Some time later, Lucy sighed contentedly. Her head was resting on Tim's bare chest with the palm of her hand right over his heart. Their legs were entwined together under the sheet that only covered the bottom halves of them. With one hand Tim was tracing small circles on her naked back with his fingertip. His other hand was buried in her hair, which was still damp from the rain. Tim's soaking wet clothes laid in piles on the floor all around the bed. The dress Lucy had picked out just for him and had paid far too much for had been kicked somewhere under the bed and she couldn't have cared less. Lucy felt tired from all of the energy they had just exerted together and yet buzzed all at the same time.

"Now that's what I call…" Tim began, his voice slow. He was in as dream-like of a state as Lucy was.

"Spark," Lucy finished.

Tim chuckled. "Yeah, that's one word for it. I was thinking…spice."

"Another good word," Lucy mused. "How about…incredible."

"Wonderful and mind blowing also come to mind," Tim added. "I'm sure there are other adjectives, but my brain isn't actually functioning right now."

"Same. And I couldn't agree more with all of those words. We certainly do have chemistry."

"That's undeniable."

The natural chemistry that they had with each other when their clothes were on was more than doubled when their clothes were off. Closing her eyes, Lucy let the rising and falling of Tim's chest lul her.

"Do you want me to move?" She mumbled, half-asleep. She didn't want to crush him or make him uncomfortable, especially with his bad back, but she loved being close to him and using his body as a pillow.

"No," Tim answered. "Do you want me to go?"

That question made Lucy's eyes pop open. She lifted her head off his chest so she could look into his eyes.

"Do you want to go?" She asked and Tim could immediately see the vulnerability in her eyes.

"No," Tim answered quickly. "That's the last thing I want to do. I just thought…with Alex…I…"

"I locked the bedroom door. He's a pretty deep sleeper and doesn't usually wake up in the middle of the night. If he does, you could hide in the bathroom."

"It'll be just like when I was a teenager," Tim mumbled.

"Did you hide in many bathrooms when you were a teenager?" Lucy teased.

"I plead the fifth," Tim responded.

"I think as long as you leave before Alex wakes up, it'll be ok."

"Ok."

"Besides, I like you being here in my bed. I like feeling your arms around me."

"I like having my arms around you," Tim told her.

Lucy smiled as she put her head back on his chest.

"It doesn't bother you that I like to cuddle?" She asked.

"No. Why would it?"

"Chris hated it," Lucy said and then she immediately regretted it. "I'm sorry. I don't know why I brought him up. I…"

"It's ok. We all have a past. Chris is a big part of yours. Isabel is a big part of mine."

"Did she like to cuddle?" Lucy asked. "I'm sorry, is that weird of me to ask? If you don't want to talk about it, I…"

"No, it's ok," Tim assured her. "Isabel wasn't really a fan of being too close either, especially the more she went undercover."

"I'm sorry. It must have been hard to see her change."

"It was."

"Chris always wanted to get up and take a shower after we had been together," Lucy explained. "It always made me feel…dirty."

"You know, the more you tell me about this guy, the more of an ass I think he is."

"I don't think he meant anything by it."

"You have to stop defending him, Lucy. I get everyone is different and has different preferences, but any man who doesn't want to hold the woman he's with…there's something wrong with that and wrong with him."

He wrapped his arms around her a little tighter just to prove his point.

"I'm sorry," Lucy said a moment later.

"For defending Chris?"

"No. For the things I said earlier at dinner."

She lifted her head up once more and sat up so that she could really see him. Tim lifted his torso up, leaning against the headboard. She pulled the sheet up to under her arms and scooched her body back so she was beside him. She turned to face him.

"Lucy, you don't have to apologize," he said, reaching his hand out to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear.

"I do. I tried to push you away. I tried to tank things with us because the truth is, I am scared, Tim."

"I know. I am too."

Lucy sighed. "What are we going to do?"

"I don't know," Tim answered honestly. "But we don't have to figure it out right now. Let's just…be happy together in the moment. Let's just see where this goes."

"I can try to do that."

"And let's have a lot more sex," Tim added, lightening the mood.

Lucy laughed. "Deal."

"Have I told you how beautiful you are?"

Lucy ran her hands through her hair. She hadn't seen herself in a mirror, but guessed that it was starting to frizz. She also assumed between the rain and the love making that she had makeup on her face in places it didn't belong.

"I'm sure I'm a mess," she said.

"No. Just beautiful."

Tim inched closer to her and kissed her. It started long and slow, but eventually he became more ravenous. Lucy put her hand on his chest.

"We need to sleep," she said.

"Later," Tim grumbled, covering her body with his.

When Lucy woke up, she was alone. Although she missed the presence of Tim's body next to hers and would have loved waking up with him, she knew why he left. It was to protect her son. Rolling over, Lucy went to grab her phone from the table next to the bed. She had a text from Tim.

'Good morning, beautiful. Genny asked me to take Tyler to a dentist appointment this morning and then take him to school. Then I have to go to the station for a little while to help Chip. I'll see you later today. Thanks for the spark last night.'

Lucy smiled to herself. She was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to go back to bed, but she desperately needed a shower and she needed to get Alex ready for school. She quickly shot a text back to Tim.

'Good morning. I missed you this morning. I have clients all day and a PTA meeting in the afternoon. I look forward to seeing you tonight.'

Once the text was sent, she sighed and stared at the ceiling for a moment. She gave herself just three minutes to remember the night before and relish in how good it truly was. When her three minutes were up, she did her best to push aside those pleasant memories and Lucy put herself into mom mode and got out of bed.

While Lucy was forcing herself to get ready for the day, Tim was walking into his sister's apartment with a bag of donuts that he had picked up from the local bakery down the street. Genny was in the kitchen, pouring herself a cup of coffee.

"Hey," Tim greeted.

"Good morning." Genny's eyes zeroed in on the bag he was holding. "Donuts, really?"

"What's wrong with donuts?" Tim countered.

"I appreciate that you volunteered to bring breakfast, but could you have brought anything with more sugar? You do know Tyler is going to the dentist this morning, right?"

"I'll feed him after the dentist," Tim replied, putting the donuts down on the counter.

"Well, I'm letting him sleep in a little because his appointment isn't until 9:30. It's just a normal cleaning and the office already has all of his insurance and my information on file. But if they have any questions, you can always call me or…"

Genny trailed off when she realized Tim wasn't paying attention to her at all. He was looking at his phone and smiling with a big grin.

He had just read the text from Lucy and was typing his quick reply.

'Can't wait'

"Oh. My. God," Genny said, enunciating and punctuating every word.

"What?" Tim said, alarmed. He looked up from his phone and pocketed it.

"You and Lucy finally had sex last night, didn't you?" Genny accused.

"What?"

"You did! I can tell by the look on your face."

"I don't have a look on my face," Tim said, immediately trying to relax his face as much as possible. Had he been smiling too much?

"You absolutely do!" Genny exclaimed.

"Whatever look I have or don't have on my face…it's none of your business."

"It is my business. I'm basically the reason you two got together in the first place."

Tim gave her a skeptical look. "Just drop it."

"I will not drop it. How was it? Worth staying in Connecticut more permanently?"

"You are my sister and we are not talking about this," Tim said.

"Oh, come on. Don't be such a prude. We are both adults. I'm not going to stop talking about this until you tell me about it," Genny taunted.

"Fine! Let's just say we…we have really good chemistry," Tim finally relented.

"Well, that's been obvious since the day you two met."

"Genny, what happens between me and Lucy is private. And…"

"What happened to you and Lucy's mom?" Tyler interrupted. He was standing in the doorway in his pajamas. His hair was sticking up in every direction and he was rubbing his eyes.

"Nothing," Tim quickly answered.

"Are those donuts?" Tyler exclaimed, grabbing for the bag Tim brought in. He totally forgot about what he was asking about and solely focused on the sweet things inside the white bag. Genny gave Tim a smirk and finished getting herself ready to go to work.

At 4:30 that afternoon, Lucy found herself sitting next to Genny at long cafeteria tables at Tyler and Alex's school. Other parents and teachers sat around them while everyone's kids were in a classroom being watched over by a volunteer teacher. Lucy finally had the opportunity to meet the man Genny had been seeing. He seemed very nice and by the way Genny looked at him, Lucy could tell she was smitten.

The meeting, which had been going on for almost an hour, was just wrapping up. Ashley, the head of the PTA, was up at the front of the room talking about how successful the carnival was. As she mentioned something about how many people loved the mermaid photo booth, Lucy and Genny exchanged an annoyed look.

"Now, we all know that the PTA's goal is not only to raise money for our school, but also to do good in the community," Ashley announced. "And I am happy to say that through our coin drive that has been taking place all week, we have raised $742 to be donated to the wildlife rehabilitation center."

Everyone around the room clapped.

"Not bad for a bunch of change," Lucy commented quietly to Genny.

"And the kids got so excited counting all of it," Genny said. "It was a great way to teach coins."

Ashley continued once the clapping died down. "I will be presenting a check to the center at their annual gala this Wednesday." Everyone clapped a second time although far less enthusiastically. "Well, unless there are any questions, this meeting is adjourned. I hope to see you all for next month's meeting."

As Lucy and Genny went to stand up, Ashley approached them. She faced her body particularly towards Genny.

"It's too bad Tim couldn't make it to the meeting," Ashley said with a big smile.

"Why would he?" Genny remarked. "He's not a parent or teacher here."

"Well, he certainly would have been a nice face to look at in the crowd," Ashley stated.

Lucy scoffed. Ashley gave her an annoyed look.

"I hope you're finding our town to be a good fit," Ashley said to Lucy, although Lucy felt like she probably didn't actually mean it.

"Oh yes, I've met some wonderful people," Lucy replied as sweetly as possible.

"Speaking of wonderful people…"Ashley continued, turning back to Genny. "Genny, do you think you could give me TIm's number? He was supposed to give it to me at the carnival, but he must have forgotten. I would love to ask him to the gala."

"He can't go to the gala with you," Lucy proclaimed.

"Oh, and why's that?" Ashley retorted.

"Because he's coming with me," Lucy stated.

"You're going to the gala?" Genny asked, clearly surprised.

This time it was Ashley who scoffed. "It's been sold out for months," Ashley remarked. "Before you even moved here. And the tickets are expensive."

"Then it's a good thing I have my sources," Lucy said. "I guess I'll be seeing you on Wednesday."

And with that, Lucy turned and began to walk away. Genny was hot on her heels. They headed towards the classroom where the boys would be waiting.

"You got tickets to the gala?" Genny asked. "When? And how? Ashley's right. It's been sold out for months and it's like $1000 a couple."

"Crazy Aunt Mae," Lucy muttered.

"What?"

The two women stopped outside of the door to the classroom.

"Apparently my aunt really loved animals and she was a big donor to the center every year," Lucy explained. "They mailed her tickets about a month or so ago. I called them to tell them about her passing, but they told me to keep the tickets since the donation was already made. I didn't think anything of it and wasn't going to go, but now…"

"Oh, now you are definitely going. Do you have anything to wear? It's the day after tomorrow, which doesn't give you much time to find something."

"I'm sure I can find something in my closet," Lucy assured her, mentally starting to picture the dresses she owned in her head. She had already spent more than enough money on the green dress. Could she wear that one again? Tim certainly seemed to like it. But was it fancy enough for a gala?

"Oh no, that won't do," Genny said. "We are taking you shopping."

"It's fine. I don't need a new dress."

"Yes you do," Genny insisted. "Think about what Ashley will probably show up in."

Lucy sighed. "You're right. I need a new dress."

"I'll text Tim and see if we can drop the boys off with him at your place."

"Speaking of your brother…I suppose I should ask Tim first if he even wants to go to a gala."

"Oh, he'll want to go. That man will do anything for you. Especially since I heard you two had a pretty successful evening last night."

Lucy's jaw dropped. "He told you?"

"He didn't have to. I can read my brother like a book. I'm happy that you make each other happy."

"Well, we were definitely happy last night," Lucy said with a little giggle.

"Then let's make him even happier with a killer dress."

Lucy smiled. "Let's go dress shopping."