Chapter 50
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*The Next Day*
Nick was sleeping when Brian entered in the hospital room. It wasn't that early so he wondered if everything was okay with him. He walked out of the room silently and stopped a young brunette nurse walking in the hallways.
"Sorry miss...do you know if everything is alright with him?" he asked pointing at the door.
"Who?"
"Nicholas Carter"
"Oh! yeah the singer! Well he's alright...he's going really good for what I've heard..." she smiled sweetly.
"Ok thanks. I was just asking because he's still sleeping and it's 10:30 ..." Brian replied.
"Well, he had his physio routine earlier this morning so maybe he's just tired..." she said.
"Oh! I see! Thanks! Sorry for disturbing you!" Brian smiled back.
"No problem!" the young girl replied as she walked away.
Brian watched her walking away and came back into the room. He would wait until he wakes up. But he didn't wait long because the second he sat on the chair, Nick's eyes opened slowly.
"Hey Buddy!" Brian cheered.
"Huh? Oh Hey!" Nick smiled with a yawn. "How long have you been here?"
"A minute!"
"Ok!" Nick replied rubbing his eyes.
"Janice is giving you a hard time?" Brian asked.
"No... not really. I'm just bored!" Nick answered with a laugh.
"How can you get bored with all those cute nurses around and taking care of you?" Brian winked.
"What? Who? Where??"
"Well I just talked with a cute brunette..."
"Hum..I don't know... I'm not her patient because all my nurses are old.." he laughed.
"Lucky guy!" Brian teased. "They are the ones with the most experience..."
"Ah shut up and call Leigh!" Nick laughed.
"I will!" Brian smiled. "She's shooting in Orlando so..."
"So you'll get back with her?"
"I dunno...we'll see!"
"But you would like to!" Nick smirked.
"Yeah but I'm not sure of her feelings...I'll have to talk with her." Brian said seriously. "What do you think about all this?"
"I think it's great! You two are for each other... that's what I used to think and now that I see you again together...i still think it!" Nick said.
"Really? That's nice!" Brian smiled."Anyway...I think you'll have a lot of visitors today!"
"How come?"
"Well I think Aje and Beck came back yesterday... and Naomie too!"
"Really? Cool!" Nick exclaimed.
Brian and Nick talked during an hour non-stop about things and others, jocking like two little high-school boys. Around noon, the door opened slowly as a face appeared in the opening.
"Hey Nam!" Brian shouted.
"Hey you guys!" she smiled, entering in the room and walking up to the bed. "I hope I didn't interrup your conversation!"
"No! It's okay!" Nick smiled.
"I came to see if you needed company for lunch but I guess not!" she said happily.
"Well, the more we are, the most fun we have!" Brian replied.
"So, how was your trip?" Nick asked her.
She filled him with her short holidays in California with her father and brothers and Brian did the same with his vacation in Kentucky.
"Do you know if Becky and Aj are back?" Brian asked Naomie.
"Yeah! Becky called me yesterday! She and Aj are back. They are suppose to come here today with someone they came back with..." Naomie answered.
"Who?" Nick asked curiously.
"I have no idea! She said I would see by myself today..."
"Who asked for a strip-teaser!!" Aj shouted, entering in the room, followed by Becky and a dark haired guy in a wheelchair.
"Shut up Aj!" Becky laughed slapping him on the butt.
"Oh my God!!" Naomie almost screamed. She stared at him for a moment, making sure he was show she thought. "Marky??????"
"Hey! Beautiful Nam! How ya doing girl?" Mark smiled at her.
"AAAAAAH!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!" she shrieked running up to him and throwing her amrs around his neck.
"Hey girl!" he laughed. "Happy to see me?"
"Yes!!! Oh God! Look at you!! You've grown up so much!"
"I could say the same thing babe!" he replied, looking at her up and down. She blushed a little and turned back to the others.
"This my brother, Mark!" Becky introduced to the others. "Mark, here's Brian and our little Butthead!"
"Hey Brian!" Mark smiled, moving forward to Brian and shaking his hand.
"Hey man! It's nice to meet you!" Brian smiled back.
"Same!" Mark replied. He then moved closer to the bed and extend his hand to Nick. "Hey...butthead?!?!?" he said as the others burst out laughing.
"I'm Nick!" this one smiled weakly.
"Oh sorry!" Mark laughed. "Nice meeting you Nick!"
Nick just smiled back and watched him moving back where Naomie was standing.
"So...Mark is gonna stay with us for like...a week or two!" Becky started, all smile. "He needed to get away from our parental house for a bit..." she laughed.
"Oh I see... overprotective parents?" Brian asked.
"A little yeah!" Becky smiled.
"So you're gonna stay here a little????" Naomie asked excited.
"Yes miss!" Mark exclaimed.
"This is sooo great!!" she exclaimed bouncing.
The two immediatly started talking together, catching up on the time they haven't seen each other. Nick suddently felt something weird... he wasn't quite sure what it was but he couldn't get off his eyes from them. He was sure something had already happened between those two. He didn't know why.
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*Later that Night*
Naomie was at Aj's and the four friends were watching some movies and eating popcorns. Becky and Aj were wrapped in each others arms, sleeping like two babies. Naomie was really into the movie, her eyes glued to the screen when she saw some popcorn flying beside her head. She turned to look at where it came from when she received one right in the face. She looked at Mark who was faking to watch the movie, with a huge grin on his face.
"Oh yeah you think so?" she mumbled to herself as she started throwing popcorn at him too.
"Hey!? What did I do?" he laughed.
"What do you think?"
"I dunno! I didn't do anything.." he lied with a big smile accross his face.
"Yeah right ..." Naomie giggled. "And I'm Naomie Cambell dude!"
"Nah...you're prettier!"
"Oh well..thanks..." she chuckled. "But you started the war..." she added taking some popcorn in her hand.
"I didn't start anything! Becky did!" he defended.
"Yeah like she can throw me popcorn while sleeping... good one..." she laughed.
"She's a sleepwalked remember?" he asked.
"No I don't remember...what should I remember anyway?"
"I dunno I was just trying to defend myself.." Mark laughed. "Ok then..I'm a poor paralyzed boy who just wanted to catch your attention..."
"How sweet!" Naomie giggled. "Don't you have any girls back in NJ? I thought you had like a harem or something..." she added as he bursted out laughing.
"Yeah...a harem! Good one!"
"No really...didn't you have a girlfriend a few months ago?"
"Yeah...I few months ago..." he sighed with a smile.
"Oh it's over? How come?"
"I guess she was just tired to give attention to a poor paralyzed boy..."
"Poor little boy.." she said as she stood up and walked beside him. "Come on..you know you'll find someone!"
"Yeah someday..still hoping!" he smiled. "And what about you? Don't you have anyone in your life right now?"
"Not right now..." she sighed.
"My third eye tells me that you have someone in mind ..." he said.
"How do you know that??"
"My third eye...right there.." he replied pointing at his forehead as she giggled softly. "So who is it? Me??"
"Sorry... " she apologized even if she knew he was jocking.
"Too bad..i'll have to kill someone then.."
"Haha! So funny!" she said sarcastically. "He almost died anyway so please.."
"Butthead???"
"Huh??" she asked frowning.
"It's butthead..the guy...at the hospital.."
"Stop calling him Butthead!" Naomie laughed.
"I'm sorry I don't remember his name... Mick?"
"Nick! Come on, I know you know is name...stop it!" Naomie said playfully smacking his arm.
"Ok ok...so you have a crush on Nick??"
"Sort of..." she smiled.
"Sort of? What answer is that?" Mark laughed.
"I think it's more than just a simple crush...that's why.." she sighed looking at the ground.
"Ooooh...how cute! Nam is in love!!" he replied like a young boy.
"Shut up!" she chuckled.
"Don't be shy...really it's great!"
"Yeah except that he doesn't even know I exist!" she let out.
"Excuse me?" he said choking. "This guy is a jerk!! He doesn't deserve you!... But I do!" he jocked.
"Stop it Mark...please!" she giggled.
"Ok but... you know...i'm sure he knows you exist..come on! I've seen the look on his face when you ran up to me - How lucky am I? - and I'm pretty sure it was a jealous look!" he smiled.
"Ok don't push things too far... " she replied with a laugh. "Jealous? No I don't think so.."
"I swear! He was looking at us oddly.."
"Whatever..." she smiled.
"You know, it's great to see you again. I realized that I missed you a lot...we had great time together didn't we?"
"Of course we did!" she exclaimed.
The two had been friends since Naomie and Becky knew each other, wich was from a long time. They had met at an audition for a dance part in some play when Becky had made a trip to California to start her dancing-acting carreer. The two girls were still pretty young and their friendship grew with the time. And a summer, Naomie had flight to New Jersey and stayed at Becky's all summer...where she had met Mark. Since that day they had became great friends, having a lot of fun everytime they were together. Even if she already had a lot of them, she had always seen Mark as her own brother.
They didn't watch the rest of the movie too busy to talk and bring back old prank they had done with Becky or...on Becky. Around 1 am, Becky and Aj woke up and walked up to their bedroom, both still half sleeping. The two others kept on talking for an hour and then decided it would be good to go to bed if they didn't want to be too tired the next day.
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*The Next Day*
Brian was walking to his car in the Golf-course parking when his cell phone rang. He searched for it in his pocket but couldn't find it he knew that if he wasn't answering it soon the vocal machine would answer for him.
"Hello?!?!?!" he answered once he found it in his golf bag
"Hey Bri, it's me!am I bothering you?!"
"No no your not!" He smiled
"Ok!I tought your turned your cell phone off since you weren't answering!" Leighanne said with a little laugh
"Sorry I couldn't find it!So how ya doing?!Are you shooting?"
"I'm doing great!No I am not shooting!free for the day!"she told him
"Great! Free day derserved!" he said as he sat in his car
"I guess yeah! So hey I wanted to know If you were free tonight?!" she hesited.
"humm yeah completly free!!actually I'm at the golf-course.. well in the parking actually in my car!" he replied with a laugh
"Oh I see!Well you must be hungry so what you say If I'd ask you to meet me at a restaurant?!"
"I'd say yes!Which one?!"
"Hummm Italian?!" she suggested
"Sounds great!Let me go take a quick shower and I pick you up at noon ok?!"
"No problems!"
"Alright see you then!"
"Later!" she said as she hung up
Brian picked Leighanne up in time and they went eat in a cute little Italian reastaurant dowtown.After they eat they decide to go walk in the little park where they use to go with Tyke when they were together! It was a beautiful,the sky was clear the sun shinning and the bird singing!The kind of day that everybody go out walking in the park ....
"So you're shooting tomorow?!"Brian asked Leighanne as they walked
"Tomorow night yeah... were shooting the club scene, when I meet my sister and bla bla bla" She explained giggling
"That's nice!" He smiled
"Brian?!!" a female voice asked from behind. He stopped, hoping it wouldn't be some teeny bopper fan.
"Yes?!?!" He turned around to face the girl
"Hey how you doing??I heard about Nick's accidents I'm sorry!!"She said
"Oh Alika... He's ok now!"
"That's good to hear!" she said not really thinking what she was saying
"yeah"
"I'm Alika!Your probably Brian's new girl?!?!"Alika said as she took Leighanne hand ans shooked it.
"I'm Leighanne!...." this one said a little confused.
"Nice to meet you! So well I'll go... and tell Nick Hi for me and... call me someday! We never finished what we started!" She grinned
"Yeah well I'll tell Nick hi from you..." he said as he took Leighanne by the hands and started walking a little faster Once she was out of sight Brian sighed of relief "I'm sorry bout that this Is Alika she was suposed to be a dancer for us but she's a real bitch... nothing happened betwen us I swear!"
"Brian it's ok!" Leighanne giggled
"Nothing happened we just rent movies and talked!"
"Brian.. it's ok!" She smiled "You have nothing to explain!"she rassured him he smiled back and they continued walking as they talked.
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*At the hospital*
Nick layed patiently on his bed, his eyes closed and hearphones on his head. His hands were doing the rythm of the song on the hospital bed. He had absolutely nothing to do and he was wondering if someone was coming to see him. His parents had come in the morning but it wasn't the same... he liked to have his friends around. They were changing his thoughts when they were there. He knew he was progressing with the physiotherapy but sometimes it was really hard and was coming back from the physio room depressed. But he never said it. Just to have Brian or Naomie around was making him feel better. Suddently, someone touched his arm softly. He opened his eyes and smiled.
"Hey!" he said getting off the hearphones. "How ya doing?"
"I'm doing great!" Naomie smiled. "What about you?" she asked kissing him on the cheeks.
"Not bad!" he replied. "So...what's up?"
"Hum...nothing new... Becky, Aj and Mark are here too... they'll be here in a minute, they wanted to eat something!"
"You came with them?"
"Yeah i've slept at Aj's with them..." she smiled.
"Was fun?"
"Yeah!"
"For how long have you known Becky...and Mark?" he asked after a little moment of silence.
"Hum... I met Becky when I was ... 16 I think." she answered. "We've been friends since then and I met Mark not long after...when I went to Becky's home during the summer. Why?"
"Just like that!" he smiled.
"It was so weird seeing him because I didn't see him since like... a year and a half!" she smiled.
"You two seem really close.." he said.
"We're good friends yeah... " she replied. Silence then came over the room. Nick had only one question in his head and he had no idea why it was bothering him. It wasn't his business anyway. So he didn't say anything.
"So..." Naomie said.
"So.."
"How is your leg doing? Any news?" she asked trying to make conversation.
"Hum not really.. it's doing okay.." he answered.
The silence came over the room again as the two looked at each other a little uncomfortably. Finally, Becky, Aj and Mark entered in the room.
"Yoooo people!" Aj shouted.
"Hey J! Hey Beck! Hey Mark!" Nick smiled.
"What's up dude?" AJ asked.
"Nothing.." he replied.
"Unfortunaly, we won't stay long... " Becky said.
"It's okay. It's great that you came!" Nick replied, smiling weakly.
"We'll have to leave you alone with Nam..." Mark grinned at Nick. Naomie turned around and gave a stop-it look. "You're a lucky guy.." he added with a laugh. Nick looked at them curiously.
"So Nick... any hot nurses around?" Aj asked.
"What the hell is this question??" Becky laughed staring at Aj.
"It's like any other question.." Aj defended.
"Yeah right!" she rolled her eyes, still giggling.
"So...can you answer?" Aj asked Nick.
"Well...I don't know... not really..." this one answered.
"This can't be true... there have to be at least one hot nurse... " Mark argued. "I know hospitals believe me..."
"Oh I feel so welcome into this conversation!" Becky sighed. "So Nam, what's going on with this guy you met the other night?" Becky asked seriously, as Naomie stared at her with a questionning look. Becky smile mischevously. "You know...that hot babe... at the club... right before you sing your song ... "
"Huh?" Naomie exclaimed.
"Come on... don't you remember? The guy with this butt....." Becky insisted. The three guys turned their attention to Naomie, waiting for an answer but she kept looking at her with a puzzle gaze.
"Yeah Nam...talk to us about the butt guy..." Mark giggled, understanding his sister's game.
"I have no idea what you guys are talking about... " Naomie chuckled.
"Yeah Nam!! You know... blond haired guy... tall.." Aj started
"Ok ok!!! I remember now!!!!" Naomie almost screamed getting what they were doing and not wanting them to continue describing Nick.
"So..what's up with him?" Becky asked a huge grin on her face, as did Mark and Aj.
"Nothing! You guys...stop it..." Naomie pleaded.
The three others bursted out laughing as Nick stared at them wondering what the hell was going.
"What is going on? Why are you laughing? Who's the guy?" he asked.
"Oh Nicky is missing something...should we tell him?" Becky teased.
"I think we should..." Aj giggled.
"Ok ok... stop it... " Mark replied seeing that Naomie was on the verge to tears. "We're just teasing her Nick...nothing is going on.." he explained. Naomie gave him a Thank-you-so-much look and sat on chair. She hated when Becky was doing things like this. She was always doing everything to make her feel shy. Maybe it was funny for her but Naomie didn't like it at all.
Aj,Becky and Mark had left the room leaving Naomie and Nick all alone. None of them was talking or looking at each other.Even tought Nick had million of questions that he wanted to ask Naomie... he stayed silent. He wanted to know who was that boy that she supposly met. He wanted to know if she had fall in love with somebody and why she was so nice to him since the accident... he didn't know why he had all those question running over and over again in his head...but he supposed it was curiosity.
"So..." he tried to break the silence "Whos that boy huh?!?!"
"Which boy?!"she asked knowing what he was talking about. She avoided eyes contact looking at the floor
"Well you tell me!the one who flirted with ya!" he asked giggling
".....Oh this one..."
"Yes this one!" he half laughed.
"Forget about it Nick... They were only playing... nobody flirted with me..." Naomie said still looking at the floor
"Aw Comon... don't tell me that when you go clubing the boys are not all over you asking you for a dance?!"
"I don't care about those guy!" she said
"Then who are you caring bout?!"Nick asked more serisouly
"well..." she started.......
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