Roxie silently just stared into her drink as she listened to Tommy, her mind a flurry of thoughts, her stomach tightening into knots. Was there even a chance between them? She didn't want it to be a two ships passing in the dark thing.

She wanted...well, him. But it was too early, wasn't it? And what if Joe wasn't ready? After all, he'd loved Melissa, and what happened to her...that wasn't the sort of thing that people tended to get closure on.

She breathed out a low, shaky sigh. "It's funny. For as long as he was away, I just assumed I'd never seen him again, that he'd moved on, that he wouldn't remember me." She looked up at Tommy. "Now that he's back, it's changed everything."