Chapter 13

Faith finished putting on the last touches of makeup as there was a knock at the door. Nick had called her to say he was stopping by, and she was prepared this time. "It's open !" she called. He walked in, looked around and took his usual place on her couch. She knew that the MTV awards were only two days away and was hoping that the reason for his visit tonight would be to ask her to go. He had his head back and slowly rubbed his eyes as she walked out of her bedroom and over to him. "Hey !" she said sitting next to him..

He opened his eyes and smiled at her "Hey wow, you look nice. Gotta date or something ?" he teased. "No" she said with an embarrassed look on her face. "Oh, come on Kath. You can tell me" he nudged her side. "No, I don't.God, can't I look half-way normal without getting the third degree ? Geez..".

His joking seemed to bother her tonight since she hoped they would get a little more serious, but apparently his intentions were different. It had been almost two weeks since he and Angie had broken up and he seemed to be over there almost every night. Nothing had happened but Faith was hopeful that if she went to NY with him, something definitely would. "So when do you leave for the VMA's ?" she asked, hoping to provoke an invitation. "Ugh, tomorrow..." he groaned "we need to be there early so we can rehearse on the actual stage and stuff. Man, I don't want to go." "Are you kidding ?" she continued hinting, "New York is such an incredible cityman, I'd give anything to go". "Yeah, but you don't HAVE to goif you did, it would be different.BELIEVE ME." He complained. This was not going as she had hoped. She could see that he wasn't going to ask her to go, and she so wanted to. 'You have to be bold, Faith' she told herself and mustered all her courage "Nicky ?" she asked. "Um-hmm." He looked at her as he got up to get something to drink. "Are you taking anyone with you to the show ?" she began. "No actually none of us are. Although Daisy and Randa will be therewhy ?" he yelled from the kitchen. "Oh nothing, just curious I guess. I mean, I would love to go." She blurted out, closing her eyes as she said it so as to brace herself for his answer. He walked back to the couch with a soda in his hand, "Yeah, but you have school, don't you ? You wouldn't like that stuff anyway, Kath. It's really a pain in the assall those photographers and stuck up people." He sat back down next to her, "that's not for you. You're too..normal for that." His words kind of hurt her. She knew he meant them as a compliment, but she was beginning to feel like he'd never see her as more than 'sweet, reliable Faith' and it was irritating as heck. Just then she figured she might as well go for it. What was the worst that could happen, right ? If she didn't make a move, she'd never get anywhere with him and regret it forever. Something was going to happen tonightshe was gonna make it happen. "Ooooh, Alien.I love this movie" he said as he put the volume up on the tv and settled back to watch. She figured she'd make the best of it, and curled up next to him with her head on his shoulder. A few minutes later she brought her arm over on top of his stomach, and when he didn't flinch she began slowly running her fingers back and forth, around and around slowly caressing his mid-section. That's when he finally noticed something was going on. Faith was never this touchy-feely and it caught him off guard. Her fingers ran slowly across his middle and then up to his chest, making him breathe deeply at her touch. He looked down at her and put his lips in her hair, smelling her and lightly kissing the top of her head. He brought his arm down around her shoulder and pulled her hair back exposing her neck. His fingers then stroked the back of her neck down to her shoulder and back again. She shivered at the feel of his hand on her neck, slowly and softly touching her. SLAM ! They jumped apart at the sound of the door.

"Dammit ! Why is it I can never seem to leave this place without forgetting something ?" Drea stormed in berating herself. "Oh, hi guys..what's up ?" she smiled as she walked past them into her room, paying no attention to what they were doing. Faith could've killed Drea for her bad timing, but Nick was almost relieved. She walked past them again stuffing several packs of condoms into her purse as she headed for the front door, "You never know, right ?" she winked at Nick with her usual smile and hurried out as quickly as she had come in. Nick looked at Faith, his shaken expression evident in his eyes "I'd better go Kath. It's getting late and I have to finish packing.." He stood up and headed for the door. 'No, no, no' she thought to herself, 'don't let him leave'. But there was very little she could do at this point, so she followed him out. When he got to the door, he turned to her "Kath ?" She looked him intently, "Yeah" she said almost sadly. He put his hand up to her cheek "If I had to take a dateto this MTV thing." He stared into her eyes, "I would definitely take you." She smiled and felt an irresistible urge to kiss him, so she did. Lightly on the lips at first, but more heatedly after that. He stiffened initially, but loved the feel of her body against his and quickly gave in, wandering his hands up and down her back. "Oh Nick" she whispered between breaths, and when he heard her voice he had to pull away leaving her confused. He slowly paced with his back to her while she stood there, dazed and confused although happy. "Kath" He turned around to face her and let out a small sigh, "I don't think." He paused and she could feel the ball forming in her throat just from anticipation of what she knew he was going to say. "You're so incredible.." he started again, "I mean, you're one of my favorite people in the whole world. You know ? I couldn't live with myself if I messed this up". He spoke softly and looked down as he did so. "Who says you're gonna mess this up, Nicky ? If you don't give it a chance you'll never know" she reasoned. "That's just itI don't want to know, by then it's too late." He shook his head and she walked over to him, standing close to his body and wanting so badly to kiss him again but she held herself back this time. She sighed as her heart silently shattered, "Ok thenI'm sorry I.." He cut her off, "No, don't apologize" he looked her squarely in the eye, "don't.." he smiled "I'm not sorry we did it, it was like.wow." she smiled back at him, "I just don't think we should do it againok ?" "Ok" she reluctantly agreed. 'For now..' she thought.

Chapter 14

"Heather ! You know if you don't move your ass, we're gonna miss the plane" I yelled at her from the door. "Alright, alright.keep your pants on, I'm comin'". She came out of her room with one carry-on full of clothes and three bags of camera equipment. I just had to laugh "Do you really need all that junk ?" I said as I held the door open for her. "It's my job, Miranda.yes, I need all this 'junk'" she sighed. "Cloud, we're leavin'" Heather called to Angie, who was still in bed. "Whatever" she mumbled from under the covers. Heather & I just looked at each other, Angie had completely changed since her break-up with Nick and we weren't quite sure if it had been for better or worse. She had thrown herself into her studies, but also insisted on hanging out with Drea til all hours of the night. Heather and I wanted to give it time, but we knew we were going to have to talk to her about it if it kept up.

The trip to New York went well and as usual, Heather was not sane until we touched solid ground. She hated to fly while I loved it. 'Funny how friends can be so close, yet so opposite' I thought to myself as we arrived at JFK Airport. The guys had taken an earlier flight because they had a radio interview to do that morning, so Heather, I and the rest of the dancers checked into the mid-town Hyatt and hit the local shops.we all agreed that there was NOTHING like shopping in New York City. Our dress rehearsal was that night, and while we had a few kinks to iron out, we looked pretty good. Fatima had permanently paired me with Nick since I seemed to be the only one that could make him move the way she wanted, which was fine by us. We got along really well, and although I missed AJ's fluid hip swaying movements, Nick and I seemed to have developed our own style which we felt familiar and comfortable with.

That night, we all decided to hit a club. It wasn't often that the guys as well as the dancers had a free night when we weren't completely exhausted so we wanted to take full advantage of that. The guys had their own rooms while the dancers were paired up in two's. I was staying with Daisy, as usual and Heather and Tim were staying together. We were all on the same floor including security and everybody else, so it was fun to watch the weaving of people from one room to the next. When we were all dressed, I went to Kevin's room, Daisy went to AJ's room, Nick went to Brian's room to borrow a pair of socks, Howie went to Brian's to borrow a razor, and somehow everybody ended up in Kevin's room.

"Are we all ready to go ?" asked Kelly, another one of the dancers, as she walked through the half-open door of Kevin's room. "Were you people raised in barns or something ? Close the friggin' door" Kevin complained as he walked across the room. I smiled and shot Nick a knowing look, "How do you put up with him ?" he asked me laughing. Kevin turned and looked coldly at him "She puts up with me just fine." "I was just jokin' Kev." Nick explained, still laughing. "Come on guys let's get out of here, ok ?" I interrupted, shooting Nick another look. He knows how sensitive Kevin is, and I have never been able to understand why he provokes him so much.

The club was packed and Kevin and I hit the dance floor almost immediately. He loved the anonymity of being in New York, and I loved the fact that I was there with him. AJ and Daisy didn't stop dancing the entire night either, but claimed they were tired and wanted to leave. During a quiet moment in the girl's restroom, Daisy stared me through the mirror and asked, "I probably won't sleep in our room tonight. You don't mind do you ?" "Why would I mind ? If all continues this well, I probably won't sleep in our room tonight either" I giggled. But I directed the conversation back to her, "Daisy ? Have youyou know.yet ?" She looked a bit embarrassed, which was not a common look for her, "No.not yet" she answered slowly, "but I have definitely decided he is the one, Rand.I just know it'll be perfect with him.I'm." she paused as a sly grin crossed her face "I'm thinking of maybe.you know..maybe doing it tomorrow night.as a kind of congratulations, ya know ?" "Well, I don't think you could give him a better congratulations than that." I smiled at my friend, "He'll definitely enjoy that ! And if you think you're ready.." she looked at me and nodded, "then YOU GO GIRL !" We leaned against each other in a fit of giggles as we noticed several other girls eavesdropping. "Just don't forget to give me all the nasty, play by play details" I whispered as we walked back to meet the guys by the bar. "Ok, we're outta here" AJ announced. See you guys tomorrow morning." I couldn't help the huge grin on my face. I was really happy for Daisy and greatly respected her for her self-control with AJ. He was an extremely sexual guy, and I could see how keeping her hands off of him must have been torture all these months. We watched them disappear into the crowd, and I felt Kevin's arm tighten around my waist, "You ready to go too ?" his low sultry voice whispered in my ear. "Oh, so soon ?" I turned to face him and pouted, "but I still feel like dancing" I smiled and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. "Ok, fifteen more minutes.then we're going too.we have a show to do tomorrow" he ordered. "Yes Daddy" I joked. "Mmmm, call me that later when we're alone.." he teased and slapped my butt as he got up off of the barstool. "I'll be right backsit tight" he said as he walked off to the restroom.

The music was great and I really did feel like dancing, we hardly ever got a chance to do this and I wanted to make the best of it. I could see Howie in the distance with a petite blond having what seemed to be a deep conversation. Brian was dancing with another blond, and as much as I searched, Nick was nowhere to be found. "Hey" I felt two arms hug my shoulders. I turned to face Nick "Where's Kevin ?" he inquired. "Bathroom.." I smiled "he wants to leave already." I smirked. "Well, then how about a quick dance before you go ?" he flashed me a huge grin, and without even waiting for an answer, led me out to the dance floor. We danced only one song, but had a great time. Nick was so much fun, I could always count on him for a good laugh. When the song was over, we headed back to the bar where Kevin was waiting, "Ready to go now ?" he looked serious. "Ok." I conceded and turned to Nick shaking my finger at him, "Now don't stay out too late young man, we have a show to do tomorrow." We both laughed and even Kevin had to smile, "Ok, don't worry about me" Nick reassured "I don't think I'll be here much longer anyway..Bye !" he smiled and walked away, looking for Brian in the crowd.

Chapter 15

The taxi ride back to the hotel was short, and I could tell that Kevin was anxious to get back by the way his hand kept rubbing further and further up my thigh. "Keep going, big boy, and Mr. Taxi Driver up there is really gonna get a show" I purred. "See" he bent over and softly kissed my cheek, "that's why I like limo's". I smiled as his kisses worked their way down to my neck. "Kevin..baby." I pulled his face away and looked him straight in the eye, "I want you so bad right now" I whispered sliding my hand between his thighs, my lips brushing against his, "but think you can hold off for two more minutes." I'm sure the taxi driver had seen this a million times before, but I felt funny about it and he looked pretty annoyed through the rear-view mirror. "HYATT WE'RE HERE !" the man in the front seat startled us. Kevin paid him and we quickly slid out of the cab, unable to keep our hands off each other. It was late and the hotel lobby was fairly empty as we stepped into the elevator. We were staying on the 26th floor, and as the doors shut I didn't think I could wait that long. Kevin's hand was rubbing my butt, pulling up my skirt and apparently, he couldn't wait either. Next thing I knew he had me pushed up against the elevator wall, kissing me strong and steady, pulling my skirt up and sliding his hands under my panties, massaging my ass. "Mmmmm.." "Oooooh" our moans were muffled between our lips. DING. The elevator doors opened and we stumbled out into the hallway, still kissing and fumbling to find a room key..either one would do. He found his first and as we stood opening his door, I began pulling his shirt out of his pants and caressed his stomach, then worked my way down. "Ah.." he smiled and jumped a little when I felt how hard he was. The lock finally opened and we shut the door behind us. Without a word he backed me up against the door, his eyes expressing every bit of desire that he felt, and started kissing me again. We shed our clothes quickly and didn't even make it to the bedroom. We headed for the couch, but found it to be too narrow, so he laid me down on the floor in front of the fireplace.

"Kevin." I swallowed a moan as he unhooked my bra, "it would be so much more ..oooh..romantic if you. aaaah started the fire" "Oh baby, believe me." He whispered between licks and kisses "I would if I thought I could wait that long." He took a deep breath as my hands worked their way inside his boxers "but I know that there is NO WAY" he smiled and pulled my panties off, quickly removing his own underwear too. "Oh Randa, baby.." he breathed as I felt him push into me "Oooooooh..".

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