Baby checked in on Josie before she crawled in bed herself. Josie looked so peaceful and seemed to be sleeping well. Baby wished she could say that about herself. Ever since Johnny left Baby has had this awful empty feeling about him. What went wrong? Why did he pull away? All this flooded Baby's mind as she began to feel embarrassed for kissing Johnny. She couldn't help it though, her emotions took control and that was all she wrote.

For so long she fought to put her love for Johnny away but no matter what it seemed to always linger. Every time she looked at Josie's beautiful face she would see Johnny smiling back at her.

Baby's thoughts were interrupted by the telephone ringing. Baby glanced over at the clock on the nightstand which read 11:33 pm.

"Hello." Baby said softly into the receiver.

"Hey."

Baby recognized Johnny's voice on the other end. "Hi."

"Did I wake you?" Johnny asked her.

"No I was actually awake." Baby said smiling at the sound of his voice.

"I can't seem to sleep. I hope it is okay that I called." He told her.

Baby sat up higher in the bed. "No it is okay."

"I just wanted to say that I was sorry for running out on you like that earlier. It was just a very tense moment and I freaked." He told her as he rubbed his forehead.

"Yeah, I know. It is okay. I am sorry." Baby sighed. "I probably shouldn't have done that."

"Always do what your heart tells you to do." Johnny told her. "No matter what."

"I was trying." Baby confided in him.

"Baby," Johnny paused for a moment then continued, "Ever since you walked away from me at Kellerman's that summer a part of me has been lost. Being around you again is sending me feelings that I thought were gone forever. When we kissed I freaked."

"Did you feel something?" Baby wondered the answer.

"Baby, I-" Johnny couldn't seem to finish his words.

"It's okay; you don't have to answer that." Baby said as guilt from the kiss consumed her.

"I will answer that question in time." Johnny told her. "I promise."

"You are with someone now right?" Baby asked as she stared off in her dark room.

"Yes."

Baby knew the answer but still hated to hear those words. "Do you love her?"

"Baby." Johnny said giving her the hint he didn't want to answer that.

"Okay, I am sorry." She said softly.

"It is just a part of my life I have to deal with. Becky deserves a lot from me. I haven't exactly been the best boyfriend to her." Johnny said laying some things out on the line.

"Look, Johnny I am no tasking anything from you. I just couldn't help they way I felt." Baby told him.

"Have you even thought the kiss happened because we both were so ecstatic about me being a match for Josie?" Johnny asked her wondering what she would say.

"You don't think it was sincere?" She asked him.

"That isn't what I said Baby." Johnny didn't want her to put words in her mouth.

Of course he thought it was sincere but he just wanted to make sure there were feelings behind it and not just temporary emotion.

"I am not, I am just-" Baby stopped.

"Just what?" He whispered into the receiver.

"Nothing." Baby responded.

She was about to tell him she was still in love with him. She was afraid to put that out there and him to not feel the same way. She would just be a sitting duck.

"Tell me." He pleaded.

"Becky is a lucky woman." Baby said hating to say those words.

Johnny could say anything right away after that remark. Why was Baby so worried about Becky? Did she really love him? But, on the other hand he had the situation with Becky whom he cared for but was his love for Baby strong enough to make it?

"You there?" Baby asked when she heard no response.

"Yeah, I am here." Johnny said quietly.

"Well, what is on your mind? Why did you get so quiet?" Baby asked him wishing she could read his mind.

"Nothing."

"I doubt that. Tell me!" Baby said sweetly.

Johnny didn't want to tell Baby something but he knew he needed to. "One of the reasons I pulled away from that kiss was because of Becky. I can't be untrue to her. No one deserves that."

Baby was taken back by that remark. Baby had gotten her answer. Johnny was with Becky now and she just had to deal with it. No matter what her heart wants, you can't make someone want you. "I see."

I could never do that to someone I was with. Let me figure that out first okay." Johnny said to her.

"Figure out what?" Baby said confused.

"I need to sort my feelings out for you first." Johnny said straightly.

"What feelings?" Baby said quickly.

"Baby, please." Johnny said giving her the impression to not ask him any questions about that.

"What? You have me so confused right now I don't know what to do!" Baby told him as a tear formed in her eye.

"I am sorry I don't mean to do that. You wanted an explanation for my actions and I gave you one." Johnny replied. "What else do you want me to do?"

Baby noticed the sarcasm in Johnny's voice and knew the topic need to be dropped before they both got upset. "Look, Johnny, its okay."

"Okay, well, did Josie wake up after I left?" He asked.

"No I checked in on her before I came to be and she was still out like a light." Baby told him as she smiled that the thought of Josie.

"What time you want me to head in tomorrow?" Johnny asked her.

"Oh, whenever you are ready." Baby said wishing he hadn't left in the first place.

"Well, I got a couple of thing I have to do in the morning so it might be late afternoon when I make it in." He said pulling the covers up. "I am meeting the president of the school for lunch tomorrow after he gets out of church. He wants to meet me so I can explain everything to him."

"Think it would be a problem for you to take off?" Baby asked him.

"Nah, James in a super nice guy. Shouldn't be a problem." He told her.

"Well good." That was the only thing Baby could think to respond with.

"I know you need to get some rest and so do I." Johnny said glancing over at his clock. "I will see you sometime last afternoon tomorrow."

"Okay, be careful coming up." Baby said as hated to let him go but she knew it was late.

"Goodnight." Johnny told her.

"Goodnight." Baby said as she easily placed the phone back down on the receiver.