Hey guys! Another story of mine! Hope you like it!

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"Nick?" Greg knocked on Nick's door for the fifth time. No answer. He even tried calling him on his phone. No answer, either. As he decided to go home and accept that his friend wasn't home, Nick finally opened the door.

"What do you want?" Nick asked grumpy.

"Picking you up for the movies. It was your idea, remember?" Greg walked in. "What's going on?"

"I don't have time for this now." He was walking around rather hastily, picking up some stuff.

"Why didn't you call? I wouldn't have come here had I known..." He kept rambling rather annoyed for a while until he noticed Nick's face. "Jesus, Nick. What happened?"

"Go home. I gotta go," Nick said while not-so-gently pushing Greg out of his home. He walked out, too, and closed the door.

"Where are you going?"

Nick unlocked his car without answering Greg's question.

"Wait, you're driving?"

"Why not? I didn't have anything to drink... although I sure could use a drink right now."

"But your eye. It's swollen, I'm sure you can't see anything." Greg was referring to Nick's obviously beat-up face.

"Just one eye, Greg. I can see perfectly fine with the other one," he replied quite annoyed.

"You can't drive with only one healthy eye. It affects your ability to drive, you know that. And besides that, did you have a doctor check it out?"

Nick laughed humorlessly as he rolled his eyes. He opened his car's door, but Greg grabbed his arm and kept him from getting in.

"I won't let you drive."

"Get your hand off of me, Greg," Nick replied rather amused. "I'm in a hurry."

Greg sighed. "Let me drive you."

"Just go home, Greg. I can take care of this myself."

"No! Tell me what the heck's going on and let me drive you wherever you're going. You're not driving."

"Oh yeah? What are you gonna do about it, anyway?" Nick laughed.

"Oh I don't know, I could..." He pushed Nick to the side and quickly got into the car and buckled up.

"What the hell, man? Get out!"

"Heh. Try driving away now." Greg laughed. "Come on, get in, I'll drive you."

Nick opened the door on the passenger side and got in.

"So, where to?"

Instead of answering, Nick reached into Greg's pocket and got his keys out. "I hope you have a full tank!"

"...H-Hey! Give it back!" Greg quickly got out of the car and ran after Nick. Nick already started the car, but Greg was able to get in at the last second. "Pull over!" Greg demanded, but Nick didn't listen to him.

"You had to meddle, right? You just had to." Nick was driving quite fast.

"Slow down a little," Greg said nervously. "Where are we going?"

"I am taking care of something. You're going home."

"What? No! Pull over and let me drive. You're driving like a lunatic! You're gonna kill somebody!"

On the way to Greg's place, Nick had to listen to Greg's speech about driving savely and other things that annoyed him right now. They arrived. "Now get out."

"Nick, come on."

"Out. Now."

"I'm not getting out. I want to know what happened to your face. Who did that to you?"

Nick opened the door on Greg's side. He didn't seem to care too much about Greg worrying about him. "Greg, get out. I'm already running late, you're making it worse."

"Then tell me where you're going and what's going on."

He did care, after all, and turned the car around. "You remember Rachel?"

"The brunette from the coffee shop?"

"Yeah. We've dated for about two months."

"You never told me," Greg said a bit surprised.

"We both agreed it wasn't anything serious. We were just enjoying the time together. I was at her place yesterday. We were sitting on her couch when suddenly this guy walks in. He wasn't really up to asking any questions before he came at me. He even threatened to get his gun, I don't know if he really has one or not, but I didn't feel like finding out so I left."

"Nick... I'm sorry..." The next few minutes were a silent drive until it hit Greg. "Wait a minute, where are we going now? You're not gonna... Pull over, now!"

"Greg, I don't..."

"I can't let you do that! This guy might be dangerous and you're too old to..."

"Will you shut up for a minute and let me explain? I'm not driving over to him. I'm driving over to her. I had some stuff at my place that belongs to her and she has some of mine."

"...That's it?"

"Yep."

"You won't drive over to this guy and beat him up or something?"

"No." Nick laughed. "I'm not stupid. He's a dangerous lunatic, I know better than to mess with someone like that. I already checked him out, he even served time for assault twice. I just want my stuff back and give Rachel hers so that I can forget I ever met her."

"Well if it's worth something, I'm sorry you two broke up. She seemed nice."

"Nice girls don't cheat on their violent boyfriends with you, Greg."

They arrived at Rachel's. Nick asked Greg to stay in the car. He did, and had to wait quite some time. After about half an hour, he got nervous. Nick said that Rachel's boyfriend wasn't there, but he still worried. After all, he just wanted to give her the stuff back she left at his place and take his stuff back. How long could that take? He didn't want to walk in there, though, and didn't even know which apartment she lived in, so he decided to call Nick. No answer. He had to keep waiting.

Another 20 minutes later, a man walked up to the apartment building. Nick described the boyfriend pretty good to Greg. About six feet tall, dark, wavy, long hair. Muscular built and some tattoos on his arms. The guy approaching the building looked exactly like that and Greg feared he might be the boyfriend. Not a good thing with Nick inside his girlfriend's apartment. He quickly texted Nick to let him know about this and got out of the car. "Excuse me!"

The man turned around to him. "Yeah?"

"I'm, uh... I want to go to the Casinos but I think I'm kind of lost."

The man looked Greg up and down. "The Casinos?"

"Yeah. You know, I wanna try my luck." He faked a smile.

"You're already trying your luck being here. It's not a nice neighborhood for a tourist."

"I-I know," Greg stuttered while he showed a map in his hand. "That's why I want to get out of here and go to the strip, but I don't know how. I'm bad at reading maps, could you help me?"

The man sighed annoyed. "It's not that hard." He explained the way to the strip without looking at the map.

"So..." Greg looked at the map. "This way?"

"No." He rolled his eyes. "This way. You need to take a left there, not a right. You don't want to end up in Arizona, do you?"

Greg laughed. " 'Course not." He saw Nick walking out of the apartment building, sneaking past the man Greg was talking to. "Well, thank you. I'm sure I'll find the way." He quickly turned around and walked towards the car.

"Wait a minute." The man made a few steps towards Greg. "You look familiar. Have we met before?"

"Oh, I get that a lot. Thanks again for your help. Have a good day." He quickly walked away.

Greg got in the car as he sighed. Nick followed after the boyfriend got inside the apartment building. "What were you talking about with him?" he asked confused.

"You didn't read my text message, did you? I was trying to safe your ass! I needed to distract him so that you could get out of there."

"Oh. Well, thanks. And he didn't recognize you?"

"What? ...He said I looked familiar. Why?"

"Didn't I mention? The last time he got arrested, you worked his case."

"...What?" Greg was outraged. "No. No, you did not mention that, Nick!"

"Relax. He didn't recognize you. Everything went fine."

"Yeah but imagine what could've happened if he did... So, what took you so long, anyway?"

"Just drive me home."

Greg started the car. "Sure you don't want to see a doctor?"

"The swelling's getting better already, I don't need a doctor."

"Okay. But I need an explanation. What took you so long?"

Nick rolled his eyes. "Nothing..."

"Oh my god... I can't believe you! You hooked up with her, didn't you?"

"You know, I really don't see how this is any of your business," Nick replied annoyed.

"What the hell's wrong with you? She's not right for you. She's dangerous!"

"Stop being melodramatic! Her boyfriend's dangerous, I'll give you that. She's not."

"She lied to you. She put you in a dangerous position and did it again today! God knows what would've happened if I hadn't distracted him." Greg was quite frantic. Not only was Nick endangering himself for a women, but the fact that he didn't really seem to care all that much was what drove him crazy.

"Will you stop it already? We're both adults and know what we're doing!"

"Oh yeah, you're sure about that? Have you looked into the mirror lately?"

"It's nothing." They arrived at Nick's place. Nick got out of Greg's car. "Thanks for driving me although I didn't want you to come with."

"Anytime," Greg replied annoyed as he drove away.