Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:17:25 -0800 (PST)
From: slpwriter <slpwriter@yahoo.com>
Subject: Nick Lachey: My Everything-56

Hello to all of you!

I'm back with another chapter of "My Everything."

For those of you who aren't aware, my story is
eligible for nomination under "Extended Series" in the
9th Annual Boyband Story Awards. If you feel this
story deserves nomination, please go to the website
and vote for it.

Thanks for all of your support! Without it, I don't
think I could have written this story for this long.

Wish me luck on getting nominated. I'll find out who
will be nominated in a few weeks, if not sooner.


Now on with the story.


First of all, let me just say that this is my first
time writing any kind of fiction like this.

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of total fiction and is not
meant to imply anything about the sexualities of Nick
and Drew Lachey or anyone else mentioned in this
story.

If you are too young to read this, or if Homosexuality
offends you, then please don't continue any further
and leave.

NEWSFLASH: To those of you who don't already know,
Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, in real life, have
reconciled and are now husband and wife. I wish them
all the best with their marriage and hope they live a
long and happy life together.

If you want details about their wedding, check out the
98 Degrees Official Website at www.98degrees.com.


Other 98 Degrees stories I'd like to recommend are.

"Give Me Just One Night" by Unanoche.
"69 with Jeff Timmons" by Zachary Scott Pritt
"Nick Lachey" by Ken.
"98 Degrees Is Hot" by Gay Night
"The Reunion" by RinSong.
"Loving Nick Lachey" by Jordan
"Playing Doctor with 98 Degrees" by Brian

and finally:
"This Gift" by Sprout



Now, I"ll let you get on with the story.

Enjoy.


Previously on "My Everything".....


I walked towards the living room to find Jeff and
Danny, hugging each other.

"I'm so happy, Jeff." Danny said, holding Jeff tight.
"Sean and I have finally made up and we're going to
try to be friends again."

"Just like that?" Drew asked, in surprise.

Danny looked at Drew, the smile never leaving his
face.

"Well, Sean told me that he's not quite ready to
forgive and forget just yet, but that he is willing to
try again.

Here Danny looked back at me. "Right, Sean?" He asked.

I nodded.

"What about us?" Drew asked, from behind me. I turned
around to face him.

"If you can accept that I need to forgive you all in
my own time and in my own way, then I see no reason
why I can't try again with all of you." I told him.

"Do you really mean that?" Drew asked me, the
startings of a smile on his face.

"Yes, Drew." I assured him. "Can you accept my terms?"

Drew smiled. "You bet. Now give me a hug."

Drew opened his arms out and I walked into them. He
hugged me tightly. A second later, I felt a second set
of arms around me. I turned and saw that it was Kandi.
Then Justin came over and put his arms around the rest
of us as well.

Jeff and Danny came over and put their hands around
the rest of us. We were all happy once again.

We had finally done it. After so many years. We were
finally able to put our differences aside and start
over again.

Although, forgiveness was still a ways away, I knew
that it was coming in the future. And while, I stood
there, being hugged by Drew and the rest of the gang,
I knew that I was back where I belonged. I was home.

"Welcome back, you guys." I whispered.


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CHAPTER 56
***********

"Well, isn't this a Kodak moment?" A voice said from
behind us.

The guys, Kandi, and I pulled apart and looked up to
see Ben standing in the doorway to the living room,
looking at us with a smile on his face. We all laughed
a bit.

"Yeah, I guess you can say this is." I agreed. "We
were all making up for lost time and putting all of
this anger and bitterness behind us."

Ben nodded, watching me closely.

"So, I take it that this means that you're ready to
put the past behind you and move on?" He asked me.

"Well, I've told the guys that I still haven't fully
forgiven them just yet, so we're going to take it one
day at a time." I told Ben, the smile never leaving my
face. "They've all agreed that it has to be on my
terms and that's good enough for me."

"Well, it's just great to see you smile again, Sean."
Ben said. " I just want to see you happy again."

"And I am, Ben." I said, then frowned.

"What is it, Sean?" Drew asked me, noticing the frown
on my face.

I looked up at Drew, feeling really sad. The reason
for that was because I'd just thought about Nick and
the fact that he wasn't here to share this moment with
us.

"I just wish Nick could have been here for this." I
said to him.

Everyone else nodded, sadly, knowing exactly how I
felt. They were all worried about Nick too.

"We have to find him." Drew said, the seriousness
clear in his voice. "We have to find him and bring him
back home."

I turned and walked back over to the couch and sat
down. When I looked up, I saw that Ben had come into
the living room now and had taken a seat in the chair
directly across from me.

"Sean, what's wrong?" He asked me. "You look so
intense."

I buried my face in my hands for a moment and sighed
heavily. I thought back to my argument with Nick and
when he accused me of using his brother to get back at
him for cheating on me with Matt. I remembered the
hurt I'd felt and remembered throwing my night of
passion with Drew in his face. And I remembered when
Nick had grabbed me and kissed me. 

"I have to wonder if Jessica is right." I said, the
sadness obvious in my voice.

"About what, hon?" Kandi asked me. She was obviously
confused about what I meant by that.

And so was everyone else. I looked up to see them all
looking at me, confusion and concern, written on all
of their faces.

"About me, being the reason that Nick left town." I
finished.

Drew gave me a sympathetic look and came over to sit
beside me. He put his arm around my shoulder.

"If you're worried that we blame you for his taking
off, we don't." Drew said, softly.

I looked up at Drew, taking in his sexy face, his
hazel eyes which were as beautiful as ever, and his
sexy lips, which I was getting the urge to kiss all of
a sudden. But I realized that I couldn't do that just
yet. Not until we had a chance to talk alone and see
where our relationship stood.

"Thanks, Drew." I told him, reaching up to caress his
cheek, gently. "That helps alot."

Drew was a little surprised by my affection, but made
no move to stop it.

"You're welcome." Drew whispered, smiling at me
showing his pearly whites. 

Our eyes locked on each other and I felt myself
starting to reconnect with him. Suddenly, the urge to
want to kiss him, finally grew too strong to resist
and I couldn't hold back any longer.

I put both hands on his cheeks and pulled him in,
slowly. Drew realized what was happening, but he
didn't look like he was uncomfortable in any way. I
think he wanted this as much as I did at the moment.
As I continued to pull him in, our lips connected in a
soft, gentle kiss.

I heard a bunch of catcalls and whistles from around
the room, but Drew and I were too into our kiss to
really pay any attention.

When I finally pulled back, I saw Drew, looking back
at me, his face taking on a dreamy look.

"I'm sorry, Drew." I whispered. " I couldn't resist. I
just had to kiss you."

"No apologies necessary, Sean." Drew said, a smile on
his sexy face. "I wanted that as much as you did."

I nodded.

"And there's something else I want you to know." He
said, quietly.

"What's that?" I asked, looking back into his eyes.

Drew took both of my hands in his and squeezed them,
gently. 

"I love you." Drew confessed to me.

All I could do was stand there in total surprise. I
almost couldn't believe what I was hearing. But I knew
what my reply would be to his confession.

"I love you too, Drew." I said, pulling him close and
hugging him again.

We heard a bunch of "Aww's" from everyone around us,
making us laugh a little.

"Cut it out, guys." I chuckled, blushing a little.
"You're embarassing me."

"Looks like you're not the only one." Danny said,
pointing to Drew.

I looked over at Drew and saw that he was blushing as
well, but he had a smile on his face, though.

"Well, now that we've made up with Sean and are
finally going to try again at being friends, I think
our work here is officially done." Jeff said. "I think
we should all head back home now."

"Yeah, I think we should." Drew agreed. He turned back
to me. "Do you want to come over for awhile, Sean?" He
asked, me.

I actually had to think about that. With Jessica
living there, I didn't think it was going to be a
comfortable situation. Not to mention the fact that I
was sure she was going to blow a gasket when she found
out that the guys and I were back on good terms again.
There was no doubt that she was going to be pissed.

I looked up and Drew and gave him my answer. 

"Sure." I said. "But I'm not going to stay too long. I
promised Ben that we'd do some hanging out this
weekend before I fly back home."

Drew's smile left his face when he heard that last
part. He looked a little hurt as well.

"You could stay a little longer couldn't you?" Drew
asked me, almost pleading with me. "Besides, I'd like
to make up for lost time with you."

I started to feel guilty for kissing Drew earlier, now
that he wanted to continue a relationship with me. I
don't know why I had to kiss Drew, but I did know that
I wasn't ready to rush into another relationship.

"Look, Drew, a part of me is starting to feel sorry
for kissing you just now." I told him. "If I led you
on, I'm sorry. But I'm not ready to be in a
relationship with you just yet."

Drew's facial features took on a look of anger and he
started to complain.

"You know," Drew began, hurt obvious on his face. "I
really wish you would get over yourself and stop
playing these games with me. Either you want a
relationship with me or you don't. Which is it?"

I looked back at Drew, as my expression started to
become stony cold again.

"Drew, I just told you." I said. "I need time to work
on getting our friendship back first before we can
move to the next level. I just don't want there to be
any regrets or any doubts if we give it another try.
You understand, don't you?"

Drew thought it over for a moment and then realized
that I had a point. After all he had I had both caused
each other alot of pain in the past and this time, I
wanted things to be different. He then nodded.

"I understand." He said. "I'm sorry I went off on you
like that."

"No, problem." I said. "So, are we ok?"

Drew smiled and leaned in to hug me. 

"We're fine." He said, the smile never leaving his
face. "Will you at least come back to the house with
us for awhile?"

I didn't think that was such a good idea, with Jessica
being there. I wasn't prepared to have to deal with
her again after last night."

"That's not such a good idea." I said, shaking my
head.

"Why not?" Jeff asked me.

"Well, for one thing, I don't think I need to deal
with Jessica right now." I told Jeff. "I'm not ready
to deal with another one of her tantrums."

"Sean, come on, it wasn't that bad." Danny said,
laughing a little.

"It wasn't that bad?!" I mocked him, looking at him
like he was nuts. "Danny, the little twit practically
tried to claw my face off yesterday."

"That's because your provoked her, hon." Kandi pointed
out. "When she said "Fuck you." and you said that
you'd rather fuck her husband instead."

"But I didn't mean for it to just slip out that way,
Kandi." I said, to her, rolling my eyes. "I was mad.
It just came out."

"Well, considered the way she just went after you,
you're lucky that I was able to grab her before she
got too close to you or she definitely would have
succeeded in making mince meat out of you."

Hearing Jeff say that, I just had to laugh. Everyone
looked at me, wondering what was so funny.

"What's so funny?" Ben asked, looking at me like I was
insane.

"Jessica making mince meat out of me?" I said, in
between my laughter. " Please,I don't think so. She
wouldn't know how to make chicken with a gun to her
head, much less mince meat."

I could see the guys trying really hard not to laugh
at what I'd said, but they weren't succeeding and
finally when they couldn't hold back any longer, they
just erupted in laughter. 

"I cannot believe you actually said that." Drew said,
and continued to laugh.

"Man, if only I could have seen the look on her face
if you'd had the guts to tell her that to her face."
Jeff said, in between his laughter.

"Oh man, if that didn't make her have a cow, I don't
know what would've." Danny agreed, as he clapped his
hands, as he laughed.

"Just promise that you won't be insulting Jessica
every time you're at the house with us?"

"Aww, now why would I want to do that?" I asked in a
childlike voice, with a fake smile on my face.

Danny saw right through it though. He knew me to well.

"You're going to insult Jessica every chance you get,
right?" He asked me, cocking an eyebrow.

"Only if she insults me first." I told him. "And when
she does, I will eat her alive."

"I'm afraid to ask what that means." Ben said,
chuckling.

"Trust me, Ben, you don't want to know." I laughed.

After that, we all got silent for a moment. That is
until Justin broke the silence.

"Well, what do you say we all go back home now and
talk about what we want to do for the rest of the
day?" He suggested.

"You know I'm down with that, Justin." Danny said.
"After all, "I've got some lovin' to give to my
incredibly, sexy, boyfriend here."

Justin turned red from embarassment after hearing
that, so did the rest of us."

"T.M.I. baby, T.M.I." Jeff laughed. "But, trust me,
once we have a moment alone, you bet I'm going to take
you up on that."

"Ok, we so do not need to be hearing this." Kandi
said, covering her ears.

"Ok, point taken." Danny said, as he gave Jeff a quick
peck on the lips.

"I love you, baby." He whispered to Jeff.

"I love you too." Jeff whispered back.

As I watched, Jeff put his arm around Danny's waist
and pulled him in close. Then Jeff leaned in a kissed
Danny right on the lips. Then Jeff decided to get a
little naughty and started running his hands down
towards Danny's ass.

"Get a room, you two!" I joked, sarcastically.

Instead of breaking up their little make-out session,
Jeff gave me the finger instead.

"Oh, so it's like that, huh?" I said, grinning.

Then, an idea popped into my head and my grin got even
wider.

"Well then, Jeff, since you offered, I'll join you and
Danny in the sack tonight and fuck you both. How about
that?"

That caused everyone to look at me in total shock.
Danny and Jeff stopped kissing and looked at me, their
jaws to the floor."

"Are you crazy?!" Jeff asked me, half seriously.
"Absolutely not."

I wasn't about to let up on this. I was having too
much fun teasing them.

"Oh, come on, Jeff." I grinned. "you know you want
to."

"You're just perverted, you know that?" Danny laughed.
"Either that or you haven't had enough sex lately.

"Danny's right." Jeff agreed. "Hey, I have an idea.
"Why don't you ask Ben if he'll take care of it for
you.?"

"Hey!" Ben said. "Don't go lending out my body!"

We all just laughed after that. Well almost all of us.
Drew didn't seem too amused by all of this.

Just then, his cellphone started ringing. He pulled it
out of his pocket to answer it.

"Hello?"

"Drew, it's me, Jessica." He heard her voice say.
"Wherever you are, get ahold of everyone else and get
back here as soon as you can."

"Jessica, what's wrong?" Drew asked her, looking
concerned. "You sound kind of frantic."

Everyone glanced in Drew's direction when they heard
him say that.

"Drew, what's going on?" I whispered to him.

Drew, held up his finger, motioning me to wait a
moment.

"I'll explain everything when you guys get here."
Jessica said to him. "I'll see you shortly."

As soon as Drew hung up the phone, he looked up at me.

"What's wrong?" I asked him. "What did Jessica want?"

"We were all wondering the  same thing, ourselves."
Kandi threw in.

Drew looked around the room at everyone and spoke up.

"She said she wants us all back at the house as soon
as we can get there." He told us. "She sounded
frantic."

"Did she tell you why?" Jeff asked him. Drew shook his
head.

"No, she said she'll explain everything when we get
there." Drew replied, getting up to leave.

"Do you think she's heard from Nick?" I asked him.

Drew's eyes widened.

"I never thought of that." He said. "That could be
it."

"Well, then what are we all standing around here for?"
I said, getting up with Drew. "Let's go."

"Take care, guys." Ben called after them. "And let me
know if I can help in any way."

Everyone said goodbye to Ben and started heading for
the door. Ben got up and came over to me, as Drew
followed the others to the door.

"I'll be back later, Ben." I told him. "Will you be ok
until I get back?"

"Sure." He said, with a smile. Then he leaned in and
gave me a kiss, right on the lips, surprising me.

"What was that for?" I asked him, curiously.

"For good luck." Ben said, then he leaned in and
whispered into my ear.

"who knows, maybe what Jeff suggested earlier about me
taking care of your needs isn't such a bad idea after
all."

I looked back at him and noticed the devilish grin on
his face and the glint in his eye.

"You're bad, you know that?" I whispered, patting his
shoulder. "Are you sure you'll be alright until I get
back?"

"I'll be fine." he said. "Go on, get out of here."

"Alright." I said. "I'll see you later."

With that said, I turned and went to the door where
the guys were talking amongst themselves, while
waiting for me.

"Does, anyone want to ride with me?" I asked. "I've
got extra room in my car."

"No, we're fine." Drew said, looking at me, unsmiling.
He looked pissed about something. "Thanks, anyway."

I decided to just let it drop, since I didn't want to
fight with Drew. whatever it was about probably didn't
have anything to do with me.

The guys and Kandi all said their goodbyes to Ben and
left the house and headed to their cars. Danny got
into his, along with Jeff, while Drew, Justin, and
Kandi got into Drew's SUV, which Drew was driving this
time.

I was alone in my rental SUV. I started the engine and
waited for the guys to pull out so I could get out of
the driveway.

After they all pulled out, I was next. I waved goodbye
to Ben as I pulled out of the driveway and followed
the rest of the guys back to Nick's house.

When we got back, it was just after 11:00 in the
morning. It was almost time for lunch.

Drew parked his SUV into the driveway alongside
Jessica's car, while Danny pulled his in behind
Drew's. I pulled mine by the side of the road and shut
off the engine. By now, everyone was already rushing
into the house.

I locked up the SUV and ran up the driveway and into
the house. As I walked into the living room, I saw the
guys and Kandi huddled around Jessica. They were so
engrossed in whatever was going on that they hadn't
heard me come in. 

I stopped where I was and backed into the kitchen and
hid around the other side of the doorway to listen.
That's when I heard Drew speak.

"So, Jessica, what is it that you needed us back here
so quickly for?" He asked her.

I peeked around the corner and saw Jessica walk over
to the television set, where she reached above it and
pulled down what looked like an envelope. She then
turned around and walked back to Drew and handed it to
him.

"What is this, Jessica?" Drew asked her.

"It's a letter." Jessica told him. "It's got no return
address. I'm afraid to open it."

"Who do you think it's from?" Drew said. Then he
looked at it again.

"Oh, my god!" I heard him say.

What is it, Drew?" Jessica asked, worriedly.

I took that moment to peek around the corner to see
what was wrong. I saw Drew standing there, staring at
the letter with his mouth open in shock.

"This letter." Drew said. "It's from Nick."


TBC.......?


Well, that's all for now. Stay tuned for what happens
next.

"What does Nick have to say in his letter to Jessica?
"Will he be returning anytime soon?"

What will the contents of Nick's letter mean for
Jessica?