Chapter Twenty - I Must Be Dreaming

“Melinda, it’s time for your meet and greet.” Matt said as he stuck his head in Melinda’s dressing room to see her standing infront of the mirror, “Nick’s already doing his.”

“Okay.” Melinda said as she took a sip of her bottled water and walked over to the door, walking past Matt, “Stop staring.”

“Yes ma’am.” Matt said as Melinda walked down the hallway slowly, until she reached the meet and greet room to see Nick squatted down talking to a little girl.

“And what’s you’re name?” Nick asked, looking at her.

“Nichole.”, the little girl whispered, while looking down at the ground, becoming shy.

“Nichole? That’s almost like my name.” Nick said, “Do people call you Nicky?”

“Uh huh”, Nichole said as she looked up at Nick, “My brother calls me Nicky and I don’t like it.”

“Welcome to the club.” Nick said as he looked down signing her picture, “How old are you?”

“This many.” Nichole said, holding up eight fingers and Nick looked at them trying to count, “I’m four.”

“Four too many fingers.” Nick said as he started to laugh.

“Where’s AJ?”, Nichole asked as Nick looked up laughing at her, “I want to see him.”

“Well AJ’s not here baby. It’s just me tonight. You like me right?” Nick asked as he did a cheesy grin.

“You’re my number two favorite.” Nichole said, “I like AJ’s hats.”

“I got hats too, but not cowboy hats.” Nick said as Nichole started to giggle.

“Will you be my boyfriend?” Nichole asked as Nick looked at her and she reached over, giving him a big hug, “I love you.”

“You want me to be your boyfriend?” Nick asked as Nichole hugged him tighter.

“Yes.”

“Okay, I’ll be your new boyfriend.” Nick said as Nichole stopped hugging him, and put her hands on each side of his face and planted him a big kiss on the lips, “Wow, a kiss on the first date! I’m a lucky man!”

“I love you Nick.” Nichole said as she hugged him again, and he hugged her back laughing.

“I love you too. Now you go out with your mom and take your seat so you can watch the concert okay?” Nick asked as Nichole nodded her head and ran up to her mom who picked her up. Nick said goodbye to her mom as they walked out and looked over to see Melinda standing there in the doorway, “So yeah,” he said as he started fixing the color on his jacket, “I have a new girlfriend.”

“Little young don’t you think?” Melinda asked as Nick started counting on his fingers.

“Naaah. I like ‘em young.” Nick said as he scrunched his face up as he walked by her. He stopped and looked at her and she just looked back at him, “I’m joking.”

“I know.” Melinda said as she smiled a little, “But you were cute with that little girl.”

“You think?”

“You were. You’ll make a great Dad someday.” Melinda said as Nick cracked up laughing at her.

“In about 20 years yeah, not anytime soon.” Nick said as he started to laugh and Melinda smiled more, shaking her head, “You better go do your meet and greet. I gotta go get ready for stage.”

“See ya out there.” Melinda said as Nick walked down the hallway, going into his dressing room and Melinda stood there smiling even more.

Melinda sat there in the van ride back to the hotel, thinking about Nick before the concert and seeing how he acted with the little girl. She smiled a little thinking about it until she heard Matt talking with Nick about how there was only 12 more shows and then there was the premiere. They had just received news earlier that day that “Review My Kisses” was sitting at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. The way they figured it, it would be number one the week that the movie premiered, which was in just a little over three weeks.

Having the song go to number three was a pretty big deal. It meant that both Nick and Melinda were going to have another single released from their albums. Since the duet had been released, both of their album sales had doubled, and their last two singles had started climbing back up the charts. So everything Jane said about the song being good for their careers was right. It was turning their dying solo careers around and bringing more life to them.

“Melinda.” Michel said as Melinda jumped out of her train of thought and looked at him.

“Yes?” Melinda asked, looking back at Michel, who was sitting in the seat behind her.

“Would you like to go out and manger avec moi?” Michel asked as Melinda sighed, and looked back over at Nick.

“You mean grab a bite to eat?” Melinda asked as Nick cut his eyes over at her and smiled a little.

“Yes, I want some crème glacée.” Michel said as Melinda cut a little smile at Nick and then looked back at Michel.

“Nah, I’m pretty tired.” Melinda said as she smiled, “Thanks anyway.”

“Aucun problème.” Michel said smiling as he leaned back in his seat. Melinda looked back out the window at a car passing by, feeling bad for telling Michel no but she didn’t really want to go out with him. She wanted to stay in the hotel with Nick, and that’s just what she was going to do.

“Oh Melinda Shayne Manning..” Nick said as he walked into her room with nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist and his hair wet and spiky to see her sitting on her bed in a red tank top and matching panties, “Oh red, sexy.”

“You okay?” Melinda asked, looking at him as she put the little book that she was writing it on the night stand.

“Just fine.” Nick said as he crawled up on the bed, and leaned over to kiss her deeply as his towel fell off and he grabbed it, throwing it across the room.

“Horny?” Melinda asked as she started to laugh at him.

“Hmmm…” Nick moaned as he leaned down, kissing her chest lightly as he layed her back on the bed, moving one of his hands down her panties, rubbing his finger over them, “Maybe I just want you?”

“Maybe?” Melinda asked as Nick looked up at her, smiling.

“Okay, I do.” Nick said as he moved his finger against her panties even more.

“So do I.” Melinda said smiling as she leaned over to kiss him again.

“Good..” said Nick as he looked down, trying to slip her panties off as she began to laugh. He finally got them down and then looked back up at her as she reached down, taking her tank top off, while Nick helped her slid it over her head.

He leaned down to kiss her as she moved her legs a little so that she could position herself a bit better but Nick didn’t move until Melinda started to kiss the utter hell out of him and he positioned himself better and began to enter her but stopped.

“Don’t you tease me again….”

He just laughed in response as he entered her slowly, feeling a sigh of relief from her on his lips. She wrapped her arms around him tightly as he started to kiss down her neck and to her chest while he began to move inside of her.

Melinda wrapped her legs around him tightly to bring him even closer to her as he started out slow. Melinda moved her hands from around his neck and began to move them over his body. His chest, his back, hell even his ass. She wanted him all the way in her and wanted to be as close to him as she could.

Nick stopped massaging her body and moved his arms up so that they wrapped around her shoulders as he began to move inside of her a little faster. Melinda began moaning against his lips as they kept kissing passionately. He began to feel her tighten around him and opened his eyes a little to see her looking at him, and he knew that she was about to reach her point, so he began to move a little faster, trying to hold off so that they could come together.

Nick lifted her up a little off of the bed, with his arms around her shoulders while kissing her and began to move inside of her even harder and faster as he felt her gasp for air against his lip and moan as she felt her release and about the same time, he felt his also. He began to slow down and slightly moved out her, resting his head on her chest, feeling her heart beat like crazy.

“Hot damn.” Nick whispered as Melinda opened her eyes, and looked down at him.

“You’re something else Nick, you know that.” Melinda said as Nick smiled and opened his eyes, looking up at her.

“You are too.” Nick said, leaning up to kiss her softly on the lips.

“You were really cute with that little girl tonight.” Melinda said as Nick smiled at her.

“Why do you keep bringing that up?” Nick asked as he started to laugh and Melinda looked away, blushing a little, ‘What?”

“It was just cute. It touched me, that’s all.” Melinda said was she looked back at him.

“I have brother and sisters, I’m used to kids. I just don’t want none of my own, not right now anyway.” Nick said as Melinda laughed a little, “I mean, can you see me tuggin’ a baby around? I have to get a girlfriend first.”

“Yeah I know.” Melinda said as Nick leaned down and started to kiss her but stopped, “Why, did that make you wanna have a baby?”

“No, just I thought it was cute how you kneeled down to her level and talked to her.” Melinda said, “And the whole boyfriend thing and her kissing you. It was cute.”

“Well,” Nick said with a little smirk, “I’m glad you thought it was cute.”

“I did.”

“I thought something else was cute tonight.” Nick said as Melinda looked at him questionably, “Wanna know what?

“What?” Melinda asked as Nick smiled at her.

“You, on stage, putting so much passion and emotion in singing to me.” Nick said as Melinda looked at him, “You really got into the duet tonight. I’d never seen you like that before.”

“It wasn’t too much was it?” Melinda asked as Nick nodded his head at her.

“Never.” Nick said as he leaned down, kissing her tenderly on the lips and backed away just a little, “You’re so talented..”, another kiss, “and smart”, another kiss, “beautiful”, yet another kiss as he started to move his way across her cheek, “caring”, and another kiss as he moved up to her ear, nibbling on it a little before whispering in it, “And so unbelievably sexy that sometimes I think I’m dreaming that I’m even getting the chance to actually be close to you like this.”

And Melinda just laid there in shock.

“Mindy?” Nick asked a she looked back at her, to see the shock on her face, “What?”

“What?”

“What?”

“Nothing.” Melinda said as she smiled, leaning up to kiss him deeply, while wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer to her. She deepened the kiss as Nick moaned against her lips slightly, while tangling his right hand and fingers in her hair.

Simple question: How is that one day, you can hate someone so much that you wish you would never see them again, then a couple of kisses, touches, and orgasms later, you think that you just ‘might’ start having a few emotional feelings for them?

I mean I know Ferris Bueller said “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.” But, I never expected something like this to come up, but I think I just ‘might’ be developing somewhat feelings for a certain someone (no names involved), that doesn’t involve blood, murder, or death?

Yeah, it freaks the hell out of me too.

I mean, how do things like this start? All we do is have sex… and talk… and cuddle…. And kiss… and makes me smile. I need to stop.

Okay, I’ll be blunt now. I think I’m starting to have feelings for Nick. God. Why me? I’ve done NOTHING wrong in the world. I contribute to society. I don’t run over animals in the road. I don’t kill innocent bugs. I never buy anything with real fur, and I take things to the Salvation Army like my old Gucci silver handbag that I took everywhere with me. Someone else is using that now and I’m happy that I could do that. But I do nothing wrong, so why does God decide to make me pay this way?

“Something just clicked in me, seeing how he was with that little girl and then the things he told me. He said that he thinks he’s dreaming sometimes by being able to be this close to me. That’s.. that’s deep. Nobody has ever said anything like that to me. It’s just - whoa.

I think I’m starting to have feelings for Nick.

“Florida!” Nick yelled the next day as they got out of the airplane and he jumped down, falling to his knees and kissing the ground, “Oh how I missed you!”

“Someone has issues.” Matt said as Melinda rolled her eyes at him and walked by Nick, kicking him in the ass lightly.

“Ouch.” Nick said as he kissed the ground again and stood up, running up to catch up with Melinda, “Why’d you kiss my ass man?”

“Cause you’re acting like an idiot?” Melinda said as Nick smiled at her and winked when they heard a voice.

YO!!!

“Now see.” Melinda said as she stopped and put her hand on her hip, looking over at Nick who stopped beside her, “I don’t even have to look and I know who that is screaming.”

“Me either.” Nick said as they both turned their heads to see Aaron standing there waving his arms back and forth at them, “Yeah, it’s good to be back in Florida.”, he said sarcastically as Melinda started to laugh at him.