Alec wandered around TC watching everyone train, then he spotted Joshua.

"Hey Josh, haven't seen you in ages buddy!" he said.

Joshua turned to reveal a bundle in his hands. "I've been helping Gem look after Harmony," he said. "Then Joshua have to organize food."

"So you've been kept busy huh?" Alec asked amused.

"Yeah," he answered. "I saw Jade before. I show her the piano I found."

"There's a piano here?" Alec asked, amazed.

"Yeah, wanted to show Alec but Alec busy too," he grinned. The baby in his arms mumbled something and he started rocking it. "Joshua must go or baby wake up."

"Sure buddy, have fun," Alec said, "wait, where's the piano?"

"On the Fifth street."

"Thanks buddy." He then wandered off to look for the piano, he needed to relax. He also needed to find Blake. Dix had told him that Max had been asking to see Jade's file and when he had refused she hadn't seemed too happy. Alec had then asked him why he had refused to show her the file, it was supposed to be open to everyone at TC. Dix had just shrugged and said something about Blake so he was going to ask Blake about it. He rounded the corner when his sensitive ears picked up music. He snuck into the room quietly, Jade was sitting at the piano, playing a song. She turned when she sensed someone else in the room. She relaxed when she saw that it was him.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey, what song was that?" he asked, he had really like that song.

"Um, it's by Bryan Adams. It's called 'Everything I do, I do it for you.'

"It's a really nice song."

"Yeah," she sighed, "it is. It was Sam's favorite."

"Sam?" he asked.

She didn't answer, just kept staring at the keys. She looks so sad and small he thought to himself.

"Jade, what's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing," she whispered.

"Tell me," he insisted.

"I cant."

"Why not?"

"Because you wont understand."

"That's what you said last time Jade and we still haven't talked about last time. So you pick. Do you want to talk about what's bothering you or continue with what we started?"

She looked at her hands, contemplating. Then she took a deep breath and said, "what were we talking about last time?"

He looked at her in surprise, he had thought that she would want to talk about this. Then his eyes narrowed that just means that this must really be bugging her. When he didn't say anything she looked over at him, eyebrows raised.

"Well, I asked you if we could start over again and you said no, then you said you'd think about it. Well you've had time to think about it so what?"

She sighed again and thought for a while before she said anything. "Alec, you know that I love you," she started then stopped when she saw the joy in his eyes, "but," and the joy was gone and replaced with pain. "But I just. Every time I look at you all I see is Max." she hesitated, this was so hard, how could she make him understand. "It's the damn photographic memory coming into play," she said to try and lighten things up, it didn't work. He still looked downcast, she sighed again, "I know that you didn't do it deliberately but I just. I don't know." She covered her face with her hands.

He watched her struggle with what she was trying to say. He still didn't understand what it was she was trying to say to him but what he did get was that she didn't want him. He put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her into him. She didn't resist, just lay there in his arms. Something Blake said came into his mind then. "Jade," he said, "Blake said something about you having trust problems before you met me."

"Yeah," she mumbled into his chest.

"What was that about?" he said, looking down at her.

"Just stuff," she answered.

"Ja-ade," he said, "you said you wanted to talk about this remember? So talk to me."

He felt her grip on his jacket tighten then she straightened up and said, "do you know why I decided to trust you Alec?"

"No," he answered truthfully.

She looked down and answered him with her head bent. "I know that this is going to sound horrible." She stopped then took a deep breath and continued, "I thought that because you had been hurt before and that you knew how it felt, you wouldn't ever do that to me."

Alec looked at her in shock. She was with him because he thought that he wouldn't hurt her after what had happened with Rachel. Well that didn't really work did it he thought to himself bitterly. She was still looking at her hands when he tilted her face so she was looking at him. "You're right. I do know how much it hurts, that's why I wont ever do anything to hurt you intentionally."

She stared back at him, not really understanding what was happening. "I know that I wont ever do anything to hurt you Jade, I also know that there is nothing that we can do about our memories which is why I'm asking you if we can start over. Do you think that we can do that?" he asked hopefully.

She felt the smile cross her face. He did understand. Well sort of anyway, but he was getting there which is all that counts. "You know that it can't be the same as before right?" she asked.

"Yeah, I know. But I'll do anything to make it better okay?"

She nodded happily then said, "does that mean you'll get me some ice tea?"

"Ice tea!" he said in disbelief. "You want iced tea."

"Yeah," she smirked.

"You little..." then he started tickling her. She tried to get away from him but found that his other arm was just holding her there, she couldn't move. She turned so that she was facing him then kissed him. His hands immediately stilled and she took the opportunity to jump off his lap and ran off laughing. He sat in shock for a moment then started chasing her out of the building. He tackled her and they lay on the ground laughing, breathless. He looked over at her, she looked so happy. He didn't want to ruin the mood but there was something that he wanted to know.

"So what were you upset about before?"

She turned and looked at him. "Can we talk about it later?" she asked as she buried her head into his chest.

"Yeah," he grinned. She was such a baby. "Later."