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Summary- "She always said you were her knight in shining armour." Mia appeared from nowhere, her face stained with tears as she looked down at the car. Leon looked up at her and his face fell. "I'm so sorry, Le. If we hadn't…" She started to sob again and Leon stood up pulling the girl into a hug, pressing a kiss into her hair. "Hey Mia, it wasn't your fault, baby."
Well ah…hmmm…I'm not sure what to say. So my usual reviewers tfatfreak207, Love Ink, Gingermegs, Mrz Letty Ortiz-Toretto, D you guys are f-ing awesome. Thank you so much. You made my day. And sorry this one was a bit late.
So anyways for the first time in awhile I got some negative feedback. That's okay – Ginny's only supporter - you make a good argument. But I have to agree with the against argument. First off in the ring argument- I would like to point out that Nicola and Ginny are not strangers when she first comes around. Ginny and Nicola both work at the dance studio, Nicola was the one that invited Steph and Ginny to Hectors party and though these facts weren't exactly stated clearly, they were there. And it's a white gold sapphire ring- it's hardly a massive diamond and believe me I know people that would just borrow a ring like that Therefore Nicola and Ginny are co-workers, and Nicola trusts her as well as the fact that Nicola doesn't exactly go off at Ginny over the ring. . She offers it to her and it's everyone else that freaks out. And yes, Mia does defend Ginny, regularly. We've also Wiki-d "Mary Sue" and the general idea is that Nicola is not a Mary Sue. No-body set Ginny and Leon up- Ginny asked Leon out, Nicola just clarified that her and Leon weren't together and Mia helped her get ready for the date. They're hardly setting them up. I'm sorry that you feel that way about Ginny but I never wrote the story to pretend like the world is all puppies, kittens and ponies, so yeah, Ginny's getting screwed over at the moment- but guess what- shit happens. I'm hardly going to write a story where people all love each other and care about the feelings of other people. Your opinion is valued. That is all. Thank you to the person that defended this story.
Sooooo, it's my birthday tomorrow…gosh I feel so old. Hope you guys enjoy this!
Playlist -
Talk You Down – The Script
Miss You – Blink 182
Chapter Twenty-One – Feeling wide open and waiting
There was an insistent banging on her bedroom door and Nicola lifted her head from the pillows she'd trying to sleep in. Crawling off the bed she walked over to the door and pulled it open to reveal Leon, his hair sticking up, a lopsided grin on his face and the smell of whiskey on his breath.
"Lalalalalala." He said drunkenly shaking his head.
"You're drunk."
"I'm not, I swear." Slurring slightly his brow furrowed as he tried to concentrate on his words.
She lifted her chin in defiance as she stood up to him.
"What do you want?" She hissed and he grinned. She tried not to let her façade slip. That grin was damn sexy and he was driving her crazy.
"How are you?" He asked quietly suddenly sounding very sober but she refused to melt.
"I'm fine. What do you want?" She asked again and he sighed, his long cinnamon fingers raking his face with frustration.
"What do you think I want?" he asked and she rolled her eyes.
"Don't start this again, Leon." She growled and glared at him. "What about Ginny?" She said, cocking her eyebrow in the way that he adored.
"Ginny and I…we had a fight."
"So you came crawling back to me?" She asked, her hands moving to her hips to emphasise her point to him as he looked down at her with amused green eyes.
"I wouldn't say crawling."
"I would say crawling." She replied haughtily and the corner of his lip lifted higher.
"Why are you so set on being such a bitch? I want you…" He moved closer to her and reached for her hips which were covered by a loose flowing tank top. "And you want me too." He added and placed a hot kiss on her bare shoulder.
"You only want me because she's gone. Your little barbie is gone and I'm second best." She held her hands up to his chest and pushed him away. A sudden look of sadness came over his face and Nicola felt like slapping him. She wanted him to tell her that she was right, that he didn't want anything else from her but that.
"It's not about that La." He said gently as if reading her thoughts.
"Prove it." She replied.
"Let me stay."
"No Leon. You have a girlfriend. I won't do this with you when you're smashed." Nicola said gently and felt his hands wrap around her wrists and pull them from his chest as he leaned closer.
"We'll talk." Nicolas eyebrow lifted and she suddenly established that he wasn't as drunk as he made out.
"You're too drunk to talk." She replied and he grinned at her again.
"La…" She hated the way he said her name, it made her insides go all mushy and she let him push her back towards the bed, kicking the door closed behind them and making their way over to the bed. "We'll just talk." He said and let her wrists go. Nodding Nicola scooted onto the bed and lay on her side, discreetly pulling her shirt from her stomach as he crawled over and lay facing her.
"Fine then, talk." She said after a few seconds of silence and Leon licked his lips.
"Ginny said you were in love with me." He said quietly and Nicola flinched. "Are you?" He asked quietly, his hand coming up to rest on her neck, his thumb gently brushing her chin.
"It won't make any difference." Nicola said quietly.
"Why won't you let us try again La? Haven't I done enough to get your forgiveness?" His voice was hurt and Nicola bit her lip to stop the tears about to fall.
"You've always had my forgiveness." She replied and his eyebrows shot up.
"What?"
"When you came back from Mexico to see me in the hospital, I forgave you." The look on his face was enough to make her tell him the truth, he needed her forgiveness.
"Then why?" His husky voice cracked and Nicolas face crumpled.
"Because I'm the one that needs forgiveness Leon. You were so excited about the baby and I lost it and then I didn't stop Jesse."
"This whole time that's what this has been about? You left me because you thought I blamed you for losing the baby?" His hand dropped from her face and he sat up in shock. Nicola rolled over and sat up next to him.
"Didn't you?" She said quietly and Leons head snapped around to look at her.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me Nicola." Shaking his head he ran his hands through his hair and growled in frustration. "Fuck."
"Leon…?"
"Jesus Christ, La. We fucked everything up for what? Nothing!" He turned to look at her, his green eyes filled with hurt. "We could have saved ourselves all the hurt, that night after the bar and with Ginny and the ring. We didn't have to do any of it." His eyes were moist and he climbed off the bed quickly. "I have to go." He left the room, without even looking back and Nicola fell back on the bed and sighed.
"Almost."
Just like every other night she didn't sleep, but when the lights on the clock glowed telling her it was eleven forty-five, the door of her bedroom creaked open and she felt the bed sink.
"I miss you." She said into the dark and lifted the covers as he crawled under the them, going to spoon her but she turned in his arms and rested her arms between them. "Keeping it PG." He chuckled slightly and his hands splayed out on her shirt covered back.
"Happy Birthday pretty girl." Leon said quietly into her hair and Nicolas head shifted to look up at him.
"You know, besides Dad, you're the only one that's said Happy Birthday to me." She said quietly and Leon kissed her gently on the forehead. "Thank-you Lee."
He fell into an easy sleep and was only woken by Nicolas tossing and turning.
"La, please just calm down." He groaned and she let out a loud sigh and relaxed into his arms.
"Sorry." She muttered and he just chuckled. He missed the way it felt to her have her pressed up against him. His hand moved to rest on her hip and he sighed contently going back to sleep.
When he woke, his chest const
ricted with the thought that she'd left him again. Opening his eyes he could see her bare back as she stood in front of the closet and pulled a flowery sundress over her head and tugged the hem down to her knees.
"La?" He said and she turned around to face him. Her long hair was pulled over her shoulder in her trademark messy plait, her bangs pinned back from her eyes and large gold hoops hanging from her ears. God he missed her. Before he could say anything though there was a bang on Nicolas door and she looked over at it warily, silently praying whoever it was didn't walk in. It wasn't like they'd done anything but she didn't want to add fuel to fire.
"What?" She shouted and Vince cleared his throat through the door.
"Ginnys here. Could you go and get Leon from his room while we're in the kitchen La. Thanks." He didn't give her a chance to reply as he seemed to turn back to Ginny and started talking loudly as they made their way to the kitchen, both Nicola and Leon staring at the door.
"Motherfucker." Nicola said and Leon laughed. "That bastard knows you're in here." Leon threw the covers back and looked down at his tank and sweats, shrugging and throwing her a devious smirk. "Don't smile like that at me smartass." She growled and tugged at the hem of her dress again giving him a view of her cleavage which he swore had gotten bigger. Snapping out of his thoughts he threw her another grin.
"That dress does not suit you." He said referring to the innocent, demure sundress. It was nothing like the girl standing in front of him.
"Funny haha. Go away and stop looking at my boobs you perve." She threw a flip flop at him and he ducked out of the way but his eyes caught sight of the duffle bags lying on the floor near her feet.
"You're still going?" He asked and she nodded.
"I'm catching the bus at ten." Leon nodded and made his way to the kitchen glad she didn't bring up the events of the night before. He wasn't quite sure what any of it meant.
Ginny was sitting at the kitchen table, a mug of coffee in her hands as Vince leaned awkwardly against the fridge, waiting impatiently so he could leave and get away from the blonde.
As soon as Leon was through the door he was out it and making his way down to Nicolas room, leaning against the door frame as he watched her walk from the bathroom to her room and nudged him with her shoulder as she passed.
"What's new Coyote?" She asked and went about making the bed while he watched.
"You alright, kitten? Feeling okay?" He asked seriously and Nicola grinned.
"I'm fine Dad."
"And how's bubby this morning?" He cooed at her stomach as she neared him and rolled her eyes.
"I don't know about bubby, but mum is starved." She looked up at Vince eyed her knowingly.
"I know he was in there last night La." Vince replied, crossing his arms across his chest waiting for her reply.
"And we just talked. He has a girlfriend, remember? And p.s thanks for taking him out to get drunk you ass. He was a mess." Vince shrugged like he knew nothing. "Alright, well for that stunt you can cook me…umm I think I feel like scrambled eggs this morning." She looped her arm through his and they walked towards the kitchen.
"As long as you're not going to throw it out as soon as I make it. And I wasn't the one that took him out." He said and she stared at him, her eyebrow risen.
"Who did then?"
"Not telling." Vince teased and wrapped and arm around her shoulder.
"I'm just saying, if you spent a little less time with her and a bit more with me we might actually have a relationship." Ginnys voice made them both halt.
"She's my housemate and my best friend." Leon replied, his voice risen only slightly. Nicola stole a nervous glance at Vince who was trying to lean in enough to look through the doorway and see something.
"She's in love with you." Ginny snapped and Leon went silent. "You're my boyfriend remember?"
"Oh so now you own me." Leon laughed.
"Look," her voice was suddenly calm and collected, "Can you just spend some more time with me so we can work on this. Just ask her to go and stay at Stephs until I can deal with her." She pleaded and Nicola felt her stomach drop. She didn't hear Leons reply as she let go of Vinces arm and made her way back to her room.
"La!" Vince groaned and went after her, only to have the door shut in his face. "What the fuck are you doing?" He asked and Nicola glanced up at him from packing her bags.
"I'm giving them the space they need." She replied.
"Why? This is your house!" Vinces voice rose and Nicola looked up at him.
"No it's Leons house. And he needs alone time with his girlfriend. Okay?" She zipped the bag up and threw it over her shoulder, grabbing her handbag from the floor.
"Don't go, La. Please don't go. You're pregnant." He pleaded and Nicola smiled up at him.
"I'll be gone for a week. I'll be in San Francisco okay? If you need anything just call me. He just needs time to sort out this thing with Ginny." She placed her hand on his arm and looked up at him with pleading eyes and he knew he couldn't fight her on it.
"Why are you so fucking nice to her?" He said and she leant up and kissed him on the cheek.
"Because I have to respect Leons choices, Vince. I can't question what he wants anymore." She made her way to the kitchen and faced the couple. Leon was standing near the fridge and Ginny was turning an empty coffee cup in her hands.
"I just need to call a cab."." She said as she picked up the cordless phone and dialled the number.
"What?" Ginny asked and Nicola glanced over at her.
"Oh didn't Leon tell you? I'm going away for a week to see my Dad." She threw in a sweet smile for good measure before speaking to the operator on the phone.
Once the cab was arranged she picked up her bags again and made her way down the hall to the front door, Leon close on her tail.
"La, wait!" He grabbed her arm and she turned to look at him, tears in her eyes. "Why are you going?"
"You and Ginny need to sort this out, Leon. And it won't happen if I'm around." She explained and pulled the front door open, still looking up at him.
"What about last night?" He said breathlessly.
"What about last night? I meant everything I said last night. But this is your chance to fix things, to be happy." His hand fell from her wrist as he just stared at her in shock.
"But…" There was a beep and Nicola turned her head to look over at the yellow cab on the curb. She leant up and kissed his lips briefly and made her way down the porch to the awaiting taxi, Leon just staring after her.
"And tell Steph and Vince to stay away from my bedroom!"
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