What Is Love?

Chapter 17

Pic above/ to the side is Kyle, who you meet in this chapter.

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Something shrieks loudly in my ear. "Uggghhhh." I groan loudly. My alarm keeps ringing despite my silent protests. I hear somebody walk into the room and shut my alarm off. Whoever this wonderful person is, I love them! I crack my eyes open slightly and see nobody there. I frown and sit up only to be tackled back down by a large male body. I groan loudly. "Get offa me you fatty! I can't breathe!!" I open my eyes to see familiar deep blue eyes staring back at me. "Wake up sleepy head. No food if you're not downstairs in 5 minutes. I groan again. "I don't wanna get up!" "You have to or we're going to be late!" Nick exclaims. I groan and pull him down on top of me. "Can't we just stay here alllllllll day, pleassse?" Nick smirks and leans down to kiss me. I kiss him back but just before things get really heated, he pulls away from me and stands up. I groan again. "Neverrrrr!" I say. Nick sighs in defeat and I finally notice what he is wearing. He isn't wearing school clothes. "WHY ARENT YOU DRESSED?!" Nick is wearing black ripped skinny jeans with white Chuck's and one of my My Chemical Romance tees. He also wears a grey beanie. "Why do you look normal? Isn't it like a school day?" Nick nods and grins at me. "What time is it?" I ask cautiously. "Ten thirty." He answers mischievously. "Why am I jus now waking up, at ten thirty on a school day, with my sexy boyfriend standing in front of me wearing normal clothes and looking...normal?" I ask slowly. He doesn't answer me, just winks and struts out. He calls back at me "Hurry up and get ready and I will show you why!"

I leap out of my bed and practically rush to get ready. I throw on some smoke patterned skinny jeans, a Jack Skellington tee, my all black vans and grabbed a black and white striped beanie. I quickly run a comb through my hair and style it then nearly suffocate myself with hairspray. Throwing the beanie over my blonde hair, I run down the stairs and find Nick sitting in the kitchen with Kara, Ashton, and my parents. I narrow my eyes at them. "Wow, babe! A record of...ten minutes and forty five seconds!" I roll my eyes at my boyfriend and my family laughs. Nick kisses me on the cheek and I blush a little tiny bit. Mostly because he did it in front of my parents and Ashton. I don't think Ashton is used to us like Kara is because he is quieter. I also don't think my dad is used to mine and Nick's PDA. Oh well. "Come on Nate we gotta go!" Nick says grabbing my hand and pulling me out the door. He goes to my car tells me "I am driving so go get in the passenger seat." I groan again and I catch a sudden flare of lust in Nick's eyes that suddenly disappears. I smirk at him letting him know I saw it and he blushes. "Your making me ride shotgun in my own car?" I ask in mock irritation. He just glares at me and I laugh at him. "You love me don't you?" He asks. I nod without hesitation. "Good, you can trust me." He says.
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After a good thirty minutes of driving, and I'm fiddling with the radio. "SCREW IT!" I yell at the radio. I grab my iPhone and connect Bluetooth to my car's awesome Bluetooth system. I put the playlist on shuffle and My Chemical Romance's song Welcome to the Black Parade comes on. I shriek and Nick jumps. "I love this song!" I say loudly. He just chuckles and rolls his eyes at me. "When I was, a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band. He said 'son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?" I sing. Nick just laughs at me and I grin at him and roll my window down. "He said 'Will you defeat them? Your demons and all the non-believers. The plans that they have made. Because one day I'll leave you, a phantom to lead you in the summer. To join the Black Parade!'" I sing out the window. Nick rolls his window halfway down and turns up the song. We get a bunch of weird looks from other drivers, some adults walking on the side walk but we shrug them off and keep jamming out.
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After about ten different songs and a ton of strange looks, a few horns honked and a few middle fingers, Nick pulls into a parking lot. I'm not exactly sure where we are at first. "Nick, where are we?" We are in a nice pretty area with a bunch of green and a few nicely groomed trees. In front of us there is a cute little shopping center with a fountain in front of it and a little restaurant. "This is where I grew up, Nate. I wanted to take you on a little date, and maybe show you around a little?" He wasn't looking at me and was playing with his fingers. I noticed a bit of pink sliding up his face. Smiling at his adorable face, I put my hand under his chin and lift his eyes to mine. "I would love to, Nick." He grins at me and grabs my shirt and kisses me slowly and sweetly. "So what are we doing first?"
The date was nice and sweet. Cliché, but adorable. I love Nick too much I swear he is too sweet.
"Hey, I met some of your cousins and stuff, you should come with us to meet some of mine!" I suddenly exclaim while we walk on a path in the park. Nick bites his lip nervously and says "Are you sure?" I nod enthusiastically. "Of course! They don't live here, but we are supposed to go visit them because that's where my dad's like sister or something lives. It's my dad's brother. They live in a small town in Maryland though. Near the mountains. My uncle Joel and his two boys and wife live there. My cousins Danny and Ashtyn. You should come with me." Nick shrugs "I don't know, babe, Maryland?" I smile at him and just say "Nick, you're scared they won't like you." He blushes bright red. "W-Well I mean..." "Come on Nick, my uncle Joel, his wife and boys will be there, my uncle Nat and uncle Mike and their kids will be there. I'm sure my boring ass aunt will be there too with her stick up the ass kids." "Uncle Nat & Uncle Mike?" Nick asks slightly confused. "Yeah they're married. They have two kids." He smiles and looks down at his hands. "D-Do you think...never mind." He starts. I smile softly at his cuteness "What babe?" I ask softly. "Nothing, it's silly." He responds blushing. "Do you think we will make it there? Get married, adopt kids. Start a life together." I grin at him "Of course we will! I don't know about the kid thing because we all know I would probably be a horrible father." Nick grins at me, his eyes bright "You would not be a horrible father!" I laugh and say "We all know I would! I would get so frustrated with them! Plus I couldn't handle a daughter. They're too much work, especially when they start dating! I would shoot every boy that came to our door!" "No you wouldn't! I am sure you would be supportive!" Nick says smiling lovingly at me. "Oh yeah? Try me. If a boy put one toe on our front porch I would light him up." I say pretending to sound tough. Nick rolls his eyes and laughs at me.
"I love you Nate." He says stopping walking and grabbed my hands. I look up at him and he smiles down at me. "I love you too Nick." I throw my arms around his neck and kiss him. He kisses me back, our lips moving in sync until we are interrupted. The woman clears her throat. "Um excuse me, this is a park. With kids." We break apart, Nick's face is flushed a bright red. "I'm sorry ma'am it won't happen again, will it Nate?" Nick replies to her. I gawk at him "You were the one being all cute and shit! Jeez Nick, not everything is my fault!" I exclaim. He gives me a pointed look. "Okay most things are but not this time." I finish. He leans down and kisses me on the cheek.
Somebody says "Well I'll be! If it isn't little Nicolas Sinclair!" We look up to see a middle aged couple walking up to us. "Hey Nick! Do you remember us?" The woman asks. "Umm, no ma'am..." Nick replies blushing again. "It doesn't surprise me, it's been a while. I'm Kyle's mom Cherie and this is his dad Harold. We lived next to you." Nick snaps his fingers "Okay, I remember you now! How have you guys been Mrs. Cherie?" He asks smiling. "Good, Good. Who is this handsome boy?" Cherie asks Nick. He blushes a little and replies "This is Nate." She nods "Okay...now who is he?" Nick seems flustered but mumbles "My boyfriend." I turn and smile at him "Louder baby, she can't hear you." I whisper in his ear. Nick blushes even redder "Nate is my boyfriend." He says. Cherie beams at Nick. "Congrats baby!" She says. The man...Howard maybe? I forgot his name says "Since when are you gay too?" He probably didn't mean it like it sounded but Nick suddenly look frightened and my smile melted into a cold glare. Cherie growls something at her husband and he realizes how that must have sounded. "I didn't mean it like that Nick! I mean, when did you come out? I'm sorry if I sounded like an ignorant homophobe." My face relaxes and Nick sighs in relief. "I don't remember exactly." He replies. I gasp at Nick "You don't remember the date you came out to your family? Most people do! I always figured you of people would!" I say. He rolls his eyes "Whatever, when did you come out to your parents?" He asked. "I didn't have to. I have always been accepting of myself & I talked about boys all the time when I was younger." I reply truthfully. "Now coming out to my new siblings was slightly different." I add on. Nick chuckles and rolls his eyes "You didn't necessarily come out to them, it was more like you ran upstairs, hit your head on the ceiling, yelled at your mom and then growled at Kara about her staring at Luke. Then your mom told introduced us. So your mom came out to them for you." "Same difference." Is all I reply. He grins and suddenly remembers Cherie and Harold are there. Nick looks up blushing a bright red to see Cherie grinning with happy tears in her eyes and Harold smiling amused. He coughs and says "Yeah, I don't remember exactly." Cherie just laughs.
"How are you liking Brooklyn?" Harold asks. "It's nice, kind of loud and scary sometimes compared to this place but you know." Nick replies. "When did you two meet?" Cherie asks. Nick smiles warmly and says "Well we met on my first day at the Academy. I walked into my first class, terrified as ever and had to sit next to him. The seat beside his was...Never mind." He cuts himself off glancing at me. "It's okay Nick. The seat beside me was empty because the boy that did sit there died. My boyfriend at the time actually. Nick brought me out of my depression funk and made me happy again." I say smiling up at him. Cherie looks at me sadly and says "I'm sorry for your loss." I nod and suck in a deep breath "Still hurts sometimes because I was there when he died. But I'm happy now with Nick. Doesn't hurt as much." I reply. Nick hugs me, kissing my forehead.
"You're really short Nate." Nick says. I scoff "No you're just a giant!" Cherie and Harold chuckle. Nick lets go of me and smiles. "Well, we'll leave you guys to it. It was nice seeing you Nick, and nice to meet the man that makes Nick happy." Harold says smiling softly. Wow he just called me a man... "Thank you sir, it was nice to meet you too." I shake his hand. Cherie hugs Nick tightly and he does the same and when she releases she says "You boys will have to come see us. Kyle will kill us when he finds out he missed you." "We will sometime. I will bring Rebecca and my parents next time too though! Tell Kyle I said he's gotta come visit sometime. Kind of a long drive trying to get in and out of the city."
"He will, trust me." Cherie replies. Nick nods and smiles. The couple walk off in the other direction.
"C'mon Nate let's head back home." Nick says smiling softly down at me. "Okay." I whisper.
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Okay I know it's been a while and I know it was cheesy but it was cute right? Sorry for not updating for so long, I've had a severe case of writers block and a lot of you probably don't even have the book in your library anymore but I'm just apologizing. I suck at schedules and updates and yeah. Plus I've been playing ball along with school and some summer stuff.
Sorry if I don't update again for a while, hopefully I will
Here are some book recommendations in the mean time though.
1. The Last Ride by Herondale56 (yours truly) it's new and I need at least 5 reads to update again
2. This Princess wears cleats by softball_swag22 it's got over a thousand reads and it's really good, you should go read it.
3. Ride or Die by TheStarwolf85 it's really awesome and it's newer and it's about cars and idk I just can't. Feels...you know how that goes I'm sure.
4. Not so Bad Just Violent by ssurealx3 it's my favorite completed book on Wattpad and I can't get enough of it!
5. ...idk I don't have a 5th one tbh. I love too many stories. .
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