In the episode "Jody Jackson", when they come back from finding Jody at her old house. Rick is trying to catch her attention. And I was thinking yeah, maybe those two could have been friends (NOT friends with benefits) so I suddenly thought of this. It popped up into my mind like years ago, so I decided to finally write it. I haven't started it yet while writing this. But I think it will be just a short little piece with two new friends.

Told from Jody's POV.

"…A burger!"

Tracy didn't say anything, but she nodded. And I somehow knew to take the biscuit tin tighter while I got up after her and held the tin with chocolate biscuits still close to me.

Just as we came down the stairs Elektra came from the other direction, she was glaring at me and her eyes reminded me of that way when Kingsley. I couldn't help but shiver, but held the cookie tin close to me as if she had threatened to take it from me.

"Hey…." Tracy smiled at me. "…You don't need to hold so tightly onto that one. No one will take it from you. And you can save it for dessert if you want…" She tried to take it from me. "I'm just worrying you might get a stomachache if you eat so many biscuits."

"I won't!"

I could imagine back to my house, mum, Kingsley and Luke. Never being able to eat until I was full and candy or chocolate biscuits I could just forget all about., now it felt like I had an endless amount of them…

"It's okay… I won't take them from you…"

Gently, Tracy led me down the hallway, down the stairs and towards the kitchen. I was just about to follow her, but as we passed the lounge I could hear some music. It sounded a bit as something my brothers had been playing but I never got the chance to try so I forgot all about the food.

"You can go and have a listen. I'll go and make your burger."

I nodded slightly, and with the chocolate biscuit tin still held tightly went into the living room where there sat a brown- haired boy on the pool table. He didn't look up or hear me come at first. And he was playing a bit falsely- as if the guitar was out of tune. Maybe I could do it better.

"Let me try!"

The boy jumped. I hadn't meant to startle him. But for the moment I couldn't care while I put the tin on the pool table and crawled up to sit next to him.

"Sure…" He got up and then handed me the guitar, already before he made me do anything I used my right hand to play on all of the strings without playing a chord- first once, then twice. "Cool! Now we've got that part covered…. Your name was Jody right?" I nodded, but couldn't understand why that mattered right now. "I'm Rick… Here… put your hand like this…" He took my left hand and led me to hold it towards the neck of the guitar. "One finger here, can you get your hand around? Only barely… one finger there… that's an A."

A or not- I played it, again and again. Before I lost my concentration and looked around the room. It was only a couple of hours ago since I came in wearing Carmen's sweater. But it felt like it must be a lot longer, and maybe it did to Rick too…

"I'm sorry you got left alone with… those girls…" He suddenly kept talking as if he could hear my thoughts.. "Gus tells… everyone about everyone so there aren't many secrets here….We all should have known it was… ought to go wrong somehow and it did."

"It's okay." For a moment I took another A on the guitar and looked around the room- a lot of things happened here didn't it? But that wasn't Rick's fault. "I'm over it." I turned back to the guitar, carefully put my fingers where he had shown me and moved my other hand up and down all of the strings- I was actually making music!

"I guess being here, at Elm Tree House takes some practice just like playing the guitar…. But, with some practice…." He put his hand over mine and moved my fingers over the guitar's neck so I'd take another chord. "….And with a little help from your friends… You can learn."

I carefully took another chord on the guitar while Rick helped me move my fingers but at the same time tried to not look as if I was listening to what Rick said. Carmen and Elektra had already shown they weren't going to be my friends. But Tracy and Rick were two as well. And if friends were what Rick wanted to call it…

"That's great. Have you played the gutar before?"

I didn't even answer to that- I knew that Rick was lying so well he almost believed it himself. And maybe I wasn't cut out to be a guitar player.

Random fact

I had this idea like years ago. Then started actually putting it together like a week ago. It took me years to write this short, pointless little fic about who was just turning out to be my favourite character (Jody).