Nick knocked on the door and waited for Alex to answer. When she didn’t he tried the door, it was unlocked. He walked in and heard the hair dryer. He made his way towards the sound and found Alex standing in front of the mirror in a slip drying her hair. She was singing something that Nick couldn’t really make out. He leaned against the doorframe and watched her for a minute before she saw him. She screamed and shut off the blow dryer, “NICK!!! What are you doing?!? GET OUT!” She yelled shoving him out of the bathroom and slamming the door.
“Good grief.” Nick said to the door that had been slammed in his face.
He walked thru the apartment and realized that Alex didn’t have any furniture whatsoever. Then he thought about it and figured she wouldn’t because of finances. Just then Alex walked out of the bathroom, but now she had a bathrobe on, “I liked the slip look better.” Nick said with a grin
“Sure you do.” She said walking into her room. Nick started to follow her and Alex stopped him, “What do you think you are doing? Go back in there.” Nick grumbled and walked back into the kitchen.
A few minutes later Alex came out wearing a short black dress, “Yeah, now, that could tie with the slip.”
“Oh shut up!” Alex said
“You busy tomorrow?” Nick asked
Alex thought for a minute, “No, I don’t think so. Why?”
“Because we’re going shopping.”
“For what?”
“Furniture.”
Alex looked confused for a minute and then she realized what she was talking about, “Oh no Nick…”
“Don’t ‘Oh no Nick’ me. It will just start the shopping for the house.”
“What house?”
“Our house.”
“We have a house?”
“We will.”
“Oh, did I tell you I got a job?”
“You got a job?”
“Yeah, at the school coffee house.”
“Sounds cool, come on, we need to go or we are going to be late.”
“Okay.”
They left and Alex locked the door behind her they made their way out to the parking lot and Alex didn’t see his truck, “Where’s…”
“Oh, didn’t I tell you? I got a Darango.”
“Oh.” Was all Alex said as she followed him to the car.
They were headed to the restaurant to meet the rest of the Carter clan, “Did I tell you I have a roommate moving in next week?”
“Oh no! Is she as annoying as the last one?”
“Ahh, no, he’s not.”
She didn’t say it very loud but Nick heard her, “HE?”
“Yeah, you met Colby right?”
“WHAT?” Nick asked.
“Well, he needed a roommate and so do I and we’re friends.”
Nick parked the Darango and turned off the engine. He didn’t look at her, “So, it’s final?”
“Well, yeah. I didn’t think you would have a problem with it.”
“Oh no, I don’t mind if my fiancé lives with another guy, that’s fine with me.” Nick said sarcastically
“Nick if you have a problem with it..”
“No, I wouldn’t want to inconvenience you.”
“I didn’t mean to make you mad. I don’t want to ruin your birthday party.”
“Oh, don’t worry, you already have!” Nick said getting out of the car and slamming the door.
Alex tried not to cry, and got out of the car because Nick was waiting for her. They walked into the restaurant and found the rest of his family waiting.
The meal started and almost everybody knew there was tension between the two but nobody said anything. The meal went okay as Jane talked to Alex about some of the wedding arrangements, then what Alex dreaded happened, “Have you given him y our present yet Alex?” Leslie asked
Nick looked at Alex as she shook her head. She went thru her bag and pulled out a set of keys and handed them to Nick, “What’s this?” he asked looking at her
“You should see the house Nick it is so cool, we went and saw it yesterday and Alex said we could even have a room of our own for when we come visit, and the backyard is huge, and you have a pool, and your bedroom is so big, and it has a really big bath tube, and and…” Aaron stopped rambling as he saw the look his father gave him.
Nick just looked at Alex, “You bought a house? With what?”
“Now Nick, let’s not get into that right now.” Jane told her son
Nick continued to just look at Alex who wasn’t looking at him, now he felt like a jerk for getting mad at her, but he was still mad.
