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I lurrrrrrve this chapter. 'Tis my favourite. Also I'll probably be continuing this for season two. Yay! anyway enjoy. During Pascal's Triangle Revisited.

Decision.

Annie searched through the hundreds of bodies in Abed's dorm (seriously, was it always that big?) for some one in the study group. She'd just spent the last half hour trying to process what Vaughn had told her, trying to figure out what to do. This was one of the biggest decisions she'd ever have to make and she was completely alone while making it. It wasn't good for her. She was looking for Jeff in particular. Jeff was smart, and he usually knew what to do. Jeff could tell her what to do.

She spotted Abed talking to a curvy blonde who looked like she could be a model. She laughed to herself. She was really going to miss her friends.

"Have you seen Jeff?" She asked him, and smiled at the model making sure she hadn't just cock blocked anyone.

Abed thought about it for a moment. "Last I saw him, he and Shirley were getting drunk by the keg in my room. If it went successfully they're probably both still in there."

Annie nodded and said goodbye before going to Abed's bedroom. As usual, Abed was right. Jeff was sitting in the bottom bunk of Abed's bed laughing drunkenly, and Shirley was passed out beside him with her head in his lap.

"Annie!" He exclaimed when she walked over to them.

"You're sure having fun" Annie said smiling at him. Jeff laughed.

"I'm soooo drunk" he said grinning at her.

"You don't say."

"That was sarcasm. You're being sarcastic. See, I'm not an idiot" he said, he tried to make a serious face, but instead he looked confused, and slightly crazy. Kind of like when he did his Forrest Whitaker eyes.

"No, just dangerously drunk."

"Pfft" Jeff said. He looked like he was about to say something, but quickly thought of something else more important to say.

"Annie, how am I going to get home?" He asked. He looked generally worried. "I can't stay at Abed's. I'm not homeless. Homeless people stay at Abed's."

Annie tried not to laugh since drunken Jeff was clearly very sensitive about this.

"Give me your keys, I'll drive you home" Annie offered. Jeff looked appalled.

"No one drives the Lexus" He said in a very solemn tone.

"Fine, you can stay here then" She said. Jeff pouted and rooted through his pocket for about three minutes, before he found his keys. He threw them at Annie's head, but she caught them in time.

"What about Shirley? We can't just leave Shirley" Jeff said, panicking again.

"I'll bring Shirley home too, don't worry" Annie said.

She brought Shirley to Jeff's car. She got Abed to help her, cock blocking for real this time, seeing as Jeff was barely able to walk himself. Annie put Shirley comfortably in the backseat, while Abed strapped Jeff down in the passenger seat. Annie could hear Jeff invite Abed to go bowling because he was his best friend, and laughed. Once the two drunken messes were securely fastened Annie said goodbye to Abed and started the car. Apparently, Abed was a better charmer than he had credit for, seeing as when she drove away she could see the model praising him for helping his friends.

The drive to Shirley's was insufferable. Jeff was singing More Than a Feeling at the top of his lungs, and every time Annie suggested they listen to music instead of singing it, he'd slap her hand away from the radio.

They made it to Shirley's in one piece, and the babysitter helped Annie bring Shirley inside, while Jeff waited in the car. Still singing. By the time Annie got back to the car, Jeff had fallen asleep. His head was pressed to the window in a really uncomfortable looking position.

She listened to the radio for a bit, on the way to Jeff's apartment, but she couldn't find a good station so she just turned it off. Oddly enough, the silence made Jeff wake up again.

"Are you kidnapping me?" He slurred quietly. Annie smiled.

"Not tonight."

She glanced at him. He was smiling up at her with the look on his face. She'd seen that look a million times now. She still had no idea what it mean, but she'd decided to just enjoy it when it was there.

"Annie?"

"Yeah?"

"If you wanted something really bad, but if you asked for it, you could lose it? Would you?"

"I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say" She said trying not to laugh at his badly formed question.

"Let's say there's a piece of cake. And you really like this piece of cake. And you want to have the cake all to yourself, but then a stupid shirtless hippie got to the cafeteria before you and took the cake. And then you decided you were tired of watching the hippie eat your cake. Would you tell the cake how you feel?"

Annie's heart raced. Cake? Shirtless hippie? Was he talking about Vaughn? Was he jealous of Vaughn? Was she the cake?

"Maybe you can split the cake in half" she said warily.

"It's not really a sharing kind of cake" Jeff said. Annie risked a glance at him. He was studying her carefully. He wasn't even blinking. His gaze was serious and intense. Sure, he was still half asleep from the alcohol, but that didn't take away from his stare.

"Well then, maybe you should just get another piece of cake."

"I don't like any of the other pieces."

"Why not?"

"They're not from the same cake."

Red light. She turned to look at him. They just looked into each others eyes for a minute. Annie was scared. She didn't know what Jeff was talking about. She had an idea, but that idea made her nervous, and anxious, and hot, and it made butterflies flutter in her stomach, and the world around her spin a little.

"Annie?"

"Yeah, Jeff?"

"Remember the debate?"

Annie gulped.

"Yeah, I remember."

Jeff yawned.

"Remember how you felt?"

Green light.

"Yeah, I do."

Jeff turned to lean on the window again.

"I feel that" he said so quietly it was almost a whisper. "I feel it all the time." And then he was asleep again. The rest of the drive was completely silent, except for their breathing and Jeff's occasional snores.

She woke him up when they got to his apartment. He seemed to be sobering because the first thing he did was grab his head in pain and tell Annie to stop screaming. She helped him up to his apartment silently, and opened the door for him. He frowned and held the bridge of his nose the entire time. Once she'd gotten the door open she gave him the keys and turned to leave.

"Wait" He called after her in a groggy voice. Annie turned.

"I don't remember anything" he said. He paused for a moment, grabbing his stomach as if he was going to be sick but the feeling passed. "I didn't do anything stupid, did I?"

Annie took a deep breath.

"No, you just rambled on about cake" Annie said awkwardly. Jeff looked confused, as he tried to remember what he said.

"I don't even remember the last time I had cake" He said, laughing tiredly. Annie shrugged.

"Oh, and you and Abed are going bowling soon."

Jeff smiled and nodded. He looked exhausted.

"Well...thanks."

"Sure" Annie said.

He walked up to her and kissed her on the cheek before saying goodbye, and going into his apartment.

Annie stood there for several minutes after he'd gone inside. She tried to hear what he was doing in his apartment. What he was thinking. Jeff had feelings for her. That was the only thought going through her mind. Jeff Winger had feelings for her. How hadn't she noticed that he had feelings for her? How had he kept this a secret for so long? When did this even start? Was it the debate? Was it after that? And what about when he dated Slater? Did he like her then?

Annie took a deep breath and went to get a cab home. She thought about Jeff in the cab. And when she got home. And while she got ready for bed. And for the three hours she spent lying awake.

When she woke up the next morning, she told Vaughn she'd go with him. So this is what you're gonna do? She thought. You're really going to run away? She stared at her Spanish textbook lying on her nightstand.

Coward. Why are you leaving? Greendale is where you belong. With Shirley, and Abed. With Pierce's lewd comments, and Troy's stupid ones. With Britta's negativity, and Dean Pelton's crazy. With Jeff Winger. You belong in Greendale with Jeff. You belong with Jeff. Coward.

Annie sighed. She'd tell him before she left. She'd let everyone find out for themselves but she'd tell him. She owed him that.