With a small grin on his face and butterflies in his stomach, Kai stepped up to the door of Jay's apartment. On the way there Nya had texted him saying she had left their apartment about twenty-five minutes ago. She had told him that she was out studying with friends and probably wouldn't be back until later tonight. Since Kai wasn't working tonight, he hoped they could get some takeout and just hang out like they used to. Now though, he wanted to get to know Jay better and apologize to him for the way he talked to him the other night.

He could tell the look in his eyes that Jay was truly worried about him and it felt nice for someone to be worried about him.

He had Nya, but that was different, she was his sister and they were bound to worry about each other. He didn't understand these feelings, but Kai felt a faint blush spread across his cheeks at the thought of Jay. Every time he saw Jay, or thought about him, or even heard the name Jay his heart started racing and he felt light-headed. Sometimes he felt like curling up and hiding and singing and laughing all at the same time. He had never felt like this before in all his life.

Kai couldn't help how he was feeling.

He was so excited to see Jay again, and hopefully, he'd be able to make sense of these emotions soon. He took a deep breath, hoping the faint blush had faded, before knocking on the door. It quickly opened and Kai saw an excited Jay standing there. He opened the door more so that the brunette could come into his apartment.

"Come on in!" He grinned at the neighbor.

Kai smiled and made his way inside. He glanced around in surprise when he saw that the place was almost all the way unpacked. That was really fast considering he only moved in yesterday. As his eyes looked around, Kai saw a young-looking blond on the couch, but the boy quickly stood up to attention when he saw the brunette. Kai realized that this must have been Jay's friend Lloyd. The agent wasn't wearing a disguise anymore. He had washed all the black hairspray out of his blonde locks and had taken out his dark brown contact lenses to reveal his emerald green eyes.

Thankfully Kai didn't seem to recognize him.

"You must be Kai, it's nice to meet you." He said, a little stiffly as he tried to mask his voice, and held out his hand. Kai froze for a moment as Jay shut the door and headed over to them. There was something about Jay's friend that was disturbingly familiar but he didn't understand why. For a brief second, Kai feared the blonde-haired was a customer at the club. He had to push those feelings down for a moment, however. He didn't want to cause a scene in Jay's apartment, especially if the ginger didn't know what he did to put the beard on the table.

Kai walked over and gave him his handshake.

"Uh, yeah, and you're Lloyd, right?"

"Yes, I'd like to say that Jay's told me a lot about you, but he only mentioned your existence yesterday."

"Oh, we only met yesterday," Kai explained, ignoring the skip in his chest as he realizes that Jay must have talked to someone shortly after meeting him.

"That explains it." Lloyd nodded as Jay glanced between them.

"You guys like video games? I just got the new Starfarer one."

"Oh, what's that?" Kai frowned, thinking back to what he knows about video games, came up empty.

"Starfarer is a science fiction comic series," Lloyd replied. "I think they started making movies based on those."

"Yep! I own them all." Jay proclaimed proudly.

"I never should've introduced him, he's obsessed with it now," Lloyd told Kai, rolling his eyes. "I'm starting to think he's going to try to build his own spaceship."

"Ooh, that's a good idea!" Jay grinned, walking over to the TV and starting to set up a console.

"Please tell me you're kidding." Lloyd moaned at the ginger in annoyance and amusement, sitting back down on the couch. After a moment, Kai followed suit, glancing back and forth between the two friends, feeling a bit like a third wheel.

"When do I ever kid?" Jay mocked, but it was sincerity is doubtful, especially considering the laughter that followed.

"I have yet to see you go one day without pranking someone." Lloyd snorted and Kai frowned slightly. Jay and Lloyd clearly know each other well, and he felt slightly out of place. Fortunately, Lloyd seemed to notice this.

"Are you any good at console games?"

"I've, uh, I've never actually played." He admitted and Jay looked up at him as if he had just told him he'd murdered his sister.

"We need to fix that." He insisted before getting up, handing his guests each a controller before grabbing his own. He then smushed himself in between the two of them, despite the lack of room on the couch.

"Hey!" Lloyd complained, but after a brief moment of uncomfortable squished-ness, he got up and sat on the floor. "I am not dealing with that today."

"Did something happen?" Kai frowned in concern, not sure what was happening. Lloyd suddenly hit something on his controller, and the game started up. Neither he nor Jay acknowledged the brunette's question, so Kai just let it go. They killed a good few hours on the video game, and Kai discovered that Jay was really, really good at video games. Lloyd was decent, and Kai had died at least thirty times. In all fairness, however, he'd never played a console game before.

Those things were always way outside of his budget and he and Nya never really played them before anyway.

That didn't stop his neighbor from laughing at him though and for some reason, Kai didn't mind being laughed at. As long as the ginger-haired man was smiling, Kai was happy because to him that smile was cute. It was almost unfair how adorable it was. It was almost cute as Nya when she smiled for the first time when she was a baby, almost. Kai died in the video game a few more times just because he couldn't tear his eyes off of his neighbor.

It was then Kai finally realized he loved his new neighbor Jay Walker.

Unfortunately, Lloyd seemed to notice this before Kai did. Hopefully, he was not going to tell Jay. Kai was still not entirely certain that the ginger felt the same or if this was a little crush or not yet. He was pretty sure they weren't, but it was better safe than sorry. Time flew by all too quickly, and Jay eventually turned off the video game.

"I should get going." Lloyd started, beginning to make his way towards the door.

"C'mon, you guys can at least stay for lunch. I'll order us some pizza." Jay offered. Lloyd looked at Kai, which caught him by surprise that he wanted the brunette's opinion.

"Uh, I could stay a little longer." Kai agreed and Jay brightened up, turning to Lloyd. "Just for another half-hour?" He pleaded. The blond hesitated a beat, but ultimately gave in with a nod, and Jay gave a fist pump before pulled his phone from his pocket.

"Any requests?" He and Kai quickly shook his head.

"I'm good with anything." He shrugged. After taking Lloyd's order Jay dialed the number for the nearest pizza place, and Lloyd gestured for Kai to follow him out of the room. The brunet hesitated a moment but did as instructed. Jay didn't notice that they had stepped out of the room, or if he did he didn't say anything. Once they were in the other room, the blond turned to Kai.

"What do you want with Jay?" He demanded with an angry flame in his green eyes.

"Huh?"

"I know who you are, Kai Smith, now what do you want with my friend?" Lloyd repeated and Kai paled in horror, but that fear quickly turned into anger.

"What's it to you?" He snapped, narrowing his eyes. If Lloyd hadn't figured it out, he was sure as hell not going to tell him.

"He's my friend, and I happen to care about what happens to him." The blond shot back. "Now answer the damn question or I'll call the cops on you." He threatened and Kai hesitated. He knew most cops didn't give a damn about one dirty little prostitute like him and would probably let him go with a warning, but if they had his name, it could put Nya at risk, or at least make her aware of his job. Not to mention how Chen would react. Almost half of the cops in the city were in that man's pocket after all.

If he heard Kai was being investigated by the police that could put his business at risk and that would be worse for Kai than getting arrested.

"You can't do that, Jay and my sister don't know what I do for a living." He argued. He knew that Lloyd likely knew that and had a retort ready, but to his surprise, the blond just stared at him.

"They don't?"

"Uhhhhh nope." Kai gulped and glanced away, but Lloyd sighed in frustration.

"But even if those two don't know, that doesn't explain the way you were looking at Jay."

"I don't have to answer your questions."

"Kai, I've been more than lenient with you, but-"

"You have?" He snorted and the blond glared.

"What do you want with Jay?" He demands.

"Well, I just want a friend, maybe something more." He admitted, only for his stomach to drop in horror when he realized what he'd said. He looked back at Lloyd and saw his green eyes widen.

"I see." He frowned, clearly deep in thought. A few conflicted expressions cross his face before it goes blank, so calm that it's obviously a mask.

"Don't tell him I told you that." Kai pleaded and Lloyd paused.

"Okay, I won't." He agreed and Kai breathed a sigh of relief. Just then the brunette's cellphone started ringing, and he muttered a curse when he saw it was from Skylor, turning away from Lloyd.

"I need to take this." He said and without waiting for a response, he stepped out of the room, past Jay and into a different section of the apartment.

"Hey, Sky, what's up?" He asked casually, but he knew that if she was calling then it must have been serious.

"Kai, you need to get to the club now!" She exclaimed in panic, and Kai straightened up in concern.

"Why? What's going on?"

"Nya's here!"...