November 26, 1995, Chicago, Illinois
NICK'S POV
I sighed as I hung up the phone. Brian walks in and sees the sad look on my face.
"Hey Frack you good?" he asks.
"No not really. Taylor just dumped me for another guy." I say, miserably. This was the third time.
"What? I told you she wasn't the right one Nick." he scolds me.
"Why are you always right when it comes to these things?" I whine.
"Cause I'm older and more experienced Nick." Brian says.
"You've had less girlfriends than me! How are you 'more experienced'?" I complained. Brian just shakes his head and is about to answer when AJ, Kevin, and Howie walk in.
"What's up?" AJ calls, plopping down on the sofa.
"Nick here just got dumped by Taylor." Brian answers.
"Brian!" I smack his arm. I did not want the whole group to know. It was bad enough that I got dumped, but everyone else knowing and pitying me was unbearable. I absolutely hated being pitied.
"What? Why?" Kevin asks.
"Another guy." I answer lazily as I slump in my chair.
"Aww man I wanted to make a move!" AJ whines. I glare at him, and he smiles sheepishly.
AJ, being the most flirty, always said things that irked me sometimes.
"Sorry man." he mumbles. I rolled my eyes.
"So what are you gonna do now Nick?" Howie asks.
I shrug, and say, "Guess I'm a single guy again."
Brian pipes up.
"Is this a good time to say that she had a snub nose?"
We laugh, as Brian always knows what to say to make me feel better.
"I mean, he's not kidding. It was all upturned." AJ jokes.
"Yeah your right." I say, while laughing. These guys always knew how to make me feel better. We've been together since April 20, 1993, and I had no regrets.
I smile, maybe it's not that bad that we broke up.
These guys were my family, and that was what was important.
BRIAN'S POV
"Why can't we leave the hotel?" Nick complained.
"Because Lou said no." Kevin answered, looking up from his book.
"But it's so boring." Nick flopped down on the bed.
"Why don't you play your Nintendo or something?" Howie offered.
"I forgot to bring it." Nick scowled. "If Kevin hadn't dragged me out, I would've been able to get it."
Kevin ignored him, and continued reading.
"Can we play hide and seek?" Nick looked up, after two minutes of silence.
AJ gave him a look. "That's for little kids Nick."
"There's nothing else to do."
"Go talk to your girlfriend then." AJ snorted.
I gave him a look.
"Fuck you." Nick flipped him off.
"Nick." Kevin warned, looking up.
"What?" Nick pouted. "He's mean."
AJ scoffed and imitated Nick. "He's mean."
"AJ leave Nick alone." I scolded.
AJ rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
Nick smiled, the way he did when he got his way.
"Cmon Frack, let's see who can shoot more hoops in the little basketball net on the door." I said.
"Okay." Nick agreed and passed me the small rubber basketball.
I squinted, and threw it.
One point for me.
"My turn." Nick grabbed it and shot it in.
He made it.
"It's a tie now." he handed it to me.
I tossed it in again, but missed.
It went like that for a little, and Nick ended up winning.
"I beat Brian!" he shouted.
"Mhm." The guys didn't even blink. Howie was busy sleeping, and AJ had headphones in.
"I swear, they are so boring sometimes." Nick sighed.
I eyed Kevin. He was so immersed in the book, he didn't even blink. Howie was asleep, AJ wasn't paying attention.
"Come on." Nick and I tiptoed out of the hotel room and went to the pool.
It was empty, since it was closed.
We jumped in, with our shirts off.
"I'm so cold!" Nick's teeth chattered. He was half laughing, half angry.
"I know. But it'll get warmer if we keep on swimming." I said.
Nick nodded and we moved around, splashing each other.
"Frick, you got water up my nose." he glared at me.
"Oops." I shrugged and sent another wave his way.
He deflected it, and sent an even bigger one, which made me go under.
I decided I would play a little prank on him.
I stayed down, and I heard Nick's voice from above.
"Brian?" I heard him swimming toward me.
I kept my face down. Ten more seconds before I ran out of air.
"Brian? You okay?" Nick's voice was high pitched.
I heard a gasp. "Brian!" Nick screeched.
I came up and grinned. "Boo!"
Nick screamed, and fell back into the water.
I laughed my guts out while an angry Nick came back up.
"You scared me! I thought you were dead." he shook his head.
I laughed. "That was funny though."
"Not for me." he mumbled.
"Who's there!" We heard a male voice.
Shit.
"Run!" Nick whispered. We got out of the water and grabbed our shirts and ran through the grass to conceal our footprints.
We opened the hotel room door and went in.
"That was close." Nick leaned against the door.
"I know." I agreed. I looked down at my bare feet.
They were covered in grass and dirt.
"Eww." Nick shook out his own.
"Where have you two been?" I heard Kevin's angry voice.
Uh oh.
"Just fooled around with the shower." Nick lied.
"Right." Kevin eyed us. He was about to open his mouth, but the phone rang. He frowned and went to answer it.
"Lou?"
Nick and I looked at each other.
"Tomorrow morning, at seven? Okay, we'll be there." Kevin hung up.
"Guys, we record again at seven tomorrow. Go to sleep." he waved us off.
Nick and I went to our bedroom that we shared and fought over who got to shower first.
It was an eventful night I guess.