Heartstopper Stories

the party (I)

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This part takes place a few weeks into the new school year after the prom.
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"..You know that I can't fight the chemistry - falling into you.."
The music boxes were playing the song 'Remedy' and nick was watching Charlie who was looking around the room. They were just entering the house of Gemma, the new girl from school. She was kind of rich so she threw a house party for the beginning of the school term. It was a big house and reminded Nick of the house Harry rented for his birthday, back when he had his first kiss with Charlie. He had to smirk at this thought.
In Nicks opinion, Charlie was looking really handsome today, he always did, but something about him today was so electrifying. He had been growing his hair out over the winter, it has been growing into a mullet and nick loved the messy look of his curls around his neck. And his arms were showing because he was wearing a black tank top. He looked SO good.
Nick wasn't normally the one on the dance floor but tonight he just had to dance with his boyfriend. Definitely.

"Oh my God this is gonna be great!" Charlie exclaimed as he looked around the room, seeing all his friends. Tara and Darcy were dancing with each other, hand in hand. Tao and Elle were leaning on the counter of the bar, probably people watching and rating their outfits. That's what they were always doing at parties, they always ranked the best outfits, determined to find the winner of the night.

So many other people they knew were there but nick had his mind and eyes locked on Charlie. He wanted to dance with him so bad but he was skeptical if he wanted it too because he knew Charlie wasn't really someone who loved attention. But in the last few months Charlie had gained a lot of confidence. His nails were painted black tonight and he was in the school band playing drums and was actually singing on stage on last end of terms celebration in school. That was so cool! They greeted Tao and Elle while making their way to the barkeeper. Nicks Hand was wrapped around Charlie's waist as they were standing on the counter. "Hey! Welcome here you handsome boys, what can I get you?" The barkeeper was greeting them with a big smile on his face. Nicks cheeks turned red a little bit. "H-Hey I would like a beer please, char what do you want?" Nick was stroking Charlie's waist with his hands, part of his fingers under his top, brushing over his bare skin. "Uhm..same actually." Charlie was flustered from nicks touches but didn't back away because he loved little touches from nick.

A few minutes later they were drinking their beer, still standing on the counter and nicks hands still on Charlie's skin.

Nick didn't stop checking Charlie out and it was pretty obvious by now. Charlie giggled and gave nick a flirty look. "Wanna take a photo? Lasts longer." Nick laughed and rolled his eyes playfully. "You just look too hot I'm sorry." Charlie was grinning and couldn't say anything at first. Nick had never called him hot before. "Nick.." Charlie felt his cheeks getting hot, he giggled and looked flustered at the ground just to feel nicks fingers on his chin to lift his head and making him look back into his eyes.

Nick was grinning at him with heart eyes, slowly leaning in, their lips connecting for a short but sweet kiss. "I'm just telling the truth." Nick was brushing Charlie's cheek with his fingers. "HEYY whatsuuuup nelson?" Some Rugby friends came up to both of them and greeted nick with a fist bump, completely ignoring Charlie. Nick was unsure how to react but before he could say anything one of them wrapped an arm around his shoulder, dragging him away from his beautiful boyfriend in the direction of the stairs. "Soo, what do you wanna do tonight nick?? There's a beer pong table upstairs, wanna play some?", the guy rambled, already being a little drunk. "Uhm.. I'd rather.." Nick couldn't finish his sentence because he just caught eyes with one particular person, who was standing directly at the top of the stairs, looking down. It was Ben Hope. Nick pulled his eyes away from Ben and freed himself from his friends hold and laughed. "Guys, I appreciate you but I'd really like to be with Charlie tonight okay? Maybe next time." They understood and let him go back to his boyfriend.
"Sorry baby, sometimes they don't take no for an answer" Nick smiled at Charlie who was still leaning on the counter, now sipping on his drink. He looked very amused by this whole situation. "No problem Nicky, here's your drink." "Oh thank you! What is it?" Nick looked intrigued at the glass in his hands. "It's actually tequila." They both cheered and tasted the tequila. Nicks eyes widened."wow, this tastes great." "Yup, as I said before, I make good choices." They both laughed and drank their drinks, standing on the counter a little while. Nick had his arm wrapped around Charlie's waist again. Now he felt a little tipsy, he never drank a lot of alcohol before, especially tequila. He got more confident with touching Charlie. His hand found its way completely under Charlie's top. Charlie was leaning against nicks body, standing really close. He stroke nicks cheek with his nose and gave it a soft peck. Nick smiled and looked into charlies eyes. "I love you." He whispered, their lips almost touching so they could feel the others breath. "Love you too." Charlie connected their lips and they slowly started kissing. It wasn't a short peck, it was a deep, long kiss full of desire. They both felt a lot of butterflies, the alcohol not making it any better. They didn't care about anyone else in this moment, it was only them. Charlie opened his mouth slightly and nick understood immediately. Nick tongue found its way into charlies mouth, they moaned quietly as their tongues played with each other, only they could hear it. Nicks hand went deeper under Charlie's shirt, whos hands were stroking nicks hair, deepening the kiss even more. Nick felt Charlie so close to him, he never wanted to let him go. But he broke from the kiss to catch his breath, they were both out of it at this time. And he hadn't forgotten his plan for tonight. "Char.." Nick couldn't take his eyes away from the beautiful lips in front of him, "do you want to dance?" "I thought you'd never ask, let's go." For a second Nick was surprised at this confident type of answer but he loved it. They placed the glasses on the counter and charlie took nicks hand. He lead the way, taking Nick to the dance floor.

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Thanks for reading this chapter 💫

Which song should they be dancing to in the next one?

Do you have an idea what will happen on the dancefloor? And what afterwards?

Until next chapter 💓

- cath

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Side note:
I don't know when the new guidelines with the censorship of the 18+ content will start to be enforced but I will take down all the smut and make it more fluff when it happens. Don't know when this will be so go read the smut as long as it's up.😬💫
Bye-bye
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