Nikki didn't keep his promise.
Sure, she was devastated. But they're wasn't much that she could do. She tried pleading to him, yelling at him, and even tried bribing him at one point. She even went as far as locking both of them in their bedroom, and staying up 32 hours just to keep an eye on him. But right as soon as she passed out, he managed to lock himself in the bathroom, just so he could shoot up.
He couldn't stopped with the excuses. He couldn't stop with the lies. As much as she hated to admit it, she found herself reliving the worst part of her childhood memories.
It was nothing but painful. She cried everyday. She couldn't even look at Nikki, at times. She even began to loose hope. She even came to the terms of possibly seeing him in a casket one day. And it broke her, completely.
Everyone always asked why she would put herself in that position? Why stay with him? Why not leave him? And her answer every time was because she loved him. Even if she knew that he loved the drugs more...
Nikki's band mates resented him in a way. He was not only fucking up his life, but Kaylas too...
Mick especially resented him, There wasn't a day that went by where he didn't want to beat the shit out of Nikki. That asshole knew what he was doing to Kayla, and Nikki knew she wouldn't leave him. Well, not anytime soon in his condition...
Mick hasn't seen the girl for two months because she had been to scared to leave Nikki unattended at home. So he was going to make it a priority to talk to her about it today on Tommy's big day...
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While Tommy got ready in the room with his band mates, Mick couldn't help but stare down the two from afar. Everyone in that room knew Nikki was higher than a kite, and they seen how the girl felt responsible.
"She's really going to marry me, huh?" Tommy asks his friends with a wide smile, while walking over to the mirror to check his tie. Kayla couldn't help but smile at the tall lanky man, almost proud in a way.
"This isn't some kind of sick joke, is it?" Tommy asks to no one in particular, causing Mick to scoff.
"Life's a sick joke." He mumbles while side eyeing Nikki on the couch, before taking a sip of his beer.
"I just can't wait until you both have cute little babies." Kayla says to Tommy whole hugging the lanky man from behind, causing him to smile.
"I can't wait to make them." He replied causing the blonde man sitting on the chair to scoff.
"Don't rush the man, he has all the time in the world! Look—As much as I love Sky, she can be a little spawn demon." Vince jokes, causing the girl & the others to slightly laugh.
"Hey what time is it? I think we should get out there." Tommy asked once the laughter died down.
"It's almost ten. Yeah, we should." Kayla says while looking over at the clock in the room
"Nikki, lets hit it." Tommy exclaims over time the man on the couch, before turning to his other friends.
"You guys ready?" Tommy asks causing all three no nod. But once the groom noticed Kaylas worried stare from behind him, he quickly turns around.
"Yo, best man. Let's go. I gotta wife waiting. Come on!" Tommy shouts angrily at the sleeping man from afar, but not even his shouts woke him.
"Nikki—"Kayla started to say, while taking a step over to the man, but Tommy stopped her with pulling her back by her wrist.
"I got it, Kay." He says while walking over to his best friend in determination.
"You fucking idiot, get up! Hey, Nikki. Wake up, asshole!" Tommy shouts while slapping Nikki's face a few times, allowing him to finally wake up from his nap on the couch.
"What the fuck, dude?" Nikki tiredly says while giving his friend an annoyed stare, for waking him up so rudely.
"Jesus!" Tommy exclaims at his friend, causing Kayla to watch her boyfriend slowly sit himself up on the couch.
"I'm good. It's all good." He says to everyone in the room staring at him.
"You're most definitely not all good, man. But, whatever, just clean—" Tommy says to his friend while Nikki tries to grab the beer from the table, only knocking a few things down in the process.
"Hey! Get your shit together! I don't want Heather to be embarrassed, okay?" Tommy yells at Nikki, obviously dumbfounded at his friend could be under the influence at the moment.
"I'm embarrassing?" Nikki asks while standing up on his two feet, while sipping his beer.
"Kayla, am I embarrassing?" Nikki asked his girlfriend who was standing alongside Tommy. This caused Kayla to remain silent, and look away from him in embarrassment.
"She doesn't seem to think so." Nikki says to Tommy, before chugging some more of his beer.
"No, I think she's too embarrassed to speak up for you anymore." Tommy scoffs, causing Kayla to continue to remain silent, and look down at the hotel floor. The fact of the matter was, Tommy wasn't wrong...
"Cool—Let's go marry your fancy ass TV chick in this fancy ass hotel." Nikki slightly slurred slightly while flicking his beer, causing it to spill its contents towards Tommy.
"Hey, you going to do this on the happiest day of my life, asshole?" Tommy shouted with anger filling his retinas, while staring at his friend.
"The happiest day of your life? Nah, the happiest day of your life was when I let you join my band." Nikki rudely tells his friend, which made the rooms tension only rise. This was Tommy's day, not Nikki's, and Kayla wasn't going to have any of his childish behavior.
"Please just shut the fuck up, Nikki." Kayla mutters at her high boyfriend, which caused all of them to be taken aback from the girls words. Everyone in that room seemed to be glad she finally did; well besides Nikki.
"Shall I get someone else to stand up there with me or what?" Tommy asks his friend, but he was staring at his girlfriend, shocked from her choice of words.
"Don't look at me, man." Vince tells his friend who was still seated in his chair.
"I'll do it, drummer."Mick says to Tommy while slowly standing up from his seat, to take Nikki's duty. Kayla couldn't help but give her boyfriend a look of disappointment, causing him to snap out of his tactics to piss everyone off.
"Look, I-I've already got the fucking rings. Let's just go." Nikki says once realizing the scene he had just created, causing a Tommy to storm out of the room along with the two others.
Kayla just stood in the middle of the room, still staring at her boyfriend in disappointment. She didn't know what he had become, and she didn't sign up for it. As she watched him shrugged on his suit, and take a step towards her, she watches him fall right onto the coffee table in front of him. The glass part only slipped off, causing him to completely land on the carpet floor.
As almost an instinct, the girl took a step forward to help, but she stopped herself from continuing. If Nikki couldn't stop from shooting up for one day, especially for Tommy, how was she ever going to believe he'd get better? And with that thought, she walked out of the room, leaving a Nikki to get ahold of himself.
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After the beautiful ceremony, Tommy called for the group of friends to take a picture with the newly weds. "Come on, guys, picture! Big smiles!" Tommy exclaims with a bright smile, while quickly pulling his bride right beside him, along with Kayla on his left side, while waiting for the rest of his friends to huddle up. Once Vince stood beside the bride, and Mick stood beside his niece, Tommy instinctively looked over to his best friend.
"Nik, come on man." Tommy says to his friend, hoping he'd get at least one normal wedding photo. As the photographer counted down from three, the girl gave a wide smile for the camera. As the camera flashed before them, Kayla quickly looked over at Nikki to make sure he was all good, before looking quickly away.
"Kay, can we talk?" Her uncle asked once they finished taking a few more pictures.
"Of course, you can." She tells the man, almost giving him a confused look at first on why he had to ask her. She was his niece, his family for Christ's sake. He didn't have to ask if he could talk to her.
"Kayla, Kay—" Nikki called while approaching her, trying to be romantic and pull her in a hug. But she stopped him, immediately giving him a stare of disapproval for intervening with their conversation.
"You. No, you can wait." She sternly tells him before walking off with her Uncle, leaving Nikki standing dumbfounded.
"What's up?" Kayla asks once they were standing in a secluded area, away from anyone.
"You know that I only want the best for you, right?" He asks her, trying to figure a way not to be an ass about it.
"I know that." She says while giving him a genuine smile, which made him more relax to continue.
"And I hope you know that I think your an amazing, caring, and smart woman." He continues, causing Kayla to slowly realize he was going to give her a talking. And she happened to immediately know what it was about.
"If this it's about Nikki—" She starts off only to be interrupted by her uncle. "He's not good for you—I know you see it."He sternly tells her.
"He is good for me. I'm good for him." She says to her uncle with pleading eyes. There was nothing that could change her mind about that. They always had this chemistry, and always found themselves wanting to be together without realizing it. She knew she loved this man, and wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
"Yeah, you are good for him. I agree, but damn it, Kayla... You're too good for him." Mick tells his niece, almost frustrated at the way she was defending him.
"He's not in the right state of mind."
"It's not your duty to fix him."
"Then who will?" She snaps at her uncle, causing him to sigh, and place his hands on her two shoulders.
"Nikki—Nikki is the only person who can do that."
"But what if it's too late? W-what if he can't, and then he dies?" She whispers to him, crying as the thought passed her mind.
"You staying with him is only going to make that a greater possibility. He knows you aren't going anywhere. He knows you take care of him. He knows he can get away with it. So he thinks it's okay to keep doing it." Mick tells his niece who seemed to be in a deep train of thought while listening to him, causing a silence to overtake them.
"Give him a reason to stop; not continue." He adds causing her to look back in her uncle eyes. Just as her blue eyes began to water, he watched her chin start to throb due to trying to hold back herself from crying. So he pulled her in for a hug, which was unlike Mick. But he did care, he chose not saying anything further, just trying to comfort the girl in anyway possible.
"Okay, I'll do it later tonight." She says almost above a whisper, causing Mick to hold the girl tighter.
"I'm proud of you, kid."
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As the two came back home safely from their friends wedding, Nikki immediately wanted to take a shower. While he was doing so, Kayla took that as the perfect opportunity to pack up her favorite items of clothing, and belongings. Once getting everything into two large luggages, she quickly brought them down stairs, and stuffed them into her car trunk, before walking back upstairs to wait for Niki.
As soon as Nikki exited the steamy bathroom completely butt-ass naked, he froze in place once noticing Kayla. The girl was sitting up straight on their bed with a face written with no emotion.
"Why aren't you undressed?" He asked as if he were genuinely confused. All he wanted to do was take a shower, and cuddle up in bed with Kayla for the rest of the night.
"Because I'm leaving Nikki." She tells him causing the man to freeze up at her choice of words.
"Leaving? What do you mean your leaving?" He asks as if he hasn't heard or comprehend what she informed him, seconds ago.
"I'm leaving you, Nikki."
"W-Where the fuck is this coming from?" He asks, showing off his anger to the girl.
"This is coming from the many months I've been completely silent. I'm done with the broken promises, the lies, the excuses. I can't keep doing this to myself." She explained while standing up from the bed, trying to contain herself from shouting at him further.
"I told you I would get sober!" He shouted at the girl who was starting to walk towards their bedroom door.
"When? I've been waiting for that promise for three fucking months!" She shouted, her anger getting the best of her.
"I'll go to rehab right now, just drive me—" He started, only to to be shut quickly down.
"Drive yourself." She spat before completely walking out of the bedroom, but that didn't stop Nikki from chasing after her.
"Kayla please! I need you! I love you!" He shouted almost in desperation, causing her to spring around at the man, looking at him with the same anger Tommy had today.
"You don't love me!" She shouted while pointing her finger at him.
"Yes I do!" He shouted back with just as much anger, causing her to finally let out her tears.
"No. No you don't." She whispers in sadness, before walking down the stairs.
"Stop telling me what I do or don't feel for you!" He shouts while chasing her down the stairs, still butt-ass naked.
As he grabs ahold of her wrist to stop her, she turns to him with tears drenching her red cheeks. She was completely broken, and tired. There wasn't anything the man could do or say, to make her stay.
"Fine, you love me... But you'll always love your fucking heroin more." She whisper helped at him, while ripping his grasp from her wrist.
"Kayla wait! Please!" He says grabbing her again, only making her more annoyed.
"If you cant go a full day without it, especially on a big day like this... When are you ever make that big decision to stop & get help?" She asked trying to contain herself from yelling at him further, hoping that maybe he'd realize.
"Are you doubting me?" He suddenly asks, which was thing that completely set her off.
"Well your not getting any better, are you?! Nikki look at yourself! Even when I'm around you, you can't seem to stop! Even when I tried to do everything in my power to help you!" She practically screams, causing Nikki to shrink down in size.
"All my love that I gave to you couldn't make you stop!" She screams again allowing Nikki's grasp to leave her wrist, almost afraid to even touch her further. He'd never seen her act this way, it was almost scary for him.
"Please don't do this to me." He pleads but nothing was stopping the girl from storming to the five car garage.
"Kayla, please, please don't!" He shouts in fear as he watches her enter her car, then locks it as she gets in. As she turned on the car, she lowered the window just enough to where she'd be able to speak to him one last time.
"Don't bother to call me unless you have your sobriety certification. Because I won't want anything to do with you otherwise." She spat before driving out of the garage, speeding down the road, and away from Nikki's home, once again.