Chapter Nine
It felt nice to just relax, and take a drive, despite how strange my brother was acting. I couldn't help but wonder how he was doing, and where he was going, or who he planned to see. Despite my racing thoughts about my brother, I tried the best I could to relax, and enjoy the ride with my friends. The last time I was in a car with a group of guys I was drunk off my ass, and trying to make a quick buck to survive. Jon's friends, however, were incredibly nice and polite. I could tell they weren't interested in having sex with us, or if they did, they did a good job to hide it. I decided to break the calm silence, and ask, "So where are we going?"
"We have a small show tonight, and a signing to do later." Roman said, as he continued to drive. Nikki was content with Roman's answer, and eventually joined Sam and Alyssa in a nap.
My hands were cold; actually my whole body was cold. I was shaking, and shivering, the thin sheet wasn't enough to keep me warm in the cold winter months. I felt tears burn my eyes, as I slowly started to cry myself to sleep, but the creaking of my bedroom door opening, and footsteps coming towards me made me stifle my cries. "Nikki, what's wrong? I heard you crying?" I let out a breath of air I had been holding in, terrified it might be my mom or one of her current boy friends would come in to 'make' me stop crying. "Is she alright?" I heard another voice from the doorway whisper. I recognized that voice to be Sami's, my brothers friend. Sami was like a second big brother to me, they both kept me safe, and made sure I was ok whenever I was scared. "I'm cold." I cried even harder, "It's so cold in here, I want a blanket." My brother hugged me, and tried to calm me down, Sami sat behind me, and rubbed my shoulder in a comforting way. "What happened to your blanket Nikki?" Jon asked softly. I sniffled, and rubbed my nose, "M mom t took I it awaaaay." I couldn't help but cry again, maybe from embarrassment or just from pure exhaustion, and frustration, whatever it was I knew I couldn't take it anymore. "Why did they do that?" Sami asked this time. "B because I got sick on iiiiitttttt." I continued to let my sobs out onto my brothers shirt.
"Hey, wake up." I heard someone say. I had heard the voice before, but I couldn't be sure who's it belonged to. I blinked my eyes, and stretched, as trying to adjust my vision to the unusually bright afternoon sun. "Finally, we've been trying to wake you up forever now, come on let's go. Jon's back, and he wants to see you." Seth said, holding his hand out for me to take. I did so, and allowed him to help me out of their black rental van.
As Seth and I walked up to the hotel room, I couldn't help but stare at the two toned man beside me, he seemed different then Jon, but at the same time extremely similar. I missed my brother. I didn't recognize who he was anymore, and I'm sure he could say the same about me. The fact is we are siblings, and I love my brother, but right now we are nothing more than strangers who are related. It's a sad fact indeed.
My concentration on my brother was broken, when I walked into Seth's back, snapping me out of my thoughts. "Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't really see you there." I said, it wasn't until Seth gave me a confused look that I realized how stupid I had just sounded. I was thankful Seth didn't say anything about my excuse. "I think you just need some real rest. How long have you been on the streets?" Seth asked, as he held the door to the hotel open for me. I blushed, and stepped inside. It was big, and bright. There were two couches staged in the middle of the entryway a coffee table between them. Lining the table was dozens of travel magazines. The whole place smelled like cleaning products, and vanilla, a nauseating smell none the less.
Seth lead me to the elevators, and pushed the button to go up. "Since I was 16, I tried to wait for Jon, but I couldn't stay there anymore." I said simply. Maybe it was just me, but Seth seemed to keep staring at me. What did that mean exactly? He already had a girlfriend. I felt somewhat uncomfortable, and wished the elevator to hurry up. Soon the ding, and the doors slowly opening allowed me to breathe again. "Ok, which room is my brother in?" I questioned.
"Probably the same one everyone else is in." Seth said, with a smirk on his face, as he passed by me, looking over his shoulder, which so happened to brush against mine in the process. Who the hell did this guy think he was? "Right, I would never have guessed that." I said with more then enough sarcasm for him to notice, which he must have, because he made a comment under his breathe, which I couldn't hear.
"What was that?" I asked him, keeping my face as straight, and serious as possible. I was close enough to him that I could breathe in his scent, he smelled like a mixture of mint, cigarettes, obviously from Jon and me, and some sort of cologne. My mind started to spin just for a moment, I couldn't understand what was happening to my mind. I was so confused. I had been with plenty of guys, but never had any of them made me feel this way before. Most of the guys were just a quick fuck to made fast cash, and the ones that I did spend time with never really caught my interest, at least not like Seth. Seth was intriguing, yet annoyingly cocky, and still down to earth. I wasn't exactly sure what my mind and body was trying to tell me, but whatever it was, I was terrified to listen.
Suddenly Seth pressed me against the wall, his minty breath caught on my lips, and I couldn't help but inhale. My stomach was twisting, and leaping with excitement, if that is what it even was. Seth smirked down at me, still holding me by my shoulders against the wall. "You may have fooled your brother into thinking your innocent, but I know your not. Your not the innocent type, are you? I know your type, I know you've been around, but I will not let you treat me like one of those guys. Don't think I'm intimidated by you, because I'm not. You just keep yourself away from me, and well be ok." Seth said with a smirk, his face getting closer, and closer to mine, so much so that I could swear I felt his lips graze mine. My knee's started to shake, and when he finally let me go, I had to lean against the wall to steady myself. What the hell was wrong with me? I felt lightheaded, dizzy, and weak, but more so, I felt confused at Seth's words. What the hell did he even mean?
Regaining my wits, I pushed him off me, "I don't know what the hell you think you are doing, or who the hell you think you are, but I am not some piece of trash. I am Jon's little sister, sure maybe its been a while since I've been in his life, but that really doesn't matter. If you have a problem with me being here say so, because I can easily leave just like I did before. Then you'll have to tell Jon why I left, and answer to him. I don't think he'd like that very much, so choose carefully." I said, and paused for a moment. I wanted to walk away, and find Jon, but I had no idea where the room was. "Tell me where the hell the room is so I can see my brother, or get my stuff together, and get out of here." I saw Seth smirk, I seriously didn't understand this guy, or why my head felt so clouded. "Right this way princess." Seth said, with the same smirk plastered to his face. My veins felt like someone had lit a match in them, my head was now full of clouds, and heat. I couldn't understand why I let Seth get to me like that, and before I could control my temper, and my mouth, "Fuck you, asshole." My eyes grew wide, where did that even come from? In the short trip from the car to here, I had gone from happy, and intrigued by Seth, to furious and short tempered. All I knew was, Seth had stopped, and was now turning around. His eyes burned the same fire as mine. It was my turn to smirk, and I did so watching the flame in his eyes burn even more. I stood their waiting for a reaction from him, but instead he started walking… fast towards me. When he stopped we were only inches apart. I wasn't sure of myself anymore, or my body, since they both had a mind of their own tonight. My hand flew up, and slapped Seth across the face, my smirk fading to half amused, and half scared, if that was even possible. Seth regained his composure, and smirked at me.
Swiftly Seth pushed me against the wall. I didn't know what I was waiting for, him to hit me, yell at me, do both? I just waited, staring up into his eyes. The smirk still on Seth's face as I tried to push him off of me, but he was just too strong. "Get off of me. Let me go now!" I said growled. Seth new I was getting frustrated with him, I could sense it. "Make me." He said, bringing his face closer to mine. What the hell was he trying to do? I took quick note of his body position, and smirked. "Oh I will." I said, bringing my leg up as fast, and hard as I could, hitting Seth in the balls. Seth immediately fell to his knees. "You bitch!" He screeched, obviously in pain. "I only did what you told me to do."
"What the hell is going on out here?" Jon said suddenly, only witnessing Seth fall to his knees. Jon ran over to his little sister, and wrapped a protective arm around her. "Are you ok?" Jon asked. "I'm fine. I don't think he is thought." Nikki said, nodding towards Seth who was attempting to stand with shaky legs. "Jon, your sister is a…." Seth was cut off by another voice, and it wasn't Romans.
"Seth if you say what I think your about to say, you better think twice, then think again."
Nikki's eyes went wide. Jon was still holding her, Nikki wanted to turn to see who the voice belonged to however she already knew. Her eyes fogged up with tears. It couldn't be real, could it? Nikki turned around, her vision blurring because of the tears, she knew who it was regardless.
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