Roger entered the Staff Lounge to find Jessica curled up on the couch, watching music videos. He put her hot chocolate down on the coffee table and smiled. "There. Last one for today!"

"Thank you," she nodded, grabbing the remote. "Got much work to do?"

"Loads, and loads, and loads," Claypool replied, taking a seat at the table. He drank his coffee and then took some paperwork out of his tray. "Hey, you got an A, way to go," he congratulated her, after a few minutes. "And there you were last week complaining to me, 'Roger, this is soooooo hard, I'm so totally going to fail.'"

The door opened and they looked up to see a very merry Peter Scarbrow coming in. "Morning Roger...Jess..."

"Roger said I could come in here," Jess told him, quickly.

"It's fine with me, just don't tell anyone else," He shrugged, patting her head as he walked past. "Coffee..." He grinned. "So, what you watching?"

"Friends. It's on Roger's approved viewing list," she explained.

"Oh, I love Friends," he said as he sat down, drinking his coffee. He turned to her and added, "I have a crush on Lisa Kudrow."

"I have a crush on Matthew Perry," she whispered back. "And Shelby, for some reason, always liked Ross."

"Really?" Peter laughed. "Shelby had a crush?"

"Major."

"You know that I'm taking The Cliffhangers on a four day hike later, right?" He asked.

She frowned, "Yeah..."

"I just thought maybe you should talk to Shelby." Peter said, putting his drink down.

"It can wait four days." She wondered why all the counsellors recently were on her case about it recently.

"You have a hike straight after that," Roger reminded her.

"I might, okay?" Jess sighed. "Can we just watch the rest of Friends please?" Peter and Roger both smiled at each other, when she said this. She had adopted Shelby's tone.

Friends finished, and Peter looked at his watch. "Jess, it's almost breakfast time. You'd better sneak back to your dorm."

"Okay," she nodded. "Thanks Roj."

"No problem," He waved, casually. She left and Peter headed for the sink, to wash up his mug. "Good kid, isn't she?"

"Jess...yeah, she's great," Peter agreed. "She's a joy to teach."

"Several weeks ago, she came in search of some painkillers for her stomach, and she found me here. It was about 6 am, and we played a game of chess, and I made her a hot chocolate. It's a weekly thing. I don't usually bring her in here though, I just had too much work to play for too long," He explained.

"It's fine with me," Peter shrugged. "I wish she could sleep through til 8 with the others, but...she deserves some attention. She's so good I'm afraid sometimes she doesn't get enough."

"It's true, more time is spent with people like Ryan Davies and Cal McKay," Roj nodded. "Do you think she'll talk to Shelby?"

"I hope so," Peter replied, "I think she will. I know she's trying not to blame Shelby. She's trying to forgive her, but it's hard."

Jess snuck back in to the Ridgerunners dorm and slipped her shoes off. She dived back into bed and five minutes later the alarm sounded. There were various groans and exclamations, as everyone woke up.

"Jess, lazy bones, get up," Libbie Lipinski said, tossing a pillow at her friend.

She got up and had a shower, and then picked out an outfit for the day. She settled on jeans and a blue turtleneck. Then she followed her friends out to breakfast.

While she was in the line to get her food, Jess spotted Shelby and her group, The Cliffhangers, gathered around their usual table in the corner. Daisy and Ezra were sat having a very heated debate about something; Auggie was trying to convince Juliette that she did want to eat her fruit salad; and Scott and David were just eating.

She noticed Shelby wasn't sat by Scott, but by Daisy, and that she looked miserable – even more so than usual. Maybe that's why Peter had been bugging her.

"Jess..." Libbie called, "Jess! Earth to Jessica!"

"What? Oh!" Jess laughed. "Uh, I'll have fruit salad please," she told the server. She took it, poured herself a glass of orange juice and then headed to the Ridgerunners table.

The Cliffhangers began to depart, until eventually only Daisy and Shelby remained. Daisy saw Jess looking over, and gave her a smile. She told Shelby she'd see her later, and left.

Jess brought her tray over and sat down. "Hey."

Shelby looked up, surprised. "Hi."

"Are you okay?" She asked. She wasn't sure how this conversation was going to go. The last few had ended in someone storming out after both of them screamed at the top of their voices and burst in to tears.

"I'm fine," Shelby nodded. "Scott and I had a fight is all. Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I have stomach cramps, but okay," she said. "So what did you guys fight about?"

"Stuff. It's complicated," The older girl shrugged. "So, you decided to stop with the silent treatment huh?"

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Now, I'm going," Jess replied, standing up. "Have a good hike," she said as she departed.

Shelby growled and banged her head on the table. "Ugh."

"Okay, now I feel really bad," Jess sighed and watched from the door. "Sorry Shelby, but I'm not ready yet. I can't forgive you for what you did. Wish I could."