Secrets

Battle Scars

I reluctantly left him in the shower, throwing on my dress and sandals and doing a rather hasty walk of shame down to the lobby to hail a taxi back to my hotel. I needed to change into a more appropriate outfit for the day we had planned with the others. Besides, I needed a little time to gather my thoughts.

I mean, I had just had a night, and morning, of passion with Nico Hulkenberg. The guy I had fallen head over heels for, and now I knew he had too. We'd not officially gotten back together, not that we had broken up, or even been officially together in the first place. God my head was confused. It sounded so messed up when I put it like that. Did we even know what we were? I mean we had fun last night, but I knew it meant more to him. And to me obviously. I guess we still needed to talk about stuff. Didn't we? I felt we kinda did. But right now I was just going to bask in the glow of what was last night. And this morning. And the fact that I couldn't exactly walk properly...

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Soon enough, I was dressed and ready to head back to Nico's hotel, to join him, his friends and Laura and Paul for breakfast and the rest of the day. We'd decided to hang out by their pool all day, soaking up the red hot sun, and enjoy a few final days in Abu Dhabi. So I'd decided to wear my short (but tasteful) peach beach dress, with my favourite matching barely there bikini underneath. I mean, Nico was going to be strutting around in nothing but board shorts, so I could do a little tempting of my own...

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I floated through their hotel lobby. Well, more like walked like John Wayne, but who's judging... And towards the restaurant when I heard a ruckus behind me. Turning around I was greeted with the sight of Jacob, Jasper, Kristoff, Stephan and Nico laughing and joking, heading in my direction. "ah miss Victoria!" Kristoff greeted me with a beaming smile. "morning guys" I couldn't help but grin when I saw them all. They always appeared to have bags of fun. "we were just asking Nico here if he had a peaceful night alone last night" he winked playfully at me. "yes, apparently security was called to a nearby room because of the noise coming from his room." Jasper added. I laughed at their teasing and shook my head, "I wouldn't know, I had a quiet one back at my hotel" I smiled angelically at them, only slightly looking at a red faced Nico. I giggled to myself as I walked into the restaurant, side by side with Jasper, who seemed to have had quite a night of his own, or so he told us at the breakfast table. I wondered if at any point he realised there were two ladies present...

All the while, Nico kept stealing glances at me from further down the table. Both myself and Laura noting how incredibly obvious it was.

"he's like a love sick puppy this morning" she giggled as we headed up to grab some juice. I laughed, not being able to hide my blushes. "whats happened?" she asked, sitting her hand on her hip as she waited for my answer. "nothing" I answered, hoping for my best innocent expression. She sighed at me, knowing exactly when I was lying. "okay okay..." I sighed in defeat, scooping up some yoghurt, trying my best to be healthy. "maybe I stayed in his room last night..." I confessed, earning a gasp from Laura. "you slept together didn't you" she whispered, trying, badly, to cover her excitement. "only a few times..." she gasped again, "and then this morning..." I blushed, but grinned wildly. I knew she wanted to shriek at me, but thankfully she just squeaked at me and gave me a high five. It felt good to talk about it to someone, especially one of my best friends. I just hoped she didn't give the game away too soon. I felt happy keeping it for ourselves just for the moment, we'd really only just got talking properly again and I wanted some peace before his friends found out. Not that it would take long before they put two and two together. Especially with the looks Nico was giving me. That man could start a fire in my underwear.

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Soon enough, we were all at the poolside. It was blistering hot, one of the hottest days we'd had here so far. We'd all picked out a lounger, Paul was furthest from the bar, beside Laura, then me, Nico, Jasper, Stephan, Kristoff and then Jacob.

The boys wasted no time in getting some drinks from the bar, leaving myself and Laura to get down to our bikinis and get sunbathing.

NICO'S POV

I watched her layed there in that tiny swimsuit. Flashbacks of last night hitting me. The feel of her skin, her curves, the smell of her body. I could feel myself getting aroused all over again. Man did I want her. I couldn't get enough of her. She was exquisite in my mind. And she was mine.

"put your tongue away Nico man!" Kristoff laughed loudly, distracting me. I looked round to them and saw them all grinning at me. I laughed along with them, used to their teasing, knowing they were going to drive me crazy if I kept denying anything was back on between us. I wanted to tell the world.

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VICTORIA'S POV

"like Fuck you were alone last night man!!" laughter roared from somewhere close by. I opened my eyes, peering over to my right, all the guys were hanging out on the poolside, Nico just joining them, after throwing his t-shirt onto his lounger beside me. "oh shit" I moaned, catching Laura's attention. "what?"
"it appears Nico's given the game away... " I said, trying to sink into the lounger, praying to suddenly become invisible.

"look at those Fucking scratch marks on you!" Kristoff bellowed, as the rest of the guys looked too. "you sure had some fun last night man" he laughed, Nico seeming to try and keep quiet but the grin he was giving them totally gave me up. "it was your lady wasn't it" Jacob grinned, "oh noooo" I cringed, cursing me and my long beautiful nails. Laura giggled beside me. "help me out, what do I do?!" I whispered at her, trying to pretend to be asleep. "own it" she rewind with a grin. "Nico seems more than proud to be wearing those battle scars..." she giggled, nodding over to the lads. I turned my head, all the guys were looking over at us, Nico included. What made it worse was I needed the bathroom.

"Fuck it" I sighed, swallowing down my nerves. I sat up, pretending I hadn't noticed them looking at me. I slipped on my flip flops and got up. I had to go through the guys to reach the bathroom, God Damn it. I kept my sunglasses firmly on my face and headed on over.

"can you help us out here?!" Jasper's voice rang into my ears. I looked over at them, "what's that?" I asked, stopping in front of them. "guys come on" Nico muttered. I pushed my sunglasses onto my head and looked between them all. "Nico's got some freaky scratches on himself. You know anything about them?" Jasper asked, grinning at me. I shrugged, "ya got me" I answered, looking to Nico's chest, they were some quite hefty marks I'd left there. "I like to mark what's mine" I smirked, looking up to Nico's face, then running my hand up his chest a little as I then moved passed them all and to the bathroom, leaving them all a little speechless.