Me and the sturniolo triplets.

Nick's point of view and the hug

(This is Nick's pov, so it's narrated by him)

"So, Jam? Was it?" I asked him. "Jack, my name is Jack" he answered. "mhm" I mumbled as an answer.

"So, Jam! Get comfortable, I'm gonna steal Matt from you for a second, I need his help in my room" I said grabbing Matteo by his arm and dragging him upstairs to my room.

"So, what do you need?" He said after sitting in my bed, resting his body in his arms behind him, making me feel some certain way. Mad. That was what I was feeling. "Why the fuck did you bring a guy to our house after the first, what? 3 hours with him?" "Nick babe calm down, he's my friend, I already knew him from Twitter and now we realized that we're going to the same college! You need to chill man" Dramatic pause on the timeline; did he just call me babe? "Oh" I said, a little disappointed in how my rage was not needed. "Still, is this safe? Like, he's not gonna murder us, is he?" "Well I've known him for a while now, so I hope not" he said, a little bit too relaxed.

"If you don't want him in your house we'll go to Starbucks, or a Macdonalds, or wherever else, I don't mind" he said, fixing his hair and standing up. "No that's ok, you can stay, just... be careful, I want you safe" "I know, thanks" he said and then went for a hug.

It was the first time that we hugged like this. It wasn't an occasional hug, like those hugs where the bodies aren't even facing each other, when it's more like landing your arm around each other, no, this was a full-on hug, his body and mine were facing each other, his arms were fully surrounding my lower back and waist, I think I could feel his heartbeat, his chin was laying in my shoulder and our feet were interspersed like we were trying to merge.

I don't usually think this much but his body being in complete touch with mine was doing something to my mind.

We stayed in the hug for some seconds and then he let go. "We'll be in my room" he said, and I think I wasn't even breathing because I was not moving or functioning at all for a couple of seconds more.

That was weird, I thought to myself, but whatever.

A couple of hours went by, and I found myself several times trying to hear something from Matteo's room, but I couldn't hear more than whispers and giggles, again, weird.

I was going upstairs when I saw a huge bug just standing there in one of the staircases, and well, I might hace screamed.

I looked everywhere and remembered that Matt and Chris weren't in the house, and after some more seconds, Matteo came out of the room.

"What the hell happened!?" He said while starting to go downstairs. "Oh my God, Matteo, don't take another step" I said, putting my hand out as if I could actually stop him.

"What? What? What's wrong?" "There's a huge bug in the 7th staircase" he was in the 5th. "Oh my goodness, Nick! That's  huge for you? That's an interesting point of view, but seriously, that is not huge, that's a little bug, man!" "Well yes for me, it is huge! can you kill it?" "Fine, fine" he said and simply went where the bug was and stepped on it, I almost had a heart attack, but sure, it looked easy for him.

"Thanks, Matteo, you're a hero, my hero" I said and started going upstairs. He was standing in the 7th staircase, and when I got closer to where he was, he opened his arms. I walked past him. "Aren't you going to hug your hero?" He said. "Oh, sure, whatever" I said, pretending it wasn't nervous about hugging him again. I tried to make it a normal and casual hug, but he grabbed my body so tight I think I couldn't breathe. Again, our bodies in complete contact, his arms fully surrounding my lower back, almost lifting me off the ground, such a, somehow, passionate hug, I had forgotten about my surroundings, and about everything that was happening apart from that hug.

We heard someone clear their throat.