"It’s exactly what she needs to hear from someone, anyone, that maybe this thing she’s dreamed about her whole life could finally, really happen. Like there’s a window through which she can see something amazing and, with his words of encouragement, it begins to open."

Set during S2 "Boys and Girls" 

She had spent her whole life trying to put it into words.

A Will They or Won't They AU with Pam and Jim as next door neighbors.

“Pam, come on. Don’t do that.” The sound of his bare feet on the wooden floor following behind kept me in motion through the dining room, looking under chairs for my sandals. I summoned everything I had in me not to look at him in his currently half-dressed state.

“Don’t do what? Jim, I’m fine. Really.”

I’m just in love with you and you only want to be friendly neighbors. And, also, since I’m being honest with myself, my body is not loving the unsated high of being as aroused as I just felt with your hands on me like that.

Jim, Pam...and a partridge in a pear tree.  There are 12 days of Christmas - there will be 12 chapters of this story.