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(In unison)…Nick and Jess: "GET OUT SCHMIDT!" Schmidt: "NICHOLAS! Your penis is bigger than mine!"
Nick grabbed a pillow and covered himself up. "What is the matter with you Schmidt? First Coach, now you! Why can't me and my girlfriend have sex and be LEFT ALONE?"
"Seriously Schmidt! Don't make me the lock the door. I'll do it! You might think I'm sweet and kind Jess, but you'll quickly find out I have a mean side!" Jess threatened.
"I've already seen your mean side. It comes out every time you get your menstrual period," Schmidt grumbled. "Do you two not care about everything that's going on in my life right now?"
"Do we look like we care?" Nick asked rudely.
"Just give us some alone time and then we can all talk. I can even bake some cookies if you want," Jess suggested in an effort to hopefully get Schmidt to leave the room quicker.
"I don't need carbs and sugar to make me feel better Jessica. But I'll take what I can get. It's 10:13 right now, you have until 10:30 or I'll be back," Schmidt threatened.
"Whatever Schmidt," Nick rolled his eyes.
At precisely 10:30, Nick and Jess emerged from their bedroom. They walked into the living room to find Schmidt laying on the couch asleep wearing only a pair of royal blue silk boxers.
"He really must be having a rough day," Nick whispered, "Sleeping on the couch is up there with death in the family and salmonella poisoning." He took Jess's hand and they went back to the bedroom.
"Since the Schmidt crisis is temporarily on hiatus, maybe we should check on Winston and see if he's still alive," Jess suggested.
Nick agreed and they went to see if Winston was in his bedroom. He wasn't.
"I hope Coach didn't kill him," Nick said.
"You know, technically, this isn't even his fault. Daisy should have told Winston she was dating someone else, and vice versa with Coach," Jess thought aloud.
"Yeah, you're right," Nick agreed. "Hopefully Coach wasn't too harsh on him."
Right then, they heard the front door open and some laughter. Then some yelling from Schmidt who obviously had been woken up. Jess and Nick walked back out there.
To their surprise, Winston and Coach were the ones laughing. "I can't believe she thought she could fool us!" Winston was saying. Schmidt was sitting on the couch with the blanket wrapped around him and a scowl on his face. He half-smiled though when he saw Nick and Jess standing there.
"Nicholas, Jessica, I might have fallen asleep, but now that I've been rudely awakened, us three can have our chat," he announced.
"What's going on?" Winston asked curiously.
"For real," Coach agreed, "Everything has changed since I left. " He looked at Nick and Jess. "You two are on the love boat. Schmidt's metrosexuality has tripled. The loft itself looks completely different."
"I may as well tell you all why my life is a crap-fest right now," Schmidt began. Nick and Jess sat on the couch, Winston sat on the comfy chair, and Coach brought over a chair from the dining room table.
Schmidt started off saying how he had sort of dated CeCe to which Coach interrupted and asked if she was "the hot model friend of Jess who came over with no bra". Then Schmidt continued by saying he had broken off things with CeCe and then tried to get her back and then CeCe got engaged and he fell back in love with Elizabeth and got together with her, tried to ruin CeCe's wedding and succeeded (in his mind of course), and then he ended up choosing Elizabeth when the two women made him decide.
"So now," he continued, "I'm with Elizabeth and everything is hunky dory. Except the fact that she wants to get married."
"So?" Jess asked, "You were going to marry CeCe when you thought she was pregnant."
"How did you..." Schmidt looked bewildered, "How did you know that?"
"CeCe told me! She said you told her that the night you came over and tried to get back together with her and were drunk," Jess explained.
"I guess it's some rule that women must tell each other everything," Schmidt rolled his eyes.
"So you don't want to marry Elizabeth?" Winston prodded. Coach cracked his knuckles and yawned.
"Of course I don't want to marry her! " Schmidt exclaimed. "I'm 30 years old! Life is just beginning for me! I just started dating her! I just got over CeCe!"
"Technically, you dated her years ago," Jess pointed out, "There might have been a break in between, but you guys have been together a long time including then and now. Also, what do you mean life is just beginning for you? You've been out of college and working for years! How long do you want to wait to settle down?"
"I'm with Jess," Nick added, "You don't want to be 40 when you have your first kid."
"And then there's the fact that I'm still in love with CeCe," Schmidt said quietly.
"You just said you were over her man!" Winston proclaimed.
"I lied," Schmidt sighed. "I'm in love with both of them. I thought I loved Elizabeth more but now, I don't know."
"Schmidt, you have to decide! You can't lead Elizabeth on like this! She deserves to be with someone who loves her and ONLY her!" Jess yelled.
"The woman is right," Coach threw in, "Playing with someone's heart gets you nowhere good in life." He looked over at Winston.
"Okay, so I break up with Elizabeth. But do I go back to CeCe? Elizabeth will find out! And I'll still be in love with her. It's a huge mess. A huge, huge mess!"
"Maybe," Jess suggested slowly, "Maybe you should break up with Elizabeth and not date CeCe either. Just don't date anyone for a long time and give yourself time to get over both of them. Then, after six months or so, if you still have feelings for one of them, you get back together. If not, you move on, and find someone else."
Schmidt was quiet for a moment. "Maybe I should."
"I think Jess has a good idea," Winston said.
"You'll know who you actually want," Coach agreed. Nick just nodded. He looked like he was ready to fall asleep any second.
Schmidt smiled sadly. "I guess it's final then. I'll be a miserable single man. "
CeCe sat on her couch in sweatpants and a tank top flipping through channels on TV. Nadia walked in and sat next to her.
"You so sad. You want me to break Jew's penis again? Make him sorry he broke your heart," she suggested.
CeCe sighed sadly. "Thanks, but you don't need to do that. I just have to move on and get over him. I don't blame him for choosing Elizabeth."
"I thought he love you. He say your name when we have sex. Two times," Nadia told her.
"He said MY name while he was having sex with you?" CeCe asked incredulously.
"Maybe you talk to him. Make him change his mind."
"I can't play with his heart like that. He might be in love with me, but he loves Elizabeth more."
The next day, Jess brought in the mail after she came home from work.
"Here Nick," she handed her boyfriend an envelope, "Something came for you from your brother."
He opened the envelope and pulled out an invitation. "It's Jamie's wedding invitation. It's this Saturday!"
"Wow, that's really short notice! Are you going to be able to go?" Jess asked.
"I'll have to," Nick said, "I can't miss his wedding. Ma will kill me if I do."
"I'm surprised he didn't ask you to be in his wedding," Jess said, "I mean, you're his brother."
"I don't really care," Nick shrugged, "If I'm not in the wedding, then I can dress more casual anyway. He said I can bring a guest. You want to go with me?"
"Of course! I'd love to see your family again!" Jess said excitedly.
"Really? After the way everyone treated you?"
"Well, your mom ended up being really sweet to me when we were leaving and Jamie and Bobby didn't bother me that much. Besides, we get to take a trip together without Schmidt and Winston. And Coach now too."
"Good point. Just don't freak out if my mom starts asking us crazy stuff like wedding questions and baby questions. When I brought Caroline home with me for Christmas one year, my mom asked us in front of everyone at the dinner table what type of wedding we were going to happen."
"That's not so bad. When I was with Spencer, my dad asked the both of us if my birth control was good enough because he didn't want to be a grandpa before he turned 50."
"Parents," Nick sighed.
A/N: Once again, if I accidentally take anyone's ideas, I'm really sorry. I feel like this is completely original, but I also feel like a lot of us have thought/came up with the idea of Nick and Jess going together for Jamie's wedding. Hopefully, my story will be different than other people's.
