Erin got woken up the light streaming through the window she opened her eyes, realising that she wasn't in her room and that she didn't have any clothes on, slightly confused she looked around seeing a motorcycle figurine sitting on the dresser that she had given jay for Christmas when they first became partners, she cursed herself as she looked over to her left and seeing jay lying next to her naked with a sheet only covering his lower half
Erin cursed herself quietly as she slowly peeled herself out of bed grabbing one of jay shirts off the bedroom chair in the corner and pulled it on, and tiptoeing out of the room trying to not wake jay up, she snuck down to her room, finding her phone sending Kim a quick text, and went and pulled on some work out gear and headed out the door to meet Kim
Erin stood on the street in the mid- morning doing a few stretches while she saw Kim appear from Adam and her house down the block
'hey, I didn't think we would run today I hadn't heard from you last night' Kim said
'yeah, sorry crashed early, I forgot to text you' Erin said
'ok let's get going' Kim smiled and started jogging down the street
Erin and Kim ran down that path next to the lake like they had been most Saturday mornings since Erin moved into jay's place
'I slept with jay' Erin blurted out which made Kim stop in her tracks trying to catch her breathe
'what' Kim exclaimed
'jay and I slept together' Erin said
'when' Kim exclaimed placing her hands on her hips trying to catch her breathe
'last night' Erin said shyly
'what!' Kim exclaimed again 'was it good' Kim asked
'Kim' Erin said, and Kim gave her a look 'let's just say that jay never disappoints' Erin said
'oh my god….so did you guys talk about it 'Kim asked
'um no… he was still asleep in bed when I left to come running with you' Erin said
'Erin you left him there without a word after you slept together for the first time in 6 years' Kim said
'um yeah… I know I shouldn't have but I think I needed to process it before I spoke to him' Erin said Kim nodding in understanding
'so never disappoints hey' Kim said winking
'oh, Kim no I'm not sharing details he's your best friend and our boss' Erin stated before starting running again
Jay woke once he turned over and he found a empty bed , opening his eyes to see Erin had gone, he rubbed his face with his hands and groaned knowing last night probably shouldn't have happened since they had finally gotten back to being friends again, and now that will all be messed up, he got up pulled on sweats and a hoodie and headed down stairs to get a drink and some breakfast, jay sat down at the kitchen table after he had cooked breakfast for himself, he ate while he scrolled through his phone, he heard the front door open and Erin appear in her running gear
'oh hey' Erin said walking into the kitchen getting a bottle of water
'hey, I wondered where you went' jay stated taking another bite of breakfast
'um yeah I forgot Kim wanted to go running this morning, sorry I didn't wake you, but I was in a rush' Erin said taking a sip of water
'no, it's fine, do you want some breakfast?' jay asked
'um no I'm just going to grab a shower then I have some errands to run and I have to stop by hanks' Erin said grabbing her water and going to head off down the hall
'hey er' jay said, she stopped in her tracks and looked over at him
'last night, um' jay paused
'it was just us getting caught up in the moment jay nothing more ok' Erin said
'um yeah caught up in the moment' jay said
'I'm going to get changed' Erin said, and jay nodded and watched her head down the hallway to her room
A few days passed and Erin and jay just acted like that night never happened, just going back to the way they were even though they both didn't want to but neither wanted to confess that.
Erin sat on the couch eating Chinese takeout one night after an especially hard case involving kids, she watched the tv but not really paying attention, the front door opened and jay came in shrugging off his leather jacket and hanging it one of the kitchen chairs
'hey' jay acknowledged Erin as he got himself a beer, gesturing if she wanted one but she shook her head no as jay then came over to the couch and collapsing next to Erin
'hey, I got food' Erin exclaimed before taking another mouthful
'thanks, geez today wasn't a good one' jay sighed running his hands over his face
'yeah, I know kids' cases are the worst especially like today where the outcome isn't good 'Erin exclaimed sighing
'yeah, I'm glad that I don't have kids, and probably won't' jay exclaimed taking a mouthful of his beer
'yeah, I know right' Erin said 'I thought you always wanted kids' she asked knowing how he always use to say how many kids he wanted
'yeah, I did, and I thought that I would but in the last 6 years I have realised that kids and getting married might not be in the cards' jay said 'I mean my job takes up a lot of my time and being a cop that work crazy hours doesn't help in finding a stable relationship let alone have time for kids' jay said 'after days like today I think if I was that parent I wouldn't cope'
'fair enough, it just you use to talk about taking them to Wisconsin and teaching them to fish and how to play soccer' Erin said
'yeah, well that's when I thought that we would eventually have kids, but things changed, you moved to New York I stayed here and well here we are' jay said 'um I think the game is on' jay said taking a bit of his fried rice
'um yeah sure'Erin said changing the channel to the game, little did she know that something was going to change her life very soon in a very unexpected way