Just hours until it's the end of 2010 and the start of 2011. We're back in New York, for the ball drop and everything The roads are better now, all cleaned up from the snow. I'm sitting at the table in the room, on my computer doing what I always do while listening to my music with my headphones plugged into it. Alex sees I'm distracted and smirks, sneaking up on me. When he stands behind me, he taps me on the shoulder and I turn in that direction. But I don'st see anyone. I turn back to my computer, but come face to face with him and I jump.
"Jeez...god you scared me." I say, taking and ear bud out of my ear with the other hand over my heart.
"That was the point." He snickers.
"I could've had a heart attack." I shake my head amused.
"Yeah okay." Alex chuckles and kisses my cheek.
"The day is so going to drag until we leave for Times Square tonight."
"Yeah." He agrees.
"I'm trying to do things to make time go by faster...not working out so well." I sigh.
"We could see if Windy and Mike want to go out and do something." Alex suggests.
"I think they're going to want that day of alone time like we had. Well until tonight anyway."
"Ah, good point. Well we can still go out ourselves."
"True. Well if we're gonna do that, you have to get dressed mister." I say poking him.
"Right." He laughs, going to do so.
He changes and comes out.
"Okay, what do you think we should do?"
"Hmmmm, we could walk around the city or something."
"Sounds alright to me." He agrees, putting on his jacket.
I grab a light jacket and put it on considering that it's supposed to be warmer than usual today. I grab everything I need and we leave. We get outside and Alex laces his fingers with mine as we start to walk around. Meanwhile, Aly's still laying in bed and Mike has a tight grip on her as he's still sleeping. She giggles quietly. Mike starts mumbling in his sleep. There was one thing he said that was clear as a bell.
"No...I don't want to ride the pony."
She tries not to laugh but fails as she busts up laughing. When he stops mumbling, a few minutes later he wakes up and sees her still laughing a bit.
"What's so funny?"
"You...talking...in your sleep." She laughs.
"I do not talk in my sleep."
"Yes you do."
"No I don't."
"Yes you do." She giggles.
"Mr. I-don't-want-to-ride-the-pony." She adds.
His face turns red and it makes her laugh even harder.
"That's what you said in your sleep, and it was funny as hell."
"So not funny." He mumbles.
"Aww I'm just teasing." She giggles.
"So, what do you want to do today until we head to Times Square tonight?" He asks.
"I'm perfectly fine with not moving."
"Want today to be that alone time day thing I assume?" He asks and she nods.
"I'm alright with that. Sure, we'll stay right here until we have to leave tonight."
"Good." She smiles, snuggling into him.
"Just hours away until it's 2011."
"This year flew by."
"Yes it did. I'm still champion and you're still champion."
"Right."
"But tonight is going to be fun."
"Yeah, it's going to be a good night."
"Tonight's gonna be a good night." He starts singing.
"Dork."
"Your dork." He corrects.
"True." She laughs.
After laying there for a while, then he pulls her closer and puts his face in her neck.
"Nooo." She squeaks, trying to push him away.
"I am not backing down this time." He mumbles.
"Miiiiiike."
"You can't stop me." He chuckles.
She finally just sighs and gives in. He smirks and starts going all piranha on her neck. She just lays there against the pillows, giggling every now and then when he hits a particularly ticklish spot. After he's done with that, he kisses her.
"Now you're going to have to try really hard to hide that this time."
"I'll have to leave my hair down then." She laughs lightly.
"Just be lucky we don't have any house shows coming up in the next few days."
"That's a good thing."
"It should go away at least a little bit before Raw on Monday."
"You better hope so." She pokes him.
"Ah, no poking." He chuckles.
She pokes him again. He retaliates and pokes her back.
"Poke war!" She declares, laughing and poking him repeatedly.
After a while, he stops her poking by grabbing her hands.
"Got you now."
"Awww..."
He then switches to holding her wrists with one hand and with the other, starts poking her.
"Ha, what now?" He laughs.
She squirms, laughing because he's poking the ticklish spots.
"Sttooooopppp!" She says through her giggles.
"You started the poke war."
"Okay okay." She whines, still giggling and shifting to try to avoid his pokes.
"You surrender?" He laughs.
"Yes, just stoppppp...please..."
He smiles, and lets her go and stops the poking. She lays there, catching her breath.
"I'll always win if you start something, remember that."
"Not always. But for now."
He then starts playing with her hand.
"What're you doing?"
"I'm entertaining myself."
"Oookay then."
Then he sneaks in another poke.
"Hey. No more poking."
"And what're you going to do about it?"
Before he can blink, she rolls over and hovers over him. She laces his hands together and holds them against the mattress.
"This." she says, before kissing him.
"Was not...expecting that..." He mumbles.
She pulls back a little bit but not far.
"I'm full of surprises." She says with a soft laugh.
"Yeah well so am I."
"Oh really."
"Really."
"Really."
"Really."
She catches him offguard again with another kiss. He manages to get the strength to roll them over and now he's over her. She giggles and raises one eyebrow.
"Don't make me go piranha on you again." He smirks.
"Let's not...I think one time is enough."
"I was kidding." He laughs.
"Good."
He leans down and kisses her quickly before laying back down in his spot on the bed. Aly smiles and lays against his side, drawing patterns on his chest with her fingers and humming quietly. The day goes by fast for all of us and right when Alex and I walk into the room, my phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Hey Carly, it's Nick."
"Oh hey, what's up?"
"Me and the guys just wanted to let you and Aly know that we're in NYC with NKOTB to perform for the New Years show."
"No way."
"Way."
"That's weird because we're all in NYC too."
"That's awesome." Nick laughs.
"You guys should come hang with us before we perform and stuff."
"Oh definitely. I'm sure Aly will agree to doing that. I'm sure it won't be hard to find you guys haha."
"Nah. What hotel are you in?"
"Like right down the street from Times Square."
"...that is just weird."
I then hear his voice out in the hall.
"Why? You guys in the same hotel?" I ask, walking to the door.
"Yeah."
I open the door and see him in the hall.
"Looks like you're in front of my hotel room too."
"Heyyyy." He laughs, shutting his phone.
"Don't tell me your rooms are on the same floor too." I laugh, putting my phone away.
"Creepily enough, yes." Nick snickers.
"What are the odds of that? Haha."
"I know."
Aly pokes her head out of her and Mike's room, still in pajamas.
"What the...oh hi Nick."
"Heyyy." He greets.
"Guess what?" I say.
"What?"
"Okay so Nick and them are performing tonight here in NYC for New Years with New Kids On The Block. Not only that, they're staying in this same hotel and on this floor."
"Okay, that is just really weird."
"We just said the same thing haha."
She steps out a little farther, holding the door open with her foot.
"What are the odds.." She laughs.
"Exactly. Nick said that we should hang out with them before they perform tonight."
"That sounds good to me."
"And if Mr. Clingy in here doesn't like it, too bad." She adds, laughing.
I laugh, but then notice her neck.
"What is that?" I point.
"Piranha." She sighs.
"Aha, so he got you this time."
"Yup."
"Well we got a few hours before we head out to Times Square. I guess we'll see you and everybody else then." I say to Nick.
"For sure. Just give us a ring when you come out there and we'll get you over by us." He says.
"Will do. Before you walk away, aren't you forgetting something?" I ask, holding my arms out.
"Of course not." Nick laughs and hugs me and then Aly.
"See you guys later." He says, walking off down the hall.
"That is just too uncanny." Aly says amusedly to me.
"I know right? The thing is, he called me right? Then I think I hear him in the hall outside my room, and I open the door and there he is."
"Haha nice."
"How was your alone time with Mike?" I smile.
"Enjoyable." She giggles.
"And there's physical evidence to prove that haha."
"I know. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure it's bad."
"Oh you have no idea."
"I'm afraid to look now." She laughs.
"Let's just say it's a tad bigger than mine."
"He would." She sighs.
"Well I'm sure he's just dieing in there because you're not laying there next to him. You should get back in there haha."
"Alright. See you in a bit Dolce." She giggles.
"Yep." I say, and we both go into our rooms.
We all hung out in our rooms up until it got dark out and it was time to head out to basically party in Times Square for New Years. Alex sees the bathroom door halfway open as I finish getting ready. He slips in and snakes his arms around my waist.
"Absolutely gorgeous." He smiles and kisses my cheek.
"Well someone's Mr. Affectionate tonight."
"Felt like it." Alex shrugs.
"Well I can't complain."
He chuckles and watches as I do the last few things.
"Alright, in order for me to get out of this bathroom and put my things away, you're going to have to let me go." I giggle.
"Aww.." He says, reluctantly letting me go.
I walk out of the bathroom and put my things in my bag and then we wait for Aly and Mike to be ready. Meanwhile, Aly's putting the last curls in her hair. Mike's already done getting ready and he too slips into the bathroom doing the same thing as what Alex did to me.
"You should be more careful, I almost got you with the curler." She giggles.
"Well I'm fine, and you look beautiful."
"Thank you." She says, setting down the curler and unplugging it before sliding the headband on.
"I stand corrected...NOW you look gorgeous."
"Goofball." He laughs.
"Love you too." He smiles.
"Okay you'll have to let go now so I can get my boots on." She tells him, giggling.
"Aw man..." He says, letting her go.
"Clingy." She teases while going out into the room and sitting on the bed to put on her boots.
"I'm clingy? You should see yourself sometimes." He chuckles.
"Excuse me? You're the one that never wants to let go and you cling in your sleep more than me." She points out giggling.
"Can you blame me?"
"No."
"I really love you, what can I say...haha."
"Aww love you too." She smiles and snaps the last buckle, standing up and kissing him gently.
"Ready to go?" She says, grabbing her coat and putting it on.
"Yeah." He agrees.
He waits until she turns away to pat his pockets to make sure he has the ring. Once he makes sure of that, they both head out into the ahll and wait there for Alex and I to come out of our room. A minute later, we come out and we all walk downstairs to go to Times Square. I take my phone out and call Nick to tell him we're in Times Square.
"Hello." He asks when he picks up.
"Hey Nick, we're in Times Square now."
"Alright cool I'm going to send one of our bodyguards over to get you. Exactly where are you?"
I describe where we are.
"Okay, he's on his way." Nick says.
"Alright, see you soon." I say, then we say bye and we all wait.
Soon enough the bodyguard comes over and leads us to BSB.
"Heyyy!" I say as we reach them.
"Heyyy!" They greet us in return.
"Nick tell you guys we all were in the same hotel and on the same floor? Haha." I laugh.
"Yeah that's crazy." AJ laughs.
"Do I get to call you Mr. Clean now?" Aly says giggling.
"What? Oh...haha very funny."' He chuckles.
Nick and Brian are laughing and they high five Aly.
"Sorry, couldn't help it."
"Isn't your head cold?" She continues.
Nick and Brian laugh harder, even Howie's laughing at this point.
"Enough bald jokes Aly." I laugh.
"Okay I'm done." She giggles.
"Guys, I bet your performance is going to be epic."
"We hope so." Howie says.
"If it's anything like the AMA's then it's going to be awesome."
"You guys have nothing to worry about, it's going to be amazing." Aly says.
"Exactly. You guys just rock the stage everytime you're on it."
"Thanks." They say, grinning.
"Especially those soundchecks, even when you goof off."
Nick and Brian snicker.
"You guys having fun with NKOTB?"
"Yeah it's awesome, we're going on tour in 2011 with them."
"We'll have to try and see you guys at least once." Aly says.
"Definately."
"Maybe we'll pull you two up onstage with us again." AJ laughs.
"With Zack Ryder aka ShortBus rocking out in the audience until we get back haha."
They all laugh. We all hang out and watch the performance that happen before theirs come up. It's coming down to about 15 minutes or so before the ball drops for the New Year. BSB and NKOTB get into their spots so that they can perform. Mike and Alex stand behind us with their hands on our waists while we rock out to their performance. Both of them are getting quieter and more jittery the closer to midnight it gets. They end the performance with 'Larger Than Life', with smoke and confetti flying everywhere.
"Cool, confetti!" Aly exclaims, grabbing some.
"Haha, you can throw it when the ball drops."
"No, I'm going to save it." She says, shoving it in her pocket.
It's still not time for the ball to drop, we wait a little while longer before we join all of the guys up by Ryan Seacrest for the countdown to the new year.
"This is going to be so cool." Aly says, while staring up at the ball.
"Oh yes." I agree.
"L'è appena me o sono i nostri ragazzi che agisce più strano dal minuto?" She whispers to me.
"Yeah I notice that too." I agree.
We both shrug and the time finally gets down to 60 seconds.
"Less than a minute!" She bounces excitedly.
"40 seconds." I add.
"30!"
"20!"
Then it gets to 10 and everyone starts to count along. The ball drops behind the 2011 and it lights up and confetti goes everywhere. We kiss Mike and Alex, smiling. Finally Alex pulls back and takes my hands, dropping down on one knee. My eyes go really wide. I lean over to Aly slightly, where she's witnessing all of this.
"He's not doing what I think he's doing is he?" I mutter to her, keeping my eyes on him.
"I think he is..." She says with raised eyebrows
"Carly, we've been together for months now and we have Mike to thank for that. If it wasn't for him setting you up on that NXT challenge, we probably wouldn't be where we are today. I love you deeply and I think we'll have a great future ahead of us. Carly, will you marry me?"
He says, taking out a little box and opening it to reveal the ring.
I'm pretty speechless so I just nod vigorously with tears in my eyes. He smiles and takes the ring out and places it on my finger. After he stands up I just like attack him with a gigantic hug. He chuckles and pulls me to him tightly.
"Awwwww." Aly giggles.
But when she turns around to look at Mike he's already on one knee in front of her.
"Oh...my..." Aly trails off, eyes widening.
"Lyssa...princess...these last few months have been the best of my life. I've never been so happy and in love. I can't imagine a life without you so please, will you marry me?" Mike says.
I happen to hear him, and see him on that one knee. Then I just see her nod like I did, also with tears in her eyes. He slides the ring on and stands up, warpping her in a strong hug and spinning her around. Everyone around us, is clapping...even BSB & NKOTB.
"Awwww!" Nick exclaims.
"No wonder you two were acting weirdly." Aly giggles, wiping her eyes when Mike stops spinning her.
"Tried not to make it seem too obvious."
"Well you succeeded." I say.
"This is so going to be a slap in the face to all our stalkers."
Aly laughs and nods.
"Now they better leave us alone."
Mike and Alex nod firmly, still holding us tightly.
"You know what we have to do though right?"
"Hmm?"
"Call everyone and tell them about this."
"Oh of course." Aly smiles.
"Only because this news is going to spread fast."
"Oops." Mike snickers.
"Well let's get calling people. Although I'm sure this got on tv so uh whoever we know is watching might've uh found out already."
"We have a few interviews to do but why don't we have a little party to celebrate after we all get done?" Brian suggests.
"Sounds good. Where?"
"There's a club not far away called Galaxy." Howie says.
"Sounds good. Meet you there soon?"
"See you then. And congratulations."
"Thanks." Aly and I both say.
We get hugs from BSB and they shake hands with Mike and Alex before we head back to the hotel to make our calls in privacy. First we call our families. When Aly calls hers, her mom picks up.
"Hello?"
"Hi Mommy." She smiles.
"Aly...Happy New Year."
"Early new year for you." She giggles.
"But Carly and I have some news for you."
"What is it?"
"Mike and Alex proposed."
"Oh my gosh...when?"
"Right after the ball dropped."
"Oh my...that's amazing. I'm so happy for you two."
"Thank you." She smiles.
"I just wanted to call and tell you guys before you saw any headlines or stuff on tv. We still have some more calls to make but I wanted to call you first."
"Well I appreciate the call."
"We'll talk to you later then. I love you."
"Love you too."
She hangs up with her mom and my family picks up their phone.
"Hey Mom, happy early new year."
"Hi sweetheart, happy new year to you too."
"I actually have some news for you."
"What kind of news?"
"Well Aly and I...we're engaged."
"Oh my gosh! Oh that is just great! Congratulations sweetie."
"Thanks. They did it right after the ball dropped."
"Aww."
"Thought I'd call you before it's all over the internet and whatnot."
"Thank you. I'm sure your father will appreciate it."
"Well I have a lot more calls to make, but I decided to call you first."
"Okay. We will talk to you later then. We love you Carly."
"Love you too." I say, then hanging up.
"Okay who is next?" Aly asks.
"Well we have Matt, Jeff, Shannon, John, Melina, Natalya...I think that's about it for now anyway. I can call John."
"Let's put him on speaker phone. I'll call the first three after that, they're probably all together anyway."
"Okay." I say calling John, then putting it on speaker phone.
"Hello?" He asks.
"Hi Sully!"
"Hi John!"
"Carly, Aly. You got me on speaker don't you?" He chuckles.
"Yup!"
"We have some major news to tell you."
"...okay...?"
"We're...engaged!"
"Oh wow. Congrats!"
"Thanks. Happened tonight, after the ball dropped."
"Nice timing." He laughs.
"Mike and Alex planned it that way haha."
"Good planning on their part."
"So you're going to have brother in-laws now haha."
"That will be interesting." John chuckles.
"We thought you would want to know. Of course after our families found out."
"Right. I feel special for being on the list." He says.
"Why wouldn't you be on the list? You're important to us."
"Well thanks."
"Well we got to call a lot more people, but Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year. Later girls."
"Bye." We say and I shut off speaker phone and end the call.
"My turn." Aly says, starting the call to Jeff's phone.
"Yo." He answers.
"Hi dorkus." She laughs.
"Lyssa...hey Matt, Shannon...it's Alyssa!" He yells away from the phone.
We hear them run over.
"HI SASSY!" They yell.
"Easy on the volume boys." Aly says amusedly.
"And Carly is here too. You're on speaker.
"Hey guys." I say, laughing.
"Hiiiii!"
"You guys have been drinking haven't you." Aly laughs.
"Maaaybe."
"Go easy on the drinking. You know how crazy you all get when you drink too much."
They all laugh.
"But anyway. Carly and I called beacuse we have some news to share."
"Dude spill!" We hear Matt yell.
"Both of us are going to be getting married." Aly smiles.
"What?" They all yell surprised.
"You heard me." She laughs.
Then we're bombarded with questions, all of them talking over one another.
"Whoa whoa whoa. One question at a time." I laugh.
"First of all, it happened after the ball drop here in NYC."
"Next question." Aly says, giggling a little.
"When's the wedding?"
"We haven't talked about that yet but maybe before the year is over. We'll let you know when we decide."
"You be sure to do that."
"We will." I say.
"Well we have more people to call but, you three have fun partying it out."
"We will! Bye and congrats!" They all yell and she hits end.
"Okay who next? We have Melina and Natalya, and we also have Shawn and Hunter."
"Shawn and Hunter 'cause you know when we call Melina and Natalya they will break our ear drums."
"Haha right." I laugh, then dialing Shawn's number.
"Whaddya want?" He says when he picks up.
"Wow, nice way to say hello to the new generation of DX Shawn." I joke.
"Oops, hi Carly."
"And me!" Aly exclaims.
"And you too Alyssa." He laughs.
"Carly and Alyssa?" We hear Hunter in the background.
"Give me the phone Shawn!"
"No!" Shawn shouts.
"Guys, just put it on speaker."
"Yeah, put it on speaker Shawn." Hunter agrees with Aly and Shawn does so.
"So what do we owe this call to?" Shawn asks.
"Well, you'll be happy to know that we're engaged!"
"What!" They shout.
"Mike and Alex proposed after the ball dropped."
"Wow. Congratulations.
"Thanks. Are you guys enjoying New Years? Doing crazy stuff?" Aly laughs.
"No..." They say innocently.
"Awe, why not? You two seem like the crazy partying type of people haha."
"Dolce, they were being sarcastic." Aly points out giggling.
"I know, I was kidding haha."
She laughs, playing with her ring.
"Well we still have some more people to call. We will talk to you again soon."
"Alright. Keep us updated on when the weddings will be."
"We will. Bye."
"Bye." They hang up.
"Now onto Melina and Natalya."
"How about we wait for a minute and let the guys call their parents? Aly suggests.
"Oh right. Yeah, let's let them do that."
Mike and Alex chuckles, having sat beside is and listened to all of our calls. They then pull out their phones and call their parents at the same time. Aly scooches over to Mike and I to Alex so that we can listen. We can hear the excitement and everything in their mother's voices as we listen, when they tell them what happened. We both exchange smiles with Mike and Alex. Once their mothers were all calmed down, they wished them a happy new year and said bye to them before hanging up. We then call Melina and Natalya and as predicted, they're loud and extremely excited.
"Volume...we have you on speaker you know." We laugh.
"Sorry!"
"You guys are so sweet!" They exclaim, talking to Mike and Alex and they laugh.
"Only for them." Mike says, chuckling.
I look at the time and see that we should get going to the club so that we can celebrate.
"Well we hate to cut this short, but we're going out and celebrating. You two have a great New Years."
"You too! Congratulations!"
"Thanks." We say, before hanging up.
"Well we should get ready."
Aly nods in agreement and gets up, walking over to her and Mike's room. She gets ready fairly quickly because she's just so excited and happy. She looks up and sees Mike sitting on the bed, watching her with amusement as she bounces out of the bathroom.
"You have no idea how happy you made me tonight."
"I think I might have an idea." She smiles as she steps closer to him.
"Oh really now?" He asks and she nods.
"Well I know how happy you are." He adds.
"Very much so." She giggles as he reaches out and pulls her closer.
"Don't get comfortable mister. We're going to be leaving."
"Not until Carly and Alex are ready." He says, pulling her down so she's sitting on him.
"You know they won't take long." Aly points out.
"Yeah, I know. But until then, you're sitting right here."
"Alright." She smiles and leans against him, playing with her ring.
"Alex and I ordered the rings that day you and Carly hung out with John."
"Really? That long ago?"
"Yep." He nods.
"It must have been hard to make yourself wait until today."
"It was, but we managed."
"That you did. Dolce and I really weren't expecting that."
"That was the whole point."
"Sneak." She giggles.
"And like I've said, I'm pretty damn proud of it."
She laughs and then I poke my head in.
"We're ready." I say.
"Alright." She stands up from Mike's lap.
She grabs her jacket and puts it on, he does the same thing and we all head out.
"There they are." Brian calls out as we enter the club and find them.
"Heyyy."
"So how were the phone calls?" Howie asks.
"Everyone was surprised and happy."
"I bet." AJ laughs.
"How were the interviews?"
"Same as ever." Nick shrugs.
"I bet the proposals are all over the internet right now haha."
"I'm sure they are." Aly muses, giggling.
"I can see the headlines now..." I laugh.
"We'll have to look in the morning. Mike grins.
One of Aly's favorite songs start playing, and she starts pulling on Mike's arm to go out to dance.
"Okay okay." He laughs.
"I guess she's really excited huh?" Nick laughs.
"That girl is like the energizer bunny sometimes." Alex chuckles.
"Maybe a little more than that at times." I laugh.
"I'm sure." Brian chuckles.
"You know what we want to see right?" Nick asks.
"What?" I ask.
"The ring silly." He laughs.
I laugh and hold out my hand for him and the others to see.
"Very nice."
"Thanks." Alex says with a half smirk.
Then I hear one of my favorite songs start playing and start pulling on Alex's arm, while talking to the guys.
"Well, I want to go celebrate so I will talk to you guys later."
They laugh and wave as I drag him off.
"Alright alright, quit pulling on the arm." Alex chuckles.
"I'm exciteddddd." I giggle.
"I can tell."
Meanwhile Mike and Aly ahve returned to the table.
"You know what? I bet Cole is going to be talking about the engagements when he finds out...for months." She laughs
"I wouldn't doubt it." Mike snorts.
"Which means Raw should be interesting Monday."
"For sure." Mike agrees.
"You know when your match is supposed to be happening that night?"
"I lead off." He says, shrugging.
"Really? Normally they save those WWE Championship matches for the main events. I guess they wanted to start 2011 off with a bang."
"Guess so."
"I don't like it. They could've at least waited a for later in the show."
"Well at least you won't have to worry all night." Mike points out.
"True." She sighs.
"But I will on the edge of my seat the entire time." She adds.
"I wouldn't expect anything less." He chuckles.
"If Morrison does anything to make me mad, I'm not holding back from getting involved."
"Just be careful okay?"
"Of course."
"You just focus on beating his ass, making sure he doesn't get that title." She adds.
Mike nods, scowling slightly.
"Okay enough of this talk, we have things to be happy about right now." She shakes her head.
"Right." He nods, getting rid of the scowl on his face.
Soon they're joined at the table by Nick and AJ, who went dancing with some girls after talking to Alex and myself.
"Hey Nick...Mr. Clean." She giggles.
"I'm not living that down am I?" AJ says amusedly.
"Nope!"
"Well maybe if you grow that hair back out." She adds.
"We'll see." He shrugs.
"Well then in the meantime, that is your name now."
He rolls his eyes and Nick snickers.
"So are you having fun?" Nick asks.
"Loads." She smiles.
"That's good." He nods.
She looks down at her hand and realizes Mike has been playing with her ring the whole time.
"Having fun with that?" She asks him.
"Yes I am having fun with this." He chuckles.
"It at least explains why you were playing with my hand earlier today." She continues, musing.
"Hey we' haven't seen your ring yet." Nick interjects.
"Carly showed us hers before they went off to dance."
She brings her hand away from Mike for a brief moment, and puts it down in front of Nick and AJ on the table. AJ picks up her hand for a better look and he whistles.
"Wow that's really nice. Can't say I've seen anything like that." He says and Nick nods in
agreement after leaning in to look.
"Well I figured I'd go with something different from the normal engagement ring." Mike comments.
"Definitely suits her, that's for sure." Nick states.
"Exactly what I thought when I saw it." Mike agrees.
She smiles and laughs a little as Mike reaches for her hand again. They smile as well, and eventually Alex and I join them all at the table.
"Have fun?" She asks me.
"Oh yes, tons of fun."
We sit and relax a little, talking and enjoying ourselves.
"Okay, if you don't mind Mike and Alex, we're going to borrow your ladies for a few songs." AJ says, standing up.
"We'll be back." Aly says, as we get up too.
We both lean over and kiss Mike and Alex before going to the dance floor with a BSB member. As we get to the dance floor, a certain song starts playing.
"Oh they would play this." Aly laughs.
We all start singing along, laughing. As we dance along to several songs, we get passed onto each BSB member. The song starts to end as we dance with the final guys and then we both feel someone behind us. We look behind us and see Mike and Alex.
"Couldn't wait huh?" I laugh.
They both shake their heads and we laugh.
"Well it's getting really late anyway, one more dance and then we can head back."
They agree and nod at BSB before whisking us off. We all danced to the last song and when it ended, we went and got our jackets. Before leaving we found BSB so that we could say bye to them.
"Heading out?" Howie asks.
"Yeah, it's getting pretty late for us." I say.
"We had fun tonight though." Aly adds.
"Good good." Brian smiles.
"Keep us posted on the wedding details." He adds.
"Oh we will." Aly smiles.
"Keep us updated on any tour dates this year too." I add.
"We'll do that." AJ nods.
We give each of them hugs and they shake hands with Mike and Alex afterwards. We say bye and then head out and go back to the hotel.
"I think minus Monday, this has been the best week ever." Aly says as we're in the elevator.
"Agreed." I nod, Mike and Alex chuckle.
"No run ins with stalkers, we got to see BSB again, and now we're engaged." Aly adds, smiling and leaning against Mike.
"Things just keep getting better."
We all nod in agreement. When we get outside our rooms, we all say goodnight to each other and head into our rooms. Alex and I walk into our room and he flops on the bed.
"Tired?"
"Tired and relieved. You have no idea how nervous I was all day."
"Well you sure hid the nervousness well."
"Well I didn't want you to get suspicious and start interrogating me."
"Well technically I wouldn't interrogate you. I would only ask you what was wrong once and that's it."
"I wasn't about to take that chance." He chuckles.
"The only thing I did notice was how jittery and everything you got when it got closer to midnight tonight...now I know why haha."
He grins sheepishly.
"But, it was a great way to start off the new year." I say, sitting down next to him.
"I thought so." Alex shrugs.
"I can see it being the big news of the night on Monday."
"I'm sure it will be huge news for Cole." He snickers.
"Oh yeah, you and Mike's buddy haha. He'll be all excited."
"Over the moon."
"Better be prepared to be bombarded with questions by him haha."
"I'm sure he'll have a million."
"And I'm hoping this will make Wade, Ted and Cody back off."
"They better." Alex growls.
"Or they're going to be in a lot of trouble." I laugh.
"Majorly."
"I can't wait to rub this in their faces." I say, looking at the ring.
"That's going to be good." Alex smirks.
"I can just imagine Maryse's face when she finds out."
"Oh man that is going to be hilarious."
"Yes it will. But right now, it's like 3 in the morning. I think we should be getting some sleep."
"Right." Alex agrees, stretching.
"You go and change then."
"That means you too." I laugh, getting up.
"Yeah yeah." He laughs.
I get up and grab clothes to change into and go into the bathroom to change. I come out when I'm done and crawl under the covers on the bed. Alex is already laying in his spot and he pulls me over to him as usual. We say our goodnights and head to bed. Meanwhile Aly and Mike walk into their room and he goes over and sits on the bed.
"Going to make it?" Aly asks, giggling.
"Yeah, I've stayed up later than this don't worry."
"You look tired though."
"I am, but I can manage a few extra minutes."
"Poor you." She laughs lightly and kisses his cheek.
"You have no idea how relieved I am now."
"Super nervous?"
"I was all day."
"Well like I said earlier, you hid it well. I didn't even notice anything until it got really close to midnight."
"Well that was the point. You weren't supposed to know until I actually did it."
"I didn't." She assures him, going to walk over to her bag.
"But I can't wait to see the looks on Maryse, Gabriel, Drew and Morrison's faces when they
find out." She adds.
"That's going to be great." Mike smirks.
"They better back off." She continues, grabbing her pjs.
"Yes they better or they're in bigger trouble than they are now."
"Of course." She agrees before walking into the bathroom to change.
After changing, she walks out and climbs under the covers next to Mike, who's already laying there waiting for her. She scooches over to him.
"Well thank you for making this the best New Years yet." She smiles.
"You're welcome." He says, wrapping an arm around her and pulling her closer.
She kisses him quickly.
"Night, love you."
"I love you too." He says, before turning off the light and going to sleep.
By the way, for a translation... L'è appena me o sono i nostri ragazzi che agisce più strano dal minuto? means: Is it just me or are the boys getting weirder by the minute? in Italian