We could hear the music blaring from Nick's room down the hall, only a star could get away with something like that I thought. I knock on the door and one of the dancers, Sammy, answers the door,
"Hey Quinn."
"Hi." We hug briefly and he steps aside as we enter the room. There was about ten people in the room, none of which were the other Backstreet Boys. Sammy, Andre, Eric, Shannon, Lisa and Kelly, all dancers I clicked with the most and the other four were people I didn't know. I guess they were apart of the tour crew,
"Hey Winnie." Nick, with a beer in hand walks over and wraps his arms around me,
"Hey baby." I smile, I might have thought being called baby was special if I hadn't heard him call every girl he ever comes into contact with baby or sweetie,
"Hey, what's up?" He shakes his head,
"Nothing." I see him looking at Christina and a tiny pang of jealousy hits me. I look over at Christina whose eyes shifted from Nick to the floor as she smiled shyly,
"Nick, you remember Christina, we hung out in Charlotte." He nods and smiles,
"OK, yeah, I think so." He looks over at the guys,
"And this is Elliott and David." Nick smiles and nods his head,
"OK, Elliott, she's talked about you alot." He shakes David's hand and looks back at me,
"What happened to keeping in touch?" His eyes grew wide and I smile,
"It's ok. I know you're busy."
The little party was going well, the drinks were going down smooth for everyone, including my "punk ass wine coolers" as Andre called them. The room eventually clears out and the only ones left in Nick's room are Eric, Lisa, my friends and me. We were watching a movie when I looked over and saw Christina was asleep,
"I better get her to bed. She's going to feel it in the morning." I shake her but all I get is moans and groans as she fight me,
"Here, I'll help you." I smile at Elliott and we get Chris to her feet,
"We'll be back guys." Chris has us laughing until tears come down our faces telling us how she is going to marry Howie and have his kids. Elliott helps me get her to her bed,
"Need anymore help?" I shake my head,
"I got it from here." He nods and walks off, once he closes the door I pull Chris' shoes and jeans off and pull the blanket down,
"I love you Quinn." I smile and roll my eyes,
"Yeah, yeah. I love you too babe." By the time I got back to Nick's room it was just him, David and Elliott,
"Where did everyone go?" Elliott sat his drink down,
"They called it a night." I sat next to Nick and smiled,
"So, are you going to be ok for the show tomorrow night?" He smiled at me, his eyes were glazed over and he was definitely feeling no pain,
"Oh yeah, I'll be fine."
At some point I fell asleep and when I roll over I'm in bed face to face with Nick. I look around but the room is dark. For the first time I feel comfortable around Nick and he isn't so much Nick Carter anymore, I lay my head on his chest and wrapped my arm around his neck. I can hear him moan and I smile as he squeezes me in his arms and sighs.
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