The Life Of A Franz Ferdinand Reference

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I ended up falling asleep watching buzzfeed videos at 10:30. Nick was still sleeping. And on-and-off shaking.

The only reason I was up at 1:24 AM was because Nick was rapidly tapping my shoulder.

"What's up?" I mumbled, pushing back the hood of my red sweatshirt.

"I-I thought... I thought you would have left by now..."

"Don't worry... I'm here..."

Nick didn't respond. I was almost falling asleep again when I felt his hand reach for mine under the fluffy blankets. I was most likely blushing so brightly that 1 AM turned into 1 PM.

"C-Can I--"

"Yeah." I smiled.

And so the rest of the night went like that. Nick's hand kept shaking, or twitching, and moving away accidentally, but I always let him know I was there.

I woke up before Nick and held his hand through a few more of his violent twitch cycles.

He then woke up and was surprised to find that I was still holding his hand.

"Feeling any better?" I asked.

Nick shrugged.

"That's alright."

Nick shrugged again.

"Wanna go back to the apartment?"

"I-I don't know... If I can..."

"I could ask Rowan."

//GLASIE//: hey do you think Nick's okay to go back to the apt?

//ROWAN//: yeah if he's ready for this

//GLASIE//: I think he is

//ROWAN//: bc this is vv risky

//GLASIE//: yeah I know

//ROWAN//: go outside the sketchy back way Cassi has a portal bomb I'll go take care of Nick :-)

//GLASIE//: got it

"You can go." I confirmed.

••

"So how was your 24-hour make out scene?" Alex asked, trying to make me mad.

"Great, how was yours?"

"Are you like... A Rolex shipper?!"

"Are you not?"

Cassi and Rowan had returned Nick and I back to the apartment safely. I asked Cassi why she wasn't worried about Aehlocai finding the portal. She said that it wasn't a problem. Nick was currently sitting in the corner of the mega couch. Alex was busy trying to piss me off in the kitchen.

"I bet you guys just made out the entire time."

"We didn't, because, ya know, I care more than that."

I felt bad leaving Nick alone on the mega couch, but I had to talk to some people. About our plan.

"So we found out Aehlocai can track where everyone is, locations of portals, and can even reach someone's health stats if she scratches them."

"That's... Intense."

"So she's controlling all of Nick's stats right now and attempting to slowly kill him. She doesn't know we know any of this."

"Yeah, I know that." I sighed.

"So our goal is to deactivate the stats. Or... At least the ones that Aehlocai can control. We're not good at this."