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It had been two weeks since Nick's first session with Mary Smith. He had continued going three times a week for two hour sessions after work. He had just finished the twelve hours that he had been forced to do but had agreed to continue going. Each session had been mentally exhausting for Nick but he could tell it was helping. He could now sit in silence without panicking. Infact he prefered the silence. it allowed him to think and clear his mind. He had also started to listen to some country music again. Not much, but some.He was still having the nightmares, he was still paranoid and still couldn't stand small places but things were improving.
Nick had arrived at work a couple of hours early for shift. He prefered to sit in the breakroom than in th eplace that Nigel Crane had been. He was sat at the table with a cup of coffee and the local property newspaper. He was looking for a new place to live. A place to call home. Just as he circled the third home he was interested in Catherine walked in with Lindsay.
"Hey Nick" Catherine greeted.
"Hey Uncle Nicky!" Lindsay screamed, throwing herself at him.
"Well if it isn't my faviorte girl." He said laughing at her.
"What are you doing?" Catherine asked, indicating the newspaper.
"Looking for a new house."
"Ohhhh can i help Uncle Nicky, Please?" Lindsay begged.
"Sure" Lindsay immediately started reading the paper, giving Nick a chance to talk to Catherine.
"How come lindsays here?"
"Christmas holidays, i swear they break up earlier and earlier, she's been off for one day and already i'm pulling my hair out." She joked.
"Well i've got tomorrow off while i go house hunting, how about i take her with me? Maybe i can bore her so much she will be begging to come back here again!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, i can get a womans view on the house so i know whats cool and whats not." He joked.
Catherine beamed. "How about that Lindsay?"
"Huh?"
"Do you wan't to go look at some houses with Nick tomorrow?"
"Oh my god yeah!"
"I guess thats settled then." Nick laughed.
"Well if your good tonight and sleep pn the sofa without complaining ill let you go."
"Okay Mum."
"Good, try sleeping now."
"Oh, but Mum."
"No but's Lindsay, it's half ten, shift starts in half an hour. Your eleven years old. You should be asleep."
"Fine" She huffed, getting a blanket out of her bag and getting onto the sofa.
"Night Lindsay" Cath said, giving her a kiss.
"Night Mum, night Uncle Nicky."
Ten minutes later she was out like a light. With twenty minutes left until shift Catherine helped Nick look at some more possible houses.
"How about this one?" Cath asked.
"Huh?" Sara said as she walked into the room
"Nick's house hunting, what do you think to this one?"
Sara moved behind Nick, reading the article of his shoulder.
"Sounds good." She said. God he smells good she thought to herself.
"I'm actually thinking about a house i heard about near Lake Mead. I heard of a real big house up there with amazing views. It's only half an hour away but far enough away from all the flashing lights." God she's hardly touching me and i'm already getting flustered.
"Oh yeah, what's it like?" Sara asked while leaning against him to flip the page again.
"Erm well it's brand new, just been finished. It's dead modern, views to die for and it's cheap for what it is. Apparently it's even got a pool and hot tub."
"Wow sounds amazing. Have you got the ad for it?"
"Yeah sure." Nick dug into his back pocket pulling out a half ripped piece of paper. It looked as if it had been folded and unfolded alot.
"Oh my god it's gorgeous and, bloody hell, expensive."
"Yeah that's what i thought when i first saw it but when my Mum found out about it she said that Cisco and herself would go half anf half with me. They said it was a good deal for what it is and wanted me to have somewhere nice to call home instead of just another apartment. I think it's there way of making sure there's room for them to come visit and she mentioned something about starting a family." He grinned but found he couldn't look at Sara as he said the last bit.
"Wow, so have you got an apointment to go see it?"
"Yea 9am."
" Nice, so you can come have breakfast with us at 'Diner 11' before you go?"
"Yep sounds good."
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Dead on 7am the gang plus Lindsay all headed towards Diner 11 for breakfast. The rest of the group had heard about the house by now so they all wanted to go and see it. When they arrived there they were greeted by a short woman with dirty blonde hair and green eyes.
"Hello, I'm Ms Aloha"
"Hi, I'm Nick Stokes." Nice name he thought to himself.
"If you'd like to follow me i'll show you all around."
"Okay." The group all followed, looking around. Even the driveway was nice with freshly cut grass and small lights that hugged the long drive.
"As you can see here id the main entrance hall. The floor here is laminate wood. This is throughtout all of the house, except in the bathrooms and kitchen. It is a rather open planned building. The only actual rooms down here are the clockroom, which is on your right and the bathroom which is on the left."
Lindsay immediatley ran to the cloakroom throwing open the doors and gasping.
"Wow, i don't have that many shoes." Nick joked. It was as big as Nicks bathroom in his old house.
The entrance hall was extremly large itself. Giving plenty of room for statues. The two doors that led to the bathroom and cloakroom were right near the front door. If you walked further down the hall you would go into the main body of the house. On the left was the massive Kitchen complete with breakfast bar, which seperated the kithchen from the 'fron't room' and an Island in the centre of the marble flooring.
Nick walked into the bathroom first, smiling when he saw it. This was definitely a nice house. The back wall of the bathroom was painted a grey while the other three were white. The shower was in the back right hand corner while the toilet was in the centre of the right wall and the sink on the left side. The marble flooring was a deep grey giving the room some depth. There were already some glass shelves up on the walls and a silver towel rack near the shower.
"This is the only room that was painted a colour. The rest of the house is left white. I believe there was a big scratch that made the room look ugly so they painted it a grey to cover it. It hasn't caused any damage though."
"It's nice, i like it."
Nick then walked back out into the entrance hall, turned left and went to the kitchen area. It was easy to see where the living area stopped and the kitchen started because the wood turned to a deep grey marble. The counters wrapped around the two outside walls. These were also topped with a deep grey marble. There was room left for a dishwasher, washing machine and large fridge. The Island in the middle added more surface area to cook on and the breakfast bar helped to section of the kitchen from where he would set up his sofas etc.
Nick walked back around the Island and over to the patio doors which were near the other end of the house. He would have his front room over here. His two chunky black sofas and armchairs would go well here giving him a nice view of the lake and mountains. He would mount his big TV on the wall and have his coffee table in the middle. There was a small waist high wall that sectioned off the front room from the dinning area. He would put his table and chairs on the other side of that wall so he could sit and watch the view while he ate as well. He knew he would still have loads of empty space back near the kitch so he thought he would treat himself to a pool table to help fill the area.
After taking a look around the downstairs he went to the patio doors agian, opening them and stepping out onto the decking. There was planty of space for a table and chairs here and his barbeque. The decking was like a large backwards L so he went past where he would have his table towards the steps. Set into the decking near the steps was the hot tub. He smiled again when he realised how good the view would be from in it. He quickly went down the steps and followed the pathway which led past a large grass area and through a gate. Here was the pool and a small hut like building where he guessed people could change.
When everyone had had a good look around the outside they went back in and upstairs. The landing was large and very wide with three doors on either side.
"I thought this was a five bedroom house?" Nick said
"No Sir six."
Each bedroom was large and had it's own bathroom. While the bathrooms were on the small side the nice showers and toliets made up for it. Unlike downstairs the marble upstairs was red with white tiles on the wall and red tiles at random points. It was very modern.
On the left hand side of the landing, the middle room was the master bedroom. This was by far the biggest bedroom and the bathroom was worth two of the others. it even had it's own balcony overlooking the back garden with views of the lake and the mountains in the distance.
"Wow" Catherine said.
"Yeah you gotta get this place man." Warrick added.
Everyone was speachless
"So are you gonna out an offer in on it?" Greg asked
"Yes, i'm gonna do it now hang on." Nick left the room to find Miss Aloha.
Ten minuted later he found everyone in the entrance hall.
"I've done it, i've gotta wait for confirmation though, I'm not the only one that want's this place."
"Cool man, well i'm beat i'll cya later" Warrick waved as he walked out.
"Yeah me to see ya"
Slowly the rest of the guys left.
"Come on Lindsay, i need some sleep."
"Oh but Mum thats so boring."
"Lindsay" Catherine warned.
"It's ok Cath i'll take her to the parl or something, i've got tonight off."
"You sure?"
"Yea"
"Okay, be good Lindsay, i'll see you later Will you drop her off at the lab later?"
"Yea i'll probably come in and lend a hand"
"Okay i'll cya later."
"Yes" Lindsay beamed. Doing a little dance as Cath walked out.
Both Sara and Nick laughed at her
"So, you heading home Sar?"
"Erm well i've got tonight off as well so is it okay if i hang out with you guys?"
"Sure, but won't Liam be looking for you?"
"Erm no he said he's at a family thing today"
"Okay" Nick tried to act like it didn't bother him that Sara had a boyfriend but wasn't sure he had pulled it off.
"I'll meet you two there then" Sara said, making her way to her car.
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The threesome spent a couple of hours walking around the Zoo. Nick had insisted on paying for Saras ticket as well and the two were back to there flirty selves.
After going around the Zoo twice Nick decided it was time to leave.
"Hey Lindsay, you ready to go?"
"Oh once more please Uncle Nicky?" She said giving him her best puppy dog eyes.
Nick relented letting her go around once more. Just as they reached the Lions again, Sara gasped, looking at something over Nick's shoulder. Nick turned to see what she was looking at and saw Liam. With another woman, and they didn't seem to be acting like family.
"Not again." Sara whispered "God this is embarrasing, am i really that bad?"
"No your not Sar, he's an idiot"
"Yea but it's still embarrasing, he's mates with Hank, i bet they have a right laugh at how stupid i am. They know i can't pull anyone else."
"Course you can Sar. They are both idiots thinking they can use you."
Just as Liam spotted Sara Nick decided to take thing into his own hands. He wrapped his arms around Sara and gave her a kiss on the lips before walking over to Lindsay who was pointing at the baby lion. As he reached her he turned around and was pleased to see that Liam looked jealous and Sara looked shocked yet happy. He grinned, maybe he was in with a chance.
"You wan't some lunch now Linds?"
"Sure, where?"
"Erm how about McDonalds?"
"Thanks Nicky" She said running off in the direction of the car.
"Hey Nick?" Sara asked as Lindsay ran ahead of them.
"Yea Sar?"
"Thanks for that, you didn't have to"
"I't wasn't a problem, look, i think we need to talk, but when Lindsay isn't around"
"Okay, well we both have the day off next week how about then?"
"Sounds good, i'll take you out somewhere nice."
Sara laughed. Okay you tell me when and where and i'll be there."
"Good"
"Hey Nick, why go out though, why not just at one of our places?"
"Coz i wanna see you in a dress" Nick grinned walking off, leaving a happy but confused Sara behind
He wan'ts to see me in a dress! Oh my god do i even own one? She thought before running after them. Maybe this was the chance she had been waiting for. She could test the waters. See if it would totally scare him off or not. She smiled again. Oh this was going to be good. Hopefully.
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sorry there wasn't much Nick sara stuff i just wanted to get the house thing in and well i got a bit carried away lol. Ihe description of the house makes sense to me coz i can see it in my mind but it might sound totally confusing to you guys. Hopefully not. Sorry if it does. Review please!!