Converse x Vans

Our familys struggling

Charlie's POV

"Charlie?" A voice calls softly.

I open my eyes to see Chase at the door, somethings up .

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"Can I talk to you?" Chase mouths.

"Yeah sure" I mouth back.

I get out of bed and follow Chase down and into the living room. Chase is sitting on the couch, his knees bobbing up and down extremely fast.

"What'd you wanna talk to me about?" I ask.

"I don't know I'm just so stressed and my friends are getting distant between me and I just am scared of losing them and Isaac hasn't messaged me in a bit so I'm scared he's really sick and I can't do anything about these things cause I'm such a wimp" Chase rants.

"Hey you aren't a wimp" I assure. "What's making you and your friends more distant?"

"I don't know I think it's because me and Isaac have become and little more flirty and they think we're dating" I say.

"Well are you and Isaac still dating?" I ask.

"I don't know" Chase stutters.

"Ok well when he's better you should tell him how your feeling" I say. "But other than that what's stressing you out?"

"School, we're being smashed with homework and no one's giving us a break, my friends again and absolutely no one's been there for me at school other than Isaac who's been away" Chase rants.

"Well first if you need me to sign something that says you can only complete this amount of homework then that's fine, and please tell me when your getting stressed." I say to chase. "I know when I'm saying it your not taking this seriously and aren't going to tell me but please do I didn't tell anyone till it was too late"

"I will tell you if anything goes wrong or I'm feeling mentally unwell." Chase tells me

What really surprised me was that Chase actually came to me, even as a little kid I always had to ask. I'm not complaining just different then usual.

I hear chases door shut, now onto Nick. I know Nick is going to be hard to get to but it's all worth it to make sure he's okay. I need to make sure he's okay no matter what, he did that for me and if I can't do it for him I'm a horrible person.

The thoughts rage on in my mind like an undying fire until finally I reach our room. I open the door, nicks lying in bed sweating really bad.

"Are you okay honey" I ask Nick.

"Yeah I'm fine" he says.

"No you aren't" I say.

"I am"

"Nicholas. I know you aren't okay, you can tell me what's wrong"

"It's just a bad dream" he says.

"Then what happened in that dream" I say.

"I don't wanna talk about it"

My heart aches for Nick but I know I have to help him no matter what.

"Nick" I say softly.

I join him on the bed and sit down with him.

"You can tell me anything" I say grasping his hands.

"Well" Nick starts. "It's just in that dream a lot of stuff happened and it's sorta been freaking me out and stuff and I don't know what to do and it's sorta scary"

"And that's okay, do you wanna talk about what happened in your dream" I say, I don't wanna pry but I have to for results.

"Well I woke up in the lounge room and went into the kitchen and then you were there and you said I was a horrible boyfriend then you, you, you" Nick says.

His voice wobbles and stumbles but he continues saying. "You did it and then I held you while you died and then I was in this room and everyone was dead except me and then I saw mum and she looked frightened then I woke"

Nicks eyes are teary and sorrowful. He is taking deep breaths trying to compose himself. All I can do is hug him. I pull him in and his body weight is given to me, I have to help Nick now. Nicks tears soak my shoulder and his arms hold me as if I'm going to be taken away from him forever.

"I'm so sorry" Nick cry's.

"It's okay Nick"

"No no it's not I did this and I'm scared you'll do it in real life because of me" he says.

"I would never do that to you and I would never do that because you've always there with me no matter what and thats what I'm gonna help you with." I say.

"No matter what struggles I'm going to be there for you and help you I promise."

"Ok" Nick stutters.

Nick let's go of me and looks at me gratefully. A tiny smile creeps across his face.

"There that cheeky grin" I smile.

"Heyyy you love it" he says.

"Yeah I do so what" I say.

"So what this" he says.

He outreaches his hands and starts to tickle me all over. I squirm and try to escape him but he just keeps tickling me till I can't breath.

"Stop stop" I gasp.

"Fine catch your breath" Nick says.

"Hold yours" I say launching myself at him.

I push Nick down and our eyes meet, I've been dating Nick for SO long and still I get butterfly's from these little things.

"Ha nice try" Nick says reaching for my stomach.

He again tickles me mercilessly until I wriggle away.

He puts his arms out but I grab them. He looks at me like he's confused but then kisses my lips.

We haven't kissed much over the past week because of everything so this is the best thing I could ask for right now.

His kiss pulls me in and my hands gravitate towards his face. Nick pulls away and finally speaks. "I've missed those"

"Me too"I say.

"Ok come one let's go annoy Chase" Nick says smiling stupidly.

"Ok ok let's go" I say following Nick out of the room towards chases.

Authors note:
Hi everyone I hope you guys have been doing amazing.
We're getting really close to 2000 reads and I'm so excited and grateful for everyone who has read this fanfic and loved it so far. I still will be slow during the next few weeks with updates but I'll certainly try to get as much out as I can! I love you guys so much and I hope you guys have an amazing week bye!