Chapter Nineteen

“All my love is all I have….” Melinda sung the next morning as she stepped into the shower, “Damn me for having J.Lo in my head”. She moved up under the water, letting it run over her face and on top of her head, and began to turn around slowly and then jumped, seeing Nick stand there, “What the hell?”

“Good morning.” Nick said as he leaned over and kissed her deeply, pushing her against the shower wall lightly. He moved his lips to her jaw line and started to kiss and suck down her neck lightly.

“Well good morning.” Melinda said as she looked around and moved her hands to Nick’s face, pulling his face back up to his hers, “What’s this about?”, she whispered against his lips as he kissed her deeper, wrapping his arms around her waist and picking her up a little so she was leaning against the shower wall.
Melinda started to wrap her legs around him as he entered her. She leaned her head back against the wall, loving the feel of him inside of her. Nick began to kiss down her neck and then moved down further to suck on her nipples a bit. When he did that, she tightened her grip around him, thinking she was going to die from pure excitement right then and there.

Nick kept things up, and Melinda felt like her entire body was shaking from delight. Damn did she miss this. Everything else about him too, but god damn this was good. She leaned her head back down and Nick began to kiss her, the two of them taking turns sucking on each other’s tongues.

He felt her muscles starting to tighten a little around his cock, and he thrusted as deep as he could into her. When he heard that familiar moan, he knew she was almost there, and sped it up, thrusting even deeper. Minutes later, her nails were nipping at his back as they both came, moaning and kissing and shaking and hugging.

“Like I said…” Melinda said as she took a deep breath and Nick opened his eyes, looking at her, “What’s this about?”

“Felt like it.” Nick said as Melinda raised her eyebrow at him, “We never did it in the shower and I needed one. You needed one. So, like, cool.”

“So like, cool?” Melinda asked as she rolled her eyes and he moved out of her, and she moved her from against the wall.

“You liked didn’t you?” Nick asked as Melinda smirked a little, “See.”

“Yeah, okay I did.” Melinda said as she shook her head at him and turned back around, letting the water run over her face. Nick smiled, walking to the other end of the shower, letting the water from the second shower head onto him, as he looked back over at Melinda and smiled even more.

Damn, you kill me when you hold me

Like I’m your world, like this won’t hurt

Like a favorite curse hittin’ every nerve

“Sing it girl.” Nick muttered as him and Matt stood there on the side of the stage that night as Melinda was on stage, performing “Damn.”

“Nick, can I ask you a question?” Matt asked as Nick looked over at him.

“Sure.”

“Is something going on with you and Melinda?”

“Me and Mindy? No.” Nick said as he started to laugh, “We’re just getting along better lately, that’s all.”

“You sure?” Matt asked as Nick looked back at him.

“Yes, I’m sure.” Nick said, “Besides. I think she likes Michel.”

“Right.” Matt said as he cracked up laughing. Nick rolled his eyes and looked back out at Melinda, who cut her eyes over at Nick and smiled before she started to sing “Tic Toc”, “She can’t like Michel?”

“Why not?” Nick asked, never taking his eyes off of Melinda, as she started sung, moving her hips a little to the music.

“Well it’s kind of obvious.” Matt said as he looked over at Nick.

“What, that he’s French? Melinda took French in high school.” Nick said, not even looking at Matt who rolled his eyes at him.

“Nevermind Carter.” Matt said as he walked off. Nick turned and looked at him a little before looking back out at Melinda and his cell phone rung. He reached over in his pocket, pulling it out and hitting the talk button.

“Hello?!?”

“Carter, my man.” AJ said as Nick rolled his eyes and AJ started laughing, “Watching a concert?”

“Yeah I just came back from changing and Melinda’s performing. I’m standing here watching it. What’s up?” Nick asked as Melinda cut her eyes over to her right, looking at him for a second.

“Nothing man. I was gonna see if you wanna get together for dinner or some shit when you’re in LA next week man.” AJ said, “I sort of - you know, miss ya.”

“That’s so sweet baby.” Nick said as AJ rolled his eyes at him, “Sure man. We can go to that Pizza place right?”

“For sure yo.” AJ said as he laughed, “How’s your sidekick?”

“Melinda? She’s all right. She’s been quiet this week.” Nick said, “So we haven’t fought that much or anything.”

“That sucks. You two are funny when you fight.” AJ said as Nick rolled his eyes and started to walk down the hallway slowly, going back to his dressing room, “Saw her little friend Bianca yesterday.”

“Oh really?”

“Yeah she stopped to talk to me. Said she thinks you and Melinda are gonna get together.” AJ said as Nick cracked up laughing, “Yeah that’s what I did to her.”

“Brian thinks the same thing and yo, he’s totally lost it. It’s that old age man.” Nick said as he walked into his dressing room and shut the door, “No way in hell.”

“Dude I know. I mean Mindy? That’s whack.” AJ said as Nick shook his head and sat down on the sofa in the room, “Seen her naked yet?”

“Dude!”

“Whaaat? I always thought she was cute.” AJ said, “Just wondering with you two sharing a suite and all.”

“No, I haven’t seen her naked.” Nick said as he looked down and started to smile.

“You are so lying through your bubbly ass Carter. I can see you smiling like a jackass on the other side of that phone.”

“Bubbly ass?”

“Nevermind.”

“No man I haven’t. I mean, we have our own bathrooms and all you know and she doesn’t go around naked.” Nick said, “I haven’t seen her naked. If I had, I’d be blind.”

“Yeah right.”

“For real.”

“I know.” AJ said as he laughed a little, “So no girlfriend or nothin’?”

“Nah man.” Nick said as he looked down at his nails and started biting on them.

“You not getting’ none?”

“Now I never said that.”

“Melinda?”

“No man, damn.” Nick said, “No no no no no nothing with Melinda.”

“I’m joking man, relax.” AJ said as he laughed, “Maybe you need to go get some. You seem all tensed.”

“Yeah yeah, I need to get my shit together. Melinda’s show is about over and then we’re heaving back to the hotel.” Nick said, “I’ll talk to ya later.”

“Alright man, later.”

“Later.” Nick said as he turned his cell phone on and put it back in his pocket. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes, sighing loudly.

“Hmm…” Nick moaned as he leaned up and kissed Melinda a few hours later, lying in his bed. Melinda kissed him back and then layed her head down his chest as Nick wrapped his arms around her after turning on the little night stand lamp beside the bed, “Damn.”

“Tell me about it.” Melinda said as she took a deep breath, “Damn.”

“Damn.”

“Damn.”

“Sounds like you’re song.” Nick said as Melinda reached over, tickling his neck lightly, “Ouch, stop that. Damn woman.”

“Stop making fun of my song.” Melinda whispered into his ear, nibbling on it lightly.”

“Uh, I’m not. I actually love the song.” Nick said as Melinda lifted her head up and looked at him, “Yes, really.”

“You like my song?” Melinda asked, “Seriously you do?”

“Yeah, I really do. I never paid much attention to it until I saw you perform it during rehearsal.” Nick said as Melinda smiled at him.

“I wrote it.”

“Really? Didn’t know.”

“Yeah I did.” Melinda said as she layed her head back on the left part of his chest and started moving her fingers lightly across his right shoulder.

“Alone?” Nick asked as Melinda smiled again.

“Yeah, this one night, not long after I got my record deal, I was sitting at home and I was all alone. My father wasn’t home. Maria had already left for the night. Bianca was out of town visiting family in Texas, and I was there all alone. I just got so lonely because I didn’t have a boyfriend, and nobody seemed interested in me because I was so focused with my music, and so I wrote that song, about wanting someone to want me that much and me wanting them.” Melinda whispered as Nick looked around and cut his eyes over at her, “It’s the one song that I completely wrote by myself - the lyrics, music, produced it, everything. That’s why I want it to be a single.”

“You produced it and all too?”

“Yep.”

“Damn, I guess I underestimated you.”

“Why?” Melinda asked as she moved her head back up, looking at him.

“I don’t want to make you mad.” Nick said as he moved her hair out of her face, and tucked it behind her ear, “So I won’t say it.”

“No you can tell me.” Melinda said as Nick rolled his eyes.

“I thought that you were just basically like a studio creation. I really didn’t know that you wrote your songs or produced them or anything. I thought you were another Britney, but was trying to be sort of rock.” Nick said, “I was wrong. I was really wrong.”

“It’s okay. A lot of people look at me and think that and miss all the details. I’ve put up with it since my first single came out. That’s why I want ‘Damn’ to be released to show everybody that I know what I’m doing and I’m not just showing my ass or shaking it to get attention.” Melinda said as she looked up at the ceiling and sighed, “I’ll probably never get past that stereotype though.”

“Well I get stuck being called a wanna-be too you know.” Nick said as Melinda looked down at him, “Hell you even called me that.”

“I didn’t mean it.” Melinda whispered as she shrugged her shoulders, “I was just trying to hurt your feelings.”

“You didn’t?”

“No, I love your album.”

“Really?”

“Yeah really.” Melinda whispered, as she laughed, “Isn’t it funny how we just deliberately try to hurt one another by saying mean things?”

“I don’t know why we do it.” Nick said as he looked up at the ceiling for a second, before looking back at her, “It just comes naturally.”

“So does this.” Melinda whispered as she leaned over, kissing him tenderly on the lips. She deepened the kiss as Nick moved his arms all the way across her back and pushed her closer to him, and then flipped them over so that he was lying on top of her.

Nick moved his lips down to her neck, sucking on it lightly before moving to her chest and kissing across it with little butterfly kisses. Melinda just held her head back, smiling as he moved his lips across her stomach, sucking on her skin faintly. He started to move his lips lower until Melinda pulled for him to come back to where she was. Nick smiled as he kissed back up her body in a hurry, finally finding his way back to her lips, “Yes?”

“I want you to kiss me right here.” Melinda whispered as she moved her lips against his, kissing him deeply. They continued to kiss for a few minutes, sucking on each others tongues and lips, and tasting each other until finally Nick backed away and looked down at her.

“Can I ask you a question?” Nick asked as Melinda opened her eyes and looked at him.

“Sure.” Melinda said, blinking her eyes while looking at him.

“You don’t regret this do you?”

“No.”

“How can you be sure?” Nick asked as Melinda took a deep breath and sighed, smiling a little.

“Because,” Melinda said as she licked her lips lightly, smiling, “When I’m with you like this it reminds me of what I want, like in my song I wrote. I know I shouldn’t, but I just can’t help it. You do things to me and I can’t fight it.”

“Good answer.” Nick said as he smiled, leaning down to kiss her again while reaching over to turn the little night stand lamp off.