Drive | Joult

Chapter 33

(Nick)

I'm about to get in the shower, when I hear a knock at the door. I open the door and find Jennifer standing there, in fuzzy pajama pants and a t-shirt. "Decide you could leave Blaine a little longer?" I ask. She seems distracted by something, then I remember I'm in my boxers. "You should come in." I say, letting her walk in. I quickly shut and lock the door. "My parents are here. They said Blaine called them last night because he was worried about me." She sits down on the bed. "So, they wanted me to come back here and work things out with you." She says, making quotation marks around the work things out part. "Okay...that was nice of them." I say, unsure of what else to say. I study her face for a second, she's still wearing makeup from earlier. "Why are you in your underwear? Not that I'm not enjoying the view but.." She asks, reminding me what I was doing. "I was about to get in the shower." I say. I take another look at her. "Wanna come with?" I ask, chewing on my lower lip as I wait for an answer. "Yeah." She gets up and we walk into the bathroom.

No one bothers to close the door, since we're the only ones here. I start the shower and we get undressed. She stands in front of me washing herself under the warm water. She's beautiful. I love her. I sigh and she turns around. "What?" She asks, crossing her arms over her chest. "I just love you." She turns back around, hiding her face from me. "I don't know how you can say that." I grab her shoulder and she turns her face towards me. Her cheeks are turning a light pink color and I can see that she's crying. "Jen, are you okay? I haven't seen you like this since you were pregnant." I try to wipe her tears off, but she pushes my hand away. "I'm sorry. I just need to go." She gets out, grabs a towel and runs out of the bathroom. I turn off the shower, get out and get dressed in my boxers, my hair still dripping. I find her sitting on the edge of the bed still wrapped in a towel.

I kneel down in front of her so she has no choice but to look at me. "Jennifer, can you please explain to me what's wrong?" Seeing her crying like this makes me want to cry. "I feel so guilty. I just can't stay here with you and shower with you and then go home alone. I don't know what I can do to make it better, Nick." I take her hand and hold it. "You need to stop feeling so guilty for this. I love you and I'm never gonna leave you again. I know you love me too, you made a mistake. It's okay. Why don't you just stay here tonight? I'll get you ice cream and gummy bears. Then tomorrow we can both go home." She stops crying and wipes her face off.

I open the door for room service and I get our ice cream and gummy bears. I'm already dressed in my sweatpants and Jen is in the process of putting on a t-shirt and shorts. I sit down on the bed and she sits down next to me. "Here, you should probably eat the ice cream first." I hand her her ice cream and set the gummy bears down next to her, then I pick up her legs and lay them across my lap. We eat our ice cream in silence and I'm the first one to finish. I look over at Jen, and see that she's not even close to finishing. "What? I'm a slow eater okay?" She says, making me laugh. "You're a slow eater? Since when?" I trail my fingers down her leg. "Since now." Her leg twitches when I move my fingers. "Does that tickle?" I ask, doing it again. "Can you stop I'm trying to eat!" She blushes and continues eating her ice cream. "You didn't answer my question." I say, doing it again. "No, just stop." She sets her empty ice cream bowl down and I take it and put it with mine. "Why?" I ask, taking a handful of gummy bears and putting one in my mouth. "Because I said so." She crosses her arms and looks past me at the wall. "Don't pretend like you didn't miss this." I slide my hand up her leg and I use the other one to put a gummy bear in her mouth. She allows it and relaxes her arms. Her teeth graze my finger and I brush my thumb over her lower lip. "See-" I move my hand to her inner thigh and feel the heat radiating off her body. "I know I have nothing to worry about. You love me and you want me and Chris isn't going to change that or you'd be with him right now." Her lips part slightly and I climb over her and kiss her. Her mouth tastes like ice cream and gummy bears. Sweet as sugar. I push my body up against hers kissing her again.

A/N: HolY FucK what did I even just do