The past weeks have been interesting as ever at the Nine-Nine. Except for the fact that Jake Peralta confessed he had romantic feelings for Amy Santiago months ago, and now he was back. To say the least it was…awkward. It's not that Amy wasn't happy to have him back, she truly was! However, they had been treading on thin ice around each other since his return. They were attempting to ignoring those words Jake said, and trying to get their relationship to be as normal as possible.

A few weeks into Jake's absence, Amy and Teddy had broken up. She couldn't explain it, but they just had drifted apart. She had mixed feelings about everything, feeling like her brain was playing an aggressive game of tug a war. It seems like many things in the precinct have turned complicated (like the whole Gina and Charles thing, who saw that coming!). However, she knew one thing; she had other feeling for Jake that weren't just platonic.

Amy had always liked Jake, but now she felt that she could like-like him, as childish as that sounds. She enjoyed her cases with him, no matter how strange it ended up being; it was nice in tense situations to be able to crack a smile that was normally put there by her partner. It made her ease up, which she was grateful for (not that she'd ever tell him that of course.)

But before, they mostly just teased each other, whether it was about her bad dates or about his immaturity, but over the past years, they've found themselves realizing that they share a deeper connection and have become conscious of the fact that they both actually…like each other. And that's what's worrying Amy recently; that she knows Jake has more than friend feelings for her, and she thinks she might too. She suspected that there might be something between them after they went on "the worst date ever" because it didn't turn out being bad. In addition, the whole thing with Jake cancelling the relief team was overwhelming. It turned out he didn't want their date to be awful after all! The thought of that made her stomach flip.

Every time Amy glanced over at his desk, he was concentrated at work. She found herself drifting off in thought. They couldn't just pretend Jake's confession didn't happen forever, It was going to have to come out eventually. Was it ridiculous that she actually wanted it to? They had become too close of friends for them to keep being uncomfortable around each other, they had to break the ice and get back into their groove as friends at the least!

Suddenly Amy started to hear snapping of fingers that shook her out of her dazed state. Amy pulled herself together shaking her head and realizing Jake had been trying to get her attention. "Hey Santiago, you see something you like over here? You kind of spaced out for a few seconds there," he questioned while smirking. His eyes giving off a flash of jubilance in them like he always has. However, this time they were hinted with nervousness, not knowing if he could still joke around with her normally.

"No! I was just in deep thought about… a case. I guess I was just really concentrating," Amy states, trying to cover up her rattled emotions that Jake didn't seem to be buying. "You know, what a great detective does," she adds. Quoting what he said about her back when she was thinking of working for The Vulture.

She felt like their exchange was going good, they were close to going back to their typical banter. However Jake rolled his eyes, rubbing his brow and looking down in discomfort.

"You're never going to let that go, are you?" he drawled out.

He ducked his head down out of embarrassment. Jake knows he meant what he said, but emotions have always been hard for him, especially when it came to Amy Santiago.

"Nope! Your words of kindness will always be in my memory," Amy laughed.

However, the problem was that she couldn't get them out of her head for reasons Peralta didn't need to know about…

As uncomfortableness set in, Amy grabbed the files she was supposed to be focusing on in the first place forlornly. She found herself being unable to resist getting one last glance at him before she got back to work. She witnessed him blowing out an uneasy breath silently, that he covered up with a not quite happy smile.

Amy furrowed her eyebrows, concerned at his demeanor. She didn't usually see him in an uneasy state often because of his constant confident facade. But when she did see it on her partner, it made her heart wrench. Battling out how you feel and not wanting to show it, is something Amy knows all too well. She figures he must feel incredibly embarrassed by admitting how he feels and not getting any reciprocation on multiple occasions; not just the "romantic stylez" conversation. This makes her frown and feel terrible about this whole situation. She has to ease his confliction somehow; it's not fair to him to just say nothing!

"Jake!" she said, a bit loudly to get his attention. He looked up and raised his eyebrows, conveying a look of surprise, waiting for her to continue. Amy gathered up her courage to say her next words.

"You're a great detective too, one of the best I've worked with, in fact. I like having you as a partner. Actually I like you a lot in general, even when you push my buttons."

Jake's face slowly went into a pleased smirk. His eyes gleamed in a way that bore playfulness in them, as if he was laughing at his own commentary in his head.

"Thanks Amy," He said sincerely. Giving last smile as he went pack to writing something nonchalantly.

Amy felt a tinge of delight after that, but still a bit uneasy because she knew they were still dodging the "romantic styles" discussion. She once again tried to go back to her file.

"Nope. She didn't like Peralta more than that, not even a little bit," She thought too herself.

"Ok… a man that was 6 foot 2, broke into a Best Buy and—." She was then interrupted from her thoughts by a balled-up sticky note hitting her in the face. She curiously un-crumbled it, and proceeded to read it.

"I knew you actually liked me! I'll try not to be so extremely amazing so I'm not as distracting to you. You can't help but gawk at me at my desk! Don't want you getting lost in thought about me. ;)"

Amy's jaw dropped to the floor at his preposterous, egoistic note. She angrily crumbled it back up and saw him starting to walk away. She threw it at the back of his head.

"I was trying to be nice! You're such a butthead!" she yelled over at him as he turned smirking, picking up the sticky note from the floor.

With a wide grin he on his face, he tossed the sticky note back and forth from hand to hand, and then met her infuriated look.

"A butthead who you think is a great detective!" He said suavely, throwing the sticky note back at her that she rolled her eyes and caught.

He gave her a softer look from his previous one, as he turned into another room. She couldn't help biting back a smile like she always ended up doing with most of their exchanges. Amy breathed out relief; maybe things could go back to the way they were… She fiddled the sticky note between her fingers, grinning down at it still. She suddenly halted her movements and dropped the sticky note back on her desk.

There it was again. That giddiness and warm feeling that was residing in her at this moment that made her eyes widen in shock. She put her head into her hands, "Oh no…" Amy muttered under her breath sighing.

Things were going to get much more complicated indeed…