Jess had been sitting on the balcony of her flat since she had left the ARC hours ago.

She loved the view from up here, and it was the place she always came to think. The past two days had been weird ones for her and she really needed time to think.

Yesterday had been great. Work had gone smoothly and they had all gone out to a pub after. Jess had enjoyed the time among her friends to the fullest, especially the attention she had received from Becker.

Connor, Abby and Jess had walked to the pub from their flat, since it was only three streets down.
Jess was the first to leave the pub at the end of the evening. She often wondered how Abby could deal with such a small amount of sleep at times.

Jess exited the pub after saying goodbye to her mates. She didn't mind that she had to walk home alone. The streets were still crowded as it was one of the first warm evenings of the summer. Jess filled her lungs with the fresh air and left towards her flat.

"Jess!" The sound of her name made her stop in her tracks. She turned around to find Becker coming her direction with a small smile on his face. "Mind if I'd walk you home?" he asked as he approached her.

It took her a moment to realize what he had just said. "Sure, of course not!" she finally stuttered.

Jess looked down at her high heels when she felt her face blushing, hoping he wouldn't notice. She started to head towards her flat. Becker caught up with her easily and started talking about their time in the pub.

They walked side by side chattering away lightly. Every now and then Jess could feel Becker's eyes on her, and he smiled to himself as he noticed that there was still a slight shade of pink covering her cheeks.

Jess wished her flat was further away, but they arrived there within minutes. Even though Jess would have loved to invite Becker inside, she decided against it. The reason why, she didn't even know herself.

"Thanks for walking me home," she said as she unlocked the front door, still facing Becker.

"Anytime." Suddenly he took a step forward and pulled Jess into a quick embrace, causing Jess' cheeks to turn bright red again.

Jess stepped back from him as soon as he released her. Before she could hide her face from him, Becker placed on hand on her shoulder so she wouldn't move.

"You know, you look really cute when you blush!"

Jess was left speechless, but before the silence turned into an awkward one she muttered a quick "Thank you!"

"Have a good night, Jess," Becker stepped again a little closer and placed a kiss on her cheek before he turned around and left.

He left a smiling Jess behind, who raised her hand to her cheek, covering the place where only seconds earlier Becker's lips had touched her skin.

But all that was yesterday. Today was a whole different story.

This morning, Jess had entered the ARC feeling happy-go-lucky. She had spent the whole night recalling the walk home with Becker, not able to stifle down the feeling that things with him might have taken a step forward.

Jess walked into the locker room just in time to hear Becker finishing up a phone call with someone.

"Thanks a lot! See you later then, love you!" Jess stood for a moment, frozen in shock by what he had just said.

Becker switched his mobile off and placed it in his locker. Then he smiled at her casually, "Good morning, Jess!"

For a blink, she only stared at him, and then she turned around on her heels seconds later. Without looking at him, she headed to the ADD, thinking how stupid she was to think that Becker might be really interested in her.

The rest of the morning she spent avoiding Becker, and during lunch break Jess was able to convince Abby to go to a nearby Café where Jess told her the entire story of what had happened after she had left the pub and about this morning.

Abby tried to convince the younger girl that Becker might have just been talking to his mum, though she knew that this was an unlikely scenario since Becker had hidden his private life away from all of them.

Once the break was coming to an end, they returned to the ARC together. Just as they walked around the last corner they spotted Becker standing on the other side of the street talking to a brown haired girl who seemed to be close to Becker's age. They seemed to be really comfortable with each other.

Both girls stopped in their tracks, starring across the road. "Do you know who she is?" Jess' voice was shaking.

"No, sorry!"

The unknown girl pointed towards Abby and Jess when she spotted them, causing Becker to turn around. He waved at them and seemed to nod as an answer to whatever it was that the girl had asked.

What happened then was something that Jess saw through a haze. Becker embraced the unknown girl and kissed her cheeks before she headed to a car and drove off.

"Abby, tell Lester I'm feeling really sick!" Jess muttered, and without waiting for an answer she headed toward the parking lot.

And now, here she was on the balcony feeling even more stupid than she had this morning. Jess tried to sort her feelings and thoughts. She wondered why on earth she couldn't be a little more like Abby when it came to emotional things. Why had she gotten her hopes up yet again?

When Jess couldn't take it any longer, she reached out for the book she had brought with her, hoping it would still be able to take her away from reality like it had in her childhood years.

She began to read and within minutes she was lost in the world of Narnia.