Tom walked into his home and set their food on the kitchen counter. He walked out into the living room and didn't see her anywhere. She must be in the game room he thought. He got closer to the room and heard a beautiful melody coming from behind the doors. It was her. She was singing. The door was opened slightly so he peeked inside and saw her putting his pictures on the shelf. Her voice was like silk, a soft pitch to his ears. He watched her as she stopped and looked at the last frame in her hand. She stopped singing. For the slightest moment she looked sad. He saw her shake her head and put the picture on the shelf. She turned to him and screamed. Her sudden reaction scared him. He trip over his feet and fell to the floor.

She took out her head phones, took a deep breath. "What were you doing?" she said slightly miffed.

"Sorry. I knocked and called your name but you didn't hear either" he lied. He got up from the floor straightening up. He looked over at the bookshelves. "I see you started without me."

"Yeah sorry I was bored I only unpacked your books and the pictures" she said. She covered her face with her hands and turned away from him.

"It's not a big deal if you started without me I don't mind" he walked towards her watching as her shoulders convulsed. As he got closer he removed her hands away from her face. To his surprised she was smiling. Soon she began to laugh whole heartedly.

"You should have seen your face when you fell through the door!" she said in between laughs.

He looked at her slightly embarrassed and walked out of the room. She didn't go after him to apologize instead she stayed back to control her laughter but couldn't the giggles just kept on coming. Her laughter was just contagious and soon he was laughing all the way to the kitchen and back into the room.

Can we eat our lunch now?" he said trying to control his laughter as well

She stopped and smiled at him before saying "Don't you want to eat in the kitchen?"

"We can eat in here it's no problem" placing their food and drinks on the floor he grabbed the biggest box he could and moved it over to a corner of the room. Sarah grabbed two pillows from the couch and placed them on each side of the box and sat down on top of one. Tom grabbed their food and did so.

They sat on the floor of the large game room with their food perched on the large box. For a few moments they ate in silence often looking at each other when the other wasn't looking and sniggering when they did catch each other's eye. Neither one of them knew why they became shy all of a sudden. This time Sarah decided she would break the silence.

"This is really good" she said taking a bite of her breaded fish. It really was good they had only been eating for 15 minutes and she was almost done. Never in her life had she tasted something so delicious.

"I'm glad to hear you like it" he beamed. He too was almost finished. "There's this place called Anta's Fishery and Fish-n-Chips it's just a five minute walk from here. I've been going there ever since I moved here. I'm not a very good cook" he said taking a drink of his soda.

"So I take it Jade doesn't cook either huh?" she said with simplicity.

"She can make…" he said as he turned up his head and tapped his finger on his chin. Sarah laughed he finished"…she can order take out like no one's business" he looked at her and grinned.

Sarah got up and walked over to another box that held her bag and pulled out a big hair clip. She faced him and asked "So where did you live before?"

He watched her as she pulled her long hair back exposing her long slender neck. The front of her chest exposed. The slant of her neck to her shoulder glowed with an even tone. For some reason he couldn't look away he felt some kind of urge in him, almost a kind of wanting. Noticing he was staring she cleared her throat and walked over and sat down again. He looked away for a moment embarrassed that she saw him gawking at her. He felt his mouth going dry and took a sip of his drink again. After a minute he gathered up courage and looked up again. He saw that she had put her hair up in a way that the tips of her hair flared out at the top of her head with strands of hair falling to the sides of the long tooth clip.

Assuming she wasn't going to get an answer Sarah began to clear the box table piling their empty paper plates on top of each other. He caught notice and grabbed her wrist before she got up again to throw it away. She stared back at him both their eyes making contact. Her eyes were the color of chocolate brown with specks of gold. They seemed contrasting compared to his. They were big but not in a bad way. They were pure and innocent but seductive at the same time. He quickly removed his hand from her wrist and stood up as well.

"I'll take these to the kitchen" he said quickly taking the empty plates and rushing out of the room.

Sarah stood in the room dumbfounded.

He quickly rushed out of the room leaving her standing alone. He got to the kitchen and threw the paper plates into the trash. What the bloody hell was that all about? Why is it all of a sudden hard to breathe? He pulled at the collar of his shirt. He paced the kitchen floor and waited for his heart rate to return to normal. Why am I reacting this way? Maybe the food is making me act weird. Yes, that's it. It's the food and nothing else. It's not like I have some kind of attraction for her. Even if I did the attraction is about the size of a pin. I talk to and see woman all the time there practically my whole fan base. Why does she have such an effect on me? This is nothing I'm probably just overreacting. I'll just go in there and explain my sudden outburst.

He walked back to the room and saw her unpacking another box. This time only one headphone was in her ear. She looked up from the box and smiled she stood back up and walked over to the bookshelf. In her hands were props he had taken from the Harry Potter set. In her hand was his silver Slytherin ring and tie pin as well as an autographed script signed by the whole cast. She placed them on the second shelf about a foot above her. With delicate hands she placed each treasure in its own domain.

"So why did you decide to move?"She said suddenly. He was so intrigued by her movements that he barely heard her question and forgot about his first task of explanation.

"Jade and I wanted to be closer to each other. I had a house out in the country but I sold it to move here." his tone was steady and even. To be honest he didn't really like the busy streets of London he liked England's quiet country side more but when it came to Jade everything was out the window he truly did love her.

"Now that's some serious devotion you have there." She said examining her placement work on the shelf.

"Well what can I say When you're in a committed relationship you have to make some sacrifices." He said folding his arms across his chest and leaning against the wall.

Sarah knew all about sacrifices in a relationship. It was a constant thing between her and her ex although he never made any. Tom never took his eyes off her for a second. He watched her hands embrace her body and her smile fall. He had just met her and known her for only a few hours and yet it broke his heart to see her like that. "What's the real reason you moved here?"

She turned to him tried to pass a genuine smile over to him but failed he saw right through her and she knew it. "What I told you earlier was the real reason."

"I don't think you should lie to your boss on the first day." He said lightheartedly. He lifted from the wall and made his way over to the couch and sat down. He debated on whether to press the matter further and decided to do so. "I find that hard to believe. Why would you just decide to move thousands of miles away surely you have family back home missing you?"

She sighed loudly clearly annoyed with the fact that he wouldn't let it go and just take her word for it. She walked over to the couch and sat down at the other end. She took her iPod from her shirt and pulled her headphone from her ear. She wrapped the headphones around it and set it on the arm of the couch. She didn't look at him but merely stared at the blank screen of the T.V. a comfortable silence passing between them. After minutes she finally spoke" It's kind of personal I've only known you about six hours now. Let's start small before I delve into my little story." She looked at him for confirmation.

"Alright after all we will be seeing each other on a daily basis so we should know a few things about each other." he lifted slightly off the couch, turning to face her, one leg folded under him the other hanging off the couch. Sarah did the same as well.

"How about a game of 20 questions instead of it being about an object we could just make it about ourselves and since we're both adults and I think we can both handle the truth we shall answer each other's questions truthfully no matter how personal they are." She smiled at him deviously.

"I think I can agree to those terms, so is that 20 questions each?" He laughed

"Yes. Well you can go first sense you want to know so much" she grabbed a pillow and hugged it to herself.

He stared at her in thought and then decided to ask her the question every woman lied about when answering. "How old are you?"

She laughed at him "oh come on you don't ask a lady how old she is!" In truth she had no problem answering this question age was just a number but the fact that this was his first question shocked her a little.

"Hey! You made the rules" he pointed at her. "So now truthfully you have to answer the question" he reminded her.

"Twenty-two" she answered simply. He gave her a "pfft" wave showing his disbelief.

"I'm not lying! I really am twenty-two" she sat straight up as if her posture would show her age. As she turned her head slightly he noticed she had a tattoo on her neck just behind her ear. He made a mental note to ask her about that later."Can we move on to my question now?" she asked. He nodded to her. "How long have you and Jade been together?"

Being the guy he was he had to think hard about it. Jade always had to remind him when their anniversary was and to his delight she never reprimanded him for forgetting."About 3 or 4 years. I don't keep track really."

"That's a long time." She stated. "Are you going to marry her?" She just about wanted to laugh at his uneasiness to the question but she held back. He had literally turned white.

He could see that she was holding back laughter but he didn't care. He had never thought about that in all the years he had been with Jade. Sure she would hint at things but he figured she was just talking that way because at one point all her friends were marrying some bloke or another. He did love her if they had been together this long then surely he would come around to asking her to marry him.

Sarah settled down. He's really thinking hard she thought. His distress on how to answer the question was etched on his face. "You can have a pass if you want?" she said with all sincerity but also in hopes that he wouldn't ask why she moved here. She didn't want him to think she was running way from her life back home although she was.

"No I'll answer" he said. Damn! She thought but smiled at him. He continued "I personally think that we are good where we are now, just being in a boy/girl relationship for now. Don't get me wrong we are totally committed to each other I would do anything for her, but right now marriage is something I would like to put as you Americans would say "on the back burner" for as long as possible just until I'm ready."

"I get it." She said looking away from him and down at the pillow in her arms. Boy did she get it." Do you think she'll wait that long for you?"

"I hope so if she claims to love me like she says she does. I know that if it was the other way around I would wait for her."

Sarah sat with both feet hovering over the floor again facing the T.V. This time he got a clear view of the tattoo behind her ear. It was a star. From where he was sitting it looked to be not only one star tattoo but three.

She saw him staring at her from the corner of her eye. It started to make her feel uncomfortable until he spoke of the reason he was staring at her so intently.

"What kind of tattoo is that?"

Her hand moved up to touch the three stars. Sometimes she forgot they were even there. Three stars etched into her flesh from a time of teenage adolescence."There just stars. I got them when I was 16. My boyfriend at the time thought it would be a cool birthday gift. It was stupid." she said bleakly.

"Can I see?" He asked. She nodded.

She felt him move closer. His body so close to her she could feel the heat radiating off of him making her feel warm. His smell lingered around her filling her nose with a scent of vanilla and timber. It was a combination of something masculine. Sarah could feel his hot breath on her just barely grazing her ear. She tried to keep calm and slow her rapid heartbeat.

Tom moved closer trying to get a better look at her tattoo. Her body tensed but he hardly noticed, just being so close to her made his stomach tingle. As he moved closer he caught her scent it was fruity. To him it smelled like a combination of apples and cherry blossoms. He stopped a small distance and closed his eyes to regain self control and let out a small breath of air. He opened his eyes and focused on the stars in front of him. Three stars were inked into her flesh one big star and two small ones on each side. He could see each star had very intricate swirls weaving through the open space in the middle of the each one. He brought his hand up and touched each star. He didn't know what brought him to do such a thing. His need to touch her over took him. Blood flowed through his body at the touch of her soft skin. He withdrew his hand from her flesh and moved back to the other end of the couch.

"Those are very beautiful" he cleared his throat before continuing "your tattoos."

"Thanks" she mumbled. This is awkward she thought.

"How long were you and your ex together" he asked. He looked up and caught grief spill over her face. Way to make things more awkward he thought to himself.

She got up from the couch and picked up an empty box to unfold and stacked it against the wall for later use. She wanted anything some kind of distraction to prevent the tears from falling. She really wasn't ready just yet to talk about him. If anything she just wanted to forget him and the last six years. Sarah could feel Toms' eyes on her knowing he was waiting for some kind of answer. She reasoned with herself to answer him and that he only wanted to know how long she had been with her ex. She didn't have to tell him her whole life story well that part of her life.

"Six years" she said grabbing another box but not bothering to look at him.

Tom left it at that and didn't ask more about it. He did the math and figured it was probably a touchy subject. From his calculations it seemed to be a very recent break up. Maybe that's why she moved far away from home. He got up from the couch and walked over to a couple of boxes in the far corner. In the boxes were his electronics. He took out cords and remotes, a games console and a blu-ray player and began to set up his entertainment. Another comfortable silence took over the room.

After everything was all hooked up and the room had finally been cleared away of all boxes they stood in the room admiring their handy work.

"I think I did a pretty good job" said Sarah proudly with her hands on her hips looking about the room.

"You act like you were the only one doing all the unpacking" he joked. In truth the only thing he did do was hook up the entertainment systems.

"Jerk" She laughed and gave him a playful push. "You know I was thinking, I might actually like working for you. You're not as arrogant and dense as I thought you would be. You know being a celebrity and all. You're not all that demanding."

"Thank you?" he said with raised eyebrows not sure if he should take that as a compliment or take offense. "You're not so bad yourself I thought you being from America would have some disadvantages." He said with a smirk.

Her eyes narrowed at him for a moment. She smiled at his wit and said "I'm not stupid. But in all seriousness it's been a good day so far I enjoyed your company.

He had to agree it had been a good day so far despite his feelings getting out of whack he hoped that he didn't set off any alarms with her. He didn't want her to think he was the kind of guy that would cheat on his girlfriend with someone whom he just met. He loved Jade and he did clarify his love for her didn't he? Well he wanted to be sure she understood that before he could say anything she said it for him.

"I think we'll be good friends wouldn't you say?"

He couldn't agree more. He was sure these "feelings" he felt around her would pass. She obviously had no intentions of feeling that way for him either. So things from here on out wouldn't be so challenging since she had declared they were to be friends and he was fine with that.

" Yes I would say so after all we did have a friend to friend conversation earlier which by the way we didn't get to finish our game of questioning but I would say yes, Sarah, we are going to be great friends." He confirmed.

She swayed her way over to him and said "We'll just have to finish that another time won't we Thomas?"

A/N: Its a little long but this is the end of introductions next chapter will be set 2 months from when Sarah started working for Tom. Read and Review. See ya next tuesday!