Lilly was sitting at her desk, looking absent-mindedly at Scotty who was sitting at his desk, writing something on his notebook. 'Face the truth, Lilly. You know what your feeling are.' She thought, still looking at him. It was like her eyes were attracked by him 'Hey, you're talking about Scotty! That can't be possible...' Her mind replied.

"Hey, Lilly! Come back on earth!" Scotty called her, taking her out of her thoughts. Lilly blinked and looked back at him. "Yeah?"

"I was saying that you should go home, you're looking tired..." Scotty said to her. As he was looking at her, she felt embarrassed because she was staring at him for long minutes and was asking herself for how long had he notice.

"Oh yeah, you're right, I... I should go home..." She said, packing her things, not daring to look at him. She felt her cheeks blushed as she felt his eyes staring at her and because she felt pretty stupid for looking at him like that.

She stood up, put on her coat and walked towards the office's door. "Goodnight Scotty!" She said, not turning around to look at him.

"Night Lil" He answered, still looking at her a little bit surprise by her behavior.

As she walked in the parking lot, she breathed the fresh air of the night. Love was making her do silly things, and she knew that she wasn't good in love.

Then she heard a voice behind her calling her name, it was Scotty's voice. "Lilly, wait a minute! You forget your scarf!" He shouted, while running towards her. "You're gonna catch a cold."

But when she turned to look at him, she hadn't realised how close he was and practically bumped in him. They looked at each other, silently. She looked at his dark brown eyes, at his face, and saw how handsome he was. He was so close that she could hear him breathing.

Then she looked at his lips, which she wanted to touch, to kiss. They stayed there looking at each other for other few minutes. She was fighting against the tentation of kissing him.

He put his hand on her cheek, moving a strand of her blond hair from her face. She slowly approached her face to his and kissed him. And he responded, the kiss was long and passionate. She put her arms around his neck and felt his warm skin under her fingers. He rolled up his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him.

As they broke apart, they looked at each other, a little bit embarrassed. She slowly realised what she had just done, and her eyes widened.

"I...I'm sorry..." She said while turning around and running towards her car.

"Lilly! Lilly!" He shouted after her, trying to stop her.

She opened the door, and got in the car. She then started driving and passed Scotty who was looking at the car, impotent.

She drived for almost half an hour, driving without any destination. She looked at the city's light, the eyes full of tears, remembering the moment which had just happened. She knew that she loved him and that he loved her too, but she had spend so much time building her defenses that she couldn't let him entered into it they were her only protection. She had already let entered Kite, to be finally hurt, she didn't wanted to feel this pain again, it hurt to much.

Even if all her heart wanted to let Scotty in, she couldn't. Then she remembered all the time passed with him, the good time, when he made her laughed, he was so funny. The stupid things he can say that made her smile. She was glad to have him like partner but like boyfriend?

She finally decided to go back home, she drived through the city and arrived at her house. When she entered into it, her cats went to greet her, but she was still thinking about what she had just done and practically didn't hear her cats asking for food. She looked towards the phone and saw that there was about 4 messages, but she knew that it was Scotty and didn't know what to tell him.

After giving the cats their foods, she went towards her bathroom and take a long warm shower, trying to think about something else, but all she could thing about was Scotty. She finally went to bed after this long shower. As everybody say, sleep on it!

But she didn't felt like sleeping, this dilemma was still torturing her. She knew that Scotty will be attentive with her, that he would care about her, but she still couldn't let him get in, it was too difficult to see how easy he could get into her walls as she spent so much time building them. And it was her partner, and thought about what the other will say and how are they going to do at work?

And she finally fell asleep after several hours.

N/A: The next chapter will be on Scotty's thought and what he done after that!