AN/: Thanks Farah for giving it a total turn around...!
3rd String
Three months...no big deal! Three months on a tour bus...Nah! Not worth his desperation...Three months of concert, music and cheering and jeering crowd...definitely tempting enough for his involvement! But...three months of loneliness...not healthy! Three months without his best friend...even worse! Three months of lifelessness when here still existed life inside of him...there was no harder thing Nick. had ever attempted!
And now that he had already committed the crime...he repented it! 'It won't be that hard', he remembered being in doubt about it on his last day in town before the tour started. The certainty wether he'd be able to manage without Faith never knocked his door...so he made the mistake of using his brain again! "We're just friends...and cell phones still exist" the logic had went that way in his wake!
And so here he was...cursing himself...realizing how dim-witted he was! How right Joe's words felt now...they were indeed meant to be...And these three months on the tour bus provided him the quality time and a golden chance to ponder upon the facts, he usually shrugged off as mere allegations! And the thinking process went so deep within that it made him lose every possible connection with the real world that he had...And thereby the consequences had him desolate...desperate to get back to her...to spill out each feeling that had found a permanent place inside of him...to tell her...to confess to her… that she was the ultimate destination he ever expected his life to stop at!
Who knew three months of music and bright lights will have Nick head over heels in love with his best friend...his Faith!
Thankfully and fortunately...it was just a two hour flight from their current location to New Jersey. He just wished, she was there to see him, for his mind was made up now and he was one of those who scarcely believed in 'backing out'. He had it all planned out...and if only the almighty bestowed a little mercy everything was bound to go smoothly...
He jumped off his seat as soon as the intercom announced their landing and arrival details. Damning his 'oh-so royal' status and leaving other cautions to wind, he rushed his way through the tunnel into the terminal...And there she was, her ponytail bouncing as cheerfully as ever, as she searched for his sign through the roaring crowd waiting to welcome their favourite band! He smiled at the brightness...the serenity, her aura shed so humbly and genuinely. Still unaware of his eyes on her, she scanned the crowd recklessly and briefly!
'Its about time...' his heart synchronised with his mind this time, and literally jerk-pushed him in her direction, while the rest of the world froze...went numb downright!
"Faith..." She had her back towards him when he finally reached there... and the twirl with which she turned around made him catch his breath for a while...let alone the expression of surprise, that became the serenest and purest ever witnessed by Nick!
But fate somehow, had other plans...As soon as the eye-contact happened there was a trail of unsaid confessions that her heart was sending and his mind was receiving! That instant whelming up of tears...that sigh of relief and the smile through those watery eyes...were more than enough of signals to indicate him the fact that he was not the only one...someone else was victimised too! And even before he could pay a second thought to that she was in his arms...embracing him in more than the most possessive of hugs possible! It was only after he caught his breath (yet again), that he realized she was crying...though the soft shudders still felt like a cure to the three-month long sickening chaos he had just come back from!
"I'm here Faith..." he gently entwined his fingers into her auburn curls and caressed them lovingly.
"I couldn't help it Nick...I thought I will survive! Only I didn't remember that i was a born fool!" She half mumbled, half sniffed the words...meaning of whose remained fathomable only to Nick.
'Time it is' his pounding heart finally signalled. He sent a silent thank to God for giving into his plan and then made the move. Pulling gently out of the bear hug, he waited and literally coaxed her blue eyes to focus directly into his chocolate one's.
"You know what Faith Charolette Mason...You captivated my life 5 years back and now I've grown to like this prison" he let the merely slip out of his mouth, before leaning in to 'capture' her instead, in the passionate yet the sweetest of kiss possible. Sure it took her a moment to adjust before she finally gave in to his divine conspiracy. But once into it, there was nothing existing in the material world that could even be considered for a competition to this feeling of fulfilment and irrevocability...of the charm that had finally roped in the two of them together...
The softness with which the kiss was initiated remained constant till the end...till they broke apart, breathless. He parted only to bring her more closer to him, embracing her tightly yet again and dropping unconscious kisses on her forehead.
"Thanks..." he whispered slightly to her, as the witnesses of the event applauded and cheered in adore, including his brothers Joe and Kevin.
"Nada! Thank yourself dude...for being so coward on that 'Diet-Coke night'!" She said, amused.
"You have no single clue how much I've fallen in love with myself for doing that missy" he joked, which was followed by her laughter. And that was the moment that made ascertained him that he was in love with the diet coke more than anything in this world. Sure he was...and as far as Faith's concerned...well people love what they desire in life...not something that's already the reason they are living for...
