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Ch.3: the symptoms

Note: pic is perhaps nicks tattoo...((I mostly chose this pic cause the dudes hot))
Nellys POV
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The day's soon turned into a week... The symptoms were showing up, and worst of all a tattoo as well. I felt like it was more of a brand. My tattoo was on my right side of my body, slowly getting more beautifully complex every day. I was scared of it. It was a lovely tattoo, with a flower full figure and an elegance to it as well as strength. It was beautiful and fascinating, but I was afraid it might begin to show soon. I had avoiding Nicholas for as long as I could...
The symptoms consisted of, dreaming of him. Somehow finding him at every corner of the school, of wanting to get his number, as well as this tattoo. Then was the symptoms that went against my crush on cal, which I must say was hard to avoid, because now I didn't want to see cal as much as I used to. I tried my best to keep everything normal but the harder I tried the more he noticed I was way out of it.
Monday once more came, I awoke to a dream where Nicholas told me to meet him in the Spanish room before classes even started. He said he had the key to the class or something.
So I went...

I knocked on the door, which showed nothing but darkness inside, when he opened the door.
"Please tell me this was a coincidence" I told him when Nicholas pulled me into the room. The lights were off, but the windows were up, showing the nice sunshine.
"I wished. By the way, this was the first time I had tried that whole actually talking to the dreamin you. Honestly...you dream way too much about being outside, I thought nerds liked the inside world" Nicholas commented
I laughed at his idiocy. "I'm a person too, I like the outside world...it's the bit of freedom I don't get in school or at home" I told him as he took out a sheet of paper.
"Okay, so symptoms, whatcha got?" He asked me, changing the subject quickly
"I want to look for you more" I mumbled, and he noted it down.
"Okay same, and now I want to talk to you more, which isn't how our usual talks go " he told me as he wrote it down.
"Yeah, our usual talks go with you insulting me, I do the same then we fight about it, until you beat me and you get bored. I get it. Next, I keep having weird feelings, you?" I asked
"Same. How about crush?" He asked
"I-uh...I feel like talking less to him, now he doesn't shine as much as he used to, it makes me want to be mad at myself" I informed Nicholas as he wrote down 'doesn't like crush as much'
"Same. Okay and...what about a tattoo?" He asked, this time fully paying attention to me
"Well...yes" I managed to say. When Nicholas lifted up his shirt, his tattoo was on the left side, while mines was on the right.
"Same, this thing keeps growing, and it's slight,y scaring me but I gotta say I look hot" he said with a laugh. I looked at him, he was fit, perfectly built. His body was well toned, and his skin seemed soft, I wanted to touch his abs...I hated the urge. I felt my cheeks go red, when he noticed he chuckled
"You like what you see?" He asked me
"Shut up!"
"Show me yours" he told me, and I shook my head. Not willing to show my skin to him.
"Well...I would make you show me....but unfortunately class is about to start, and I need to get to class" he said as he put down his shirt and i was disappointed by that action. Ugh I hated myself.
"W-where's your next class?" I asked him, not exactly understanding why I wanted to walk to class with him or atleast along the way.
"Other side of school, how about you?" He asked me as his green eyes gazed at me. I could finally look properly at his features. He was tall, well built, nice jawline, green eyes, a fine nose, brunette hair, and kind lips, with a white smile. Every time he talked it seemed soothing and sweet yet sexy,
"I-uh- a couple halls down..." I told him and he nodded, picking up his backpack
"Wanna walk to class together?" He asked me, I looked at him surprised. He had changed form being my bully to just a guy.
"S-sure" I managed to say as I got to walk with him, to the point where he dropped me off at my class. Cal was waiting patiently for me in English class when he saw this. He immediately ran to me.
"What happened? What did he say? You didn't get hurt did you?" He began asking quickly, as his hands were on my arms, grabbing me in reassurance. I looked up at cal's blue eyes full of worry and smiled.
"No, he just wanted to walk me to class, and discuss a...uh...project, yeah." I partially lied. Cal sighed in relief
"A project? You two were paired together?" He asked me, as we both sat I our seats which were close, I sat infront of him.
"Yeah...we were..." Yeah the bastard Cupid paired us.
"Oh, he's not bullying you or anything right?"
"Na, he has been really kind lately, I find it weird. But everything said fine. He hasn't even tried to look for me to beat me up" I informed cal and he nodded in approval. I sometimes felt he was like a brother...but not exactly.