Competition (NRD&D x fem reader)

Ricky's POV

"I'm leaving for Mae's party, see you guys later, I'll be back before dinner," Dawn says getting up from the circle. "Wait so it's not a dinner party?" Dicky asks. "No, it is," Dawn says matter of factly. "They just eat earlier than us." She left the room leaving me and Dicky with y/n.

"Okay, let's start studying. What do you need help with?" I ask. "Pretty much everything, I'm not the best at any subject," Y/n says embarrassedly. "Okay, well what subject is your worst?" I ask. 

Dicky slowly inches over to Dawn's old spot. "Probably cooking, I can't do anything but burn food but I also suck at English." She says, prying Dicky's hand off of her leg that he had slowly placed on her thigh. "Nice try," Y/n smirks. "Oh come on," Dicky whined. "Okay let's get back to why we're here," I say glaring at Dicky. We're here to study, not flirt.

"Well I can help you with English but for cooking, you might want to ask Nicky. He's a way better cook than me." I say. "Okay, can we study for my English test tomorrow?" Y/n asks. "Yeah okay. What's the test about? Writing, reading comprehension, grammar?" There are many different types of English tests. I took at least 6 different tests last year.

"Umm, I'm not exactly sure," Y/n says quietly. "That's okay, we'll study for all of them so then you'll be extra prepared." We studied for a couple of hours until around 7 even Dicky studied.

Dawn came in while we were going through metaphors. "Okay studying time is done," Dawn says slamming the book closed. "Good, I don't know how much more information I can handle," Y/n says rubbing her temple.

"Have any of you guys noticed something off with Nicky?" Dawn asks sitting down. "No what do you mean?" I say, I try to think of some things that Nicky did today but I can't remember. "I saw him talking to someone after his cooking class," Dicky says. "Really? Who?" Dawn asks. "I don't know," Dicky shrugged.

"Wait what's wrong with Nicky?" Y/n asked. "I don't know he's just acting kind of different. That bathroom break he took was pretty long, and he's not hanging out with us, plus, he's covered in ice packs." Dawn says. "Maybe he's just hot, I mean warm, Nicky isn't hot, Dicky is," Dicky says. "Yeah, he's probably fine. I mean he was fine on the bus." Dawn says.

"Kids! Come downstairs, dinners ready!" Mom calls. We all start to get up when we hear a bunch of thumping and banging. "Huh, I wonder what that was," Dicky says. We all shrug.

We all walk down the stairs laughing together. We walk into the kitchen and see Nicky already sitting there. "It's time for mom's amazing meatloaf!" Mom takes out her meatloaf and serves it to us. The second the meatloaf hits Nicky's plate he starts stuffing it down. "Um, Nicky honey, there's plenty more meatloaf, you don't need to hoarse down," Mom tells Nicky. "Now give me a hug, I didn't see you come back from school right away." Nicky stands up and gives mom a quick hug.

After the hug, Nicky goes back to scarfing mom's meatloaf. Mom just shakes her head. "Okay, I'm done. May I be excused?" Nicky asks when he finishes. "I guess," Mom says. "Thanks, I'm really really tired," Nicky says. I'm kind of skeptical but eh, why do I care? It's Nicky.

After dinner, y/n left and it was just me, Dicky and Dawn. Mom sent us to brush our teeth and go to our room. When we got to our room, we started to have one of our circles where we would talk about anything, it was our sharing circle.

"As the oldest, I should get to share first," Dawn says. "Bye 4 seconds," I groan. Dawn always does that, it doesn't matter if she's the oldest, we were all born seconds after each other. "Fine, you can go first," Dawn says.

I took a deep breath. "I may like your friend," I say. "What!?" Dicky and Dawn both exclaim. "Really? Could you keep it down please, I'm trying to sleep," It took me a while to realize that Nicky was in here with us and he was already in bed. "Sorry," We all say.