| � Are you sleeping with him?� Nick asked. � Am I way off being here?� � Nick, why would you ask that?� She said. � Dustin and I have a business relationship, that�s it-� � I was gonna ask you to marry me,� He blurted. � This time,� � What?� She said sitting up and turning on the light again. � I wanted to marry you, Heather-� � Wanted?� � I-I want to marry you� but now I�m not sure,� � You�re not sure you want to marry me?� � I�m not sure I should ask. That was the reason for my visit, and I would have asked the first night I was here, but you were sick, and all you�ve done since I�ve been here is spend time with Dustin or out rehearsing and we�ve hardly spend time together except when you were vomiting in the toilet or passed out from working too hard. Am I completely crazy in thinking that you would say yes if I asked?� � Why bring this up now? Why ask after you think I�m sleeping with him? You don't trust me-� � Because I want to know if I�m wasting my time� and yours,� � So are you asking me or are we just discussing this? Because I don�t really have an answer. I thought we were going to bed and then you bring this up-� � Forget it,� He said throwing the covers off and standing up. � Forget I said anything. This was obviously a bad idea.� He grabbed his pillow and left the room slamming the door behind him. Heather quickly responded by getting out of bed herself and following Nick out in the sitting room, where Nick was throwing his pillow onto the couch. � We�re not finished here Nick, you can�t just walk away-� � I have nothing else to say to you, and if I did right now wouldn�t be the right time,� He said quietly. � It�s plain to see you don�t love me like I love you and I�m just dealing with this the best way I know how� the best logical way I know how,� He said clenching his fists. � Logical? You think accusing me of sleeping with Dustin, telling me you want to marry me then storming out to sleep on the couch is logical? Nick, there�s nothing logical about any of this-� � I love you, and I know you know that, but the longer you�re away from me the more I worry that you�ve found someone else-� � So we have to go through this every time I see you now? First Brian now Dustin? You want me to be honest Nick? I�ve fucked Dustin. More than once. On the bed, on the floor�� � Shut up,� �� On the tour bus, we even did it in the elevator� � � Shut up!� HE yelled. � Stop it!� � And Dustin gives the best massages, his hands are magical. He touches me and I turn to a puddle of pure passion-� � Heather, please,� Nick said weakly, sitting down on the couch, burying his face in his hands. Heather walked over to him and knelt in front of him gently moving his hands from his face and even in the darkness she could see the glistening tears down his cheeks. She wiped them away and held his hands. � But I don�t love him; I love you. And I�m so tired of trying to make you see that. I�m sorry if I haven�t been around enough for you to feel loved, but I do love you and I don�t want this to continue. I want you to trust me, Nick,� � No body believes me,� He said. � What?� � Nobody believes me back home when I say I know you and I�m dating you� except Kevin and Alex,� � So you want to prove them wrong by proposing-� � No. I want to propose because I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I�ve wanted to propose from the minute I met you, but I thought that was jumping the gun a bit,� � Well would it make you feel better if I said yes just to ease your worries about me cheating?� � No. I want you to say yes because you want to, and only when the time is right-� � Yes,� � W-what?� � Yes, Nick I�ll marry you,� She said. � I love you, and I want the whole world to know it,� Chapter Twelve |