Chapter 42 ||  Whipped
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* * Nicole's POV * *

"WHAT?" I shout to Alice over the loud music.

"I said do you want anything to drink?" She shouts back.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"

"She said she do you want anything to drink?" Jake says loudly in my ear.

"Oh yeah! I could use some water." I shout.

"What?" Alice shouts back.

Jake laughs as he gathers everyone to go into the kitchen and away from the loud DJ.

"Wow my ears are ringing," I say with my hand over my ear as we enter the kitchen.

Dylan shrugs, "You get used to it."

"Hey hey hey there's my man!" A man shouts to Dylan.

"Yo-Yo Dameon! What up?" Dylan shouts as he turns to face Dameon.

"I'm good man. You?" Dameon says as they bro hug.

"Couldn't be better... unless I had a girlfriend but ya know..."

Dameon laughed and gave him the 'I can help you out with that' look.

"Hey, Jake! Long time no see!" Dameon says as he notices Jake, "Ahh The whole gang is here! How've you all been?"

"Great man! I'd like you to meet my girlfriend," Jake says swiftly as he wraps his arm around my shoulders and brings me into him.

Dameon's eyes widen with a 'ooo you got a girl' look

"Dameon. This is Nicole."

I smile, "Nice to meet you," I say politely.

"So you're the girl who finally pinned down Jake?" He smiles as he shakes my hand, "Man you must be whipped cause I'm gonna be honest I never thought it was gonna happen."

"Pfft... I'm not whipped," Jake tries to convince Dameon.

"Oh he is so whipped... as whipped as whipped cream," Dan laughs.

"Oh yeah, you're one to talk. You do anything Alice tells you do."

Dameon shoots his head over to look at Dan, "You got one too?"

Dan nods with a smile, "This is Alice."

"Hey nice to meet you," She says with a chirp and a wave.

"Nice to meet you too," he says with a wave back.

Dameon turns to face Asher, "And you buddy?"

Asher puts his hands up in defense, "Single and so not looking to mingle. My ex turned into a psychopath."

Dameon laughs not believing what just came out of Asher's mouth, "Wait... What?!"

"Yeah he dated my ex-best friend who turned into a crazy lady," I say in one breath

"Nicole won't say it but she turned into a raging b*tch," Jake laughs.

"True," I nod my head with a laugh.

"That's insane. Sorry, Ash," Dameon says sympathetically.

He shrugs, "At least we all are away from her now."

"Amen," Dan cheers.

"Well, hey, before I hit the dance floor, can I get you guys anything?" Dameon asks politely.

"Go have fun. I was just going to grab us some drinks," Dylan says as he starts grabbing some cups.

"Whatcha drinking tonight Jake? Vodka? Rum?" Dameon asks curiously.

Jake shrugs, "Just water tonight."

Dameon looks at Jake, then at me and then back at Jake.

"Man you're so whipped," he laughs while shaking his head before leaving us, "Have fun tonight. See ya on the dance floor."

Dylan hands us all our drinks as we just hang out talking for a while to cool down.

After a while of talking Alice shouts, "Stop I love this song!"

"What song is it?" Dan questions as she grabs his hand and pulls him behind her.

"Shut up and Dance!" Alice shouts.

"Fine, I will. Yesh."

She rolls her eyes, "No you idiot. That's the name of the song."

"Oh," Dan says before they are completely in the dance room dancing up a storm.

Jake gives me a little grin as he sees me eyeing the dance floor, "Wanna join them?"

I nod with a sheepish smile.

Jake takes my hand and pushes past crowds of people until we land right next to Alice and Dan who are dancing crazily making me laugh.

"This song is my jam!" She cheers.

Jake takes my hand and quickly twirls me around and we start dancing to the beat of the music.

"You're lucky. You get to dance with the king of dance," He grins.

I raise one of my eyebrows at him, "The king?"

He chuckles cockily, "Yeah, I'm the king of dance. I'm the best dancer here."

"Best dancer? I beg to differ." I place my hands on my hips as I taunt him.

"Princess I could dance laps around you, "Jake teases.

I compress my lips together, "Oh really?"

"Hold on, Hey Chuck," He says as he taps a random guy's shoulder who I suspect he knows... who knows maybe he just took a guess and just called a random guy Chuck.

"Yeah, Jake what's up?" So-called Chuck responds.

"Am I the best dancer here?"

Chuck laughs, "That's not even a question. Of course, you are. Remember that time when you-"

Jake cuts him off and turns to me, "See."

"They haven't even seen me dance."

Jake grins mischiboulsy, "Is that a challange?"

I cross my arms and grin back, "I think it is."

He brings his head down to my level and teases, "Don't start something you can't finish."

"Funny, cause I didn't start it. I'm just here to finish it."

Jake steps back and applauds my response for a moment before saying, "We shall see. Hey Chuck, Princess here thinks she is a better dancer than me."

"Really? She thinks she a better dancer than you?" He questions.

Jake chuckles as he grins at me.

"Hell yeah, I'd like to see that!" Chuck shouts.

Jake's grin shatters from his face and says, "Hey! You're supposed to be on my side!"

Chuck laughs, "Well, I have to see her dance before I can make up my mind."

Jake groans.

"Scared?" I antagonize him.

Jake laughs, "In your dreams Princess."

"OOOO this is gonna be good!" Chuck shouts, "DANCE OFF!!!"

Everyone's head snaps in our direction and they slowly start clearing away from us creating a ver large circle... I take it that this happens a lot.

With my arms still crossed I sassily say, "Ready to lose?"

"Princess... I already won" Jake says as the music the was playing begins to fade out and a new song begins to play.

He blows a kiss and sends a wink my way as everyone starts cheering for him.

Jake cracks his back before jumping right into his dance as the song Get Ugly by Jason Derulo beings to play.

He starts to rile up the crowd on his side by dancing his way around the crowd, making girls swoon over him so they would cheer louder.

His feet were going crazy as he danced back into the center. I don't even know what the heck he was doing but that he looked great doing it.

I shook my head, stop Nicole you're in a battle.

I look back at Jake and raise one of my eyebrows at him in a judgemental way.

He sends another wink my way before doing a flip and landing in a superhero pose with one knee on the ground.

He flips his head up with a cheeky smile.

"Cute, did your mommy teach you that?" I spit.

Jake laughs, "Oh yeah you can do better?"

"Pa-lease. Anyone can dance better than that. That wasn't even dancing."

I hear oooo's come from the crowd... guess not many people stand up to Jake.

I sassily strut forward, right in front of Jake to the beat of the music.

"Watch and learn big boy," I say as I flip my hair in his face before giving him a push out of the center of the circle.

Cheers erupted from the crowd just from me pushing him.

Suddenly, a wave washed over me and my feet were moving to the beat of the music.

I was busting out all these hip hop moves on the spot and had no idea where they were coming from.

I caught a glimpse over at Jake who had his arms crossed and a smile on his face.

I winked at Jake and he laughs.

I crouch down to the floor and start doing the coffee grinder dance move I taught myself way back when. I flung my leg around hopping over it as it spun and just continued doing that.

When the beat changed, I got myself up with a sexy hair flip and blew a kiss to Jake.

The crowd was going wild, and I didn't really do anything spectacular.

"Cute Princess," Jake says while coming back to meet me in the center, "But let me show you how it's done."

I cross my arms and watch him as he breaks into his dance again. He cockily dances around the circle until he stops at a group of girls. He leans back and takes off his jacket and hands it to them.

"Hold onto this for me ladies," He says cheekily before doing another flip into the center.

"Is that all you can do? Flip?" I question with sass.

"Like you can." He adds.

"Ha. You wanna see a flip." I say pushing him out of the way.

Jake gives me a worried look as I push by him in fear that I was just getting too competitive and may end up hurting myself.

I strut to the other end of the circle where a bunch of guys were rooting for me. I do exactly what Jake did but better. I say, "A little help boys?" and they all help me take off my jacket.

I flip my hair and blow a kiss to Jake who looked a little worried honestly, but I wasn't going to hurt myself.

I raise my hands up in the air to get everyone to cheer and of course, they did.

I take a few quick steps into the circle before going into a round off followed by a back handspring and landing in a split.

Jake's mouth dropped and everyone cheered even louder.

I flung my back leg around, allowing myself to spin on the floor before standing up.

I strut over to Jake with a grin as evil as his, "And that's how it's done."

Jake laughs, "Why you-"

The song ends and, the crowd cheers and I grin, "Prepared to lose?"

"Not on my watch."

"Oh you mean the watch I bought you?" I wink.

Jake just shakes his head and laughs.

Chuck enters the circle and stands between us, "You guys know what to do."

Chuck takes both our hands and holds up Jake's first.

Everyone cheers super loudly.

Oh wow, I think definitely Jake won.

Jake grins at me, as Chuck puts down his hand and I stick my tongue at him. He just laughs.

Next Chuck raises my hand and everyone cheers like crazy! It was ten times louder than Jake's!

"Nicole's wins!" Chuck says with no question.

I laugh and unintentionally jump up and down with joy.

Moments later I was lifted from the ground and on top of some people's shoulders who were all shouting "Nicole! Nicole!"

I laugh as they do a victory lap around the room.

The guys I gave Jake's jacket to swiftly tossed the jacket up to me with a cheer... Luckily I caught it.

Soon enough, they set me back on the ground next to Jake once they finished their lap around the room.

A huge smile forms at my lips and I go to hug Jake.

I awkwardly laugh, "Good job."

"Not as good as you," Jake says kissing my forehead.

"I'm the king now!"

Jake laughs.

"Bow down to me peasant!"

Jake shakes his head and bows. As he bows, I pat his head with a laugh.

I put Jake's jacket and ask "Do you think you'll get your jacket back from those girls?" while gesturing to the girls fawning over his other jacket.

He scoffs, "I better," and with a quick turn he struts over to the girls.

I laugh as he tries to shmooze talk them into giving his jacket back.

They girls giddily give Jake back his jacket with one condition... they put it on him.

He turns to me with an unamused look before giving me a shrug. All I can do is laugh at him.

Jake thanks the girls before heading back over to me.

"Why are you laughing?" He rolls his eyes.

I shake my head through tears, "Cause that was so funny."

"Nicole! You were so good! Did you hear me scream for you?" Alice shouts as she runs to with a hug.

"That was you?!" I laugh hugging her back.

She nods her head letting me go, "Sure was. I cheered for you and only you."

"Wow thanks," Jake says sarcastically.

"Any time," She winks.

"I cheered for you man," Dameon says out of the blue.

"Really?"

"Nah I cheered for Nicole. She had that in the bag," Dameon laughed while giving me a high five.

"Did anyone cheer for me?" Jake asks.

No one answers.

"Ugh!" Jake groans as he places his hands on his hips.

"I cheered for you internally," I chirp.

Jake rests his hand under my chin and mimics what I say in a small voice before saying, "Ha Ha Very cute."

I smile as I say, "C'mon lets dance."

"With you? Nu-uh," He teases.

"Oh, c'mon don't be a sore loser."

He shakes his head playfully.

"Pwease..." I say giving him puppy dog eyes.

He groans while sliding his hand into mine and leading me to the dance floor, "Fine."

"You're so whipped!" We hear Dameon shout from behind us as we get to the center of the dance floor.

We dance together to the upbeat music for what seemed like ages until finally, they played a semi-slow slow... probably because Alice kept pestering the DJ and wouldn't leave him alone until he did it.

I rest my head on Jake's chest as he wraps his arms around me.

"Jake-" I say softly as I shut my eyes to remember this moment.

"Mhmm," Jake says resting his chin on the top of my head.

I had no concept of time, minutes seemed to drag on forever.

The sound of the music was fading around me and I could only hear the sound of his heart beating. It was like a lullaby to me.

*Jake's POV*

Her head rested against my chest as we swayed to the music. I wrap my arms around me and I can feel her smile through my shirt.

We just stayed like that throughout the entire song.

My heart was racing as her breath fanned my chest.

The woman has no idea what effect she has on me. The mere sight of her brightens up my day. I look forward to seeing her smile and bubbly personality every morning. She's like my own personal ray of sunshine.

I don't know what I would do without her.

"Nicole," I say softly into her hair as I rest my head on the top of hers, "I don't know how I got so lucky to deserve you."

She doesn't say anything in response and when I go to look at her again I realize she had completely passed out in my arms.

I lightly chuckle... Oh, Nicole.

How did you manage to fall asleep?

This is why i'm in love with you.

I lift my head and catch a glimpse of Alice and wave her over.

She and Dan dance there way over, "Hey what's up- Oh Nicole," she laughs when she sees Nicole passed out.

"How did she-"

I cut her off, "I have no idea. Go find Dylan and Asher and tell them we are gonna head out."

Alice and Dan nod in sync and rush off to find the boys.

I slide my hand under her legs, pick her up bridal style, and make my way to the door.

Dameon was standing near the door and noticed me and Nicole, "She okay? Got too drunk?"

I shake my head, "No she fell asleep."

"Asleep?" He says in disbelief, "You sure she didn't blackout?"

I glare at him, "My girl doesn't drink. She just was tired and fell asleep."

"Got it," He says with a laugh, "Well I hope you guys had fun!"

"We did. Thank you for having us."

"Your girl can really dance circles around you man."

I shake my head with a laugh, "Yes she can. Does she know that? Probably not."

"Fair enough," he says, "Welp. It was great seeing you! See ya next time."

"Till next time," I say as I walk out the door and to my car.

I stop, unlock the car, carefully open the door and slide Nicole into the seat.

Her hair was all over her face so I take the time to brush it out of the way so I can see her pretty little face.

She's so cute when she's sleeping. Like a little angel from heaven. She doesn't even know how cute she is... which makes her even cuter!

"Hey man!" Dan cheers from behind me causing me to literally jump out of my shoes and almost punch him in the face.

"D@mn is Dan. Don't scare me like that! I almost killed you," I say putting my hand down that was a mere two inches from his face.

Dan laughs as he looks at Nicole and knows I was staring at her, "You know if you take a picture it will last longer."

I felt my cheeks heat up but I kept my face as deadpan as possible, "Haha very funny. Get in the car."

When Dan gets in the car I make sure he isn't looking quickly to take a photo of sleeping Nicole but I forgot my sound was on so the stupid camera noise went off and I immediately did a pretend sneeze to cover it up.

"Heard that," Dan says while laughing not fooled by my sneeze one bit.

I roll my eyes, "Are the rest of them coming or not?"

Dan nods, "Yeah they were right behind me but Dameon was standing in the doorway so they probably are chatting away."

I slide into the driver's seat after buckling in Nicole and shutting her door.

Moments later the rest of the gang hops into the car.

"Where's Dylan?" I ask.

"He's gonna stay apparently he met some hot girl and have been flirting up a storm," Asher says with a laugh.

I shake my head and being to drive away.

Not long afterward, I pull into the driveway and everyone hurries out to their cars.

"See ya Monday!" Asher says to us before he drives away.

Dan honks back at him as he drives away with Alice in the car.

I pick up Nicole and enter the house.

I quietly walk down the hallway and into her room where I gently place her on the bed and pull the blankets onto her.

I slide around to the other side of her and get in the bed next to her.

Once I'm under the covers I turn and just stare at her until I fall asleep.

I'm soo whipped and I don't f*cking care.

* Nicole's POV *

I didn't want to move a muscle. I was so safe and comfy.

Wait comfy?

I shoot my eyes open to find myself tangled the blankets of my bed with Jake passed out next to me... or so I thought.

I checked my phone that was resting on the nightstand to find that it was the next day.

I had passed out on Jake in the middle of the party.

I shake my head and laugh as I get up to get out of my clothes from last night.

I open my drawer pull out an oversized teeshirt that happened to be Jake's and a pair of Pj Shorts and walk into the bathroom to change.

When I come out I see Jake lying on his side propping his head up with his hand.

"You are the only person I know who can fall asleep in the middle a rave," Jake chuckles. His voice was deep and a little raspy due to him just waking up, but I liked it.

"Shut up," I say as playfully hit his shoulder and snuggle back under the blankets. I scoot nice and close and look up at him with playful eyes.

He smiles at me as he furrows his eyebrows, "What?"

I wrap my hand around his, "Nothing. I just like being next to you."

He cups my cheek and plants a gentle kiss against my lips.

I rub my hands through his hair as our lips slowly move in sync.

After a moment, Jake removes his lips from mine and beings planting kisses along my neck causing me to gasp.

I can feel him smirk against my skin as he makes his way back up to my lips.

He chuckles lightly, "I like being next to you too."

I open my eyes wide and stare at him star-struck. My hand subconsciously goes to my neck, tracing the spots where Jake's lips had been.

Holllllly moly... please kiss me again!

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