A/N: If you read my story Enjoy yourself then you will have no problems with this one, if not then here are the facts you should know:
1)Shay is happily living with Clarisse and their baby;
2)Severide moved out and is currently living at Casey's;
3)Casey decided that he needed time to sort through his thoughts and left to find peace with himself.
It's been some time after Casey's leaving and I can't say that it was very easy to Severide to deal with even with Shay around.
Severide had been watching his friend and ex-roommate for the whole shift. Something strange was going on. Shay had been singing to herself all day. Not that Severide thought that she was a bad singer, but she had never sang before, always declining any suggestions of karaoke or something like that.
"You'll burn a hole into me."
Severide was startled by non other than Shay standing right beside him.
"What's the problem Kelly?" She asked him suspiciously. "What have you done?"
"Me? Nothing." He said indignantly. "Why should it always be about me?!"
"Because there is only one reason for you to look at me longingly? You've done something and you need my help to fix it."
"First of all, I wasn't looking at you longingly."
"You mean you did do something."
"And second, there's nothing I did or need your help with." He finished ignoring her insinuations completely.
"Then why all the attention?" She arched her brow.
"You tell me." Severide finally said after some consideration. Truthfully he wasn't going confront her about the whole singing thing but now that she started the conversation he had nothing to lose.
"What do you mean?" Now Shay was really confused.
"I mean that you're not your usual self today."
"What? No, it's the same old me." Shay reassured him but he could see she was hiding something and that was really interesting.
"Come on. I know you too well for that." He chuckled. "You can't keep a secret."
"There's no secret." She stopped seeing his amused expression and gave up. "Okay, there's a secret. But I can't tell you. Really. It's nothing bad though."
"Oh, I can see that, the whole firehouse could see that with you singing." He laughed.
"What?" She was mortified now. "It's all your fault."
"Hey, wait a minute." Now was his turn to be surprised. "How it all ends up with me at fault?"
"Because you were the one who gave Clarisse that media system. Now she's singing all day long, saying it's good for the baby. Can you imagine that?"
"Oookay" Severide smiled hoping that Shay couldn't see the momentary sadness in his eyes. He knew his friend needed time but he missed Casey so much. "But to your information it wasn't my idea of the perfect gift. I'm the victim here too."
"As if I believed you for a second" Shay huffed and turned to leave.
Only when she's gone did Severide realize that he was still in dark about that secret of hers.
"Please, tell me, everything is ready." Shay pleaded. "He knows that I'm hiding something and"
"You're bad with secrets. Yes, I know. But you have to manage few more days."