"I know you weren't meaning to hurt me. Don't feel bad. You know me. I'm a jealous, selfish person when I feel like the people that I love are at risk of being taken away from me," Nichole explains, raising both of her perfectly drawn eyebrows. "There's nothing else. And honestly, you being flirty with other people isn't really a problem to me. Just as long as they know that - well - you're mine and I'm yours." She sighs and looks out towards the ocean. "Do you have anything you want me to start or stop doing?"

Nichole smirks and stretches out on her chair, wrapping her arms around Erica, enjoying having her there. "We're going to be the death of each other, I know it," she says, shaking her head. She looks around. "Who'd you hand Takara off to?"

"Huh, you've put a lot of thought into that..." Nichole comments when Erica lays out her plan of how to dispose of Nichole's body. "I just figured that I would dump you into the middle of the ocean and hope that people believe me when I tell them that freak killer whale jumped up and grabbed you from the railing. Maybe I need to come up with something more creative. I don't want people to be thinking that they'd rather have me dead than you..." She settles back in her chair, as if she were really thinking about it. She giggles when Erica describes Takara and Marlena as besties. They probably were. Nichole wouldn't be surprised if Takara and Marlena were best friend while all of her kids were the weird outcasts that nobody wanted to play with. In fact, she was almost sure of it. "I think I just have really laid-back kids. They got that from Sam, not me." She laughs a bit. It was still hard to talk about Sam, but she was getting better at it. "Plus, Faith has her own problems to deal with right now. I couldn't expect her to drop everything and come live with me on a boat. Especially when I have all this free child care around me." She motions, talking about all the other people on the boat, and then winks.

Nichole laughs again when Erica is talking about Sam and his Canadianism. "Uh, no. It did not taste like maple syrup. It tasted like shit. Salty, warm shit. Like always." She grimaces and shakes her head. The best part about being with a woman now? She'll never have to deal with that ever again. She shrugs when Erica tells her that she loved them together. It was words like that they made it rough. Honestly, Nichole loved her and Sam together as well. She never ever thought that they were having issues until a few months before they finally broke up. Maybe she had just been too blind to his suffering in the relationship because she was too focused on her own. She was pregnant for most of it, after all. She nods when Erica asks if Faith had found out about Honor yet. "Yep, she knows now... Apparently Kai actually sat her down and told her. I still think he's a fucking prick, but that earned him a few points in my book." Nichole sighs, running her fingertips through Erica's hair as she speaks. "I think that's why Kai hasn't been on Twitter that much lately."

Nichole laughs and nods, appreciating Erica's promise to never grow male genitalia, even though she knew that the chances of that were pretty slim to none. But she did grow up in Japan, and you never knew what kind of radiation could still be in that country, just waiting to infect. She nods again when they start talking about Kai and Faith. "Yeah, it was surprising to hear that he had admitted it rather than wait for her to find out. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason why she didn't break up with him right there." She smiles, but tenses up a bit when Erica mentions the possibility of becoming Mrs. Shade. She did love Erica, but she wasn't even somewhat ready to get married again, or even think about it. And marrying a woman who's wife was killed less than a year ago... She couldn't even imagine it. She didn't care what other people thought of her, but her music was her life, and she didn't want her name associated with a scandal big enough to ruin her career. She shakes her head when Erica mentions that Honor could be sexual tempting. "I don't see the attraction to her," she says with a shrug. "Her lips are too big. She looks like one of those batfish, you know?" She shrugs. "I don't' think she ever seriously thought that you or Mariko had slept with him, but she did ask me at one point. She's a little paranoid now. Bursts out in tears when she sees Kai even being friendly to another girl. I don't know how long that relationship is going to last like this."

Nichole nods in agreement when Erica says that she'd leave Kai if she were in Faith's position. She absolutely would have as well. In high school, she had been cheated on more than once, and it was something that she never wanted to go through again in her adult years. She gives Erica a small smile when she notices how uncomfortable she got at the idea of them being married. "I didn't mean for you to notice that, I'm sorry. I guess the idea of marriage is still... horrible in my mind right now." Nichole's deal with marriage had been almost the same as Erica's - the finality of it was way too much for her. She couldn't imagine that sort of commitment again now that one of them had blown up in her face. She shakes her head again when Erica describes Honor as beautiful. She was willing to admit that her loyalty to Faith may be clouding her judgement, but she still didn't see the attraction to Honor. "The most beautiful person you know? Is that like winning Best Personality?" she asks with a laugh, but still really appreciating the compliment. That was one of the reasons why she loved Erica as well - there was literally no better person on earth than her. "I know that you and Mariko never had anything sexual to do with Kai, and I think Faith knows that, too. She's just... really insecure right now. I would be, too." She takes a drag off of her cigarette and nods. The comparison of Kai to Erica was a hard one to make in Nichole mind because to her, Kai was a bad person and Erica was a good person. Her mind was very black-and-white when it came to other people, and it was difficult for her to let others cross their barrier between the light and dark. Kai would probably be a bad person in her mind for a long time. "Hopefully that's what he's trying to do now. I think his absence from Twitter is less of him trying to 'resist temptation' for Honor," she says 'resist temptation' in an overly dramatic fashion. "And more of an attempt to mend their relationship."

Nichole smiles. Even though she hated that Erica had caught a bit of her uncomfortableness, she was happy that they knew each other well enough to know each others subtle nuances and unsaid emotions. But she still nods. "Yeah, um... good," she says back with a small smile, hoping to try to make the whole situation less awkward for herself. If she thought about it, she wouldn't mind getting married sometime eventually, but not any time soon. But if Erica seemed completely fed up with marriage by now, then... well, she understood. She laughs loudly when Erica lists off all of her slightly-negative personality traits. If Nichole were to list off her favorite ones, it would be exactly those. "Hey, I know who I am. And juice cleansing are awesome for those days after you drink too much and feel like your body is disgusting. I don't do it to be snooty, I do it to be healthy." She winks. She knew that she was the type of person that you either loved or hated. She wouldn't want to be anybody else. "I'm sure they're going to be fine. As far as I can tell, Kai and Faith are too attached to each other to be with anybody else, even if somebody else were better for them." She gives Erica a small smile when she mentions 'that one person that just can't be forgotten.' As much as she hated Kai for cheating on Faith, she understood that feeling as well. She sighs. Love was such a rough thing.

Nichole laughs and rolls her eyes. She would never describe herself as snooty, not even close, but maybe she did come off as that occasionally. "Yeah, they're great, really. You have to pee a lot and you're hungry most of the day, but you feel a lot better when it's over, I promise." She grins back when Erica mentions having to be dirty before she can get clean. Nichole admittedly found Erica extremely attractive, but had found herself not acting on it for a while. Erica had made no moves towards Nichole lately, and honestly, Nichole was too afraid of rejection to make any first moves. She nods when Faith and Kai are brought up. "Yeah, I hope so, too. Faith is a good person, really. Maybe she drinks a little bit too much, but she's a good person... Better than Honor," she adds at the end. She knew her Faith, and she knew enough about Honor to know that she definitely liked Faith more. "Go for it. Half of the time, I can't get her to do what I ask her to do. But I think some of that is your doing, isn't it? Did you trade nachos for insubordination with her?"

"Hey, everybody loves a good pee. Why not?" Nichole says back with a laugh and a nod. The next time she was on a juice cleanse, she would make sure to force Erica into doing it with her as well. She giggles as well when Erica is 'found out' to be working with her personal assistant to keep her day from going smoothly. That was one of the things that she loved about Erica, though. "I've only spoken to her face-to-face about her and Kai once since she found out. It was kind of difficult, but I told her that I had known for a little bit. She understood why we didn't tell her... I mean, I think she was a little hurt, but she gets it." Nichole sighs. She felt terrible as well, and that wasn't a feeling that she had that often. Faith had been what kept her together when her marriage had ultimately failed, and Nichole felt bad that she didn't do all she could to help Faith in her own relationship. She's a little taken back when Erica asks if they can sleep in the same bed together again. She had been waiting to be invited back to Erica's bed for days now. "Yeah, of course," she says back with a smile, more than happy to do just that. "I'd love to."

Nichole shakes her head. "No, no, it wasn't your fault. It really was mine. It's not like you forced me into not telling her, I could have just as easily as I didn't," she says back as she tosses the cigarette into the ocean, hoping that no dolphin or anything like that eats it. She smiles and kisses Erica back, wrapping her arms around Erica's waist and pulling her closer as they do. "Torture? Hunny, you don't have to tell me. I was being tortured just as much," Nichole tells Erica with a small laugh and a smile. She had wanted desperately to give Erica all the space that she needed to mourn Natalya - and maybe they had started up their relationship a little too early - but if Erica felt like she was ready for them to sleep together again, then Nichole was all for that.