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I met Nick at the Houston
KRBE chat although I live near Dallas -- I drove
the 5 hrs, duh!!! :)
As I've said before elsewhere, I was always a Simon
girl back in the day. Butttt.....
My impressions of Nick: Faint Faint Faint! This
guy was everything I had never expected him to be.
Always the effeminate one, the dainty one. Ha! He
walked in and immediately I was taken by his confidence,
his self-assuredness, and when he settled himself
in his chair with the same fussiness I'd always
pictured, something about him drew me. I was already
mesmerised by the time he began talking in that
incredibly deep sexy voice of his. Cultured and
rich, his voice is like a rough blanket -- one you
want to wrap yourself in. His eyes were clear icy
jade, his smile large and bright and infectious,
blooming across his face just as he'd laugh out
loud in a deep rumble. I couldn't take my eyes off
of him and had to remember to make sure to look
at the others! He has always been thought of as
the 'gay' one, but christ, the people who say that
have either never met him or have been men and women
with no ability to sense depth because his aura
was palpable. His charisma was a tangible presence,
his allure very masculine for all that his outside
was rather effeminate. He took the microphone and
held it, and poor Roger had to wrestle it away from
him or more often than not take Simon's instead.
But it wasn't a selfish Nick I was seeing, just
a completely focused man, concentrating on each
question and giving it the weight it deserved. And
after that he would watch the audience, study us.
And the thing that I also noticed was that often
his green cat's eyes were on my face -- at least
it seemed that way to me. But since I was sitting
across from him I figured that he didn't have anywhere
else to put his eyes so why not in front of him!
At least that's what I thought anyway.
Anyway, the next day I went back to Dallas and caught
their show -- awesome I might add! Afterwards we
went back to where they came outside and had to
stand around for 45 minutes or so and it was bloody
cold. ;) I realised that I didn't have anything
for the guys to sign except the back of my ticket
and I held onto that.
Finally they start coming out -- there is pandemonium
-- pushing and shoving and stupid me hadn't positioned
myself by the white van when it pulled up so I lost
my place in the queue. I could see tall handsome
John moving through the crowd and I couldn't get
up there in time, and when I finally manage to do
so I see Andy's already in the van and Simon's buckling
up as well.
Then I see Nick moving along slowly, signing and
smiling, being the ever gracious one. I managed
to get up there and put my pen and paper under his
nose and ask him to sign, and he says, "Sur...."
and looks up at me. And stops. One beat, then two,
and he's staring at me. Then he smiles. "You're
the redhead from the Houston radio show."
Ladies, I was a deer in the headlight. *giggles*
Brilliant me only says, "Yeah, I am." I smile back
at him, stunned.
"Good to see you again," he says in that liquid
rough suede voice. He signs his name, then leans
toward me, gives me a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks for coming, luv." And I'm thinking.......take
me home. NOW. But I say, "You're welcome, Nick.
You were wonderful tonight."
"Glad you liked it." And he moved away.
I just stood there for a moment absorbing the unbelievable;
then somehow I managed to get Roger to sign the
paper as well -- I think I was on autopilot but
damn Roger looked awesome and was smiling and laughing
and he was so sweet! -- and then they were in the
van and they drove off. The last thing I saw was
Simon's smile.
And the girls around me immediately started asking
me, "What the fvck? Who the hell are you?" And I
just laughed -- by then the knowledge was zinging
through me that he REMEMBERED me!!! -- -- and I
just said, "I'm no one. I'm no one at all." And
I turned and walked off down the street toward my
car. I got in and went home somehow. I couldn't
stop smiling.
And you know, I haven't yet stopped smiling. Don't
know when I will, actually. ;)
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