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24. Lillies 

Sonny and Jocelyn were on babysitter duty. Sonny thought it was a good idea to be with the little Pedro after Evelyn and Alex were at work and Winona was busy as well.

"Hes changed and ready for bed." Jocelyn walks in the living room and rocks the baby. "The stinker almost shot me with pee." Sonny laughs.

"Here, eat, I'll take him." She handed him the baby and she struts to the kitchen, picking at the food that sonny made. "Im lucky to have my nieces, blessings. But Pedro, you're lucky to have a boy in the family." Jocelyn munches on her pasta.

"We get a lot of boys in our family." She heads over to eat by the couch. The door opens and the two of them peeked out and see Winona entering the house. "Hey aren't you supposed to out with your friends?"

"Oh hey Sonny!" She hugs him. "I was going to but work was too much and my social battery is dead." She plops on the couch beside Jocelyn. "Ale?"

"Basketball practice." Sonny tells her. Winona looks at him. Look at him being so involved in their lives. She likes Sonny, he was very nice and always made her titi smile. Maybe she had a crush on the older guy, like every girl would have but will deny that she is, teenage crushes. She remembers that Jensen wasn't very much like that. To be honest, Winona doesn't really know Jensen at all, he is his godfather when they were together, she used to call him tito and they used to take her out to disney when she was a kid, before Alejandro came. Alejandro still calls Jensen tito. They knew how the two divorced and left Jocelyn broken, so they didn't want to talk about him at all. But its pretty hard when he's still around.

"Ooo! Pasta!" Winona takes Jocelyn's plate and starts to eat.

"I wasn't eating that at all." Jocelyn scuffs.

"Let me get you a plate." Sonny says as he was about to make her one until Jocelyn stops him.

"I got it papi."  She pats his chest as she walks past him. Winona smiles at Sonny as she heard her call him a nickname. They were cute. Sonny treats Jocelyn with so much delicacy and affection it was almost disgusting, Alex's words.

"What we watching?" Winona switches the channels.

"Heart's Desire." She sits back and sees the show.

"Ugh!" Jocelyn heads back to the couch. "Lame ass reality show shes into. Just a bunch of people hooking up and trying to get the main guy." Sonny chuckles. "Shes been trying to get me to watch it, but i can't."

"It's entertaining titi." The two watched the show, now interested in whats happening.

"Ooh, look at that brunette throwing shade." Sonny rocks Pedro.

"Yeah, Gigi is a total bitch." Jocelyn eyes Winona to watch the language. "Sorry..." She clears her throat. "Im team Melaine so." They went back to the show.

"That does sound steamy. And what about your date, Melanie?" The hosts asks her about her date.

"Quiet, but Ryan and I truly connected. We went on a carriage ride. Being in the most romantic city in the arms of the sweetest guy, I just felt like a real-life Disney princess." The girl blushes as she sees the guy and herself kissing and having a good time.

"Oh, no. No, no guy wants to hear that." Sonny points out, groaning at how cringy it was. "Jocey?" Winona and Jocelyn wiped their tears away. "Are you crying?" He bends to her.

"No, I'm not." She gets up from the couch.

"Oh, you are so busted." He laughs. Jocelyn squints at him. "You really like that stuff? I don't believe it."

"Shut up." She kisses him. Sonny wraps his arm around Jocelyn as she wraps her arms around him, watching the show.

"I would treat you ten times better than that guy." He kisses her head again.

"I wouldn't trade you for anyone else." She kisses him back.

"Disgusting, get a room." Winona groans as she watches the show again. Then they started to get to the part where they were having sex, shockingly, Melanie had no clue that happened. She started to freak out and everyone was gasping. The threes jaws dropped as they went to commercials.

"Did you see what I just saw?" Sonny looks at Jocelyn.

"And she wasn't acting." Winona calls as she knew the shows members.

"Did they just air a rapе?"

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Jocelyn walks into the unit, scrambling through her big purse for some gum as she had coffee breath. She didn't hear the woman in the front desk calling out to her. Jocelyn makes it to her desk.

"Peña!" She yells, getting her attention. "Delivery for you." Jocelyn frowns, dropping her bag onto her chair and walks up. Delivery?

"What?" She looks around the rounded desk.

"Flowers." She points at the end. Jocelyn looks at the freshly cut flowers sitting in a white vase.

"From who?"

"Dont know." Her smile forms and turns to look at Sonny, with the way he frowns and shakes his head, her smile had faded. Wasn't him. She takes the flowers to her desk and looks for a note. She sees the small card hidden in the bouquet.

I only have eyes for you

Jocelyn heart beats fast. If it wasn't from Sonny then from who?

"These look expensive." Finn walks up to her desk. Jocelyn hides the card in her hand and forces a smile.

"No way." Amanda pops up and looks at the stunning bouquet. "Are these from ODE A LA ROSE?" She looks closely.

"What? I don't know?" Jocelyn turns red. She wasn't a flower girl, she didn't care about that stuff.

"These are like $500 alone." Finn and Sonny's eyes popped. "Who did you sleep with to get these?"

"$500 for flowers?" Sonny chokes.

"Did it come with a card?" Finn says as he checks. Jocelyn slides the card in her pocket.

"Nope." She clears her throat.

"Expensive flowers, no card?" Sonny gets a close look at them. "These look like they been picked from my mother's garden." He starts to go off. "What kind of idiot would spend that type of money on flowers that will die in a week?" Rollins curled her lip.

"Someone who really likes Jo." Sonny rolled his eyes. "So you have no clue?"

"Maybe, i dont know." She slides the vase to the end of her desk. She has two people in mind, time to investigate. Liv walks in, the team came together and talked about the game that aired last night.

"So this mating game aired last night live?" Liv frowns as she watched the clip.

"In front of 10 million people."

"Yeah, lock 20-year-olds up together. Liquor them up."

"I mean, I'm surprised this hasn't happened before."

"Carisi, don't tell me you watch this show." Finn looks at him. Sonny gave it away a soon as he laughs. "Uh, no."

"Actually, last night was my first time. Jocey and I were babysitting for her nephew and her niece turn it on."

"Oh, you were babysitting now?" Jocelyn gently pushes Finns leg to stop teasing him. "Maybe you guys were distracted, but uh, reality shows are all fake. You know that, right?" Sonny brushes it off.

"Not last night." Jocelyn sits up from the chair. "They want drama. They want fairytales. They don't want rapе, and you saw, they cut away as soon as Melanie started to freak out." She points at the tv.

"Did she report it?"

"Who knows if the producers let her make a call?"

"They don't allow access to the outside world." Rollins tells them.

"Yeah, it's like Stockholm Syndrome." Seems like it.

"I mean, with all these headlines, plus the amount of calls we're getting from concerned viewers, including the Chief of D's wife..." Of course. "We should at least just go and ask a few questions." They went to do their job. Sonny and Jocelyn were going to talk to Melanie.

"Hey, i'll meet you at the car, i need to take a call." Sonny nods and heads to the car. Jocelyn takes out her phone and goes to her contacts. Her thumb hovers over a name that she hasn't used in years. She presses the name and there were two rings before the pick up.

"Oh how i waited for this day. You calling me." Jocelyn rolled her eyes.

"Its kinda sad to be waiting for my call all this time. It's almost like you don't have anything better to do." Jensen got quiet.

"What is it? What do you want?" He straight away said.

"Wow no comebacks? Im shocked." She leans back onto the brick-wall.

"Im pretty busy, im at a scene, can it wait?" Oh so hes all business now. Shocked.

"No, just um." She sighs. "This is stupid, but did you send me flowers?" She closes her eyes from embarrassment. There was a pause from Jensen.

"I think you and I both the answer to that." He said in a very quiet tone. Almost disappointed.

"I just need to hear it." She throws her head back.

"No." Her stomach drops. "I never bought you any when we were together, why now?" Jocelyn sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. Her realizing that she was just a young girl who fell so fast, married fast, with the wrong guy. Jensen was kind at first but looking back, he really was like being with a ghost. He wasn't romantic, he never did sweet things like some couples do. But she was too in love to realize how much she was suffering.

"I figured."

"Everything okay Jo?" He sounded concerned. "Why are you asking me that? Do you know-"

"You're busy, i need to go. Bye."

"Jo, if its-" She hangs up and heads to the car. She hops in, head against the window.

"You okay?" Sonny, worried. "Is it the flowers?"

"Its nothing, honestly." She bites her thumb from the nervous thoughts. "Can we not talk about the flowers? It could be from my old partner." She lies.

"Not from Jensen?" She says nothing.

"Its fine, it's nothing."

"Its no nothing, if you don't who this person is, we can-" Jocelyn turns to him. She had a look, a look he couldn't puzzle together. It wasn't a look of shame or anger.

"Its nothing." She repeated, her tone now serious, almost convincing. It was more for her than it was for him.

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Jocelyn was headed to go home, the case was still on going but she needed some time to rest. The flowers, still on her desk after three days, she decided to take them home.

"Ready?" Sonny walks up behind her, flipping his jacket over his shoulder.

"Yeah." She smiles and then she saw Barba. Her last hope. "Barba!" She waddles to him. He turns around to see the woman carrying an over the top bouquet that somehow are still alive. "By any chance, did you send me these?" He looks at them.

"Even if i did, i know better to send them here and not hand them to you personally." She had a lump in her throat. "Who puts lilies and irises together?"

"Alright, well thanks for declaring that." He frowns on how jumpy Jocelyn was. "Good night counselor." She turns her heels and heads out with Sonny. They got to her place. Sonny helped her with the vase and gets his backpack to spend the night. "You know you could leave some of your clothes here if you want." She smiles as they walked up the stairs.

"You would like that." He smiles back.

"Yes i would." She raises her chin up high. "Gives me an excuse to keep you here with me." She gets her keys from her bag. Just as she goes to unlock it, she looks down at her doormat. She was stepping on a flower. Another lily. The petals scattered around her heel boots. Her stomach turns. This cant be. She hasn't been here for four days and it looked fresh.

"Jocey?" Sonny brings her back. He sees the fear that was written all over her. She shakes off the uneasiness and lets out a laugh, to play it off. But that fear in her stomach didn't go away.

"It's a prank that Jensens doing." She lies again. They stepped inside. Sonny sets the vase down at the table and head to her room to unpack his things. Jocelyn takes the vase and flowers, dropping them into the trash, of she doesn't see them, it won't bother her. The moment the lid closes, she pulls herself together and heads to her room. "Im going to take a shower." She starts to take off her clothes. "Release from stress."

"Okay, thats fine." He digs through his backpack, not noticing.

"Not alone in hope." She tosses her bra at his direction. Sonny catches it and looks at the swaying hips of his girlfriend entering the bathroom. His backpack drops to the floor.

"Coming!" He starts to unbuttoned his pants and shirt as he runs to the bathroom. The water turns on and the laughter of Jocelyn echoes the room.