Chapter Twenty-Two
Well, this plan has completely backfired, Brady thought to himself, cringing when Nicole pulled more of his hair out.
"Can you stop that? I'm going to be bald by the time you're finished with me." Brady said, struggling against the handcuffs Jan had slapped on his wrists earlier. Everyone was sitting in Sami and Lucas' hotel room that night and Sami, Nicole and Jan had all decided to spend the evening torturing him. Jan was holding him down while Nicole played with his hair and Sami painted his nails.
Nicole hadn't even seemed upset when he had told her he was in love with Lucas. She had actually seemed more happy about it than anything else.
"Really? This is terrfic. I always wanted a really hot guy-friend that was gay. We are going to have so much fun." Nicole had told him, then looked towards Lucas critically, "Although I'm really going to have to question your taste. Oh, well, we can work on that later."
Obviously, Nicole had either not taken him seriously or really didn't care. But Brady had a feeling that Nicole knew he wasn't really in love with Lucas. It was sort of obvious that he was trying to make her upset and it had been especially stupid after Nicole had admitted to be a lesbian before he had said he was gay. Way to go, dickmuncher, you should have thought about that before you claimed to be in love with Lucas.
"Stop whining." Nicole reached for another pink hair tie, "I'm almost finished and it is not my fault that I'm pulling your hair. There's so little hair here, I don't have much to work with. You should grow it out."
"Then just stop." Brady mumbled, "And you can stop too, Sami. Pink really isn't my colour."
"But we can't stop." Nicole sounded horrified at the prospect, "You're not girly enough for Lucas yet. We have to make you pretty so Lucas will like you? Right, Lucas?"
"Sure." Lucas didn't take his eyes off of the television and chances were, he hadn't even heard what Nicole had said. Lucas had been ignoring Brady as much as possible ever since Brady had said he was going to act like he was in love with Lucas. Other than a few dirty looks in his direction, Lucas had left Brady completely alone.
"All right, I think I'm finished your hair." Nicole announced, admiring the hair she had put into miniature ponytails with pink hair ties, "Now I have to do your make-up."
"I don't think so." Brady protested, squirming frantically, trying to escape Jan's hold. Shawn had gotten sick of watching television and was now watching the scene Brady was making intently. Nicole pulled out a small brush and dipped it in the dark red blush sitting beside her. Brady moved his head from side to side and Nicole exhaled angrily.
"Jan, hold him still." Nicole ordered Jan, who immediately obeyed. Now that Brady's head was immobile, Nicole applied a generous amount of blush on each of his cheeks, biting the inside of her own cheek to keep from laughing.
"We are going to have so much fun, Brady. I'm taking you to a male strip bar, you know that, right? And don't even try to argue because you know you'll love it." Nicole added quickly, holding some eyeshadow up to his right eye. Brady managed to turn his head a little bit, only to have his eye poked by the eyeshadow brush.
"Ow!" he yelled, blinking furiously. Nicole shook her head and eyed him apologetically.
"I'm sorry but if you don't want that to happen, then you can't move." Nicole informed him, deciding not to bother with the eyeshadow. She took out a stick of lipstick and brought her hand up to apply some to Brady's mouth. It was the darkest purple colour she could find and she knew it would make Brady look like a clown, which would amuse her greatly.
Before she could begin to lipstick Brady's lips, Brady tried to bite Nicole's fingers. But his aim was off, thanks to Jan holding his head and he bit the lipstick instead. He quickly spat out the lipstick and brought his handcuffed hands up to his mouth to wipe off the lipstick.
"I wasn't finished with your nails." Sami spoke up indignantly, pulling his hands back down.
Nicole smirked, "Brady, what were you trying to do to the lipstick? Were you pretending it was Lucas? Well, practice does make perfect but for the record, I don't think Lucas would like you to be that rough with him. That would probably hurt."
"It would be kind of pointless to practice that with a tube of lipstick." Sami jumped in defensively, "Lucas is a lot bigger that that. It would work better to practice with... a banana!" she finished triumphantly.
"Really?" Brady pretended to be intruiged, "Can someone go get me a banana?"
If looks could kill, Brady would be dead, "How about not?" Lucas finally joined the conversation.
"I will." Shawn volunteered, standing up off of the couch.
"Get me one too." Jan said. Sami and Nicole quickly jumped in as well, saying that they both wanted a banana too.
As Shawn was leaving the hotel room, Nicole's eyes lit up and she leapt off the couch eagerly. She left the room without a word, leaving Brady, Jan, Sami and Lucas staring after her. A few minutes later, she returned with a huge stack of magazines.
"I just had the best idea." Nicole said, dropping all of the magazines on the floor, "Since you're gay, why don't we look at my Playgirl magazines?"
"Uh, uh, uh..." Brady stammered incoherently for a few minutes before coming up with an attempted excuse, "But you love a woman. Wouldn't you be reading Playboys instead?"
"Nope." Nicole replied cheerfully, "I still like looking at naked guys. I've been a faithful Playgirl magazine buyer for a really long time and I don't intend to stop buying them just because I have a girlfriend. Jan still likes them too." she picked up the first magazine, which had a cover that was covered in pictures of blond, muscular men.
"I don't think I should." Brady murmured, looking away.
"Why not?" Nicole asked innocently, "If you like guys, you'll love these magazines."
"I do like guys." Brady said weakly, "But I know that none of the men in those magazines will measure up to Lucas. God, I love him so much."
"And I'm right here." Lucas reminded Brady in a gruff, irritated voice.
"Yeah, well, you're not the only one who thinks Lucas belongs inside a Playgirl magazine." Sami said, reaching over to squeeze Lucas' knee.
"All right." Nicole opened the first magazine and flipped through some of the pages until she found a picture she seemed to like, "What do you think of this guy?" she thrust the magazine in front of Brady's face and Brady forced himself to look at the picture. It was the only way he could keep up the pretense of being gay. Wow, that guy is at least twice my size. There's no way that's real. Brady thought to himself as he forced himself to nod approvingly.
"That's a... very nice picture." he managed to croak out.
"You're not very enthusiastic. But then again, everyone here knows you favour men with dark hair. I'll find you one who looks like Lucas." Nicole began flipping through the pages faster.
Brady sighed with relief when he heard his phone ring. Jan picked up the phone that had been lying beside him and held it up to Brady's ear, "Hello?" Brady spoke into the phone.
"Hey, kid, it's your dad." John Black's voice sounded out over the phone, "How's it going? I heard about Chloe and Victor and I just wanted to see if-"
Nicole had been listening to the conversation and sighed in disgust, wrenching the phone away from Jan, "Hello? Um, Brady doesn't care about Victor and Chloe, so you're wasting your time. Don't you know how he really feels?"
John sounded confused, "Uh, Nicole? Is that you? Let me talk to my son."
"Your son can't talk to you right now. He's too busy ogling Lucas." Nicole shot back, glad that she was getting the chance to make John Black squirm. Like most people in Salem, he didn't like her very much and it would be fun to see how much she could scare him.
"What the hell did you just say?"
"He's too busy ogling Lucas." Nicole repeated slowly, "Didn't Brady tell you that he' s gay? He's in love with Lucas, John."
"You have got to be kidding me." John's voice cracked slightly.
"And that's not all. Brady is pregnant. And Lucas is the father." Nicole deadpanned while Jan buried her face in the couch cushion to keep from laughing. Lucas turned to glare at Nicole and Brady stared at Nicole in horror.
"Now I know you're making all this up. That isn't even possible and your joke is not funny at all."
"I'm not joking." Nicole responded in the most sincere voice she could manage without laughing, "I am, after all, Mrs. Money-Bags Kiriakas. It's amazing what you can get from modern science these days if you've got the money."
"You liar!" Lucas made a grab for the phone but Nicole jumped out of his reach.
"Now, Lucas, I know you're still waiting for Brady to get a paternity test done but when is it going to sink in? Brady loves you and only you."
"I still don't think it's possible. There's no way that Lucas could be fathering Brady's child." John tried to convince himself.
"Oh my Gaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwddddddddddddd." came the sceech from John's side of the line. A screech that was unmistakably Kate.
John Black whirled around in the desk chair in his office at Basic Black. Both Belle and Kate were staring at him, both of their expressions equally stunned and disgusted.
"Who are you talking to? And what is going to on between my son and your son?" Kate demanded, tugging on her hair frantically.
"I don't really know yet." John returned, "I'm talking to Nicole and according to her, Brady is not only gay and in love with Lucas but is also somehow pregnant with Lucas' child."
"Oh, it's only Nicole." Kate fanned herself with evident relief, "Thank God. She's lying, of course. Don't believe a word she's saying."
Nicole had clearly heard what Kate had said, "I'm not lying. Here, Brady will tell you himself. Brady, you can't keep this a secret from your family any longer."
"Dad?" Brady croaked after a few seconds, "Nicole's not lying. I am gay. And I am in love with Lucas and fathering his child."
"BRADY!!" Lucas roared and John heard a distinct crash on the other line. Rubbing his forehead in disbelief, John turned to Kate and Belle.
"Brady just admitted it was true." John said shakily, "All of it."
"Nooooooo!" Belle wailed, "My brother can't be gay! Didn't he even think about what this would do to me? It will ruin my repuation, I'm going to disown him!"
Nicole was back on the phone now, "Well, even though Brady is in love with Lucas, nothing will come out of it. Sami would kill Brady if he tried anything."
"No, I wouldn't. I don't mind sharing Lucas with his male lovers, just not any female ones." Sami's voice could be heard in the background, "Come on, Brady, kiss him."
"God, this is horrible." John muttered.
"I don't think so." Kate objected, her brown eyes glinting hopefully, "Maybe Brady and Lucas will end up getting together. Maybe Brady will win over Sami."
"And you want this to happen why? John demanded harshly.
Kate bit back a sob, "I'd rather my son be a homosexual than be with Sami." she cried brokenly, "I'll take anything I can get!"
"Kiss him." Sami said again, pushing Brady towards Lucas. Lucas ignored the three women that were now pushing Brady towards him, only sliding farther down the couch away from Brady.
Brady continued to be pushed down the couch against his will, "I can't do it. I can't kiss Lucas if he doesn't want me to. My love for him will always be unrequited and I have to accept that."
Brady's really going all out on this, Sami thought to herself, All the more reason to have fun with it.
Sami pushed Brady extra hard and he ended up crashing into Lucas. Both Lucas and Brady ended up falling onto the floor, Brady winding up on top of Lucas in the struggle. Lucas squirmed with agitation underneath Brady.
"Get off of me now." Lucas shoved at Brady roughly but Brady made sure to stay on top of Lucas. Brady briefly considered his options before coming to a decision. He had never kissed a guy before and maybe it wouldn't be that gross. Besides, if it got enough of a rise out of Sami and Nicole after what they put him through, it would be worth it. What the hell? was his last thought before planting a big, dramatic, noisy kiss right on Lucas' mouth.
Sami gasped and Nicole shrieked happily, "They're kissing, they're kissing, they're kissing!" she sang into the phone, "Damn, they're getting hot and heavy down there on the floor. I think I need a cold shower."
Lucas wrenched away from Brady and slammed his fist hard into Brady's jaw, "You are going too far, you bastard. Don't ever do that again."
Jan and Nicole were laughing hysterically and Sami was doing her best to keep a straight face for Lucas' sake but she was failing miserably. Lucas got to his feet while Nicole eyed the bruise that was forming where Lucas had punched Brady.
"Don't worry about it, Brady. It's nothing a little cover-up can't fix. Maybe Lucas will be more receptive next time." Jan suggested.
"I think Lucas is gay underneath everything. He just pretends to be straight. And if he had to pick one guy, he would definitely pick Brady because Brady would put his heart into it. Actually, he'd put a lot more into Lucas, now that I think about it." Nicole cackled evilly over the phone, unable to resist insulting Lucas, even if she hadn't been serious. Lucas grabbed a handful of Nicole's hair and then a handful of Jan's.
"All right, it's your turn. You two kiss." Lucas said. Nicole shrieked and dropped the phone as Lucas brought her face closer to Jan's.
The buzz of disconnection rang out on John's end of the phone and he hung up the phone abruptly.
"I'm not calling back there again." John said, his eyebrows twitching violently, "Because judging from what I just heard over the phone, I definitely do not want to know what is happening over there."