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Nick and Denise rushed into the studio 20 minutes later, knowing that Kevin would be annoyed that they were late, mainly Nick.
“Sorry we’re late man. Slept through alarm.” Nick tried to apologise.
“Nick, come on, you know the rules.” Kevin warned him.
“Kev, give him a break man. This is their first anniversary together.” AJ defended Nick and Denise.
“I don’t care. We got a deadline and we gotta stick to it.” Kevin replied.
“Longer you talk about it, the longer we will be here.” Howie quietly said. Denise sat in the corner of the studio as she saw the guys go through their dance routines for the tour. With the radio station giving her show the hiatus practically, Denise was almost certain of joining the guys on the tour. She just didn’t want to let Nick know about the show almost close to being cancelled. She didn’t want to let him down. She wanted to try something different but she didn’t know what.

A few hours into rehearsals, the guys had to stop while they went and did a phone interview for a radio station, Denise staying behind. She connected her iPod to the stereo and put the music on. Denise began moving to the music and before she knew it, she was singing and dancing to the guys songs. Fifteen minutes later, she was sprung. Denise was dancing to Straight Through My Heart when AJ wolf whistled.

“WOW! WOW! WOW!” They all said shocked. Denise turned to her left and saw all guys standing there.
“Guys!” She whined embarrassed putting her head in her hands, her head down.
“That was fantastic!” Brian remarked.
“Nah it ain’t. I was just fooling around.” Denise played off.
“You’re pretty good.” Kevin said.
“Ain’t she awesome huh guys?” Nick said as he put his arms around her waist, standing from behind.
“Thought of singing and all as a career?” Howie asked.
“Nope. Now come on, you need to get back to work.” Denise replied changing the subject.

Sunday afternoon, they were all in the studio having a late lunch when Denise had to go to the car and get something she wanted for the afternoon. When she got back, Nick was holding her phone, moving it around in his hands, with a confused and concern look on his face.
“Ah got it. Now I can go on with things this afternoon.” She remarked walking in the eating area. One look from Nick and she knew something was wrong. “What?” She asked him as she sat back down and continued with her lunch.
“Ah, the radio Michael from the radio station. He said that your radio show is definitely on hiatus. He’s sorry.” Nick replied.
“WHAT!” Howie, AJ, Brian and Kevin freaked out.
“Yeah, the decision was finally made.” Nick said curious looking at Denise.
“We’ll leave you to it.” Kevin spoke up as he got up, the others following him out.

“So, ah, when were you going to tell me hey?” He asked.
“I didn’t want to say anything in case the show was saved, less worry for you.” Denise replied.
“You know you tell me everything.” Nick told her, sounding threatening.
“I’m sorry, I just didn’t want to worry you.” She apologised.
“So what does this mean now?” He asked.
“I still have the channel 7 job back in Australia so it’s all good. I’ll get something somewhere soon.” Denise replied positive.
“You are lucky with that job.” He said.
“Nick, what is wrong with you? I forgot or didn’t want you to worry about this until you had to. I’m sorry alright.” Denise asked.
“Just don’t do it again alright.” He replied, his eyes making Denise feel scared, then he walked off to catch up with the guys. Denise began wondering what gotten into Nick all of a sudden.

“Hey, D you wanna join us?” AJ asked Denise when she entered the room and they were back at dance rehearsals .
“Nah, nah, it’s all good. You go on. I wanna capture all this.” Denise replied.
“Hey, I got an idea. Gimme your phone.” Brian suggested as he jogged over to her, Denise getting her blackberry out. “Here is the twitter account for us, tweet from here.” He added as he was setting up the account.
“Oooh look at Mr Technology guy.” AJ cracked up laughing.
“Here ya go.” He said as he gave her the phone back, seeing the tweet Brian put in.
“And don’t just take pics of Nick’s ass either.” AJ warned her.
“Ah damn!” Denise laughed. Denise tweeted what was happening and began answering tweets to some fans.

Home that night, Denise was cooking dinner while Nick was upstairs on the phone to Aaron. She thought cooking a decent meal would get him out of his mood. She knew he would get moody and everything towards the start of the tour and would put up with his moods. Instead of calling Nick down when dinner was ready, she sent him a message saying dinner was ready.
“What the hell is this huh?” Nick asked as he sat down at the kitchen table.
“I couldn’t find anything to get me in the mood to cook dinner apart from the spag bol.” Denise replied.
“Oh ok.” His only words were and for the rest of the meal ate in silence.

As they were getting ready for bed, Nick taking a shower, Denise thought she would start organising on the packing for when she went with the guys to Europe in about a weeks time.
“Man this is gonna be awesome.” She remarked as she put some tops on a chair to sort out.
“While it’s good it’s not all that cracked up. Sleep deprived, no peace and quiet when out of our hotel rooms or anywhere.” He warned her.
“So be it. Sleep deprivement bring it on. I want it all.” Denise replied.
“Whatever.” He sighed as he got into bed.
“I’ll continue with this tomorrow.” Denise said as she turned off the light near the bedroom door.
“Good. I want sleep.” Nick replied as he snuggled underneath the sheets.

Next morning while Denise was doing the dishes, Nick was having his breakfast before he was off for the day finishing the final touches for the tour and also starting with the US media for the album promos. “What time do you think you will be finishing tonight?” Denise asked him.
“Not sure really. See what happens when we get to the studio.” Nick replied not looking up from his breakfast.
“That’s cool no worries. I got a few things to do today, got the show this afternoon and get things ready for the end of the week.” Denise told him.
“Yeah alright no worries.” Nick said as he got up to put his breakfast dishes in the sink for Denise to wash.
“You alright Nick?” She asked worried.
“Yes I’m fine alright.” He snapped grabbing a wrist of Denise’s and put her against the fridge, then grabbing the other wrist and holding them tight.
“Ok, ok. I’m sorry.” She apologised. Nick let go of her and then he walked off, leaving the house to go to the studio.

For the day, Denise was wondering what was going on, she didn’t want to tell anyone, thinking she was over reacting but she knew what she experienced.

When Nick got back home around 10pm, she was lying on the bed, her laptop with her when he walked up the stairs. She could sense that Nick was in a bad mood and knew not to say anything. “What ya doing there?” He asked angry.
“Doing a bit of research for the interview I have tomorrow with someone for the show.” Denise replied.
“Well go and do it somewhere else.” He snapped grabbing the laptop off her and throwing it out the room.
“Nick!” She shrieked when the computer crashed.
“What?” He snapped.
“I was going to shut up but come on, snap out of this. Snap out of whatever is wrong with you. Work it out whoever you have fought with.” Denise asked getting angry herself.
“Fuck off.” He yelled and slapped her on her left cheek.