They were all riding the elevator up for the first time in a week. Everyone had went on a cruise Nick and Jess booked while they were still together. As the elevator stopped at the fourth floor everyone moved to get out into the hallway.

"Hey Jess can I um..." He pointed to the other end of the hall.

"Um, yeah sure." She wasn't sure why he wanted to talk to her and was a little bot hesitant about following him down the other side of the hallway.

"Hey!" Schmidt yelled, "You promised to keep us in the loop!"

Nick waved him off as they both kept walking. When they turned the hall and made sure they were out of hearing distance from 4D Jess had to ask because the suspense was too much for her childlike self to handle, "So, what'd you wanna talk about?"

"Well back on the boat-"

"Cruise!" Jess interrupted out of nervousness and being a know it all.

"What? Oh yeah, same thing whatever. Well back on the thing that floats on water..." He sighed knowing he shouldn't be asking this or even bringing it up, "When I tried to kiss you-"

"I didn't kiss back." Jess thought she knew the end to all of his sentences.

"Well, kind of. It's just, the thing is...you looked like you wanted to, like you were about to." Nick had a hard time looking at her eyes, the whole time he'd stare at them for half a second before staring back down at his shoes, or shaky hands, until his eyes fell on her lips.

"Nick...of course I wanted to and yes I almost did but we both know it would've been a mistake, we would've regretted it."

"I could never regret kissing you." He was definitely standing a lot closer than he initially was at the beginning if this conversation.

Now Jess found herself staring at his lips. Her body ached for him but her mind wouldn't shut up. "Nick, I love you. You know that but we want different things, I don't know what to say."

"So don't say anything. Jess, we've only been broken up for three weeks and it's been the longest three weeks of my life. Yeah we have a lot of stuff to work on and I know we should work on the whole maturity thing on our own but I can hardly get out of bed in the morning without you, let alone trying to grow up. So yes it'll be hard and we'll get in fights. We knew that already though, exactly one year ago today at Cece's non-wedding. Jess, I love you and even if we don't have many things in common I think our love for each other out rules the small things. So don't say anything just let go, don't hold back your feelings for me 'cause I feel them for you too and I can't hold them back. Things will be different this time, now that we know what it's like without each other I don't think I can ever go back to that."

"I don't-"

"Jess, listen to me. Don't say, feel." It was like he was trying to make her pRove her feelings for him all over again, which is exactly what they needed. Which was to start from the beginning but not just to love each other and have fun, but to think about their future and work with each other rather than fighting against each other.

Jess looked him straight in the eye, rested her hand on his shoulder, got up on her toes and kissed him. Soon they became lost in each other and not even five seconds after she wrapped his legs around her waist did they hear a bunch of whistles from the their three other roommates. It was like their roommates was the new fish tank that broke their wild, short lived kiss.