The beginning
Courtney Johnson's POVIt was a normal day for us, well as normal as it could get. Most of the group went to school, and then we all went to the mall. Half of us were in high school and the rest went to work. It was nothing exciting till Parker spilled his drink on Nick. Boy was she mad. Oh, FYI Nick is a girl, her full name is Nicole but she hates it.
"You ungraceful little nerdy science freak!" Nick all but screeched like a banshee at him.
"Dude, chill out. I'll get you some new clothes." Parker tried to calm her down.
He put up his hands in front of like that would help. When Nick got mad, it was like hell.
"Fine then. Let's go shopping shall we." Nick said way too calmly with an alarming smile.
As the two trotted away, or rather Nick tottered and Parker stumbled away, I turned back to the ones left. Ryan and Zoey were snickering together. Dominic just returned back to his meal.
Dominic was normally quiet, so it wasn't unusual for him to not say anything. Dominic was taken under custody by Nick and Jake. They were kind of like his parents but they were only his legal guardians. They got him after a chemical explosion at his father's lab. He was never the same after it. He had no parents or family left so Nick and Jake took him in about 2 years ago.
The food court was huge but we all knew there were bigger ones. I looked around as I sipped my drink when Jake got back from shopping with some girl on his arm. She was a short brunette with a skin-tight top that stopped just above her belly-button with skintight turquoise caprices and silver high-heels. She looked like something that came off the asphalt in Las Vegas.
"Hey guys. Where are Parker and Nick?" Jake asked as he set down his sports authority bags and glanced around for them. The girl didn't like the fact that she wasn't getting all the attention.
"Parker had to take her shopping for new clothes after he spilled his drink on her by accident." Ryan explained as he slide back down into his chair, clutching his drink like a precious stone.
"Oh, I hope she isn't too harsh on him this time." Jake said sarcastically as he stole one of Zoey's fries, earning himself a glare for the owner of the plate.
"Nick is a girl?" the girl asked giving Jake her best cute confused face.
"Yeah, I thought I told you that?" Jake said as he put his arm around her shoulders.
"No, you forgot to tell me that you hang out with three other girls." The girl said looking at him like he was having an 'affair'.
"Hi, I'm Courtney." I said as I stood up to shake her hand.
"Amy. We'll talk about this later." Amy said as she gave Jake the death glare. I sat back down giving Jake the 'damn' face
"No, we won't because you're not even my girlfriend." Jake said looking at her like she was stupid.
"Oh look, here they come now." Ryan said as he leaned forward resting his crossed arms on the edge of the table.
Nick walked up with a figure shrunk down behind her. She was wearing a proud smirk and her new outfit. The new clothes looked good on her. The new blue jeans and beetles shirt fit her well. She reached an arm back and put it around Parker's shoulders bringing him into sight and boy was he a sight. He had orange hair.
"Hey guys." Parker said as if he didn't care, but his hair was his biggest thing so he was most likely freaking out on the inside.
"H-hey, P-p-parker." Ryan chuckled, fighting to keep a straight face.
"You made him dye his hair?!" Zoey said trying to keep her poker face but was failing, badly.
"I didn't make him dye it. I just went to Claire's and bought Halloween spray, took him to the boy's bathroom and sprayed it." Nick said nonchalantly.
"You went into the boy's restroom?" Dominic said quietly, looking questioningly up at her.
"Not the first time." Nick said sitting down and stealing a fry from Zoey.
"God you guys, I'm not McDonalds! Get your own fries if you want some!" Zoey snapped grabbing her fries and protecting them.
"I'm guessing Jake stole a fry." Nick said looking up at the man sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.
"And who's this?" Nick said giving Jake the 'you could do better but she's cute' look before picking up her drink to sip.
"Amy and you must be Nick. It's a pleasure to meet the girl my boyfriend is cheating on me with." Amy said with a sweet sarcastic smile.
Nick put down her drink and stood up leaning her hands on the edge of the table. "Sweetie, let me inform you about my 'boyfriend'," Nick said making air quotations on the word boyfriend, "he's not my boyfriend nor will he ever be. You know why?" Nick finished with a shark like smile.
"Why?" Amy smacked her gum while crossing her arms and popping her left hip out.
"Because he's my soon to be ex-fiancé." Nick said sliding off the huge diamond ring off her finger and setting it on the table. "Oh, and those high heels he bought you are so last season." Nick finished off her game with a wink to the girl as she sat back down waiting for the trap to snap.
Amy turned to Jake and said "Nick, us girls have to stick together. Let's show him what we're made of."
"Sorry, I already did that last night." Nick said giving Jake a sexy smirk, then acting like she was inspecting her manicure.
Amy gasped then slapped Jake and stomped away.
"Thanks." Jake said as he sat while rubbing his cheek.
"Works every time." Nick said as she tossed the fake diamond ring into Zoey's ketchup.
"Where did the ring come from?" Ryan asked.
"Cheapy one from a cereal box." Nick said sipping her drink.
After another half hour of eating and showing off what we all bought it was time to head back to the house.
"Well, as fun as this is we better get back to put this stuff away." Nick said as she glanced at her phone.
"Yep. Hey has anyone seen my sunglasses?" Ryan said as he got up and scanned the table.
"It's in your sports bag." Zoey said as she got up and grabbed all of her bags.
"Oh, right. Thanks." Ryan muttered as he dug through the bag to retrieve his glasses.
We all headed towards the exit to the parking lot. Ryan and Zoey were mostly quiet along with Dominic. Jake and Parker were talking up a storm about god only knows what. Nick and I were having a small conversation about how school went for me that day.
"I passed my English quiz." I said briefly. It was nothing new.
"Cool. What did the teacher say about it?" Nick asked glancing at me.
"The same as always, 'Nice job.' then went back to a blank stare while handing out the rest." I imitated my teacher's voice. I did terrible at it.
"Eh, he's a high school teacher. Give him a break. He has to deal with kids who don't listen all the time." Nick was saying as a man walked by, also engrossed in talking to someone, and bumped into Nick.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention. My bad." Nick said quickly. She looked up at the man's face and her eyes widened. I realized that her eyes were blue. They were never blue, they were always grey. Just plain grey
"It's OK miss. It was my fault." The tall male said as he turned to apologize. He looked Nick in the eye and a look a recognition flashed a crossed his face.
"Haven't I met you before?" He said.
"No, I don't believe we have. Nick Ashwood." Nick said as she held out her hand for him to shake.
"Steve Rogers. I swear I have met you before." Steve said as he shook her hand.
"I'm sorry Mr. Rogers. I don't remember if we have." Nick said with a small apologetic smile.
"Oh my god. You're Captain America!" Parker said as he ran past Nick in a blur of orange. He held out his hand and introduced himself, "Parker Winston." Steve glanced at Parker's hair and shook his head to himself.
"Come on Cap. We have a time limit here." Another man said as he looked up from his watch at Nick.
"Katelyn?" the man said as he walked forward a step. I realized he was Tony Stark and apparently so did Parker.
"And you're Tony Stark. Parker Winston." Parker said as he held out his hand to shake.
"Yeah, yeah, kid whatever. Katelyn, where you've been? It's been a year since I last saw you. How are you?" Tony said as he stopped in front of Nick.
"I'm sorry? I don't follow. I'm Nick Ashwood." She said as she held out her hand.
"What do you mean 'you don't follow'?" Captain America said looking confused.
"I'm terribly sorry. We have to get back, big day tomorrow. It was nice meeting you." Nick politely said as she turned to leave.
"Hey wait." Tony said as he caught her wrist that carried her bag. Dominic seemed to have come out of nowhere as he stepped towards Tony Stark with a deadly glint in his eye.
"Whoa kid, relax. I wasn't going to hurt her." Tony said as he released Nick's wrist and put up his hands as surrender.
"Like I said, we better get going." Nick said calmly but with venom. Her eyes were now grey again. Weird right?
"It was nice meeting you." I said as I turned to leave.
"Give her this. Tell her to call me if she needs anything." Steve Rogers said as he handed me a slip of paper with his number on it.
"I will." I said as I took it and left. "Parker, come on." I said over my shoulder. He waved goodbye and followed us out to the cars.
We all got into the cars we came in and we headed back to the house. Nick, Jake and Parker along with Dominic lived together in a five bedroom house with a basement and a second floor. It was nice. Jake parked his red Ford F150 truck on the side of the house in the backyard. Parker parked his black 2006 mustang in the garage and Nick parked her dark metallic blue 1967 Shelby gt350 mustang with white stripes in the garage next to Parker's. She liked classics.
"What was that all about?" I asked Nick as we all sat down in the living room with our bags.
"I'm not sure. I'm gonna go put my clothes in the laundry. Parker, Jake, do you both have your clothes in the laundry room?" Nick asked the two boys. She never had to ask Dominic because he already put his clothes from each day in the hamper. The boys swore he was a robot.
"Yes." Replied Jake as he headed for his room with his bags.
"No." Parker huffed as he got up to go do it.
Nick had promised that she would cook dinner every night and do the laundry every weekend if the boys did the rest of the chores. They all agreed to it. Nick was a great cook so they didn't complain. Parker couldn't make an omelet to save his life and Jake didn't even bother to try.
After Nick had started the laundry and ordered pizza we all were now on the task of picking a movie to watch down in the basement. They had a wall of DVDs. They had classics to just out to foreign films. If you wanted to see it they had it.
"Did you tell your mom you're staying over?" Nick asked Ryan.
"Yeah, she said I have to be back home by noon. My dad is coming home at 5 and the house has to be spotless." Ryan said mumbling the last sentence. His dad was abusive and hit his mother every time something didn't please him. He worked all week and came home Saturdays.
Every Friday night our whole group has a movie night at The House. That's what we called Nick's house. We all spent most of our time here. The basement had a gym, game room, a bathroom, and theater which are where we were now. The first floor had the kitchen, laundry room, living room, bathroom, bedroom and Nick's office. The top floor was a loft making the ceilings on half the second floor vaulted. It had 4 of the bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a hall closet on the one half level.
"We can help clean tomorrow before he gets home." Zoey suggested.
"No it's fine my mom enjoys cleaning. She's probably cleaning as we speak." Ryan waved off dismissively.
Nick's POVI was sitting in my office as the rest was down in the basement finishing up picking out a movie. I was board out of my mind. It had been a year since I came to earth after losing my memory. I knew the basics of my life and that I owned this house apparently along with the files on people like the avengers in my office. Not that I'm complaining, there's pool in the backyard for god's sake. Also, I couldn't see a certain someone.
I didn't know what his name was or even what he looked like. All I remember is a ghost of a touch. It would trace patterns on random parts of my body. Or at the mall there would be a feeling of someone ghosting their lips over my neck. There was no warning of when it would happen.
I kept my distance from the people in the files. I was not expecting to run into The Captain and Tony. That was truly unexpected. It was nice to talk with them even though I had to pretend I didn't know them at all.
I went to the kitchen and opened the fridge checking if we had everything for breakfast tomorrow morning. I noticed we were out of milk. I grabbed the big bowls of popcorn and a platter of veggies and fruit. Courtney and Dominic were healthy eaters and hardly ever ate anything bad.
"Hey. What movie did you settle on?" I asked no one in particular as I set down the bowls and platter of goodies.
"The Mask." Parker said as he grabbed a hand full of popcorn.
"1 or 2?" I asked as I grabbed a chunk of cantaloupe and popped it in my mouth.
"2." Jake said as he reached over Parker for popcorn.
"Nice. I'm going out to get milk for the morning. Don't make too much of a mess and if you do clean it up." I said as I grabbed my leather jacket and car keys from the bowl by the garage door.
"What time are you going to be back?" Jake asked looking back over the couch.
"I don't know. In maybe half an hour. I'm just running up to the mini mart." I said as I slipped on my leather jacket.
"Agreed." Zoey called back towards me.
"Alrighty then. Pizza will be here soon and this time don't scare the crap out of the poor guy." I said as I walked out into the garage. I heard a few snickers before I shut it and I briefly prayed to god I didn't come back to a mess of a house.
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Hey I hope you all liked the story. The link down there is for Nick's car. It's my favorite. I feel it just fits her.
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