Chapter 17
Nick had spent most of his time since he got back either on the phone or on his laptop. Kim had gone over to Rochelle so AJ had been banished to Nick’s room and had sprawled out over the bed watching Family Guy.
“You better get ready soon dude, it’ll be time to go shortly.” AJ looked over to Nick.
“Yeah, yeah al – most - done.” He answered back as he taped the last key on his keyboard.
Nick took a huge stretch back and closed his laptop he jumped out of his seat and headed towards the bathroom.
“What you been working on?” AJ asked as he watched Nick grab some stuff off the side table.
Nick’s face lit up as he winked and tapped his nose at AJ.
AJ rolled his eyes and went back to watching the TV.
15 minutes later Nick emerged from the bathroom in just his boxers and socks looking clean shaven, he pulled on a pair of dark jeans and eyed up a few T-shirts before deciding on a dark grey V neck and a black jacket. He checked himself over in the mirror and adjusted a few strands of hair before picking out some grey canvas pumps.
“You ready Jizzle?” he said turning to AJ.
“Yeah let me just check on Ro.”
AJ picked up the hotel phone and dialled his room number. Nick lent up the wall and rolled his eyes as he listened to AJ making soppy baby noises to Rochelle over the phone.
“They’ll be ready in about 5 minutes.” AJ announced as he replaced the receiver then made his way to the mirror.
Nick headed to the door and entered the long narrow corridor, AJ soon followed letting the door swing shut behind him.
The two men waited in the corridor as 5 minutes turned into 10 Nick huffed and rested onto the wall, he pulled out his phone and began checking messages laughing occasionally at AJ who had become increasingly bored and began to struggle with the wait for his next cigarette.
The door to AJ and Rochelle’s room finally opened, Nick never noticed as he’d become so engrossed in is phone but AJ who was squatting on the floor shot to his feet and beamed as he caught sight of Rochelle in a white dress with brilliant bright pink lilies spotted around it. Her shinny black hair sat nicely on her shoulders and accentuated the blueness of her eyes and the redness of her lips.
AJ instantly went to her side and squeezed her tightly liked he had not seen her for a many years.
“Missed you monkey.” AJ said in between kisses from Rochelle. “You look amazing.” He continued.
“Wait till you see Kim.” Rochelle whispered to AJ.
She called out to Kim you was reluctant to leave the room as she felt extremely self-conscious and over dressed.
Kim stood behind the door for a few seconds trying to compose herself then took a deep breath as she stepped out into the corridor.
“Wow.” AJ gasped.
“I know right?” Rochelle beamed with pride at her marvellous work.
The voices finally caused Nick to lift his eyes from his phone as he did he spotted a pair of extremely high black shoes standing in the doorway, his gaze slowly move up a pair of long exposed legs.
Nick forgot to breathe as he saw Kim standing in front of him wearing a sexy short, black off the shoulder, goddess style dress, her wild curls had been tamed into glossy waves that hung over her shoulders.
Nick continued to examine her with his eyes, all he could do was smile as she swallowed hard feeling increasingly uncomfortable from the silence and stares.
“You scrub up well English.” AJ said finally breaking the silence.
“Thanks” Kim shyly smiled dropping her eyes to the floor.
Rochelle gently nudged AJ to look at a still silent Nick mesmerized by the vision in front of him. They both quietly giggled with each other causing Nick to snap back to reality. Remembering his manors, he quickly cleared his throat.
“Hey, you erm,,,,, You look amazing!” he stumbled.
“Thanks” Kim repeated as she began biting the bottom of her lip. “Rochelle’s a very clever lady.”
“Oh please I hardly had to do anything.” Rochelle burst.
Kim shot her and embarrassed smile.
“Shall we get going then?” AJ interrupted.
AJ and Rochelle lead the way to the elevator singing ‘Let’s have a party’ with Kim and Nick slowly following behind them, shyly glancing at each other and smiling nervously like it was some kind of first date.
When the four of them reached, the club they were able to go straight through, Jenn was good friends with the owner so she had been able to arrange for them all to have a VIP section of the club so they could relax away from crowds.
The club was pretty vibrant for mid week as Kim followed Nick up the stairs to the VIP area she could feel the loud music pounding on her chest, they were lead into a little cordoned off area which overlooked the main dance floor below.
Kim scanned around the club trying to familiarise herself with the surroundings, there were two levels to the club the down stairs had a bar a huge dance floor a slight raised level for the DJ and a few seating areas.
There were two sets of stairs either side of the club which lead up to the VIP area, it was a pretty open plan up there with a huge bar that ran along the back wall and several area’s which were separated with glass partitions and thick red ropes. There were security guy’s positioned at the top and bottom of each staircase and each section had its own waitress.
The VIP area was quiet, there were only two other groups up there but Kim did not recognise any of them to be celebrities and they did not take any notice of Nick or AJ.
Once Kim had got through the initial attention and compliments from everyone in the group she felt herself begin to relax a little, the waitress came over and asked Kim what she wanted to drink, she ordered a rum and coke and watch as girls began to rush the stairs in the hope of a glimpse of a Backstreet boy.
Nick and AJ decided to hand out a few autographs and take a few pictures with the girls in the hope that they would be left alone to enjoy the rest of their evening.
Kim sat down on a huge leather chair and took sips of her rum and coke as she people watched over the balcony.
The atmosphere surrounding the girls who were hanging around Nick and AJ differed from earlier it was no longer happy and exciting but rather dark and catty.
The few girls that wouldn’t leave AJ or Nicks side were obviously out to bag themselves a celebrity and showed no shame in being overly seductive and flirtatious, they would even throw up the odd dirty look to Kim, Rochelle, Jenn and the other girls with them.
Kim quickly finished her drink before ordering another one from the waitress, she felt herself becoming more and more pissed off with the girls trying it on with Nick and AJ, both guys were obviously not interested and deflected every advance that was made but the girls still kept going.
Jealousy soon began to spread through Kim she could feel her body becoming hotter and hotter with rage, she hated how the girls kept touching Nick like he was their property, as she ordered her third drink she looked over to see Rochelle happily dancing away on her seat, smiling and just enjoying herself as much as she could. Kim moved over to sit by Rochelle.
“Hey sweetie, how’s it going? This place is amazing isn’t it, you look awesome tonight.” Rochelle shouted through the music.
Kim smiled back feeling a little less angry with the groupie girls.
“Yeah its cool here and thank you again for helping me get ready.”
Kim started her next drink and watched as AJ finally caught Rochelle’s eyes and mouthed I love you to her causing her to instantly mouth it back. Kim sighed and took another sip.
“How do you it Rochelle?” Kim finally asked.
“Do what?” Rochelle looked at her puzzled.
“How do you just not let all those girls acting like that around your man bother you?” Kim re questioned.
Rochelle gave her a sympathetic smile and turned into her.
“It’s difficult to watch the first few times I know, but it’s all part and parcel of his job and I have to accept that, else ‘WE’ don’t work, I mean what kinda girlfriend would I be if I started stropping every time a girl looked at him? There not all skanky hoes, you’ll soon get to identify the sweeties from the nasties believe me.”
Rochelle paused to proudly look over at her future husband.
“It’s just about trust honey and I know I can trust AJ with my life, the way I see it is, take a look around, out of all the girls across the world he could have, he chose me and while he’s over there with them who does he keep looking at? ME! That’s big you know. I love my baby and he loves me and if I’m honest with you well, I kinda find it a compliment that so many others wish he was theirs.”
Kim smiled as Rochelle’s words of wisdom created an instant calming effect over her, she looked over to Nick who was looking straight back at her making her whole body feel warm and fuzzy as Rochelle’s words still swirled around in her mind.
Q soon brought the surprise meet and greet to an end to the boys could get back to their party. Nick sat down next to Kim and ordered them both a drink,
“Phew, it never stops.” He joked as he ran a hand over his face.
The waitress soon returned with the drinks he took a few gulps to quench his thirst and placed his bottle on the table in front of him.
“So you ha,” his words were interrupted as Kim was snatched from her seat by Jenn and Rochelle and pulled up to dance with them.
Nick threw his hands up in the air as they came crashing back down he dropped his head back into the oversized leather sofa he was on and blew out.
“For fucks sake” he cussed.
He leant forward and grabbed his bottle taking small sips then slouched back into his chair, he watched Kim dancing in front of him, he soon began to feel himself being turned on from how she looked on the dance floor. Every sway of her body made him want to hold her and touch her more and more. He loved how happy and content she looked whilst she danced, he continued to admire her from his seat until he was distracted by AJ’s crazy dancing to the side of him.
The club stayed open till the small hours of the morning Kim had danced most of the night away and although Nick had really enjoyed himself he had spent most of the night counting down the hours till he could finally have some alone time with Kim back at the hotel.
As the elevator doors opened Rochelle jumped onto AJ’s back moaning that her feet hurt too much to walk to the door.
Kim had linked arms with Nick and was carrying her shoes with her free hand.
Each couple said their goodnights as they reached their rooms, AJ and Rochelle were in a fit of giggles as a sleepy AJ tried very badly to negotiate the door way with Rochelle still clinging to his back. Nick shook his head then opened the door as Kim silently walked passed him throwing her shoes up the corner of the room as she entered. Nick locked the door behind him and smiled happy that they were finally alone and wouldn’t be disturbed for once.
“So did you have fun?” Nick asked trying to make a little small talk as he removed his jacket.
“Yeah I had a really fun night except.”
“Except what?” Nick quickly interrupted.
Kim looked over to Nick “Well it just sucked that I didn’t get much time alone with you.”
Nick made his way over to Kim smiling then threw his arms around her waist pulling her into him.
“Yeah I know I was feelin the same, but,”
He cheekily grinned and looked around the room.
“Theirs no one else around now.”
He whispered as he gave up fighting his urges he had been suppressing all night and threw his lips onto hers.
Kim closed her eyes and kissed him back as hard as she could, her whole body tingled as his hand slid up her back and into her hair making sure she had nowhere to go.
Nick groaned lightly as passion and desire engulfed his body, he squeezed Kim a little tighter and gently lifted her up, she instantly wrapped her legs around his waist and continued to explore his mouth wildly with her tongue.
Nick spun around with her still attached to him and backed her up against the cold wall next to their bed, he parted from the kiss to quickly catch his breath then began to kiss down her neck and along her naked shoulder.
Using her back Kim pushed into the wall causing Nick to stumble backwards onto the bed where their lips met again.
They were like wild teenagers lost in the moment trying to soak up as much of each other as they possibly could, Nick flipped Kim so she was pinned underneath him then gently slipped the strap of her dress off her shoulder and kissed along her collar bone until she abruptly stopped him. He stroked a stray piece of hair off her face and looked down on her as she radiated back to him, her eyes began to grow wide causing Nick to suddenly feel concerned that he’d hurt her or done something wrong.
Kim continued to look deep into his eyes.
“Are you OK?”
Nick asked as he pulled back slightly.
“Did I do something wrong?”
Kim smiled then took a deep breath.
“We both know where this is heading right?”
She softly spoke.
Nick looked confused. “Hmmm.”
Propping herself up on her elbows Kim took yet another deep breath.
“Nicky, I want this really I do but.” She hesitated.
“Kimmy, just say whatever it is please.” Nick huffed.
“Ok but don’t think I’m a dork when I say this ok.” She looked at Nick for reassurance.
“Well it’s just I’m a little drunk and I really don’t want our first time together to be just some clouded memory, you know what I mean?”
As the words escaped her mouth Kim felt herself burn up with embarrassment.
Why do I have to have such high bloody morals? She thought to herself.
Nick’s heart began to warm as her words became clear in his head, he looked down into her eyes and smiled. If he was asked to explain how he felt at that moment he would have never found the right words but to him it all made sense and was as clear as day, he knew he was falling in love with her and comments like that just confirmed his feelings even more.
He softly kissed her forehead and although every inch of him wanted to say the words ‘I love you’ he fort back the urge.
“That’s ok, I don’t mind waiting and I want you to be 100% sure and comfortable with any situation, but.”
He planted another kiss on her then a cheeky grin formed across his face.
Kim cocked an eyebrow desperate to know what he was thinking.
“But what?” She quickly inquired.
“But that doesn’t mean we have to stop foolin around.”
He still looked like a cheeky devil as he pushed Kim down into the bed and began engulfing her with kisses again.
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