That night Kate was just about to shut her lamp off when she heard her phone vibrating uncontrollably on her bedside table.

Kate picked the phone up and was alerted with a Facebook notification: 'Rick Rogers requests to be friends, Confirm or Cancel.

Kate was shaky for a moment, but she also noticed a message attached to his request, 'Hey Kate, its me Rick, obviously you can tell. I found you on here so I just thought we could be friends to talk some more and just be able to meet up at school. I'll see you tomorrow at your locker? Rick'

And before Kate could realize she accepted. His message seemed sincere enough, and hmm, maybe if I get to know him a little better-

No Kate! You can't think like that. We are just friends. That's all. Nothing else. But I mean he did say he wanted to get to know me better. I'll just see what happens…

Another alert sounded on Kate's phone taking her away from her thoughts

'Hey! You're up?'

'Hey Rick, and yeah I was just about to go to sleep when you friended me, Kate replied.

'Oh damn, I'm sorry, I'll meet up with you tomorrow?'

'No worries and yes I'll see you at my locker. Night'

'Sweet dreams, Kate…'

And with that Kate set her alarm, and buried herself underneath the pillows falling into a deep sleep.

Kate woke up to the sound of her phone's alarm chiming loudly next to her. She blindly searched for it, and hit the snooze button.

Kate fell into her normal routine, until she was out the door, preparing herself for what was to come at school. Especially, with Rick…

Walking up the school entrance's steps Kate felt something she never felt before: butterflies. Kate Beckett never felt butterflies in the pit of her stomach. She especially never got butterflies when it came to seeing a guy.

Be cool, Kate. Just act natural. It's just a guy for cryin' out loud!

Kate headed straight to her locker to pack up her bag for the morning.

Within a minute of opening it she felt two hands cover her eyes, "Guess who?"

"Hi Rick," Kate replied, hiding a small hint of a smile from him.

"Aww come on, you should've guessed," Rick whined.

"Not if I already knew it was you," Kate replied.

"You're no fun," Rick grumbled.

"Oh really? So I guess you found someone else to show you around, huh? Because if I'm no fun, I wouldn't want to have to torture you into having to spend time-

"No, no I'm good," Rick answered cutting her off.

"Well then, what do you have first?" Kate asked.

"Umm I have Chemistry," Rick said in a deflated tone.

"Oh wow I do too. Actually some of my friends do as well. We'll meet them. When we get there I'll make you a map, to help get you around. But trust me it won't be too hard."

"Thanks Kate, I really do appreciate it.

"No problem."

Since Chemistry was on the other side of the school, their walk was fairly quiet until one blonde girl decided to step into Rick's path. So called blonde girl, also known as Kate's ex best friend, although nobody knew that or would know that.

"Hi, I'm Gina. You're Rick right?" Gina asked batting her eyelashes.

"Uh yeah, that's me. I'm new," Rick stated noticing the sparkle leaving Kate's eyes as she backed away from the scene unfolding in front of her.

"Oh yeah that's right, so that means you'll need someone to show you around, right?"

"Well I-

"That's ok, if you need anything and I mean anything, Gina said looking him up and down, here's my number"

Gina grabbed his hand and before he could pull away, she quickly scribbled his number down on the back of his hand.

"See you around Rick," adding an extra sway to her hips as she walked away.

Rick turned around about to say something to Kate, but she was nowhere to be seen.

Shit, what just happened?

Finally finding his way to Ms. Park's Chemistry class, with two minutes to spare, he was desperate to find Kate. He needed to find out what happened and why she left.

Walking inside the classroom he spotted Kate sitting at one of the black tables with two boys and a girl who she seemed pretty close to.

Walking towards her, he sat down on the opposite side of her and her friends.

"Kate, what happened? Why'd you leave?"

"I didn't want to be late, sorry," Kate said insincerely, avoiding his gaze.

Rick didn't look convinced, but that was the end of their conversation when Ms. Park walked in and instructed them to start reading chapter 1 of their textbooks.

Throughout all of her classes with Rick that day, she barely talked to him. Who was he kidding it was like he was invisible. Rick couldn't take it anymore. He decided that after English he would get to the bottom of whatever was clearly bothering her.

He quickly scribbled on a piece of paper, passed it to Kate, and continued the assignment.

At first Kate ignored it, but her curiosity got the best of her and when she opened it she instantly regretted it.

Meet me outside by the bench near the school stairs.

Kate sighed but nodded and returned back to her work.