True love doesn't just exist in fairy tales 💕

Our love.

Charlie's POV;

I wake up on Nick's chest, I look up and he's watching Tiktok on his phone.

"Morning." I say, my voice all raspy.
"Morning."

Nick kisses my head.

"I love you." I say, I pull myself up and sit on Nick's lap.
"I love you too." Nick chuckles and kisses me.

We continue making out until someone knocks on Nick's door.

"Nick, Charlie? Are you awake yet?" Sarah asks.
"Yeah, Mum. We're up." Nick says, playing with my hair.
"Can I come in?" She asks.

Nick looks at me and I look back at him.

I climb of Nick and lie beside him.

"Yeah, come in."

Sarah walks in and smiles.

"Charlie, dear, would you like to stay a few extra nights?" Sarah asks.

I don't think to hesitate and blurt out, "YES!"

Sarah chuckles and Nick kisses my head.

"Your Mum and Dad are at work late this week so I offered to let you stay whilst Tori stays at your grandparents' house."

I smile and thank her.

Sarah leaves and Nick kisses my cheek.

"So, a week long sleepover?" Nick asks, excitedly.
"I guess so!" I say.

I love Nick.

We said 'I love you' for the first time last night. It was sweet. Nick said it first since I'm a massive wimp, but I said it back, obviously. Because it's true, I do love him.

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Me and Nick are lying in his bed, watching Iron-Man. He knows I'm not a big Marvel fan, but he promised we could watch something else later, so I agreed.

"Nick." I say, leaning my head on his shoulder.
"Yeah?"
"Your phone has been buzzing for the past 10 minutes."
"Oh."

Nick leans over me and grabs his phone and tv remote off of the bedside table.

He starts tearing up.

I grab the remote and pause the movie.

"Hey, what's going on? What's happened?" I ask.

He sits up and pulls me onto his knees. Tears roll down his face and he just mumbles something, I can't hear him.

"Nick...you can talk to me, you know that, right?"

Nick nods in reply.

"Can you tell me what's made you so upset?"

Nick hands me his phone, it's unlocked.

He tells me to scroll up a bit.

I look at the contact name.

Imogen 💛

I look at the chats and then I realise what's happened. I scroll down to this morning's texts. Imogen and Nick were arguing and he never told me.

"Nick...why didn't you tell me?"
"I couldn't. You're dealing with enough stress right now!"
"Nick, don't worry about me! You should've told me, I could've texted her after."
"I can't. She's my best friend! And you're my boyfriend! I just can't lose her!"

Still crying, he nuzzles his face into my shoulder.

"We're off school all week, you'll be ok. We can watch movies and have fun with the dogs and we can kiss loads, but you need to tell me when somethings bothering you! I told you about the Ben situation, even though my brain kept telling me not to, I ignored it and told you! I felt so guilty when you fought each other, but now that I've thought about it more, I realise that Ben deserved it and that you were just defending me! I love you so much, I want you to be able to tell me when something is bothering you."