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~ A Few Hours Later, After The Show ~
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I sipped some Coke, and Nick squeezed my hand. "What?" I asked as he stuffed some chips in his mouth.
"You wanna dance?" he asked.
"But you hate dancing, and you came from a two hour long concert," I stated flatly.
"I know, but you looked sorta bored. And I got energized from the concert. So do you wanna dance or not?" he asked again, and I stood.
"Yeah let's dance."
We danced a couple of fast songs, until a new Brian McKnight song came on. I fell in love with it.
It was called 'Back At One'.
It's unbelievable that we should be together
It's unbelievable, how I used to say that I'd fall never
The basis is need to know
If you don't know just how I feel
Then let me show you now that I'm for real
If all the things in time, time will reveal, yeah…
One, You're like a dream come true
Two, Just wanna be with you
Three, Girl, it's plain to see
That you're the only one for me, and
Four, repeat steps one through three
Five, Make you fall in love with me
If ever I believe my work is done
Then I'll start back at one, yeah...
It's so incredible, the way things work themselves out
And all emotional, once you know what it's all about, hey
And undesirable for us to be apart
Never would've made it very far
Cuz you know you've got the keys to my heart
I picked my head off Nick's chest, and smiled up at him. "That was pretty."
He nodded slowly, and grinned. "It was wasn't it," he stated. I fingered his hair at the nape of his neck. I laid my head down on his chest, and listened to the steady beating of his heart beat. I closed my eyes, and we fell into a steady rhythm.
"Hmmm….Nick? Can we go back to the hotel?" I asked, and he smiled down at me coyly.
"Oh yeah? And do the nasty? Get our groove thing on? Do the 'wild thin-"
I cut him off with a playful slap on his shoulder. "Would you stop?" I laughed. "If you're good, we might," I added playfully, as we headed back to the table.
"Oh, you know I'm good," he assured me, and I picked up me coat.
"Al…we're leaving!" I shouted in her ear.
"What?" she yelled back over the booming music, as she sucked down some of her Sprite.
"ME…AND…NICK…ARE LEAVING!' I yelled again.
She made a face, and said, "You didn't have to yell."
I rolled my eyes, and waved to Kevin, Howie, and AJ who sat around the table, 'people watching'. I didn't see Brian, and assumed he was either getting a drink, or in the bathroom. He only danced with Leigh-Anne. He said they were 'height compatible', whatever the hell that meant.
Me and Nick got a cab, and rode back to the hotel. We didn't go to sleep until early the next morning, cuz we did the 'wild thing' as Nick liked to call having sex.