Tony’s POV

I woke up to Noortje cuddled in my arms. I still couldn’t believe I had actually made a move. If I wouldn’t have kissed her, we probably would still be just best friends. I pulled her closer to me and buried my nose into her hair. She stirred and was slowly waking up.
“Go back to sleep, baby.” I muttered and kissed the top of her head as I was slowly untangling myself from her.
She mumbled a bit and clutched onto a pillow before falling back into a deep slumber.

I put on my clothes and checked myself in the mirror. I laughed as I saw Noortje curled around the pillow, with one of her legs tangled in the sheets. She snored silently, you probably wouldn’t hear it unless it was completely quiet in the room. I grabbed my phone and key card and walked out, closing the door softly.

I found Vic, Jaime, and Mike sitting at the same table as yesterday and joined them.
“Hey! Where’s Noortje?” Jaime wondered.
“I let her sleep in, she’s been having nightmares again.” I said with a yawn.
Vic gave me a sympathetic smile, “Has she been able to figure out what caused them?”
I nodded my head, “We stayed up from 2 to 4 looking through the photos, and then it all clicked.” I yawned again, “It’s flashes from her suicide attempt. Her conscious mind doesn’t remember it, but her unconscious mind does.”
“That… That actually makes sense.” Mike realised.
I shrugged, placing my hand in front of my mouth and gaping another time. My phone rang, shaking me awake. I saw it was Noortje ringing me, and immediately answered. There was heavy breathing coming from the other side.
“Are you ok?” I questioned.
The breathing turned into sobbing and I immediately knew something was wrong.
“I’m coming. Don’t do anything stupid.” I rushed out.
Jaime, Mike, and Vic looked at me with expectant glances and I jumped out of my chair.
“Noortje.” Was all I said and they all nodded.

I hurried and bumped into everything. Well, way to go me for trying to go as fast as I could. I didn’t bother waiting for the elevator and went straight for the stairs, skipping steps as I went. After crashing into some of the walls, I finally reached our room and slammed the door open. Noortje was on the bed in fetal position, silently crying to herself. I raced over to her and placed her on my lap. I whispered sweet nothings to her and gave her an occasional kiss. Her crying slowly subsided and turned into soft shaking.
“You’re ok, it’s ok.” I muttered.
“I-in my dream you d-died. And w-when I woke up y-you weren’t here.”
“I’m so sorry, baby. I thought I should let you sleep.”
She nodded her head that was buried in my shirt and breathed in a shaky breath. My phone once again rang. This time it was Mike calling me. I hesitantly answered.
“Hey.” I said.
“Hey, we were wondering if we could come to your room and help with Noortje?” Mike explained.
“Umm… yea sure, the door’s unlocked.”
“Ok, see you soon.”

I looked around and saw how messy our room was.
“Shit.” I mumbled.
Noortje giggled and looked up, “What?”
“I just told the guys that they could come here… And this place is a mess! We have to clean up some of this! Especially this stuff!” I exclaimed while grabbing the lube and condom wrapper that were still on the floor from last evening.
“What!” She screamed and went to sort out the clothes that scattered all over the floor.

We cleaned up the place the best we could, putting all the items we didn’t want anybody to see in the bathroom and squishing all our clothes into our suitcases. Noortje walked past the floor length mirror and suddenly stopped walking. She probably had only now realised she was still in just her underwear.
“Crap!” She quickly grabbed some clothes and ran into the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
I heard the door open and Vic and Jaime talking. I looked around myself one more time and found a pair of Noortje’s panties sticking out from the bed sheets. There was no other place to hide it, but underneath a pillow. I quickly sat down on the side of the bed and took out my phone, trying to act as natural as possible.

“Hey Tone,” Vic smiled.
“Hey. Noortje’s in the shower, in case you’re wondering.” I replied.
“Oh, ok. How is she?”
“She’s better. Just a bit shaken up from the nightmare.”

There was a loud crash from the bathroom. We all turned to looked at the door. A loud ‘fuck’ echoed through the bathroom. I slowly walked to the door and knocked softly.
“Is everything ok in there?” I wondered.
“Yeah, all good…. Ouch, fuck, goddammit!” Noortje wailed.
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. No worries.”
There was another loud bang.
“What the fuck! I literally just- Ugh!” Noortje complained.

The shower turned off and a few minutes later Nootje came out dressed and ready for the day.
“Fucking shampoo bottles.” Noortje mumbled.
Mike burst out laughing and soon we all joined.

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“Ok, so I thought I would be cool to visit Madurodam today.” Noortje told us.
“What’s that?” Jaime said with a mouthful of cookies.
“Umm… It’s some important buildings or neighbourhoods that have been built, but they are really small. Basically the buildings are much taller than you Vic.”
“Are you calling me small?” Vic accused.
“Maybe, maybe not.” Noortje teased.
“Oh, I am so getting you.”

Noortje squeaked and ran out of the room, Vic following her closely. We could hear laughing and giggling coming from the corridor and soon after Vic came back in with Noortje thrown over her shoulder. He threw her onto the bed next to me.
“He caught me.” Noortje pouted.
“Oh, did he?” I grinned, “I think we should get rid of that pout.”
“No, don’t you dare!”
“Oh yes, I am.”

I moved so I was straddling her and tickled her. She tried to get out of my grip while laughing like crazy. I saw Jaime taking out his phone and filming us and I smirked. Noortje squirmed around as I started tickling her even more.
“Say ‘Tony you are the best person in the world and I love you with all my heart’.” I grinned.
“No! This is Deja Vu!” Noortje managed to scream out.
“Doesn’t make a difference.”
“Ok! Tony you are the best person in the world and I like you with all my heart!”
I stopped and beamed down at her, liking the way she had changed the word ‘love’ into ‘like’. Noortje reciprocated the grin, knowing exactly what she had just said. Vic cleared his throat and we both snapped our heads towards him.
“Sorry if I’m ruining an intimate moment here, but shouldn’t we get going?”
I got off from Noortje and helped her up. She blushed lightly, just so I was able to see it.
“We’re getting the van today. So, Noortje, it would be very helpful if you knew how to drive there.” Vic said.
“If the roads haven’t changed too much, I should be able to find my way around.” She grabbed her leather jacket and walked out.
She turned back to us, “Aren’t you guys coming?”

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We had just gotten on the highway. Noortje was in the driver's seat, Mike was next to her, in the passenger seat, and Jaime, Vic and I were spread out in the three rows in the back. My phone buzzed. I took it out, completely confused and saw tonnes of twitter notifications. I thought I had turned them off, but somehow they seemed to go through again.
There were tonnes of tweets tagging me, Noortje and Jaime. Most of them shipping Noortje and I together. I opened twitter and saw that Jaime had posted the video he had taken of me tickling Noortje.
“Jaime… Did you just post the video.” I growled, trying to scare him.
“Oops?” Jaime tried.
“I’m getting tonnes of ‘Noorny’ messages now, thanks to you. You dipshit.” I hit him across the head.
“Hey! You guys were being cute, it’s not my problem!”
“Well, you were the one that posted the video, right?”
Jaime opened and closed his mouth, “You got a point there.”
“Damn right I do.”

Notes

I feel like this story is going no where so far. Do you guys still like it?


- DSN