Valentines day was a huge success with Stacey and Nick. After that Stacey was doing alot of runway modeling with Versace, Prada, Armani, and Tommy Hilfiger. During the day, Stacey was doing the modeling, and at night she would have to dance in the concerts which were winding up. Her and Nick hardly ever got to see each other. One day has Stacey was wrapping up on of her shows, Nick snuck back stage and hide until she was out on the cat walk. When Stacey walked off, Nick went out on stage and started singing to her. Stacey walked out to Nick and hugged him. When they got back stage Stacey said,
"What the hell are you doing?"
"What do do mean, what the hell am I doing? It's our anniversary." Nick answered
"Look I'm sorry I forgot, but can you please go I'm very busy."
"But, I..."
"Just go back to the hotel, I'll talk to you later." yelled Stacey before Nick could finish. Stacey stormed into her dressing room and slammed the door. When Stacey got back, Nick was in the hotel room eating a pizza.
"Hey." he said
"Hey, look, about what happened earlier,"
"No, look, I totally understand. You were stressed." said Nick
"I was going to give you a chance to apologize to me." said Stacey slamming her purse down on the bed.
"Me apologize? I was just trying to spend a little time with my girlfriend on our anniversary. Boy, what an ass am I." said Nick
"You had no right to come down there. You don't sing to someone at work. Unless they're a karaoke singer or something." said Stacey
"Look, I'm sorry. I never see you anymore. Like, during you're modeling, then at night we have the concerts and fall asleep right after. I mean, I feel like I don't have a girlfriend anymore." Nick said
"What, you want me to quit my job so you feel like you have a girlfriend?"
"No, but it's just a job." said Nick
"Just a job? Do you realize that I'm actually doing something I enjoy? Something that I'm actually good at? Cause if you don't get that,"
"No, I get that perfectly. So what are we going to do?" asked Nick
"Arghhhh, I don't know. Maybe we should just take a break." answered Stacey running her hands through her long dark brown hair, Nick said,
"Fine, let's cool off, we'll go get some frozen yogurt or something."
"No. A break from us." said Stacey. Nick grabbed his jacket and walked out. He went out to where Brian and Kevin were, which was a club.
"Hey Nick, I thought tonight was your big anniversary with Stacey?" asked Kevin
"Yeah, well, we're gonna break up instead." said Nick sitting down at the bar with the guys even though he isn't old enough to drink.
"What?" asked Brian
"I don't wanna talk about it. Can't one of you guys order me a beer?" said Nick Nick, Brian, and Kevin had a few beers and talked to some girls while Stacey stayed in her room and finished the pizza. Stacey picked up her cell phone and dialed Nick's cell phone number.
"Please pick up, please pick up, please pick up, please pick up, please pick up, arghhh, you're not gonna pick up." the voice mail came on and Stacey left a message,
"Hi Nick, it's me. I'm sorry, look this whole break thing it's stupid and I just hope that we can work things out, and I don't want to get back together over a machine so, once you get this call me. Well, um, I'm gonna go to bed now, but I'll stop by a little later to see if you're in your room. I love you, bye." Stacey knocked on Nick's door, he didn't answer it, but she noticed that it was open a bit so she let herself in. She walked in and saw Nick in bed with some bleach blond haired slut. Stacey couldn't say anything she just stood there with tears filling her eyes. By the time she was was able to mumble out something Stacey said,
"Nick?" He jumped up and pulled his pants back on.
"Oh my god! What, oh, I'm sorry." She ran out of the room down the hall to her and Abigail's room.
"Arghh, I don't even want to look at you right now!" said Stacey trying to slam the door on Nick, but he managed to squeeze through the door.
"Look, can we please just talk about this?"
"No! I want you to get out. Get out now!" yelled Stacey Before that, Abigail and Brian were in Stacey's room knocking on Nick's door when the conjoining doors shut, leaving them between, stuck.
"Stacey?" pleaded Nick
"Just get away from me!" she yelled
"No, it was a mistake, I made a mistake okay?"
"A mistake? Where were you trying to put it in her purse?"
"Whe, where did he put it?" whispered Abigail to Brian between the doors.
"Nick, you were having sex with another woman!" yelled Stacey
"You know what? I want you to leave, just, get out now!"
"No, no, I want to stay and talk about this." said Nick
"Okay, fine. How was she?" asked Stacey
"What?" said Nick shocked
"Was she good?" said Stacey "Come on Nick, you said you wanted to talk about it, lets talk about it. How was she?"
"She was, she, she was different." said Nick
"Good different?" asked Stacey again
"Nobody likes change." Nick said handing Stacey a newspaper so she could hit him with it.
"Look, the main thing is that she meant nothing to me!"
"And yet she was worth jeprodizing our relationship!" yelled Stacey throwing the newspaper at Nick.
"Hey, I didn't think there was a relationship to jeprodize. I thought we were broken up."
"We were on a break!" yelled Stacey again
"For all I knew that could last forever, that to me is a break-up." said Nick
"You think you're going to get out of this on a technicality rate?" asked Stacey
"Look, I'm not trying to get out of anything, I thought our relationship was dead."
"Well, you sure had a hell of a time at the wake!" They continued to argue more and then Stacey just wouldn't talk to Nick.
"What? Come on Stace', tell me what you're thinking?" asked Nick
"I thinking, I'm gonna order a pizza."
"A pizza like I forgive you?" said Nick. She just glared at him. By now it was around two o'clock in the morning and Abigail and Brian were still stuck between the doors. They had heard everything.
"Hey can I get in on that? I'm kind of hungry myself." said Nick
"Fine. Hi! Yes, I'd like to order a large pizza."
"No anchovies."
"With, ah, extra anchovies."
"That's okay, I'll just pick them off."
"And um, could you just chop some up and put then right there in the sauce?" The pizza came and they ate almost the whole thing.
"You can have the last piece if you want." said Nick
"Well I should think so, you slept with someone." she answered back grabbing the piece of pizza. Later on Stacey sat in the chair and glared out the window not speaking to Nick who wouldn't leave.
"What, now you're not even talking to me? Look Stace', I-I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry, I was out of my mind. I thought I'd lost you and didn't know what to do. Come on! Come on, how insane must I have been to do this? Huh? I don't cheat right? I-that's not me." said Nick,
"You-you know what? I'm not the one that wanted that break okay? You're the one that bailed on us. You're the one that ran the minute things got just a little rough!"
"That's..."
"That's what?" asked Nick
"That's neither here nor there." said Stacey
"Okay, well here we are. Now we're in a tough spot again, Stace'. What do you want to do? How do you want to handle it? Huh? Do you want to fight for us or do you want to bail?" Nick kneels down next to Stacey, both of them on the verge of tears. "Look, I didn't a terrible, stupid, stupid thing. I'm sorry I wish I could take it back, but I can't. I just can't see us throwing away something that we know is so damn good." Nick kisses Stacey's shoulder, then on the neck, and then the side of her face, then just before he kisses her on the lips, Stacey jumps up and says,
"No Nick! You can't just kiss me and make it all go away, okay? It doesn't work that way, it just doesn't make it better. Okay?"
"Okay, okay, okay." says Nick standing back. Stacey says softly,
"I think you should go."
"What?"
"I really think you need to go now." she whispered again
"Look, look, there's got to be a way we can work past this." Nick holds her arm and says, "I can't imagine my life without," they both start crying, "without these arms, and your face, and your heart, your good heart Stace', and, and..." he falls to his knees and holds her around her waist.
"No, I can't you're a totally different person to me now. I used to think of you as someone who would never, ever hurt me. God, and now I just can't stop picturing you with her, I can't, it doesn't matter what you say or what you do Nick. It's just changed everything, forever." Nick stands up crying looking Stacey in her tear filled eyes and says,
"But, this can't be it, I mean,"
"Then how come it is?"
