Heartstopper: The Life Afterwards

Nick's POV

[this update is again long since it's from Nicks POV]

Words cannot describe the feeling of being in our own flat. It's the start of a new life with Charlie.
I think a small part of me will have that guilt of not allowing Charlie to experience the moving process as much but, recently I've been worried that since we are approaching a decade soon, our love will fade. I need him to know that I want us to be Nick and Charlie forever.

After our deep conversation, we head off to bed. As much as I really want to right now, we promised that we wouldn't have any sex until we fully settled in. It's sad because now that we have our own space, I have this urge to want it more than ever. I know Charlie has this same urge. I can see him trying to hide it but, I think I'm probably better at it than him.
I can't remember who told me but 'sex in new places feels ten times more enjoyable and relaxing'. It's because you don't have that fear of someone walking in. Not that me and Charlie have ever done it in a full house. Okay, once. In a pillow fort, in my bedroom. My mum thankfully didn't say anything but I'm assuming she heard since we weren't exactly the quietest haha.
Anyways, we agreed on it and we are sticking to it.

I head to the bedroom whilst Charlie heads to the bathroom.
"Everything okay?"
"Yeah, just going to brush my teeth and then I'll come to bed."
"Okie dokie."
As I enter the room, I sit on the edge of the bed and take my socks and shoes off and place them to one side. Opposite me is the wardrobe. Me and Charlie placed our pictures together on the doors. The one from the photo booth, from our first date, was torn in half because we wanted to share it but I do think it looks better that way.

I can hear Charlie in the bathroom. He's brushing his teeth of course but I feel relaxed knowing I can hear him for some reason. Like if anything goes wrong, I can be there in a heartbeat.
I begin to strip. Pants off, then shirt til I'm left in my underwear. The comfort of being in my brand new bed I get to share with my boyfriend feels amazing. The thoughts begin to fill my head. The nights falling asleep with him in my arms and then waking up the same. Every morning I get to stare at his face as he's peacefully sleeping knowing he's going to wake up and see me.

As I get lost in thought Charlie walks in and sits down beside me. He's also getting ready for bed in the same routine as me. Eventually, we are both in our underwear sat at the edge of the bed. I make the first move, I crawl only my side and hold out my arm, signally for Charlie to come to me. He does. I wrap my arms around him and we stay silent for a moment. I think we both are thinking about the future we are going to love. It's exciting. Scary. But exciting.
"Are you excited for work on Monday?" he whispers to me.
This whole time of moving in I completely forgot in three days, I'll officially be a primary school teacher.
"Shit!! I totally forgot about that."
Charlie chuckles.
"You better have a photo of me and you on your desk like I have in my office"
"Almost like you knew what my plan was."

Eventually Charlie falls asleep. It's 2:15 and I'm still awake. I'm full of adrenaline. You'd think a whole day of moving furniture and building and moving things around would be exhausting but I've never been full of energy in my life. I pick up my phone and see a text from the headteacher at school. Mr Cheng he's called. I check when the message was sent and it says 10:30am...yesterday.
I haven't been on my phone all day. Today has been such a busy day I didn't even think to check my phone once. I open it up and it's a long paragraph.

"Good Morning Mr Nelson. How are you today? I know you plan to be moving into your own flat today with your partner but I need to remind you that you need to come in sometime this weekend and sort a couple things out for us before you start. The first thing is your I.D badge. We need to get your picture taken and your I.D card printed off so you can access the school doors. The second thing is you need to collect your keys. These keys will access your office, the schools locker rooms, the schools gymnasium and the sports cupboard. Finally, I would like to sit down with you and discuss your plan for when you start on Monday and see if you fit the criteria. If you could give me a response as soon as possible letting me know when you'll be arriving that would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, Huan!"

I send him my response informing him that I'm going to be arriving at the school Saturday.

"Hello Huan. I'm terribly sorry for my slow reply. I spent the whole day arranging the flat I haven't had any time to pick up my phone and check my messages. This all sounds very exciting. I've spent the summer organising my plan for teaching. I shall come to the school in the morning to get the final things ready for when we begin on Monday. I look forward to seeing you there.  All the best, Nick N."

I place my phone down and close my eyes. Ready for the day of preparation, for Monday.

When I wake up, it's 8:45. Usually I'm awake before this but I suppose being awake at 2 slightly messed my sleeping pattern up a little. Charlie has to go to work. I'm really sad about this. I was hoping that we'd share the first morning together.
"It's probably best to be honest, work have asked me to go in and finish up on some things."
"Oh that's great! I am gonna take a shower?"
"Okie dokie, I'll join you!"

That's it now, we can actually shower together, in our own home. This is never going to get hold.