You'll Never Know Until You Try it
Chapter 50. Broken…But Not Dead
Author: twin who likes to travel
Rating: R
Summary: Nikki breaks up with Kerry and tries to get along without her.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Reviews: I would like them. Constructive criticism is ok.
Author's notes: Thanks for another review, Backoff2069. Sorry to tell you this, but it only gets worse for the couple. Like I said in the author's notes for the previous chapter, before I edited it, what happens between them in this chapter is only temporary. And another thanks out to Racoon247 for adding my story to their alert list.
Sometime later, Kerry and Nikki's dorm room
Kerry had entered the dorm building with a half smile on her face. It had been just over three weeks since she had cheated on the girl she loved and who loved her back just as much if not more. She hadn't seen Alison since that day she still tried to forget. A major part of that was due that the other girl wasn't even a student there. Ms. Beaumont hadn't said anything to her or asked about the dark haired girl. Even though she was extremely thankful about that, her gut was telling her that her teacher may know something. But since neither brought up the beautiful girl's name, there was no other way to confirm it. Another thing she didn't know was that same teacher had checked her out while she left that day. As soon as Kerry's back was to her, she imagined everything Alison had told her in secrecy.
The woman even thought to herself that if Kerry was single and not her student, she would have tried something too. Meanwhile, Kerry shifted her thoughts back to Nikki and what they could do this weekend. Part of it would possibly be spent talking about the upcoming Valentine's Day and her first college Spring Break. With an impulsive and slightly wild girlfriend, the possibilities of what could be on the older girl's mind seemed almost endless. That's minus the idea of a marriage proposal and eloping in Massachusetts or even further up north. She would find out in less than a minute that something very bad was waiting for her.
"Hey, Princess, what's up?" Kerry asked as she closed the door behind her, not even looking at Nikki when she asked that.
"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME?" Nikki screamed.
"How could I do what? What's wrong?" the redhead questioned after seeing the tears streaming down her girlfriend's cheeks and the full, duffel bag at the foot of the bed.
"H-How c-could y-you ch-cheat o-on m-me?"
"I didn't. Where did you get that idea?" How did she find out? Alison must have told her. I can't believe I believed her.
"You're actually going to stand there and lie to me? Fine, then I'll tell you. I'm sure you remember a beautiful girl by the name Alison Brown. You know, the model you PROMISED I had nothing to worry about; and that you wouldn't think twice about saying NO to her. Well, the little bitch confronted me at the café we usually go to. She told me about what you did. I didn't believe her until she showed me the DVD that was in this case. Feel like watching it with me?"
"N-not r-really."
"Well, you're out of luck because you're going to watch it with me," Nikki demanded as she was fighting back tears.
"D-Don't you have a class that you should be getting to soon?"
"I'm blowing it off for once," Nikki added as she saw the shorter girl walking up and attempting to reach out and touch her, "Keep your hands away from me and sit down. The sooner we watch this the sooner I can get out of here."
"O-Ok," Kerry muttered as she tried to think of a way to salvage the relationship that was falling apart as they spoke.
Both remained silent as Nikki started the DVD from the very beginning. Each of them cast the occasional glance at the other and ended up looking eye to eye a few times in the process. Kerry could barely comprehend why she did what she was doing on the DVD. She gasped when she saw how Alison had taken off her shorts and socks while she was removing her bra and lying down on it. She gulped at the sight of the dark haired girl straddling her before removing the shirt and bra, exposing the thong underwear and the skin she had felt on hers. A few shudders went down her spine at seeing herself lifting her own body off the bed enough for the brunette to take off the last piece of clothing and herself lying their while Alison was taking off her own. She peeked over at Nikki, who was still silently crying. She heard sobbing as the girls began having sex. Then Nikki skipped ahead a little and let it play from the very second Alison began moving down Kerry's body. It went on until the redhead let out the first shriek. The redhead was surprised when the screen then went dark.
"I…I…"
"Save it, I don't want to talk anymore right now. I want to wait until I know exactly what I want to say. I don't want to say something then having to regret it later. Feel free to watch the rest of it."
"When can we talk about it?"
"I need at least a few hours. Don't try calling me. When I'm ready, I'll let you know. I want it to be in person."
"W-Wait," Kerry pleaded while grabbing Nikki by her left arm.
"Let…go…of…my…arm."
"Where are you going? How will I find you?"
"You're a very smart girl. You'll figure it out. Bye."
The second the door closed, Kerry was convinced she knew where Nikki was going, Rachel and Joe's apartment.
Twenty-five to thirty minutes later, outside Rachel and Joe Turner's apartment
Nikki had managed not to shed any tears since leaving the dorm. But she knew that as soon as that door opened, they would come again. She could feel them building as she rang the doorbell.
"Who is it?"
"It's Nikki. C-Can I c-come in?" Nikki said in a choked up tone as she was spotted through the peephole.
"Of course, come in," Rachel consented as she opened the door, stepped aside to let her cousin in, and then closed the door, "What's wrong?"
Rachel watched silently as her only cousin walked over to the nearby couch and sat down with her face in her hands. After only about five seconds of silence Rachel couldn't take it anymore.
"Look up and tell me what's wrong."
Nikki did as told as she stared at her with the saddest eyes her cousin had seen since their paternal grandfather had died and answered, "K-Kerry ch-cheated o-on m-me."
"Tell me everything," Rachel politely ordered as she joined her cousin on the couch and held her hands gently.
After taking a deep breath, Nikki told her word for word the discussion she had with both girls, what she saw on the DVD, and a few other things she was feeling that involved the redhead. When Nikki began crying hard on Rachel's shoulder, her cousin led the distraught girl into the guest bedroom and had her lie down on the bed. Then joined her and held her while Nikki cried more. She stayed there until Nikki had cried herself to sleep. Rachel carefully laid her down on her back, removed her shoes, and left the room, turning off the light and closing the door softly as she did.
Around two and a half hours later, outside Rachel and Joe Turner's apartment.
Kerry was extremely nervous as she reached the apartment door. As she prepared to ring the bell, Rachel's warning from over a year ago came rushing back. I feel the same about Nikki that she feels about me so if you hurt her, you'll answer to me, got it? After taking a deep breath and hesitating for a few seconds, she rang the bell.
On the other side of the door
Almost immediately after Rachel returned to the family room, she spotted the duffel bag on the floor beside the couch. It appeared pretty full and remembered that her cousin hadn't asked if she could spend what would probably be the weekend there. She decided when Nikki woke up that she would ask her about it to make sure. She had been watching TV for almost two hours when she heard the doorbell. She tried to keep herself calm because she was sure the person would be a short, redheaded girl. Rachel spied through the peephole again and saw a nervous expression on the redhead's face. This brought a smile to her face. She thought for a second about how to react. She opened the door and pulled her into the apartment with some force. Her smile turned into a glare as she closed the door. Before she could stop herself, she began to take out her anger at the person responsible for it.
"You look scared. Good, you SHOULD be," Rachel stated after directing the girl to sit down on the couch.
"I-Is N-Nikki h-here?" Kerry stuttered and suddenly noticed the duffel bag less than two feet away.
"Of course she is. Where else would she be? She's somewhere she's loved."
"I l-love h-her t-too."
"HA!" the older woman scoffed louder than she had meant to, "If you did, you wouldn't have cheated on her, would you?"
"I…"
"Do you have ANY idea of the MAGNITUDE of pain you've caused my sweet and beautiful cousin, a girl who's been like a baby sister to me?"
"I think…"
"She loved you as much as she possibly could. Probably still does. That's just the type of person she is. She tells me everything. Well, except for the very intimate details between you two. And in less than the two hours you spent with those two girls, you pretty much destroyed whatever you two had together. When she got here, she was a mess. She told me as much as she wanted to before she cried herself to sleep. She's broken now. You've emotionally broken her, you redheaded bitch. And I liked you from the very first day I met you. Do you want to know a few of the last things she told me before she fell asleep?"
"Y-Yes."
"She told me that it felt like her heart was torn in two, but it was still beating. She told me she didn't know when or if she could ever watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer again. I'm sure you remember it was one of if not her favorite show of all time so far. She said the same things about every song you two danced or made out to. And the one she danced to in the Caribbean while you recorded her. You have NO idea of what you've lost. I'm so mad I could hit you. In fact I think I will."
Kerry became scared as the woman, who was blocking the door, pulled her hand back in preparation to slap her hard. As the hand began making its way toward her face, they were interrupted.
"RACHEL, DON'T!"
"Why not? She deserves it," Rachel replied after both she and Kerry faced her cousin.
"Because whether or not she deserves it, I should be the one that gets to hit her." Nikki answered as she paced up to them, bringing a smile to Rachel's face and adding shock to the still scared redhead, "But I won't."
"How long have you been up?"
"Since you opened the door, the doorbell woke me up. How long had I been asleep?"
"A couple of hours."
"Are you ready to talk now?"
"Yes, but Rachel said most of what I was going to say."
"Sorry," Rachel mumbled, "Do you want to talk in private? Because I can go into my and Joe's bedroom until you're done."
"It's ok. I probably would have done the same thing, and you can stay for this."
The two shared a smile before being interrupted by Kerry.
"Is everything Rachel said true?"
"Yes. I guess now you know whether it was just me you liked having sex with or girls in general. Was the sex worth losing me because you seemed to really like it?"
"I'm SO SORRY. What can I do to fix it? I will do almost anything."
"You can't fix it."
"Then what do you want me to do?"
"I want you to give back the claddagh ring I gave you," Nikki insisted as she took off the one on her finger.
"No, I don't want to."
"Why not?"
"B-Because that means we're breaking up."
"That's right."
"But I don't want it to be over."
"You should have thought about that before you let Alison do all those things to you, doing almost all of the same things to her, and then letting it all happen again with that blonde. And that's not the only thing that's over. Right before Alison showed up at the café, I had confirmed the plans I had made for us during Spring Break. I was going to surprise you with that and what we'd be doing on Valentine's Day. I'm going to see if I can exchange the plane ticket I got you."
"Wh-What w-ere w-we g-going t-to d-do?"
"For Valentine's Day, we were going to spend the night in a very nice hotel. I had picked a room with a great view of the city, a queen size bed, and a bathroom tub as big as mine. We were going to make love until you were too worn out to even move. Then we were going to watch our favorite movies while eating food from room service. When you got your energy back, we'd do it again until all you wanted to do was sleep."
"A-And Spr-Spring Bre-Break?"
"Panama City Beach, Florida. We were going to have fun like we did in the Caribbean, maybe get a little drunk, and see how many beads we could get without buying them if you know what I mean."
Nikki smirked as both Rachel and Kerry stood there, clearly stunned.
"And now?"
"If I'm lucky, you'll be Detroit bound."
"Don't you love me anymore?"
"I still love you. I will always love you."
"If we still love each other, why can't we stay together?"
"Because I don't TRUST you anymore. I can forgive you for the kiss. I can even forgive you for the massage. But I don't know if I can forgive you for how EASILY you gave it up to Alison and her friend, Hailey. Maybe I could if you had been drunk, but you weren't. All it took to get you naked and have sex with her and her friend were some compliments, a massage, a few kisses, and a seductive stare. You had only known her for around twenty four hours and you had just met her friend. We both agreed on why we didn't want to have a threesome. But as soon as two girls who are a little bit more attractive than me say you're cute too, you're willing and able to do it. Now you can either hand over the ring or I can take it off of you myself."
Kerry gazed up at Nikki with tears running down her cheeks as the other girl was shedding tears as well. She slowly took off the ring and handed it to her before getting back the one Nikki had taken off.
"I stopped by the housing office before I left the campus. Since I'm the reason we got one of the better rooms, you're moving into one of the recently emptied, dorm rooms on Monday morning."
"Do we have to take it that far?"
"Yes, I can barely stand to see you. I never cheated on you, gave you space when you needed time alone, and understood when you wanted time to be with your other friends. Now leave, don't come back here, and don't let the door hit you on the ass as you leave," Nikki requested as she wiped away a few more tears.
"N-Nikki, pl-please d-don't d-do th-this," Kerry begged as tears continued to fall.
"She said leave, but I have no problem with throwing you out and letting the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
Kerry stood and made one last attempt at saving her relationship. She surprised Nikki with a very passionate kiss. After a few seconds of moving her tongue around in Nikki's mouth, she was almost violently pushed away. The redhead watched as Nikki wiped off her lips with the back of her hand.
"We said leave," Nikki commanded before turning to her cousin, "You have the honor of throwing her out and letting the door hit her on the ass as you do."
"Really?" her cousin responded eagerly as she grabbed the girl trying to escape by the arm with one hand.
"Yes, really," Nikki confirmed as she stared at the other two while crossing her arms over her chest.
Rachel then used the other hand to open the door and shoved Kerry out. A mere second after releasing the redhead, she pushed the door hard. Kerry hadn't even completely crossed over the open doorway. So the door did hit her on the ass, pushing her out the rest of the way. As the door closed, it looked like Kerry was starting to stumble. Rachel made a smacking sound with her hands as she turned around to face Nikki, who sort of smiled before falling into her arms and crying again. Rachel went instantly into comfort mode.
"I take it from that bag you were hoping you could stay here for the most of if not the entire weekend?"
"Y-Yeah, c-can I-I?"
"Of course. Joe and I were going to go to a movie after dinner, but we can cancel those plans. The three of us can go out to the clubs. We'll drink, you can wear something a little bit slutty, and maybe get a little from any attractive girl that might hit on you between the horny men trying to get in your pants or up your skirt, depending on your outfit."
"I don't want to ruin your fun, I can stay here."
"It's no problem, really. Besides, with how impulsive and wild you can get, I'm sure hanging out with you will be more entertaining. And I know Joe will agree. You'll also have someone to help bail you out if you have any trouble."
"Ok, cool."
"I'll start cooking dinner in about an hour."
"Great," Nikki declared as she joined Rachel on the couch for the next hour of whatever was on the TV.
Many hours later
The trio of Nikki, Rachel, and Joe had been hanging at some of the popular clubs, but Nikki wasn't feeling any sort of attraction to the others there. Part of it was because it was only guys hitting on her. After hearing some of the most used pick up lines, she sighed in utter disgust. When Rachel heard that, she suggested a different club. Nikki agreed when the other choices were going back to the apartment or going back to the same exotic dance club. She really wasn't in the mood to find out if that same woman still worked there. The girl was attractive without a doubt, but it wasn't enough to deal with the annoying voice that came out of that very woman's mouth.
They had been at the second club for almost an hour before the first victim of dismissal made his way over to her. It seemed that the guys at this club at least tried to be original. The last guy had gotten his hopes up since he actually managed to get a good natured laugh. He offered to buy her either a drink or a shot and was subjected to a rejection. He perked up when she explained why the guy had no chance. The three of them watched with smiles on their faces as the guy went back to his table, where he clearly was being made fun of. He had got his revenge on his so called friends when he explained her excuse. The group then began leering at Nikki. Then Nikki and Rachel saw a very attractive woman a few inches taller than Nikki approaching their table. They shared a smirk before observing the woman reaching their table. It was that moment, Joe had realized they were no longer alone. He smirked when his wife whispered into his right ear that the new arrival had basically been ogling Nikki.
"Hi, I was wanting to know if I could buy you a shot, a drink, or maybe get you to dance with me at least once," the stranger greeted just loud enough for the other three to hear her over the music.
"What's your name, hotstuff?" Nikki inquired from the light brown haired girl with a smirk.
"Well, my real name is Danielle Henderson, but you can call me Venus."
That got Nikki to arch an eyebrow in curiosity at what the girl was going to say before guessing, "Why, because you're beautiful, like a goddess?"
"No," Danielle assured with a smirk of her own.
"Then why?"
"Because I'm out of this world and have yet to be FULLY explored. If we're both lucky, maybe you could be that explorer."
This got the other two women to laugh and Joe to smirk.
"I haven't heard that one before, but then again you're only the second woman to hit on me."
"So is that a yes?"
Nikki motioned for Danielle to get closer by wiggling her right index finger and answered when the girl was about two or three inches away from her face, "That's a yes to the first and third choice. In that exact order."
"Good. So what's your name and do you have any nicknames?"
"My name is Nikki Alcott, and I don't have any nicknames at the moment. But I guess a fitting one could be 'Cliffhanger'."
"And why is that?" Danielle wondered as she, Rachel, and Joe wanted to see what creative reply they would hear.
"Because I ALWAYS leave them wanting more," Nikki announced before giggling a little at her own joke.
Before anything else could be said or done. Danielle leaned in the rest of the way and planted a kiss on the slightly open mouth in front of her. After a few seconds, she teased the shocked girl by sticking out her tongue enough to softly touch the center of Nikki's lips for another two seconds before pulling away. Nikki gasped as Danielle smirked at her again.
"Why-Why did you do that?"
"Sorry, if that upset you. It's just I have NEVER heard that before. I guess I thought you earned it. If you want to forget about the offer and me to leave you alone for the rest of the time you're here, just say so; and I won't bother you again."
"Don't go. But for that I want two free shots, not one. Then we'll dance."
"I'll be right back. Nice outfit by the way."
"I'll be here and right back at you about the outfit."
"Why two, Nikki? You've done things more impulsive than that."
"Yeah, I have…But she doesn't know that yet," Nikki explained as they saw the younger girl checking out Danielle's butt in the short skirt.
"Yet?" the couple said together.
"Uh huh," Nikki confided softly as she suddenly examined her outfit, an equally short skirt and a red, button up the front blouse.
"I hope lemon shots are ok," Danielle told her.
"That's fine."
The couple watched as Nikki quickly downed two of the three shots while the other girl did the same to the third one.
"Let's dance now," Danielle requested and whispered into Nikki's ear when they both spotted the same guys staring at them.
Nikki nodded her consent to what the taller girl had whispered. Rachel, Joe, and the group of guys looked on as Danielle took Nikki by her right hand and headed to the dance floor. Most of the focus was currently on the two women, who seemed to be taunting the guys by the way they moved. For the next three songs Danielle and Nikki rubbed against each other, which was loudly encouraged from shouts around them. Danielle ran her hands up and down Nikki's sides as she rubbed up against her from behind.
During the final song, the crowd had seen the women almost grab each other's butts. They ended that last dance by sharing a very heated kiss. The guys let out sounds of disappointment when they left the floor. It turned into cheers as the couple headed straight for the women's restroom. Rachel got out of her chair in concern for her cousin but was stopped when Joe reminded her that Nikki was an adult, wasn't being forced, and wasn't drunk enough to not know what she was doing. His wife sighed when he laid a soft kiss on her forehead.
