrows. Jack grinned at him devilishly. "Well... Bruce, is it?" he asked sarcastically, and then continued after an affirmative nod, "A little less than a year ago, I rescued Miss Lewis, here, when she was stranded by a broken down rental vehicle and got her to Santa Barbara for the weekend so she could complete a job assignment... and then I stayed with her and fucked her the whole weekend!!!" He stopped and chuckled when Bruce's face registered total shock.
"Jack... why are you doing this to me?" Amanda pleaded desperately when he looked at her still chuckling.
"Because," he growled as he got totally serious again, "I told you... you belong to me and I'm not giving you up without a fight." He looked up at Bruce again and saw that the young man had sobered and was also looking like he wasn't going to give her up without a fight... not that Jack could blame him! But he also didn't want to have to take the guy on in a fist fight... he was pretty sure Bruce would probably beat the shit out of him. He would just lay the facts out and hopefully Bruce would realize that he didn't stand a chance with Amanda when she was forced to admit her true feelings to him.
Jack looked back at her. "Amanda... did you tell Bruce that you're in love with me and that I'm in love with you?"
"WHAT?!!!" Bruce cried incredulously as his hands on her shoulders moved to turn her around to face him.
Jack continued confidently. "And did you tell him that I'm the man who took your virginity?" He paused as Bruce looked shocked once again, and then he drove the final nail into the coffin that was burying any chance Amanda had at a relationship with Bruce. "And did you also tell him that you got pregnant and then lost our child three months later?"
Amanda's head dropped forward, her face crumpled in pain and she began to cry when Jack reminded her of the baby she'd lost. She just stood there alone when Bruce dropped his hands from her shoulders and walked several feet away from her.
He stood still as he internally digested the shockwaves from the bombs that Jack Nicholson had just dropped on him. Then he turned around to face them again. His heart almost lurched at the sight of Amanda's pitiful face until he recalled why she was crying. Then he looked at the smug expression and the angry glare in the older man's eyes and it suddenly hit him how ironic it was that he'd lost Amanda AGAIN... but at least this time it really was because of Jack Nicholson.
He'd told himself when she kept rejecting him before it was because he just didn't turn her on like Jack Nicholson did... He'd really been kicking himself lately when Amanda had explained to him that touching his huge cock had turned her on so much that it had frightened her, and if he hadn't been so goddamned impatient and out of control four years earlier, Amanda would've been his and she'd have never met Jack Nicholson! He had only himself to blame...
Bruce looked back at Amanda again and he felt sorry for her... and himself. "Amanda... why didn't you tell me all this? Why did you lead me on this way?"
She looked up at him, tears streaming down her face. "I wasn't leading you on, Bruce! I've been honest with you about my feelings... I told you I wasn't in love with you... I care about you and I desire you, but I never told you I loved you! I told you that would probably take some time... But I guess I should've told you that the reason was because I'm in love with Jack..."