Chapter Eight - Twenty Questions

“Twenty questions?” Caraline asked as she smiled at him, crossing her arms slightly, “Okay, I’m up for this. This will be a good way for us to get to know one another,”

“Exactly,” Nick said as he smiled, “Do you want to go first?” Caraline nodded her head no, watching him as he looked a little in shocked and smiled, looking down at the table, “Okay, I’ll go first. Are you a fan of mine?”

“Of yours or Backstreet Boys?” Caraline asked as Nick pointed to himself, “Yours? I think I have your album but I can’t remember. The group, yeah I like the music but I don’t ever get fanatic about anybody hardly,” she said in a really southern accent as Nick started to laugh, “Do you listen to country music?”

“A little,” Nick said as he smiled, shrugging his shoulders a little, “Not much but a little bit. It’s not my favorite type of music but I can stand to listen to it. Rock is more my thing.” Caraline smiled, reaching for her champagne and took a sip as Nick watched her. “Who’s your favorite writer?”

“Music wise or literature wise?”

“Either one,”

“Shakespeare,” Caraline said as Nick looked at her and she smiled, looking him in the eyes, “How oft when thou my music, music play’d, upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds, with thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway’st. The wiry concord that mine ear confounds. Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap, to kiss the tender inward of thy hand. Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap, at the wood’s boldness by thee blushing stand. To be so tickled they would change their state and situation with those dancing chips, o’er whom -” she quoted as Nick interrupted her.

“What the hell are you saying?” Nick asked as Caraline cracked up laughing.

“I was reciting one of his sonnets. Sonnet 128. It’s about music, it’s my favorite,” Caraline said as Nick looked at her with a confused look still, “It’s a poem sort of.”

“Okay,” Nick said as he shook his head laughing, “You’re way too smart for me,”

“My turn,” Caraline said as she looked Nick in the eyes as she leaned her arms up on the table, “What was the best moment of your life so far?”

“Best moment of my life?” Nick asked as he looked down, blinking his eyes and pressing his lips together, “That’s a tough question because there’s a lot of things. I don’t think I could pick just one, but I think when I first met the guys and I knew that we were a group and we were going to make it and every time I step on stage, the day that my solo album was released and the day I went in for the reading for The Hollow.”

“Why when you went in for the reading for the movie?” Caraline asked, leaning back in her chair again.

“The day I first met you,” Nick said as Caraline stared at him, “Where do you see yourself in ten years?”

“Married with three kids, living either here in New York City or Los Angeles or somewhere on the beach.”

“Three kids?”

“I want two girls and a little boy,” Caraline said as Nick smiled, “Where do you see yourself in ten years?”

“Married with three kids, living in either Los Angeles, Florida on the beach, or here, singing and writing music still,” Nick said as Caraline rolled her eyes, “No, I’m serious,”

“Are you asking me to marry you?”

“No,”

“Okay,”

“Okay,” Nick said as he cracked up laughing. Caraline just shook her head at him. “What’s your favorite movie?”

“My favorite movie,” Caraline whispered as she looked around thinking, “Forrest Gump, The Goonies, Gone With The Wind, and Just Married,”

“The Goonies is my favorite movie,” Nick said as he smiled, “For some reason I always wanted to be Chunk,”

“You’re crazy,” Caraline said as she shook her head, “What do you want from me?”

“What do you mean?”

“What do you want from me? You said that about the day you first met me, so I want to know what you want from me, so.. what do you want from me?” Caraline asked as Nick sat back in his chair, looking at her. Right when he opened his mouth to say something the waiter walked up to them, bringing them their food, sitting it down in front of them. The waiter walked away and Nick looked back at Caraline who looked at him, “So?”

“I can’t say what I want from you,” Nick said as Caraline smiled, “It’s not that. Trust me, it’s not just a sexual thing, I can’t explain it and, ” he said as he looked down at his plate and paused for a second, “I know that I need a change and sometimes it’s hard to do that when you’re so into a certain type of lifestyle.” He looked up at her for a second, seeing her staring at him and looked back down, “I saw you that day and I don’t know,”

“It’s okay, you don’t have to explain it,” Caraline said as Nick looked at her to see her smiling at him, “It’s your turn,”

“Okay,” Nick said as he smiled a little, picking up his fork so that he could start to eat his steak and then looked back at her, “Let’s eat first and just talk and then we’ll finish our game okay?”

“Okay,” Caraline said as she smiled, putting her napkin in her lap and took a sip of her champagne, before smiling at him.

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“Oh man,” Nick said a little while later as he sat back in his chair, “I think I ate way too much,” he said as he looked at his plate, seeing that it was empty, “Seeing how I ate everything, I would say that I ate just enough,”

“I’m full too,” Caraline said as she smiled, putting her napkin back on the table. Nick smiled at her and she smiled, looking down at her plate before looking back at him, “It’s your turn,”

“Oh right,” Nick said as he started to laugh and looked around, pressing his tongue into the side of his mouth, “Okay I got one. How many guys have you slept with?”

“Three,” Caraline said as she looked at Nick, who looked a little surprised, “Why do you look surprised? Thought I was a virgin?”

“To be honest, yeah I did,” Nick said as he started to laugh, “Three is fine though,”

“My first boyfriend in high school, a boyfriend in college, and then someone else,” Caraline said as Nick smiled, “Since we’re getting personal here, how big are you?” she asked as Nick spit out the champagne from his mouth that he was drinking.

“Holy shit,” Nick muttered as he wiped his nose, “Shit came through my nose,” he said as Caraline cracked up laughing, “Wanna get a ruler and find out?”

“I need a number Nick,”

“Okay, about eight,”

“Nice,” Caraline whispered as she started to take a sip of her champagne. Nick shook his head and looked down at his plate, “Your turn,”

“My turn,” Nick said as he smiled, looking up at her, “What’s your favorite part of your body and why?”

“My favorite part of my body?”

“Uh huh,”

“My um, my vagina,” Caraline said as Nick blinked, looking at her, “My vagina is my favorite part of my body,”

“Why your vagina?” Nick asked, taking another sip of his drink, leaning up on the table and licked his lips.

“My vagina is my favorite part of my body because it makes me feel good,” Caraline whispered as she looked around, and leaned closer to the table. Nick just licked his lips in return. “It’s the one part of my body that I can make myself feel a release and I don’t need a man to do that.”

“Uh huh,” Nick said as he took a deep breath, watching her lips as she licked them.

“But when a man is pleasing it, whether with his penis or with his tongue, it makes me feel twice as good because I’m not pleasing myself and he’s pleasing me and I can lay there and enjoy it, feeling him inside of me there. That’s why my vagina is my favorite body part,” Caraline said as she smiled, biting down on her bottom lip. Nick sat there looking at her in shock, “What’s your favorite body part on you?” Caraline sat there looking at Nick who still had a shocked look on his face, “Nick?”

“Oh, um,” Nick said as he took a deep breath, licking his lips before looking around the restaurant, “I like my smile and I’ve been told my ass is nice to grab,”

“Yeah,” Caraline said as she smiled, leaning back and taking another sip of champagne, “What’s your favorite body part on me and why?”

“Your smile because it makes me feel warm and your hips aren’t bad either,” Nick said, looking over at her hips, sitting back in the chair and smiled, looking back up to her, “I wouldn’t mind holding my hands on them, and your legs because I wouldn’t mind feeling them wrapped around my waist,”

“I took gymnastics since I was 4,” Caraline said as Nick swallowed, looking at her, “You can only imagine what that means,”

“Flexible,”

“Uh huh,”

“How old were you when you lost your virginity?” Nick asked as he reached over for the champagne bottle, taking a big sip, “I was sixteen,”

“I was seventeen,” Caraline said as she smiled, moving her legs to cross them again, “Where’s the wildest place you’ve ever had sex?”

“On the beach. You?”

“In the bathroom on a airplane,” Caraline said, finishing up the little bit of champagne in her glass, “You ready to get out of here?” she asked as she licked her lips, looking at Nick as she smiled.

“Yeah, let’s go,” Nick said as Caraline stood from her chair and Nick moved his napkin from his lap and stood up, looking down at his pants, noticing a slight problem.

He had a huge hard on.