Rebecca took a deep breath before knocking on the large wooden door in front of her. She wasn't scared, no, but she knew how important it was for her to succeed. Everything had been running along perfectly so far, and she hoped it would stay that way. It would get harder; she was, after all, going to be in the presence of what her father called a 'human lie detector'. She would find out if she really could act like she's just an ordinary girl in front of people who spotted lies for a living.

Becca shifted her bag to her left hand, waiting for someone to answer the door. She could hear footsteps hurriedly running down the stairs. Probably Emily.

The door opened to reveal the brunette-haired girl, excitement glowing off her face.

"Hey, come in," she said, stepping back to allow Becca to enter the house. Becca glanced around the house quickly. Nothing unusual or creepy. "Let's go up to my room. You can put all your stuff up there." Emily led her up the stairs.

"Thanks for having me. It's going to be so better nicer here than staying with my dad on his business trip." Her dad actually wasn't on a trip, and, luckily, Emily didn't catch the lie. They reached Emily's room where Emily took Becca's bag and placed it in the corner.

"No problem. I still can't believe my parents let you stay over." Emily took a seat on her bed while Becca plopped down on the couch. She had heard Emily tell her that 'hours and hours of begging and negotiating' were needed for her parents to finally come to the agreement. Emily now was chatting happily about what the plans were, and Becca listened intently, commenting every once in a while. Emily had told her about what they were going to do before, but she had to make sure everything would go as planned. She didn't need any unwanted surprises. It only took one thing to mess up the entire scheme, and her father wouldn't be too thrilled about that.

Soon after that, the conversation headed towards gossip and chat about everything from school to boys to music, everything Becca would've expected to talk about with Emily.

Cal Lightman sat in his office, flipping a pen through his fingers. There hadn't been much exciting cases that day, and Zoe was going to be bringing Emily and her friend over anytime now. He had been hesitant to allow a friend of Emily's into the office for more than a few minutes, but he had finally given in to Emily's persistent pleading. It's not like Emily and her friend would get in the way; well, not that much.

Cal looked up to see someone entering the room. He let out a sigh of relief. He didn't have to supervise Emily and her friend just yet. He did, however, have to deal with Gillian Foster.

"It'll be fine," Gillian said, taking a seat in front of him. She could always tell what was bothering him. They did detect lies and emotions for a living, after all. "It's only Emily and a friend. Emily's a good girl; she'll watch out for herself and keep her friend busy."

Cal nodded. "Her friend, Becca, I think she's called, what if she's…worse than Emily? More of a handful?"

"I'm sure everything will be fine, Cal. There's nothing to worry about." A knock on the door made them both turn around. "Good luck." Gillian, with one last encouraging smile, exited the room through the door that led to her office. Cal sighed before getting up from his chair to open the door.

"Hi, Dad," Emily said. Cal glanced at the blue-eyed girl with long blonde hair next to Emily. She didn't look like much trouble, but he couldn't come to conclusions with only one small look, could he? "This is my friend, Becca. Should we put her stuff in your office for now or…?"

"Yeah, sure." The three of them went into the office. Becca dropped her bags into the corner of the room and took a seat next to Emily on the couch. Cal turned to Emily. "Your mother left already?"

"Yeah, she's having dinner with Roger later."

"Oh." Cal watched as Becca studied the room, her eyes taking in everything. Emily was busy staring at the papers on his desk. "You'll be okay here by yourself?"

"Yeah, we'll be great," Becca said, Emily nodding along with her. Cal left his office with one last glance at the two. They would be fine, like Foster said, wouldn't they? He didn't walk far before running into Torres.

"Torres!" he called out. She whirled around. Seeing it was him, she became agitated. She still hadn't forgiven him completely for using her, and then there was the incident where he hadn't informed her that Dupree was missing.

"What do you want?" she asked coldly. As much as she felt like ignoring him, he was her boss and she had to respond to him if she wanted to keep her job. She didn't want to go back to her job at the airport, so staying here was her best option.

"Finished those reports yet?"

"No, I'm still working on them." The faint trace of anger lingered in her voice. Cal could tell she was still upset about everything.

"Better get to work, then. You might want to stop with the attitude, yeah?" Cal continued along the hallway, hearing Torres let out an annoyed sigh behind him. He would need to keep an eye on her. Well, watch her more than usual, at least. He turned the corner to see Gillian talking to Alec. Arguing, from what he could see.

"-you always cancel them, Alec," Gillian said. "You always do…"

"It's been busy at work…"

"And spending time with your sponsor?"

"Gillian…" Alec suddenly looked up to see Cal walking towards them. Gillian soon turned around to see what had captured Alec's attention. "We'll talk about this later," he said as he turned towards the exit, ignoring Cal. "I'll call you." And with that, Alec left.

"Hey," Cal said. "You alright, love?" Her eyes were glistening, and he absolutely hated it when she was upset.

"I'm okay," she looked away from the door Alec had just exited to gaze back at Cal. "Did you get tired of Emily and her friend already?" she teased with a smile. It wasn't genuine; her real smiles had been getting harder to come across lately.

"Had to get back to the case," he replied innocently.

"Sure," she answered, amused. The two headed back to the lobby; they did have a case, after all.

Author's Note...I wrote this a while ago, right after 'Sacrifice', I think, and I wasn't going to put it up, because I don't really think it's that good, but I decided to anyways(as you can tell). I hope you like it anyways. I'm bad at making titles, so I just named it 'Trust'... Please review if you like this story. I'm not sure about continuing it, but if you like the idea and everything, I definitely will. :)