They pulled up to the ranch and Matt helped C.J. with her bags, taking them to her usual guest room. C.J. had helped decorate the room in pink and purple years ago when he first bought the place. Matt had told her to do so because they had always spent so much time together, even as kids in Texas and he knew he wanted L.A. to be no different.

Once the bags were upstairs he had asked her if she wanted to go for a swim before he started to cook on the grill. C.J. liked that idea thinking a cool swim would be nice and relaxing . So she went upstairs to put her swimsuit on and Matt also went to put on his swim trunks.

Matt was already outside in the pool waiting for C.J. Thinking this is exactly what they needed to take their mind off of Cassandra. And oh boy was he right. He looked up and saw C.J. coming through the French doors leading from the house to the pool. She was wearing a two piece black swimsuit with gold trim. He couldn't help himself he commented on it.

"Wow….you look great." he said before he could stop himself.

"You don't look so bad yourself." she said smiling, as she was thinking he definitely had a chest to die for, but kept that observation to herself.

Matt watched her as she laid her towel on one of the tables and followed her sleek slender body all the way to the diving board, where she went and dove off that diving board in pure form. She came up from the water smoothing her hair back and wiping the water out of her face.

"That felt good." she said looking over at him where he stood holding on to the side of the pool, heart pounding so loudly it was hard to hear anything else.

"Race ya, loser does dinner dishes." Matt said grinning as if he just knew he'd win.

"Your on, hope you can keep your trunks up." C.J. said grinning back, as they both made their way towards the end of the pool.

They took off and true to form, C.J. beat him and beat him by a long shot as well..

"Yes!!!" ha-ha!!!", she laughed, as he came over to her where she was in the pool.

"Pretty good race Ms. Parsons, too bad the winner gets dunked!!" He said as he pushed her under water laughing.

"Houston!, Your going to pay for that!" she said when she came up for air.

It was on after that, she took off in the pool after him and when she caught him she tried to dunk him, but he was to strong for her and she wound up in his arms. They stood there in each others embrace . As they stood there the radio started playing one of her favorite love songs, "Endless Love". That song seemed to make the tranz they seemed to be in more intense and she knew it. She broke the tranz by pulling down his swim trunks. Matt was so surprised by this he crouched down to pull them back up as she swam away laughing uncontrollably the whole time.

They got out of the pool and went over to where the grill was. C.J. kept a close eye on him until she knew he was preoccupied with grilling for fear he was going to pay her back for pulling down his swim trunks.

"Steaks are done…and btw you will pay for that, you won't know when…you won't know how….but you will pay." Matt said teasingly as she looked back sheepishly.

"Keep it up hot shot, you already have to do dishes." she said taking her plate from him in a kind of seductive manner.

The rest of dinner was spent on the patio terrace enjoying each others company. As it was getting dark they decided to go inside. Matt went into the kitchen to start on the dishes and C.J. followed down behind him helping him with them.

"Hey, what are you doing? The dishes are my job tonight." He asked her.

"Houston did you really think I was going to make you do them by yourself? She asked.

"You won the race fair and square." Matt said as he was washing a dish and taking a salad bowl from her.

"Tell you what, you go make us a couple of drinks and find a movie for us and I'll be in there in a few minutes." he said smiling.

"Ok,sounds good." she said thoughtfully.

Matt finished the dishes and C.J. was already nestled up on the couch with a quilt. He made his way over to the couch and snuggled up beside her as she handed him his drink.

"I'm glad we came out here, I think this was good for both of us." she said as she kissed his cheek.

"Me too." Matt said putting his arm around her leaning over kissing her forehead.