New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Niki Addams hugged the pillow a little tighter as she took a deep breathe. A sleepy smile appeared on her face when the smell of her boyfriend's cologne came from his pillow. She sighted as reality hit her, and hit her hard. He was on tour right now, somewhere in the country, probably still sleeping if he was lucky. Deep inside, she wished he could be here with her but she completely understood that it was something he loved to do.
She sighted yet again knowing that she needed to get out of bed if she wanted to be on time for her job. She fluttered open her eyes and was a few inches away from a pair of blue orbs that made her jump out of bed screaming for dear life. She soon realized who it was and tried to calm down.
"Never do this to me again! Is that understood?" she asked him before jumping back in bed and kissing him quickly.
"Jeeze, I missed you a lot too baby!" replied Justin sarcastically hugging her tightly savoring the moment.
After a few moments, Niki opened her eyes and groaned when she saw that she had half an hour to get ready. She buried her head into Justin's chest before she looked up at him smiling at him sadly before getting out of bed and walking into the bathroom that was connected to their room.
The room itself was decorated simply. The walls were painted in a deep shade of blue with a white ceiling. The bed was in the middle of the opposite wall to the huge window with a beautiful view into their garden. Hung nicely above the bed was a picture frame of the couple made professionaly on Niki's prom night with Justin as her date. On each side of the bed was two nightstands both holding a small lamp and a picture frame. On Niki's side, it was a picture of them when they first met and on Justin's side, it was of them standing, each holding a flag of France and in the background was the Eiffel Tower.
On Justin's side of the room, there was a set of drawers that contained Niki's and Justin's clothes. On top of the dresser was a silver plate from Italy which held a few perfume bottles that were brought in Europe. On Niki's side was a walk in closet and on the top shelf were more picture frames of them when Niki had the chance to visit Justin while he toured.
The door opened and steam came into the room followed by Niki who was wrapped in a fluffy white towel. She walked into the closet and grabbed her uniform that she needed and walked back out and placed it on the bed as Justin watched her every move. She walked around the bed and went to the dresser where she took her underwear. She hear Justin sight and looked at him with her eyebrow lifted.
"What's wrong?" Niki asked after she felt his eyes on her for more then a minute.
"Do you have to go?" Justin whined as he sat up in the bed watching Niki walk to her side of the bed.
"You know I have to and stop whining like Tom," she said as she dressed up quickly knowing that if she went slowly, Justin's eyes would literally eat her up.
Niki folded her towel and brought it back into the bathroom and on her way out, she grabbed her purse that was on the chair between the bathroom and the walk in closet. She walked to the bed, gave a quick goodbye kiss to Justin and left the room rapidly. Justin soon heard the front door close and he let himself fall back in bed and buried his face in Niki's pillow.
The elevator finally came and Laura walked in and smiled as her co-workers walked in. A few of them talked to each other silently as the rest drank their coffee and read the morning paper. Soon, the elevator stopped at their level and they all walked their separate ways to their office or desk. Laura took a sip of her coffee as she walked to her secretary's desk who immediately placed her mug down and grabbed the mail and gave it to her.
"Is there any messages for me?" she asked placing her mug on the desk of her secretary and looked quickly through the letters.
"There was a package for you that arrived a few moments before you came and I placed it in your office for you." replied the younger lady trying her best to hide her smile.
Laura grabbed her coffee and walked into her office closing the door with her right feet. She looked up and frowned when she saw her chair turned toward the window and saw on both side an elbow resting. She slowly walked toward the mysterious person when suddenly it spun around making Laura to jump back a little. Her jaw dropped when she saw who it was as her mail fell one by one from her hand.
"Good morning sunshine." Lance greeted, getting up and walking to her.
He took her mug from her and placed it on her desk and turned back to her. Laura was shocked to see him and didn't know what to say. Lance chuckled and kissed the tip of her noise.
"Did a cat steal you tongue baby?" he asked looking at her as he caressed her cheek.
"Lance? What, what are you doing here?" she asked not knowing if she was awake or still dreaming.
Lance gasped and took a step back from her shocked written all over his face.
"If you want me to leave...." he started to say.
"No! Don't! Please don't go!" Laura said grabbing his arm.
Lance smiled and pulled her toward him and hugged her and breathed deeply, taking in her scent.
"Are you really here or am I dreaming?" Laura asked looking into his green eyes.
"I'm really here baby but I have to go if you want to make money. Be ready at noon because I'm taking you somewhere. Alright?" he asked kissing the tip of her nose.
"Okay. I love you Lance." she replied smiling up at him.
"I love you too." he replied kissing her forehead and left her office.
Laura kneeled down and picked up her mail and walked around her desk and sat down. Lance's cologne still lingered in the air and she smiled. She looked toward her computer and saw the program Word open. She clicked on the task bar and gasped when she saw that Lance had written something while he waited for her.
"Mister Fatone, we're glad to see you back in Florida!" she said shaking Joey's hand.
"I was wondering if I could bring her with me for today without mentioning it to my wife..." Joey asked watching the kids talk to each others searching for his daughter.
"Of course." she replied winking at him and walked back at the table where the rest of the kids were drawing.
"Daddy you're home for long?" Brianna asked looking at him straight in the eyes after she had ran into his arms.
"Well I hope I can stay here for a few weeks, what do you think if we go and surprise mommy?" Joey replied putting her down.
"Can we really go?" she asked jumping in front of him.
Joey smiled at her and she squealed. She ran to her small little locker and took out her little back pack and ran back to her father. She held his hand as they walked out of the building and toward their car.