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Chapter 5

Lilly was too caught up thinking about what had almost happened in the office that she was not paying any attention to where she was going. They were on their way to the car when Lilly slipped on some ice. She let out a little yelp as she started to sail backwards.

Upon hearing the sound, Scotty immediately snapped out of his trance and managed to catch Lilly just before she smashed into the ground. He caught her from behind, grabbing her just under the shoulders; however upon doing this, placing his hands over her chest. Scotty helped her up and it was then he realized where he was holding her.

'Lilly, I'm so sorry!' He removed his hands as if burnt. Great, now he must have positively ruined everything they had been building up.

Lilly however, had hardly noticed as she was too stirred from her fall. Only upon hearing his words did she start to feel extremely stupid.

'Hey don't worry about it. Just glad that you caught me.'

She smiled embarrassed that she had made a fool out of herself in front of Scotty and she hastily got into the car.

Scotty couldn't help but smile at her words. Though he didn't say it, he knew he would be there catching her whenever she fell. That is- if she would let him.Yuck, Valens, when did you become such a cheese ball? These types of lines weren't exactly what usually ran through his mind when he was with a woman.

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The car ride passed in relative silence. Both parties lost in thought about their growing feelings for one another. When they were finally there, Scotty leaped out of the car, ran around to the other side and opened Lilly's door. Lilly felt a flush rise in her cheeks at his behaviour. She didn't know why she hadn't noticed it before, but Scotty was a true gentleman.

'Thank you.' She muttered as she took Scotty's offered arm.

'Just in case you might fall.' He laughed and winced when he felt Lilly's fist make contact with his arm.

'Ouch, just trying to be nice.' He laughed.

Both Lilly and Scotty had to gasp as they faced the mansion in front of them.

'Man, he must have made some serious cash over the years!' Scotty gasped.

'Truly a rag to riches story.' Lilly added, she too stunned by the beautiful house in front of them.

They both made their way up the stairs to the mansion and rung the doorbell. Ten minutes later they were sitting in James Hodgenson's living room, going over the details of the case.

'I swear it was an accident. Mom was making dinner. I was just coming by to collect my stuff. We'd had a fight and I decided I'd had enough. She was standing with the knife in the door when I came in, all worked up and yelling at me. She wouldn't let me get past her so I pushed. She lost her balance and fell on the knife. I tried to save her, I swear. I pulled the knife out, cutting myself pretty badly in the process. I realized how it all must look and I bailed. You have to understand, that despite everything that happened, I loved her! She was all I had.'

'Well that's that.' Scotty tried to lighten the mood as they walked out of the station hours later.

Lilly hated stories like these. They always made her feel so incredibly sad. At least the case had been solved and that's all they could do. She looked up to see Scotty staring at her. She had heard his voice mumble something, not really paying attention.

'Hungry?' He repeated his question. Having ignored her stomach for most of the day, she only now realized how hungry she was. 'Yeah, actually I am.'

'Well,' Scotty started 'I know this great Italian place around the corner that is…'

'Open nights.' Lilly finished the sentence for him. She smiled. He returned it full force.

'Yeah, cos I was thinking that if you wanted to, you know- we could grab something to eat.' He didn't know whyhewas finding it so hard to ask Lilly to go to dinner with him. What was he, fifteen again?

'Sure.' Lilly's stomach did a double take at the thought of dinner with Scotty. Date or no date she didn't really care what it was.

'Great!' He said a little louder than he had intended. Regaining his composure he extended his arm to Lilly. 'Shall we?' He was surprised when she took it.

They made their way, arm in arm to the restaurant. Scotty couldn't help but feel that he was the luckiest guy in the world at that moment.

AN: Well, all I have to say really is that it's now that the story will start to get, what should I say, ehm- interesting...:) I hope you guys like this chapter, but please, as always, let me know what you think; good or bad! Til next time...