�It�s going great,� MyKenna said. �Aaron is so happy to see me.�
�That�s great. Was he surprised?�
�Totally.�
�I�m happy for you.�
�Thank you. That means a lot.�
�I know.�
�So how�s it going in Los Angeles?�
�Alright I guess.�
�You don�t sound too sure about that. Everything ok?�
�I don�t know.� She sighed.
�What is it? Ain�t Nick happy to see you?�
�Oh yeah he�s ecstatic.�
�Then what is it?�
�It�s nothing.�
�Don�t lie to me. Every time you tell me it�s nothing I know it�s something, because you always have that same tone to it.�
�What tone?�
�That tone with that complicated sigh to it.�
�Whatever.�
�Don�t give me that. Just tell me what�s on your mind.� Dakota sighed. �We�re best friends remember.�
�I know that.�
�So spill the beans.� Dakota stayed quiet. �DJ, I�m not going to let ya go until you tell me what�s going on. Even if you hang up on me I�m just going to call ya back and keep calling ya back until ya tell me what�s going on.�
�Well I, uh�you�re just going to tell me I�m crazy and over-reacting.�
�DJ, is this about that dream you keep having?�
�Well, yeah, part of it.�
�You have nothing to worry about. Nick loves you and he�s not going to do anything to jeopardize your future together. You have to believe that for your sake if you want to stay with Nick.� Dakota didn�t say anything. �If you keep letting this dream of yours keep eating at you, it�s going to take over your life and ruin what you share with Nickolas. And I know that you don�t want that to happen, because I don�t want that to happen.�
�I just can�t get rid of it, Ken. No matter what I do to convince myself it�s never going to happen I keep having it. It�s like it�s trying to tell me something.�
�Nick�s not going to cheat on you with some Puerto Rican whore. If he cheats with you on anyone it�s going to be with me.� She laughed.
�You only wish.� They laughed.
�At least I got ya laughing.�
�Yeah.�
�I wouldn�t have an affair with Nick, because I know it would ruin our friendship.�
�You got that right. And I wouldn�t have an affair with Aaron either.�
�I�m glad to hear that.�
�I just don�t know what to do to get rid of this dream. Nick constantly tells me he loves me and I believe that and I constantly tell him I love him, but the dream doesn�t go away. I try everything to get rid of it.�
�Probably not everything.�
�What do you mean?�
�Marriage.�
�Are you serious?�
�Yes.�
�We never even talked about it.�
�So start. It�ll probably be the only way for this dream to go away. You love Nick so much that you�re thinking about the worse that can happen. If you start talking about marriage it�ll probably put a little closure on this.�
�You might have a point.�
�I do. Its Valentine�s tomorrow so why not talk about spending the rest of your life together. I�m sure Nick will be glad to.�
�I don�t know.�
�You�re going away for a few months next week so why not have something to come home to.�
�I always have something to come home to, because Nick is always waiting for me.�
�So make it something more to come home to. Make it a fianc�.� Dakota grinned on her end and looked at a picture of Nickolas and her. �I know you want to marry him and I know he wants to marry you. Any idiot can see that when you guys look at each other. Look at that picture from this past New Year�s of you too by Alex�s pool.�
�I am.�
�Look at it closely, because you can see how much you two are in love. Just that look between you two says it all. It says what is in your hearts without you having to say anything to anyone.�
�Yeah.�
�You can tell Nick loves you more than anything in the world and cheating on you is the farthest thing from his mind.�
�Maybe so, but it doesn�t stop the dream I keep having.�
�And if I said it once I said it a million times, you�re over-reacting about nothing.�
�I want to trust Nick and I do, but this dream makes me stop and think.�
�I don�t know what else to tell ya.�
�I shouldn�t even be bothering you with this.�
�What are friends for?�
�Right.�
�What else is bothering you?�
�Nick told the guys that we�re sleeping together.�
�What�s so bad about that?�
�Besides the fact that we agreed not to talk about it with anyone?�
�Ok, I guess that does present a problem.�
�Yeah.�
�How�d you found out he did?�
�Alex.�
�Oh.�
�He was asking us when we�re getting married and having kids and he mentioned that they already know we�re shagging. It totally pissed me off that Nick would say something.�
�What�d Nick say?�
�Nothing. All he said was �Like you didn�t tell MyKenna?��
�No, Aaron did.�
�That�s not the point. The point is that Nick went behind my back and shared our personal time together.�
�Right.�
�It just made me so angry that he would do that to me. I thought he was different from other guys, ya know. I thought he wasn�t one to kiss and tell, but I found out he is.�
�The guys probably figured it out on their own. You know how close they all are.�
�Yeah, but he could�ve denied it and shit, but he didn�t. He hurt me by telling them we�re having sex.�
�I understand. Did you talk to him about it?�
�Not yet. When I found out about it I thanked Nick for not saying anything and walked away.�
�Did he go after you?�
�Yeah, but I wouldn�t talk to him. I locked myself in the bathroom and then he had to leave. He had to go back and do his press and stuff.�
�Well you guys should talk about it when he gets back.�
�Yeah.� She sighed. �I just don�t understand why he would want to break that trust I have in him.�
�I�m sure he didn�t do it on purpose.�
�Maybe not, but he still did it and that hurt.�
�DJ, he loves you so forget it.�
�What if it was you and Aaron and you found out that he told his buddies after ya agreed not to say anything?�
�It�d piss me off, but I�d talk to him about it. I know he loves me and I trust him not to hurt me on purpose.�
�Right.�
�Just talk to Nick and hear him out about it.�
�I guess I can do that, because I love him.�
�Good.�
�I�m sure it was in the best intentions.�
�Yeah.�
�When is he due back?�
�I�m not sure; whenever the press is done. I don�t know how long that�ll be.�
�So what are you going to do until then?�
�Probably just hang out here at the hotel.�
�Or you can go to the press conference to be there for him.�
�I guess so. Kristin, Leighanne, and Howie�s flavor of the week is there.�
�Another one?�
�Yeah.�
�What�s her name?�
�Majandra, but her friends call her �Andi� and Howie calls her �Sweetie�.� They laughed. �She seems nice.�
�That�s good.�
�Better than all the other ones he had.�
�Yeah.�
�Actually they�ve been together for like a month now.�
�Cool.�
�Yeah.�
�Well I have to go, because I am joining Aaron for movies in his room.�
�Wear something sexy.� She chuckled.
�I�ll think about that. I�ll talk to ya later though.�
�Me too. Bye.�
�Bye.� Dakota heard a click on MyKenna�s end and hung up her own phone. She sat there a moment looking at the picture and then grabbed her bag and left the room.
CHAPTER 6