2 hours later...
"So where were you little man?" A.J. inquired while shoving 4 more fries in his mouth simultaneously.
"Little man? That's not what Mariah thought" Nick replied smirking.
This comment caused Kevin and Howie to quietly place the books they had been totally engrossed in their laps, suddenly interested at the conversation that was shaping up to be very interesting. Brian on the other hand snapped his head up from examining his badly maintained fingernails so fast they were sure he would get whiplash. They threw eachother an amused look and turned their attention back to Nick. A.J. simply leaned forward and peered up over his black mirrored sunglasses. Kevin cleared his throat.
"Care to elaborate, Nick?"
"No." He repied, moving towards the playstation that was hooked up to the hotel room's TV. Brian who was slowly easing out of his shocked silence spoke.
"Frack, continue. I insist."
"She caught me skinny-dipping." Nick shrugged. A.J. laughed while Brian raised an even more interested eyebrow.
"Skinny dipping? Ha..too good" A.J. snickered to himself. "Wait. Nicky my boy. You did take advantage of the situation right?" He probed.
"No, I did not sleep with her if that's what you are impliyin'" Nick repied, smiling then continued looking slightly more serious "Though I got the feeling she might have...and A.J.?"
"Yes?
"Never..ever call me Nicky."
"So let me get this straight." Brian stated in his slow southern drawl "You were out when you weren't s'posed ta be, without a bodyguard, in a city you know nothin' about, swimmin naked, on what was most likley civic property, when a total stranger caught you and saw you in nothin' but yer own skin." He paused momentarily "But nothin' happened" He finished. Nick nodded. Brian puzzled over this for a moment "Hmph" Was his final statement, then returned to examining his finger nails turning his thoughts to that New Years resolution he'd made to stop biting them. Howie and Kevin shot each other another amused look before returning to their books while A.J pulled out his cellular phone and proceded to call everyone in his little black book recounting the story exaggerating every detail. Nick simply grinned and returned to the game of Final Fantasy VII he'd started with a passing thought to what she was telling her friends...
******
Mariah rushed into her best friend Jayne's house without knocking just as she always had as long as she could remember.
"Jay??" She bellowed
"In the kitchen!!" She heard the voice she'd recognize anywhere reply. She stepped into the kitchen and saw Jayne's blond head buried in the fridge as it often was. Strangley enough though Jayne never seemed to gain much weight.
"Jay, you will never guess what happened!" Mariah gushed.
"Lemme guess..y-" Jayne's voice was abruptly cut off by Mariah's.
"I saw Nick Carter naked!" She declared.
"Really? Wow, while you were doing that I was having a mass orgy with Metallica" Jayne replyed sarcasicaly, referring to her favorite band.
"I did!" Mariah cryed "I went to 'my thinking spot', ya know the one, and there he was in his birthday suit. He'd just been skinny dipping I guess."
Jayne pulled her head out of the fridge, grabbing a coke in the process, and looked her friend in the eye for the first time since she'd got the 'news'. She realized that Mariah was completley serious and couldn't resist asking the next thing that flowed into her mind.
"Does he have a hairy butt?" Jayne grinned, pausing for a moment "Is he big?" Jayne's grin widened into a wicked smile.
"No." Mariah thought for a moment. "Ya know I didn't really look at his-" She was cut off by Jayne.
"Oh please. Do not give me that line. You looked and we both know it" Jayne locked her blue eyes with Mariah's bright green ones and smirked knowingly. A smile found it's ay onto Mariah's face.
"You know Jay? You know me too well I think sometimes." Mariah's smirk widened into a grin "You know I did"
"So?" Jayne prodded
"Slightly above average" Mariah shrugged, with a quirked eyebrow
"Size estimate?" Jayne quietly inquired leaning forward
"Well, You know how good at this I am and I'd have to say..." She was inturupted by the back door closing and a set of keys being thrown on the counter.
"Hello ladies" Jayne's dad announced as he proceeded to the fridge. Jayne looked expectantly at Mariah as she held up the appropriate amount of fingers. Jayne smirked and nodded approvingly then though for a momentt. {Limp?}She mouthed. Mariah nodded. Jayne looked slightly more impressed