Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely

*~* Chapter 4: Sloppy Seconds *~*

"Nikki! Come back!"  AJ screamed as he sat up in bed.  He'd had another dream about Nikki.  'I can't take this any more!' he thought.  'I have to do something to get Nikki off my mind.'  AJ got out of bed and lay on the floor.  He counted as he did a few push-ups.  1 2 3 1! 1 2 3 2!  He went all the way up to fifty.  Then he flipped over and did sit-ups and crunches.  That didn't help either.  He only remembered how Nikki used to hold his feet still while he did crunches and he'd kiss her every time he came up.  He stopped doing sit-ups and did pull-ups in the doorway.  He stopped doing pull-ups and collapsed on his bed. "Oh God Nikki! Why'd you have to leave me?  You never listened to me before!" AJ cried.

"AJ what are you doing here?" Vykki asked as she opened the door.  She hadn't talked to AJ in a while. Not since the day she went to visit him. He didn't look too good.  She thought he was going to pass out right there in the hall. "Um, where are my manners? Come in."

"Thanks." AJ replied.  

"You know AJ I'm kinda glad you came over, I have something's to give you."

"Really! What?" AJ asked

"Your stuff." Vykki replied as she pushed a huge box out of the corner.  "This is all the stuff I found in Nikki's room that belonged to you.  You know Nikki was a real lucky girl." Vykki held up a leopard print g-string underwear that obviously belonged to AJ, because he was turning red.

"Give me that!" AJ snatched it out of her hands and stuffed it in his pocket.

"No wonder you guys always had that door locked.  It was bad enough that I could hear you, I wouldn't have wanted to see you in that." Vykki laughed.  

"Hey, I looked great!" AJ laughed too.  "Man, I think that's the first time I've laughed in a long time."

"Yeah, me too." Vykki replied.  "Um I'm about to have dinner, you want anything to eat?"

"Sure, what's on the menu?" AJ replied.

"Spaghetti." Vykki said going into the kitchen. "Why don't you sit down, get comfortable and I'll get some for you."

AJ sat down at the kitchen table and fiddled his thumbs.  A few minutes later, Vykki came out of the kitchen with to plates.  "Bon Appetite, Bone!" She laughed

"Thanks." AJ replied with a smile.

"So what are you and the guys up to now?" Vykki asked.

"Well, we just finished the new album, and we picked a name.  "Always and Forever." That's pretty much it."

"Oh, well that's a nice name for it.  Who thought of it?"

"Actually I did.  It reminded me of how I thought me and Nikki would be. Always and forever."

"You really miss her don't you."

"Yeah I do.  She was like the best girlfriend I ever had."

"She was my favorite sister." Vykki replied.

"She was your only sister!" AJ corrected with a laugh.  Vykki said nothing.  She just smiled at him and twirled some spaghetti around on her fork.

"Let me get that." AJ said picking up her plate.  

"Thanks." Vykki replied. "So did you like it?"

"Yeah, it was almost as good as Nik, sorry."

"It's ok." Vykki smiled and looked up at AJ.  She could see the pain in his eyes.  She could see that it was killing him that she was gone.  And she could see the space between them getting smaller.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" AJ jumped back.

Vykki covered her mouth and ran to her room.  AJ went into the living room and got his jacket.  When he got outside, he couldn't leave.  It had begun to rain very hard and now the streets were starting to flood.  He had no choice but to go back upstairs. He went back into the apartment and sat on the couch.  He was so busy doing nothing that he fell asleep after a while.  Then Vykki came back out.

"What are you still doing here?" she asked in shock

"What?  Uh, um."

"Why are you still here?" she demanded.

"It's raining too hard, the street are flooded." AJ replied lowering his head.  "I can't go home, please just let me stay until the rain stops."

"Fine!" Vykki huffed walking back to her bedroom.

It was a long night.  The storm only got worst and AJ and Vykki hadn't said a word to each other all night. AJ was on the couch trying to sleep.  It was a very difficult task not only because of his dreams of Nikki, but because of the rock hard sofa he had to dream on.  Realizing he wasn't going to get much sleep that night, AJ got up and headed to the bathroom.  He walked by Vykki's room and peeked in for a while.  She was fast asleep in a big warm bed, which was obviously lump free.

"I'm sorry Nikki." He whispered.  "I never meant to kiss her, it just happened."

While heading back to the stone sofa, AJ saw the kitchen light was on.  Going to see why, he saw Vykki digging through the fridge.  She had on a pair of boy-shorts underwear and a sports bra top.  Pretty similar to what Nikki used to wear to bed.  She turned around, startled that AJ was watching her, she dropped the water pitcher she had in her hands, causing it to break and all the ice cold water splashed all over her.  

"AJ! Look what you made me do!" she hissed dropping to the floor to pick up the broken glass.  
"I'm so sorry, let me help you with that." AJ knelt down beside her and quickly got to work picking up the glass.  
"Shit! I got I splinter!" she gasped dropping the glass again.
"Let me see." AJ answered taking her hand.  He squeezed her finger a little which let the splinter flow free along with a little blood. "There you go, all better."
"Thanks AJ." She said quietly

They looked up at one another.  Neither of them were quite sure of what was happening, or what was going to happen.  All they knew was the space gap between them was getting smaller once more.

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