I just want to apologize for the incredibly long pauses in this stories progresses. My greatest apologizes to anyone who is still reading this.

Saturday mornings are Booth's favorite part of the weeks. A nice lazy morning, being able to lie in bed or rest on the couch, just chillen. But Sampson had other ideas. At the beginning of the summer, it seemed like Oliver would be mostly n his case about shooting hoops all the time, but his passion seemed to feign. Now Sampson was on his case. The kid was psycho, one minute he would be talking a million miles per second the next he would just disappear. Booth thought he might catch a break on Saturday since Mr. Roberts might be home. But no, he really just couldn't catch a break. Sampson dragged him downstairs at 8 am. These kids would be the end of him.

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Angela woke up feeling happier then ever before. Her head was resting in the crook of Jack's shoulder with his arm securely wrapped around her. For the first time ever she didn't feel like running away from a guy, she felt safe and warm. This wasn't what it was supposed to be like. She didn't want to get up and leave, she didn't want to hurt him or slink away. So, feeling like it was worth the risk, she snuggled further into him and let herself slip back into a content warm sleep. When she woke up the next time, the sun was coming through the window and she could fell Jack stirring next to her.

"Morning." He said in a gravelly voice.

She lifted her head and looked into his eyes, "Morning. What time is it?"

Jack looked at his watch, "9:20"

Angela's thoughts moved past it and then it hit her. "Shit, I have to go. I'm so sorry." She got up and looked around for her shoes and jacket. "Trust me, I have to meet Bren for breakfast and I'm late. I'll call you later though, promise." She said as she closed the door behind her.

Brennan and Angela stepped out of Blanche on to the sidewalk. Brennan was wearing an oversized purple hoodie and jean cutoffs. They had just finished their weekly Saturday breakfast, which Angela spent most of talking about Hodgins. Brennan didn't mind though, while Angela was babbling she was planning the rest of her weekend. In her mind she left a considerable amount of time for reading, since she had not spent nearly enough time this week on studying. Since it was clear in Angela's chatter that she was planning on spending an evening or afternoon or maybe the day with Jack, Temperance found this to be her best chance to get away from the social aspects of her life and lose herself in knowledge.

"Are you even listening to me?" asked Angela.

"What? I'm sorry, I was spacing. What were you saying?" Temperance said in a feeble tempt to be apologetic.

"I was just asking if you wanted to like go to the movies or something tonight, with me and Jack?" her voice was edging on irritated.

"No, you two should get your time to get to know each other better. I think I'm going to stay at home, maybe hang out with Russ."

"So you aren't planning on spending your night with a certain sexy neighbor."

"Seeley Booth? NO!"

"Whatever you say." And with that the two parted ways, Angela heading off to her day with Jack and Brennan going home to read and relax.

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Booth was in the driveway with Sampson and Oliver playing Basketball. For little kids, they sure did know how to wear him out. By the time they finished, he had worked up a heavy sweat from running back and forth, and trying to move with Sampson's arms wrapped firmly around his legs. In the end the two boys claimed to win even when it was clearly evident they had cheated, but Booth didn't put up a fight about it. Instead he just casually went inside and showered. After his shower, feeling refreshed and a renewed sense of life, he took Liam, and Oliver out to lunch. The food was great, but the conversation left him feeling a little uneasy. Oliver spent the whole time asking him about his basketball stats, team and in his words "the tail it brings", where do kids pick these things up? But Liam was interested in romantic advice. Booth had to try not to laugh when Liam said he was interested in older women. But the ridiculousness didn't end there, because he then asked Booth if he knew if Temperance was interest in anyone, and if he could find out. Oliver apparently also found Liam's infatuation entertaining because when he heard Temperance's name, he burst into laughter.

"You have a thing for her?"

"You don't know her the way I do?" Liam looked to Booth for some support.

"Oliver, Liam has the right to like whoever he wants to."

"But dude, you too are totally having a thing."

"What?" asked Liam in a hurt voice.

"What'cha talkin' about?"

"The other day I walked into the kitchen and you too were in there, and you too couldn't keep your hands off of each other."

Booth laughed awkwardly, "I scared her, she had her hands on me to balance herself bud."

Liam seemed to except this, "Yeah, plus Seeley isn't her type."

This confused Booth a little, how was he not her type. Was her type asshole, like that guy Chris?

He pushed the thoughts out of his head and they finished the rest of their meals, and headed home.

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Temperance Brennan had just completed two loads of laundry and read for about 4 hours, to day was a good day. Russ had come home around 4 with about five dozen beers, he stowed them all downstairs in the entertainment room and then came back up to talk with his brilliant little sister. They made small talk for about an hour and by the time they both were getting sick of each other there was a knock on the door. Russ got up and let in the group of guys who all seemed to be wearing hockey jerseys, obviously Russ is having the guys over Temperance thought. So thinking it was best to avoid a bunch of rowdy guys in aggressive moods, she headed back up to her room thinking she might accomplish something more productive then watching a bunch of reckless bloodthirsty hockey fans.

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Booth got a call about 7:15 from Russ inviting him over to watch old hockey games with some of the guys. Feeling a little nostalgic for the game, and feeling desperate for some company of his own age, he agreed to stop by. When he arrived Russ answered the door and brought him down to the large television in the basement where there was about 15 other guys, all drinking beers and eating snacks. He watched the first period of the game until, his thirst became to much for him and he needed water desperately. In the hopes of quenching said thirsty before his dehydrated demise, he went to the kitchen to get some water. Being that he wasn't in the mood to dirty any cups he stuck his head under the faucet and he drank away. Once finished he wiped his mouth with he sleeve and started to walk back towards the basement. Right before he was out of the kitchen he wall straight into Temperance Brennan, who immediately fell over because of the surprise impact. All he heard from her when she gathered herself back up was a string of expletives.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were in the door way I wouldn't have walked wider if I had known" his apology was bin forced out of him and she could tell.

"Whatever," she said in a angry tone which ticked off Booth. She began to move away, pushing past him, heading into the kitchen.

"Hey…hey….Hey. I really am sorry." He said in the hopes of relaxing her.

She turned to him with anger in her eyes. Obviously she wasn't a big fan of his. The look in her eyes was appealing to him though, something crazy about her was strangely hot.

"I don't like you." She said and with that she left the room leaving him speechless.

Monday again, waking up, following the same morning routine. Then off to work. She listened to Jack Johnson in the car in the hopes it would put her in a good mood for hanging out with small children. As Better Together filled the speakers, her heart filled with joy. It was a hard morning, but looking out the window, seeing the sunshine, the green grass and trees surrounds, she could feel her spirits lift. Innocence was extraordinarily beautiful.

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Booth woke up thinking it was going to be a hard day. Oliver wanted to spend the day with him today, while the others wanted to go to camp. And after Saturday night he had not been in the mood to be around people. Sunday was fun, but not relaxing. Jack invited him over and he hung out with some of his friends. It was fun and he was becoming fast friends with the guy. But altogether, this Monday morning gave him no reason to care, or want to put the effort into waking and working. Yet, his responsibilities outweighed his desires and he woke the boys, fed them and headed off to "camp", these kids home away from home.

Leaving Oliver in the car, he headed in with Liam and Sampson. Booth knew that Hodgins was in charge of Liam's group so he searched for him, but the only person he could spot was a beautiful blue-eyed brunette who most recently declared her dislike towards him. Not taking his eyes off of her, he noticed Sampson run up to her and offer a warm hug. A smile like no other crossed her lips and he eyes light up for the little boy. A cough behind him knocked him back to reality, Hodgins had apparently been trying to get his attention.

"Nice man, but before you stare stalk some more you gotta sign this kid in." he couldn't wipe the smugness off of his face.

"Yeah, yeah. Funny." He signed the form and chitchatted with Jack for a minute before heading back out to the car to spend time with Oliver.

Angela strutted over to her as she was setting up for arts and crafts. "Hey girlie, how are you?"

"Huh? Oh, I'm fine. How are you? Do you need help with something?" she sounded flustered.

"No, chill. I'm just checking in, and well I do have a favor to ask." She had a stick, sugar coated tone.

"Wha-d-ya need?" the paintbrush she was holding in her mouth to keep her arms free was muffling her speech.

"So Kat's 18th is coming up, and I know you're invited and its date mandatory so you usually would take Jake, well Zack too. But yeah, I was wondering if I could take Jack."

Brennan turned to Angela with a smile, she was happy for her friend. "Of course. I probably wont go, plus if I do I could ask Chris or Tim." Angela had a smirk at this, "We both know you would ask Studly Neighbor Boy or have Russ conveniently make him take you." Temperance's face became flushed turned and left Angela in a huff.

Lounging under a tree teaching Sampson, Trey, Gregg, and Robert about the skeletal structure. Sampson was the only one not to catch on to what she was saying, he was focusing more on the grass then what she was saying, all the while looking adorable. Once she was finished the rest of the boys headed out to the playground, but Sampson stayed put. "bones." He said simply she only responded with a nod. His tiny body was sprawled out on the grass his head prompted up by his elbows. "You're smart." He then got up and ran over to the other boys.

Oliver had spent the day alternating from awkward girl questions, and aggressive basketball games that Booth easily won. It hadn't been a good day. There was no prospect of it getting better anytime soon. He picked up Liam and Sampson got them ice cream and then returned them home. Liam ended up going to the park, Oliver went to his buds house and Sampson fell asleep somewhere between getting out of the car and walking up the stairs (he was sleeping on the first step of the stairwell) The only thing Booth could think of to do would be to go for a run, but he had to be there when Sampson woke up so he decided to swim instead. Back and forth, stroke after stroke. He could feel his muscles began to ache.

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He was in the pool again. She could see him from her window. His god-sculpted body glide across the water like he was born to do it. For some reason she became angry. She wanted nothing more then to just walk right over there and yell at him. But Booth hadn't done anything to her, he had been nice, friendly, he was caring when she was freezing. The guy allowed her his bed, when most guys she knew wouldn't have even helped her out of the water. With all of these thoughts in her head she became frustrated, he just made her angry and she didn't know why. Realizing her actions on Saturday night were uncalled for and probably puzzling to him, she felt compelled to make nice. So she causual strolled over to the Robert's back yard and stood by the edge of the pool. He noticed her before he turned to repeat another lap then looked up at her with a puzzled look. "Can I help you?" he asked but the response he got was an intense glare. He shrugged and headed back to doing laps. After about three reps, his concentration was broken by a humming was coming from Brennan. He looked at her again, "So, you just enjoying the view?" he said with that smug child smile of his. The glare intensified. He pulled himself out of the water and stood directly in front of her, almost touching. "Hey" he said in a sultry voice.

"Hi" her voice wavered unexpectedly because of his proximity. "I…..I just came to say." She was stammering a little and refused to make eye contact, focusing instead on the beads of water dripping from his hair on to his shoulders then sliding down his bronze chest. He was smirking, "You came to say what?"

His smugness gave her the daring to look him in the eyes. "Well I was going to apologize for being unpleasant earlier, but if you're going to be and ass, then never mind." She turned to leave but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her back to him.

But as their luck would have it, he grabbed her to hard and their bodies collided, knocking them both backyard, and right over the edge into the pool. Plunging into the cool water would have normally been refreshing on such a hot day but the surprise of it all made it a rather unpleasant experience. Once Brennan caught her breath she scowled at Booth, "Seriously!?!" she looked angry, but also sexy in a wildly feisty way.

Seeley's face turned red and he looked super embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean too." But his expression seemed insincere, when he was trying to mask his humiliation. He could tell she was angry again with him. "Yeah well, something is obviously wrong with you." She said before she swam to the side preparing to get out. "Yeah, I'm the one with the problem." He said under his breath, but unfortunately for him she heard his sarcastic comment. Before he knew it water filled his eyes and face. She had splashed an amazing amount of water into his face and by the time he bounced back from the impact of the water, Temperance was almost halfway out of the pool. Moving as quickly as possible, Seeley jumped out of the water and ran around to her side, wrapped his arm snuggly around her waist and turned them so she was failing into his chest into the water. This fall would have been worse then the first one, except the comfort and seconds to prepare for the water were just enough warning time to ready her. But even after they were both submerged and completely recovered his arm was still around her. All Brennan wanted to do at this point was get out of the water and back into dry clothes and maybe relax with a good book, but Booth's arm was restricting her movements and he was refusing to let her leave. So she began to squirm as much as possible and it was throwing his balance and control off. In addition to the wiggling and writhing she was also pushing his shoulders away, hoping he would release her for a quick seconds while trying to regrab her, and then she could slip away, but it wasn't happening.

All the while, he was slowly swimming forward towards the wall so she was be stuck situated between him and the wall. His plan worked marvelously because by the time he was there, she was pretty tired and with the pressure of the wall on her back and the warm expanse of his chest to her front, she seemed to settle into a nice position with her arms still resting on his broad shoulders.

He looked into her eyes, "We all good now?" he asked with a smile.

"You are infuriating. And have no right to handle me like this."

"Right, well I can trust you wont try and harm me if I let go so. You said you came here to apologize."

She glared at him, and he knew full well that she wasn't in the mood to be talked to like this. "I'm kidding. I wanted to apologize for, once again, knocking you into water unexpectedly." "Oh and also, I just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed the two semi-abrasive conversations we had." Then Booth released her, dove under the water and glided over the stairs and stepped right out. Leaving Brennan alone, in her neighbors pool. What was happening to her? She was just completely man handled by a guy she barely knows and felt old comfortable in his arms. Plus she allowed him to speak to her in a way that anyone else would have ended up murdered for, what the hell was she thinking?

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It could be said that Angela was a compulsive shopper. She had this thing that when things were going go in her life, that she liked also to reward herself with pretty new things. When she was upset she liked to cheer herself up with new things, and when something new and exciting was happening, she LOVED to surround herself with different things that express the change in her life. And like she needed an excuse to shop during the summer, she couldn't have enough swim wear or shorts. But today she was more focused on an outfit for Kat's party. Kat was a senior last year, and her grad party was apparently epic. So when Ang and Bren were invited to she 18th there was nothing that was going to screw it up for her. Plus it was the perfect way to introduce Hodgins as her committed boyfriend.

She slid through the racks but nothing stood out. There wasn't anything that was calling her, nothing seemed to be what she saw in her head. She decided to head out but as she was exciting the mall, she saw the perfect hat for Hodgins. Jack wasn't much of a fedora guy, he wore baseball caps at camp some days. But there sat the perfect cap, it looked slightly wore in, and was like the color of his eyes. There was nothing she could do but buy it. Just as the cashier handed her the bag and receipt she heard he name being called from somewhere distant. It was none other then good ol' Russ Brennan. Standing there with a pair of socks and boxers in hand, looking expectantly at her.

"Hey Russ, whats up?" She said with surprise in her voice.

"Nothing, just picking up some things. You?"

"Saw the perfect present for a friend. Couldn't help myself." She said about to make her exit. "Well I'll catch you later."

"Hey Ange," he called after her and she turned. "I know it's not my place, but your dad called looking to talk to my parents, he said he was going to be in New York till the end of the month. Asked us to look after you for awhile. You know you can stay over whenever right. You need anything just ask." He had a concerned and brotherly tone to his voice.

"No I'm fine don't worry about it. You should be worried about your sister. She wants to go to Kat's birthday with Chris or Tim. Trouble with a capital T." she smugly walked out of the store knowing that there was no way Temperance Brennan was going to Kat's unless she brought someone with her who was going to watch over her, Seeley Booth.