I've opened up my eyes; now I see. [Nick/Open]

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

Nick walked up to the front door to his dorm and opened it, calling back to his other dorm members to let them know that he was going out. "Hey guys! I'm going out for awhile. I may not be back until late! Just thought I'd let you know!" he yelled, halfway out the door. He heard someone yell "Okay" back to him, so he walked out into the hallway and shut the door behind him. He walked casually to the stairs, not feeling like taking the elevator that day. He held onto the railing with his right hand and flew down the stairs. The only sound was he heard was his feet, which sounded like an elephant stampede, slamming on the non-carpeted stairs. He reached the front door and pulled it open, feeling a cool breeze lightly whip his skin. Nick outstretched his arms as the door closed behind him. Studying the crowd of people gathered outside on this gorgeous day, he headed over to his car.

Nick pulled out of the campus parking lot and onto the road. He was so craving some ice cream right then and there. And who knows? Maybe he would meet a really hot girl. After the very short ride, his stomach was now churning with emptiness, signaling him that he definitely needed something in it. He pulled into the suprisingly not-that-crowded parkinglot and parked his car. Jumping out he walked over to the avaliable window and stood behind the two people already in line. His eyes scanned the menu and his surroundings. Getting closer to the window, he decided to order himself a medium M & M blizzard. "At least it might fill me up..." Nick thought to himself as his stomach growled once again, even louder this time. Probably looking really stupid about now, he looked around once again as he waited for his turn at the window to approach.

[Ashlee Jake & Anna. {admin}]

Ashlee pulled up into the Dairy Queen parking lot, the song 'Glamorous' by Fergie blasting out of her speaker system. She pulled down the mirror on the visor, did a quick face check, and flipped the mirror back up. "That's hot." she said to herself with a laugh. She looked over to the passenger seat, Paris snuggled into a ball and wagging her tail. "Come on, baby. Time to get in." she said, reaching behind her seat for her Juicy Couture puppy purse. She found it and set it in her lap. On one side of the bag it said the normal 'Juicy Couture', but on the front it read 'Paris' in adorable calligraphy. She smiled, "You ready?" she asked. Paris jumped onto all fours and pounced onto Ashlee's lap. With a giggle, she set Paris into her bag and adjusted her sunglasses onto her little nose. She killed the engine and opened the door out into the parking lot.

Once she had gotten out and shut the door behind her, she headed over to the DQ. She was wearing normal attire, a white and navy blue thickly stripped tank top, lowrise destroyed jeans, and a pair of A&F's blue and white rubber flip flops. She smiled, seeing the line wasn't as long as she suspected it would be. She took a place in line randomly, too busy looking down to fetch her money to notice who exactly she was behind. In her head, she decided what she wanted. 'Hm. Today I'll get a vanillie with sprinkles.' She smiled at the thought. She hadn't had DQ since she had moved here. She fished out a 5 dollar bill and looked up. Unexpectedly, she laid eyes on one of the cutest boys she had seen here at Westview. And she was standing behind him! She giggled to herself and patted Paris's head that was poking out of the bag.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

Nick shoved his hands into his pocket and slightly rocked back and forth from the heel of his foot, to the ball of his foot, then to his toes and back again. He listened to the person in front of him list off their order. It was humongous and was probably going to take a good ten to fifteen minutes to make all of it. He frowned and let out a sigh, knowing he was going to have to wait that much longer. He stopped rocking back and forth as he saw a new car pull up, trying to study who was in it, he allowed his eyes to follow it as it parked in a space. Not wanting to look stalkerish, he returned his attention to the window. Seeing that they had only made about 1/4 of the order so far. Sighing out loud again, he heard a person's flipflops approach behind him. Smiling, he turned to see who it was.

When Nick turned around, he basically did a double take. His eyes locked on her and let out a friendly smile. Walking the couple of inches over to her, he took a deep breath and began to introduce himself. "Hey gorgeous, I'm Nick." he said smoothly, extending his hand. "I go to Westview High, not to far from here." he said, smiling again. She was just so beautiful, he could barely take his eyes off of her. But he managed to, seeing how much of the order they had now filled. Seeing that they had still only made about half of it, he turned back to face the gorgeous blonde.

[Ashlee Jake & Anna. {admin}]

Ashlee looked up a little to see the cute boy who was infront of her had noticed her. She smiled and extended the hand she was using to pet Paris. She gripped his hand lightly with a friendly grin, showing off her rather white set of teeth. "I'm Ashlee. Ashlee Bronsten." she introduced herself as well. "And this is Paris." she added with a little laugh, stroking her dog's small head. "Oh, how cool. I go to Westview too. Just got here about 2 weeks ago." she smiled. 'Sweet. A cutie on campus.' she thought, a smirk tempted to come upon her lips.

Seeing that Nick was next in line made her even hungier. Now more that ever she was craving that ice cream cone. "So, what are you ordering? You tell a lot about a person by what type of ice cream they get." she asked as she pretended to look at the menu posted on the front window. Then out of no where, the song 'I want you' by Paris Hilton came blaring from her front pocket. She looked down and grabbed out her silver-diamond stubbed phone. She saw it was Christie from back home. "I'll call her back later." she outloud, pressing the end button and sliding the phone back into her pocket. She looked back up at him, her honey brown eyes seemed to glisten as she did so. She smiled and waited for his reply.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

Nick returned her grip and shook slightly. He pulled it back and shoved both of his hands back into his pockets of his dark, slightly destroyed jeans. "Nice to meet you Ashlee. And Paris." he said, smiling. "Hah, small world, huh? Or, maybe just small area around campus. I just moved here about a week ago actually." he said, quickly thinking back to the intense move here. He frowned as he thought about all the things he used to do with his friends. Taking almost a second too long to snap out of the memory pool that was in his head, he looked back at Ashlee, and smiled again.

Nick looked to the front of the line, seeing that the person was finally almost finished. He quickly counted in his head; there was 10 blizzards, 2 cones, 4 moolattes, 1 banana split and a couple of misty floats. He chuckled to himself and returned his attention to Ashlee. Hearing her question he had to think for a second before he answered. Right before he began to answer Nick suddenly heard music coming from somewhere. He watched as Ashlee pulled out her cellphone. He waited for her to either answer or ignore it. Nick smiled when she didn't answer it, wanting to talk to this girl more. He waited a few seconds and then he finally got to answer her question. "Oh really. Then what kind of person am I since I'm getting a M & M blizzard?" he said, with a smile. "And what are you getting?" he asked back, smiling again. He just couldn't help but smiling when he was around certain girls. He was a smiley type of guy.

[Ashlee Jake & Anna. {admin}]

Ashlee watched the guy with the huge order walk away and couldn't help but laugh; then she focused her eyes back upon his face. She smiled as he told her his order. As she pretended to think, she playfully looked down at her nails. "It means you're friendly and cute." she replied and then looked up at him. "I could have told you that." she laughed with a innocent, yet flirty wink. "I think I'm going to get a vanilla waffle cone with sprinks." she said, fiddleing with the 5 in her hand.

Paris licked Ashlee's elbow which made her laugh again, "I know, I know. I'll get you ice cream in a minute." she joked, rubbing Paris's head once more. She looked up to see him smiling at her which made her smile and even blush a little; he had a boyish grin that made her melt. 'What to talk about, what to talk about?' she thought as she lightly twirled her hair; a bad habit she had aquired.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

Nick smiled as Ashlee when it 'meant' that he was friendly and cute. "Oh really?" he smiled and returned her flirty wink, with an even flirtier smile. He listened as Ashlee listed off what she was going to get. He smiled. "Hmm. Cone with sprinkles, eh? I say it means you're super adorable and sweet." he said, "But, I mean. I could've told you that." he replied again, with a quick snicker under his breath. He smiled as the guy at the window called them up.

Nick walked up to the window, looking back to see if Ashlee followed. He looked at the guy inside of the window. He asked, "What can I get you?" and Nick replied, "Umm. I'll have a medium M & M blizzard." The guy walked off. Just a few minutes later, he came back, setting the blizzard on the counter-space. "Is that all?" he asked. Nick looked inside of his wallet, seeing that he had more money than he expected to have. He looked back at Ashlee, then to the guy. "No, actually. Hold on just one sec." he said, turning back to Ashlee again. "You can go ahead and order what you want. It's on me. And maybe we could hang out sometime too?" he said, flashing her another flirty smile. His dark eyes sparkled in the sunlight as he waited for an answer.

[Ashlee Jake & Anna. {admin}]

Ashlee listened to him say her description according her order and she let out a laugh. As he scooted up to the counter, she did too. She set her left hand lightly on her hip and looked around as she waited for him to order. When he turned back to her and told her to order, it caught her completely off guard. "Oh, uh um. Thanks." she said, then laughed; realizing how big of an idiot she must look like. She leaned down onto the counter, her elbows resting upon it so her butt stuck out a little. "I'll have a medium vanilla cone with sprinkles, please." she said into the ordering window.

She stood back up when he suggested hanging out together. "That'd be cool. Actually, I'm free tonight. If you want to." she said, smiling at him and then taking the vanilla cone sticking out the window. "Thanks, again." she smiled, dipping her finger a tad into the ice cream and putting it by the opening of her J.C. bag. Sure enough, Paris's head popped up and licked Ashlee's finger clean. She laughed as she wiped her finger off on her napkin. She looked back up at Nick's face once again, secretly hoping he wasn't busy tonight.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

He smiled and waited as Ashlee's order was filled. The guy that was working asked, yet again, "Is this all?" Nick took out his wallet and pulled out a 10 before he answered. "Yeah, that's all." Nick said. The guy walked over to the register and calculated their total. "That'll be $5.43." he said as Nick handed him the ten dollar bill. The guy came back with $4.57, and handed it to NIck. He shoved the money in his pocket and picked up the blizzard, looking back at Ashlee.

He smiled when she didn't try and make plans for some other day or say something like, 'Oh..we just met, it's kind of rushing things?' He got that a lot from other girls. He thought to what he was supposed to be doing tonight but suddenly realized that he wasn't doing anything; that's why he came out in the first place. "Tonight. Well, I think you'll be happy be hear my schedule's clear." he said, smiling. "Hey, don't worry about it." he replied to her thanks. Thinking for a minute, he tried to decide where he wanted to go. "So, where do you want to hang out at?" he asked, thinking of all the places for hanging out.

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Ashlee watched him pay, the smile on her face growing even wider. Even though she didn't really like people paying for her, it still was a sweet gesture. She heard him state that his plans were open for tonight and a parade went off in her thoughts. "Well, I was going to hang out at the beach for a bit after this since I had nothing else to do, hence the bathing suit." she said, snapping the polka dotted halter strap visible on her bare shoulder. "Or we could do something else. I'm up for some fun." she said, tasting her ice cream cone.

She smiled and readjusted her sunglasses upon her nose. She laughed when she noticed Paris trying to get her ice cream. She stuck her pinky in this time and let Paris lick it off. Satisfied, Paris layed back down in the purse. She wiped off her pinky and waited for his reply.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

He listened to Ashlee list off what she might want to do. When he heard the beach, several thoughts ran through his head about what could happen and he smiled. But he soon realized that he was definitely not dressed for the occasion. "Hah. Well the beach does sound like loads of fun, but, I'm obviously not dressed for it. Soo, hmm." he said, quickly thinking of places where they could go. Nick scooped a bit of his blizzard and popped it into his mouth. Pulling out the red spoon, he set it into the cup full of ice cream and returned his attention to Ashlee.

"Hmm. We could go bowling? Or even to the apple orchard." he said, with a flirty smile. He thought of other things they could do. "If you want we can even go to the zoo, I'm up for anything too." he said, keeping his smile. Nick took another bite of his blizzard and looked to Ashlee again, waiting for her reply.

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Ashlee glanced at the street beside them and took another lick of her ice cream; just as she was about to speak, a car drove by and honked; two guy teenagers leaning out the windows. "HEY, BABY! YOUZ A HOTTIE!" they hooted, howling like a dog at her as they drove. She turned around and realized they were honking at her. The tips of her tanned cheeks turned pink and she turned back around to face Nick, then let out a few laughs.

"Wow, boys these days." she teased, shaking her head playfully. "Well, it is a nice day out, so we should probably hang outside? The apple orchard sounds like a good time to me." she agreed, a sweet smile coming across her lips. She was about half way done with her cone already, the fastests she's eaten one in awhile. She laughed lightly, but kept her eyes on Nick.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

He smiled as Ashlee was about to reply to his question. But quickly frowned as she was cut off by some immature teens; wanting Ashlee. Nick laughed as the couple of guys whistled at her. "Haha dudes. I'm with this 'hottie', and you're no where near." he thought to himself as he watched Ashlee return her attention to him. He took another bite of his blizzard, the flavor of vanilla exploded in his mouth, followed by the crunchy taste of M & M's.

Nick laughed again as Ashlee made the comment about boys. He smiled again when she said the apple orchard. "Sounds perfect. Hmm. Since we both drove, how about I drive to the orchard and then I'll swing by here after and you can pick up your car." he said, returning Ashlee's sweet smile. He looked right into her eyes, through the semi-transparent sunglasses. He basically melted right then and there. Ashlee was super gorgeous, even more than Vanessa, who he had met several days earlier at Meijer. He kept his eyes locked on Ashlee as he took another huge bite of his blizzard.

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Ashlee smiled again and finished off her ice cream cone. "Um, that's fine. But you can't let me forget it's here, or I'll be walking tomorrow." she laughed as she threw away her napkin and cone wrapper in the trash can beside her."I have to grab my jacket from my car first though, so I don't freeze later on." she added, glancing over at her 2007 convertable beetle.

Luckily for her, she had put the top back up late last night when she got home from the beach. She headed toward her car and opened up the passenger side door. She pulled out her A&F white zip-up jacket from the back seat and then shut the door. She hung the coat over her arm and then made her way back to Nick. "So, which car is yours?" she asked, looking over the smallish parking lot. She smiled and waited for him to point out a car, not really knowing what to exspect.

[Jay, Selena, Nick & Hailie. xo]

Nick took a couple more bites of his blizzard, scraping the last of the M & M's and vanilla ice cream from the bottom of the card-board type cup. "Hah, don't worry. I won't let you forget." he smiled as he threw away his cup and his spoon into the trash after Ashlee and watched her walk over to her cutesy car and pull out her jacket. He smiled again and shoved his hands in his pocket. Slightly rocking back and forth again, a bad habit he had gotten from awhile back, he waited for Ashlee to walk back over.

He smiled again as he scanned her body up and down as she approached him again. He took his hands out of his pockets and rested them at his sides. "My car is that one, over there." he said, pointing to the silver Porsche Carrer GT. "The Porsche" he said, just making sure she didn't think he was pointing to the nasty torn up and rusted car next to his. "Let's go." he said, beginning to lead Ashlee over to the car. Nick walked over to the driver's side, and opened the door. Hopping inside, he looked over his shoulder to see if Ashlee was getting in as well.