Seeley Booth stood in front of her door, just staring at it for a moment, what the hell just happened? Did he just run away like some coward? 'Why didn't you just tell her idiot?' he raged inwardly, turning around in the hallway and smacking his forehead. The longer he put this off, the harder it would be for both of them, and he had a feeling she wouldn't be happy he didn't tell her right away.

Resolutely, he flipped open his cell phone, and dialed her number, after a few rings she picked up.

"Brennan" she sounded out of breath

"Bones...what were you doing?" he queried, hearing water wooshing in the background

"I was in the shower Booth - what do you want, you just left!" she said

in a grumpy tone

"Oh... sorry. I uh, just wondered if we could get together tomorrow

sometime, there is something I want to talk to you about" he stammered,

his mouth suddenly as dry as if he were munching on a bag of cotton

balls at the thought of a wet, soapy naked Bones in the shower.

"Booth, I told you, I have a book signing tomorrow that David is taking

me to, remember? Why didn't you just tell me whatever it was when you were here 5 minutes ago?" she said in an impatient tone

"Oh yeah..well I forgot, long day, you know? Well how about after your

little book thing, we could uh, you know have a bite to eat at Wong

Foo's?" he persisted, wanting to get her to agree to meet him so he

could get his over with.

"Fine, fine, can I finish my shower now? I am getting cold out here

talking to you, and the floor is getting wet" she said to him, her voice somewhat calmer now. He could hear the shower running in the background.

"Great, I'll meet you there around 8, okay Bones?" he said, trying to

sound more cheerful that he was feeling

"Okay see you then Booth " and she hung up

For some reason, he didn't feel any better having set up the time to

tell her the news. For some reason, he felt worse.

End ch 3.

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