The next morning the first sunlight woke CD up. It wasn't time to get up yet. Their shift started at 10am today. Slowly all the memories of the last night came back to her mind and she finally realized that she hadn't dreamt it, that she was really lying in Nate's arms. She turned and softly kissed him, not wanting to wake him.

"Hmmm" he mumbled, waking up as she stirred in his arms. Then he too realized he wasn't dreaming and kissed her back. "I think I can get used to this." He whispered.

"Yeah, me too!" She smiled happily. "Sorry, I didn't meant to wake you."

"It's okay. I'm glad you did." He kissed her again. "I like being woken up like this." Smirking he kissed down her jawline and slipped his hand under her shirt and gently caressed her belly.

"Okay then." She smiled at the touch of his hands. This whole thing felt so good. She sighed while her hand stroked through his hair.

He kissed her lips again. "Want me to make coffee?"

"Sounds good to me." She got up. "I'll just go to bathroom. Be right back, okay?" She kissed him and left.

Nate followed her with his eyes and then got up too. He felt like the happiest man on earth and still couldn't believe this was all happening to him.

Jinny woke up when something really bright shined into her face. On her way to the bathroom CD had opened the curtains quietly. She cringed and turned around and wanted to hide her head under the pillow when she realized that she wasn't in her own bed. That made her snap awake right away and she looked around the room and groaned when she realized she had no idea where she was. "Great... back to my old self." She muttered and saw she was wearing somebody elses shirt.... a way too big shirt. When she got up she saw that her clothes were scattered all over the room. Taking a deep breath she gathered them and walked outside and gasped in shock when she saw who was making coffee in the kitchen, wearing boxers and a shirt. 'Oh god CD's gonna kill me.' she thought to herself as she walked into the kitchen.

Nate was about to turn on the coffee machine when someone entered the room. He turned around and saw Jinny standing there. "Morning, beautiful. Slept well? How are you doing? Last night you were a little drunk." He smiled. "I already got up to make some strong coffee. You want some?"

She swallowed. "Uhh yeah sure... Look... about last Nate... ehhh... last night... and with me being drunk and everything..." She wasn't sure how to tell him that she didn't even remember haing slept with him. And she sure hoped that he could accept it as a one night stand and pretend it never happened.

Nate was rather confused. "Hey, Jinny. That's okay. I mean that's what friends are for! I'm glad I could have done something for you to make you feel better." He smiled at her.

"Uhhhh... yeah... I really... appreciate... what you did... just don't do it again okay?" She blinked a little. Even though she had never seen him like this, she was stunned. Right now he acted like a jerk. He had used her when she was drunk to get laid and now expected her to thank him because he had screwed her? All men were jerks. She was certain now.

"Uhm, Jinny. I don't understnad. I mean I would do it again for you anytime. I'm your friend!" Nate stated. Something was going in the wrong direction here, he was sure of that.

At that moment CD walked out of the bathroom again and into the kitchen. She smiled when she saw Jinny was awake and not looking too bad. She put her hand on Jinny's shoulder and slightly squeezed it. "Hey you. I hope you slept well." She then looked at Nate. "And he's right. Anytime. We're friends. So no big deal. It's a damn shame you got drunk though. You should have known you could have come to us."

Jinny swallowed and blinked. Now that was something she hadn't ever expected. She felt like the biggest slut ever and couldn't believe that CD had done what they had done apparently. She blinked at them and watched as CD walked over to Nate and took a cup of coffee from him and handed it to her and then got another cup and took a deep sip herself. Jinny looked at them bewildered and then took a deep breath and cleared her throat. "Alright... I need to set something straight here... I mean I don't know about you guys... and I honestly don't care... I mean.. nevermind. But me.. regardless my former reputation... I don't usually do THIS. And I don't ever wanna do it again either!"

Nate smiled at her. "Hey don't worry. We know that."

CD sipped her coffee and restited the urge to take Nates hand. But that would have been obvious. "Yeah we know, it's all Magda's fault. We know you don't drink anymore and we're gonna help you, no matter what!"

Nate nodded. "We're just glad you're okay again. But we hope that you want to go back to AA again and give it a new start and all, ya know?" He looked at CD and took a deep breath. "Only CD knows this, but I trust you.. so... if you ever need to talk... I mean I'm not an alcoholic but before I joined you guys I had a little coke problem. I know what it's like to be addicted and that it takes a lot not to fall back. We all know you had a hard time. And Magda let you down when you needed her most. That was her biggest mistake. So please Jin, don't feel desperate. You still have your family, and your other friends. We can't substitute Magda, we know that, but we care about you too."

CD put her hand on Nate's when he talked about himself being addicted once. "You can count on us, Jinny!"

Not only Nate's confession shocked her. All they were talking about was her drinking and how worried they had been. "I... I just... I couldn't go back to that empty appartment anymore. I thought Jack was the big prize, ya know? Married to a guy who's an alcoholic too, who seemed to understand me... everything seemed so perfect. He always said he loved me... but now I'm not even sure he ever did. And I know I never loved him either. I just... I needed somebody. And he came along... I guess that's all that was to it. And I wanted to talk to Magda... to tell her how I feel. To tell her I realized that Jack was an excuse. That I never had the love I knew I had with... ya know..." She still couldn't really talk about Teddy and everything that had happened. "And now... now everything there remids me of Jack." She made a face at that. "I'd move back to my dad again... but he lives with Ronnie now. So I guess I'll just have to find a new appartment." She sighed and shrugged and took a deep breath.

"Hey Jin, no matter what, we're here for you." Nate said. "And as for the new appartments, I mean hey, if worst comes to worst you two can always bunk out on my couch, eh?" He rubbed his neck. "But I keep my bed. Sleeping on CD's couch last night is killing my back already."

Jinny chuckled at that. "You're getting old my friend" She teased him and was glad that nothing weird had happened the night before and no one had used her drunk state to get laid and even though it still was hard to believe it seemed as if she had some friends who were true friends after all and not self-centered whores.

to be continued...