This time when Jim let Pam into his house Mark was sitting on the couch watching something on TV; it looked like some movie that was supposed to be funny 30 years ago. Mark opened his mouth to make some sort of sarcastic comment until he saw Jim's glare. Pam would not be in the mood for some stupid comment about Jim brining home girls.

Jim led Pam back to his bedroom; Pam sat on the bed. She looked as if she were about to cry again, "Jim I'm really sorry" she sniffled.

"Hey, Pam," Jim said sitting next to her putting his arm around her shoulder, "None of this is your fault you don't need to be sorry for anything."

"Um do you mind if I change quick?" Pam asked.

"Of course, just change here and I will put operation cheer Pam up into action," Jim said as he left the room.

Jim went to the bathroom and changed into a pair of Pajama pants and a t-shirt then to the kitchen. He was drawing out the time he took because he figured Pam would want a few minutes to collect herself.

Jim was right. Pam slowly changed then took a few minutes to stop herself from shaking and crying. Pam was sure Roy hadn't meant to, but he had really shaken her up.

Jim knocked the door about 10 minutes later. "Come in" Pam said. She was sitting cross-legged on Jim's bed looking utterly adorable in Jim's opinion.

"Ok step one, ice cream." Jim said pulling a half-gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream (their mutual favorite) out from behind his back. Pam smiled as Jim handed her one of the two spoons he brought along. Jim pealed the lid off to reveal a smooth surface of green.

"Step two" Jim pulls an old paper box out from under his bed. Pam looks at him confused until Jim sweeps of the lid and shows Pam one of his prized possessions: an original Nintendo. Pam laughs

"Jim I haven't seen one of these since I was like 15."

"This is the greatest gaming system ever made" Jim said as he began to plug it into an old TV.

Jim handed Pam an old rectangular controller and put in the original Super Mario Brothers. For the first time all night Pam looked genuinely happy. "I want to be Luigi!" Pam said sounding like a 10 year old.

"Fine," Jim grumbled sounding equally immature…Luigi was his favorite too.

So Jim and Pam played Mario late into the night and polished off the entire half gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Pam began to drift off against Jim's shoulder; she could help but notice again how nice Jim smelled. This made her unconsciously curl into him; she heard Jim's heart beating and his chest rise and fall with his breathing.

Jim sat perfectly still for almost an hour after Pam fell asleep on him. He didn't want to wake her up by moving, but he knew he needed some sleep after all tomorrow was a big day, one of his favorites all year.

Jim turned off the TV with the remote and pushed everything of the bed, moving as little as possible. He then slid carefully down to his pillow and Pam hardly stirred in her sleep. That is until Jim sneezed just as he was about to consider it a victory.

Pam jumped and opened her eyes. Jim groaned "Sorry, I was trying really hard not to wake you up"

"Well sneezing isn't really the best way to do that Halpert," Pam giggled groggily.

"Go back to sleep Pam, um I'll go sleep in the guest room" Jim said rather dismayed he no longer had an excuse to sleep with Pam.

"No Jim stay here, its not a big deal, I mean while we're breaking all the rules…" Pam allowed to her sentence to drift off.

Jim smiled slightly, "Go to sleep Beesly big day tomorrow"

"What?"

"The Dundies are tomorrow...Duh!"

"Ugh, the Dundies," Pam groaned as she rolled over and went back to sleep. Jim chuckled and clicked off the bedside lamp.

AN: Another short interim chapter, I hope the next one will be longer. This chapter is particularly funny to me because I keep my NES in an old paper box, so I thought it would be appropriate for Jim's to be in one too. Anyway as always review and let me know what you think.