Bit worried about uploading this chapter. Not sure quite how much they are in character. Hope it's okay though.

"No it's just... I... ummm... I need to tell you something." He stuttered.

"Okay shoot." Nikki smiled at her friend's apparent inability to for a coherent sentence.

"Not here. Can you come inside?"

"Sure." She replied. The way Harry was acting was starting to make her slightly nervous.

Nikki walked back in to her friend's apartment and he motioned for her to go through to the living room. She sat back down on the sofa and looked up at him expectantly.

'Oh crap' Harry thought. He was actually going to have to go through with this. What was he going to say? What was she going to say? Would she hate him? Blame him? Feel the same... No, Harry knew she didn't like him that way. She just thought of him as a friend. A good friend. A good friend who had accidently managed to get her pregnant.

His inner ramblings were interrupted when Nikki asked what it was that he needed to tell her.

"Oh... it's just... it's... ummm..."

"Spit it out!" She giggled. Why did she have to think of it as some joke? Why was she laughing at him? Why didn't she understand the exquisite pain that he was in? Because he hadn't told her yet. That's why. Of course she wouldn't know.

It hurt that she wasn't taking him seriously. But then again – why would she? Whenever he had done something to embarrass himself in front of her he would cover it up and make it in to a joke as a way of hiding his true feelings.

'Right. This is it. I have to do it now.' He thought.

Nikki was starting to get slightly nervous. Why wasn't he saying anything? Usually she couldn't shut him up. Surely she wasn't that intimidating that she made him this nervous. Was she?

Was it about the baby? Did he want nothing to do with it? But why would he tell her this now? Especially after they had just had such a great evening together. It didn't make any sense.

"Nikki I..." Harry started, but was cut off by Nikki.

"Is this about the baby?"

"What? No. It's about you."

"Me? What have I done?"

"Nothing, it's just... you... I..."

"You are really not make any sense this evening Harry." She joked. "How much have you had to drink?"

"Not enough for this." He mumbled, but Nikki didn't hear him.

"You were going to tell me something..." She prompted after a couple of minutes of silence. It was a silence which Harry had been grateful for as they had allowed him to regain his thoughts, not that it did much use as his brain was still having difficulty connecting with his mouth.

"Yes I was... I... Shit! Why is this so hard?"

"Why is what so hard? Can't you just say it?" Nikki asked. "I'm starting to get a bit worried."

"Oh, no it's nothing to worry about. Well maybe it is. I don't know. For me it is, I guess."

Harry was struggling to make any sense at all. He wondered to himself why he was finding it so hard to say those three simple words, eight letters. 'Come on Harry' he though. 'It's not that hard'. At the same time another part of his brain was already having a panic attack about her reaction. This was the bit he was most worried about. Telling her how he felt shouldn't really be this hard, he'd felt the same way ever since she broke in to their lab all those years ago.

"Why would you be worrying about it?"

"It doesn't matter. It's not that important. Just leave it."

"No come on, tell me." She coaxed.

"I said no!" He said; raising his voice slightly and making Nikki jump.

"Fine then, suit yourself. I'm going home."

"Fine." Harry replied, knowing it would do no good but having no idea what to do to make her stay.

Coming to a split second (and probably totally crazy, mad and irrational) decision he yelled out to her, just as she reached the door:

"Nikki, I love you!"

There you go. I can't believe I was able to wait a whole 20 chapters before one of them confessed their feelings.

Please review. The more I get the quicker you will find out Nikki's reaction ;)

Georgie xx