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***************The Next Morning
Nick woke up and was confused as to where he was. He realized that he was at Brian's house and memories from the previous day came rushing back to him. He rushed out of bed and began to leave the house.
"Nick, where ya goin? I was just gonna ask if you wanted to eat some breakfast..."
"Not now Brian, I have to go home. I think I may have made the biggest mistake of my life." Nick said as he rushed out, not giving Brian time to reply. Nick got into his Durango and drove toward Tampa.
"Oh, come on..." Nick said to himself about the heavy traffic that had accumulated. He reached his house in a little over an hour.
"Honey?" he called as he walked in. He received no reply. He walked up to their bedroom. Something seemed different, but he couldn't point it out. His clothes were draped all over the floor as usual...but where were hers? He ran to the closet to find that it was practically empty, besides his clothes.
"FUCK!" he screamed out loud. Not knowing what to do, Nick began to panic. He paged Sharon multiple times, but she never called back, nor did she answer her cell phone. He called Catey.
"Catey!" Nick screamed. She almost jumped out of her skin.
"Jesus, Nick, what the hell is it?!" she asked.
"Where's Sharon? Where is she? I know you know so tell me!"
"Calm down...I do NOT know where she is, and trust me from the way you're sounding now if I knew I'd tell ya. Sorry buddy."
"Well, thanks anyway, if you hear from her call me ASAP." They hung up. Nick was out of ideas. For once, HE decided to go down to the bar and fix himself a drink.
****************AJ's House
It was all ready 1 in the afternoon but Sharon was still asleep. She was in AJ's bed, and would probably suffer a bad hangover as soon as she woke up. AJ was sick of hearing her pager and cell phone go off, and decided to wake her. He gently crawled into bed with her.
"Babe, wake up" he said kissing her lightly. She began to rouse awake. Being so used to being kissed awake by Nick, she kissed back. As soon as she opened her eyes she jumped away.
"AJ! What're you doing here?! Where am I? Where's Nick?"
"Hmm, that's not what you were hollerin' last night. Your pager's been goin off all morning, and your celly, too. Call Nick and tell him what's up," AJ said very smugly.
"Oh no ... I couldn't have," Sharon said.
"You did. And you were great." Sharon rushed out of bed. She still had her dress on (and her underwear, thankfully) from the previous day but her panty hose were off. It was hard to say if she had slept with him or not, and of course she was way too drunk to remember.
"Listen, AJ, I'm getting the hell out of here and going home to my baby. I don't know what kind of sick joke you're trying to pull but it isn't funny." Sharon began getting her things.
"Whoa, hold the phone here. Last night you said that you hated Nick and that you were ready to move in with me. You brought all your fucking clothes and everything!"
"I was drunk and you're a fuckin idiot to think I would do anything like that."
"Fuck this!" AJ screamed as he through an empty vase at the wall, shattering it. It was the closest object to him. Luckily, Sharon was near the door so she left before he could do anything seriously dangerous. She got into her jeep and drove back to Tampa.
****************Tampa
Nick was lying down on his living room couch, completely drunk. He had just finished about a half a bottle of tequila.
"This isn't so bad," he thought to himself. "I should really get off her back about drinking. Just then, the door opened and Sharon walked in. He got up and ran to her, practically falling over.
"I've been looking all over for you! You were gone for over a day, where were you??? I'm so sorry about that fight we got into, I said so many stupid things. Please forgive me, don't leave. I'll always be happy to have you live with me. Let's just try and talk things out. I want to marry you," Nick said. Sharon was taken aback by his last comment.
"Honey, don't worry about anything...let's just, uh, have you lie down for a while." Nick rested himself on the sofa.
"I don't care about the things you said, if you say you didn't mean them then I believe you. I want more than anything for me to stay here and for us to live together. I love you so much..." she said. Meanwhile, Nick had noticed the suitcases she brought in with her.
"I love you, too. But where were you all this time? You know we don't lie to each other," Nick reminded her. Sharon kept silent for a moment.
"I was at a motel," she said.
"Which one?"
"The motel 9 off of route 4" she replied quickly, praying that she was right. Nick knew every nook and cranny of Tampa and Orlando.
"Oh, the one that just got redone?" Nick asked. She had to think quick. Was it a trap???
"Yeah, that one," she replied.
"Oh that one...the one that got redone. It was torn down a month ago! Where the fuck were you last night?!" Nick screamed, getting to his feet. Sharon was petrified. Not only was he angry but he was extremely pissed of. She knew she had to answer him.
"OK! I was with AJ..."
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