Imagination (Christian Collins fanfiction)

Chapter 6

*Christian's POV*

Ever since I introduced Ashton to Nikki she's been acting weird. Is she jealous? No... She can't be. She doesn't like me, does she?

Do I like her? Yes- wait, no- maybe- I don't know! She's been my best friend for years, how can we like each other? Like this. No, stop it Chris. You're with Ashton.

But I don't want to be right now...

YES YOU DO. "Christiaan." Ashton said waving a hand in front of my face. "Oh, sorry. I was thinking."

"About?" Gosh what's with all the questions. "Stuff." I said. She pulled herself on to my lap. The only person I ever let do this was Nikki.

"I'm tired." I said and pushed her off of me, "What the heck Christian?!"

"I'm tired!"

"Whatever." She said, we laid as far away as we could because we were on the same bed.

To Princess🙈❤️:
Hey, are you ok?
N: yeah I'm fine . Thanks for checking
C: No problem. Love you
N: love you too

I put my phone down and fell asleep.

*Nikki's POV*

I was just sitting outside the hotel. The first show of the tour is tomorrow so I have a day to do something. But all I wanna do is watch movies with Christian.

"Nicole?" Sam said. Crapcrapcrapcrap. I looked up and smiled, "Are you okay?" He asked sitting next to me.

"Honestly? No." I sighed. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"There's a lot of things wrong." I chuckled.

"Yeah but something's bothering you." He slid closer.

I sighed, "Please promise me you won't tell Christian?" I asked and he nodded. I looked around making sure no one was around, then I told Sam everything.

About how a while ago I started having feelings for Chris and how I've been fighting them because we've always been best friends and it was weird.

He seemed to understand. "And yeah." I finished. He sat there for a minute thinking.

"I think you should tell him."

"What?"

"You should probably tell him." He looked so serious, but I laughed. I'm not going to tell my best friend, who has a girlfriend and has thousands of girls chasing after him, that I like him.

"What's so funny?"

"You think that I should tell him that I like him?"

"Yeah."

"No."

"Why?"

"Because."

Such a deep conversation. "Well thank you Sam, for listening and being here when I needed to talk."

"Anytime." He said and I hugged him. "Let's go back inside. It's getting dark and cold." He said and rubbed his arms.

"Shall we?" He said and held out his hand. I took it and intertwined our fingers. Yeah there was a small spark, but it was nothing like when Chris and I held hands.

We walked in and Christian was sitting in the lobby on his phone. He looked up and smiled, but when he saw same and I holding hands he stopped but quickly smiled again.

He walked towards us but had hurt in his eyes? Why? He has a girlfriend. It's not like I'm hurting him like he's hurting me... Am I?

"Are you guys..."

"NO NO NO!" Sam and I yelled and dropped our hands.

"We just met today!" I laughed. Christian smiled. "By the way, has anyone seen Ashton?" Christian asked looking around.

"Um, no." I said and ran off to the room. "Nikki!" Christian yelled and ran after me. The stupid elevator wouldn't open in time.

It opened and I ran inside. The doors almost closed, but Christian slipped through. He hit the stop button on the elevator.

"Nicole, what is wrong with you? You have been acting weird ever since you met Ashton...." He stopped because he was thinking.

I slid down to the floor with my head in my hands. Dang this is embarrassing. He sat down in front of me.

"You're hurt aren't you?" I just sat there not looking up. "Hey, look at me." He said and lifted my head.

"You know I love you, right?" He asked.

"Yeah I know, best friends. I love you too but-"

"No. I mean it. I actually do love you. More than anything and I never knew how to tell you," he took a deep breathe, "I thought it would be weird to like my best friend so I always fought it. Which is why I have a girlfriend that I have little feelings for." He admitted.

Wow. I never knew he felt like that. I thought it was weird that I liked him. "I love you too Christian, a lot. But you have a girlfriend." I said and he sighed.

"I know. I can't just break up with her out of nowhere though." He said. We stood up and he put his arm around my shoulders.

He started the elevator again and kissed the side of my head. "Glad we got that out of the way." He laughed and I agreed.

"So what about Ashton?"

"I don't know, I can't just be like, "I don't like you anymore I love my best friend." You know?" He said and I nodded.

"I don't have a reason."

"She hates me."

"Yeah but she's jealous." I understand that.

The elevator doors dinged open and we walked out and in to the room. Ashton still wasn't here. "I may not love her, but I care. I'm calling her." He said and pulled out his phone.

I flopped down on the bed and smiled to myself. Maybe we met when we were younger for a reason. "Nikki I can't get a hold of her." Okay now I'm getting a little worried.

"Do you want to go look-" then she walked in. "Hey guys!" She said. Relief came over Christian's face and he pulled her in to a hug.

"Why did you answer your phone?" He asked with his hands on her shoulders. "I was busy..." She trailed off with a smirk.

She better not have... She hurts my best friend I hurt her worse. "I'm tired, I'm going to shower and then go to bed." She said and kissed Christian on the cheek.

She walked to the bathroom and locked the door. "Busy my butt." I mumbled and Christian smirked and raised an eyebrow. "No." I said and he laughed.

I scrolled through twitter on my phone and I guess the fans found out that Christian was dating Ashton.

Some of them were happy and excited, others weren't, and some wanted me and Christian together... Not them.

Same guys, same.

I tweeted a couple fans and followed a couple more. Ashton came out of the bathroom in a sports bra and super short shorts. And I'm the attention seeker.

Christian's eyes widened and he smirked a little. I know he has feelings for her, but he seems to care more than he said.

She sat next to him and he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer. Calm down. They are dating, not you. You should be happy for him you idiot.

I couldn't watch anymore so I turned over and laid down. I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep and I eventually did.