Chapter Nine
Nicole arrived back at Lucas' apartment late that evening. She tried jamming the wrong key into the lock a few times before finally finding the right key and letting herself inside. She couldn't remember very much, only that she had left a little while ago and had met up with Jan and her other friend, Jessi. She remembered being upset over Brady rejecting her again or something. She also remembered how she and Jan had started a contest to see who could drink the most shots of tequila in the shortest amount of time, then Jessi's boyfriend had come down to the bar to take all three girls home. He said that they were all drunk. Nicole giggled. That was a silly thing to say, Nicole had just enjoyed her drinks immensely and felt very happy. Like she was floating.
Her thoughts were jumbled and incoherent as she tripped over the carpet and made her way further into the apartment. She heard the water in the bathroom running and her eyes lit up excitedly. Brady had to be taking a shower. She wanted to surprise him. She stumbled towards the door and pulled it open. Instead of walking into the bathroom containing a delicious, naked Brady, she walked into a bunch of blankets and towels. Nicole blinked. Oh, the bathroom door was the other door. She giggled again and paused outside the bathroom door. She tugged at her shirt, then at the zipper on her skirt. She couldn't seem to get her clothes off, her hands were fumbling around uselessly.
She shrugged and pushed the door to the bathroom open. Brady could help her get her clothes off once she got into the shower with him. She walked over to the shower unsteadily, then pulled on the curtain and stepped into the shower.
Brady's back was turned to her and he didn't realize she was even in the shower with him until she slid her hand up the slope of his shoulder.
"See, Sami, I knew you'd see that it was a lot easier for us to shower together." he said, without turning around.
Nicole frowned, "Did you just call me Sami? Is that why you won't fool around with me? Because you're already fooling around with Sami?"
She watched Brady stiffen and turn around. His face was really blurry so she couldn't make out his expression. But he had to be happy to see her. How could he not? She knew he liked it when she tried to seduce him.
"What the hell?" he began swearing loudly and yelling at her to get out. Nicole suddenly realized why he was so upset and smiled apologetically.
"Oh, I know what's wrong. I still have all my clothes on. You see, I tried to take them off but I was having a little bit of trouble. But you can help me." she took hold of Brady's hands and guided them towards the waistband of her skirt.
"It looks like someone's had one glass too many tonight." Brady said, snatching his hands away from her.
Nicole pouted, "I'm not drunk, I'm not! My hands work fine still, my clothes just give me a little trouble sometimes. My hands can work great, I'll prove it."
"Nicole!" Brady yelped indignantly, quickly grabbing her wrists before she could successfully grab him, "Get out right now! Damn, I can't even use my own shower anymore without getting attacked."
"It's not your shower, it's Lucas'. Or are we living in Sami's apartment?" Nicole wondered out loud.
"Nicole, what is wrong with you? You don't even like me." Brady reminded her, "And I don't like you. So if you don't leave right now, I am going to have to throw you out."
"Brady, how can you say I don't like you? Remember when we were handcuffed together? And you don't really want to throw me out, you know you want me." Nicole shot back.
"Brady?" he repeated incredulously, "What is wrong with you? I'm not Brady. And please, spare me the details of whatever the two of you did when you were handcuffed together."
"Don't lie to me! You have to be Brady. If you're not Brady, then who are you?"
"I'm Lucas."
"Now that is the stupidest excuse you have ever given me and you've given me a lot in order to get out of being with me!" Nicole said angrily, "That's why I went to see Jan and Jessi. Because you said you wouldn't do it with me because......" she smacked her hand against her temple, "Dammit, I can't remember! Oh, wait, you said you couldn't do anything because you and Sami got into a fight and she castrated you. Then you laughed and left to go to see your dad. It's all coming back to me now."
"God, you're annoying. No wonder Brady won't sleep with you. You're like a leech." Brady (well, he said he was Lucas but Nicole knew that he was lying) said in disgust.
"Stop saying mean things to me." Nicole squinted, trying to make out his face a little bit better. Her vision was a little blurred but she was still convinced that Brady was in the shower with her, "I know you're Brady. I might have had a few drinks, I don't know exactly how many, but I'm not that drunk. Come on, let's have kinky drunken shower sex! It'll be great."
"Nicole, if you don't get your drunk ass out of this shower right now, I am going to kill you!"
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Sami heard the yelling from inside her own apartment and finally decided to go see what was going on. Sighing, she grabbed the spare key to Lucas' apartment and went outside. Brady was just coming down the hallway towards the apartment at the same time Sami stepped out of her own apartment. Sami stifled a groaned.
"I thought you said you and Nicole were going to be gone for the rest of the evening." she said.
"Dad had to cut our visit short. And I think Nicole's going to be gone the entire night. She wasn't too happy with me when she left." Brady smiled wryly, then heard Lucas shouting, "Why is Lucas in his apartment?"
"Because we had a race to see who got to use the shower first and I won. He said we should shower together but I said no and then he decided to go take a shower in his apartment because you guys weren't there." Sami tried the door, which was unlocked, "I have no idea why he's yelling though."
Brady and Sami went inside the apartment and went into the bathroom. Sami could make out two silhouettes behind the shower curtain and when she heard Nicole's bubbly, drunken laugh, her heart sank.
"Lucas, are you and Nicole in the shower together?" both silhouettes fell silent. Brady looked over at Sami, who tried to shrug indifferently.
"I don't care." she murmured, digging her nails into her palms to keep from screaming. She had to act unfazed, like it didn't matter who Lucas shared the shower with, or else Brady would realize how she felt.
"He isn't Lucas. He's Brady." Nicole finally responded, slurring her s's. Brady and Sami were stunned into silence. That didn't matter, because Nicole kept talking.
"You know, something as big and beautiful as that deserves a name." Nicole was talking to Lucas now, "Does it have a name?"
Sami would have laughed if it had been someone else in the shower besides Lucas, "Wow, poor Lucas. It would be so awful to be confused with someone like you, Brady."
Nicole continued, ignoring the voices on the other side of the curtain, "Well, fine, I'll name it then. It should be something like....." she stopped speaking for a minute, "Goliath."
Even if Lucas was in the shower with Nicole, which was terrible, Sami couldn't help herself. She burst out laughing but her laughter was cut short by Nicole speaking again.
"Wait, maybe not. Didn't Goliath get his head cut off?" Nicole mused. Sami covered her mouth with her hand and convulsed with silent giggles. Even Brady began chuckling. They heard Nicole let out a put-upon sigh.
"Whoever is in the bathroom, can you get out? Like, right now? Because I've kind of got my hands full of Brady here."
Sami and Brady both cringed when she said that and Lucas didn't hesitate to correct her, "She meant with. Not of. With! Now get her away from me!"
"Brady, if you don't get them out of here right now and take me against the shower wall, I am going to make sure the head of your Goliath gets cut off too!" Nicole growled menacingly. Brady looked positively queasy after that remark and Sami felt her face heat up.
"Back off, you slut! Get your own Goliath, that one's mine!" Brady stared at her in amazement and Sami's eyes widened. No, she couldn't have said that out loud. She hadn't meant to. But the look on Brady's face told her she had. Before she could try and do damage control, Nicole spoke again.
"Chloe, are you trying to bother us again? Don't you get it? Brady wants me! Me! Not you! Get over it!"
Brady shook his head in amazement, "How much did you drink tonight?" he went over to the shower and pulled Nicole out of the shower. Sami couldn't help being relieved that Nicole still had all her clothes on, even if Lucas hadn't had anything on. At least Nicole was too drunk to remember seeing him naked. At least, Sami hoped she was.
Nicole turned to look at Brady and her eyes widened in horror, "But, Victor, you're supposed to be dead!" she tried to squirm out of his grip but Brady held onto her tightly.
"Well, getting mistaken for Victor is even worse than getting mistaken for Brady." Sami said thoughtfully, smirking at Brady's expression.
"Nicole, how much did you drink?" Brady repeated.
"Do you even have to ask? She'd have to drink a whole bar's worth of liquor to mistake Lucas' Goliath for your Dopey the Dwarf!" Sami retorted.
"How would you know about anything about that, Sami?" Brady inquired, looking very offended.
"You can tell!" Sami responded.
Nicole started laughing again, "You know, Dopey the Dwarf is very accurate when you're talking about Victor. It was so small and floppy. You know, you had to work him so hard to get his spring into action." she made a springing motion with one finger and continued to laugh hysterically.
Brady grimaced, "I think we should gag her until she sobers up. The things that come out of her mouth are so-"
"Funny." Sami finished, laughing right along with Nicole, "You were never this funny when you got drunk, Lucas."
Nicole looked interested, "Lucas? That's not true. He said lots of funny and pointless things when he was drunk. One time, when we were married and he was drunk, he told me where his erogenous zone was. He said it was right on his-"
Lucas stuck his head out from behind the shower curtain and flung a shampoo bottle at Nicole. It hit her right on the back of the head. Nicole winced and turned to glare at Lucas.
"What's your problem, Brady? You should be saving me from Victor, not throwing things at me."
"Come on, you're soaking wet. We need to get you some dry clothes." Brady told her.
Nicole turned and batted her eyelashes at the shower curtain, "I'm soaking wet for Brady."
Sami flinched, "All right, I changed my mind. The gag is a very good idea."
Brady pushed Nicole into the bedroom and told her to find some dry clothes. Nicole whined about not being able to get her clothes off and Brady promised he'd come and help her in a minute. He then drew his attention back to Sami.
"What was that about Nicole backing off and getting her own Goliath?" Brady smiled smugly, "You sounded like you really cared in there."
Sami rolled her eyes, "Yeah, right. It's just that Lucas is the father of my child and I got a little territorial. For Will's sake." Damn, she was a good liar. Brady was so stupid, he'd definitely buy it.
"Well, you should watch what you say. People could get the wrong idea." he said simply, before entering the bedroom and going over to Nicole.
A few seconds later, Nicole began screeching, "Get away from me, Victor. Brady can help me change me clothes, not you!"
Sami walked out of the apartment and back into her own, only to find Lucas standing in the apartment, wearing a pair of boxers and nothing else. He leaned against the counter and grinned at her.
"It's a good thing you won the race and got to shower over here. I bet you wouldn't have taken it too well if Nicole had joined you in the shower and mistaken you for Brady." Lucas commented.
"I would have probably freaked out and killed her." Sami admitted, a smile spreading over her face as she remembered how funny Nicole had been in the bathroom.
"You sounded like you wanted to kill her." Lucas remarked, smirking at Sami, "Especially when you told her to back off and get her own Goliath because......" his voice trailed off suggestively, "Would you mind explaining that one to me?"
Sami blushed, "Between you and Brady, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to forget I said that. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. I just don't like Nicole."
"Uh huh." Lucas sounded totally unconvinced, "And what does disliking Nicole have to do with my......" he grinned again, "Goliath."
"Nothing." Sami said in a weak voice, "You're reading too much into it. Good-night."
Lucas looked at her in confusion, "But it's only ten."
"So? I'm tired." Sami said defensively, going into her room and shutting the door behind her. She wasn't actually tired but she didn't want to see Lucas after what she had said. No, she was just going to be awake the entire night, haunted by visions of Lucas, his boxers and his 'Goliath' as Nicole had so appropriately named it.
Nicole arrived back at Lucas' apartment late that evening. She tried jamming the wrong key into the lock a few times before finally finding the right key and letting herself inside. She couldn't remember very much, only that she had left a little while ago and had met up with Jan and her other friend, Jessi. She remembered being upset over Brady rejecting her again or something. She also remembered how she and Jan had started a contest to see who could drink the most shots of tequila in the shortest amount of time, then Jessi's boyfriend had come down to the bar to take all three girls home. He said that they were all drunk. Nicole giggled. That was a silly thing to say, Nicole had just enjoyed her drinks immensely and felt very happy. Like she was floating.
Her thoughts were jumbled and incoherent as she tripped over the carpet and made her way further into the apartment. She heard the water in the bathroom running and her eyes lit up excitedly. Brady had to be taking a shower. She wanted to surprise him. She stumbled towards the door and pulled it open. Instead of walking into the bathroom containing a delicious, naked Brady, she walked into a bunch of blankets and towels. Nicole blinked. Oh, the bathroom door was the other door. She giggled again and paused outside the bathroom door. She tugged at her shirt, then at the zipper on her skirt. She couldn't seem to get her clothes off, her hands were fumbling around uselessly.
She shrugged and pushed the door to the bathroom open. Brady could help her get her clothes off once she got into the shower with him. She walked over to the shower unsteadily, then pulled on the curtain and stepped into the shower.
Brady's back was turned to her and he didn't realize she was even in the shower with him until she slid her hand up the slope of his shoulder.
"See, Sami, I knew you'd see that it was a lot easier for us to shower together." he said, without turning around.
Nicole frowned, "Did you just call me Sami? Is that why you won't fool around with me? Because you're already fooling around with Sami?"
She watched Brady stiffen and turn around. His face was really blurry so she couldn't make out his expression. But he had to be happy to see her. How could he not? She knew he liked it when she tried to seduce him.
"What the hell?" he began swearing loudly and yelling at her to get out. Nicole suddenly realized why he was so upset and smiled apologetically.
"Oh, I know what's wrong. I still have all my clothes on. You see, I tried to take them off but I was having a little bit of trouble. But you can help me." she took hold of Brady's hands and guided them towards the waistband of her skirt.
"It looks like someone's had one glass too many tonight." Brady said, snatching his hands away from her.
Nicole pouted, "I'm not drunk, I'm not! My hands work fine still, my clothes just give me a little trouble sometimes. My hands can work great, I'll prove it."
"Nicole!" Brady yelped indignantly, quickly grabbing her wrists before she could successfully grab him, "Get out right now! Damn, I can't even use my own shower anymore without getting attacked."
"It's not your shower, it's Lucas'. Or are we living in Sami's apartment?" Nicole wondered out loud.
"Nicole, what is wrong with you? You don't even like me." Brady reminded her, "And I don't like you. So if you don't leave right now, I am going to have to throw you out."
"Brady, how can you say I don't like you? Remember when we were handcuffed together? And you don't really want to throw me out, you know you want me." Nicole shot back.
"Brady?" he repeated incredulously, "What is wrong with you? I'm not Brady. And please, spare me the details of whatever the two of you did when you were handcuffed together."
"Don't lie to me! You have to be Brady. If you're not Brady, then who are you?"
"I'm Lucas."
"Now that is the stupidest excuse you have ever given me and you've given me a lot in order to get out of being with me!" Nicole said angrily, "That's why I went to see Jan and Jessi. Because you said you wouldn't do it with me because......" she smacked her hand against her temple, "Dammit, I can't remember! Oh, wait, you said you couldn't do anything because you and Sami got into a fight and she castrated you. Then you laughed and left to go to see your dad. It's all coming back to me now."
"God, you're annoying. No wonder Brady won't sleep with you. You're like a leech." Brady (well, he said he was Lucas but Nicole knew that he was lying) said in disgust.
"Stop saying mean things to me." Nicole squinted, trying to make out his face a little bit better. Her vision was a little blurred but she was still convinced that Brady was in the shower with her, "I know you're Brady. I might have had a few drinks, I don't know exactly how many, but I'm not that drunk. Come on, let's have kinky drunken shower sex! It'll be great."
"Nicole, if you don't get your drunk ass out of this shower right now, I am going to kill you!"
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Sami heard the yelling from inside her own apartment and finally decided to go see what was going on. Sighing, she grabbed the spare key to Lucas' apartment and went outside. Brady was just coming down the hallway towards the apartment at the same time Sami stepped out of her own apartment. Sami stifled a groaned.
"I thought you said you and Nicole were going to be gone for the rest of the evening." she said.
"Dad had to cut our visit short. And I think Nicole's going to be gone the entire night. She wasn't too happy with me when she left." Brady smiled wryly, then heard Lucas shouting, "Why is Lucas in his apartment?"
"Because we had a race to see who got to use the shower first and I won. He said we should shower together but I said no and then he decided to go take a shower in his apartment because you guys weren't there." Sami tried the door, which was unlocked, "I have no idea why he's yelling though."
Brady and Sami went inside the apartment and went into the bathroom. Sami could make out two silhouettes behind the shower curtain and when she heard Nicole's bubbly, drunken laugh, her heart sank.
"Lucas, are you and Nicole in the shower together?" both silhouettes fell silent. Brady looked over at Sami, who tried to shrug indifferently.
"I don't care." she murmured, digging her nails into her palms to keep from screaming. She had to act unfazed, like it didn't matter who Lucas shared the shower with, or else Brady would realize how she felt.
"He isn't Lucas. He's Brady." Nicole finally responded, slurring her s's. Brady and Sami were stunned into silence. That didn't matter, because Nicole kept talking.
"You know, something as big and beautiful as that deserves a name." Nicole was talking to Lucas now, "Does it have a name?"
Sami would have laughed if it had been someone else in the shower besides Lucas, "Wow, poor Lucas. It would be so awful to be confused with someone like you, Brady."
Nicole continued, ignoring the voices on the other side of the curtain, "Well, fine, I'll name it then. It should be something like....." she stopped speaking for a minute, "Goliath."
Even if Lucas was in the shower with Nicole, which was terrible, Sami couldn't help herself. She burst out laughing but her laughter was cut short by Nicole speaking again.
"Wait, maybe not. Didn't Goliath get his head cut off?" Nicole mused. Sami covered her mouth with her hand and convulsed with silent giggles. Even Brady began chuckling. They heard Nicole let out a put-upon sigh.
"Whoever is in the bathroom, can you get out? Like, right now? Because I've kind of got my hands full of Brady here."
Sami and Brady both cringed when she said that and Lucas didn't hesitate to correct her, "She meant with. Not of. With! Now get her away from me!"
"Brady, if you don't get them out of here right now and take me against the shower wall, I am going to make sure the head of your Goliath gets cut off too!" Nicole growled menacingly. Brady looked positively queasy after that remark and Sami felt her face heat up.
"Back off, you slut! Get your own Goliath, that one's mine!" Brady stared at her in amazement and Sami's eyes widened. No, she couldn't have said that out loud. She hadn't meant to. But the look on Brady's face told her she had. Before she could try and do damage control, Nicole spoke again.
"Chloe, are you trying to bother us again? Don't you get it? Brady wants me! Me! Not you! Get over it!"
Brady shook his head in amazement, "How much did you drink tonight?" he went over to the shower and pulled Nicole out of the shower. Sami couldn't help being relieved that Nicole still had all her clothes on, even if Lucas hadn't had anything on. At least Nicole was too drunk to remember seeing him naked. At least, Sami hoped she was.
Nicole turned to look at Brady and her eyes widened in horror, "But, Victor, you're supposed to be dead!" she tried to squirm out of his grip but Brady held onto her tightly.
"Well, getting mistaken for Victor is even worse than getting mistaken for Brady." Sami said thoughtfully, smirking at Brady's expression.
"Nicole, how much did you drink?" Brady repeated.
"Do you even have to ask? She'd have to drink a whole bar's worth of liquor to mistake Lucas' Goliath for your Dopey the Dwarf!" Sami retorted.
"How would you know about anything about that, Sami?" Brady inquired, looking very offended.
"You can tell!" Sami responded.
Nicole started laughing again, "You know, Dopey the Dwarf is very accurate when you're talking about Victor. It was so small and floppy. You know, you had to work him so hard to get his spring into action." she made a springing motion with one finger and continued to laugh hysterically.
Brady grimaced, "I think we should gag her until she sobers up. The things that come out of her mouth are so-"
"Funny." Sami finished, laughing right along with Nicole, "You were never this funny when you got drunk, Lucas."
Nicole looked interested, "Lucas? That's not true. He said lots of funny and pointless things when he was drunk. One time, when we were married and he was drunk, he told me where his erogenous zone was. He said it was right on his-"
Lucas stuck his head out from behind the shower curtain and flung a shampoo bottle at Nicole. It hit her right on the back of the head. Nicole winced and turned to glare at Lucas.
"What's your problem, Brady? You should be saving me from Victor, not throwing things at me."
"Come on, you're soaking wet. We need to get you some dry clothes." Brady told her.
Nicole turned and batted her eyelashes at the shower curtain, "I'm soaking wet for Brady."
Sami flinched, "All right, I changed my mind. The gag is a very good idea."
Brady pushed Nicole into the bedroom and told her to find some dry clothes. Nicole whined about not being able to get her clothes off and Brady promised he'd come and help her in a minute. He then drew his attention back to Sami.
"What was that about Nicole backing off and getting her own Goliath?" Brady smiled smugly, "You sounded like you really cared in there."
Sami rolled her eyes, "Yeah, right. It's just that Lucas is the father of my child and I got a little territorial. For Will's sake." Damn, she was a good liar. Brady was so stupid, he'd definitely buy it.
"Well, you should watch what you say. People could get the wrong idea." he said simply, before entering the bedroom and going over to Nicole.
A few seconds later, Nicole began screeching, "Get away from me, Victor. Brady can help me change me clothes, not you!"
Sami walked out of the apartment and back into her own, only to find Lucas standing in the apartment, wearing a pair of boxers and nothing else. He leaned against the counter and grinned at her.
"It's a good thing you won the race and got to shower over here. I bet you wouldn't have taken it too well if Nicole had joined you in the shower and mistaken you for Brady." Lucas commented.
"I would have probably freaked out and killed her." Sami admitted, a smile spreading over her face as she remembered how funny Nicole had been in the bathroom.
"You sounded like you wanted to kill her." Lucas remarked, smirking at Sami, "Especially when you told her to back off and get her own Goliath because......" his voice trailed off suggestively, "Would you mind explaining that one to me?"
Sami blushed, "Between you and Brady, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to forget I said that. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. I just don't like Nicole."
"Uh huh." Lucas sounded totally unconvinced, "And what does disliking Nicole have to do with my......" he grinned again, "Goliath."
"Nothing." Sami said in a weak voice, "You're reading too much into it. Good-night."
Lucas looked at her in confusion, "But it's only ten."
"So? I'm tired." Sami said defensively, going into her room and shutting the door behind her. She wasn't actually tired but she didn't want to see Lucas after what she had said. No, she was just going to be awake the entire night, haunted by visions of Lucas, his boxers and his 'Goliath' as Nicole had so appropriately named it.