VALERIE

Eighty Nine

Nick pressed his lips together and furrowed his brows trying to stop himself from sending her yet another text. He looked up at the sky and shook his head before hitting send.

He sighed before setting his phone back down on the patio table, Nick grabbed his small pipe and placed it between his lips before lighting the weed packed inside the bowl. He could hear the muffled and loud music coming from the inside of the house where a party was currently going on.

He placed his bowl back onto the patio table and picked his phone back up, he opened it and sent another text. It was killing him that not even Emily knew where her mentally ill daughter was, and on top of that she didn't care. Emily was currently on a fashion trip in Milan with her new boyfriend which she got only a few days after George's funeral.

Nick was too busy typing yet another text that he didn't even sense Johnny standing right in front of him.

A smile on his face and a bottle of Jack Daniels in his hand, "What are you doing out here?" He asked taking a seat across from him.

Nick shrugged, "I can't stop, I miss her."

Johnny rolled his eyes, "Dude it's been weeks, she left you. She made it clear that she didn't want anything to do with you, just let her go."

Nick sighed heavily before running his hands through his hair, "Fuck!" He shouted in frustration feeling his body temperature rising.

Johnny slowly shook his head, "You're moping around when there's a fucking lit ass party going on in there and there's like so many hot girls and you're stuck on one who left you? Come on dude."

He leaned forward in his seat, "We're brothers, trust me when I say she wasn't any good to you."

Nick stayed silent, only taking another hit from his pipe then passing it to Johnny who took the last hit and cashed it out.

In the midst of their elongated silence Johnny then suddenly chuckled, "Let's go get fucked up dude."

//

The door to Marco and Nicks apartment was kicked in, a busy Marco was on the phone conducting business with a potential distributor when a drunk Nick came in with Johnny and two girls trudging behind them both.

All of them drunk to the point where they were laughing loudly and stumbling onto the floor.

"Marco dude you should've came um," Nick burped in the midst of his sentence, "You should've came out with us."

Marco didn't say a word as he was still speaking on the phone, hearing what the man on the other line way saying.

Nick groped the blonde girl by her ass and pulled her close to him, she laughed as she pushed him away.

"Dude you can take my room, I'll take Marco's." Nick managed to say through his slurred words and doubled vision.

"Thanks dude." Johnny grumbled then hiccuped as he took the brunette into Nicks bedroom. He shut the door behind him and just as Nick was about to shut the door to Marco's room, Marco pulled him out by his forearm and closed the bedroom door leaving the blonde alone in his room.

A confused Nick frowned, "What are you doing?"

"No, what are you doing?" Marco snapped back at him, Nick licked his bottom lip and scoffed, "Having fun?"