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Summary: "Do you remember that time I fell out your window and you came jumping out after me?" There was a twinge of humour to her husky voice and Leon smiled for her benefit. For three years he let himself believe that he would always save her from everything, until he was the reason she was in that ambulance, a broken back and their baby was gone.
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Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
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May 1999- I'll follow you into the park
It was nine-thirty before Leon came into the room to find Nicola doodling on her pink notebook.
"You been in here all day?" he asked as he crawled onto the bed and lay down beside her.
"Letty and I went down to the beach for awhile." She replied distantly as her hand moved over the pink paper.
"What's on your mind, pretty girl?" He asked glancing up at her face, her hair slowly falling out of the ponytail it was in, falling down on her shoulders which were covered by the sleeves of her pink tank top.
"I wrote my list." She said softly and held up the notebook.
Dated: Tom Bowen; Tyson Little
Kissed: Tyson Little; Brady O'Malley; Leon Palermo
Slept with: Leon Palermo
Leon grimaced as he looked at the short list.
"Lala, you know you really don't want to know." He said softly, reaching up and brushing the hair off her shoulder.
"What because you can't remember half their names?" There was the familiar sound of a laugh in her voice and Leon felt his stomach tighten. He hadn't exactly been an angel when they'd gotten together.
"Fine I'll write the list. But Dom just told me Hector called- there's a race at eleven thirty." He saw her face brighten as she jumped up.
"I've got to get ready!" She said before running up to Lettys room.
When the girls finally emerged it was already eleven o'clock. Bella came down first, her lips a dark red wearing a tiny black dress with black spiked heels, she had a white denim jacket on and nobody missed the glance she threw at Leon who was sitting on the floor, pen in hand still trying to write the damn list, his knee drawn up under his arm as he chewed furiously on a toothpick.
When she realised he wasn't looking she made a point to walk past him towards the kitchen, looking down at the pink notebook to see a very detailed picture of a car drawn there. He didn't even look up so she had no choice but to keep walking.
Mia raced down as she remembered that she'd left her shoes in the living room wearing a colourful yet short flowing dress, a leather jacket thrown over the top of it.
Nicola and Letty walked down together, talking loudly making Leon look up. He smirked at the sight of Nicola in tight black jeans, a black and silver tank that showed off her midrift and a black bomber jacket with the highest of her black platform pumps. Her hair was pulled over her shoulder in a pony tail and her big gold hoops glinted in the light. The pencil in Leons hand was forgotten as Nicola and Letty stopped at the bottom of the stairs and Dom looked over Letty in her black heeled boots and a short leather skirt and a white wifebeater on top, her dog tags jingling as she pulled on the red jacket and flicked her hair out of it.
"You guys ready to go or what?" Letty asked and the rest of the team followed her out of the house.
Nicola fell into step with Leon and appraised his jeans and checked shirt combination.
"Do you own anything else?" She asked sceptically and he rolled his eyes.
"Always with the criticism woman!" He nudged her and she stepped sideways awkwardly reaching out to him making Leon hold her arm laughing as she made her way down the driveway and climb into Lettys car. "By the way- you look amazing." He whispered and she blushed as he opened the car door for her.
Leon got in Jesses car and Bella climbed into the backseat of the Jetta as well.
"Welcome to my world, girl." Letty commented as the two girls watched the Jetta pull and she started the car and pulled off the curb.
The streets were already packed when the Torretto team turned up. Nicola followed Letty over to where Hector stood with a group of other guys.
"Hey Hector." Both girls said in unison and looked at each other, giggling.
"What's up girls? Whoah whos the skirt?" Hectors gaze along with the rest of the guys attention was drawn over to Bella who was taking her time getting out of Jesses car. Nicola rolled her eyes and looked at Letty.
"We need to find some guys that don't know our boyfriends." She looped her arm through Lettys and led her away as Hector made his way towards little Toretto.
There were a bunch of guys Nicola remembered from school sitting on the front of a purple Toyota and she led Letty over to them, a flirtatious smile plastered to her face.
"Hey guys." She said sweetly when they got closer. The three guys looked them over before realising they knew the girls.
"Nicola Andrews?" one of them said, "I thought you were in New York." Nicola shrugged as the blonde looked her up and down and she threw a look to Letty who rolled her eyes. Not likely.
"Hey, guys they're going to start the race." Leon appeared behind the girls and nodded to the three boys.
"Hey man." They all said in a friendly way and Nicola let Letty drag her back towards her car, Leon falling into step beside them.
"I'll see you after the race." He said to Nicola and disappeared. Nicola climbed into the passenger seat of Lettys car and they took off, parking along the street.
"You're attempt at making Leon jealous was a fail." Letty said finally and Nicola nodded.
"And yours didn't?" Nicola replied and Letty sighed.
"Why did we get the two hottest men in the damn city?" she replied.
"You think Leon is hot?" Nicola glanced over at Letty.
"Yes. You have eyes right? Pity I like them big and bald and named Dominic, which also has the downfall of being a serial cheater." Letty leant back in the seat and crossed her arms over her chest.
"You could leave him, Let."
"Nah, I like him too much. Besides the bitch always comes crawling back." She laughed a husky laugh and glanced out the passenger window to the starting line where Dom was sitting in his car.
"I think I'd kill Leon if he ever cheated on me."
"I think Leon would kill himself for you. That boy is in crazy love. It's sickening." Letty wound down the window as Jesses Jetta pulled up beside them, packed- with Leon in the passenger seat and Mia and Bella sitting in the back.
"Where's Vince?" Letty asked leaning out her window and Leon looked at Jesse before looking back at Letty.
"Ah, lets just say he got what he was looking for and left."
"What a punk bitch." Jesse replied from his spot in the drivers seat.
Three cars streaked past them seconds later towards the end of the quarter mile.
Nicola pulled off her coat as she walked into the hot house, music was blaring, there were people in their living room and she glanced at the clock on the wall telling them it was two am. There had been no sight of the cops after the first race so two more had followed before everyone had decided to start the party in the street before making their way to their respected places of celebration.
She left her shoes on as she stepped across the living room floor and tried not to think about the fact that she had to clean that up in the morning before making her way down to the basement, kicking her shoes off at the top of the stairs. When she was in the room she looked at her bed which was calling her name but instead hung her jacket up in the crowded closet and threw her shoes on the floor. She was just about to make her way back up the stairs, a bottle of whiskey in her hand when Leon walked in, his head down as he stared down at the pink notebook in his hand.
He realised she was there and looked up.
"Hey, La." He said softly and sighed, "I wrote your list." He held up the notebook and Nicola snatched it out of his hands. She looked down at the page it was on and smiled. It was a picture of her, long hair falling down her back, her head turned towards them and she hugged herself. She would have thought it was any other girl but Leon had drawn the small birthmark that sat on the back of her arm in. It was beautiful.
"The list is on the page behind it. But I'm giving you the option- you can read it or you can read this list." He held up a piece of folded pink paper. Nicola glanced between the book in her hands and his hands.
"Is it that bad?" she said finally and Leon sighed.
"La you know me, you've always known me. I'm not exactly innocent." Nicola flipped the pages and before she could read the writing on the next page she ripped it out and handed it to Leon.
"Burn it then. I want that one." She pointed to the folded piece of paper and he handed it to her. She unfolded it.
Loved: Nicola Andrews since she was sixteen and will love her until she's one hundred and ten.
"You're so cheesy." She smiled up at him and Leon leant down to kiss her softly.
"But…?"
"Okay okay, it's a good list. Just if one of the nameless girls turns up again you have to drag me out of the room and inform me so I don't make a complete ass of myself." Leon kissed her again and she wrapped her arms around his neck kissing him back.
"We should get back upstairs." Nicola said between kisses and Leon finally relented.
"Meet you back here in an hour?" he waggled his eyebrows and Nicola laughed.
"An hour." They raced each other up the stairs before going in separate directions. Nicola headed towards the kitchen and Leon walked into the living room.
Letty and Mia were sitting up on the table, swaying to the music as Nicola held up the bottle of whiskey.
"I brought the party favours!" The two girls cheered before Mia spoke up.
"I brought some too. Think you might want to stick to whiskey though." She nodded over Nicolas shoulder and Nicola turned around to see the three boys from the races leaning against the wall between the living room and kitchen, the blonde one holding up his beer in greeting to Nicola. Nicola rose her whiskey bottle in a salute before turning back to the girls.
"Mia, you're meant to be the responsible one." She laughed, unscrewing the lid and pouring some into a glass before grabbing a bottle of Coke off the table beside Letty.
"I didn't really bring them for me, I thought you would appreciate it if I put something in Bellas line of vision that wasn't Leon." Nicola took a sip of her drink and sat up on the table beside Mia and looked around to Letty.
"Hey pretty girl, I think we owe Mia a thank-you." Mia squealed as both girls wrapped their arms around Mia and squeezed her.
"We love you Mi Mi!" Letty sing songed before they pulled away.
"No but seriously, thanks." Nicola said to Mia.
"Really babe, I needed to do it for my own benefit. I felt sorry for her."
"Felt sorry for who?" And the devil appeared, still in her tiny black dress, black shoes still strapped to her feet and Nicola looked down at her bare feet, feeling a little self conscious.
"Vince, his woman kicked him out on his ass." Mia replied, not missing a beat and Nicola and Letty shared a look.
"Oh right, you guys seen Leon?" She asked as she picked up a hot pink coloured drink from the cooler.
"No, but I saw a bunch of hotties hanging by the door." Mia raised an eyebrow and Bella shrugged.
"Whatever." Bella replied and disappeared.
"You know my mother always told me that when you said "Whatever" you were practically saying "Fuck you."" Nicola mused and poured Mia a drink, handing her the cool glass and putting a hand on her shoulder. "Can't say you didn't try, good solid effort though." Nicola sculled the rest of her drink before making another one.
"Who's up for some GTA?" Letty asked and Mia and Nicola walked out to the living room where two boys were playing the playstation. Letty looked down at them and rose her eyebrows. The boys reluctantly put their controllers down and got up, walking away.
Mia and Letty grabbed the controllers and reset the game while Nicola sat down on the floor beside them. She glanced over to Leon who was standing with Vince and Jesse. Four or five girls were standing in front of them, talking quietly to them and the boys were nodding. The fact that one of the girls was wearing a very small black dress didn't get past Nicola but she focussed back on the television. Two boys that were quietly standing near the three older guys trying to pick up some tips caught Nicolas eye and she smiled at them before waving them over. The boys wandered over and sat down beside her.
"Rolling with the big guys is tough hey?" She laughed and one of them, a guy about her age with brown curly hair nodded, turning to his brunette friend who had the palest blue eyes.
"They're snaking all the chicks." The blue eyed one said reluctantly.
Mia and Lettys eyes never left the screen but Letty said to them.
"You just have to look like you don't need 'em." She said glancing at Nicola.
"The trick is…" Nicola leaned forward and placed her hand on the curly haired ones arm, "looking like you're unavailable. See the dark haired guy over there with the checkered shirt?" The boys nodded.
"Yeah his names Leon." The curly haired one replied, never taking his eyes off Nicolas hand on his arm. She giggled and pushed a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Yeah, he's got a girlfriend, he doesn't need to make an effort, and look at the amount of chicks that are over there." She rose her eyebrow and the two boys nodded.
"Come on, lets get me a drink." She winked at the blue eyed one and went to stand up.
"But you haven't finished the one you've got." The curly haired one replied and Nicola picked up the glass, swallowing the rest in one sip.
"Now, lets get me a drink." Letty and Mia shook their heads as they watched Nicola saunter away towards the kitchen with the two boys who gave her their undivided attention.
Sure enough as soon as Nicola excused herself to go to the bathroom, three racer chasers swooped on the two boys like vultures. Nicola shook her head as she made her way back out into the living room. She glanced at the clock, they still had ten minutes.
Falling down beside Letty again she chanced a look at Leon who was standing in the same place with Vince and Jesse, only three girls stood chatting to them now, none in a tiny black dress.
Nicola sighed in relief as she looked around and realised the boys from the races were gone too.
"I think I'm going to bail." She finally said and Letty looked up at her nodding.
"Dom's already in bed."
"Alone?" Nicola raised a sceptical eyebrow and Letty nodded.
"While you were tag teaming the high schoolers I went and checked." Nicola laughed and stood up.
"Alright. Good night." She blew a kiss to each of the girls and made brief eye contact with Leon before making her way towards the basement.
Fumbling through the dark she cursed whoever had turned the lights out in the television room and once she found the switch she made her way towards her door.
The steps creaked behind her but she ignored them. Turning the door knob and pushed the door open she realised Leon must have turned the dimmers on on the lights because the room was bathed in a dim light. Walking through the door she stopped dead.
Bella was stretched out on her bed in the smallest black underwear Nicola had ever seen. Not willing to see if the girl saw her or not Nicola spun back around and slammed the door behind her.
"Holy fuck." She breathed deeply, sucking in giant breaths.
"Lala?" Leon walked towards her and she blocked the door.
"You are not going in there. We're going to find Vince or someone, anyone. But not you." She grabbed his hand and dragged him away from the bedroom.
"La? What's going on?" Leon let her drag him up the stairs, glancing back at his bedroom confused.
"Will explain shortly. Letty!" Nicola pulled him into the kitchen were Letty was talking to Vince who had managed to dodge his lady friends.
Both looked up at the approaching couple and glanced at their intertwined hands.
"Vince! There is a semi…no practically naked girl in my bed, waiting for my boyfriend. Please get it out, now." She pleaded.
"Naked?" Letty jumped off the table she was occupying.
"Well very small lingerie." Nicola replied and glanced at Leon who dropped his head back and groaned. "I think you would have liked it." She said to him and he glared back at her.
"Don't start La."
Vince snuck past them with Letty close behind as they made their way down the stairs.
"Try to be discreet, the poor girl doesn't need a scene." Nicola said, despite other ideas that were coming to her rapidly.
"Right discreet really isn't in Vinces vocabulary." Letty hissed and Vince motioned at them all to shut up.
"I'm going to do the old drunk wrong room manoeuvre." He glanced at Leon who nodded gratefully. He knew this game. Anyone that lived in that house did.
Vince walked into the room, swaying slightly as the other three snuck into Vinces room and watched through the cracked door.
"Boys a fool." Nicola muttered as she head Vince slurring his way through an explanation to the girl. They watched as she dashed out, pulling her dress over her head and Vince swaggered out, watching her rush up the stairs before turning back to the others.
"You were right- practically naked. Man you missed out on getting laid." Vince slapped Leon on the back, but Leon was quiet and left the three of them before going back into his room.
"Thanks Vince." Nicola touched his arm before looking towards the bedroom door which had been shut. "Goodnight." She waved to Letty who was still giggling and walked into the room to see Leon staring at the bed. "I feel like we should change the sheets or something." Nicola said looking at the rumpled duvet with disgust.
Leon didn't say anything as he ripped the cover off the duvet and threw it towards the door then threw the duvet in the other corner. Walking over to the closet he opened a drawer and pulled out a quilt that he threw over the bed before pulling his shirt off and undoing the buckle of his belt, throwing his jeans in the same direction as the shirt and climbed into the bed in only his boxers and lying on his stomach. Flicking the lights off Nicola walked over and pulled her jeans and shirt off and pulled on the shorts and tank she'd worn to bed before climbing in the other side of the bed.
They both lay there in silence before Nicola started giggling.
"Whats so fucking funny?" Leon muttered and Nicola turned her head to face him.
"There was a naked girl in our bed Leon, what is not funny about that?"
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