Angie and Nick Supplement
*This I Promise You* - A fan fiction story by Tammy "Tammtamm" Frederick © Sept. 2000, thetamm@yahoo.com (inspired by the song THIS I PROMISE YOU written by Richard Marx and sung by NSYNC - from their album NO STRINGS ATTACHED, released in 2000)
“Angie, I’m asking for another chance. Please Ang… I don’t like my life without you in it.” Nick begged Angie to stay with him when they went backstage while dancing to Richard Marx and NSYNC singing Now and Forever. They had gone back to the extra office.
“Nick, what are you saying? Are you saying you’re ready to commit? That we’ll see each other exclusively?” Angie asked. That’s all she wanted from him. Just either a commitment or a good-bye, because not being with him was breaking her heart.
“It’s what I’m saying, Angie. I want you and only you as my girl. And I want to be your one and only.” Nick explained. “I’m not ready for a commitment bigger than that right now. Please understand.” He stated. Angie threw her arms around him.
“Was that so bad to say?” she had tears falling down her cheeks. Nick took his hand and brushed the tears from Angie’s face.
“Sometimes when you’re a guy, the hardest thing to admit is that you need someone. And I need you.” Nick admitted.
“It’s nice to be needed.” Angie said as she looked into his eyes.
“Let’s sit.” Nick walked her over to the couch. After he sat down on the couch, she sat in his lap. “I was talking to Kevin the other day and then with Richard earlier and I owe you an apology. I guess I was afraid of the age factor between us. I mean, people say that I’m only twenty-one and too young to settle down, but both Kevin and Richard said all that matters is what’s in my heart and my mind and you are 24/7. Non-stop. When we were doing the hundred hour thing a few weeks ago, all I wanted to do was call you every chance I got, but after the fight we had, thanks to me, I didn’t think you’d take my calls.”
“How’d you know I was here again?” Angie asked as she fidgeted with a tissue.
“Jonathan finally told me. I had been begging him since you weren’t at the release party for the album for your whereabouts and then he called me last night and told me that he found you crying in your room after last night’s show. I had to come. Why were you crying?” Nick asked.
“Fatigue? Loneliness? Missing you, wondering if what we have was worth saving or if I should mourn the relationship and move on.” Angie replied and continued, “Nick, it’s not easy being in love with a man who not only is younger than me but is idolized by millions of teenage and pre-teen girls as well as women in their twenties and thirties.”
“What do you see in me that made you fall in love with me?” Nick asked.
“The wisdom in your eyes. You may only be twenty-one but you’ve been a man since you were fourteen. You’ve been to countries and places I’ve only dreamed of. You’ve seen riches and queens and poverty and sickness.” Angie sat back into the couch and closed her eyes.
“Your smile gabbed me at a restaurant one night. You were having dinner with Jonathan and Missy and her husband and Sarah. Kevin and I had stopped in for a bite after laying some tracks down and we stopped by the table. When we first entered the restaurant, you were laughing at something Sarah had said and you just smiled and your eyes glistened. It was amazing.” Nick said as he remembered the night they met. “It took me three months to get you to agree to go out to dinner with me.” Nick chuckled. He, too, sunk into the couch.
“Yeah, you had Jonathan throw a dinner party and Sarah just so happened to need a female for you and I was the lucky woman.” Angie said.
“No, I’m lucky. Sometimes it just takes me nearly until it’s too late to realize it.” Nick said and turned to look at Angie. He took her hand in his. “I’m sorry.” He said as he looked into her eyes.
“You’ve already apologized. Please, stop it. I shouldn’t have given you an ultimatum.” Angie sighed.
“So you forgive me?”
“Only if you forgive me.” Angie leaned in to kiss him.
“Angie, we need you out here.” Betsy knocked on the door after they had been kissing for a few minutes.
“I need to get back to work. Don’t stray too far?” Angie said to him.
“I promise.” Nick said as they straightened out each other’s clothing and composed themselves before heading back out into the mayhem.
After the concert was over, they mingled with everyone for a little while before Nick drove Angie back to her hotel.
“When do you have to join the others to begin rehearsals for the tour?” Angie asked Nick as he pulled up to the front of the hotel.
“Monday in Florida. But let’s not worry about that. Let’s work on us, okay?” Nick asked as he kissed the back of her hand and looked into her eyes.
“I’m all for that. Where are you staying?” she asked.
“I didn’t make any reservations. I was hoping I could crash with you?” Nick asked.
“You really went out on a limb tonight? What would you have done if I had said that it was over between us? That I wanted nothing more to do with you?”
“I would have begged you until you’d give in.” he admitted. The doorman opened her door for her and helped her out. Nick popped the trunk before getting out of the driver’s side. He hustled over to the valet and gave him the keys to the car.
“Boy, you sure have a set of brass ones, don’t you?” Angie giggled as he whipped her around to face him when he came up to her.
“Only when I want something as badly as I want you.” Nick said and passionately kissed her out in public, in front of the hotel. Angie blushed.
“C’mon, I’m tired. This week has been invigorating, yet exhausting.” Angie explained as she broke the kiss and led him into the hotel. Once they registered him to her room for the night they immediately went up to her room.
They ended up talking the night away about their expectations regarding the relationship and what they wanted out of it and also of each other.