AFC Richmond is away at Nottingham Forest for this year's Boxing Day match. Rebecca insisted the entire club stay together in a hotel for the week of the match to get away and bond, which would have been a lovely idea if she'd remembered that it would also include the possibility of being alone with you.

You've always danced around the idea of your relationship becoming something more, which should not be an issue at all. Rebecca, though, is caught between a rock and a hard place considering that opening up to you would also mean opening up the wounds left by her ex-husband. You know this, of course; you know her better than anyone, and you have your own skeletons in your closet. The question is: are you both holding back because it’s safer, or because you're afraid of what you might discover if you don’t?

You walk down the hotel's hallway in your pajamas, hoping to get a breath of the night air on the balcony to calm your nerves. When you push open the wooden door, you're met with the sight of Rebecca leaning over the railing, looking out over the city.

She turns to you with a longing smile. Hey ," she sighs. It's going to be a long night.