1Hey everyone I finally UPDATED! YAY! Okay so I just gave up on trying to get my flashdrive to work and just rewrote the chapter. It is not what I had originally but this will still get me to where I want the story to be in a few chapter. :) I don't own MIOBI!
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Nick let out a yelp of pain. But sadly since you hear that a lot in a gym no one gave it any mind. Nick reached for his face and felt blood coming out of his nose. He looked up to see who had slammed the door into his face. He thought it was Sasha since it was opened with such force, but instead was a very frightened looking Payson. Her eyes were as big as oranges and it looked like her mouth was going to fall to ground.
"Oh my God Nick I'm so sorry!" Payson said as she moved back a little.
"It's fine Payson. It's just a little bruise." Nick said as the blood from his nose started to drip from in between his fingers.
"Nick!" Payson said. She tentatively reached for Nick's hands. He moved back. "Really I'm fine Payson." Payson in an uncharacteristic way grabbed Nick's hand and pulled it away from his face. His nose was already turning purple and there was still blood coming from it.
"Oh yeah it just a bruise." She let go of his hand. He put it back up to his face. "Come on." She said to him motioning for him to follow her into Sasha's office.
"What?! Hell no I'm not going anywhere! I'm fine it'll stop soon." Nick said with a small amount of fear in his voice. Payson rolled her eyes and once again took hold of Nick's hand. Then she started to pull him into Sasha's office. But he set his feet and wouldn't move. Payson let out a frustrated sigh. She turned around and looked right at him. He met her gaze. But a second later he felt a pain in his foot and lifted his foot up. Payson gave a good tug and got him inside Sasha's office. "What the Hell Payson! First my nose and now my foot?"
Sasha was about to make a call when the pair stumbled into his office.
"Payson what the Hell did you do to Russo?!" Sasha started to get up but Payson just made a shooing motion at him.
"I wasn't looking when I opened the door and I opened it into Nick's face. I'm going to fix it. Go back to whatever you were doing." Then she dragged Nick towards the supply closet. When she reached it she let go of Nick and opened the door. A moment later she had a bag of cotton balls. Nick gave her a blank stare. "Come here." She demanded.
"You are not putting those up my nose." Nick said bluntly taking a step back. Payson was going to protest but decided against it. Instead she just held out the bag of cotton balls. He took them. "Thanks..." Nick said awkwardly with blood still dripping from my nose. She just nodded and walked out of sight. He heard Sasha's office door open and close.
He looked at the bag of cotton balls. He opened them and slowly put one up his nose. He winced in pain but put another on the other side. Then he grabbed some tissues and wiped his face. He decided to keep the cotton balls with him. He shut the supply the closet and walked out to Sasha's desk. He jumped when he saw Payson still in the office. When she saw him she looked down. Her face started to turn red. Sasha had gone somewhere. Nick sighed in defeat. Am I never going to get to talk to him.
"Where did Sasha go?" Nick asked.
"He needed to make a call and told me to stay here and make sure you were okay." Payson said still looking down. She started picking at fingers. "I'm sorry... again." She said just loud enough for Nick to hear. "And I'm sorry that I've been really really...bitchy to you lately. I've just been so stressed out and now that I have to do this extra practice thing like I'm going to come back and it's left me on edge." Nick walked over to the other chair and sat down.
"Is it because of the cortisone? Because if it is you have every right to be mad at me. If you hadn't of used it–"
"Nick it's not that and it's not your fault. Nothing is your fault. It's just a stupid girl thing." Payson said keeping her head down. Her face was still red.
"Um I'd like to believe that it's a stupid girl thing but your face is saying something else." Payson looked up.
"How would you know if it's a stupid girl thing or not?" Payson asked acidly looking pissed. But a moment later her face changed. She looked again. "I'm sorry that was mean. It's just... It's just a stupid girl thing okay." Payson sighed. Nick tilted his head to the side. Geez what the Hell is up with her?
"I'm pretty sure a girl thing normally isn't directed at one person... Payson could you please tell me why you've been so... well hostile towards me." Payson looked everywhere but Nick. She could feel his eyes on her knowing he wanted an answer. She finally looked at him.
"Why didn't you visit?" Payson asked in a hurt voice.
"What?" Nick asked very confused.
"In the hospital! Everyone came to visit me– even Carter! And you never showed up!" Payson's voice rose with each word until she stood. Nick didn't answer immediately so Payson went on. "Why? Were you just too busy being the silver medalist to come and visit?!" Payson looked as if she were about to cry. "WHY–"
"PAYSON!" Nick yell. She fell silent and sat back down. "Payson I don't know what you're talking about! I did come and visit you, but you were knocked out cold!. It was right after your final surgery. I was there for a while and I talked to you–well I talked and you 'listened.' And then I asked the doctor that was on to tell you that Nick Russo came by." Nick sat back in his chair. "But I guess she forgot." He looked at Payson. Her face was stricken with guilt.
"Nick I'm so sorry... I–I–I– no one ever told me." Payson's head fell in shame. Well he must think I'm the biggest bitch in the world. "God, you must think I'm a bitch." Payson looked up at him wanting to see if he agreed with her statement.
Nick just shook his head. "Nah." He said. "It was an honest misunderstanding... Just next time your mad at someone tell them why." Sasha came back into the room. He looked over at Nick and started to laugh. Nick glared at Sasha.
"What I don't look handsome with cotton balls shoved up my nose?" Nick asked sarcastically.
"Not really." Sasha said. Payson giggled and drew Nick's attention. He looked over at her. A stand of hair had fallen in her face. A moment later without thinking Nick reached over the table and tucked the strand behind her ear. Payson was frozen mid giggle looking at Nick. Sasha was doing the same except he was glaring at Nick. Nick gulped.
"Sorry." Nick said robbing the back of his neck. "A piece of hair fell in your face."
"So you reached across the table and tucked it behind my ear for me?" Payson asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Um yeah I have... OCD with stuff like that... sorry again." Nick could feel the blush on his face. He quickly glanced at Sasha who was still glaring at him.
"Payson could you leave I still have to talk with Nick and I think your girls have started to wonder where you've gone off to." Sasha said without taking his eyes off of Nick. Payson realized that Sasha was quite angry with him so she silently got up and went to the door. Before leaving she turned and mouthed 'Good luck.' to Nick.
When Payson was down the stairs and almost to her girls Sasha started... loudly.
"Russo what the Hell was that?" Sasha yelled.
"What was what Coach?" Nick asked nervously. Sasha rolled his eyes and walked up to Nick so they were only a foot apart, eye to eye.
"That thing where you just randomly reached across my desk and tuck a strand of hair behind Payson's ear?! Was it really that bothersome that you had to do it yourself?! Or is something going on that I need to know about– Oh wait there is something I need to know about." Sasha grabbed Nick by his shirt and dragged him over to the chair that Payson had been sitting in. Then he set his arms on each side of the chair. "Of the all the stupid things you could have ever done you gave Payson Keeler cortisone! Are you fucking STUPID?! Do you know that's a felony?! You gave my number one gymnasts cortisone and now look at her! SHE CAN NEVER DO BLOODY GYMNASTICS ANYMORE!!! This is all YOUR FAULT!" Sasha's face was blistering red. Nick sat unfazed.
"It's not my fault she fell." Nick said calmly.
"And who told you that?!" Sasha asked.
"Payson did." Nick smirked ever so slightly. Sasha was going to yell again but knew he had nothing really. If Payson wasn't going to blame him and she told him there was no point in trying to yell at him. Instead Sasha decided to just be mean about him getting cortisone illegally.
"Fine." Sasha said. "But you still gave her the cortisone without her parents promotion and that is violating the rules." Nick's eyes widened. "But of course Payson insisted that you not get in trouble. But I'm going to pretend she meant just with the police and not with me. So guess what? For the next three weeks you're going to be doing an extra two hour workout everyday– including Sundays." Nick smirked.
"I think I can handle that. I workout everyday at home anyway." Sasha just smiled.
"Oh no this is no ordinary workout. By the time these three weeks are over you are going to wish you had never been born." Nick smirk flew off his face. Sasha backed up and motioned for Nick to get up. "So say goodbye to your life for three weeks and prepare Russo. Hell starts at five." Sasha just smiled as Nick walked out the door and over to his friends. Sasha was going to have fun with this.
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Alright! So what's going to happen now that Payson and Nick are cool? Will sparks fly or will other people put out the flames. Just wait for the next update and you'll find out! :)
~Amanda
