Author's Note: Once again, my apologies for taking some time to update, between school and now a death in the family, I was suffering from some major writers block. I hope this is up to par.

Kat walked into her apartment and looked around, it'd been a few days since she spent any considerable amount of time there. She and Adam had been falling asleep watching movies together as of late. "Home, sweet, home" she said with a touch of sarcasm, since it no longer felt that way.

As she set her purse down and walked into the kitchen the phone rang, and she grabbed for it blindly as she opened her refrigerator. "Adam? I just walked in the door," she said with an almost wistful sigh.

"Wow, you automatically assume its Frog-boy that's calling you, that is so sweet," said a voice laced with laughter.

"Kimberly? Oh my god, hi," she said happily, since she hadn't talked to her in what felt like ages. "I've missed you," she said, trying to avoid the topic of why she thought it was Adam calling her.

"Apparently not as much as you miss Adam," Kim teased. "So, rumor has it you've been spending quite a lot of alone time with our resident frog-prince."

"Yes, I have, and that's ALL Kimberly, and I'm going to bloody smack Rocky, he's the one who told you isn't he?"

"Aww, come on now, be nice to Rocko. I have to kill him first," she replied with a laugh. "Seriously though Kat, what's the deal with you and Froggie?"

"Nothing! We're just friends! Maybe he's sweet and definitely A LOT more handsome than I remember, but we're just friends!" Kat exclaimed.

"The lady doth protest to much, methinks," Kimberly quipped, giggling softly.

"Shut up Kimberly, I'm not protesting anything thank you very much," Kat grumbled.

"Oh come on Kat, you want him, you can admit it to me, I'm one of your best friends," Kimberly tried coaxing it out of her.

"Right, I admit it to you, you call Aisha, she calls Tommy, and everybody is going to trip over themselves to play matchmaker, no thanks, I'll keep it to myself thank you very much," she replied firmly.

Kim laughed, because Kat had inadvertently admitted it even while she was denying it, "Fine, fine. I'll leave it alone. I have to say, I think you guys would make a cute couple."

"Kimberly," Kat said wearily.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm leaving it alone. So anyway, how adorable is that lil' girl of Adam's?" Kim asked, steering the conversation away from Kat's now affirmed crush.

Adam dialed a familiar number after dropping Anaya off at her pre-school class. He didn't want to make this call in front of Rocky because he knew, out of all of them, strangely enough, Rocky was the gossip-queen.

"Hello?"

"Hey songbird, how are you?"

"Adam! I haven't talked to you in forever," Tanya exclaimed, smiling at Zack before heading into the kitchen. "What have you been up to?"

"Nothing much, Anaya is a handful, but mama said that's payback. Kat's been a blessing though, Anaya listens to her more than she does me sometimes," Adam replied with a laugh.

"So you've been spending a lot of time with Kat?" Tanya asked, unsure of how she felt about that. "How's she doing?"

"She's doing good; she seems a lot happier than when I first ran into her. It's almost like old times, her being here," Adam replied, not noticing the slight change in Tanya's tone.

"Really, rumor has it; it's more like new beginnings rather than old times."

"New beginnings? What are you talking about?" Adam asked, caught off guard.

"You and Kat seem to be quite close, closer than you guys were back in the day," Tanya replied. "Is there something going on between you guys? You know you can tell me anything."

"Look, there isn't anything going on between us. Kat's a wonderful, beautiful woman, but we're just friends, honest," Adam told her.

"Right," Tanya replied, "I hate to cut you short hon, but I gotta get to work, I'll talk to you later, and don't wait so long to call me again," she scolded, trying to put aside what she was feeling in the pit of her stomach. She hung up the phone, "Knock it off Tanya" she said to herself; "You love Zack."

Adam sighed as he hung up the phone, "There's nothing between us, we're just friends," he said to himself.

Suddenly there was a loud 'pop' and the car began to shake, "What? You've got to be kidding me," Adam grumbled to himself as he pulled the car off to the side of the road. He jumped out and looked at the back tire, which was now a completely flat. "Damn," he swore quietly and opened his trunk, quickly flipping the bottom up. "Donut, and…" he looked again, "and where the hell is my tire-iron!" He exclaimed.

After calling AAA for some assistance and finding out they'd be at least an hour, Adam called Kat. "Hey Kat, it's me, I've got a favor to ask," he said with a sigh.

"Adam, what's wrong? Are you alright?" She asked worriedly.

"I'm fine, look I blew a tire, I have no tire-iron, and Triple-A is going to be an hour, can you pick Anaya up from school for me? You're already on the list of people who can pick her up, I added you a while ago," Adam told her, staring into his trunk as if he could magically make a tire-iron appear if he looked hard enough.

"Of course I will, take care of yourself Adam, why don't I start dinner when I get home…I mean, back to your place with Anaya, so you don't have to worry about it?" Kat suggested, hoping she'd covered her slip-up, and wondering why she'd made such a slip up at all.

"Sure," Adam said with a relieved sigh, "Thank you so much Kitty, I'll make it up to you. I promise."

"There's nothing to make up, Frog-man, you know I'd do anything for you guys," Kat replied softly.

"Thanks again Kat, it means a lot."

"Any time Adam, I mean it."

Katherine walked into the pre-school building for Angel Grove Schools, "I'm here to pick up Anaya Park," she told the secretary.

"Name please?" The polite old woman asked her.

"Katherine Hillard," she replied, showing her ID. She smiled as the secretary nodded her in, "thank you," she told her before heading towards Anaya's room. "Anaya?" she called, seeing the little girl playing with some friends.

"Kat-erine!" Anaya said happily, jumping up and running over to her, hugging her tightly.

"Hi sweetie," Kat said with a laugh, picking her up.

"Is that your mommy?" One of her schoolmates asked.

"No! I don't have a mommy, I have something BETTER! I have a Kat-erine!" Anaya replied with a giggle as she wrapped her arms around Kat's neck.

Kat laughed softly, "I don't think I'm better than a mommy Anaya," she said kissing her cheek.

"Yes you are! You're the bestest in the whole world!" Anaya said kissing her cheek back.

"Oh sweetie," Kat said not really wanting to cry in front of all those kids, but it touched her deep inside. "Come on, let's go home and get dinner started for Daddy."

"Can I help? Pleeeeeeaaasseeee!" Anaya begged.

"Of course," Kat replied as she carried her out of the school. "I can't do it without you."

Author's Note2: Well, it turned out better than I'd hoped. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.