Watch Your Sixx

10. Ice Cream

Nikki

I wait outside my house for Tori to pull up. I keep pacing across my front porch nervously, I can't seem to stand still no matter how hard I try. I don't know what's going on with me.

I've never been this nervous to be around a girl before, usually they don't get into my head but Tori is very different. She's wrapped herself around every thought that comes into my head. I've never cared so much about how I look or how I act, I just want Tori to like me...I sound like a teenage girl, fuck me.

Maybe it's because this girl is Tommy's little sister and I really want to treat her right because I do respect the hell out of Tommy. I don't know but there's something different about Tori, I want to be around her all the time.

I hear the roar of Tori's car as soon as she turns onto my street. A few minutes little she pulls up in front of the house. Even sitting idle Tori's car is loud and I laugh before walking over to the car. I open up the car door and I see her...and she's hot.

I mean it's dark but the moon and stars high light her features. She's holding into the wheel with one hand while the other is tangled into her hair. Tori smiles at me as I slide into the seat.

"Hey, sorry I'm late." She tried to apologize and I shake my head.

"We're going to get ice cream at one thirty in the morning, I don't think that's something to apologize for." I tell her and she smiles.

We just kinda look at each other for a little while. Should I kiss her? I don't know what any of this means. Her eyes stay locked on mine. Tori's eyes are a really beautiful shade of brown, kinda like milk chocolate, with little tints of copper which almost makes her eyes look like they have a red highlight. Her beautiful eyes narrow before she turns in her seat to get ready to drive.

"Where am I heading?" Tori wonders and that brings me back to reality.

"Oh shit, right!" I remember and she smiles once again. "Uh, turn around and head back to the top of the street." I explain and she nods.

Tori

I don't know if this is a date or if this is just two people getting ice cream in the wee hours of the morning. I don't even have a guess if I'm being completely honest. I mean Nikki paid but that's only because we had an argument in front of the middle aged cashier that was wishing that she could be anywhere else.

Now Nikki and I are sitting in the empty ice cream shop, we sit on either side of the little, round, red metal table on matching chairs. I always get chocolate ice cream because I have this giant sweet tooth and I crave sugar, Nikki must have the same problem I do because he got that exact same thing. We both eat our ice cream with little plastic spoons and we make conversation.

"Have you been around to see your folks yet?" Nikki wonders and I shake my head.

"I can't bring myself to go over there." I admit and he looks at me. "I will always stand by my decision about what I did when I left but Jess and I left a monstrous hole in our family. I don't know if there's a way to come back five years later and try to glue the pieces back together."

"That's heavy, I'll give you that much." He admits after he pulls his plastic spoon from his mouth. "But it's worth a shot, isn't it?"

"You're starting to sound like Tommy." I say and scoop up some ice cream. "Jess and I have drove over to our parents house and sat in front of it, neither of us can muster the courage to knock on the door."

"Maybe you need a moderator, like have Tommy be there in case something gets out of hand." Nikki offers and I smile.

"You might be onto something, Sixx." I admit and he smiles.