"Your favorite television show?"

Emily laughed around her fork. The engineer had come to her school the day after he and his son had gotten back from their tiny vacation and brought her lunch, the teacher's favorite lobster ravioli with a side of rice and some sauce he had concocted that was absolutely marvelous, and Emily couldn't get the smile off of her face. "I actually have a fascination for reality shows," she admitted, blushing when Aaron smiled at her.

"Really?" he questioned, struck off guard by the admission. He had taken her for a murder mystery and family comedy loving girl. "And what are your favorite reality shows? Or do you have one above all the rest?"

The third grade teacher bit her lip. "Well my favorite is a certain show about this family that's basically famous for nothing."

Aaron's eyes widened. "You're joking."

"Hey," she scolded lightly, forcing herself not to smirk at the older man who sat on the other side of her desk. "Those girls in that family may have started from a sex tape but they have a flourishing business that I am quite envious of."

The single father laughed, shaking his head before cutting another piece of his ravioli with the side of his fork. "Whatever floats your boat."

Emily's jaw dropped. "What are you, seventy? Who uses that phrase?"

"Are we really discussing what phrases I happen to use while you're the one who's obsessed with women who think they're the most famous people in the entire country?"

"Try the world," Emily corrected playfully, her eyes darkening on the man she had gone out with. With every word that came out of his mouth, she could feel herself falling even harder for him. "And who said obsessed?"

Aaron shook his head, taking the stance the other brunette had and leaned his elbow on her desk, pointing his fork at her. "Your description did."

Emily stuck her tongue out at the older man before she glanced down to her plate, her eyes widening. "You know, there actually is this new show with this insanely hot actor that looks good." Biting her tongue, she looked out the window to the kids playing recess. "I can't remember his name."

"Does he have dark hair? Dark eyes?" The engineer sat up and gestured to himself. "Looks like me."

"Kind of," she giggled, licking the corner of her mouth with the tip of her tongue. "I mean, you're definitely more attractive. If you were to take his place, I bet they'd get millions of more viewers."

Aaron grinned, standing from his place and walking around the desk to lean against the drawers beside the third grade teacher's smooth legs. "Oh, you think I'm attractive?"

Emily didn't even try to hide her blush that time, smiling wide as she looked up to the older man. "Maybe."

"Only maybe? I'm not this devastatingly handsome man?"

The third grade teacher stared incredulously up to her date as he reached down and brushed her hair behind her ear. "Now you're pushing it." Smiling when he started to lean in, Emily slowly parted her lips, ready for the kiss she had now been waiting for weeks to finally receive.

"Emily?"

The pair immediately broke apart, Emily spinning her chair around to face the doorway of her classroom so fast that she almost knocked right into the blackboard to her side. "Damn," she cursed, rubbing her elbow as she looked to her coworker. "Alexis," she laughed lightly, gesturing for her to come in. "What's up?"

The big eyed woman's jaw dropped at the realization of what she had interrupted. "I'm sorry," the teacher breathed as she waved her hands before her, trying to somehow undo what she had done. "Please get back to whatever you were doing."

Emily, about to hold out her hand to tell her new friend she could stay, watched as Alexis quickly run from the doorway.

"Well she seems sweet."

The teacher snorted, letting Aaron lean back against her desk. "She sure is," she grinned, biting her lip as she looked up to the older man. He had a smile that could brighten her day in a single moment.

The smile his son had.

"I have to tell you something."

Aaron nodded, crossing his arms over his chest. "Do you need me to get going? I know you have class soon."

Slowly shaking her head, she crossed her legs and sat back in her chair. "I met Haley."

"Haley?" He met her eyes and saw the way she was chewing on her lip. "Haley Brooks?" Gesturing to the desks in her classroom, Aaron almost gasped. "Jack's mother?"

"Yeah," she whispered. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you. She came here a few days ago and was really upset that she missed Jack's parent teacher meeting."

Aaron paused, rolling his shoulders as he listened to the younger woman.

"Are you mad?"

The engineer looked up from the ground. "Why would I be?"

Emily felt herself hesitate. "...Because I didn't tell you?"

Aaron quickly shook his head. "No, that's fine. You must have felt so uncomfortable in that situation." Running his hands along his face, the father of one sighed. "Haley and I are trying our best to coparent, but it doesn't always work out so well. She couldn't be at the parent teacher conference and I made her feel badly about it," he huffed. "Did everything go well?"

"Of course," Emily got out quickly, keeping her eyes glued to those of her date. "She was really interested in all of Jack's hobbies and how he was doing." She wouldn't bring up what the blond had said about their divorce. That was none of her business.

Aaron felt himself smiling down to the beautiful brunette. "Jack loves her." He saw the awkward smile he was receiving from the younger woman, and he bent down and squatted above the ground, his hands taking the brown eyed woman's. "He loves you too."

Emily let out a breath. "Really?"

"Really?"

Alexis peeked head back into the classroom and watched as the brunette couple leaned in for another kiss. "So cute!"

Emily's brow raised, fighting the smile that wanted to spread onto her face as she turned once again to see her friend in her doorway.

The other teacher paled. "I'm just going to go."