About 20 minutes into the dinner, Nicole began to get a little comfortable. She avoided John, not looking at him. Their drinks were served and they just ordered the food. Nicole was talking to Randy's wife Sam about something random. The blonde laughed at a remark Sam said before bringing her glass of Red Wine to her lips and taking a sip. As she was putting it down, her phone began ringing. Nicole looked at the screen and noticed it was her agent. Nicole told her that she was with her family and to only call if it was important, so this must be important.
"Excuse me, I have to take this" Nicole said excusing herself from the table and walking into an empty dining room. "Hello?" She said when she pressed the green answer button.
"Nicole! Sorry to interupt you, but I just a phone call from Paramount, they want you in one of their new movies!" Her agent Megan said excitedly into the phone. Nicole smiled but sighed, saying "that's great Meg, but do you think I can pull of the acting job?"
"of course you can! You guest starred in that show Pysch! You were great at that!" She tried to assure Nicole that she was good at acting.
"True, but to be fair, that only took a few days to film. Movies take up to a year of filming. and my co stars were hilarious! I can't handle being serious on a movie set" Nicole replied walking around the room while debating if she should accept the job or not.
"well, what if I told you your co star was Ryan Gosling?" Nicole could hear Megan smirk. Nicole sighed and said "i'll think about it Meg. I gotta go, im in the middle of a dinner"
"ok, i'll call you tomorrow. enjoy the rest of your trip" Megan hung up and so did Nicole as she pressed the end call button. She sighed again before turning around to walk back to the table. She gasped when she saw John standing there. He must have snuck in while she was on the phone. He stood there with his hands in his pockets smirking. "You ok?" He asked Nicole after he chuckled.
Nicole gave a small nodd and walked around him, desperatly trying to get away from the awkwardness. she was successful untill she heard John say 'wait, Nicole' she stopped in her place and turned around hesitantly. "What" she said coldly, trying to walk out and back to dinner. Shes been gone for a few minutes now, the food would be ready soon.
"we need to talk" he said walking towards her slowly. "I have nothing to say to you" she shot at him. John sighed and said "you're still mad? Nicole, it's been 5 years."
"John, im not talking to you about it right now." Nicole replied before turning around and walking back to the table. She heard John say "This conversation isn't over" while she walked out. She just rolled her eyes and walked back to her seat. As she did, John was just walking in. "Is everything okay sweety?" Her mother Eliane said concerned. Nicole placed her phone in her bag and smiled at her, replying "im fine, it was Megan about buisness" Elaine nodded and proceeded talking to whoever she was speaking to. Nicole went back to talking to Sam.
Nicole, Randy, and her parents were back in the car driving home. Nicole was exhausted from being up since 8 am and was drifting off into sleep. Her train of thought was interrupted by her mother saying something to her.
"what was that?" Nicole replied turning her attention back to her mother. "I said John is going to use your shower tonight ok?"
Nicole's looked at her mother in shock, not exactly understanding why she said that. "Why can't he use the one at his hotel?" She replied confused. "He and Randy are going golfing tomorrow, and he's spending the night so they can leave together." Nicole's eyes widened and she sighed, not looking forward to the night ahead of her. "You ok hunny?" Elaine replied concerned once again. Nicole nodded and looked out the window of the moving car.
They got back and Nicole walked into the house tired. She slipped off her heels and walked to the kitchen to get a water. When she walked in, she discovered that John was already there with Sam and Alanna. She glared at John, but her stare was interupted when Alanna shouted "Aunt Nicole!"
Nicole smiled and picked up Alanna when she ran over to her. "Alanna! You look soo much like mommy!" She said before looking over at Sam who was smiling. Alanna played with the ends of Nicole's long blonde curled hair and said "lets go play Barbies aunt Nicole!" Nicole laughed and Sam came up while saying "actually Alanna, it's time to go to bed. You can play Barbies with Aunt Nic tomorrow"
"nono, I wanna play now!" Alanna excalimed in her small high-pitched voice while clasping onto Nicole. Nicole laughed and handed her over to Sam while saying "how about I take you to Toys-R-us tomorrow and get you some toys? now go to sleep so tomorrow comes faster!"
Alanna smiled and said "okay!" In her cute little voice that made Nicole melt. When Sam and the little girl made it up the stairs, Nicole sighed and turned around but jumped when she saw John sitting at the counter. she totally forgot he was sitting there. She put her hand on her chest and said "jesus, you scared the crap out of me"
John chuckled and said "sorry" Nicole rolled her eyes and got a water bottle out of the fridge. When she shut the door to the fridge, she turned around and was once again surprised by John standing behind her with hishands in his pockets.
"Can we have that talk now?" he asked while looking at her. Nicole sighed and said "what is there to talk about John? Yeah, it's been 5 years, but what you did to me wasn't exactly easy to get over." She said while walking up the stairs and to her room. John followed behind her while saying "I know what I did was wrong, im sorry. Why can't you forgive me?"
They walked into Nicole's old bedroom where she would be sleeping, which happened to be the same bedroom where they slept together for the first time in. Nicole tried to block the memory out of her mind before saying "if you think im going to just forgive you like that, you obviously don't know what you did wrong, so i'll explain it." She was mad now. She looked at John before saying "you took advantage of me John. I was so vulnerable to your little games-"
"what games Nicole!" John cut her off by speaking harshly. Nicole just held a finger up to him and said "let me finish" she walked over to her closet and placed her shoes in it. She walked back to where he was sitting at the ned of her bed and went on.
"For Years, you used me for your own little pleasure. Everytime you and Liz got into a fight, took a break, any little thing, you came to my door and used me. And then you went back to Liz. The next week. How do you think that made me feel? I'll tell you what I felt like John. I felt like a slut, a whore. and the saddest thing is, I didn't even realize it." Nicole took a deep breath and fought back tears that were dying to flood from her eyes. But she didn't want to show any tears, not infront of John. She then continued.
"After all these years of fooling around, you finally broke me and proposed to Liz. How do you think I was supposed to react to that John? You knew I hated her, you knew I wouldn't be happy about it. It's not like I should be upset about it anyway, we weren't even together.."
"Well we aren't together anymore! We're divorced! I realized my mistake, im sorry, I want to make it up to you" John exclaimed strongly but not yelling. Nicole shook her head and said "You lead me on John. You made me feel special, like you cared about me. Then you just threw me away like I was some kind of trash, which I was John. I really was"
"you're not Nicole, you never were" John said looking at her in the eyes. The big crystal blue orbs looked into hers. Nicole was caught off guard and just stared at them in fascination. But after a minute, she just got angrier. She got angry that he was doing it again, hypnotizing her to do what he wanted. She shook her head and clenched her fists.
"Don't even do that, try to make me give in. Im not the same girl anymore John, im not going to fall at your feet and treat you like a king anymore. If you want someone like that, just go get a diva backstage. Go back to that girl Aj or whatever the hell her name is. the whore obviously just wants you in her pants." Finally, a tear emerged from Nicole's eye. She quickly wiped it away before others could fall. John saw this tear and got up before slowly walking over to her. "Nicole, stop being like that" as he took steps foward, Nicole took steps back untill she was pressed against the wall.
"John, please get out.." John shook her head and looked at Nicole again. His eyes looked in her's. Before they could affect Nicole at all, she looked down and said "John, please, just leave me alone..."
John sighed and walked to the door. Before he walked out, he looked at Nicole one final time and looked down. He opened the door and walked back into the hall. when the door was fully shut, Nicole took a deep breath and locked it before sliding down the back of it and sitting on the floor and letting out the tears that have fought to pour down her cheeks.