I wake up again in a strange bed. The guest room, that's right. Oh God. I sobbed all over Nicole last night over Liz. She is breaking up with me without ever saying a word to me. God this sucks!
I go to the bathroom and walk out to the kitchen. No one is there but I hear music down a hallway that a think leads to a garage. I walk down the hall and I can see an open door with sunlight shining through it. I peek in and it's a gym. The room has big floor to ceiling windows letting the sun shine in, and Nick is working out. He must have been at it for a while. He is hot and sweaty wearing just snug gym shorts, and I swear his muscles look more muscly now. He turns and sees me. "Hey Good Morning. I hope I didn't wake you." He says as he strains to lift an enormous dumbbell.
"No. I just woke up." I say.
"I heard you had a bad night. Sorry." He says.
I try to pull on my big girl pants. "It sucks." I just say.
"You want to punch something?" He asks.
"What? Really?" I ask.
"Yeah sure. It's a great release, you can just let it all go." He says as he waves me over. I walk towards him and he has some pink boxing gloves and two pink ace bandages. "They're Nicole's." He says as he holds one glove to me to put my hand in. It takes him about 2 minutes and I have on two gloves and my wrists wrapped. He stands beside me and starts punching the air beside me. I mimic him. He steps behind me and holds my arm and wrist a little straighter. "Nice and stiff so you don't hurt your wrist."
After a few more he takes a few steps to the side and I see a his and hers punching bag. His is huge and well beaten. Hers is smaller and pink. He puts his hand on the bag pointing to a spot. "Right there." He says and places one hand behind the bag.
I punch it and I feel like the bag barely moved. "Again." He reaches out and corrects my form. "Again. Double punch. Harder. There you go. Double again."
Before I know it I am panting and sweating. Nick is smiling at me as I stop. "Do you feel a little better?" He asks.
"I think I do." I say.
"It's a great stress reliever, and you went to town at the end. I stopped telling you what to do and you kept punching." He says smiling
I put my fists up to him and he just laughs. He grabs one and then the other unwrapping me. Once they are off he grabs what looks like just a pair of gloves with padding on the knuckles to protect his hands. "This is how I do it." He says and he starts punching the bag. This huge bag is swinging in no time. The weight lifts off the chains and you can hear the chains clinking. He gets a rhythm of punching and grabbing it to stop the swing and punch it again. Just the sounds of the impacts are scary, WHAM. WHAM. WHAM. Dear God he is strong.
He stops and turns back to me breathing a little heavy. All I can say is. "Wow!"
Nicole's voice comes from behind us. "Are you showing off again?"
"No." He says
As I laugh and say. "Yes, but after he showed me how to do it. I had the gloves on and everything."
"She has better form than you do." He says to Nicole with a smile.
She stands in the doorway and cocks her hips to the side. "You don't like my form?" She says teasing him.
Nick pulls off his gloves and move towards Nicole. "I Love your form."
She turns and runs. He bolts through the door and not two seconds later I hear her screeching. I am pretty sure Nick caught her. As I step out into the hallway Nick has grabbed her around her waist from behind, and lifted her up. She is kicking her legs trying to fight while laughing.
Nick effortlessly flips her around so she is cradled in his arms. "My Hero." Nicole giggles as she wraps her arms around his neck and gives him a sweet kiss.
"Your Hero is hungry. How about some breakfast?" He asks.
"Sounds good." She says.
Nick puts her down and slaps her ass. "Great start cooking it while I wash up." He laughs and walks towards their bedroom
"Asshole." Nicole yells after him with a smile on her face.
"Love you too." He says back as he walks down the hallway.
Nicole looks at me. "Can you cook?"
"A little." I say with a smile.
She turns and starts pointing and giving orders. She can obviously cook. In no time we have a big bowl of scrambled eggs, a whole package of turkey bacon, and 6 toasted and buttered English muffins when Nick comes out showered and dressed.
"Mmm smells good." He says as we sit and eat.
As we eat Nicole asks me what I think about acting, and what I want to do when I graduate.
"I am not sure. So many things have changed since I turned 18. At first I was upset with the way my Dad's, well I guess my real estate company, Goldstar, was being run." I say when Nicole speaks up.
"It may be legally yours, but it is ok to call it your Dad's. It's a show of love and respect you have for your parents." She says smiling softly at me. "Are those their wedding rings you are holding?" She asks
I don't even realize I am holding them. "Yes." I say softly.
"I was noticing them on set when you had to take them. Your Mom's ring is beautiful." Nicole says.
I open my hand and look at them. "My Dad designed and had it made for her." I say.
"It looks like it." She says. "So what did you tell your Mom & Dad what you wanted to do when you grew up?"
"I wanted to be a vet." I say with a smile. "I used to torture our German Shepherd growing up. She was always the patient." I say smiling. "She would just sit there and take it."
"Aaww that's cute. Do you still want to be a vet?" She asks.
"Eeew no. Blood and stuff. Nope." I say smiling. "But my Dad always said I can be anything I want to. I just had to find something that I love." I stare ahead for a moment remembering Mom & Dad.
"I think you found it already." Nicole says.
"I did?" I ask.
"Yes. Ben & Karen's Kids. You are always so passionate and honest when you are talking about it. You almost light up." Says Nicole.
"You honestly care about children and young people that need help. It was obvious in the speech you gave at the Christmas for Kids charity event." She says.
"How do you know about that?" I ask surprised.
Nicole giggles. "The charity posted it. I was looking at their site to see if there was any info about who won our auction, or how much it went for. You are a natural talking to people about both charities."
I can feel myself blush. "Thank you. I guess I want to keep working for them both, but I have to earn a living. I want to learn to network like your agent Tom." I say looking at Nick.