Emily made a pit stop on the way home. She decided to restock her fridge with cold beers, since Will had left her dry from his last visit. While she was out, she also decided to pick up some desert. Not being able to narrow it down from Tiramisu cake, cookies and cream ice-cream and her all-time favourite strawberries and chocolate dipping; Emily decided on all three.

You can never have too much desert right?

Plus this was the perfect kind of comfort food that she needed whenever seeing Will and Cassandra all- happy- in- love had gotten to her after a long day at work…

Or whenever Dr Bandari was a bitch to her…

Which was EVERYDAY.

Emily opened the door to her neat apartment and started to put her shopping away. She stuck the beers in the freezer to go colder faster and then headed over to her voicemail machine. The little red alert was blinking at her, implying that she had a new message to hear.

Message one received at 8:15 pm:

I can't believe you blew me offfff to make a stupid bookcase!

Hot Molly is in the bathroom. I'm totally wasted, by the way. I think I'm getting some tonight! We have been doing these really sexy body shots! The girl is so fiiiiiiiine!

Don't worry about Dr Patnum. He seems to be flirting with that nurse, you know the one that's alwaaaaays smiling and hugging everyone! I think her name is Sunny…or something. The point is they actually make a good couple and apparently they've already slept together before, so there's that.

Anyways, Will has NOT shut up about Patnum following you around everywhere today. I don't think he's jealous because he's making out with Cassandra, right now as we speak….or as I speak…and you listen to this?! I can't be bothered explaining this but-

OH before I forget -MICAH!

He reallllllly likes you Emily! I mean who decides to build a book case instead of having drinks after work? Forget Will and get with Micah. He is totally HOT too, if I swang that way, I'd be all over his fiiiiiiine HOT ass. Seriously girl, you should do the MOVES on Micah tonight… and he totally DIGS you too, so you have nothing to worry about there.

Promise me that you won't be a tool? Oh and please don't overthink it too much either. Screw Will, he doesn't deserve you, but Micah is SO perfect for you!

OH Hot Molly is coming back, I have to go, but I expect to hear all about your time with Micah tomorooooow. Don't let me down! Love ya girl. I'm out.

End of message, to replay the message press one.

Emily didn't take any of Tyra's advice, she knew her friend had one shot too many PLUS TEN, so she just deleted the message quickly. Walking back into her kitchen she started to light some scented candles and spread them around her apartment. When the candles were all in place and the lights were dimmed a little, she started searching through her pile of CDs to find some music. Deciding on Ed Sheeran, she placed the album into her CD player and let her favourite album play. Emily hoped that she wasn't going to give Micah the wrong idea, but this was her normal routine when she came home from work. Candles, wine and some slow music, always had a way of relaxing her after a tiring day at work. While the rest of her friends went out drinking, this is how she blew off steam.

Alone and content… it was so much better than being in a crowded, noisy bar; envious of Will and Cassandra.

Micah knocked at the door, breaking Emily out of her thoughts.

"Hey Micah" she said holding the door open for him. "How was Joyce when you left her?"

"She was fine. I told her that I was going to be helping you with your bookcase tonight, so I couldn't stay with her too long." Micah said stepping into the warmth of her place.

"She seemed happy today when I visited her." Emily said closing the front door behind them.

"My mom's a fighter." He said smiling at her. "Do you like Ed Sheeran too?"

"He is my favourite."

"Same. You have good taste in music, Owens." Micah said smiling. "I bought my mom an iPod a couple of weeks again, because she's been spending so much time in hospital and I wanted her to at least have something to take her mind off things. I put her all my music on there, and some of the stuff she grew up listening to and she fell in love with Ed's songs. She hasn't stopped talking about him since."

"He writes the most romantic songs." Emily said smiling at Micah, as she showed him to the table.

"It's so warm in here! It's freezing out; the snow's starting to come down hard."

"The weather forecast predicted a blizzard some time tonight or tomorrow. I really hope not. I don't like having my car snowed in."

"Me neither, it's the worst." Micah said laughing. "So I got Pad Thai for you and Pad Kee Mao for me." He said pulling the food out of the paper bag. "And money bags."

"Awww Micah, I love Pad Thai, how did you know it's my favourite?" Emily asked excitedly.

"I know a lot about you, Emily." Micah said smiling at her and passing her a money bag. "More than you would think I know." he said laughing a little nervously.

"Have you been stalking me?" she teased playfully, before taking a bite into her entrée.

"Me? Stalking? Why would I… when you already have Dr Patnum?" Micah said nudging her playfully.

"Gross." Emily said widening her eyes in shock. "'ll get us some cutlery… hey what do you want to drink? I have wine, Coke a Cola or beer?" she asked Micah, as opened her fridge.

"What are you having?" he called out from the dining area.

"Wine." She said quickly.

I need wine after the day that I've had at work.

Fighting off Dr Patnum's advances was about as easy as getting Gina to like me…

It was so exhausting and pointless!

"Wine sounds perfect." Micah said walking into the kitchen. "Do you need a hand?"

"Sure…you can get the wine, I'll get the glasses." Emily said passing him the bottle of red wine, as she reached up to get her wine glasses. "Thanks for picking up dinner. I'm starving."

"No worries." Micah said as they sat down to eat.

xx

Emily had no idea how long they stayed at her dinner table, after they had finished their dinner. They had been talking about everything from work and everyday things, to his mom, Dr Bandari and their shared love for Ed Sheeran and his music.

"Okay, favourite song on the album?" Micah asked before taking a sip of his wine.

"Kiss me, track 11." Emily said blushing a little.

"Track 11?" Micah asked raising an eyebrow at her. "Very precise, I'm impressed."

Emily laughed heartedly. "Yours?" she asked before taking a sip of her wine.

"Give me love, track 12."

"Smart arse." She said throwing her scrunched up napkin at his face, Micah laughed. "I really like that one too!" Emily said smiling. "Good choice. Though like every song on that album is perfect, so it's so hard to pick just one."

Micah smiled at Emily. "I should start on your book case before we finish this bottle of wine." He said finishing the rest of the wine in his glass.

"We have finished the bottle." Emily said tipping it upside down to show him.

"Please tell me that we did not just finish a whole bottle of wine between the two of us."

"Hey," Emily said throwing her hands up in the air defensively, "you are just as much to blame as I am."

"You sound like an alcoholic…always trying to blame someone else." Micah said standing up and starting to clear the dinner table.

"Hey!" she said laughing loudly.

Micah carried the empty wine glasses and the bottle to the kitchen, while Emily threw the empty food containers in the bin.

"You didn't have to clean up for me." Emily said, honestly touched by Micah's kind gesture.

"It was no problem…so where's this book case?" Micah asked when Emily turned off the kitchen light.

"It's in my bedroom." She said blushing a little. "Don't be mad, but I've kind of started on it already and you may need to dissemble it. I didn't do a very good job of it."

Micah laughed as Emily lead the way to her bedroom. "I can't wait to see your work of art."

"It's more like a pile of garbage…" Emily said flicking on the light to her bedroom.

"So this is what your room looks like." Micah said smiling a little at Emily. "It's really neat…like the rest of your house. I like a neat girl. Kelly was so messy; you wouldn't think so when you look at her, but she was."

"I can't function if things are neat…and orderly." Emily said. "I haven't slept much in the last two days, because I've been trying to put this stupid bookcase together and I have nightmares that I won't be able to figure it out."

"Wow," Micah said walking around the pile of disaster Emily had created in her attempt to make the book case, "you really did your best, didn't you?"

"I told you I'm really uncoordinated."

"This looks nothing like the picture on the box!" Micah exclaimed holding up the box to show her.

Emily threw a pillow at Micah, hitting him hard in the face.

"Ouch, okay I'm sorry. You did warn me." Micah said throwing his hands up to protect his face. "I just didn't know that it was possible to make something completely different to the box."

"Do you want me to throw another pillow at your face?" Emily asked hotly. "Because I have plenty."

"Point taken." Micah said bending down on the ground to access the damage.

"Is it fixable?" Emily asked sitting down next to Micah on the ground. "Please tell me it is! I really don't want to have to buy another one…this cost me like a hundred dollars!"

"It is, though you're lucky that you didn't do any damage to the frame by placing the screws in the wrong place. It's not going to be that hard to fix, don't worry. I can do this."

"Do you need any help?"

"You know, I think I've got it." Micah said laughing. "You can just watch."

Emily held up the pillow, getting it ready.

"Fine, you can pass me the stuff I need." Micah said laughing. "Screw driver, please Dr Owens."

xx