Turning her head she should have known. One word made it out of her mouth before she nearly started laughing or grinning like an idiot. "Stalker." Both of them in their lives had, had stalker problems so it had in all honesty almost become a joke between the two of them. Yes, some of the stalkers they both had, had been frightening, but now there was nothing left to frighten them. They were together, they were secure, and they had enough protection around them to ensure that nothing could ever possibly happen to one of the two girls.

"What are you doing all the way down here at the pier?" The bright smile on Carly's face had never changed, except for maybe the fact that it brightened now that her friend was here. She didn't feel so alone now. "Nathaniel at work?" The two were almost inseperatable, it brought back memories. So why was he not here now? She assumed he was at work, but maybe he was with the guys? It was a rather debatable question, she wanted to tell Nikki to cherish him and stay with him for as long as she possibly could. Yeah, they were all a close knit circle of friends with quite a bit of money in their pockets, the girls were, but they were something stronger and well, let's just say more intimidating with the boys around.

"That guy I told you about at the vet clinic is here." She started on the new subject. "Or at least he was. He was offering to help us 'move in'. You know the 'mate man'? The cute one that I think the good doctor threw out of the clinic?" She just laughed then. Stirring up a conversation for the both of them as she admired her friend momentarily before looking back out at the water.

"He's always at work." She said after laughing at being called a stalker. Yeah, the day she stalked Carly would be a funny day indeed. She smiled more then, thinking about her husband and how much she loved him. They really were attached at the hip. There was nothing they couldn't talk about. Nothing they couldn't share. He was her everything. She remembered how they met and smiled even more. The pain utterly gone from the memory now. She also remember the night she told him she loved him. It almost made the grown woman giggle.

Looking the same way Carly was looking now she smiled once again. "Stalking you, apparently." She said in answer to her friend's question about why she was there. In all honesty, she was bored. She didn't have a class to teach until later that evening and Nate wouldn't be off work until after she got back from her two classes she had to teach so it was a quiet day. Too quiet for the social butterfly, Nikki. "What about you? What are you doing here?" She asked.

"Just looking for a place while the office is being reinstated." She gave a half smile. "Any ideas?" Carly then handed her the housing phamplet she had been looking at in hopes that perhaps Nikki would have some ideas of where to live. "I'd like something simple if that's possible. Not too elegant, but something homey? Money isn't a problem though- so sky's the limit I guess?"

"So why don't you and the man climb The beanstalk and live happily ever after on cloud nine?" Nikki said grinning. She loved picking on her small...but mighty friend. She then flipped through the sheets she had been handed. "He doesn't have a place down here?" She asked.

"No not exactly. Well, not since the incident. We are looking to make more of a new start. Well, somewhat." She just realized how much she had said well there in that statement. That was strange. That was completely off topic and besides the point though. "It's sort of hard to explain I suppose, though you konw most of the details, concerning Keith and all."

"Yeah. I do. And it's understandable. So the prince is letting the princess pick her castle?" She teased again and sent a quick text to her husband before she started to look back over the water for a long moment. Carly bringing up Keith made her think about the main reason she had left everything behind and come to be with Nate. Before the marriage and well of course now too. "Kinda strange..." She said to Carly but didn't look at her. "If you think about what happened across the country and now, where we are today." She said then.