Coming Back To You

~Twenty-nine~

Nicolo's POV

I really need to stop. But I can't. It's like a force isn't letting me stop. It's just so delicious.

"NICK!" I freeze, cookie midair, when Bella calls my name.

I'm currently hiding in a closet, making sure that she'll never be able to find me.

"Where are the cookies I made?!" Uh oh, she's mad mad.

I slowly continue to bring the cookie towards my mouth and slowly take a bite.

"HAH!" The door flies open and I jump in my position while an angry Bella stands in the doorframe. My face awkwardly stops mid-chew as I just stare at her in guilt.

"Those cookies were for your friends! Why did you eat almost half when they were already going to be done for? Now I'm going to have five angry man children in my house and when they ask why there aren't a lot of cookies, you're going to take the blame right? I made thirty cookies for five man children and you've already eaten twelve. That only leaves eighteen," the doorbell rings, "and now that they've arrived, you better get all that chocolate off your face."

She turns to walk away but turns around abruptly and wipes off the chocolate with her thump and sucks it into her mouth, doing that to the rest of the chocolate smudges.

Woah

She smirks and walks away, leaving me staring where she stood like an idiot.

Bella's POV

I walk downstairs and open the door to find Zach leaning against the top of the doorframe, Antonio and Dante in an awkward stance from previously fighting, Lorenzo on his phone, and Jake leaning against the wall with his head tipped back and his eyes closed. I hesitantly look at all of them, wondering if it was the best idea to let all of them in.

"Hey, teso—"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence," I roll my eyes as Nick comes up behind me and slips an arm around my waist.

"Come in guys," as I open the door wider for them to come in, they each interact with me in some way.

Zach kisses my hand, Antonio salutes me with two fingers, Dante does the weird boy wave, Lorenzo nods his head in acknowledgement, and Jake leans a little toward me and wiggles his eyebrows.

After they've all made themself at home, I wiggle out of Nicks grasp and present the cookies to them. It's safe to say those cookies were appreciated.

"These are goooood."

"You've got to send me the recipe, not that I can cook."

"Can you make these for my birthday?"

I gently shake my head and turn to kiss Nick on the cheek before I go upstairs.

"Going so soon?"

"Yeah, you guys need to settle down."

Nick chuckles and I blush profusely.

That's such a wonderful sound. I'm glad I was the one who got that sound out of him.

"Goodbye, bellissima."

"Goodbye, Nick."

Nicolo's POV

As I watch Bella walk away, Zach comes up to me and throws an arm around my shoulder.

"She's a keeper," he says before eating another cookie whole

I know.

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After playing games for a while

"Man, I'm ready for a nap," Zach says while stretching.

"I am too. Those cookies made me really tired." Jake sets his console down and lays on the couch.

"Me three, I'm all pooped out." Antonio says

"Bro, who says that?" Lorenzo rubs his forehead in annoyance

"I do, you're just jealous I have better eyebrows than you."

"You won't have them anymore if you go to sleep."

Antonio gasps, "You wouldn't."

"You know very well I would. Unless you're as gullible as I thought."

Antonio pouts and turns away.

"Well you guys, I'm going to go see Bella."

A series of "okay's" erupt from them and I jog up the stairs.

Zach's POV

"Hey, don't you guys think they're a little...too mushy and gushy with each other?"

"No, I think they're acting like a normal couple," Antonio says and then stops, "wait. A couple."

"I mean, they basically are a couple aren't they," Dante asks, not taking his eyes off his phone.

"Yes, but why are you guys even talking about this?" I roll my eyes at Lorenzo.

He obviously doesn't know how to be fun. I mean, we're talking about Nick here, who doesn't want to talk about him?

"Because," I drawl out, "Nick has never been in a relationship before."

"Yeah, but that's because he was waiting for Bella. The only reason he slept with other girls was to try to get his mind off of her. Now look where that got us," Jake doesn't lift his arm from over his eyes.

"Yeah, I don't know what he's going to do now," my face etches into a frown as I think about he—

"I'm back guys, did you miss me?"

"No, not really," I say, peeking around him to see if Bella was back to make more of those cookies. No luck.

"Come on, guys. You've got to at least miss a little bit?"

"Nope," Lorenzo butts in

Nick sighs, "Shouldn't have expected any less from you guys," he plops down on the couch, dangerously close to Jake's head.

"Hey man! I can hear your bones creaking from how close you just sat down next to me."

Nick rolls his eyes, "I'm twenty, my bones aren't creaking. I'm not that old. Calm down"

Jake huffs in frustration while Nick turns to me suspiciously flustered.

"Hey Nick, what did you and Bella do upstairs?"

"What? O-oh, it was nothing," he rubs the back of his neck. Yup. Definitely suspicious.

"Hmmm. Okaaayyy."

He's still a little flustered when we all decide to play another game.

You're a mystery even for your best friend, Nick, but I have an idea as to why.

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