1CHAPTER 9

It was Friday and Emma couldn't have been more relieved. Tomorrow was Saturday which meant that her, Craig and Marco were off. They were so lucky. Poe had decided that since they came and opened up every day and were here to close that he would give them the weekends off from now on.

Marco and Craig had already headed to Manny's to get movie night started after she reassured them that she could handle closing by herself.

There wasn't much to it just cleaning up a bit and counting receipts and such. The Store closed at seven on the dot so it was just getting dark outside and all.

'I hate day light savings'

She liked it better when it got dark early.

She was mid count on the receipts when she heard a knock on the door.

Without looking up from the corner, "We're closed!", pointing to the sign in the window with the times.

She heard it again, she ignored it feeling kind of weird, but she felt safe. She had the alarm on and all the doors were locked not to mention she had the store phone and her cell phone with her.

She knocked again.

"UGH"

She turned to the door, "We're..."

And stopped when she saw who it was.

Her breath caught in her throat.

She hadn't seen him in three weeks.

There he stood with that smirk.

'God he is so sexy'

'Stop it Emma'

She walked over to the window.

"We're closed Jay"

"No really? I had no idea. I mean besides the sign you were so kind as to scream it through the window."

She looked at him at shook her head, she hated sarcasm. But she hated even more when he did it. She rolled her eyes crossed her arms over her chest and shifted her weight from one leg to the other and arched her eyebrows as to say 'what the hell do want'.

"Emma will you just let me in, I only wanna talk."

She laughed harshly.

"Talk! Since when is that all you wanna do."

"Please Emma"

She looked him and saw that he was serious.

"Fine! But the minute you try something. I scream."

He smiled that sexy smile and she disarmed the security code and unlocked the door and let him in.

When he was in she locked the door and turned to face him.

He was staring around the room and probably looking for something he could steal.

"What do you want Jay?"

"Where is your boyfriend?"

He looked around and only heard music, the rest of the place was quiet.

"What is this crap?" he said with a disgusted look on his face, he knew what it was though. He just wanted to get a rise out of her.

"It is not crap!"

He loved it when she got all riled up. Her face would get flushed and it was really sexy.

He scoffed, "Psychedelic Furs", he rolled his eyes and looked around.

She was caught off guard. She hadn't thought he would know anything about music unless it talked about guns and hoes and whatever else all that music suff was.

She saw his eyes widen a little. I guess he caught himself.

"I mean..."

"Don't even try Jay, I heard you. What do you know about them anyways... who would thought Jay Hogart..."

"Well there is a lot you don't know about me, Emma" he raised his voice a little.

She flinched a little.

He closed his eyes.

"I'm sorry Emma, that wasn't why I came here."

"Then why did you come here then Jay?"

Emma began to feel uncomfortable as she stood there.

They both felt the energy in the room change. It wasn't anger anymore. His face changed when he looked back up at her.

She backed up a little as her started towards her.

She backed up into the counter ledge. When she felt her bare back hit the cold glass she shuddered.

Jay caught sight of it in the dark as he pushed his body up against hers.

He looked down in the dark and smiled. "This dress is very you Emma"

He stared appraised at her pink and yellow plaid backless halter dress, which Manny swore would look awesome on her. He was undressing her with his eyes. All she could think was:

'Kill Manny when you see her'

He ran his hands up her arms and over her shoulders looking her in the eyes. He had to bend down slightly to be at eye level. She was wearing white flip flops, she was very tall but still small compared to him.

She never felt small but when she was around him, she felt tiny.

In the dark she could see his blue eyes sparkle with something she couldn't quite make out.

"I- I ...I thought ... you came here to... just talk?"

She could barely get it out, she felt as if some invisible hand was cutting off her air supply.

He smiled that sexy grin he knew she could never not even if she tried, could never resist.

"I thought you were gonna scream."

He said the last word before his lips touched hers softly.

A/N: Enjoy!