Author's Note: This story is set before the events of Unexpected Love. I thought I give you all a flashback to how it all began between Nick and Nicole. The story is mostly based upon the moments that they shared before any feelings are developed between them. However, there will be only about 3 chapters. I hope you guys like it!
You Are The Music In Me
When he was diagnosed with diabetes, Nick Jonas vowed to never be letdown by anything. He vowed to live everyday to the fullest; just because he had diabetes it doesn't mean that he couldn't live life the way he wanted and even though living the everyday life needed an extra effort, he was willing to do it. But there are times when he would feel himself being down, days when he could feel the heavy weight of the world on his shoulders; and days when he wish he could crawl into his bed and curl under the covers and never ever wake up.
Today was one of those days.
Feeling his emotional breakdown a burden to those around him, Nick would often avoid people and instead let himself drowned in his feeling by letting the most precious thing to him to comfort him in his most vulnerable state. Music.
The producers of their TV show, JONAS, had been kind and considerate enough to organize, what they like to call, a music room for the 3 brothers. The music room is a little room that is held at the corner of their studio near the set; and inside the room sat a grand black piano and a drum kit along with small sofas for the brothers to enjoy themselves.
Which is where Nick was going until he, suddenly, heard the tunes of the piano being played. He stopped; did he missed the piano that much that he could hear it calling to him or was there someone else that's playing it? The room was usually, only occupied by Joe, Kevin and himself...but both Kevin and Joe were in their dressing rooms.... Who else could it be?
Quietly, he walked up to the door and, gently, pushed it opened. He peeked in and saw a small brunette-head figure sitting and playing with keys of the piano. She was soaked into it that she hadn't realised his presence at the door, and that he was smiling softly at her.
"I didn't know you played."
Startled, her fingers stopped playing and she whipped her head around towards the source of the voice. She immediately relaxed and gave a smile when she realised who it was.
"I don't." She watched him take a couple of strides across the room towards the piano. "Usually it's more of pressing the random keys to see what tune I get."
She demonstrated her statement by playing a tune on the keys of the piano. She played a familiar tune; a tune that had glued in his heart; a tune that he considered to be the cure of the way he was feeling now.
She stopped playing just before it hit the chorus. "That's how far I know. You know, it took me 3 weeks to figure that out!"
He slipped next to her on the small cushion seat.
"Here," Nick said. "I'll help you."
He shifted closer to her and snaked his left arm around, then he place both of his hands on top of her small ones. Focusing his eyes on the black and white keys, he gently pressed her fingers against it, making it danced as he guides her through the correct notes.
His opened his mouth and a soft voice filled the empty room as he provides the lyrics to the music.
"Got the news today,
Doctor said I to stay,
A little bit longer and I'll be fine."
He was so careful with his words that she could see his vulnerability openly.
"When I thought it'd all been done,
When I thought it'd all been said..."
His voice was so beautiful, so angelic that it wrapped itself around her like a cobweb, pulling her into his world, and soon enough she found herself floating with him as she joined the melody together.
"A little bit longer and I'll be fine."
The music became tense as he poured out all his emotions out but it never failed to stop her from being in sync with him.
"But you don't know what you got until it's gone,
And you don't what it's like to feel so low,
And everytime you smile, you laugh, you glow.
You don't even know,
No, no..."
He told people that this song was a way of him reassuring himself about his diabetes, a song to help him see that there is a light waiting for him at the end of a dark tunnel. She had never understood that but now listening to him singing it it's as if he speaking to her, and she had never felt more connected to him than now.
"All this time goes by,
Still no reason why,
A little bit longer and I'll be fine.
Waiting on a cure,
But none of them are sure,
A little bit longer and I'll be fine."
He repeated the chorus and this time he emphasises the meaning of what the song meant to him.
The next part of the song should've been the highlight of it, as usually this is when the music hit the beat and a guitar solo enters the song. However, since there was no one except them in the small room, Nick replaced it with a soft melody against the keys of the piano which he seemed to know like the back of his hand.
"So I'll wait until kingdom come,
All the highs and lows are gone,
A little bit longer and I'll be fine."
The last word was barely above whisper and she watched as he played their fingers on the last note.
Silence fell between them as their eyes were transfixed upon the white and black keys of the piano. It was as if they had been scared by it.
"Wow," Nicole breathed. She was speechless by the performance. "That was beautiful, Nick."
Nick dipped his head and realizing that their hands are still entwined, he pulled away.
"I thought you said that you couldn't sing."
Nicole smile as her fingers traced the keys, reminiscing the notes that she had just played. "I don't sing - not in front of people, anyway, especially rockstars."
"Aren't I the lucky one?" Nick teased.
Nicole laughed and took out her phone, checking the time. She found herself being surprised when she realised that it was late in the afternoon.
"You can go home if you want," Nick said as if he's reading her mind.
Deleting all the things that she needed to do before dinner time, she smile at Nick and shook her head.
"Not its okay, I rather stay here with you. If you don't mind...?"
And just like that all his previous feeling of being down was washed away, like someone had turn on the lights for him and he could see clearly now. "I don't mind."
They smile gently at each other.
"So what about Black Keys?"
Nick chuckled, Nicole always seems to know how to cheer him up. "Okay, let's see...see this..."
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