mayqueen517 | VALENTINE'S DAY FIC FEST:

"Your fans are pretty great," Nicole says, happily munching on a cookie. "Like, if the food is this good, I'm totally okay being a golddigging band whore or whatever they think I am this week."

She is, rightly, pretty startled when Spencer smacks the remaining half cookie out of her hand and flings the tupperware she'd been eating them out of across the room.

"I know, I know Zack gave you The Talk," he says, glaring at the cookies even though he's talking to Nicole.

"They're cookies, you fucking psycho," she says, and pouts at him until he rolls his eyes and cuddles her. "Delicious cookies."

"Whatever. Let someone know if you start feeling sick, or weird, or something, okay?"

"Cookies, Spencer," she repeats, and burrows in against his side. "Just cookies."

*

Nicole wakes up to Brendon shaking her shoulder, looking down at her with concern. "Hey, hey, bad dream?"

"Huh?"

"You were shaking, I dunno."

Nicole just shrugs. She's itchy, ugh, she hates these fucking bus couches, itchy all over and her skin feels tight. And she needs a hug, good fucking God does she need a hug. Maybe she did have a bad dream.

"Cuddles?"

Brendon just shrugs and bundles onto the couch with her, wriggling until he's under the quilt and pressed all against her side. "Cuddles, totally," he says, because Brendon is the best.

*

Nicole needs a hug. Nicole needs so many hugs, what the fuck, it's like a big blinking neon sign in her head - CUDDLES! CUDDLES! CUDDLES! The thing is, Brendon's still napping next to her, and he's got her all wrapped up in one of those full-body awesome hugs that are the reason napping with him is almost better than napping with her actual boyfriend.

"Cuddles," she says, which, no, she actually meant to say no, brain, I have cuddles, I don't need more. "Cuddles."

Nicole blinks. There's something wrong, she tries to say, but it just comes out as a nervous "cuddles."

"You have cuddles, greedy," Dallon says from the other couch.

"Cuddles," she says again, instead of I know, but something's wrong. Dallon is both the worst and best person in the world, because instead of getting up to go find Spencer and tell him his girlfriend's acting weird, he just helps her wriggle Brendon around until they're half-sitting up and Dallon can curl up against Nicole's other side.

"You look...cozy," Ian says.

"Cuddles," is all Nicole can say back. Ian shrugs and sits on the floor in front of the couch, tilts his head back to rest against her leg.

*

Spencer's doing that thing where he finds something really adorable, but he doesn't want to, so he makes this kind of grimacey face and pretends he's annoyed.

"This is why I can't find anyone to play Mario Kart with?"

"Cuddles," Nicole says, I didn't mean to steal everyone but something's wrong and no one's listening and I can't say anything else. "Cuddles, cuddles, cuddles."

Spencer's brow furrows. "Nic?"

"Cuddles," she says again, and she wants to keep the distress out of her voice because Spencer worries and she can't exactly reassure him right now.

"Shit," he says, "the fucking - this is why Zack says not to eat the food, Nicole, Jesus."

He reaches in and wraps his arms around her, tugs her loose from the pile of his napping bandmates and lifts her up. Normally it's really super hot the way he carries her around, and also kind of super adorable and super romantic. Right now, though, her entire body starts itching the second they're not all touching her.

"Cuddles! Cuddles," she says, starts wriggling so he'll drop her and she can climb back onto the couch.

"I know, shh, I know, I'm just gonna take you to the back lounge so we can all cuddle you, okay?"

"Cuddles."

"I'm gonna take that as an 'okay, Spencer, you're so wise'," he says, and shakes the other three awake so they can join the cuddle party in the back.

*

Nicole wakes up sticky with sweat, curled up close to Spencer with Dallon draped over her back and Brendon and Ian's heads pillowed on her legs. It's like sleeping in a pile of puppies. Puppies who smell like they're all as sweaty as Nicole, why didn't someone turn the heat down.

"Feeling better?" Spencer asks, combing his fingers through her hair and obviously trying not to look as worried as he is.

"I think so, yeah," she says, and oh, awesome, words.

"Good," he says, kisses her softly.

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

Amazing prompt and amazing fill and HI, FAVORITE, YES. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

AWWWWW!!! MY FACE, LET ME SHOW IT TO YOU :DDDDDDDD

CUDDLES! ~pets Nic~

I love how everyone just goes 'cuddles? sure, okay'

♥ times infinity

Nicole and Brendon are both kind of cuddlesluts, it is totally not that weird for someone to just pout and keep saying "cuddles". Giving in right off the bat saves a few minutes of annoying cuteness.

and fluttered eyelashes. Nic and Bden totally have cuteness-off's on long bus trips, don't they?

there are cuddle competitions. and once, a surprisingly intense half-naked wrestling match over whether spencer cuddles should count less for nicole because he's boyfriend-ly obligated to cuddle her

Memories of that wrestling match keep Nic warm and amused for WEEKS afterwards :D

Brendon fights dirty ;9 and looks good in his red underpants ;9

plus Spencer watching them with a kind of glazed, hungry expression

what did he expect? Both Bden and Nic know how to put on a show, fight dirty, and want to win :D

Nicole is so glad she has a boyfriend who not only understands her crushes on his bandmates (except Ian. Ian she wants to drag through a portal to Harry Potter world so he can be an Animagus and turn into a puppy for her to cuddle all the time. Ian...does not actually find that as weird as maybe he should. Wait where were we?) but kind of encourages them.

And if wrestling Brendon in her pajamas when he's in his underpants is gonna get her fucked like THAT, well, she can totally live with that.

There is nothing, Nic has decided, more sexy than a man who is totally confident and secure in both himself and his relationship with her.

Plus, trust? A total turnon :D

It's a pity she wasted so much time on boys whose reaction to "um, I kind of kissed Brendon a little bit last night at the bar" wouldn't be "...try kissing him when he's sober, it's less like being attacked by an overenthusiastic mutant tongue".

Spencer is just happy he's finally found someone who DOESN'T find his closeness to his bandmates creepy or threatening or any of the other horrible things past exes have said.

The thing is, you date Spencer, you kind of date his band too.

Luckily, Nic loves his band almost as much as she loves him.

When Nicole finally moves in with him, Spencer's kind of worried that she's gonna think all his bandmate time is fine when he's recording and touring, but having them around all the time in his downtime is too much.

She...invites Brendon over to hang out more than Spencer does.

He stops worrying about the fourth time he comes home to find Nic and Bden cooking or cuddled up on the couch watching DVDs or just laughing as Bden sings silly madeup songs on the piano.

He teaches her how to play the ukelele and Spencer is so in love with how happy it makes her he even breaks out the tambourine to play along.

When Spencer VOLUNTARILY tambourines, Brendon clears his schedule for the next week because he knows it's only a matter of time before Spencer wants to go engagement ring shopping

Dallon volunteers to come to, as the token 'married man' of their little band

when Spencer realizes they're right, he has a little freakout. But only a little one.

He's so YOUNG, he can't get MARRIED, except they basically already are married. okay then.

Dallon knocks some sense into him with a simple question. "Do you want to wake up next to her for the rest of your life?"

Spencer thinks for a second. "She prefers titanium to gold, and simple but pretty jewellery. Where should we start looking?"

He ends up going through contacts of Pete's and getting something custom made because he is nothing if not sickeningly romantic and unwilling to settle for anything less than her absolute ideal piece of jewelry

The final piece is beautiful, elegant and sophisticated, understated but still dramatic.

It's Nicole.

Next, Spencer girds his metaphorical loins and arranges a little chat with her parents. In some things, Nic is incredibly traditional, and Spencer suspects that those feeling apply here too.

The GIGANTIC rib-crushing hug he gets from her mom is way better than "yes".

Nic's father and brother sit him down and give him a very nice version of the 'hurt her and we'll kill you' speech.

it must be a sign that this is the right decision, Spencer decides, when he feels just happy and accepted.

Next stop - the lady herself. Luckily, Bden and Dallon have already been thinking about this and have already half-buried their living room in flowers to create the perfect setting.

They vanish out the back door as Nic's car pulls up out front with just a hug and a 'good luck.'

Spencer pats his pocket to check the ring is still there and takes a deep breath as he hears a key in the lock.

"It smells like a funeral home in here. Is Ryan visiting? I told you not to wear your cologne at my house, Rossy, it's gro - oh holy wow that's a lot of flowers."

"Uh, yeah, I guess it's kind of overkill."

"Are you being conspicuously romantic for a reason, or just because?"

Leave it to Nicole to wreck his carefully-constructed mood. And get him all flustered. NO ONE flusters Spencer, she is totally The One.

"Uh."

"You had a plan and I wrecked it, didn't I? Okay. Where should I be?"

"Uh. Couch."

"Okay! Oh man I just barely got home, I think maybe I should sit on the couch, because that is what I do when I get home."

Casting aspersions on her acting ability might totally wreck the mood, so Spencer keeps his mouth shut, but just barely. And it is totally worth all her mocking to see her face when he goes down on one knee.

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