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Everybody Loves… Nikki

Nikki's Side

"Wow, they really go overboard for holidays!" Caitlin said looking at the multicolored streamers hanging from the roof and strung off all the banisters throughout the mall.

"It's Easter, what do you expect?" Nikki said sitting down at the table right outside the lemon as Caitlin went inside, Jonesy and the others were going to show up later and they were all going to see a movie together and then were probably going to go out to dinner. Nikki looked around at all the Easter stuff out, the eggs everywhere, the guy in the Easter bunny suit hopping around to amuse the kids that were chasing him. Nikki watched him as he hopped around, tripped, and then fell on her face, Nikki laughed as the kids started to jump on him. She had tears running out of her eyes when he stood up and tried to run away, but the kids continued to swarm him, after 10 minutes of fighting the kids, he managed to get up and run away. One of the kids started to cry, followed by many of the others, but the bunny continued to run.

"Hey Nikki, which sounds better? The Easter Lemon Squishy or Bunny Lemonade?" Caitlin said standing up from behind the counter holding one of each, she looked at Nikki, "What? What are you looking at?"

"Nothing, just the bunny guy." Nikki said wiping the tears from her eyes and chuckling, "so what were you saying about a Squishy?"

"Oh, I was just asking which one sounded better…" Caitlin said looking down.

"I don't know about you, but the Easter Lemon Squishy sounds good to me." Said a guy with an Australian accent, Nikki turned around and looked at him, he was gorgeous, and there were 3 other guys with him, Caitlin was staring at them with her mouth open. None of them seemed to have noticed Nikki yet, Nikki glanced over at Caitlin to see that her mouth was still hanging open. "We'll take four."

"Hey Cait, that means to move." Nikki said looking straight ahead, she glanced back to see that Cait had taken her word and started to make the drinks, but very distractedly. Who wouldn't be? Nikki thought to herself.

"Well hello there, what is your name?" asked one of the Australians sitting down, the others seeing him sitting down joined him, they all sat and stared at Nikki smiling.

"Give me your names first and then we will see…" Nikki said leaning back and crossing her arms staring them down.

"Well I'm John." Said one of them, he had light blonde hair, blue eyes, he was very tall and was a black band shirt with a dark brown jacket over top, he had on jeans and runners.

"I'm Michael, but you can call me Mike." Mike had died black hair that was spiked up, had grey eyes, and was wearing a white muscle shirt, and tan Capri shorts.

"I'm Ben." He had dark red hair that was obviously died, it was spiked up and he had piercings all around his left ear and half way around his right, he had his right eyebrow pierced twice, and his eyes were a deep green, overall he was really hot.

"And I'm Cam." He was gorgeous; he had light brown hair, slightly tanned skin and hazel eyes. "Nice to meet you." He put out his hand; Nikki stared at it, and then slowly shook it. "And now pretty lady what is your name?"

"My name is Caitlin!" Caitlin said energetically putting the drinks down on the table and smiling. The guys all looked at her, and then looked back at Nikki.

"What is your name?" Cam asked looking deep into her eyes and smiling, Nikki could feel her heart melting away into his smile.

"Nikki." She stated simply smiling back at him. Jonesy- Jonesy- Jonesy-Jon- John, hmm, Cam, Ben… Mike. NO! Jonesy! Jonesy! Ben has really nice eyes, he has nice hair also…. Yeah, he is really good looking.

"So what are you doing tonight?" Mike asked casually smiling at her winking.

"Going out with my friends too dinner and a movie." Nikki said, that is when she noticed that she was still holding Cam's hand, she quickly took it back, hiding her blush with her quick answer.

"Aw…" Mike said sadly.

"What? Did you want to go out or something?" Nikki said laughing taking a sip of her lemonade. The guys all looked at each other, then in unison, responded.

"Yeah," Nikki snorted and some lemonade came out her nose.

"What?"

"Yeah, we all want to go out with you." Ben responded, tipping back his chair.

"I have a boyfriend!" Nikki said standing up, "And besides that, I barley know any of you!"

"What do you want to know?" John asked smiling at her invitingly.

"Do you know what Cait; I am going to see Jen. Catch you in a bit!" Nikki said running off before they could follow her. She looked behind her to see that they were all watching her. She kept on running until she got to the penalty box and found Jen, "You will not believe what just happened."

"A bunch of hot Australian boys came up to you and started to flirt with you but you used Jonesy as an excuse and ran away." Jen answered as she put the finishing touches on the new ref's uniform that had just come in.

"How did you know that?" Jen handed Nikki her phone.

"Caitlin texted it all too me, it was a long message, but the idea of it is, is that there a bunch of hot Australian guys that all seem to like you." Jen said, picking up the box that was now empty and taking it to the back, when Jen came out she was smiling. "Do you think that you could introduce me to one of them? Please, please, please, please, PLEASE!"

"How can I introduce you to them when I don't even know them that well?"

"I don't know, just do it. Please?" Jen begged, Nikki sighed and crossed her arms.

"Fine," Nikki sighed, Jen jumped up and down happily "But you owe me."

"Ok, I get off break in five minutes." Nikki walked around the penalty shop until Jen's lunch break, when Jen finally got off, she and Nikki walked back to the lemon where the once filled table was now empty.

"Hmm, guess they left." Nikki said shrugging and sitting down in her chair, "Hey Cait, one lemon smoothe please."

"Yeah, one minute…" Caitlin sighed looking at the lemon she was about to juice sadly.

"Hey what's wrong?" Jen asked.

"I haven't seen Jude all day, have you guys seen him?"

"No, now to think of it, I haven't seen Wyatt or Jonesy either." Jen said looking around.

"I wonder where they are." Nikki wondered out loud.

"Ah, the case of the missing boyfriends… what a dilemma…" Cam said sitting down across from Nikki.

"Well technically, Caitlin and I are the only ones with boyfriends, Jen here is single." Nikki said motioning at the smiling Jen.

"Yeah, that's nice." Said John not even looking in Jen's direction, none of them even looked at Jen, Nikki didn't even notice.

"So your friend there told us all about your plans for tonight and invited us to come along. I hope that you don't mind?" Cam said smiling and touching Nikki's hand, Nikki could feel her face starting to go red.

"I don't mind."

"What about your boyfriend Nikki?" Ben asked tilting his head to the side and smiling.

"Oh, he won't mind." Jen said, rolling her eyes.

"Are you sure?" John asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure." Jen answered.

"Good, we will have a very good time tonight." Cam said smiling, the others joined in, and it was going to be very easy.

Jonesy's Side

"I hate kids." Jonesy growled as he climbed out of the bunny suit, moments earlier, he had been fired for making the kids cry. "Those little snot eating rug rats…"

"Hey… Jonesy! Wait up dude!" Jude skateboarded up and jumped off right beside Jonesy. "Are you ready for tonight?"

"Ready? Ready what for?" Jonesy asked as they started to walk towards the lemon, it was a long ways a way from one side of the mall to the other.

"Dude! You didn't forget the Easter movie, dinner, and egg hunt did you?" Jude yelled loudly making people look at him.

"How could I forget, we do this every year… except for the Easter egg hunt where did that come from?"

"I don't know, I just thought that it would be fun." Jude said, and then he smiled, "Hey do you think that we should do something like that for the girls?"

"How do you mean?"

"You know like, they have to find the movie tickets or something before we can go, or we hide special flowers all over the mall, and if they find one, they have to give us a kiss." Jude smiled at his plan.

"Jude, that is all swell and dandy, but in truth, where are we going to find flowers? Let's just stick with eggs." Wyatt said walking up behind them coffee in hand.

"I don't know… we need to find both you and Jen dates thought, because we can't have you two feeling like fifth wheels or something. So we are going to find you a date!"

"Or you could go out with each other!" Jude said smiling.

"Just because you and Caitlin are going out, and Jonesy are Nikki are going out doesn't mean that Jen and I have to go out." Wyatt stated draining the rest of his drink before throwing it away, "Besides, I don't think of her like that."

"Well then who are you going to find as a date?" Jude asked smiling at Wyatt.

"Well, I wasn't going to tell you guys but I asked Cynthia from the Card Shack."

"Wait, Cynthia, way to go Wyatt, she is so HOT, I remember asking her, and every time I did she rejected me." Jonesy said regretfully, "The only girl that has been able to say no to me."

"Ha, are you kidding Jonesy, I have seen more girls reject you then I've had cappuccinos, and that is a lot." Wyatt said making Jude laugh out loud.

"Well… whatever you guys." Jonesy said smiling, "We still need to find flowers."

"How about there," Jude said pointing to a flower kiosk.

"Jude, I got fired from there," Jonesy said backing away from it, "Wyatt, you go and get the flowers."

"No way, I got the tickets for the movie, Jonesy you do it." Wyatt said crossing his arms.

"How about this, Jude you go and get the flowers."

"Okay," Jude said walking towards the flower kiosk. "Hey, dude, I need some flowers."

"Pardon,"

"Whoa, dudette!" Jude said smiling.

"Hey, who is Jude talking too?" Jonesy asked looking at the chick that he was talking to.

"I don't know, but who do you think that is with Nikki?" Wyatt said pointing over at the lemon.

"I don't know… none of them look familiar. Why?" Jonesy asked trying to get a better look at them.

"Oh, Caitlin is there, never mind."

"What? What were you going to say?"

"I don't know it just looked like they were trying to, you know, flirt with her or something."

"Flirt with Nikki?" Jonesy asked looking at her, he then laughed out loud. "Not likely!"

"Hey, why would you say that?"

"Because," Jonesy said turning around to look for Jude, "So far, me and Darth are the only ones that are attracted to her, why would a bunch of guys like that go for her? They are probably only at the lemon for Caitlin, like usual."

"Hey dudes, you won't believe who I just ran into at the flower kiosk!" Jude said excitedly.

"Who," Wyatt asked looking at Jude with interest on his face.

"Remember when we were little we used to hang out with a girl named Sara?"

"Yeah, the one that we all had crushes on and then she moved away?" Jonesy answered smiling.

"Well she and her family moved back and she wants to hang out with us tonight, so I invited her to come along with us to see a movie and diner!"

"Jude what about Caitlin!" Wyatt asked with concern.

"She will be fine with it… I think…"

"Yeah, well we will soon find out because we have to be at diner in one hour." Wyatt said frowning, this was going to awkward.

That Night

"Hey Jude, why are there so many people here?" Sara asked leaning over looking around the table at the 10 others around the table.

"I don't know, I think that some of them are friends of Nikki." Jude said looking at Nikki as Cam smiled at her adoringly.

"So Jonesy how long have you and Nikki been going out?" Mike asked mischievously smiling at Nikki.

"A couple of months." Jonesy replied putting his arm around the back of Nikki's chair.

"Well that is interesting, you have a job at the moment?" John asked.

"No, I am between jobs at the moment."

"Oh, that is too bad." Cam said smiling wickedly, Jonesy started to feel uncomfortable.

"Hey Jude, Wyatt, can I have a little talk with you in the men's room, now." Jonesy said standing up and leaving the table. Nikki watched them leave.

"So Nikki, this has really been fun," Cam said looking over his shoulder at the retreating back of Jonesy, as soon as Jonesy disappeared into the restroom, he looked at Nikki and smiled. "So do you think that we," he said motioning to himself, John, Mike, and Ben "could have a quick private word with you."

"Um… yeah sure." Nikki said playing with fire.

"Okay," Ben looked at the others at the table dismissively, Sara and Cynthia slowly got up and left, Caitlin hesitated looking at Jen, then seeing the hostile glances on the others faces she got up and left. Jen remained sitting.

"I am not leaving Nikki with you guys!" Jen said loudly staring them down.

"Well you could leave, or we could leave." Ben said leaning back in his chair.

"Fine." Jen said standing up and walking away from the small booth that they were all sitting at in the corner of the restaurant.

"So," Cam said smiling at Nikki, "We all have something to tell you, it is quite funny actually, but don't think that this is creepy or anything so… we are all in love with you."

"Wait, what?" Nikki asked looking at him in confusion, his accent was gone.

"We are all in love with you we have been for a while." Ben said his accent was gone also.

"We all met randomly one day when we were at this music store, we were all in line to buy the same CD but there was only one left, so we started to talk it out, and that is when we discovered that we were all in love with the same girl, you." John said.

"Um… okay." Nikki said scooting away from them.

"So, now all you have to do is dump Jonesy and go out with one of us… or all of us, whatever floats your boat." Mike said smiling.

"Are you guys crazy or something?"

"Crazy in love." John replied.

"No, you guys are not in love; this is just an extreme crush that you developed on me."

"No, what we feel is love and we know it."

"No, you don't stalk someone when you are in love, you guys are creepy I am leaving." Nikki stood up and started to leave when Cam grabbed her arm.

"Sorry, but you can't leave until you agree to go on a date with one of us, a real date. No boyfriend allowed." Cam stated frowning; he managed to stop Nikki's punch and to block her kick. "Not going to work."

"Jen! Jonesy! Jude! Help!" Nikki yelled trying to kick them again; Cam was holding both her arms behind her back and was not letting her go. John managed to grab and hold her feet; there was no one else in the restaurant, they had went after hours, Sara's father owned the restaurant, a little change in their plans was all that they needed to do. Seconds later, Jen, Caitlin, Sara, and Cynthia were there ready to fight, Jen quick dialed Jonesy, but she didn't need to, because there he was… with members from his soccer team behind him.

"Let go of my girlfriend." Jonesy stated, Cam took one look at them at let Nikki go, John doing the same.

"Ha, little joke?" Mike said looking severely frightened.

"Jokes over punks," the rent-a-cop said running in. "I got calls of a dispute happening on this premises, let's go." He got Cam and the others rounded up and took them to his office. Sara was smiling.

"Well he came quickly!" She said happily smiling at one of the guys behind Jonesy.

"Hey, Nikki, are you okay?" Jonesy asked walking up to her.

"Um, yeah, I am fine." Nikki said rubbing her arm, were Cam had grabbed her so tightly. Jonesy grabbed her hand and kissed it, and then he kissed her hard on the lips.

"You are mine, from now on, if any guys approach you, it will be upon my approval first got it?" Jonesy said, Nikki just smiled.

"Are you okay Caitlin? Did you get hurt?" Jude asked looking at her with concern.

"I am fine…" She said smiling, Jude smiled at her and then they kissed, Sara had run over to the soccer player that she had liked and started to chat him up. Wyatt was talking with Cynthia, moment's letter, they started to kiss.

Later that night

"Aw man, why did the rent-a-cop have to show up, I was really looking forward to a fight!" moaned one of Jonesy's soccer friends.

"Well, we can always get them later." Said another.

"Hey wait, isn't that them up there?"

"I think that it is!"

"Hey you!" Cam turned around.

"Oh s—"

"Get them!" they did, but they stopped beating them up when Cam, John, Ben, and Mike all denounced their like for Nikki and promised to leave her alone, and not to come anywhere near Nikki or Jonesy ever again. Once the soccer players left, Cam, John, Ben, and Mike got to talking.

"Well, I think that I am going to move back with my parents now." John said walking away, wiping the blood off of his lip and tenderly touching his eye; he had been living with his grandparents for the past 5 years.

"I think that I am just going to plain leave." Mike said limping away; he had relatives that had wanted to take him in for a long time so that he could help at their mechanics shop once he graduated. Ben and Cam looked at each other.

"Well, I sure as hell ain't leaving." Ben stated angrily wiping the blood from his check; the one guy really knew how to throw a punch.

"Neither am I, but to be on the safe side, let's just lay low for awhile." Cam said rubbing his arm.

"Okay, she will go out with me." Ben said defiantly.

"Or me." Cam said looking at Ben crossly.

"She will go out with one of us."

"As soon as she dumps that Jonesy guy."

"Yeah…"

"We need a plan."

"That might be good."

I am so sorry for the tremendously long wait, forgive me readers, the next one will hopefully be up soon!