The journey back to the hotel, flew past...I got out of the taxi, and walked into the hotel, it was obvious that the lads weren’t back yet, so I went up to my room.
I got to my room, and just sat there, filled of thoughts and unknown feelings. I must have dozed off, as I awoke to a loud noise outside in the hall; I got up and look out through the peephole. It was the lads. I could see Bryan and Mark being really silly about something.
I quickly got changed, and got ready for the party. I rang Fee to see if she was still coming, and she was on her way, I told her to come up when she got here.
15 minutes later, Fee arrived, and we sat there chatting away until I dared Fee to go across to room #574 and knock on it and stay there until they opened it…she accepted, probably thinking that #574 was Mark’s room..
I stood in my doorway, watching her knocking on the door. I don’t know who was more shocked, me or her, cos the occupant of room #574, was wearing just a towel when they open the door. Fee was quickly giving me the evils as she stood there next to Shane in a towel. I started laughing, causing room #576 to open which was Mark’s room and he was in a bathrobe…Fee couldn’t keep her eyes off Mark, and how the bathrobe was discreetly opened to reveal most of Marks chest, which wasn’t as hairy as we all thought.
Fee stood there staring for a good few minutes, until I had to drag her back into the room, after introducing her to Shane and Mark.
"OMG, I can’t believe I just met Mark, and he was wearing only a bathrobe…I know that there’ll be a few people who are gonna be so jealous…" Fee said, as we both cracked up in laughter.
A while later there was a knock at the door, both of us jumped; I went to answer. It was Mark, Shane, Nicky, Kian, and Bryan.
"Hey there," said Mark, "we were wondering whether you two were ready to party?"
"Party?? Are we ready to party?" we both exclaimed, "Of course we are!!" and then bursting into a giggling fit, causing the lads to look a little confused…
Closing the door behind us, and getting into the lift…
As the lift descended, we all started singing cos the lift music was FWW. And let me tell ya it’s hard to do the actions in a lift if there are 6 others doing it as well.
The after-party was only a small gathering of press people and a few radio DJs and a few competition winners.
Fee and me left the lads to deal with the press and things, and got our drinks. We stood there, looking for somewhere to sit, when Ronan comes bouncing over,
"Hiya, I’m Ronan but you obviously know that! You must be Eilidh, Nicky hasn’t stopped talking about you. And you are?" Ronan said staring at Fee.
"I’m Fee, it’s so nice to meet you Ronan. Great performance ya did tonight." Fee said.
"Thanks, why don’t you two join us at the main table, I think the lads shouldn’t be too long with their post-concerts interviews!" Ronan said, ushering us to a table.
Already at the table, was Yvonne, Ronan's Wife. Introductions were made, and we sat there chatting away about everything…
A few minutes later, the lads returned.
"Right lads, what are ya having to drink?" said Ronan standing up.
"Guinness!!" they all chanted.
"Guys, I hope you’ve been studying that Karaoke list!!" Ronan said, pointing to the Karaoke book. The Karaoke list had songs from 1950’s to today’s hits, with new ones being added every 2 weeks.
The lads had hoped that Ronan had forgotten about the Karaoke challenge. The challenge was that all of them had to sing a song, and who-ever got the loudest applause at the end, won the title of Karaoke King…
After about 10-15mins, They had selected their song. Me and Fee sat back, thinking who was gonna make a biggest fool of themselves…
Ronan got some straws, cut them into different lengths, and held them in his hand, who ever had the shortest straw went first.
It was Shane who had it, Shane had won the Asia leg of the challenge, and had selected a song that he knew that would surely win the nz leg for him, it was ‘Breathless’
Then it was Kian’s turn. Kian sang ‘Oops I did it Again’ which was a very strange choice, but the crowd seemed to love it…Shane knew that his hold on the title was slipping.
Nicky’s choice was a little unusual, he had chose ‘Everything My Heart Desires’ which was so cute, and I even thought that it was a better version than the original!!
Then it was Bryan’s turn, with his performance of ‘it’s not unusual’ at the concert tonight, we didn’t think he’d go one better by performing ‘I’m too sexy’ and even removing his shirt at the right bit…
And then lucky last it was Mark, Fee couldn’t watch, she had a bad feeling about the song he was doing. Fee’s fears were confirmed, Mark had chosen ‘Man, I feel like a Woman!’ Fee and I both cracked up with laughter, though Fee was very annoyed that he wasn’t wearing man’s shirt, and a short skirt!
In the end, it seemed that Mark was the winner.
Soon the DJ was dishing out the songs, which got everyone dancing. We danced non-stop in one big group, even Ronan joined us, as per usual showing us his amazing dancing…
After about 4-5 songs, Fee was still going strong, dancing away with Mark and Bryan. Kian was chatting with some of the competition winners, Shane was sitting by himself, talking on his phone. Nicky was nowhere to be seen, after leaving halfway through a song. I saw Kian, and asked had he seen Nicky? He said that he had seen Nicky going outside.
Grabbing my drink, I ventured outside.
The outside area was empty, as I walked towards the railing, I spotted Nicky, sitting on a bench.
"Hey there, what a lovely night it is!" I said, sitting down next to him.
"Oh hi, it is, isn’t it?" he said, obviously happy to see me.
"Are you alright?" I asked, hoping that he was.
"I’m fine, I just needed some air…" he said, with a little smile.
"it’s pretty stuffy in there isn’t it?’ I said.
"I’m glad you came out, I really wanted to talk to you alone." Nicky said, moving closer towards me on the bench.
"Oh really?" I said.
"Yeah, really, actually I’ve been waiting all day to do this," Nicky said before, kissing me. How could I refused, and anyway I’d been waiting all day to kiss Nicky as well, but why spoil the moment.
After a while, the clouds started to thicken, and the moon was covered by the clouds, and in the distance a rumble of thunder could be heard, then without warning, it started to rain, not a soft, light rain, but a heavy downpour. We didn’t at first feel the rain, as we were to busy kissing to notice that we were getting both soaked….As the thunder and lightning got closer, we knew we could stay outside so we ran towards to a door, the rain got harder! We managed to get inside.
Once inside we both went straight to the lifts. We both looked like drowned rats….as we got to the floor that we were both on …
"The only thing I need now, is a nice hot bath, and dry clothes…" I said.
"Yeah, I think I’m up for that too…" Nicky said, with a strange smile.
"What are you thinking?" I said.
"Thinking? What am I thinking? Only how to save water by sharing a bath and maybe staying the night, if that’s okay.." He said, innocently..
"Sure…" I said.
Nicky went to his room, to get some dry clothes.
I started running the bath, and making sure it wasn’t too hot… I quickly undressed and got in, Nicky came back into the bathroom, only in his boxers. He turned around and removed them, and then got into the bath.
The water was lovely and warm, and we both just relaxed…well I was until Nicky started tickling my foot, causing me to laugh, so I grabbed one of his, and tickled him back… then he grabbed me, pulling me close, started kissing me again. After a while Nicky started washing my back for me, and then I washed his back, by then the water was getting cold, so I got out and grabbed a towel and went back into the room, quickly drying myself, and getting into my Pjs. Nicky came out, soon after, and put on his boxers.
As I dried my hair, "That was so nice," I said.
"Yeah, it was!!" Nicky said shivering as he got into the spare bed.
"Are you cold still? I asked.
"yeah, I’m frozen," Nicky said, shivering.
I knew to warm someone who was cold, was to use your body heat to warm up them, so I got into his bed.
After a while, I couldn’t resist the urge to kiss him and then one thing lead to another and we were shagging….
After about an hour or two, we both lay there in each others arms, just thinking. We could hear people outside in the hall talking. It must have been the other lads going off to their rooms. I just snuggled up to Nicky, who was asleep on his back, and fell asleep.
The next morning, I woke up to see Nicky’s smiling face watching me as he ran his fingers softly through my hair….the sun was shining and it looked like a perfect day, though it wasn’t a good day.
"Morning," he said as he kissed me on my forehead, then my nose, then my lips for a bit longer.
"Morning to you too, what a lovely way to wake up.." I said, smiling back at him..
We both got up and had a shower together, I don’t know why but we couldn’t keep our hands off each other, nor could we stop kissing each other, it was like we were two magnets, magnetically drawn to one another. After the shower we dressed and went down for breakfast, I was very surprised to see that Mark was already down, having breakfast with Fee… I wonder what those two got up to last night…
We didn’t sit with them, as they looked like they were having a very personal conversation. So we sat overlooking the harbour, enjoying a cooked breakfast, and good conversation.
After breakfast, Nicky and Mark had to go and meet up with Ronan and the others to discuss the Sydney leg.
So I sat down with Fee, and we discussed last nights action. It seemed I wasn’t the only one who got lucky. Fee had spent the night with Mark, and they too shared a shower this morning.
After Fee Left to go back to where she was supposed to be staying, I went back upstairs, to pack.
I opened my door, and on the floor was a little envelope… Curiously I opened it, it was a little note saying "just a little note to say I love you"
How sweet I thought….so touching and yet so personal.
I wondered if he’d be online checking his mail, so I logged on but not onto Yahoo so he wouldn’t know that I was online…
I quickly found the site I needed, and found the e-card that I wanted to send, I added a personal message to it saying "Just to say that I love you too!" and quickly sent it…
A few minutes later, I clicked on my yahoo messenger. And I saw that a few of my friends were also online along with Nicky!
Suddenly a box popped up "Thank you!! J "
I quickly typed "you’re welcome Nix"
Then I heard a knock at my door, I went to open it, not before typing ‘BRB’
I didn’t really have to type that, as Nicky stood there, with his laptop in his hand.
"hey again," he said.
"what do I owe this pleasure?" I replied.
"I was bored, and I wanted to see you visually, not just letters on a screen." He said.
"Awwwww" I said.
We both logged off out of our computers and just sat there talking and kissing until it was time to go downstairs.
I started to feel really sad, and not only was the lads flying to Australia this afternoon, but I was flying back home too, back to a life without Nicky…
As we sat in the minivan, on the way to the airport, neither of us spoke, both deep in thought. In little over than 3 hours, we both would be flying our separate ways…. Nicky to Sydney, and me back to Wellington… I felt like crying, but I kept it inside…I didn’t want Nicky to see the tears. What I didn’t know was that Nicky was also trying to fight the tears too…I looked over to where he was sitting, and his eyes were shut, his face not giving away any clues to how he was feeling, whereas deep inside, he was hurting.
When we got to the airport, I grabbed my bags, and went to check in for my flight. I got my boarding pass, and found the lads all sitting down having a drink, except for Nicky who was sitting by himself. I went to join Nicky.
"Are you ok?" I asked, sitting down.
"Not really, I feel like shit. I just wish I didn’t have to go so soon…I wouldn’t have minded a few more days to spend with you…" he said, grabbing my hand.
"Nicky, I know how you feel, I don’t want you to go either, but I know that you can’t stay a few extra days cos of your tight schedule." I said.
Then my flight was called to start boarding; I stood up, grabbing my bag.
"Eilidh, let me walk with you to the gate." he said. I could see in his eyes, that he was gonna cry.
"Nicky, thanks." I said, grabbing his hand, holding it as we walked to the gate.
When we got to the gate, we both realised that it was time to say goodbye. Both of us struggling to fight the tears, as we said goodbye and one last kiss before I started walking down the gate to the plane. As I walked down, I could hear mark’s bit in Against All Odds, and I knew if I turned around, Nicky would be crying…as I turned the corner, I quickly glanced back, I saw Nicky standing there, still looking at me, but through tear-filled eyes. Our eyes locked, and all I could do was blow a final kiss and give him a smile…
I walked onto the plane, and sat down, and just broke down into tears.
I then had a strange feeling, that soon I would be seeing Nicky again, though I didn’t know when or why?
***THE END***