A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for reading, and thank you for the reviews!

If you haven't seen She & Him's cover of Dusty Springfield's Stay Awhile and the totally awesomely awesome music video, I recommend you check it out. That's what inspired this chapter, but it'll make sense even if you haven't seen/heard it. I wanted to make it that Jess couldn't dance but Zooey is such a wonderfully elegant dancer, I just couldn't picture it.

Set; not long after All In

"Uh... Schmidt?" Schmidt raised his eyes to meet Jess' as he sat cross-legged in the middle of the bare living room with his laptop. "Where's the couch? And the coffee table, and the TV? What did you do with the furniture?"

"Oh that," Schmidt exclaimed as though he were surprised at her curiosity. "Ina-neened-did" he muttered under his breath and lowering his eyes.

"Again?"

"Gina needed it!" He stood up and turned to face her. "Her new living-room suite was supposed to be delivered on Tuesday, but the company made a mistake and it's not coming until this Tuesday."

"Right okay, so why does that involve our furniture? It doesn't make much sense that we get left with the bare apartment. How did that happen?"

"Jess, let me explain to you how things work with regards to the chain of authority within the workplace in a world of fast-paced-"

"Forget I asked. I want my couch back by Tuesday Schmidt!" He sighed as she turned to walk down the hall. "And you can explain to Nick that you're taking away the TV for four days!" She added.

She walked into Nick's room where he was buttoning up a clean white shirt. Her boyfriend. Hers. She smiled as she entered his room without needing to knock.

"Hey you." Nick smiled widely. She loved that she could bring that out in him just by entering a room.

"I gotta say, this seems a little weird Jess." Nick shook his head in the mirror. "Wanna help me pick a tie?" Jess held a blue tie up to his shirt before dumping it back down on the bed and picking up a black one.

"What does?" Satisfied, she held the tie around her neck and started to form the knot. Nick laughed and snatched it away from her.

"I can tie a tie mom. And I mean the fact that it's a dance for a bunch of seventh graders and I'll just be a strange man standing there in the gym."

"We're short on adults, and even if we weren't, why shouldn't I be allowed to bring a date? Besides, d'you really think you can go to a dance with Jessica day and just stand there?" Nick just laughed. "I don't care if you can't dance, if someone's going to stand on my toes, I want it to be you." She pulled him down by the material of his shirt and kissed him. A mischievous smirk covered his face.

"You'd be surprised Jess." She raised her eyebrows in question of his comment but he turned to put away the other two ties ignoring her curious glance.

"I'll be back in like an hour, I promise. I told Julio I would cover the first hour of his shift so he can go visit his wife in prison at visiting hours." Jess pulled a face. "I know. She was supposed to be out on probation, but I guess there was an incident with a curling iron. I hear she's a real nice gal though" Jess laughed and let go of his shirt. He took off his tie again, deciding he wouldn't put it on until he was about to go to the dance. He smiled as he realized that it was the same tie as he had worn to Cece's wedding. Had she chosen it because of that?

As Nick left the elevator and neared the loft, he was met by the muffled sound of and old song he vaguely recognized. As soon as he opened the door and saw what Jess was doing (and that she hadn't noticed him entering), he quietly closed the door behind him and sneaked into the kitchen, never taking his eyes off of her as he grabbed a beer. She held her hands out in front of her waist as she swung in time with the music, dancing around the empty room with an invisible partner.

Stay awhile, let me hold you
Stay awhile 'til I've told you, oh, oh
Of the love that I feel tonight, oh yeah

She held her hand above her head and spun under it, making her classy, light blue dress flare out around her, before resting her cheek dramatically against her arms, leaning on thin air as though it were a shoulder. Nick's smile stayed plastered on his face as she spun once again, this time noticing him standing in the kitchen with his beer. She stopped with an embarrassed smile. Nick just silently placed his drink on the counter and walked towards her. Jess expected a kiss, but instead, he simply placed one hand in hers, and the other on her waist and looked up at her.

Stay awhile, whats your hurry?
Stay awhile cause I worry, oh
Any time that you're out of sight

I hate to see you go
Tell you what Ill do, Ill be good to you
Ill make you glad that you are mine
So come on baby

Nick moved them both a few steps, turning them around as he did. Letting go of her waist, he spun her away from him, but keeping tight hold of her hand so that she could twirl back into his arms, now with her back to him and her arms crossed to hold his hands around her. He felt her relax into him as they swayed for a moment, before she turned abruptly, but still in time with the music. Her hands rested below his ribcage, and his on her hips. Mouth agape, she stared with wonder in her eyes.

"Nick!" As the old Dusty Springfield song approached the bridge, Nick signaled for her to hold her questions and made her gasp as he lifted her a foot off the ground and spun with her, holding her firmly by the hips. He let her stand down gently and put his hands on his hips, her position mirroring his as they stepped around each other in a circle, never breaking eye contact. She spun away, turning on her own a few times in her silver flats before returning to him, once again with his right hand in her left, his left on her waist and her right on his shoulder. They stepped together in time with the music, a giggle escaping as she stumbled a little.

He put her down, and she once again twirled away from him and back into their previous position, when Nick immediately pulled her downwards, dipping her low. He pulled her back up so that there was barely a gap between them. Jess pulled back, and with her hands around his neck, she let herself fall to the side a little, before brining her ankle to his shoulder for just a moment, eliciting an impressed gasp from Nick. Nick swooped his hand in behind her knee and lifter her as she hung limply from his neck. He put her down a measure or two too soon so the music continued to fade out as they stared into each other. Breathing heavily, chests pressed together tightly, they leaned in for a kiss.

Jess pulled back holding Nick's shoulders with an amazed expression, letting out a surprised laugh.

"I... and we... wow." Jess shook her head in disbelief, then brought her eyes back up to Nick's. She had so many questions but she just pressed her lips against his again, caught up in the adrenaline and thoroughly impressed.

"How did you do that?" She asked, searching his deep brown eyes as though answers were going to pop straight out of them. Nick shrugged.

"My extra-curriculars came up short in high-school, and everything else I wanted to do was taken, so I learned to dance and, I don't know, it was fun; it turned out I was pretty good at it." Nick laughed. Jess beamed.

"You. Are. Amazing." She said between short kisses. "Oh! We should totally do this tonight! At the dance!" Nick raised his eyebrows.

"With the leg and the kiss and all that good sensual stuff?" Jess frowned.

"Point taken, at the next real dance though okay? When there wouldn't be a bunch of twelve year olds watching their teacher get really turned on. And we should practice until then!" Nick just laughed.

"Whatever you want Jess."

A/N; Okay, maybe this is a little far-fetched considering Jake Johnson's (and especially Nick's) clumsy albeit attractive demeanor, but I dunno, I can see it. Definitely going to bring in that beautiful voice of Jess' in the upcoming chapters. Thank you so much for reading!