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p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Jess shifted in her seat, holding back the urge of taking off her heels./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"She was at Schmidt and Nick's friends wedding as Nick's date and the only two reasons she agreed to go were: Cece was there with Schmidt and wanted to have her best friend's company around and, most important, Nick's silly way of asking her to be his date. She just couldn't say no./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Hi Jess...ica" He swallowed hard, standing in her doorway with a white envelop in his hands "Food? Champagne? Prom?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"And she smiled. And said yes. And now there she was: wearing a fancy dress with fancy shoes and drinking too much to try and numb the pain in her toes. It wasn't working./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""What's wrong, Jess?" Nick asked, sitting next to her and watching her pained expression as she rubbed her feet together "Is it the heels?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Yeah. I really want to take these off but I have to keep my lady pose."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick shook his head and placed his champagne glass on the table. Kneeling in front of her, he reached for her black shoes and started slipping one of them off, but she jerked her foot away./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Come on Jess, these hooker heels are not gonna work for ya anymore."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I'm gonna be the only one with bare feet here and it's not even midnight."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Bullshit." He took her feet in his hands and slipped the heels off them. "Better?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"She sighed in relief as he gave her small feet a slight squeeze./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""You have no idea."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick chuckled and Jess smiled at him in appreciation. He pushed himself to stand and sat next to her again - before he could say anything, a pop song started to play and Cece ran up to Jess with a drink in her hand, smiling like it was Christmas./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Come on, it's our song! We have to dance!"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Jess's eyes went wide as she recognized the beat of Spice Girls and Cece grabbed her hand, taking her to the middle of the dance floor. Nick shook his head, amused, as he watched Jess dance to/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"emWannabe /embarefootem /em/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"like there was no tomorrow and like her feet were not being crushed by torture heels just moments ago. He could bet she wasn't even thinking about that anymore: all that Jess seemed to care was her moves (which were weird, but somehow he liked them) and singing as loud as she could. She looked damn pretty in her pink dress while she swirled around to the song and Nick made a mental note to invite her over for a/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Just Dance/span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"night at the loft - this way, he could laugh at Schmidt's/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"plies/span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"and smile at the wavy moves she did with her hands./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"A little girl was near Jess and Cece on the dance floor and she sloppily danced, her small feet making one move at a time. Jess approached her and kneeled to the girl's height, saying something that made the child giggle. Then they started dancing together as Jess taught her all her moves (chicken dance included). Nick was so lost in his thoughts watching them there that he didn't notice the bride taking a seat next to him./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Your girlfriend is one of a kind. I wish I could take my heels off too and crazy dance." she said, massaging her ankles "I was actually going to but then my sister told me to hold off on this decision until at least I get drunk."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick's head snapped over to the bride./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Oh, hey Heather. That's Jess, she's my..."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Jess seems cool. Speaking of getting drunk, can I drink your champagne?" Heather reached for the glass of champagne and took a sip, feeling relieved "That's better. So, apparently she's great with kids too, look how Lily is dancing with her! My niece is not that comfortable around strangers but she's totally fine with Jess."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick cracked a smile as he looked back at Jess and the little girl./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""She's a middle school teacher."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""That explains a lot." She winked "Gotta go, Ben is over there and I think he wants to dance? Anyway, I want to meet your girl later. Heather stood up and placed her glass on the table "Thanks for the champagne!"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""You're welcome" Nick replied, but she was already crossing the dance floor towards her now husband./span/p
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p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Heather thought Jess was his girlfriend and he didn't even try to correct her again. Funny. Nick felt something tickly in his belly when he thought of that./span/p
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p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"The song was over and Jess and Cece made their way back to their table. Jess flopped down on the chair next to Nick and panted./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""That was great! Did you see my moves? I even taught a little girl some of them! She thought they reminded her of a dinosaur dancing around but she did them anyway." She shrugged and looked at Cece "Hey, where's your clutch? I need some extra bobby pins."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Oh, damn, I forgot!" Cece smacked her own forehead "Schmidt's with it."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick laughed./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Why would he be with your stuff? It's not like your thing matches his suit."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I told him to hold my clutch while I went to the restroom. Turns out Wannabe is my jam and I was washing my hands when it started to play, so I just ran out the door to get Jess and left him there." She sighed "I'll go look for him, be right back."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"They watched Cece walking away and disappearing through the small crowd of people on the dance floor. After awhile in silence, Jess lightly elbowed Nick./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""What were you saying to Heather?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick shrugged./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Stuff."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""But what stuff?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"He looked at her and raised an eyebrow./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Too nosey, Day."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Jess hugged his arm and whined jokingly./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""But I want to know! Besides, I saw you guys looking at me... Was it because of my feet?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Jessica, stop obsessing over your feet, they are fine. And Heather was saying how much she wanted to take her shoes off too but couldn't because she's the bride."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""You should've told her it's okay." She smiled and leaned her head on his shoulder, still holding his arm "Because I'm pretty sure I would have no feet right now if it was up to me."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Yup, I'm pretty sure too."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"After a great night and a very drunken Heather throw her expensive stiletto heels out the window, it was time to go home. They dropped off Cece first at her apartment and then headed straight to the loft, Schmidt whining all the time about how he was too damn sober to his liking (he was the only one who didn't drink since he was sorted to be the driver of the night). Winston walked, no,/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"crawled/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"into the loft to pass out on his bed and Schmidt paused in the doorway when he saw Nick heading to the opposite side of the hall towards 4C with Jess./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Hey, Nicholas!" Schmidt called out "Where do you think you're going?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I'm walking my date to her door, Schmidt." and at Schmidt's skeptical face, he said "Go sulk in your room and don't lock the door."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Schmidt rolled his eyes but turned around, closing the door behind him. Nick shook his head and looked at Jess./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I don't know why we're best friends. Anyway" He smiled "Thanks for coming, Jess, it was really cool."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Jess leaned forward and picked the hem of her dress as if she was a princess. Using a british accent, she replied:/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I've had a lovely evening, sir."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Aaand there she is."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I can impersonate the Queen too."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""I think we're good for the night."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"She bumped her fist lightly on his shoulder./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Thank/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"you/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"for the invite. It was fun, though there was this random six year old kid that pushed me out of the way to get the bouquet and this old man that asked me if my hair was actually extensions."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""You/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"do/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"have a lot of hair."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"She pouted and Nick chuckled./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""It's a pretty hair though. Really pretty." He leaned in and kissed her forehead goodnight. Her eyes fluttered shut and she could swear she felt something funny inside her chest. When they opened again, Nick was already walking away. "See ya tomorrow, Day."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""See you tomorrow, Miller." Jess replied as she felt her forehead getting hot and watched him walk back to his apartment. Before she went inside, Nick called out her name from the other side and she stuck her head out the door./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Yeah?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""We are having a/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Just Dance/span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"marathon here tomorrow night. Schmidt always does these really weird moves and I think you could beat him. Wanna come?"/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Jess pretended to think about his question./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Yeah...I'm gonna ignore the/spanemspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"I think you could beat him/span/emspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"part and just say yes."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Nick flashed her a big smile./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""Then it's a deal."/span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"She smiled back, feeling her stomach jump inside her body with excitement./span/p
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: -webkit-standard;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""It is a deal."/span/p