AJ was already curled up in a ball, headphones on, covered with a blanket in the seat in the far corner. Brian had set up his songwriting station across the aisle and had become totally lost in thought.
Kevin was in mid-sentence of composing a love note to Alli when Howie flopped down in the seat beside him. "What do you want?" Kevin asked, cross at having been interrupted.
"Why's Nicky sleepin'?"
Kevin looked over at Nick, who was beginning to nod off, his head bobbing forward slightly. "I don't know. Is he sick? He never sleeps on planes."
"I know. That's why I was wondering. I'm gonna go ask." Howie said.
Kevin put his pen and paper down- his thoughts now long gone and followed Howie over to sit on either side of Nick. "You alright, little man?"
Nick groaned. Not only was he being annoyed while he was trying to sleep, but Kevin was calling him "little man"- which he hated. "Yeah, I'm just tired."
"Bad night?" Howie asked.
"No. Definitely not bad." Nick replied, leaning forward and pulling his shirt up in the back, revealing the scratch marks all over his skin.
"Sheee-it! She tore you up!!" Kevin exclaimed.
Nick let his shirt slide down and leaned back into his seat, smiling. "And I enjoyed it."
Howie shook his head. "You've always got bite marks or claw marks or something- are you two always that wild?"
Nick looked at him, "What do you mean?"
"I mean, I know Jana gets in her moods when she can't wait to get her clothes off and is standing by the wall for me to fuck her right there, but other times she's real sweet and wants it perfect.."
Kevin cut in, "Alli's like that too. She's usually a nice and slow kind of girl, but other times she'll practically be dragging me to the bedroom."
"Yeah.. see?" Howie looked back at Nick. "Don't you and Chellie ever just take it nice and slow and sweet?"
Nick thought for a second then shook his head. "I don't think we've ever done it.. 'nice and slow'.. it's always, like, hard and fast."
"So basically she's kinky and you've met your match." Howie said.
Nick smirked, "Yeah, pretty much."
"You know, Alli has surprised me like that. I always thought she'd be reserved, but she's not as much as I would have guessed. That's not to say she's not shy about anything, but it's not hard to warm her up on new ideas." Kevin remarked.
"Depending on her mood and the surroundings, Jana can go either way- kinky or kind of reserved." Howie commented.
Nick shrugged. 'It's always pretty much the same for us.. kinda playful, maybe a little rough and wild. All I know is that I like it, she seems to like it and we do it alot. So I'm happy."
"Jana and I try to do it as much as we possibly can, though alot of the time we just end up cuddling because we're too tired to or too stressed about work to do anything but lay there." Howie said, then asked, "I may be afraid to know, but how often is alot, Nicky?"
Nick laughed and said, "If we haven't seen each other in a while- usually everyday. We make time for it... but if we're seeing each other all the time..." he paused and laughed again, "Probably still everyday!"
"That's because you're young and don't really know how to enjoy it." Kevin said, smiling slightly when Nick rolled his eyes. "As you get older you realize it's not how often you do it, but how good it is. Alli and I just do it whenever the mood strikes us."
"So the mood just strikes us alot." Nick replied. "What about getting head?"
"Alli knows it will relax me, she usually does it when I'm tense.. but I don't really ask for it." Kevin said.
"Jana just likes being in control, she'll do it a couple times a week." Howie said, flagging down a flight attendent to get a drink.
Nick caught the bag of peanuts the attendent tossed him after getting Howie his drink and said, "I love it when Chel wakes me up like that.. it's always better when it's her idea.. definitely a nice surprise."
"You ever do it for her?" Howie asked. "I get about as much enjoyment out of it as she does, I love to hear Jana squeal my name as she cums."
"Go down on her? Hell, yeah I do. She loves it and I like doing it for her." Nick said, mouth full of peanuts.
"I love pleasing Alli like that. It's funny, she tries so hard to be quiet, which only spurs me on to want to make her louder." Kevin chuckled. "Like when we're in hotels- she used to be so embarrassed about making noise, but now that I've gotten her to open up, I practically have to cover her mouth, she can get pretty damn loud."
"Jana does that sometimes- tries to be quiet if people are next door, but usually she just lets go and just feels. Sometimes we can't help but be loud." Howie said, then added, "We don't even have to ask you, Nicky- everyone knows how loud you and Chel get."
"It's not really him- it's her!" Kevin commented.
"Hey, she's just letting everyone know who she belongs to." Nick smirked.
"What's she yelling though? It's not just 'Nick'". Kevin said, shaking his head, recalling unfondly all the times his sleep had been interrupted by Chellie's shrieking.
"She always calls me Nickolas when we're going at it. I like it.. no one really calls me that, except my mom.. when I'm in really big trouble.. so hearing her moaning it or whatever.. it's cool."
"Jana does that- calls me Howard. Or Winkie. She loves the name 'Winkie' for some reason." Howie said, shrugging.
Kevin took a drink and said, "Alli just calls me Kevy, like usual, but there's something about the way she says it during sex, that whiny moan thing, that just gets to me."
"Do you watch pornos together?" Howie asked. "Jana really likes to hear other people.. not necessarily see them.. but all she has to do is hear them and she's gone... she'll have my pants at my ankles so fast.."
"I never thought Alli'd be into them, but as usual, she surprised me. She doesn't really say anything during them, she'll just be trailing her fingertips over the inside of my thigh or the sensitive part of my neck. Pretty soon we're just as bad as what's on television." Kevin replied.
"We don't really watch them together, we get preoccupied with each other too fast." Nick said, "It's cool to come home, though, and find her sprawled naked on the couch, watching someone going at it on tv, knowing she's waiting for me."
"You ever tape yourselves?" Kevin asked.
Howie shook his head. "Jana has no desire for anything we do to end up like Tommy and Pamela, so she really doesn't even discuss it. It's just a no-no."
"Alli and I have.. watching ourselves on tape has to be one of the biggest turn ons.. but we keep the tapes locked up in the safe, no one is seeing those except for us!" Kevin turned to look at Nick. "You?"
"Yeah. We never actually watch them though.. we start them and end up attacking each other and don't ever see the rest of them." Nick paused and smirked, "And then.. we uh... recorded ourselves before.."
"Besides on video?" Howie asked, looking at him suspiciously.
"Yeah.. we did it in the studio... recorded it... that was pretty sweet."
Howie laughed. "Very creative. Where's the craziest place you've ever done it?"
All three of them stopped to think for a moment.
Howie answered first, "I guess ours was in the pool. We were at her house, in the pool in the backyard.. and I just grabbed her, pulled off the bottoms of her swimming suit and fucked her standing up in the pool." He smiled, obviously enjoying the memory.
"The sauna at a hotel we were staying at.. one night after a concert, we'd decided the steam would be relaxing.. it did more than relax us, obviously. The fact that anyone could have walked in on us made it exciting." Kevin said.
Nick faked a yawn. "Boring... like, doing it in my parents bed was creepy.. but the best place... on stage."
"How'd you manage that?" Howie asked.
Nick laughed. "It was one of those times we were playing more than one night somewhere, so the stage was still set up overnight.. we just snuck into the arena after almost everyone else was gone.. or so we thought... and went at it on the stage."
"And you got caught.." Kevin said, just waiting to laugh at him.
"Yeah... wasn't the first time, and I'm sure it won't be the last." Nick took a slurp of his Mountain Dew and asked, "What's the worst interruption you've ever had?"
"Probably that afternoon she and I had started going at it, pretty hot and heavy.. we were supposed to have people over for dinner, but we couldn't wait. Then, AJ decided to show up early for once in his life.. having someone cheering for you in the background is a definite mood killer." Kevin sighed.
"I can beat that one." Howie started, "we were in bed and it was slow and easy.. just savoring what we had right then.. and then the phone rings. I don't pick it up, we just let the answering machine get it. And then I hear my mother screaming, "HOWARD!!! Get off of her and answer this phone NOW young man!!!" That totally killed the mood. I ended up having to call her back, I said I was in the shower, to which my mom asked if Jana was nice and clean."
Nick was laughing so hard he covered his mouth to keep from spitting his soda everywhere. He swallowed and said, "At least you guys knew the people who interrupted! I don't even remember where we were.. I think I've tried to block it out.. but we were in a hotel... Chellie and I were just going at it like always, when I hear someone knocking on the door. I'm thinking, okay, the guard's out there.. so it has to be one of you guys and it's probably important, otherwise you would have just called me. So I get off of her, I just grabbed a pillow to put in front of me, if it was just one of you, I didn't care anyway, and I go fling open the door. It was some little girl- like 13 or 14 years old! It was that week my usual guard got sick, so that fill-in was there, and he'd left the door.. so this girl just walks up and knocks on it. We're just standing there, both sort of like, oh shit, and then Chellie comes up behind me, with a sheet wrapped around her and asks who it is. The girl was so freaked out she just took off running down the hall."
Howie and Kevin were both laughing hysterically.
"Why didn't you tell us that one before?!?" Howie giggled.
"Poor girl, scarred for life!" Kevin chuckled. "I'm surprised that one never hit the Enquirer or something."
Once Howie stopped laughing he said, "Interruptions are bad.. but has sex ever just been bad, like, without any outside factors?"
Kevin nodded, "Times when I"ve been drunk or just really frustrated, not good times to try and have sex, we've found out. We're just not on the same level that we normally are, and it doesn't turn out good.
"Yeah," Nick said, putting down his soda, "I'll go after Chel, just having sex because I want to be close to her- when it'd have been so much better to just have her hold me, but I won't ask for that.. so we fuck, but don't really enjoy it, because there's no real feeling behind it."
"Sex after a fight is just bad for us.. when you're still really agressive and pissed off." Howie said, "We ended up in this huge fight about where to spend each holiday and went to bed mad, I was horny.. and I took it out on her. I sent about four arrangements of flowers to the office the next day because I felt horrible about it.. there was no love, no nothing. Just agression and not passion, it wasn't good at all."
"Have you ever been really rough with her? Like just playing?" Kevin asked. "There was one time I got too rough, I didn't mean to, I had just gotten into the moment, I didn't know I was hurting her. I was so upset when I realized what I had done, but she wasn't mad. It still gets me upset every once and awhile, just thinking that I could do something like that to her."
"That time when we were angry.. I still apologize for it." Howie replied.
"The only time I've really been rough.. was her idea. She told me to just surprise her sometime, rough her up a little.. I wouldn't do it alot, but we both kind of liked it. 'Cause, I mean, if you trust the person, to know they're not going to really hurt you.. it's just all in fun." Nick said.
"Can you tell Jana that?? She will not let me tie her up.. I don't know what that's about.. but I don't push it. You'd think she'd know I'm not going to hurt her!" Howie said. "Have you ever suggested something she just flat turned down?"
"Alli refuses any kind of S & M stuff, she's not into pain, but I don't push it, I'm not really into it either." Kevin answered.
Nick blushed, "The only thing she's ever said no to was tit-fucking. I saw it in a porno, thought it was worth a try, and she was like, no way in hell!"
"Is there something that she doesn't really like, but will do because you like it?" Kevin asked.
"Like a bikini wax, but going completely bare.. she hates having it done, but I love it, so she does it." Nick said, grinning.
"Jana doesn't like being blindfolded, but she let me try it out on her once, just to see how her sense reacted.. she didn't really like it, but she went along with it, just for me." Howie replied.
"Alli's not crazy about doing it doggie style, it's hard for her to be that submissive. But now sometimes she'll just be waiting for me in bed with her rear in the air, just because she knows when I want it." Kevin chuckled, obviously picturing what he'd just said.
"What's her favorite position?" Nick questioned.
"She likes to be on top, but it's hard for me to give up control sometimes. But seeing how aggressive she can get makes it all worth it." Kevin said.
"Jana's got this thing about spanking, so she really likes it doggie style." Howie answered, waving the flight attendent over for a refill.
Nick grabbed another soda from the flight attendent and said, "Chel likes me on top, she says she likes being able to look in my eyes and feeling me on her."
"Plus it gives her a better chance to scratch you!" Howie laughed. "Do she like doing it in public? Jana likes to tease in public, like in the limo- whispering what she coveniently forgot to wear just before we get out to make me hard. She really doesn't like to do it in public though, like we've never had fun in a bathroom or on a plane.. though sometimes I wish."
Kevin rearranged himself, stretching his legs out. "Alli loves public stuff.. we haven't had opportunities to do it alot, but the few times we have have been amazing, we got so worked up by the thought of getting caught. She definitely loves to tease. She'll whisper dirty things in my ear when I'm talking to other people or grab me when no one's looking."
Nick nodded, "Chel's like that, she loves taking chances.. we did it in her truck in the mall parking lot, like, last week- this mini-van full of kids pulled up beside us.. they didn't notice, I don't think. And she's always teasing.. she picks the worst times though.. but I guess that's why it's teasing.. like when she decided to tell me she was going to make me her bitch when I was standing around talking to a bunch of people."
Kevin raised his eyebrow, "Her bitch?"
"Yeah.. you know how I call her my bitch? She said she wanted to know why the girls always had to be the bitches, so she said she was going to make me her bitch." Nick replied.
"Did she?" Howie prodded.
"Oh yeah." Nick said, grinning broadly.
Kevin shook his head,"Okay, that was something for her.. but what about you? What's a fantasy of yours she's fulfilled?"
"Doin' it in the boat in the middle of the Bay." Nick answered quickly.
"I've always had this thing, and so has she, about doing it in the office at work.. her hiding under the desk.. and then I get surprised." Howie said.
"Since I love flying so much, it was only natural I fantasized about doing it on a plane.. we haven't done that yet, but I did rent a plane for a few hours to fly and took Alli with me. When we landed, I had such a high feeling going and she took it from there. " Kevin smiled.
"Is there a fantasy you've got that you're afraid to tell her about?" Howie asked. "I wanna do it in public for once... and I just really don't think she'll go along with it. Not even, like blatantly public, but just enough to heighten it because of the risk."
"There's not a whole lot I won't tell her, but there is this one thing.. I would love to have her dominate me sometime. I know I put myself in control so much over everything and it's hard to give that up, but I would love if she'd take over some time, get a little rough, order me around." Kevin said.
"I'm not afraid to tell Chel anything, because I know she'll be cool with it- I mean, we're both kinda.. freaky, I guess. The only thing I'd really like to do, that I've never mentioned is just be totally romantic sometime- the candles, and flowers and nice sheets and all that.. I mean, I know she'd be into it, I guess I just worry about what she'd think about it coming from me, since we're not really like that." Nick said, looking like he was trying to picture Chel's reaction.
"My guess is she'd be pleasantly surprised and love it." Howie said, and Kevin nodded in agreement. "Give it a try, I'm sure she'd find a way to thank you for it."
Nick laughed, "Yeah, she's good about that. Okay, so what's the sexiest thing she does.. or has done to get you hard?"
"That's easy," Kevin said, "The time I came home and found her playing the piano, wearing
a sheer blue nightgown. She always told me how much it turned her on to see me at the piano and that made me realize what she meant. As soon as she stopped playing and looked at me with that playful smile on her face, that was it, I attacked her before either one of us knew what was happening."
Howie smiled, "Yeah.. surprises are good.. Jana knew I was really stressed when we came home from Cheiron the last time.. so when I walked in the door.. she was waiting with nothing on but stockings, heels and an apron. I didn't think anything of it until she turned around and I saw her bare ass.. and I dropped my bags and threw her on the counter and had her right there."
"Chellie will walk up to me, look straight in my eyes and put her hand on the back of neck.. then run her nails over the back of my neck then through my hair, and bring my head down to kiss her.. hard...God, I love that." Nick said, shifting in his seat.
Kevin laughed, "Just thinking about it and he's squirming already."
"What's she do to let you know she wants it?" Howie asked. "Jana will either say, 'Winkie, I think you're due for a shave'.. since she's got that whole thing for the bathroom and helping me shave, or she'll tug on my earring with her teeth, while she licks the underside of my ear."
Kevin nodded, "Alli doesn't flat out tell me, she'll come up and hug me from behind and nibble on the back of my neck, she knows what that does to me."
"Chel usually has to unplug the PS2." Nick laughed. "Nah, she knows that kiss will always work, or she'll come up and put her hands under my shirt and run her nails over my chest and give me this little smirk... can't resist that one either."
"So how do you get her in the mood if you want it and she doesn't?" Kevin asked.
"I don't think that's ever happened." Nick joked. "I can just sneak up behind her, slip my hands under her shirt and nip at her neck or put my glasses on or a pair of basketball shorts.. or mention something about being in the mood for chocolate pudding, and she's all over me."
"I'll just stand in the doorway from the bedroom into the bathroom, toying with my razor and she knows what's up." Howie replied.
"All I have to do is say two words, "quality time" and she'll pounce on me in a heartbeat. The thought of me touching myself just drives her insane." Kevin said.
"Do you let her watch?" Howie asked. "Do you get to watch her get off?"
"She likes to watch me, but it's hard for her to keep away, it excites her so much. I love watching her.. she just gives me that look while she's touching herself, and tells me how she's imaging it's my hands on her." Kevin said and took a drink of his soda, the images in his mind beginning to get to him.
"Jana and I do that alot.. there's nothing more erotic than watching your woman get off while she's staring into your eyes.. and while you're pleasuring yourself.. watching her is the ultimate." Howie commented.
Nick shrugged, "I don't invite her to watch, she just always seems to catch me, and I don't usually know she's there 'til I'm finished, but I definitely don't mind her watching."
Kevin asked, "You ever watch her?"
"Nope", Nick shook his head, "She's got that fucking vibrator and I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT!"
"Whoa, chill out little man." Kevin laughed. "I guess this offends your masculinity or something?"
"I HATE that! If she's getting off, I should be the one helping her!" Nick said loudly.
"Okay, so if you were going to change something about her or the way she does things, would that be it?" Howie asked.
"That damn thing pisses me off.. but I wouldn't change anything about her.. the way she does things or who she is. We have great sex.. alot of it, even.. and we get along perfectly, what else is there?" Nick paused and laughed, "Except maybe her cooking, I'd change that. Maybe I'll pay for cooking lessons or something."
Kevin thought for a moment and said, "There's nothing I'd want to change, actually. We fit each other so well. What one of us lacks, the other makes up for. It's hard for us to be at odds over anything, we work everything out pretty quickly. Plus Alli's just so open-minded about everything we do, I couldn't ask for anything else."
Howie replied, "I can't think of anything. It's like we were made for each other. She knows what she likes and what I like, and we just bounce back and forth. She doesn't inhibit me or herself.. and she loes to try new things all the time."
"Can you really see yourself with her in, like, 50 years?" Nick asked.
Howie nodded, "Yeah. She's the one my mom always told me about, I think. There's just something about her being near that always makes everything alright."
"Absolutely." Kevin smiled, "I knew from the moment I saw her that we'd be having grandkids together. She's the kind of girl I always told my dad that I wanted, and I know he'd be happy that I found Alli."
"I wouldn't have asked Chellie to marry me if I couldn't.. it freaked me out, the first time I actually thought that I could spend the rest of my life with her, but got to liking it pretty fast. She understands me so well, and no one can put up with my shit like she can.. I gotta keep her." Nick said, a half-grin playing on his lips.
"What's the nicest thing you've ever done for her?" Howie asked.
"Does sitting through 'Gone with the Wind' count?" Nick asked, completely seriously.
Howie shook his head.
"Damn, 'cause that was a killer." he laughed, "The trip to Versailles was all about her. I knew she'd always wanted to go there, so I put together that week in Paris for us.. she loved it, and I had a good time, too, actually. Just being with her and seeing how much she was enjoying it would have been worth it even if I hated it."
"I think Alli would say buying her a new piano. There's alot of other things I"ve done for her, but that probably made her the happiest. Her eyes lit up like a little kids when I brought her home to that." Kevin answered.
"I called Jana's mom to find out exactly how to cook her favorite tacos.. talk about being bad for you! But they were really good, and the way she paid me back for it was well worth all the extra pounds of grease I digested." Howie giggled.
"What's something you thought you'd never do, but it really doesn't bother you at all?" Kevin questioned. "I like doing Alli's nails. I never thought I'd be one of those guys that did stuff like that, but she got really sick one time and asked me to do her nails for her, and now I just think it's cute."
"I like to wash Jana's hair." Howie replied. "It's so beautiful.. and she gets really horny when I do!"
Nick rearranged himself in the seat, and leaned the seat back a little, "Chel and I read together, like before we go to bed at night. I like listening to her and having her touch me, like give me a massage or something while I read, and she gets all worked up listening to me... it's cool, and I never thought I'd like something like that."
Kevin looked surprised, "That is cool.. what kind of stuff do you read?"
"All sorts of stuff, we did some Anne Rice and now we're in the middle of 'The Godfather'." Nick replied, picking up the plastic cup his soda had been in. "What's your favorite part of her body? I love Chellie's eyes.. they change shades during sex... it's so cool.. and they're like.. I feel like I can see into her through them, like what she feels about me."
"I love Alli's hands." Kevin said, "They're so small, they fit perfectly into mine."
"Right behind Jana's ears, because she's so sensitive there. Or her shoulders- they're very strong and the way she looks over them as she's taking off her clothes.. she gets this look in her eye that just sends me." Howie said, smiling at the image in his mind.
"What's the sexiest piece of clothing she owns?" Kevin asked, swiping the now-destroyed cup away from Nick. "Alli's got this pink sundress.. she looks so beautiful when she wears it, and it bares all that skin for me to touch."
Howie answered quickly, "Her high heels.. put her in a pair of them, with her thigh-high stockings, and I'm so hard I could break into pieces."
Nick rolled his eyes, "Thanks for that mental picture of your dick, Howard." He thought for a second, "Chel's got like these red vinyl pants that she looks really hot in, but I think the sexiest thing would be this black velvet nightgown she's got.. it's really long and clings to her.. she looks amazing in it.. and I love to touch it."
All three guys were silent for a moment, picturing the things they'd just described.
"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Brian asked, dropping into the seat beside Nick.
"Oh, hey Bri. We were just doing, some uh, male bonding." Howie laughed.
"That's cool. I'm tired of trying to work on that song.. so I give up. Mind if I join you?" Brian asked.
Nick, Kevin and Howie quickly exchanged glances.
"That's cool, bro." Nick said. "So, like I was saying, I was pissed when the Bucs got eliminated from the play-offs because of that stupid ref..."
Kevin caught on and jumped in, "Yeah, that was a bad call.."
