Solangelo Oneshots

Yellow Pickup Trucks Can Be Used For More Than One Type Of Picking Up

Nico leaned against his broken down car waiting for the service to arrive. He'd been waiting for half an hour and was shivering and wet by this point but his phone was dead before he could call anyone else and it was six in the morning anyway. Traffic was starting to pick up but mainly the ones coming back from holiday who just wanted to get home or people driving into work who couldn't be late. No one had stopped or even hesitated when passing.

That might've been partially due to the whole dressed-in-black-possible-serial-killer-vibe that Nico had going on.

The service would be there soon, he hoped. Just as he thought his day couldn't get any worse a yellow pickup truck splashed a puddle all over him and left him dripping from head to foot. The truck screeched to a halt and a guy came rushing out of it.

"Ah shit, I'm sorry," the guy apoligised, running a hand through his bouncy curls. "Are you okay?"

Usually in a situation like this, driven to the brink, Nico would have whipped out the good old expressional italian hands and started ranting but this guy was very lucky he was hot and all Nico could do was open and close his mouth a few times.

"Car broke down?" The guy gestured to the useless contraption. It was twenty years old and showing it.

"Yeah," Nico said, suddenly recovering. "My dad can take my stepmom to Maine twice a year but helping out a broke art student trying to replace a car is too expensive."

The guy laughed. "I'm Will, by the way. I can give you a ride to your house, if you'd like?"

"Nico and you really don't have to do that."

Will shook his head. "Least I can do for getting you wet and you don't have a lot of other options."

Nico realised Will might be right. "Okay, but I'll pay you for your trouble. I live near Frazel's Coffee Café, you know it?"

"Know it? I love that place! I live near there too!"

"My sister and her husband own it," Nico replied.

"I've spent a lot of nights studying in that café."

"What do you study?"

"I'm in pre-med."

They continued talking for a while until the car services came and took Nico's car to a local motor place. Nico got into the passenger seat of Will's car to head home. He'd catch the bus to pick up his car tomorrow.

"I can't thank you enough," Nico stressed as he clipped in his seat belt. The car started driving.

"No problem. Got any plans tomorrow?"

"Eat pizza and binge watch anything gay that I can get my hands on." Nico winced, realising he hadn't checked if Will was homophobic but Will just chuckled.

"Sounds like a good day. My ma's in town so she's staying over at my place today. She'll probably have arrived by now anyway. She likes to come in whilst I'm asleep and scare the bejesus out of me. Speaking of which, she'll probably call soon."

"Why aren't you home anyway?" Nico asked.

"I was visiting my sister, Kayla. She's not Ma's daughter so Ma doesn't come with but she likes her well enough," Will explained. Nico nodded. He had experience with slightly complicated families.

Will's ringtone started going off and he grinned.

"Right on cue," he said. "Put it on speaker phone, would you, Nico?"

Nico complied with a small smile at hearing Will say his name. It sounded right in a way that he couldn't explain.

"Will, honey?" a crackly voice sounded with a heavy southern accent.

"Yeah, Ma, I'm on my way home. I stopped to pick up a guy whose car broke down."

"He ain't a murderin' type, is he?"

"Don't think so, Ma."

"Well then is he cute?"

Nico flushed. Will smirked and glanced briefly at his passenger.

"I'd say so, Ma."

"Good. Take good care of the boy, alright? Can he hear me right now? Hi sweetie!"

"Um, hi, ma'am," Nico offered. He really wasn't sure how he was supposed to respond and he was promptly turning the colour of a tomato.

"Oh, he's real polite," Will's mother commented. "Well, babycakes, if my Will ain't a gentleman then you come to me. I'll give him what for."

"Thank you, ma'am."

"I'll see you soon if the creek don't rise, Ma. Love you!"

"Bye, my darlin's!"

It was only another fifteen minutes before they pulled up outside Nico's apartment building but it was over far too quickly. Nico stepped out of the car reluctantly and Will got out too to say goodbye.

"Well, thank you so much," Nico said. "If you wait here, I'll get my paycheck from inside."

Will held up a hand. "No need. Maybe you could pay me in a date instead?"

He seemed nervous asking, which suprised Nico.

"Yeah, I'd like that. You know where I live. Pick me up for dinner?" Nico was couldn't contain his smile. Will nodded and hesitated before bending down to quickly kiss Nico's cheek.

"Will do. Bye, Nico!"

"Bye."