*Nick’s View*
“Oh no… That was not the right thing to say.” I thought to myself as she looked up at me.
“You knew?” She wondered. I cleared my throat and prepared to be hated.
“Yes, I knew, but…”
“You knew and you didn’t tell me?”
“Yeah, but you don’t understand!” I really wished she would listen to me, but she just couldn’t.
“AJ, can I stay in your room tonight?” She asked. I hated the feeling that I had betrayed her. I deserved this. I can’t believe I didn’t see it coming. Of course she would be mad that I already knew about this.
“Of course.” AJ said soothingly as he rubbed her back. “Why don’t we go out and do something to get away from all this for a little bit?”
“That sounds like a good idea.” She answered. He helped her up slowly and I just stood there speechless. I never would have guessed that she would turn to AJ in a time like this. I mean, she has always trusted Howie with stuff, but this was like an impulse thing or something. I just couldn’t figure it out.
*Mary’s View*
“AJ, thank you for getting me away from all of that.” I said wiping my swollen eyes. “I have never cried so much over a guy.” I looked out the window of his Ford Expedition.
“Well, Brian is the kind of guy that gets under your skin like that.”
“Yeah. Can we talk about something else though?”
“Like what?” He raised his eyebrows, which caused his hat to rise also. It made me smile to think of the joke that me and Rachel had about that. “Why are you smiling?”
“I was just thinking about my sister.”
“Rachel? What about her?” You see, Rachel and AJ had been in a relationship before, but AJ was way too horny for it to work. That was a while ago and he wasn’t like that anymore. As far as I knew neither one of them had ever considered getting back together.
“I was just thinking about some random stuff. Sorry I brought her up.”
“No. That’s okay.” He went on. “I find myself thinking about her once in a while.”
“Really?” I was surprised. He has had a lot of girlfriends since Rachel, but nothing more than 3 weeks.
“Yeah. I think about how things might be different if I had met her now instead of back when I was a hormone crazed demon.”
“You’re still hormone crazed.”
“That may be true, but I am not a demon.” He smiled. I had to smile too. I began to think of how cute they used to be together when AJ wasn’t making a fool of himself. They would be cute together now. “I miss her.” He sighed.
“I do too.” I hadn’t seen her in the longest and I was getting kind of sad and nostalgic now.
“Sooo… you were pretty mad at Nick back there.” AJ tried to change the subject. We were both pretty sad after talking about Rachel. Almost any subject would have been welcome, but not this one.
“Yeah. He knew about this and he should have told me.”
“Maybe he thought Brian should have told you.” AJ tried to explain. “I mean, if he told you instead of Brian how would you feel?” He paused. “You would be even more angry.” He predicted. He was right too.
“Okay. I guess so. Could you take me back to the hotel so I can apologize to him?”
“Your wish is my command.” He tipped his hat to me and proceeded to turn the car around. I thought about how good of a friend AJ really was and how after Rachel broke up with him I never gave him a chance. That was wrong of me. He really was a nice gentleman now. I bet Nick was really surprised that I went to him. I don’t know why I did, but something was telling me it was the right thing to do.