Ok so like I'm new at this…and it may be a good story and you might enjoy it or you won't…but w/e it's cool…

(Maddie's Pov)

It had been a year since I asked Nick to stay here in Briarwood to become a Mystic Ranger with Xander, Vida, Chip, and I.

Since then Nick has made a lot of progress, with accepting his powers, fighting the voices in his head, helping us defeat the master, and of course finding birth parents. It was a bit of a shock cause it turned out that Udonna and Koragg, now know again as Leinbow, were his birth parents. It took some getting used to but he's happy now.

"Madison, I need you to close up tonight."

"No problem Toby."

Of course w all still work at Rock Porium. Vida is here less then the rest of us. She's off doing turn tables and things. Xander was now the manager but Toby still over rules him. Oh and Chip is now the assistant manager.

A lot of good and bad things have happened to us this past year, like becoming all powerful rangers, making some new friends, and having laughs along the way. We will always be mystic rangers, but only in rootcore, cause now that the master is gone we can live normal lives, or as normal as it can get.

But through all of this I think I'm the one who's made the most progress. I've sort of come out my shell...a bit anyways. And I made a great friend in Nick.

Infact aside from my sister, I consider Nick my best friend. He's always there for me and vise versa.

(Nick's Pov)

God she's beautiful.

Maddie was looking right at me. She smiled shyly, I returned it of course.

Oh god she's walking over here, what do I do?

"Hey nick?"

What if she saw me watching her?

"Um Nick?"

"…Oh…Sorry…What is it Maddie?"

"Well it's my turn to close up tonight…and I was wondering if you'd help me, and maybe take me home afterwards?"

"Um…yeah sure…Why not?"

Her face lit up so much, for a second I thought I should tell her how I felt.

(Maddie's Pov)

"Thanks Nick."

It was nice of him to stay and help me close, but really I was afraid to be there by myself. But I could never tell him that.

Nick had actually turned out to be a great friend.

I would even go as far to say that I love Nick. I would die for him. I would even kiss a frog.

Oh wait I did that already.

I laughed out loud.

"What's so funny?" Nick asked from where he stood at the front counter.

"Nothing, I was just thinking of the time I kissed Daggeron." Nick frowned, I didn't know why, but I thought maybe if I added when he was a frog he may still look happy, so I did.

"When he was a frog I mean."

"Oh right." Nick replied.

(Third persons Pov)

It was about 11:30 when Chip, Xander, and Vida left Rock Porium to head off to Vida's show.

Maddie was a little down that she was missing her sisters show, but she'd try to make it there after she closed up. And at least she was getting paid over time, and she could spend some alone time with Nick.

"Hey Nick, I already locked the front door so we'll have to go out threw the back."

Nick wasn't responding, so she went to go find him.

A few minutes later Maddie found Nick asleep in a chair in Toby's office.

"…Nick…" Maddie whispered. She didn't want to wake him up but she knew she had to.

"Nick…"He still wasn't responding.

So she put one of his hands in hers, and lightly caressed his cheek with her free hand.

"…Nick…"She said his name a little louder that time.

It must have worked because Nick slowly opened his eyes, and took a hold of the hand that Maddie was caressing his cheek with and kissed it softly.

"Hey" Nick breathed.

"Hey" Maddie gave him that sweet shy smile that always made Nick melt.

"What are you doing here?" Nick asked.

"Nick we're at Rock Porium. You fell asleep."

"I did? Oh shit!" Nick was looking wide eyed at the door.

"What's the matter?"

"Oh Maddie, you closed the door." Nick sounded really panicked.

"Yeah, and?" Nick was really starting to worry her. "Nick your scaring me."

"I'm sorry, but we're stuck here."

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, Toby's door locks from the outside. Automatically."

"You're not serious?" So much for meeting up with V. "Well can't you unlock it?"

"Afraid not. The keys are on the front desk."

"So you mean we're stuck here 'till morning?"

"Unless someone comes before then. Yeah."

"There's got to be another way out of here." Maddie charged at the door shoulder first. She hit so hard that she bounced back into Nick, and they both hit the ground. Hard.

Maddison landed on top Nick and Nick hit his head on the front corner of the desk pretty hard.

"You okay?" Maddie asked.

"Um…yeah. I'd be a lot better if you'd get off of me."

"Oh…right…sorry." She started to push herself up off of Nick, but he put his hands on both of her shoulders and pulled her back down.

They were so close that Maddie could feel his breathe on her neck, and she started breathing in the same rhythm as Nick. So their chests we're one in the same.

"…Nick…?" Maddie said in barley a whisper.

"Yeah?"Nick whispered back.

Maddie didn't really know was she was going to say. She was feeling very differently about Nick at this moment. She didn't know what it was, but she, for some reason, couldn't get the image of Nick kissing her hand out of her head. Nick was her best friend. She never thought of him in a romantic since.

Or did she?

"…Why did you pull me back down?" She finally answered.

Nick had to make something up, he defiantly couldn't tell her the real reason.

"…Um…well…You have something in you hair."

"Oh my god, I do? Get it out, get it out!" Maddie shrieked. She also off of nick really fast and started jumping around and tossing her hair everywhere.

Nick couldn't help but laugh at her. He'd never seen her act like this before. He kinda licked it.

He walked over to her and grabbed bother her flailing wrists and laid them at her side.

"Maddie, I want you to a deep breath." She did as she was told. "Okay, now look into my eyes, and don't move." He reached a hand out and pretended to pull something out of her hair.

"Got it."

"What was it?"

Nick grinned a little bit." It was a little fuzz ball." He said and then started to laugh.

"It's not funny." Maddie said while shoving him a little bit.

"Ouch, gosh that hurt." Nick said holding the back of his head.

"Oh, right your head, oh you okay?" Maddie had a very concerned look on her face.

She stepped over to Nick and used her mystic powers to cool the scrape on the side of his head.

"Better?"

"A lot better…Thanks." Nick wasn't worried too much about the pain, but about the fact that Maddie seemed to be worried about him.

"So what are we going to do now?" asked Maddie.

"About what?"

"Um…well I don't know Nick. How 'bout the fact that we're locked in this office, with no way out. And to top it all off there's no heat I here. We'll freeze."

"Oh that." Nick was so preoccupied with his thought of Maddison he'd completely forgotten about the bind there were in. "Well all we really can do is wait."

"Yeah…Hey why don't you go back to sleep, you look really tired." Maddison would do anything to get him to stop looking at her.

"What will you do if I sleep?"

"Um…I was going to try and stay up incase someone came."

"You don't have to do that. And besides I'll stay up with you if that's what you want to do. I happen to know that Toby keeps some cards in his desk." Nick smiled at Maddie and she returned it with a small giggle.

"Sounds like fun."

(Nick's Pov)

"You cheater!" Maddie and I had started a game of good 'old Go Fish.

"Nick, I would never cheat," She said it so innocently, he almost believed her.

"You liar, you sneaked a peak at my cards when I was at Toby's desk." I knew she didn't do it, but I was having way to much fun teasing her.

"No I didn't!" She had such a hocked look on her face.

I started walking over to her real slow. She looked at me trying to figure out what I was about to do. I wasn't even sure what I was doing.

"Nick, why are looking at me like that?"

I got up right in her face with my hands behind my back. She looked nervous but I didn't care, because at that exact moment I grabbed her by the waist and hung over my shoulders caveman style.

"Nick put me down?" She tried so hard not to laugh, but it didn't last long. For she went into a huge laughing fit.

Before I knew it we were both on the floor laughing historically, and the she did something so un-Maddie like…

(Maddie's Pov)

Okay Nick had, had his fun. It was my turn now. I pushed on Nick's chest to try and calm his laughing fits.

"Maddie?...you okay?" Nick looked anxious and nervous at the same time. If that was even possible.

I didn't answer him. What I did do was push on his chest a little harder then climbed on top of him and straddled his hips.

"Maddie, what are you doing?" Nick asked me so quietly I could hardly hear him, but I did.

I still didn't answer him. I got right up in his face, we were so close our noses grazed.

Then I spoke.

"Nick, I'm having this weird feeling in my hands, and I don't know what it is." He looked at me like I was crazy.

"Okay?" Nick said with a very questionable look in his eyes.

"I think I have a way of fixing it, but I'm going to need your help. Okay?"

He nodded slowly.

That's when I did it. I wasn't sure if it would affect him or not, but I took my chances.

I tickled the hell out of him. Not knowing if he was ticklish or not. Thank goodness for me he was.

I couldn't help but fall into another fit of laughter from the sight of him squirming and begging me to stop.

And that's when he caught me completely of guard…

(Third Person's Pov)

Maddison had stopped tickling Nick long enough for him to grab her and turn her over on her backside as he started to tickle her back.

"Nick stoppit! Seriously stop!" Maddie shrieked while trying to get him off of her.

"Paybacks a bitch huh Maddison?" Nick said while still tickling her.

"Yes it is! I surrender, you win!" Nick then stopped, but he didn't get off of her. Instead he grabbed her hands, and pinned them above her head.

"I bet I can find one place you didn't know you were ticklish."

"Nick I said I surrender." Maddie was starting to feel nervous again, for Nick wasn't listening to her, nor would he let go of her hands.

"Nick," Maddison said pleadingly. He was so close to her now that he could feel her breath on his chin.

That's when Nick started to blow in her ear, and he heard her giggle slightly.

Then he moved his way to her neck, and gently placed small kisses up her neck, until he heard her giggle louder.

"See, I told you." Nick whispered into her ear.

He slowly let go of her hands, as he came face to face with her again.

They stared at each other for the longest time. Nick was going to kiss her he knew that tat much, but as just as he swooped in he heard something…

(Maddie's Pov)

Oh god what is he doing?

He's not going to kiss me is he?

Do I want him to kiss me?

Yes.

No!

What is wrong with me? Nick is my best friend, he's like an older brother, and I thought he felt the same way.

Maybe I was wrong.

He's staring right into my eyes. I cant help but stare back. Those beautiful deep green eyes.

He's coming closer to my face; he's going to kiss me! Should I let him?

Maybe he just thinks that he has to kiss me. I mean now that I think about it, maybe I was coming on a bit strong with the whole tickling thing. Maybe that's why he was kissing my neck.

Not that didn't like it, cause I did. I had no idea that one soft little kiss could make me giggle like that.

But he cant kiss me.

Can he?

(Third Person's Pov)

Maddie's eyes drifted shut the closer Nick got to her.

He had finally let go of her hands, and was caressing her cheek.

Nick's eyes also started to close. His lips were so close to Maddie's that they may as well be kissing.

Just as his lips grazed hers, they heard something. It sounded kinda like someone clearing their throat.

"Did you hear that Nick?" Whispered Maddie from beneath him.

"Yeah." Nick answered while pulling away from Maddie a bit.

"Ahem," Came a noise from the door.

Nick and Maddison both tilted their heads so they could see who or what it was.

"Vida," Maddie said wide eyed. She pushed Nick off of her, and pulled herself up to face Vida, Chip, and Xander all three standing at the door looking shocked.

Thanks for reading. Reviews would be great. Don't be too harsh. If you have any ideas on things I should change email me.