Nick and Charlie 🫶 (oneshots)

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TW!!!!!! Mention of SH, sharp objects, blood, scars, mental health

Nick's pov:

I just finished my exam, and so I called Charlie to ask him if we could hangout, since I haven't had much time lately because of my exams and stuff. I call Charlie but it goes straight to voicemail, I try to text him instead

Nick❤️: Hi char, im done with my exam, are you free today?

After half an hour I start to worry, he always replies immediately, decide to call tori and ask her if she knows anything. "Hi nick" she says with her normal unimpressed tone, "hi, is Charlie with you?" I ask, "No sorry, I'm at Michael's" she says now starting to sound a bit worried. "Why nick?" she asks with an even more worried tone, "He doesn't pick up, and he hasn't answered my text" I say now starting to panic. "Okay nick, you go to our house, if its locked the key is under the rock next to the door, update me if he isn't home" she says in a commanding voice, "Okay, thank you tori", "of course, bye nick", "bye" I say and hang up the phone. As I walk towards Charlie's house I feel myself getting more and more worried. What if something actually did happen to him? What if he's really hurt? Or worse, what if he's not there. I try to take my mind of it, but I just can't think of anything else, the last 200 meters to his house feel like a thousand miles, but at last I get there and quickly, but hard, knock on the door. There's no answer so I try once more, before deciding that it would be better for me to just open the door myself, I find the key and let myself in.

"Charlie" I yell. Still no answer. I check everywhere downstairs but he is nowhere to be found, I run up the stairs, first I check his room, and after I hear a sound coming from the bathroom. I knock on the door, "Char, it's me, can I come in?" I try to sound as normal as possible, even though my whole body is shaking with fear. After a moment of complete silence the key turns, and I open the door. "Oh char" I say looking down on the floor. He is sitting on the floor holding a blade, with blood running from his arms. "Char hand me the blade" I say in the sweetest tone possible for me in this moment, Charlie hands me the blade and starts crying. "I-im so.. s-sorry" his voice breaks during these 3 words. I sit down next to him, cover his arms with a towel and hold him tight into me "Oh char its okay, shh.. its okay, everything is gonna be okay" I say as a tear falls down my cheek. "Lets get you cleaned up and in bed" I say, Charlie nods and after 10 minutes of rinsing scars, cleaning the floor and trying to comfort Charlie, he is finally in his bed next to me.

Charlie's pov:

"can you tell me what is wrong?" nick asks. I look at my wrists while thinking to myself. I can't tell him, I just can't, he would feel so guilty.. "Char?" I look at nick, trying to come up with an excuse, but my mind has gone blank. "I- I have felt really alone the past couple of weeks..." I say trying not to cry. "Oh char, you could have told me" nick says, while taking my hand ans squeezing it tight. "I know, its just, you were so busy with exams and I didn't wanna put any pressure on you or be a burden.." I look away again, and tears starts falling down my face. "Charlie, you are never a burden. ever. I'm so sorry I haven't been around much", "No nick, don't say sorry, its not your fault, I just missed you..." I look at him again and as soon as he sees my tears he wipes them away and hugs me tight. I have missed this. I can't remember the last time he really hugged me, not that I was mad at him of it, I know he struggles with school, I just really missed nick's hugs. "I'm sorry I ruined our night" I whisper, "You didn't, I just wanted to spend time with you char, and I am" he kisses my on the cheek, "I love you Charlie, more than you will ever understand" he whispers in my ear, "I love you too, more than you will ever know" I say. He hugs me even tighter and we just lay there. None of us say a word, we don't move, we just lay there.

"Im tired" I say in small voice, almost a whisper. Nick doesn't answer so I turn around and see him sleeping with his mouth a little open and a tear on his cheek. I wipe the tear away and give him a quick kiss on the mouth. I cuddle into his chest and falls asleep.

Nick's pov:

It's the next day, and i wake up from my own snore "huh" i look down and see Charlie. I had totally forgotten that I went to his house yesterday. Wait was it yesterday? I take my phone out of my pocket and see 24 missed calls from mom and 39 unread messeges from Tori, I sit up in the bed trying not to wake Charlie, I start by texting tori and tell her that Charlie is somewhat okay, and that I stayed with him overnight. I then slowly got off the bed and went downstairs and called my mom. I can't even imagine how scared she must have been since I didn't come home yesterday. "Nick, baby" she yells, "Hi mum, I'm so sorry I didn't call, Charlie had relapsed and I helped him get cleaned up and we talked about what was wrong then I just wanted to lay with him until he would fall asleep but I ended up falling asleep myself, and I didn't wake up until now, im so sorry mum" I say all of this so fast that I would understand if my mom didn't quite understand but but she just answers with a simple "Okay, im just glad you and Charlie are okay. Just try to not fall asleep the next time, or at least not without telling me first" I felt so relieved hearing those words that I just cried. "Thank you mom, for not being angry" I say, "Of course nick, just will you come home soon?", "yeah, I just need to wake Charlie and make sure he is okay" I answer. "Okay, you can bring him if you want" my mom says, "Okay, I'll ask him, bye mom", "Bye nicky"

I go back upstairs and wake up Charlie. "Hi love" I say smiling at him. "mhmm.. hi" he says with his dark morning voice, it makes me blush every time I hear it, "I don't wanna get up" he says, and I chuckle. "I have to go home, you can come with me tho?" I say trying to sound convincing. "Mhm... fine". Charlie gets out of bed and when we're both finished getting ready we walk back to my place.

I hope you all liked it, and if you have any ideas for me, please leave a comment.

- H