The next morning brought headache and blinding light that streamed through the window. Slowly Jane rolled over and turned off her alarm clock that beamed 7:00 in big bold red letters. She sat up, stretched her limbs and smacked the alarm, silencing it. It was way to early to be getting up considering the long day she had. First she had to deal with the inner mess she had going on and second she had to figure out this dating thing. The only good thing that happened yesterday was her talk with Frost. He understood her so well that she was glad she opened up to him and couldn't wait to tell her about her new friend Amanda.

Amanda. Jane thought maybe she had been dreaming. Instinctively Jane grabbed at her phone and opened a new message from Maura. The message was received at 6:15. "I don't know how she does it, waking up so early, so excited and bubbly." While she was complaining she started to read the message, "Good morning Jane. I got your message this morning and I wanted to let you know I'll be over with a cup of coffee and before you complain, yes I switched your cup of diabetes with 100 percent organic Arabica coffee beans imported from Ruta Maya. They come from Chiapas, Mexico grown by Maya Indians and not only are Arabica coffee beans a healthy product but it also creates a healthier environment. Oh, I'm rambling again, or going all google mouth as you so pleasantly put it. But sorry I digress, I got your message and I hope you'll be fine, it's not like you to forget to message me." And Maura left it at that. Typing out her message of a simple complaint, "Aww, come on Maur, why can't I have my coffee. I can't even pronounce half the things you make me drink. And thanks for checking up on me." And with that Jane put her phone back on the table and got up to take a shower. A very much needed shower that would hopefully clear her mind.

Despite the lack of sleep, Jane felt pretty good today. Not to mention accomplished, she was proud she didn't freak out at the idea of messaging another woman in the making of becoming more than just friends. She walked to her desk and plopped down smiling as she turned on her computer.

"So I see the website worked, eh?" Frost whispered, his tone laced with mirth.

"I don't kiss and tell." They laughed and talked about how she was looking forward to a response from Amanda and how great it was that she lived in Boston like her.

"That's great Jane, I'm glad you like her. When are you two gonna meet?" Frost asked with excitement. "I don't think I'm ready for that yet. I mean I think shes nice from what I could tell. But I don't know her that well yet. I am thinking about it though."

"You better make a move before she finds someone who's actually cute." He beamed at her knowing she'd know he was joking. "Aw, shut it Frosty." She pulled out her phone and checked it, nothing. "She gave me her number this morning..."

"You text her?" He curiously asked

"Yeah, but she hasn't messaged back yet." Disappointment ran across her features. "Damn, maybe somebody cute really did come along."

He looked down organizing some files on his desk. "Nah, just give her some time, you know how women are." A pencil flew his way and he giggled. Jane was the big sister Barry never asked for but he felt he was blessed with and was glad she was in his life. Jane felt the same exact way. She thought of him as her third little brother.

The distinct sound of heels let everyone know who was coming.

"Hello Jane, Barry." She nodded and smiled in his direction. She looked back to Jane. "Did you like your coffee this morning?"

"It was disgusting, the nastiest thing I've ever had to put in my mouth. And I've had to taste a lot of nasty things!" Jane said jokingly. "Oh, well next time I'll bring you something worse. Was it the panda poop coffee that you didn't like?" Winking, she gracefully sat down on the edge of Jane's desk and crossed her legs.

"Gasp, was that a joke?! Somebody call the newspaper!" she faked shock and threw her hands in the air looking to all the other officers including Korsak who just walked in. They all laughed and Maura swatted at Jane's arm. "It was actually pretty good, but I still want my coffee next time." Her pretend glare earned her an "I won't get you anything else" look from Dr. Isles.

They talked for a little while longer about nothing in particular but the flowing conversation was natural, easy, comfortable and Maura was glad Jane was back to her normal self. Growing up ostracized as a child, not getting simple colloquialism, not having friends and definitely not a best friend was what she was used too. It was her status quo, but when she finally made a friend, excuse me, a best friend she couldn't help but feel useless when she didn't know how to help them. And to make problems worse, said best friend wouldn't tell her what was making her feel uneasy. Jane was special and Maura knew that so she wanted to do things right. Yes Jane could be stubborn, prudent, obnoxious, and most of the time she didn't think before she acted, always jumping in head first. But that's what made Jane brave, loyal, kind, confident, protective, and lovable. She'd always put others first even people she didn't know. That's why she became a cop. She loved to protect, she loved to help and that's what made her, her. She didn't care what people thought, yeah sometimes Maura's money intimidated her sometimes, but she'd never tell Maura that but she already knew.

Seeing Jane smiling with unmitigated happiness, always brought a smile to Maura's face. But seeing Jane fighting with herself and in the process pushing her out always made her feel as bad as Jane was feeling or maybe even worse. Loneliness was something Maura never wanted to go back to. Being left out by her best friend hurt the most, and she couldn't even imagine going back to life without Jane. Maura loved Jane, sometimes she thought she was in love with Jane. But she always pushed that to the back of her mind thinking it had to be her body suffering from a high calcium intake, or her body was releasing neurotransmitters. She had stayed up for hours researching the feelings for a best friend and feelings for a lover and hoped that she wasn't confusing the two because she really needed to know what this feeling was. By the end of the night she was sure it was love. She couldn't talk to anyone, the one person she talked too was Jane Rizzoli and she was undoubtably sleep at 2:00 in the morning. The other problem was how could she go to the person she was in love with and tell them she might love them. Hey Jane, just letting you know I think I'm in love with you. Ok bye. Text me later when you reciprocate my feelings.

The big wandering brain of Dr. Isles' was interrupted by the one she couldn't stop thinking about. "Earth to Maura. Hey, you've been staring off into space for like ten minutes."

"Oh, I apologize, I was just thinking."

"We were trying to get your attention for a while." Jane leaned forward in her seat and touched just above Maura's bare knee, where her skirt had ridden up. "Wanna share?"

"No, it's nothing important," just me thinking about how to deal with loving you. "I think I'm going to head downstairs to finish up what's left of my autopsy reports." Aware of how she must of looked, she stood up smoothed out the invisible wrinkles and smiled a fake smile that Jane had not seen since she found out Ian was a fugitive.

This lead Jane to believe it was her who caused such an insecure smile to present itself on Maura's face. "About yesterday, I wanna apologize again for acting strange." She smiled a smile that would get Maura to sit back down. She did. How could she resist the Boston famous Jane Rizzoli grin.

"What happened yesterday?" Korsak butted in.

"None of your business, Nosy Rosy." Korsak chuckled and said, "You can't keep secrets from me. I'm not a gossiper."

"Ha ha, we all know you're the human twitter!" They all looked at Frost and began to laugh hysterically, doubling over at the remark.

"You guys making fun of me?" Angela asked walking up to Jane's desk.

"No, Ma."

"What did you say?" She looked between her daughter and the other two detectives, putting her hands on her hips. "Don't look at me!" Frost said throwing his hands up in surrender.

"We were talking about how nosy Korsak is." Her daughter explained "Come to think of it he's almost as nosy as you!" Angela swatted at the back of Jane's head missing when she ducked away. Korsak gasped in mock horror at the insulting statement. "Wait a minute, I'm not that nosy!"

Once again they all started to laugh as Momma Rizzoli turned around and threw her apron at the oldest detective. "Vince, you've moved to the top of my list, right above Janie here." She turned back around patting Jane on the shoulder. Her daughter laughed saying, "Thank God, you're next and not me."

"What list?" Korsak questioned.

"Yeah what list, I want to be on it too." Frost blurted.

"No you don't. Everybody on that list ends up missing!" Eyes wide, Angela pretended to panic. "Janie hush before they get me. You know all those cases went cold!"

Laughing and bickering some more Jane got up and whispered in Maura's ear, "Can you come over after work, around seven, I need to talk to you about something? About, you know, yesterday."

"Sure, I'll bring take out." They smiled at each other, everyone else oblivious of their short exchange.

Maura headed off to the elevator, Angela headed back to the cafe, Korsak returned to his videos, and Frost began to tap at his computer.

Then Jane's phone vibrated.