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Chapter Twelve
It couldn't be true. He wouldn't. "AJ-"
"Come on, baby. Let's go home."
"No, AJ. I have to face this now." I walked across the room and tapped Nick on the shoulder. This broke him from his embrace with a young blonde girl. I had seen her around. She'd wanted Nick, but I was always happy that he was with me.
"Oh my God, Nikki. I...I...I..."
"Don't even try. I saw you. Asshole! How could you?"
"Nikki, sweetheart. You're making a scene."
"What? I'm making the scene?! You're all over her, here in public. Everyone here knows that you and I are a couple. I don't think I'm the one making the scene, Mr. Carter." As Nick looked around I could see the shock in his eyes as he realized that a lot of people were glaring at him.
I began to leave. I had just reached where AJ was standing by the door when Nick grabbed my arm. "Please Baby Girl. Please don't leave me. I need you." He had to call me Baby Girl. He always got me with that and he knew it.
I could feel myself melting as he spoke, but I couldn't let him see that. I held back the tears as I pulled his hand from my arm and said, "Goodbye, Nickolas."
AJ put his arm around my shoulders and lead me to his car. "Are you ok, sweetie?"
"I don't know. I'm completely crushed that my first love could do something like this, but as soon as he said he needed me, I had forgiven him. Is that terrible?" By this time I was crying.
"No, you love him. You can't help that. I think that maybe it's time you see other people though. I think it's a good thing that you're going home to Indiana for a few months. You can get away from this, but I'm going to miss you like hell."
We got home and went to our own bedrooms. I had trouble sleeping, for obvious reasons, so I snuck into AJ's room. He was already sleeping. I was as quiet as I could be. I climbed into his bed and cuddled up to my big brother or at least my temporary big brother until I turned 18. He treated me like a little sister too. He was very protective. Whenever a guy would flirt with me or even look at me, he would give them the big brother glare. It was cute and I really appreciated him.
It felt good to cuddle with him. I felt so protected.
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"Oh God, Nikki! I'm so sorry. I never meant for it to happen." AJ woke up at 4am in a panic when he found me in bed with him. "God, I must have had too much to drink at the party. What are you laughing at?" He was so upset with me for laughing at a time like this.
"AJ, it's ok. Nothing happened. I came in while you were sleeping. We didn't do anything." He started laughing and playfully punched me in the arm.
"You scared the shit out of me. Nick would have killed me if he thought that we...oh, I'm sorry, Nikki. I forgot." My laughing abruptly stopped.
"It's ok," I said just above a whisper. Before I could react or defend myself, AJ attacked me, tickling me.
"Nooo...AJ stop! You know how much I hate to be tickled." We rolled around in a tickling battle. I was finally starting to tickle him back. We ended up with him straddling my stomach and holding my hands above my head.
"Ha ha! Gotcha!"
"AJ, let me go. I'll get you-" I was stopped mid-sentence as AJ kissed me. I didn't know what to do, but this felt right. I kissed back. When he pulled away we were both breathless.
"Wow...I...I...wow." I didn't know what else to say.
"Ditto, sweetheart. I know just how you feel." He released my hands and laid back on the bed. I rested my head on his chest as he wrapped his arms around me. I fell asleep quickly."
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