Chapter Twelve

"Brie" Nikki said the next morning answering the door

"you look awful… did you sleep last night?" she asked

"uh oh not really" she admitted

"What's wrong?" Brie asked

"Dean… he uh"

"he what? What happened?" Brie questioned

"He kissed me" she finally said

Brie gasped

"I know" nikki agreed

"What happened?" Brie questioned

"He was drunk and we were arguing about Randy and then he just kissed me and then he just took off and he never came back last night, I got a text from Roman this morning that he slept on their couch."

"wow" brie said, "I told you he liked you"

"He was drunk Brianna" Nicole denied

"How do you feel… about it?" Brie asked her

"I don't know exactly…." She sighed.

Deans POV

"So, you going to tell us why you ended up in our room and not your own?" Roman asked

"Nope," Dean said

"Have you talked to Nicole?" Seth asked

"Why?" Dean asked

"Figure she has something to do with it" Seth pointed out

Dean just shrugged and put his headphones on. Seth and Roman just shot each other a look. Nikki avoided the same question when they arrived at the airport earlier. Traveled to the airport with Brie and decided to fly with Brie to the next tour using the excuse that she simply just missed her sister.

Nikki and Dean hadn't spoken since the kiss. Neither of them knew what to say, how to act, how to feel. But it affected them both and it wasn't hard for more people to notice something was off especially once they were in the same place backstage.

"Dean, you seen Nikki?" Paige asked, "wanted to go over our match"

Dean just shook his head

"aren't you guys up in like 15 minutes?" she asked

"yup" dean said

"but you don't know where she is?"

"Wasn't my turn to watch her" Dean snapped

Paige glared at him

"Sorry" He apologized

"Your boys were right, something is going on" Paige told him

"What?" he asked, "nothing is going on"

"your poker face sucks" Paige replied

He rolled his eyes

"We'll you know where to find me if you decide to want to tell someone how you're really feeling" Paige got up to walk away

"I kissed her" he confessed

She twirled back around

"you what?!"

"you heard me" he said

"what'd she do?" she asked

"I didn't stick around to find out" he told her "I got plastered after seeing her with Randy and we got into a fight about him and I don't know what happened I just kissed her and then I ran away"

"You kissed and then you ran away…?" Paige judged

"I didn't know what to do… I freaked out. I've been feeling all kinds of ways and I can't handle it."

"We'll you have to talk to her, it's clearly affecting her too." Paige told him

"How can I do that when I still don't know how I feel about it" Dean asked

"You think you would have done it if you weren't drunk?" she questioned him

"maybe… I've thought about it" he confessed

"You want to know what I think?" Paige asked

"You're going to tell me anyways" he joked

"I think you're scared, you feel something for her, and you're scared because you never feel this way about anyone, you don't' let yourself, but it's happened, and what you choose to do with it is up to you, but you NEED to talk to her, you cannot just ignore her, it'll only make things worse." Paige said

"You're probably right… I'll talk to her after the show" Dean decided

Nikkis POV

"ready boys" Nikki smiled meeting Seth and Roman at gorilla

"Will be once Dean gets here" Seth said looking around

"ah, there he is" Roman said seeing him jogging towards them

"Sorry let's go" he said

Roman and Seth walked in front of them as usual

"Nik, can we talk after this?" Dean asked

"okay" she said