[Nick]

I'm an utter idiot.

I've been an idiot for years.

I need to stop being an idiot.

I hadn't slept. Not after I left Piper's and drove home. Not after I cleared away the fail of a date. Not even after I spent three hours playing World Of Warcraft just to try stop thinking. It was no use. I knew I needed to do something to make up for how I reacted to Scarlett the night before, I just had no idea what to do.

I mean, not only had I been an asshole the whole time she secretly loved me, but I was still being an asshole now that I knew, and I knew deep down that was because I was jealous.

I mean, AJ! What the fuck! Not only did Scarlett keep it a secret, but so did AJ. My brother, my best friend.

It was no surprise that I found myself parked outside his house at 7am, sipping at the coffee I'd got from Starbucks before hand. I wanted to talk to him, find out his side, but at the same time I didn't want to piss off Scarlett anymore, or cause shit between me and him.

But I also wanted to smack the shit out of him.

My cell buzzed, making me jump. I glanced down to see a message from Scarlett.

"Where are U?"

I sighed, glancing up at AJ's house. My cell buzzed again, making me glance down once more.

"I'm at your house and you aren't here. Tell me you aren't outside AJ's, or Justins..."

I groaned, closing my eyes. She knew me. Deep down she really knew me. I was so stupid. I sat my coffee cup in the holder before starting the car. I sent her a message, telling her to stay there before driving away.

I needed to talk to Scarlett properly, tell her exactly how I felt.

Which, simply was confusion. I was confused. I had feelings for Scarlett, of course I did. She is my best friend. She knew me better than I knew myself. But I'd also spent a lot of time fucking our best friend, and in the process hurting her.

I didn't want to hurt her.

She was sat outside my house as I parked up. She looked like she hadn't slept as well, and it made my stomach hurt. I climbed out the car, shoving my hands in my pockets before walking over.

"Hey."

Scarlett looked up at me before standing. "So, AJ's or Justins?"

I sighed, looking away. "AJ's" I whispered, glancing at her. "Don't worry... I didn't go see him."

"I knew you wouldn't. Chicken shit..."

I couldn't help but crack a smile. "Yup, thats me. Add it to the list, which also includes asshole, douchebag and idiot."

"You aren't any of those, Nick." Scarlett spoke softly, shaking her head.

"I am."

"Nope." She smiled a little. "Would you see me ever liking anyone like that?"

I shrugged. "You did get with Justin..."

She smiled. "Touche."

"Look, Scar..."

"Don't." She held her hand up. "Don't, Nick. I know. And I know the only reason you freaked out was because it was a shock. I get it, I do. I'm sorry I never told you. It's just my life, ya know. Some aspects need to stay private to me."

I nodded. "I am sorry, though. I ruined our date."

Scarlett chuckled. "Nick, it was ruined the moment you tried to impress me. You forget, I fell for the guy who burps the alphabet, who tries to out fart himself and snores in his sleep."

I couldn't help it, I laughed. "I'm disgusting."

"I still like you." She whispered, smiling at me.

"So, we ok now?" I felt myself relax when she nodded. I stepped forward, brushing a strand of her hair behind her ear. "I wanna make it up to you..."

"Ok..." Scarlett almost looked nervous as I cracked a grin at her.

I didn't say anything else, though. Instead I stroked her cheek gently before leaning in, kissing her softly.

[/Nick]

[Scarlett]

We kissed and kissed some more and then we went inside and kissed until we both got hungry and decided to eat breakfast, which at Nick's, meant cereal because he kept no actual real food. And I could tell that he was actually trying, but not too hard like he was the night before.

"So you wanna go out tonight?" he asked as I looked over at him.

"We don't have to go on a date every night."

"You sure?"

"Yeah... not like we don't see each other every day when we're both home anyway," I shrugged. "But don't do that again."

"Do what?"

"You know what..."

"I didn't plan on doing anything," he sighed. "I just... I want to hear his side of things and make sure you know, he's not harboring any feelings for you or anything." I started to laugh and tried to stop myself. "It's AJ man. He's been engaged like 15 times in the past 10 years. His dick goes up and he thinks he's in love."

"You know he loves Rochelle, it's different with her," I said as he shrugged. "There's nothing there. There was never anything really there. Just friends, that's it. Just.. promise me you won't go knock the shit out of him or go track Justin down."

"Oh come on," he whined, glaring at me. "That bastard has been begging for it for years!"

"Nick, I haven't talked to him in years! He's like all up Jessica Biel's ass and there was nothing ever there, either," I sighed. "Can we please just leave it alone? Please?"

"Okay, I won't punch either one of them," he sighed as I stood up to put my bowl in the sink and turned around to look at him. "What?"

"You just checked me out."

"So?"

"You never check me out."

"Yeah I do... you just don't see it," he laughed as I walked over to get his bowl and he made a face. "I wasn't done."

"You need to go get some sleep and I have a conference meeting later and I need to nap," I said as I started to walk by him and he grabbed my hand, pulling me back up to him. "What?"

"You... can nap with me," he said, making a pouty face as I tried not to laugh. "No funny business. Just sleep. I'll be a good boy, I promise."

Question was, could I be a good girl?

[/Scarlett]

[Piper]

I think I'm on cloud 9. I mean, I woke up smiling, I've carried on my day smiling, and I've been texting Dylan all day, which has also made me smile.

What the fuck is happening to me?

I hadn't heard from either Nick or Scarlett, so I was guessing they'd sorted everything out. I was happy for them, I was. Especially now I was sort of getting my time to be happy.

I'd spent the better part of the day in meetings for the movie. Dylan hadn't been there, as he had some other appearances to do, but had promised me he'd see me later today, and I honestly couldn't wait.

That's how I knew this wasn't like me.

I'd been given the final script, and it was honestly the thickest script I'd ever had. That excited me, knowing I was going to be a part of such an amazing film. I'd read the book that went with the movie, so I knew this was going to be a high anticipated film. I had to give it my best performance ever.

I was sat under a tree, lost in the script when someone sat beside me. I turned, seeing Dylan and smiled. "Hey!"

"What you got there?"

I flipped the script shut, making sure to bookmark the page with my finger, and showed him the cover.

"Oh, we have the scripts! Any good?"

I smiled. "Have you read the book."

"Uh, no..." He chuckled. "...I read the details for the audition, that's it."

I rolled my eyes. "The book is amazing, the script... it's brilliant. I literally can't wait to get on set and start filming!"

"When is that going to be?"

I shrugged. "No dates just yet. I guess we need to learn this first."

"Can I?" He held his hand out for it, so I folded over the page I had been at before handing it over. I watched him flick through, reading it, and couldn't help but smile.

In this light you could see his hair, which looked dark, actually had lighter strands of hair, that kind of made his hair look like a copper colour. He had freckles on his nose, and his blue eyes shon. He really was a good looking guy, and I clearly lucked out by him being just of a nice person, too.

"This does look good. Any sex scenes?"

I chuckled, looking at his amused face. "A couple, I think."

He smirked, shutting the script. "Interesting."

I smiled at him, taking the script back without taking my eyes from his. "Very..."

It was my turn to kiss him. It seemed natural, and perfect. We sat under the tree, making out like a bunch of teenagers until someone yelled at us to get a room. We broke apart, laughed, and decided to head back in to the building.

I wasn't sure if it was too soon, but a part of me felt like it was already falling for him. I'd never felt this way before, so it had to be that.

[/Piper]

[Scarlett]

Time I got back home and had my conference call with some other writers who were in Nashville, Piper texts me asking if I wanted to grab dinner together. Which sounded good because I had fallen asleep at Nick's and almost missed the call at my place. I was starving. So I grabbed a cookie to eat while I was getting ready to head out. I was just glad that we were back to being okay and things weren't weird like they were last month.

I pulled up at the sports bar that we always liked to go to and saw her car already parked outside. Typically we always came here with Nick who would come to watch the games while we ate the food. But tonight would be quiet because there was no game and no Nick and was just us.

Time I walked in, I saw her over in the corner waving frantically and I made my way through the tables to the booth where she was and slid in across from her.

"Oh my God..."

"What?"

"I have to do six sex scenes with Dylan in this movie. Siiiiiix. Six," she said as she handed me the script. "Lots of naked time on camera. Well except for one where we stay dressed and are in a pickup truck."

"Oh shit," I said, flipping through the script to the pages that she had tagged with sticky notes. I stopped when my eyes saw the word ‘orgasm' and I looked up at her quickly. "Shit."

"I've done that once or twice, but nothing like this," she said, taking a sip of her soda. "I should get a real drink."

"Not if you're driving," I laughed, handing her the script back. "Does it stay true to the book?"

"Almost every detail."

"Fuck."

"I haven't heard from you or Nick today," she said as I looked down and then over at the waitress as she walked up to take my drink order. Her eyes went wide until the waitress walked away. "You did it!"

"No... we.... took a nap together," I said as she rolled her eyes.

"Like you haven't done that before," she chuckled. "I expected gossip, you know, you telling me...."

"I think this is getting weird," I said as she nodded. "You don't need to ask me questions about that."

"True, I should be warning you," she said as I raised an eyebrow. "So everything's okay?" I nodded and smiled. "Think it'll be okay?"

"I think whatever you said to him last night, it worked," I smiled. "And yeah, we've napped before in the same bed, but... we made out some and...."

"Yeah?"

"We cuddled..."

[/Scarlett]

[Piper]

"Cuddled?!" I frowned. "You at least felt each other up a little..."

Scarlett shook her head, making me groan.

"Oh come on! You've loved him forever! You should be jumping all over him!"

Scarlett laughed. "You make me sound like I'm sex starved!"

"YOU ARE!" I said a little too loudly, making a couple of guys look over from at the bar. I looked away and back at her. "I mean,... it's Nick!"

She gave me a look. "Piper..."

"Ok, then its you too. You don't rush into things, I get it. Just... don't let your head overrule your heart. Please? You think too much, then get paranoid and before you know it you start second guessing it all. Don't. Just... follow your heart." I gave her a smile as she nodded softly.

"I am. Believe me, I am. So... enough about me and Nick. You and Dylan."

It was my time to smile. "I think I'm in trouble."

"Uh oh..."

"Scar, I think I'm falling for him."

"What? Already?" Scarlett looked at me in shock. "Have you even fell in love with anyone before?"

I shook my head. "Well there was this one time Nick got a dog and I really connected with it... I loved that thing. But no, not with a human..."

Scarlett laughed. "You are weird, but you know what, I'm happy for you. Dylan seems nice, from what you've said anyways."

"He is nice. He's got the bluest eyes... my god. And then his little freckles, and his mouth. He can kiss, my god."

"You felt him up yet?"

I laughed, having my question to her directed back at me. "No, not fully. I think he's got a six pack, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm curious though..."

"Of what?"

"You know..." I smirked. "... penis size."

"OH god!" Scarlett groaned, making me laugh. "That is just so wrong."

"Don't worry, I'll tell you once I know." I cracked up as Scarlett cringed.

"No thank you."

"It's only fair, I know Nick's size..."

"PIPER!"

I laughed loudly at her discomfort. "Chill, I'm only playing. But seriously though... you need to get on that."

"PIPER!"

I laughed to myself. Teasing Scarlett was just too easy.

[/Piper]

[Scarlett]

Piper and I stayed out longer than I had anticipated and I could have sworn I didn't leave any lights on in the living room, but when I got home, the lights were all on. The alarm was set so I knew nobody had broke in. It was late and I was still tired from the night before. The last thing I cared about was watching television or even checking my email or what the message boards or Twitter was saying.

Seeing what Backstreet Boys fans were saying online was one of my favorite past times because 45 percent of them were bat shit crazy.

I climbed the stairs, taking my flats off along the way and walked down the hallway to my bedroom. I opened double doors to the dark room and dropped my flats on the floor. I pulled my top over my head and slipped out of the skirt I had on. I just wanted to go to bed. I didn't even care if I was just in my underwear.

I pulled the cover back and climbed, sitting my phone on the table beside my bed when I felt a arm move over me and I screamed bloody murder, jumping up and turning the light on quickly.

"What the fuck...." Nick muttered as he sat up in my bed and I realized I was standing there in my underwear. "Well hello..."

"Oh my God, what the FUCK are you doing here?" I asked, feeling like I was about to have a heart attack. "Your car wasn't outside."

"I had someone drop me off," he muttered, scratching his head. "You weren't here and I was still tired so I went to bed."

"Oh my God, are you naked under there?" I asked as he made a face. "Nick!"

"No, I have boxers on... come on," he said as I went to reach for a t-shirt my drawer and he crawled over the bed and grabbed my hand, pulling me back on the bed, almost making me fall on top of him. "You're kind of cute in your underwear. You should wear bikinis more."

And all I could think about was what Piper said. About how I shouldn't overthink things and question myself and how I should just jump on that, or him, because that's really all I've ever wanted.

"Where you been?"

"Out with Piper... we went to dinner together," I said as I looked down at him.

"I'm already being butted out of the group."

"No... just girl talk, that's all," I said as I climbed under the covers and I bit my bottom lip as I climbed on top of him, straddling him. "Is this what you want?"

"I came to cuddle more, but you know, I ain't disappointed," he said as I rolled my eyes but felt his hands move up my thighs. "Is this what you want?" I nodded slowly as he smiled. I just tried not to think about it. I tried not to think about being on top of him in bed in my underwear and just two little pieces of cloth separating us.

I leaned down and his lips met mine, kissing me deeply. I was getting lost in the kiss. I didn't know what the hell Piper was talking about Dylan being a good kisser because Nick was. The girl had issues. I didn't need to think about Piper.

I got so lost in the kissing that I didn't even really notice when his fingers went to my bra clasp, almost unfastening it except for one hook. I started to shift myself on top of him when I froze.

I... felt him.

"Oh my God," I broke away from the kiss and moved off of him, covering my face with my hands. I was trying not to laugh. I was trying my best not to crack the hell up but when I looked over at Nick, he was propping himself up on his elbows, looking over at me. "I'm sorry."

"What?"

"I think we should wait..."

"That's not it..."

"Yes... it is."

"You know I get excited at the drop of a hat," Nick said as he laid back down, staring at the ceiling and I cracked up laughing. "See. I knew it."

"You were the second girl I jacked off to," Nick said as I looked over at him quickly. "The first girl was Cindy Crawford. Well, she wasn't a girl. You know what I mean..."

I laid there, not knowing what the hell to do with that information.

"Okay," I finally said as I looked over at him. "Let me go get some real pajamas on... and then we can cuddle... if... you put that thing away."

"Jesus," he muttered as I cracked up and pretty much ran into my bathroom and shut the door.

[/Scarlett]

[Piper]

I was laying in bed, lost in the script when my cell buzzed on the pillow beside me. I knew it wouldn't be Scarlett, something told me she had other things on her mind to be ringing me, especially since we'd spent the evening together. I picked it up, and smiled seeing Dylan's name on the screen.

"Hi!"

"So, we get to fake sex 6 times, and for some bizarre reason that excites me."

I giggled, setting the script down on the bed beside me. "Well, I guess you need to ask yourself why that excites you..."

"Because I'm horny?"

I smiled. "Well, you sure don't have a filter."

Dylan chuckled. "Trust me, I could say a lot more. You still reading?"

"Yup." I looked at the script. "But I'm not going to say where I am incase you aren't that far."

"I've finished it."

I gasped. "No you have not!"

"Have too! It's a happy ending. They find each other again, and live happily ever after."

I shook my head, smiling. "You just read the end page first, didn't you?"

He cracked up, making me laugh. "Damn, you got me."

I smiled to myself. "So, why the call so late?"

"I wanted to talk to you. I know I saw you earlier... I guess I'm hooked already."

I felt myself blush. "I'm kinda hooked too."

He was quiet a moment as I made myself comfortable on the bed and closed my eyes, listening to him breath. It was comforting.

"So, you know tomorrow night?"

"Hmmm?" I hummed, listening to him.

"You wanna stay at my place?"

I opened my eyes, looking up at the ceiling and smiling a little. "What's the catch?"

Dylan chuckled. "No catch. But I will promise you one thing..."

"Oh yea?"

"I'll make sure you know exactly how important you are to me, that's for sure."

I smiled. "Nothing else?"

"Like?"

"I dunno..."

Dylan laughed. "You wanna practise the sex scenes?"

I snorted. "Wow, don't hold back."

"Well, do you?"

I laid there, smiling to myself as I thought about it for a moment. "What time do you want me there?"

[/Piper]