A breath taking Johnny stood before her. "Johnny!"

Johnny had this confused look in his eyes. "Baby?"

"Come in." I said opening the door all the way to let him pass.

"I wasn't sure who I would be meeting." Johnny said as he laid his blazer on the couch.

"I can imagine." She said smiling so sweetly at him.

"But, I won't complain." He said giving her a quick wink.

"I know you probably think this is crazy huh?" Baby motioned for him to take a seat on the couch.

"Nah, I wouldn't say crazy. Just weird." He said smirking a little.

"I didn't expect you this early." Baby told him as she took a seat beside him.

"Yeah, I know. I got the message that someone wanted to see me and my curiosity got the best of me and I couldn't wait to see who it was." He admitted.

"Well, I didn't actually call. My friend Amanda did." Baby felt herself blush a little.

"Your friend called huh? Why did she call?" Johnny eyed Baby closely.

"I told her about us meeting earlier today and she thought we needed to meet again. Amanda's crazy. You just have to know her." Baby looked up and seen Johnny's gorgeous eyes shinning back at her.

"You sorry she did?" He asked her.

That question caught Baby off guard. Sure she wasn't sorry. "No. But I am just dying to here what you are thinking."

Johnny leaned back on the couch smiling. He paused for a moment and then began, "Actually I though about seeing you again. Just didn't know how to go about doing it. Don't think we caught up nine years in an hour."

Baby tried to keep from grinning ear to ear. "I though about it too."

"Yeah but you just had someone do your dirty work for ya." Johnny said as he poked Baby in the side.

"Hey now! Watch it!" Baby said defending herself.

"This is a nice apartment you have here." Johnny said as he rose his feet and walked around the living room.

"Thanks, it's my home." Baby watched Johnny's every move. She couldn't help it.

Johnny walked toward Baby's sliding glass doors. "Pretty view too. You spend a lot of time on your balcony?"

Baby walked up beside him. "Nah, hardly ever go out there."

Johnny turned his face to Baby's. "What a waste." Johnny opened the sliding door and stepped onto the balcony. "How can you not use this? It's a sense of peace out here. Come on."

Baby followed Johnny out and took a seat in one of the lounge chairs. "Just never think about coming out here. I stay so busy at times."

"Yeah, I stay pretty busy with plays and such. Not a lot of free time anymore." Johnny took a seat beside Baby. "It's weird how our lives change isn't it? I mean you think your life is going to go a certain way and then it goes a completely different direction."

Baby nodded and Johnny's response. She didn't know what to say to that. She just glanced up at the stars and wondered to herself why she hasn't taken advantage of this view before.

"So, were you late to work this afternoon?" Johnny asked her.

"I was actually on time. I still didn't get my story on your play though." Baby realized what she had said once she said it.

"Story on the play? An article?" Johnny wondered.

"Yeah, when I saw you I was actually supposed to be getting a story on the play. Just didn't quite work out that way." She told him.

"Did I distract you this afternoon?" Johnny leaned up in his seat and looked over at Baby.

"Well, yes, I mean no. No you didn't." Baby realized she stuttered that whole sentence.

"Spill it." Johnny told her.

Baby figured she might as well tell him. "I went to get the story and when I arrived rehearsal was still going. Eric seated me in the audience and I seen you and the other cast. I am surprised you never seen me, you were inches from me at one point."

"Why didn't you say something?" Johnny asked her whole heartedly.

"Scared I guess." Baby started, "Then Eric came and got me and showed me where I was to meet the director and my mind got all flustered then."

"Flustered?"

"Yeah, flustered. I was in a dressing room and Cry to Me was playing in the next room. It kind of got to me so I bolted, only to see you in the parking lot." Baby glanced over at the confused look on Johnny's face.

"So you really didn't see the play?" Johnny now wondered why she lied.

"No wait. I saw it with Amanda the night before. That is where I seen you for the first time." Baby probably knew she was digging herself a deeper hole.

"Oh I see. That song still got to you after all these years?" Johnny leaned closer to Baby. "Why?"

"It just did." Baby began to fidget a little.

"Well, honestly when I hear that song still I think of you too. That was the song we first made love too. I can see it like it was yesterday." Johnny said looking up at the stars. "We were crazy back then, crazy about each other."

Baby let out a little laugh that helped ease her nervousness. "Can we talk about something else now please?"

"Now I am not letting you off that quick." Johnny said snickering again. "Let's indulge ourselves in this conversation."

"No. Let's change the subject." Baby insisted.

She was making herself too vulnerable at that moment. She had already told too much now. She could let Johnny know how hung up on him she still was.

"Okay, we will talk about anything you want to talk about." Johnny reached over to gently touch Baby's hand. "Now really tell me all about Baby Houseman now."

"Like what?" Baby asked as chills ran down her spine from Johnny's touch.

"Well, you told me all about your family and friends but I want to know about the Baby now. I know too well the Baby back then." Johnny rested his hand on hers.

"What do you want to know?" Baby asked?

"What does the Baby now think about me now?" Johnny asked as he pulled her hand into his.

She wanted to blurt out her feelings that second but something was telling her to keep guarded just a while longer. It was about to burst inside her but she had to be strong. "I think you are still the same man you were back then just a little older.

"Yeah, you are probably right. Sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same." Johnny winked at Baby.

"What do you think about me?" Baby asked him in return.

"I think there is a lot of mystery in you now. You were just a kid back then and now you have grown up into an amazing woman. A lot I don't know but would like to know. Johnny let go of Baby's hand and stood up to prop himself against the railing to look out at the night sky. "Never in a millions years would I have dreamed I would be standing next to you again."

"Is that bad?" Baby walked up next to Johnny and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Of course not. You know, I started to pick up the phone and call you hundreds of times. I just would tell myself that you had moved on." Johnny pulled Baby up against him. "I am so confused right now. You have my mind running circles."

"I know what you are feeling." Baby looked up at Johnny's eyes. "I feel it too."

Johnny's arms were wrapped tightly around Baby's waist as Baby's arms rested on his back. Neither said a word. They just wanted to hold each other and absorb it all in.

Johnny pulled gently away from her. "After nine years I am not supposed to feel this way."

"How is it you feel?" Baby wondered.

Johnny's face began to form a little grin. "Didn't you want to change the subject earlier? Seems like a good idea now.

"Now that is not fair. We are not changing the subject now." Baby playfully pointed her finger at Johnny. "It's your turn to spill it."

"I can't Baby. It's more complicated than that, more than you will ever know." Johnny slid the sliding glass door open. "I really need to go. I promised some of the crew that I would meet them for a drink tonight."

"Oh okay." Baby tried not to let her disappointment through.

She walked him to her front door but had mixed feelings about why he was really leaving. "Did the conversation we just had have any affect on you wanting to leave?"

"The conversation was getting a little deeper than it needed to get but I really do have to meet some friends." Johnny leaned over to Baby and gave her a soft peck on the lips. "Don't worry."

"If you say so." She sighed.

"I do." He said smiling. "Talk to you soon."

And with that he was out the door. He left Baby speechless. She didn't know which end was up of which end was down. She was so confused beyond compare. It was such a weird conversation they had. She had no idea what to make from it.