Coming Back To You

~Twenty-three~

Nicolo's POV

I wake up feeling a weight on my body. The sun is shining very brightly through the open blinds and I bring an arm to shield my eyes while my other arm stays on Bella's waist.

"Morning" She says not fully awake

"Hmm" I hum in response

"What time is it?" She mumbles

I turn the upper half of my body and look at the digital clock

12:35 pm

"12:35 pm"

"Hmm. I don't want to get up..." Suddenly she gasps so abruptly that she starts coughing.

"What's the matter?" I panickly ask her while rubbing her back

"What about my dad?! Who's taking care of him?!" She grabs my thick shoulders in her small hands and tries to shake me aggressively but fails since I have such broad shoulders

"Don't worry bella, I called a good friend of his to take care of him. Remember good old Benny?" I raise a brow

She gasps so abruptly again she starts coughing but quickly recovers, "Benny?! I missed him so much! How did you find him? You know he cut off all contact with us after his wife passed away?"

"I have my ways."

She sits up as I do as well. She stretches and moans and gets up to brush her teeth. I get up as well and go to her kitchen while yelling I'm making breakfast to let her know.

She comes down in bike shorts and a big hoodie  just as I set a plate of scrambled eggs with bacon bits in it, vanilla yogurt, and a donut in front of her.

My hoodie

"What do you want to do today?" She takes a bite of her donut

"I don't know, what about you?" I start eating my eggs

"Want to go to the library? I need more books to read." She starts on her yogurt as I start on my donut

"Why? You have a whole shelf full of unread books? Why not just read those?"

"Becauusse I was going through a phase that I'm not obsessed with anymore..." I just stare at her and after a few seconds of staring at each other she sighs heavily, "sooo, I have a new obsession and I don't have any books of my taste at the moment." She moves her hands around in dramatic gesture to emphasize her point.

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~At the library~

"Look at this book! It looks interesting!" Bella's said the same line for the thousand other books she didn't find interesting, or in her words, "worthy of being read". Honestly what's the difference? It's been the same cycle over and over again. Bella 'thinks' she found an interesting book but puts it back on the shelf she realizes it's not.

As she reads the back of the book I lean against the shelf with my arms crossed.

"Hmmm, I don't think this is the ri–" before she can finish the sentence she's been saying all day, I cut her off

"Bella, just pick a book. I wanna go back home." I know, I was acting like a baby, but I've been following her around the library like a lost puppy for almost 3 hours.

"You're acting like a little man baby" She chuckles

"How are your feet not hurting?" She shrugs her shoulders and puts the book back on the shelf

"Fine, we can go. But you owe me lunch." She walks past me and heads for the door while I stand there in shock

Three. Hours. Wasted. Was all I could think of.

I hurriedly jog over to her as she exits the library and heads for the cafe we first saw each other at

"Bella, d-do you know h-how long I've spent m-my life in that library?" I point with my thumb back at the library

"Yeah, why?"

"Three. Hours. Three. Hours!"

"Oh stop being such a baby. You're still alive aren't you?" She says while looking both ways before crossing the street

Always look both ways before crossing the street kids.

"Yeah, but. We couldn't been at home cuddling, watching TV, messing around, having fun, but nooo you wanted to spend 3 million years at the library." I say exasperatedly, throwing my hands around in dramatic gesture.

"Is that what you want?"

"Yes" Finally. I might've had a little too much hope in my eyes cause her next words took me aback

"Too bad, I'm hungry." My jaw dropped in disbelief

I let out a exasperated breath at her bluntness, "Seriously?"

"Nick, would you shut up and just walk? We've been at the same spot for 10 minutes and I really need my food."

I run my hands through my hair in disbelief

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Back At Home

"Happy now?

I walk up behind her and wrap my arms around her waist, "Very."

I nuzzle my head into the side of her neck, inhaling her wonderful scent.

"Stop sniffing me like a weirdo and let me go get dressed in my pj's."

I reluctantly let go of her and go upstairs to change into something more comfortable too. I just went with a white shirt and black sweatpants.

I start to get a movie on when Bella walks down looking at her phone with furrowed eyebrows

"What's wrong?" She must've remembered I was still here as she quickly looked up and sort of hid her phone behind her back.

That's suspicious, Bella's never been this secretive before...

"Nothing. So what movie are we gonna watch?"

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Thank you so much for 200 readers!!! I never thought it would make it that far!! And shoutout to Pianolla and Mbayang047 for encouraging me to write this chapter!