Nikki Shay & Co.

Chapter 18 Part 2

When I woke up, I instantly remembered that Ben was sleeping on the couch in the living room. I also remembered that Nick had done the laundry, so my clothes were in his room. I didn't want to wake anyone up, so I opened my dresser to find some clothes. Literally, the only thing that was inside was a pair of underwear and a bra. You see, I was being a lazy girl and wasn't washing my clothes, I was unintentionally seeing how long I could live without washing my clothes. It'd been about three weeks.

I decided to take a shower and then sneak up to Nick's room. When I got upstairs, Fluffy was curled up on Nick's chest. She rose her head and glared at me. I promise that the dog had some serious attitude problems. She jumped from Nick onto the floor and went downstairs.

Want to know what Nick decided to do? He decided to sleep on the clothes that he'd just washed. I could tell that he must've started folding the clothes and fell asleep. I hoped that when I got some of my clothes from under him, Nick wouldn't wake up and see me in a bra and panties. However, Nick did wake up. He did think that I was trying to prank him.

"I'm going to kill you Nikki Shay!" Nick yelled, when he opened his eyes. I didn't think that he would kill me, but maybe put me in the hospital from the anger in his eyes. Nick wasn't a 'someone wake me up' morning person, he was a 'I wake everyone up' morning person. So, .24 seconds after I saw Nick's eyes, I ran down the stairs and Nick was right behind me.

Now when I say Fluffy is evil, I think she's becoming a demon dog because I think she purposely laid on the stairs. I slipped on her long fur and almost fell on my face. Almost. I looked back and saw that she moved over so Nick wouldn't slip on her.

When I got down the stairs, Ben had just woken up and looked scared. I didn't care because I just leapt over the couch he was laying on. Any hurdler would have been impressed by my leap. When I landed, I unlocked the front door and ran outside.

"Ha! Now I'm going to lock you out of the house!" Nick yelled at me. I was stupid. Instead of running to my room, I ran outside. There was snow outside. It was freezing outside. I was half naked. And I was locked outside.

Now, here's where my smarticles kicked in. After a minute of thinking about how stupid I was, I realized that Ashley lived next door. I walked up to her door and knocked. Since I was half naked and was scared that Ashley's dad might open the door, I stood to the side. Fred (yes, I call Ashley's dad Fred) did open the door.

"Don't look!" I yelled quickly. It took a moment for him to realize that it was me and I was too scared that he would see me if I said anything else.

"Are you not presentable, Nikki?" Fred asked.

"I'm not presentable. Can you have Ashley come and bring a robe?" I asked. Fred called Ashley down and when she saw me, she quickly covered me up.

"What happened?" Ashley asked when we got to her room.

"I ran out of the house when Nick decided to chase me and then he locked me out," I answered. "I think that he thought that I was trying to prank him when I was actually just trying to get my laundry out of his room."

"I'm thinking that you should take a shower and everything, I'll find you some clothes that should fit you. I'll make breakfast too." Ashley said. Ashley was slightly smaller than me in every way. She also liked to eat eggs in the morning.

When I got out of the shower, a hoodie, pair of jeans and pair of socks were waiting for me. Either Ashley accidentally got a pair of skinny jeans that were a size too big or had a a pair of my pants. Thankfully socks fit to most feet sizes.

Afterwards, I went to the main level of the Blake house. Fred was in his office and Ashley was in the kitchen. The only person missing was Alice, Ashley's mom.

"Hey Fred, where's Alice?" I asked as I peeked into his office.

"She's out," Fred said in a frustrated tone. I was smart enough not to ask another question about Alice.

"Ashley, where's your mom?" I asked in a low voice when I got to the kitchen.

"She's back in the UK," Ashley answered. "They're getting a divorce."

"What about you? What's going to happen to you?"

"My dad has full custody. I told them that I wanted to stay with him. To be honest, even though I really like my mom, I like my dad more. Plus, I didn't want to be uprooted and have to start all over."

"Your dad doesn't seem to be taking it well.

"You see, my mom gave him the divorce papers. I remember he said that they were having problems, but he thought that they could fix them through counseling. It kind of surprised him when she said she didn't want counseling and gave him the papers. My mom says that she wants to start over. She wants to be with her family and she knows that it would ruin my dad if he had to leave the U.S. My dad thinks that my mom doesn't care, but she does."

And we had eggs for breakfast.

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"So, Nikki, what's up?" Brett asked when I walked up to him after school. It'd been two weeks since we first talked on the phone. After talking everything over about Ben, Brett and I talked a lot.

"I'm going over to Brianna's soon, she and Gene want to talk everyone. And she said to tell you to come too."

"Okay." an awkward silence came. After a minute, Brett spoke up. "So, Nikki, we've been talking for awhile. I think I liked you when we first met and I'm sure I like you now." Brett unzipped a pocket of his backpack. He pulled out Midnight Memories. I hadn't gotten it for Christmas and I hadn't gotten around to buying it either. "So, will you be my girlfriend." I shrieked a little. To be honest, I still was over Ben and was ready to move on to better things. I was into Brett as well.

"Sure dude." My voice hiked up a little. Brett was my first official boyfriend.

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"You all should know that Gene and I are taking Performing Arts Production. After a small project, our teacher, Mr. Wrick announced that for this semester we will have three main projects. We have to make a short play, a concert -so sing and instrumentals- and a dance performance. All of them will be throughout the school year and used to raise money for the school. We have you all here because you are some of the people that we would like to have in some of our productions." Brianna informed us. "We haven't decided on everyone to be in the productions and we hope that you all want to be in this. If any of you do not want to help, leave now." No one left. I felt that it was because she had her scissors on a table a foot away from her.

"For the concert, we want Ben, Sam 2, and Alex. Of course we will add more people to this group and anyone who can sing well, feel free to tell us. For the play, we want everyone. There are three parts for the dance. We want everyone in the group dance, Ben and Nikki will be in the duet and Lasharee for the single." Gene said.

"We are coming up with the script for the play which will be the first event. This will be at the end of March. The next meeting will be Monday at six at Gene's house. Meeting adjourned."

A/N: This chapter is pretty short and it doesn't put a lot of Nikki's thoughts into the events. I was trying to get through the chapter and I couldn't really figure out how to put all of her thoughts into it. I'm really sorry. I might make a part three, which would probably be a little longer. So, I'm not sure if the next chapter will be Chapter 18 part 3 or chapter 19. Maybe Chapter 19. Whatever. Sorry that this chapter kid of sucks, but it goes into this story's plot -If I didn't mention this before, Chapter 13 began the real plot. It's 1 am and I'm loopy so this probably sounds like a bunch of jumbled up stuff. My brain is tired, my body is tired, but I don't feel sleepy and I don't know what to do. Whatever. Have a good day!