A/N: Well hello again, dear readers. Here is the next chapter, and I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween. (There are a few small references to the Halloween episode in this chapter, even though I haven't watched it yet – but soon!)
OH AND SORRY BUT I AM FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE PICTURES FOR NEXT EPISODE "Menzies" . I AM DYING OKAY BUT YEAH, I'LL TRY AND CONTINUE THIS CHAPTER.
The songs used are One More Night by Maroon 5 and also Candy by Robbie Williams.
"We were only dancing together, can't two friends dance together?"
"Not when those two friends like each other more than friends." Schmidt looked over at Winston.
"And another thing, Nick, you don't dance," Winston said watching Nick glance over at Jess, "I mean, she must be pretty special to make you, Nick Miller, dance."
Nick shook his head to stop himself staring at her, and looked back to the two guys next to him, and then over at the drinks now on the bar.
"Let's take these drinks back over to the table, shall we?" Nick replied completely avoiding the previous statement, picking up one of the beers and the pink wine and starting to walk back to the table.
As Nick approached the table, Jess turned to face him. "Thank you, Nick!" she said as he placed her glass down on the table in front of her. The girls sat opposite to her chuckled softly at them, as he slid back into the seat he had previously been in, letting his arm slip into the space on the sofa above her shoulders. The boys followed Nick closely and sat down, watching Nick and Jess, with small smiled appearing on their faces.
Nick and Jess turned their faces and look at each other, Jess letting a small smile softly form on her face. As soon Nick saw this, he couldn't stop a smile appearing on his face too. They could hear the rest of the gang whispering and laughing softly. He and Jess both turned to look at everyone else, both with straight faces and their eyes shooting daggers. Jess was the first to stop and turned to look back at Nick, who was still staring at the rest of the gang. She stared for what felt like forever, but was really only a few seconds, watching Nick's eyes dart back and forth between the people in front of him.
Slowly, he turned to face her. Her eyes darted back down to the drink in front of her. "So, everyone," she picked the drink up, "to a night of dancing?" She raised the glass into the air, while the rest of the gang clinked their glasses together saying 'to a night of dancing'. They all took sips of their drinks and placed their glasses back down on the table. Jess was the first of them to get up, "Let's get this party started!" holding her arms either side of her head moving them up and down. She moved her hand down and grabbed Cece, and pulled her out onto the dance floor where her favourite song had started playing.
Schmidt followed, with Winston and Shelby following him. Nick watched the group for a moment, before mumbling to himself, "I suppose I ought to go too..." Slowly getting up, taking a quick swig of his drink – which was now empty before placing the bottle back down on the table, he walked into the crowd in front of him, met by cheers from Schmidt.
As he listened to the words of Jess' favourite song, the more he realised how much she truly meant to him, and that this song had more to do with them than he'd noticed – even though he had heard it so many other times, thanks to Jess' obsession with blasting any songs that she really likes.
You and I go hard at each other like we're going to war.
You and I go rough; we keep throwing things and slamming the doors.
You and I get so damn dysfunctional, we start keeping score.
You and I get sick, yeah, I know that we can't do this no more.
Nick thought back to all the times when he and Jess had their arguments. When they had an argument about whether he liked Paul or not, and when he swore they were going to kiss – that being the first time he'd thought that, and not the last. When she first made him aware of his 'turtle face'. When he had backslide with Caroline, and she shouted at him for being an idiot. He also thought of all the doors that had been slammed in result of these arguments. He thought to the time he accidently threw a punch at Jess in the haunted house – of course he was apologetic, he couldn't have just left her there like that. He laughed at the thought of Jess dressed as zombie Woody Allen, or as he liked to call it, 'sexy un-dead driver's ed teacher'.
But, baby, there you go again; there you go again making me love you.
Yeah, I stopped using my head, using my head, let it all go.
Got you stuck on my body, on my body like a tattoo.
And now I'm feeling stupid, feeling stupid crawling back to you.
He watched her every movement, realising he wasn't actually moving himself which really made him look out of place. He looked down, tightly closing his eyes, then looked back to up to be met directly with Jess', who was now stood right in front of him.
"Niiiick! Come on and dance!" Jess slurred slightly, letting what Cece and Shelby said earlier slip out of her mind.
"Er, erm, well.." Nick tried to think of a reason to leave and not give Schmidt and Winston anymore reason to think about him and Jess together, "I was just about to get another drink."
Jess looked towards the table, noticing her drink was empty. "Oh, so do I! I'll come with you!" She skipped to stand next to him and linked her arm with his. Nick didn't try to resist, just kept his arm down beside him. Damn, this won't help my argument against Schmidt and Winston, Nick thought to himself. As they reached the bar, Jess unlinked her arm from Nick's, placing her hands on the bar gripping onto the edge.
Once they had got their drinks, they headed back towards the table. The rest of the gang – who were still out on the dance floor – who had been watching them at the bar, all turned back around and resumed dancing as 'normal'. Nick and Jess didn't notice this, as Jess relinked her arms through Nick's. They got back to the table, placing the drinks down. Nick used his hand to take Jess' arm out from around his other arm and while holding her hand, lead her out onto the dance floor. She didn't let go of his hand, and grabbed Cece's hand with her other hand. Jess, its times like this when I love you most, Nick thought to himself. Nick shook his head away from watching her, and realised that Schmidt had been talking to him.
The song changed and Jess started dancing even more energetically along with Candy by Robbie Williams. As it reached the chorus, she started to sing along really loudly.
Hey ho, here she goes.
Either a little too high or a little too low,
With no self-esteem and vertigo,
She thinks she's made of candy.
Tightly holding onto Nick's hand, she twirled herself around, stumbling and ending up chest-to-chest with him. They looked straight into each other's eyes, lingering for a minute, breathing in time with each other, before Jess mumbled something that sounded like 'oh, sorry'. Acknowledging the apology, Nick backed away slowly, turning around and began walking towards the table. He was going to get drunk tonight.
A/N #2: Well this chapter ended up like a filler bit, but I promise next chapter, they will move out of the wedding reception and back to the apartment! I have some fun stuff planned for them!
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