When Sandra put her condition on playing strip poker Nic gave her a surprised look. He did not immediately say he would not do it, but also did not agree. He thought about it and thought might it actually be interesting and kind of fun. He was just about to ask if they could at least wear shoes when she went into act of saying they were chickens just she expected and clucked at them. He just shook his head at the idea of being hired for her bachelorette party in twenty years. He highly doubted that at 51 one anybody would pay to see him naked, but that was not what he had in mind anyway.<br/><br/>Then she listened attentively as he spoke about hers and his lack of luck dating. When she asked about looking for the three of them in one guy to clarify her understanding, he grinned at her. “Yes, that is exactly what I am suggesting.”<br/><br/>Then Al freaked out when Nic asked if he and Dec felt the same way about Sandra as he had just admitted to. Nic groaned at Al's reaction. Sandra challenged him showing Nic that she was taking the admission better than Al. With a sigh Nic leaned forward again and placed his bottle on the coffee table again. “Al, please stay here and listen even if you don't talk, just listen to what I have to say.” After Dec's response and question Nic looked over at him with a weak smile. “Thank you, Dec. I have something in mind that's why I kicked the cat out of the bag.”<br/><br/>Nic stood and looked at each of the other three with a serious expression on his face. “Look I know we had an unspoken pact because of not expressing our feeling for Sandra because of our mutual friendship with each other and her. Al, I understand that you feel that I have crossed a boundary that I had no right to, but I crossed that boundary and broke that pact to save our friendship. I kept my silence hoping that I would find another girl and my feelings for Sandra would go back to just friends, but that hasn't happened and my feelings have only gotten stronger. I think the same is happening to both of you guys too. I felt jealousy tonight and, Al, you fucking growled at me. So these feelings and the pact were starting to pull us apart. I don't want to have anything come between us or have those feelings towards any of you.” He faced Sandra looking directly into her eyes, beautiful eyes. “Sandra, I'm not asking you to choose between us, that would not be fair to you or to the two you wouldn't choose.” He moved so that he could look at both Dec and Al. “Guys, we have always been together with her never really alone with any one of us. We are a unit, a package for her. If she chose just one of us the remaining two would feel left out, betrayed, jealous. That would definitely cause problems with our friendship. I don't think that it would work for either her either because she would be only getting a third of the whole. He moved again so that he could include Sandra again along with Al and Dec. “Any lasting relationship has a base in friendship, we already have that. Now we do what we would do if it were any other male to female friendship where it grew into something more. Guys I'm saying that WE should become her boyfriends. Sandra, I'm saying I want you to be our girlfriend, girlfriend to all three of us.”