"You excited?" Tony smiled at me through the rear view mirror.

"Sure." I mumbled. I was honestly terrified that everyone would be mad at me for not keeping in touch with them.

"Real enthusiastic Ni" He rolled his eyes.

"Stop calling me that" I snapped. That's what he used to call me in the mornings when we woke up together. 'Hi Nini, you look beautiful in the morning' he would say smiling.

"Just wait until Jaime sees you" Tony said as he pulled into a driveway and parked.

"Is that Mike?" Stephanie pointed to the tall, long haired, tattooed man standing on the front porch doing something on his phone while a cigarette hung loosely from his pierced lips.

"Yeah, it is" I smiled. My hand reached for the door handle and I was running towards Mike as soon as my feet hit the ground.

"Nia?" He yelled.

"Whiskey!" I screamed and jumped into his arms.

"Nia I've missed you so much" He said as he nuzzled his face into my hair.

"I missed you too sweetness" I smiled.

"What are you even doing here?" He laughed.

"His new girlfriend is one of my friends. We went out to lunch" I frowned.

"What a dick" He grumbled as he let me go. "Come on shortcake, let's go see Jaime and Vic."

He crouched down in front of me and I climbed onto his back before we walked into the house.

"Give me the ball!" I heard Jaime yell.

"Maybe if you could play soccer it wouldn't be an issue!" Vic said shoving Jaime. They were both seated on the couch with xbox 360 controllers in their hands. Of course they were playing Fifa. I climbed off of Mike's back and walked in front of them.

"Who..." Vic said confused.

"Antonia?" Jaime whispered.

"So I take it Mike and I are still the reigning Fifa champions?" I laughed resting my hand on my hip.

"King and queen forever beautiful" Mike said wrapping his arm around my waist.

The relationship that Mike and I had was always a little weird. People used to think we were together. Especially the way we acted when we were drinking.

"No! Nia's blonde!" The look of confusion was still apparent on Vic's face.

"You grew your hair out!" Jaime threw the controller to the couch, picked me up, and spun me around in circles. "Oh how I missed you strawberry shortcake!"

"I missed you too Preciado" I mumbled into his chest. Jaime was my best friend, he always has been. Even now that I haven't talked to him in two years, he's the closest I've ever gotten to a person that way.

"It's really you?" I heard Vic say behind us.

"It's really me Vic" I smiled up at the short singer. He turned away from me and went upstairs without saying a word. I stood frozen in the spot he left me. "What's his problem?" I said turning to the other guys.

"We don't know, he's never exactly open to talking about you. Whenever someone brings you up, he just leaves." Mike mumbled, staring after his older brother.

"I didn't mean to make him mad at me. Mikey what happened? I don't want Vic to be mad at me" I frowned and shook my head slowly.

"Aw shortcake don't worry" Mike said wrapping his arms around me. "Vic is just being dumb, he'll get over it."

"How have you been? Tell us everything! It's been two years Nia spill" Jaime said as we all sat on the couches.

"Well, after I left I just kind of floated around and did whatever. Selling my paintings, doing whatever I could for some money. I got an apartment and met Stephanie. I haven't really been up to anything. Just...stuff..." I said.

"You finally let people see your paintings?" Jaime smiled at me.

"Yeah, this guy I used to hang out with saw them and wanted to buy one from me, so I just started putting them out there. I don't know why I hid them for so long" I shrugged.

"A F!" Mike screamed. I stared at him like he was insane. "A F stands for Antonia Felicidado!"

"What?" I laughed.

"You did the artwork for Confide's Recovery album!" Mike said to me.

"I did" I giggled.

"I could kill you! Why didn't you tell me!" Jaime laughed.

"What was I gonna say? 'Sorry for leaving, by the way, I just wanted to let you know I did the artwork for Confide's album. Bye!' " I laughed along with the two of them.

"Antonia?" Mike said quietly.

"Hmm?"

"Why did you leave?" He asked. Jaime gave me a reassuring look and I took a deep breath. No one but Jaime knew what happened between Tony and I.

"I-I don't know. Things got complicated Mikey." I lied. He knew I was lying, but he also knew better then to pressure me into telling him. I know I'll tell him eventually, I tell Mike everything. Even some things I've never told Jaime.

"Never ever leave again ever" Jaime snuggled close to me and kissed the side of my head.

"Never" I smlied.

"Promise?" Mike questioned.

"I promise"

~

"Can we have a sleep over?" Jaime asked me after we ate dinner at their house. Mike made Fajitas, my favorite thing in the world.

"Only if it involves watching corny movies and us having a long cuddle sesh" I smiled over at him.

"Oooh that sounds like a good idea" Stephanie said nudging Tony. "How about it babe? We could watch cute movies and cuddle in your room"

"If by cute movies you mean Star Wars" I scofffed.

"Really" Stephanie frowned.

"How do you not like Star Wars and you're with Tony" I laughed. I was getting angry and bitter towards the two of them already and Jaime could tell.

"Shortcake come on let's go watch Anastasia" He grabbed my hand and pulled me upstairs to his bedroom. "You wanna go get some clothes from Mike?"

"Yeah I'll be right back." I said. My feet carried me out of his room and down the hall, following the faint skunky smell to one of the doors. I knocked lightly before I heard Mike say to come in. When I opened the door and stepped in, he was sitting behind his drums, sweaty and panting. "You look really hot like that" I smirked as I pulled a pair of shorts and a t shirt from one of his dresser drawers. I felt his arms wrap around my waist as he trailed little kisses down my neck, the cool metal of his lip ring sending a shiver up my spine.

"Stay in here tonight" He whispered as he nipped my ear.

"Mike, it's my first night back. We can't do this tonight." I said as I turned to face him.

Okay, so Mike and I had a little thing you could say. Everyone knew, so it was no secret, but it always made Tony mad. That's half of the reason I always kept it going. The other half was because I always found Mike extremely attractive. I wasn't using him, because we didn't like each other enough to be together. It was always about just hooking up with each other. Mike was the second person I'd ever had sex with. Jaime being the first because we promised it to each other when we were younger.

"We're having an adult sleepover in three days then" He frowned.

"How adult are we talking?" I smirked at him again.

"Oh, just about adult as it can get I would say" He whispered against my lips before covering them with his own.

"I'm going to watch Anastasia" I smiled pulling my shirt off and replacing it with his own, doing the same with my jeans.

"Noooo" He whined throwing himself onto his bed.

"Goodnight Mikey, see you in three days" I winked at him and made my way back to Jaime's room.

"Ready to start the movie?" Jaime smiled as I layed down next to him.

"Press play Himes" I smiled and snuggled closer to him as he wrapped him arms around my body.

"I missed having slumber parties" I said as we watched the movie.

I fell asleep in my best friends arms, dreaming about how perfect everything was right this second.
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