It had been a bad three months since the attack since Matthew had been put in jail. Sandy had decided to join Lisa while she toured with Kevin. Kevin had watched Nick love Sandy from a distance. He wanted to hold her tell her he would never hurt her ever.
Lisa knew that Sandy has feelings for Nick and she had seen her want his touch. She looked around and found her friend watching the rehearsal with great interest as Nick danced around the stage.
" Hey why don’t you tell him you like him?" Lisa asked her friend.
" No I swore never to trust a man ever." She said shaking her head.
" But in three months you have seen that Nick cant and wont hurt you." Lisa said pulling her friend into a warm hug. " Honey you cant avoid love forever."
" I can try." Sandy said. Her heart ached to hold Nick to have him tell her he loved her. Sandy stood and walked away from the stage. Nick turned and saw her retreating figure. He jumped from the stage and took off after her. Lisa smiled as she watched him take off after her.
" Hey what’s wrong?" Nick said coming up behind her.
" Please don’t." She whispered.
" I wont hurt you. I told you that three months ago. I told you that the other day when we kissed baby please what’s wrong?"
" Baby?" She turned and looked at him tears in her eyes. She had been nothing but mean to him and yet he loved her.
" Yea baby. I love you Sandy."
" But I have been so mean to you lately. Yet you still seem to love me." She said looking at him.
" Yes because I want to give you time. Give you the time you need and want. I don’t want you to think I am the same as Matthew. I want you to love me in your own time." He said as he felt tears run down his cheeks. She brushed them away and kissed his cheek.
" I am not ready yet. I am sorry." She said hurrying from the room. Kevin came up behind his friend.
" Give her time."
" All I want her to do is let me mend her heart." Nick said feeling badly.
" Come on lets go rehears Sandy will come around." Kevin said leading him back to the stage. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed Lisa had found Sandy and was leading her back to the seats.
" San sit. I will be right back." Lisa said walking towards the stage. Kevin lowered down to eye leave with her and smiled.
" Lisa what’s wrong?" He asked looking at her.
" I want to know if Nick knows how he can prove to her he cares." Lisa asked looking into his green eyes.
" Let them be for now. Nick wants to do something during the concert tonight. And so do I." He said kissing her forehead. Lisa looked into his beautiful green eyes and ran her long red fingernails down his cheek.
" You know I love you." She almost purred at him.
" Lisa not here baby." He giggled. Lightly running her fingers over his jaw line she lifted up on to her tiptoes she kissed his lips. Sandy watched from the fourth row and felt a single tear run down her cheek. She slowly stood and made her way out of the arena making sure she wasn’t noticed.
Sandy looked around outside and felt the warm California breeze blowing her long red hair as she walked away from the arena. It was already getting dark and she could hear the noise of girls screaming as they had seen her exit the back of the arena and the awes of disappointment that she wasn’t one of the boys. She smiled at the security as she made her way down the street.
" Don’t go far." Geo warned her.
" I know. Don’t worry Geo I wont." She responded walking down the street staying within site of Geo. She couldn’t believe they had gotten an arena near the ocean. She sat down on a bench and smelled the sweet ocean air. Her mind was so jumbled thinking of why she ever let Matthew into her heart and could she ever let Nick in. She wasn’t even sure he would make her happy. She hadn’t heard footsteps approach her till a hand touched her shoulder. She was so far into her thoughts she actually screamed.
" Hey San its ok it’s just me." Geo said sitting down next to her, he hadn’t meant to scare her but he had seen her sitting on the bench and the others had told him it was time to go. He had gone to get her.
" Sorry I didn’t mean to be jumpy was there something you needed Geo?"
" Yea its time to go." He said holding out his hand to her.
" Ok" She said taking his hand and walking back towards the van that was waiting. Lisa looked at Sandy as she got into the van.
" Why did you run off?" She asked her
" I needed to think. Nothing more." Sandy answered looking over at Nick. Nick held his hand out to her and pulled her genitally into the seat next to him. Sandy watched out the window as they came to a stop at the hotel where they were to rest up before the concert. Nick took her hand and led her into the hotel. Girls glared at her and threw things at her. She was scared as Nick put his arms around her protectively. Kevin stopped and looked at them as they entered the hotel. Lisa looked at her friend and shook her head.
That evening Sandy sat in her hotel room it was only a few hours before they were to return to the arena and Nick had sent a gift over to her. She looked up as a knock came to the door. Smiling she opened it and nearly screamed as a hand clamped over her mouth and shoved her back into the room. Geo had been making his rounds when he saw the strange man shove Sandy into her room.
" I am going to need a security detail to room 805 now!" Geo shouted into his radio. Kevin peeked out of his room with Lisa at his side.
" Geo what seems to be the trouble?" He asked as his own bodyguard moved down the hall.
" Someone just went into Sandy’s room and he wasn’t Nick." Geo said looking at the seven security that were looking at him.
" What do we do?"
" We use the security key and go inside. I wont have anyone hurting anyone on my watch. And Sandy is a nice girl, Nick likes her a lot he has told me. I don’t think he could handle it if anything bad happens to that young girl."
" So I will keep Nick busy while you do that I don’t want him rushing in there." Kevin said pulling Lisa with him. Knocking on Nick’s door he walked in with Lisa.
Sandy fought against the man who held her she still couldn’t see his face as he wore a mask over it. He had pinned her to the bed and had ripped the sheets to tie her arms to the bed. He had gagged her and was now standing over her looking down at her crying form. Sandy looked up at the man pleading with him with her eyes, she could hear the door slowly opening and noticed he hadn’t seen that. She could see Geo in the doorway.
" I have seen you with Carter and he doesn’t deserve you." He said as he pulled a large knife. Her eyes grew wide as he moved it so she could get a better view. She cried harder as he started to lower it. Geo grabbed his arm and pulled him away from Sandy. Randy one of AJ’s guards untied Sandy’s arms and pulled her shaking form into his arms. Geo hit the man that had gotten into Sandy’s room knocking him unconscious on the floor. Nick burst into the room and grabbed Sandy from Randy. She grabbed on to him and cried.
" Shush now its ok. No one will hurt you. How did that man get in here? Or even better how did he get past security?"
" We were doing routine checks he looked like he worked here. I was going to find out who he was when Sandy opened her door and he shoved her inside." Geo said trying to calm his charge.
" That isn’t an answer Geo. Come on man no one should have been on this floor. Sandy did he hurt you baby?" Nick asked looking down at Sandy.
" No" She whispered
" Do you want to room with me?" Nick asked
" Yea can I?" She asked looking into his concerned eyes.
" Yea." He said lifting her and leaving the room.
" San u ok honey?" Lisa asked coming over.
" Yea."
" Who did this?" Lisa asked shouting at the security in the hall.
" He is being taken out of the hotel police are waiting downstairs." Geo told her. He could see she was totally pissed he noted that Kevin was equally pissed.
Chapter 5