Nick and Charlie have been together for over a year now and only told Nick's mum since Charlie's friends and family already know about them. Nick was ready to tell people now. Before he was scared of what people might think, what his friends might think but now all he cared about was being with Charlie and he knew people knowing wouldn't change that and Charlie supported him no matter what.
That morning, Nick woke up to Charlie cuddled up against him. He looked down and found his tipped over laptop still open at the bottom of his bed. They must've fallen asleep watching movies again. Nick looked down at Charlie and smiled. He pushed the hair out of his boyfriends face and he kissed his forehead gently. Charlie inhaled sharply and slowly opened his eyes and he looked up at Nick. Nick let out a breath of amusement. "Good morning." He says. Charlie groans and rolls over, accidentally, off the bed. "Ouch." Nick laughs and stands up and helps Charlie off the ground. He pushes Charlie's hair aside and smiles when he sees how flustered he was. "Are you okay?" Nick asks. "Yeah. Just embarrassed." Nick laughs. "It's okay. Come on. We should get ready for school. I'm sure you have your extra uniform here somewhere." "Okay."
Nick and Charlie walk down the sidewalk to the school gate and Nick sits with his year twelve friends at the picnic table. Charlie stands awkwardly to the side, hands in his pockets, watching the older boys talk among themselves. Nick glances over at Charlie and grabs his arm and pulls him over to him. "Come on. Sit. It's okay." He reassures him. Charlie nods and sits beside Nick on top of the table. Nick smiles at Charlie who watches Christian, Sai and Otis toss a rugby ball to each other while talking about some girl Otis ran into the day prior at Higgs. "Nicholas!" The couple looks over at the boy approaching them. Harry. "Oh hey." He grins. "How's is it, mate?" He asks, sitting beside the ginger. "Fine." Charlie glances up at Nick, seeing how annoyed and nervous he was, he reaches his hand out to Nicks to comfort him but hesitates. Nick notices and grabs his hand and smiles down at Charlie. Charlie smiles back. Harry sees this and laughs which catches almost all their friends attention including Nick and Charlie's. "What is it?" Nick asks, gripping onto Charlie's hand. Harry looks at him, a ridiculous grin on his face and he stands up. "Don't tell me you're dating this nerdy little year eleven." "Yeah, and what if I am?" "Nick." Charlie whispers, his voice wobbly. "Come on mate, you can't be serious. This is a joke, innit?" Nick stares at him, annoyed. "It's not." Harry laughs again. "Seriously, there's no way you're actually-" Nick glances over at Charlie and takes his face into his hands and he kisses him, shutting Harry up. He pulls back and smiles at Charlie which makes him smile and Nick glances back at Harry. "You were saying?" Harry doesn't speak. He was too stunned to speak, so were their friends. Nick smiles and stands up and takes Charlie's hand into his and leads him into the school. Charlie walks beside him and he looks up at his boyfriend. "That was- I want to kiss you so bad right now." Nick bursts out laughing. "Charlie!"
