"So how's your old man?" Nikki wonders as he sits down at the bar.
"Died about three years, driving drunk and wrapped his car around a tree." I admit. "Somewhere in Mississippi."
"Sound like you didn't have that much to do with him." He says and I nod.
"I haven't talked to him since I was eighteen." I admit. "Actually younger than that because I moved out as soon as I graduated high school."
"Where'd you go?" Nikki asks.
"North Carolina." I smile.
I moved back in with my grandparents for the summer and at this point Dakota was still living at home, she didn't move to Los Angeles until September of 1980. She started to date CC in January of 1981, June was born shortly after.
Anyways, I moved back in with my grandparents for the summer. Dakota and I hadn't spent a summer together since the summer before ninth grade. We ran wild that summer and nearly drove our grandparents to drinking. We helped on the ranch all morning then after that we could run as we please. Our favourite thing to do was go swimming, we'd jump of the rocks or the bridge at the quarry. On the Fourth of July we watched the fireworks and it was easily one of the best summers of my life.
I had my dad and Mackenzie convinced to take Nikki with us when we went that summer. But we moved away then spent all summer trying to get settled in Australia.
"Remember when I took you down to the drag races that one night? Your old man smelt smoke on you and you were grounded for two weeks." Nikki laughs.
"I'm surprised they let you down there." I say and he smiles.
"What? Because of that piece of shit I used to drive?" He asks with a laugh.
"Well I wasn't going to say that but yeah." I laugh. "From that time on when we hung around those guys you'd make them stay away from me while they were smoking because 'my daddy wouldn't let me come and hang out anymore if he smelt that'."
"Your old man hated me so much." Nikki laughs. "Princess didn't hate me but he definitely didn't like the idea of you and me together."
"He warmed up to the idea though." I remind him.
"Right, he just kinda put up with me." Nikki smiles.
Nikki
Dallas is running around taking orders again and I sit at the bar with Vince, Bret, and Bobby. Dakota is working behind the bar talking to us.
"Okay, I've got a question." Bret tells Dakota. "And don't take this the wrong way and hit me with something."
"Okay." She say kinda worried.
"Dallas is hotter than all hell and could easily pull any guy at the bar, why the hell is she single?" The singer asks.
"If I had to guess she's hung up on her ex." Dakota guesses.
"Did she date a lot?" Vince asks and smirks at me.
"Not a lot. She dated this rugby player when she lived in Australia but it didn't last long. She dated a Lacrosse player at NC State for maybe three months. I think she's hung up on this Frank guy she dated in Seattle." She explains and I smile. "He was literally all she talked about for years after she left Seattle, she was crazy about him. He made my uncle and Mack crazy but Dallas really loved this guy."
"Bet I could make her forget about him." Bobby laughs and I shift.
"I doubt that one, Bobby." Vince laughs.
"I don't think she's completely forgiven you since you walked in on her in the shower." Bret laughs.
"My head still hurts." The other bass player admits and rubs his forehead.
"Did she hit you?" Vince wonders.
"Repetitively with a shampoo bottle." Bobby grumbles and I laugh.
"We think that she knocked something right because he hasn't tried it again." Dakota laughs.
"We're one step closer to having Bobby housed trained." Bret laughs.
Dallas told Dakota about me repetitively by the sounds of it. Could she still be hung up on me? I mean I've always been kinda hung up on her.
Bobby and Bret get up after a while to go bug Rockett leaving Vince, Dakota, and I at the bar. Vince kinda smiles at me.
"What are you thinking, Sixx?" He wonders. "Dallas?"
"You're crushing on my little cousin?" Dakota wonders with wide eyes and Vince laughs.
"Dakota Monroe, it's like you to meet Frank Feranna. He dated your little cousin in high school." Vince introduces and I awkwardly wave.
"No fucking way." She says quietly. "Prove it."
"She has a scar on her right hip shaped like the letter 'z'." I say. "Right underneath the belt line of her jeans."
"Dallas cut it on a rock in the quarry when we were kids." Dakota mutters to herself then looks at me. "You took my younger cousins virginity?"
"Please say that a little louder, Mackenzie might hear you." I hiss and Vince nearly pisses himself laughing.
"You do know that we tell each other everything, right?" Dakota wonders and I stand up.
"That does worry me a bit not going to lie but I'm going to go talk to Dallas." I say and walk across the bar.
Dallas is talking to Tommy, CC, and Junie on the other side of the bar. I go over and grab her hand, Dallas looks at me and Tommy smirks at me.
"What's up?" Dallas wonders.
"Come with me for a second?" I ask, she nods and Tommy laughs.
"Dallas, don't buy that. He's gonna--"
"Bye, Tommy." I say as I pull her towards the back door.
I pull Dallas outside into the back alley and she looks up at me extremely confused. I don't even know what to tell her at this point. I heard you're still hung up on me, we're both single, lets fuck again? Yeah, she'd kill me then let Mackenzie at me.
"You're acting kinda weird, Nikki." Dallas comments. "Are you okay?"
"Uh, yeah I think so." I try and she half smiles.
"Then why'd you pull me out into the alley?" She wonders.
"I'm not entirely sure." I admit and she smiles.
"Yeah you are." Dallas tells me. "You shift a lot when you lie still."
"Do I? I thought that went away when I moved out here." I admit and she smiles again.
"Why'd you bring me out here, Nik?" She wonders.
"I haven't stopped thinking about you for eight years." I admit. "I said that I'd find you again but you beat me to it." I take a deep breath and look at Dallas. "I'm still crazy about you."
"I'm still crazy about you too." Dallas admits and drops her gaze.
She's slowly reverting back into that shy girl she was when we met. Dallas can go from being the cute little shy girl to the loud mouth asshole and it's great. It seems like being shy is her defensive mechanism so she doesn't show feelings, I think that's her dad's fault. Dallas looks up at me again and she smiles her bright smile that makes me smile.
"Just kiss her already!" Tommy yells and we turn back.
Vince, Tommy, Dakota, CC, June, and Mick are jammed in the doorway behind us.
"How long have you been standing there?" Dallas wonders and her cousin smiles.
"Does it matter?" Dakota wonders.
"Just kiss!" June yells and we laugh.
"What do we do?" I ask Dallas and she shrugs.
Dallas goes up on her toes and kisses my lips gently. I kiss her back and my hands find her hips, I pull Dallas closer to me and her hands land gently on my shoulders. I pull back after a while and she smiles.
"I wasn't going to disappoint my little niece." She admits and I smile.
"Fine by me." I admit and kiss her lips again.
I've never been so happy to hear someone gossip before, thank you for talking about your cousin's love life, Dakota.