This Is Forever

Chapter 31

Rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals, and more rehearsals.

We finally leave for tour tomorrow and I can't even sleep. I'm so excited to get back on the road and meet new people!

Chris helps me pack a month and a half worth of clothes for us.

"Do we need the camera stuff?" He asks from across the room.

"No I don't think so..."

"Okay," he comes and sits down next to me on the floor while I fold and put things in the suitcase.

I can fit all of our stuff in a suitcase and Chris has no idea how I do it. He watches me trying to figure out how I fold it.

"I'm confused." He falls back on to the floor and I laugh, "Good thing you ended up with me, otherwise you wouldn't know how to pack." I giggle.

"And I wouldn't be as happy," he sits up and kisses my cheek. I smile continue folding everything.

Once I finish that, I clean up around the house so it's nice when we come back. As I'm washing dishes, Chris wraps his arms around my waist and rests his chin on my shoulder.

"I'm so blessed to have you... When we were younger, I would've never thought I'd be with you for the rest of my life."

I smile, "Chris, even if it wasn't us, I would've always been your best friend."

He shakes his head, "I couldn't have loved anyone else the way I love you."

I smile hard and blush, but he can't see my face. He kisses the side of my head. I sigh, "Same with me... I loved you, I was so messed up when you were with Ashton," I laugh thinking about the time at the airport.

"Anyone you were around could see that, my love." He laughs and I laugh with him.

"I liked you when we were thirteen," he laughs.

"Did you now?"

"Yeah, when you danced with me on my birthday was the best day of my life; that is, until I called you mine forever and put a ring on it."

I finish the dishes and dry my hands, then place them on his waist and pull myself closer to him, "I know, your mom told me."

"When?!"

"After we were together!" I laugh.

He sighs with relief, "I thought you knew when we were younger."

I shake my head, "I didn't think you could love me..."

His eyes fill with confusion, "Nikki, why would you think that?"

I shrug, "I thought I was unloveable and you were so amazing and the sweetest thing and my best friend; I didn't think-"

He lifts my chin and kisses my softly but passionately, "I did, and always will love you..."

I lay my head on his chest and he rubs my back.

"It's getting late, we should get some rest because we get on the road tomorrow."

I smile, "I'm still anxious like I was for the first tour."

"Don't be, I'm right here." He takes my hands in his.

He still gives me butterflies...
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"Wake up, beautiful, we gotta get out of here," Chris says while rubbing my back.

I sit up and slide out of bed, then do my morning routing and pack some last minute stuff.

W drop Rocky off with Kizzy, then head to the airport to fly out to where the bus is in Minneapolis.

I, of course, sleep the whole flight and Chris wakes me up.

"Ready?" He asks.

I nod and get butterflies thinking about the next month and a half. Chris takes my hands and leads us off the plane and to baggage claim.

Sam, Ashton, and Crawford had the same flight as us. Fun right? We walk outside as a group and in to the tour bus where we're greeted by the manager and shown out bunks.

Chris wraps his arms around my shoulders from behind and I lean my head back in to him.

"You ready for this?" I can hear him smiling. He kisses the side of my head.

"So ready," I turn and kiss his jawline.

"Baby, don't do that here, we can't do anything here," he laughs.

I smile and kiss his neck just to tease him.

"Nikki, stop." He smiles.

"Yeah Nikki, stop," Crawford laughs. Chris and I laugh with him and walk in to the living room area of the bus.

Sam and Ashton are making out on the couch and I roll my eyes. They're worse than Chris and I...

And that's saying something...

This is going to be great....
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A/N
Just a filler until I get ideas (please give me some!!) and because school started and I can't leave y'all hanging but ILY I HOPE Y'ALL ARE DOING WELL!