The next morning Nicole and Marcus woke up. They decided where they were gonna go for dinner. Nicole was getting dressed.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay for breakfast?" Marcus asked.
"I have to go home and shower."
"You can shower here."
"I don't have any clothes here."
"Oh right." "Well in my opinion you look great without clothes."
"I'll see you at the restaurant at eight." She went to leave.
"Hey." She turned to him. "Come here." They kissed. "See you tonight." "Have a good day."
"You to." "Bye."
"Bye."
Nicole had just gotten to work. She sat at her cubicle.
"How are you doing Nicole?" Samantha asked.
"I'm very confused right now Samantha." "I have feelings for Marcus."
"I knew you did."
"I don't what to do." "I'm still hurting over Dean but Marcus… "All the reasons why I loved him are still there." "And in bed we just click I-
"Excuse me?" She said cutting her off. "In bed?"
"We slept together last night."
"How was that?"
"He was great." "It just felt right."
"I'm sure it did." She said smirking.
"You know what I mean." "We're going to dinner tonight." "Just to talk about things."
Nicole was on her lunch break. Her cell phone started to ring.
"Hello?" She said.
"Hey sis." Charlie said.
"Hi Charlie." "Is everything ok?"
"I was gonna ask you the same question." "I know you broke up with Dean."
"Who told you?"
"Dean." "He called me last night."
"Did he tell you what did?"
"Yeah I told him he was an asshole." "He said he's sorry and he wants you back." "He said he'll do anything."
"What did you say?"
"That he was shit out of luck."
Later that night Nicole met Marcus at the restaurant.
"Hi." She said sitting down.
"Hi." "You look great."
"Thanks so do you."
"I ordered a bottle of white wine for us."
"Great."
"How was your day?"
"Good."
They were eating.
"This is really good." Nicole said. "This is a nice place."
"Yeah since I'm not working with a bartender's salary anymore I can afford to take you nice places." "Nicole look, I know you have a lot to emotionally sort through right now." "We don't have to label or know anything right now but I'd like to keep seeing you."
"We can do that."
"Good." "I just feel like there's still so much there with us."
"Me to."
"I think we both proved that last night with that new found chemistry we discovered." He said smiling.
"I know what you mean." "I feel the same way." Her cell phone started to ring. Without even looking at who it was she sent it to voicemail.
Marcus walked Nicole to her car.
"Are you sure I can't persuade you to come home with me?" Marcus said.
"I need rest." "Someone tired me out last night." She said smiling.
"Oh really?"
"Uh-huh." They kissed. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight." "I'll call you tomorrow."
"Ok."
When Nicole got home she sat on the couch. She looked at her phone and saw she had a voicemail from Dean. She listened to it.
"Hi." He said. "How are you?" "That was a stupid question." "Nicole I know if we try we can work this out." "I promise Renee means nothing to me." "It was a mistake." "I miss you." "I need you." "I'll do anything you need me to do to make things better." "I love you Nicole." "Please call me back."
She deleted the message.