Finding Each Other
Chapter 8: Friends.Just friends
As Nikkie walked up the block she made it to the house she was planning on getting to. She walked up the front porch and rang the doorbell. She waited a few seconds until the door had opened.
"Hey Joey, um.is Craig home" Nikkie asked nervously
"Yeah Nikkie he's right here....Craig" Joey said
Joey let go of the door and Craig held the door open staring at Nikkie.
"Um..Craig can I talk to you" Nikkie asked
"Sure come on in" Craig told her
When Nikkie walked in she saw Angie coloring and watching cartoons at the same time. When Angie heard footsteps she turned her head and saw Nikkie. She jumped up to Nikkie and hugged her legs.
"NIKKIE!!!! Where's your sister Alexa?" Angie asked
Nikkie laughed "She's home"
"Oh..well" Angie said
Nikkie sat down on the couch and Angie ran upstairs with her book and crayons falling from her hands.
"So....what did you want to tell me" Craig said
Nikkie had a serious look on her face.
"Craig..I wanna ask you that um..that night.. what did you tell Jimmy" Nikkie asked
"What do you mean" Craig asked
"I mean..its kind of odd that all of a sudden that I end up in hospital that he wants to tell me his feelings" Nikkie said
"Well maybe he wanted to tell you before something actually happened" Craig said
"Yeah..but I still want to know what you said" Nikkie said
"Ok...he wasn't going to go see you..........so I was thinking about you had told me in the hallway..how me and you would only be friends right. So I decided to tell him that you liked him and that I was sure you wanted to see him" Craig said
"And what did he say" Nikkie said looking a little shocked
"He was shocked that you felt the same way" Craig said
Nikkie smiled and hugged him.
"Craig..thanks for listening to me and just being there ok" Nikkie said "I just wanted you to know that I appreciate it all that you've done for me"
"Your welcome" Craig said and gave Nikkie a kiss on the forehead.
Nikkie smiled and stood up.
"Well I've gotta go" Nikkie said "Maybe we can take Alexa and Angie to the park tomorrow".
"Cool" Craig said
Nikkie left his house with a smile knowing that Craig literally helped out the relationship between her and Jimmy.
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When Nikkie got home she went upstairs and plopped herself onto her bed. She took out her favorite cd which was Beyonce' and she popped it into her cd stereo and listened to her favorite song which was called "Dangerously in Love 2" she sang along with the song like she was on stage singing
"I love you
Baby I love you
You are my life
My happiest moments weren't complete
If you weren't by my side
You're my relation
In connection to the sun
With you next to me
There's no darkness I can't overcome
You are my raindrops
I am the sea
With you and God, who's my sunlight
I bloom and grow so beautifully
Baby, I'm so proud
So proud to be your girl
You make the confusion
Go all away
From this cold and mixed up world
I am in love with you
You set me free
I can't do this thing
Called life without you here with me
Cause I'm Dangerously In Love with you
I'll never leave
Just keep lovin' me
The way I love you loving me
And I know you love me
Love me for who I am
Cause years before I became who I am
Baby you were my man
I know it ain't easy
Easy loving me
I appreciate the love and dedication
From you to me
Later on in my destiny
I see myself having your child
I see myself being your wife
And I see my whole future in your eyes
Thought of all my love for you
sometimes make me wanna cry
Realize all my blessings
I'm grateful
To have you by my side
I am in love with you
You set me free
I can't do this thing
Called life without you here with me
Cause I'm Dangerously In Love with you
I'll never leave
Just keep lovin' me
The way I love you loving me
Every time I see your face
My heart smiles
Every time it feels so good
It hurts sometimes
Created in this world
To love and to hold
To feel
To breathe
To love you
Dangerously in love
Can't do this thing
I love you , I love you, I love you
I'll never leave
Just keep on loving me
I'm in love with you
I can not do
I cannot do anything without you in my life
Holding me, kissing me, loving me
Dangerously
I love you
Dangerously in love"
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She kept singing it all night until she sang herself to sleep. Raylese could still hear it, so she went into her room and turned it off. She looked at Nikkie who was still fully dressed. She took off her shoes and her sweater. She tucked her in and turned off her light and kissed her forehead and left her alone to sleep peacefully.
The next morning Nikkie went downstairs to find Kayla still making plans for the funeral next Saturday. When Nikkie looked at her it looked like she had been up all night.
Nikkie washed up and changed into her pj's because the following night she didn't change. She put on some blue pj pants that were baggy with stars and bears on them, and white tank top. She poured a bowl of cereal and curled up on the couch and began flicking through channels. She decided to listen to the top 100 most greatest tunes on a music channel. When the song "U got it bad" came on she remembered that night. She was about to dance but the worst had to interrupt.
Alexa came into the room with her teddy bear. She came up in front of the T.V.
"Nikkie..can I have some juice" Alexa whined
Nikkie got up and put her bowl in the sink and pulled two glasses out of the cupboard. She pulled the orange juice from the fridge and poured them into the glasses. She handed Alexa's glass to her and told her to stay in the kitchen and drink it. Nikkie walked back into the living room drinking up her juice when she heard glass shattering on the floor she turned around and saw orange juice all over the kitchen floor and glass all over the floor. Raylese came down stairs in a rush with her towel wrapped around her. Kayla got up and yelled at Nikkie to clean it up. Alexa began to cry and Kayla went upstairs to finish up the paper work. Nikkie grabbed some paper towel and bent over and began wiping up the juice. Then all of a sudden the doorbell rang. She immediately got up and put down the paper. She walked up to the back door and opened it. There stood Craig.
"Hey Nikkie....is this a bad time" Craig asked
"Well yeah.but its ok, come in" Nikkie said politely
"Um...it's looking crazy in here do you need help" Craig asked
"Yeah.sure, thanks..can you pick up some of those toys because some little girl couldn't put them back where she found them" she said looking straight at Alexa who had calmed down and was watching T.V.
Craig put the toys in the toy bag that was against the wall and Nikkie finished cleaning up the glass and juice. She put in the trash and walked into the living room where Alexa was staring at the screen and Craig was slouched on the couch because of the show he was stuck watching. Nikkie sat down in between Craig and her and looked at Alexa.
"Alexa go upstairs and watch T.V. there" Nikkie told her
"But why" Alexa whined
"Because Y is a crooked letter and you won't come to the park with us later if you don't" Nikkie said
"OK" Alexa said excitedly
Alexa ran up the stairs and left Nikkie alone...finally.
"So why are you here so early" Nikkie asked him
"I don't know...I mean it's been a while since we hung out so I thought we could start the day early" Craig told her
"COOL. So what are we going to do" Nikkie asked him
"Anything.Whatever..it doesn't matter cause were gonna have fun". Craig said
"Ok.well let me change" Nikkie said getting up. She went towards the staircase and when she put her hands on the railing Craig said something to her.
"Oh Yeah, Nikkie nice pants" Craig said snickering
Nikkie looked down at them and told him,
"There pajama pants" and she ran upstairs
She came down 10 minutes later came down. She dressed in black sweat pants and a white fat strapped tank top, and white sneakers, and her hair was straight and flat she had used the flattening iron on her hair. When she had came down she found Craig looking at the picture of her father that was sitting on the high table in the living room where they kept all pictures of relatives and friends. Nikkie came closer to Craig and looked at the picture he had in his hands.
"He was the greatest dad...not the ones that you say that he's the greatest because you want to make him feel better..I mean he really was one of the greatest dads. He didn't have to spoil me with money to get me to love him and show it. It was just there for me... all my love for him....Now he's..gone" Nikkie said with a sad tone in her voice.
"Well..Nikkie you can't always keep everything you have. Sometimes you have to let go".
"I know it just that I wasn't ready to let go yet..it was just to sudden first the news about him, then my accident, then him dieing...the only good thing that happened between that was Jimmy" Nikkie said.
"Yeah...but no ones ever ready. Just like my dad's death I wasn't ready for the major hit. I didn't miss him until the worst moment. It was then that it hit me that I did love him" Craig told her.
Silence hit for a few. Then Craig wrapped a arm around Nikkie and kissed her on top of her head.
"Ok are you ready...lets go" Craig said
Nikkie smiled and Craig moved forward. Nikkie stayed back and looked at the picture.. "I love you dad" Nikkie said
She went towards the stair case and yelled out
"Ma...I'm gone, if you need me my phone will be on"
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Nikkie and Craig went to the park and talked for about and hour. But time had past who knows how long they had spent. They talked about everything. Then afterwards Craig took Nikkie to lunch. They went to The Dot Grill (had to add that () and picked up some fries and burgers and some shakes.
Then around 2:00 they went to the movies and ate popcorn and laughed like old times. It had been a long time since she hung with her best guy friend. Not hanging with him to her was like not taking a bath. It was a everyday thing. Then they snuck into another movie. They were acting like little kids.
Then around 5:00 they went back to Nikkie's house and picked up Alexa. Then they went to Craig's house and picked up Angie. They went to the park. The sprinklers were on an Angie and Alexa were playing in it. Craig and Nikkie were sitting looking at them an laughing. Craig was also taking pictures of them playing. Then Craig pointed the camera at Nikkie. Nikkie looked at it and put her hands over the lens.
"No pictures of me please" Nikkie said laughing
Craig took the camera away from his eye and looked at it then at Nikkie. He was squinting his eyes because of the sun. Then the ice-cream truck came up and Alexa came up to Nikkie and asked if she could have a ice-cream. Nikkie looked at Craig.
"I'll be right back" Nikkie told Craig
She took Alexa's hand and Angie's. She went up to the ice-cream truck and asked for the cones. Meanwhile Craig was looking at Nikkie. How he had lost her. She was a great kind, nice and crazy girl. But he would give up anything to have her and make her feel that she couldn't be hurt again. Nikkie gave the girls their ice-creams and had two in her hands coming towards Craig.
"Here, didn't know what you liked so I got two ice-cream sandwiches" Nikkie told him.
"Thanks" Craig said
Nikkie opened up her ice-cream and began to bite into it. Later on that day Craig dropped Nikkie and Alexa off at home. Nikkie told Alexa to run along into the house and Craig said he would see her tomorrow in school.
"I'll see you tomorrow" Craig said
"Yeah..thanks for the great day"
Nikkie went inside. Craig took Angie's hand and left.
Authors Note: Cool. Right. Yeah. I'll be updating by next Saturday or maybe even earlier.
1 Much Love
XOXO FrEeKy0o XOXO
Chapter 8: Friends.Just friends
As Nikkie walked up the block she made it to the house she was planning on getting to. She walked up the front porch and rang the doorbell. She waited a few seconds until the door had opened.
"Hey Joey, um.is Craig home" Nikkie asked nervously
"Yeah Nikkie he's right here....Craig" Joey said
Joey let go of the door and Craig held the door open staring at Nikkie.
"Um..Craig can I talk to you" Nikkie asked
"Sure come on in" Craig told her
When Nikkie walked in she saw Angie coloring and watching cartoons at the same time. When Angie heard footsteps she turned her head and saw Nikkie. She jumped up to Nikkie and hugged her legs.
"NIKKIE!!!! Where's your sister Alexa?" Angie asked
Nikkie laughed "She's home"
"Oh..well" Angie said
Nikkie sat down on the couch and Angie ran upstairs with her book and crayons falling from her hands.
"So....what did you want to tell me" Craig said
Nikkie had a serious look on her face.
"Craig..I wanna ask you that um..that night.. what did you tell Jimmy" Nikkie asked
"What do you mean" Craig asked
"I mean..its kind of odd that all of a sudden that I end up in hospital that he wants to tell me his feelings" Nikkie said
"Well maybe he wanted to tell you before something actually happened" Craig said
"Yeah..but I still want to know what you said" Nikkie said
"Ok...he wasn't going to go see you..........so I was thinking about you had told me in the hallway..how me and you would only be friends right. So I decided to tell him that you liked him and that I was sure you wanted to see him" Craig said
"And what did he say" Nikkie said looking a little shocked
"He was shocked that you felt the same way" Craig said
Nikkie smiled and hugged him.
"Craig..thanks for listening to me and just being there ok" Nikkie said "I just wanted you to know that I appreciate it all that you've done for me"
"Your welcome" Craig said and gave Nikkie a kiss on the forehead.
Nikkie smiled and stood up.
"Well I've gotta go" Nikkie said "Maybe we can take Alexa and Angie to the park tomorrow".
"Cool" Craig said
Nikkie left his house with a smile knowing that Craig literally helped out the relationship between her and Jimmy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When Nikkie got home she went upstairs and plopped herself onto her bed. She took out her favorite cd which was Beyonce' and she popped it into her cd stereo and listened to her favorite song which was called "Dangerously in Love 2" she sang along with the song like she was on stage singing
"I love you
Baby I love you
You are my life
My happiest moments weren't complete
If you weren't by my side
You're my relation
In connection to the sun
With you next to me
There's no darkness I can't overcome
You are my raindrops
I am the sea
With you and God, who's my sunlight
I bloom and grow so beautifully
Baby, I'm so proud
So proud to be your girl
You make the confusion
Go all away
From this cold and mixed up world
I am in love with you
You set me free
I can't do this thing
Called life without you here with me
Cause I'm Dangerously In Love with you
I'll never leave
Just keep lovin' me
The way I love you loving me
And I know you love me
Love me for who I am
Cause years before I became who I am
Baby you were my man
I know it ain't easy
Easy loving me
I appreciate the love and dedication
From you to me
Later on in my destiny
I see myself having your child
I see myself being your wife
And I see my whole future in your eyes
Thought of all my love for you
sometimes make me wanna cry
Realize all my blessings
I'm grateful
To have you by my side
I am in love with you
You set me free
I can't do this thing
Called life without you here with me
Cause I'm Dangerously In Love with you
I'll never leave
Just keep lovin' me
The way I love you loving me
Every time I see your face
My heart smiles
Every time it feels so good
It hurts sometimes
Created in this world
To love and to hold
To feel
To breathe
To love you
Dangerously in love
Can't do this thing
I love you , I love you, I love you
I'll never leave
Just keep on loving me
I'm in love with you
I can not do
I cannot do anything without you in my life
Holding me, kissing me, loving me
Dangerously
I love you
Dangerously in love"
~~~~~~~~~~~
She kept singing it all night until she sang herself to sleep. Raylese could still hear it, so she went into her room and turned it off. She looked at Nikkie who was still fully dressed. She took off her shoes and her sweater. She tucked her in and turned off her light and kissed her forehead and left her alone to sleep peacefully.
The next morning Nikkie went downstairs to find Kayla still making plans for the funeral next Saturday. When Nikkie looked at her it looked like she had been up all night.
Nikkie washed up and changed into her pj's because the following night she didn't change. She put on some blue pj pants that were baggy with stars and bears on them, and white tank top. She poured a bowl of cereal and curled up on the couch and began flicking through channels. She decided to listen to the top 100 most greatest tunes on a music channel. When the song "U got it bad" came on she remembered that night. She was about to dance but the worst had to interrupt.
Alexa came into the room with her teddy bear. She came up in front of the T.V.
"Nikkie..can I have some juice" Alexa whined
Nikkie got up and put her bowl in the sink and pulled two glasses out of the cupboard. She pulled the orange juice from the fridge and poured them into the glasses. She handed Alexa's glass to her and told her to stay in the kitchen and drink it. Nikkie walked back into the living room drinking up her juice when she heard glass shattering on the floor she turned around and saw orange juice all over the kitchen floor and glass all over the floor. Raylese came down stairs in a rush with her towel wrapped around her. Kayla got up and yelled at Nikkie to clean it up. Alexa began to cry and Kayla went upstairs to finish up the paper work. Nikkie grabbed some paper towel and bent over and began wiping up the juice. Then all of a sudden the doorbell rang. She immediately got up and put down the paper. She walked up to the back door and opened it. There stood Craig.
"Hey Nikkie....is this a bad time" Craig asked
"Well yeah.but its ok, come in" Nikkie said politely
"Um...it's looking crazy in here do you need help" Craig asked
"Yeah.sure, thanks..can you pick up some of those toys because some little girl couldn't put them back where she found them" she said looking straight at Alexa who had calmed down and was watching T.V.
Craig put the toys in the toy bag that was against the wall and Nikkie finished cleaning up the glass and juice. She put in the trash and walked into the living room where Alexa was staring at the screen and Craig was slouched on the couch because of the show he was stuck watching. Nikkie sat down in between Craig and her and looked at Alexa.
"Alexa go upstairs and watch T.V. there" Nikkie told her
"But why" Alexa whined
"Because Y is a crooked letter and you won't come to the park with us later if you don't" Nikkie said
"OK" Alexa said excitedly
Alexa ran up the stairs and left Nikkie alone...finally.
"So why are you here so early" Nikkie asked him
"I don't know...I mean it's been a while since we hung out so I thought we could start the day early" Craig told her
"COOL. So what are we going to do" Nikkie asked him
"Anything.Whatever..it doesn't matter cause were gonna have fun". Craig said
"Ok.well let me change" Nikkie said getting up. She went towards the staircase and when she put her hands on the railing Craig said something to her.
"Oh Yeah, Nikkie nice pants" Craig said snickering
Nikkie looked down at them and told him,
"There pajama pants" and she ran upstairs
She came down 10 minutes later came down. She dressed in black sweat pants and a white fat strapped tank top, and white sneakers, and her hair was straight and flat she had used the flattening iron on her hair. When she had came down she found Craig looking at the picture of her father that was sitting on the high table in the living room where they kept all pictures of relatives and friends. Nikkie came closer to Craig and looked at the picture he had in his hands.
"He was the greatest dad...not the ones that you say that he's the greatest because you want to make him feel better..I mean he really was one of the greatest dads. He didn't have to spoil me with money to get me to love him and show it. It was just there for me... all my love for him....Now he's..gone" Nikkie said with a sad tone in her voice.
"Well..Nikkie you can't always keep everything you have. Sometimes you have to let go".
"I know it just that I wasn't ready to let go yet..it was just to sudden first the news about him, then my accident, then him dieing...the only good thing that happened between that was Jimmy" Nikkie said.
"Yeah...but no ones ever ready. Just like my dad's death I wasn't ready for the major hit. I didn't miss him until the worst moment. It was then that it hit me that I did love him" Craig told her.
Silence hit for a few. Then Craig wrapped a arm around Nikkie and kissed her on top of her head.
"Ok are you ready...lets go" Craig said
Nikkie smiled and Craig moved forward. Nikkie stayed back and looked at the picture.. "I love you dad" Nikkie said
She went towards the stair case and yelled out
"Ma...I'm gone, if you need me my phone will be on"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nikkie and Craig went to the park and talked for about and hour. But time had past who knows how long they had spent. They talked about everything. Then afterwards Craig took Nikkie to lunch. They went to The Dot Grill (had to add that () and picked up some fries and burgers and some shakes.
Then around 2:00 they went to the movies and ate popcorn and laughed like old times. It had been a long time since she hung with her best guy friend. Not hanging with him to her was like not taking a bath. It was a everyday thing. Then they snuck into another movie. They were acting like little kids.
Then around 5:00 they went back to Nikkie's house and picked up Alexa. Then they went to Craig's house and picked up Angie. They went to the park. The sprinklers were on an Angie and Alexa were playing in it. Craig and Nikkie were sitting looking at them an laughing. Craig was also taking pictures of them playing. Then Craig pointed the camera at Nikkie. Nikkie looked at it and put her hands over the lens.
"No pictures of me please" Nikkie said laughing
Craig took the camera away from his eye and looked at it then at Nikkie. He was squinting his eyes because of the sun. Then the ice-cream truck came up and Alexa came up to Nikkie and asked if she could have a ice-cream. Nikkie looked at Craig.
"I'll be right back" Nikkie told Craig
She took Alexa's hand and Angie's. She went up to the ice-cream truck and asked for the cones. Meanwhile Craig was looking at Nikkie. How he had lost her. She was a great kind, nice and crazy girl. But he would give up anything to have her and make her feel that she couldn't be hurt again. Nikkie gave the girls their ice-creams and had two in her hands coming towards Craig.
"Here, didn't know what you liked so I got two ice-cream sandwiches" Nikkie told him.
"Thanks" Craig said
Nikkie opened up her ice-cream and began to bite into it. Later on that day Craig dropped Nikkie and Alexa off at home. Nikkie told Alexa to run along into the house and Craig said he would see her tomorrow in school.
"I'll see you tomorrow" Craig said
"Yeah..thanks for the great day"
Nikkie went inside. Craig took Angie's hand and left.
Authors Note: Cool. Right. Yeah. I'll be updating by next Saturday or maybe even earlier.
1 Much Love
XOXO FrEeKy0o XOXO