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Bosco woke up at 9:45 the next morning to his phone ringing across the room on his dresser. Forgetting about his injuries, he jumped out of bed to grab the phone and instantly collapsed back onto the bed. He laid there for a moment holding his leg until he realized he was all alone and then he stared at the ceiling and let his mind wander off. He was confused and angry but most of all hurt, yet again. 'After everything we talked about last night, how could she just disappear on me like that? Maybe she left cause I told her I love her? Whatever the reason is, that's messed up. She told me she wanted to fix things and try being together. We didn't even sleep together, and if we did, I'm usually the one to leave at the crack of dawn. I mean, I wouldn'ta left her in the morning. Whatever.' He thought to decided he would get up and take his pills and then go back to sleep. He reached across the bed and grabbed his water and took a pill out of each of the bottles except the one to sleep, he downed them all at once and rolled over trying to get comfortable. He was nodding in and out of consciousness when his phone went off again. "Who the hell is calling me this early? This better be important!" he groaned as he slowly got out of bed and limped over to his dresser. "What!" he yelled into the phone, but no one answered "Helloooo?" he looked at the phone and it was a private number. "This is why I don't answer blocked calls, it's always some jag-off that think's their funny." And with that he slammed his phone shut. He limped back over to the bed and grabbed his brace, knowing that he wasn't going to fall back asleep; he put it on and tightened it up. He grabbed his phone and headed down the steps to put on a pot of coffee. He was still half asleep and pissed off from the way he had been woken up. He made it to the bottom of the stairs when Faiths voice brought him back to reality from his semi-conscious trance.

"Good morning sunshine!" She smiled at him as she poured two cups of coffee

"Good morning." He muddled

"What's wrong?" she handed him a cup of coffee and sat down. He was looking at her as if she had two heads.

"Ugh. Nothin." He shook his head as if he were trying to clear his mind. "I thought you left me." He sat down slowly. "I was kinda pissed." She laughed a little at his still confused attitude.

"Nope, I woke up a little bit ago. I called the kids and I didn't wanna wake you up, so I figured I'd come down here and make breakfast, but you don't have anything to make." she couldn't help but smile, all he had in his refrigerator was milk, butter, beer, left over pizza from last night, and water. "I was thinkin that if you're not in too much pain, we could go out and get breakfast, or maybe even go grocery shopping?

"Oh, sorry about that." He smirked "I'm not feelin goin shopping, but maybe breakfast in a little. I took a pain pill, so hopefully it works.

"Okay." She smiled again at him.

"You're awfully cheerful this morning, what's going on?"

"Nothin, I'm just in a good mood. You're outta the hospital, I don't have work today, I woke up next to you, and it's Sunday." Now Bosco was the one with the cheesy smile on his face.

"Ya I guess you're right. Today is a pretty good day. I didn't think so when I woke up, but now that you say it like that, it's lookin up." He finished off his cup of coffee and got up to pour more. "Although, I still don't understand why you like Sunday's so much weirdo." He nudged her arm as he walked passed her in a jokingly manner.

"I don't know, I guess I just like a lot of weird things." She stood up and walked over to the counter and put her cup down. He turned towards her and she wrapped her arms around his waist to pull his closer to her. "Like you!" she laughed and let him go

"Ha Ha Ha" He said dully "What's that supposed to mean anyway? I'm not weird!" He said in mock offence as he walked back to the table where she sat. He put his cup down in front of her and leaned down to hug her from behind. "Ya know Faith, I'm really glad you're here."

"I'm glad I'm here too." she lifted up her head and kissed him. He was taken by surprise and slightly pulled back. "Oh. I'm sorry." She turned her head away trying to shield herself from him.

"Faith." He said in a low tone as he bent down beside her.

"No Bos, it's fine, I shouldn'ta done it, I'm sorry." she grabbed her cup and took it to the sink.

"You're right. You shouldn't have." She stopped washing her cup and felt the embarrassment take over her body as she began to tear up. "I should've kissed you first." She didn't even realize that he had walked over to her until she had felt his breath on her neck as he spoke. She turned around with tears still in her eyes to meet his greyish-blue eyes melting their way into her heart. She was trapped in his gaze; she couldn't break their eye contact if she wanted to. He gently pushed a piece of hair off her face and tucked it behind her ear then slowly leaned in to kiss her. He pulled back a few moments later to catch his breath; he leaned against the counter and pulled her close by her waist. Neither of them said a word, but kissed again, this time the kiss was deepened. For as many women Bosco has kissed, he had never felt a kiss like the one he and Faith shared. He didn't want the feeling to ever end. He was sure at that very moment that if things didn't work out with him and Faith, that he wouldn't ever feel half of what he felt with Faith. He was so lost in the moment that he didn't realize his phone was ringing. Faith broke the kiss and he just stopped, he felt like his entire body went numb, he couldn't move, he couldn't feel anything, and he sure couldn't speak. He just stared at her.

"Bos?" She smiled as he blankly stared at her. She went over to the table and grabbed his phone, it was a private number. She remembered that his Ma was supposed to be in town today and that she called him from private numbers so she took his zombie like state as a yes to answer it, after all it could be his mother. "Hello?" her voice nearly sang into the phone but no one said anything back, she waited a few seconds and spoke again "Uhh hello?" and then the line disconnected. "Hmmm that was weird." She put the phone down and walked back over to Bosco who was standing clad in only his boxer briefs and leg brace against the kitchen counter, in the same position she had left him a few minutes before. "Bosco!" she said in a stern voice.

"Uhh ya? He mumbled back, almost inaudible, if he wasn't going to talk or be a functioning member of society, she was just going to go back to bed. She grabbed his cup off of the table and washed it out, she grabbed her already washed cup and put them both back in the cupboard.

"Okay Bos, I'm going back to bed." She didn't wait for him to answer; she just kissed him on his cheek and headed upstairs. She was going to go into the guest room, but she liked Bosco's bed it made her feel safe. She crawled into bed and go under the covers, she grabbed the remote and turned the TV on, animal planet was on, that wasn't her cup of tea, it was Bosco's. She flipped through the channels for a little while, she found a movie on Lifetime and started to watch it, of course it was sad, everything on that channel is sad. Even though she was in a great mood and she only watched movies like that when she was in a bad mood, she left it on. It had only started fifteen minutes before she started watching, so she couldn't have missed too much of the story line. She found herself becoming more and more sad as the movie went on so she changed it before her good mood was gone, she flipped on the local news station, turned down the volume and rolled over hoping to get some more sleep. Bosco was still in the kitchen, but instead of being frozen, he was now pacing the floor to the point he thought he was going to wear down the tiles. He had been trying to process what had happen for the past half hour but was getting nowhere. He kept getting lost in his own thoughts so he figured the only reasonable thing to do was to go and talk to Faith. He grabbed a bottle of water out of the refrigerator and started for the steps then doubled back and grabbed another for Faith and swiped his phone off of the table. Now he was ready, he knew she would laugh at him, but he needed to talk to her about it, that would be the only way he'd feel better. He stood outside of his bedroom and leaned on the door frame trying to build up his courage to go in and talk to her. He felt like he was a kid again, like he had just had his very first kiss with the girl he had a crush on and didn't know what to do or how to handle it.

'C'mon Boscorelli, you can do this. It's Faith for Christ sake…..OH GOD IT'S FAITH! It's about her, not another girl! Oh geez, what have I done now? You really know how to make a fool outta yourself Boscorelli! She is literally the only person in this world that I can talk to about anything, or that will actually listen to me about anything, and I go and screw it up. Hell, I'm in my underwear. She kissed me and I pulled away! What the hell was I thinkin? THEN I kiss her and don't say a damn word to her after. She's gotta hate me. Great, just great, I gotta go in there and talk to her now. What an idiot!' he argued with himself for a minute out loud before he finally opened the door. He took a step into the room with his head down and closed the door, when he looked up, her back was towards him he figured she was just pissed off and didn't want to look at him so he began to talk in a low embarrassed voice. "Look Faith…I-I'm really sorry. I understand why you're mad at me. I'm an idiot, I just keep screwin up, but I don't mean to." he let out a big sigh when she didn't answer, and walked over to the bed, he sat down behind her and covered his face with his hands. Faith began to stir when he sat on the bed. She rolled over and opened her eyes to see him sitting on the edge of the bed hunched over.

"Mmmmh. Hey Bos, when did you finally make it up here?" She muttered half asleep as she reached over and faintly rubbed his back. He turned to face her and when he seen that she had just woken up, he had felt even more embarrassed.

"Well, I got up here about five minutes ago, I came up to apologize for being such an idiot, but I guess I managed to do it again when I came in and talked to you while you slept." He said with mock amusement in his voice.

"Why did you come to apologize?" she was now intrigued by his insecurity. He looked at her like she had to be kidding. He knew he couldn't have imagined the entire thing. But when she nodded her head at him to answer he knew he couldn't get out of it.

"Faith… You kissed me, and I pulled away like an idiot. I don't know what happened, I was just caught off guard and you started to cry. You can't even say that I'm not an idiot, cause I obviously am. Then, when I kiss you, it's like my brain shut down. I didn't say a word to you after and you went upstairs so when I finally put it all together, I figured you were pissed at me." He took in a deep breath, he hadn't realized that he rushed all the words out together and didn't take a breath the entire time, even for a second. Faith just smiled at him. He was worked up over nothing. She had never seen him act like this before; he's always been the ladies' man, Mr. calm cool and collected. And now he was just rambling on and on. He never thought he did anything wrong before, and now, everything he does, he's worried is wrong.

"Geez Bos, What's gotten into you?" she said with a hint of laughter as he just stared at her with a serious look. "You're not an idiot, you didn't do anything wrong at all and I'm not nor was I pissed at you. I just came upstairs because I was tired, relax."

"So you really aren't mad?" he asked seriously

"Not even a little bit mad." She began rubbing his back again, hoping that it would relax him a little bit.

"Oh wow. Alright then, I guess everything's fine." She nodded in response "Well then, ya think I can lay down for a little?"

"This is your bed Bos, you don't have to ask."

"I know, but you looked like you were comfy, I don't wanna ruin it."

"Oh come here!" She grabbed him and pulled him down so he was lying down on his back, and she straddled him "If you don't stop sayin that you're gunna ruin everything that has to do with me, we are going to have an issue. Ya got it?" She said in a playfully stern voice. Bosco smiled from ear to ear and put his hands up like he was surrendering

"Yes m'am! He said sarcastically. Faith also smiled and rolled off of him. "How about we scratch breakfast and just lay in bed all day?"

"That may just be the best thing I think you have ever suggested." She laughed and propped herself up on her elbow so she could see Bosco better. "Ya know, I don't think I ever wanna get out of bed" she stated

"Oh yeah? Well I'm sure we could arrange something for ya." He leaned up and kissed her again; he still couldn't believe how much more amazing it was to kiss Faith than it was to kiss anyone else. He stopped though, he knew that if he didn't, it would go further and she was different. He didn't want to move to fast, he wanted her to know exactly how he felt before they took any other steps. "I can't." were the only words he managed to say after he broke the kiss. She waited for him to say more but he didn't continue.

"You can't what Bos?"

"I can't…We can't kiss like that. Not right now at least, not in bed. It will just lead to more and you know that as well as I do, I just wanna make sure we do this whole thing right if we are gunna do it. Ya know? This is going to sound really corny but, I wanna take you out on a real date and I want you to sleep with me without having sex with me, and I wanna tell the kids and Ty and I want you to come to Sully's place next week with us, I want us to get back to being best friends and knowing every single thing about each other before we actually have sex. Don't get me wrong, I want to, but you're different to me." She began to smile bigger and bigger with each and every word he said. She woulda never guessed that he would say such meaningful things.

"Are you sure you really wanna do all of that stuff Bos? You always said how stupid people are that did those things."

"I really wanna do it Faith. I know what I used to say, and I think people are stupid that do those things, but the only reason I know they are stupid is because they are doing cute stuff with other people, not you. And I know that I would be the stupid one if I didn't take you out and do cute stuff with you."

"When did you become such a hopeless romantic?" She joked with him, knowing that she liked the way he was being.

"I guess last night, but even more downstairs when I kissed you. Is it a bad thing? He asked suddenly tense.

"No, not at all, I mean I loved you when you were a bigoted guy, and I love you even more now that you have somewhat of an open mind."

"Well let's just keep the last part between us." He smiled "Only you and Em know that I actually have a soft side."

"Oh Bos, I almost forgot, she told me to have you call her, she said she needed to talk to you about something you told her in the hospital for you to call her." She looked at him in confusion as he smiled. "And don't worry, I won't tell anyone that you're a teddy bear."

"She is so much like you, it scares me sometimes." They both laughed as he reached over and grabbed his phone off the nightstand. "Is it okay if I call her back real quick? She just wants to know if I told you that I love you yet."

"That's my girl!" she said proudly then laughed a little. "Ya know, she is a lot like me, but I don't know how I didn't realize she was spending so much time with you, she acts like you all the time and she talks how you do too. You have poisoned my little girls' innocence!" she teased "Go ahead and call her, I'm not goin anywhere."

"You better not! Just don't say anything; she will think I'm lying to her if she hears you laughing or something. You tell her that I'm home yet?"

"Yeah I told her. Hurry up and call her, I wanna watch a movie and relax." She said with mock impatience as he dialed Emily's number