Draw the Shades and Close the Door (a Vic Fuentes Fanfic)

Chapter 12

~~Nina's P.O.V~~

I didn't see Vic for the rest of the day but I tried not to let it get me down. After what had happened with Mark, things like that tended not to bother me as much as they would have bothered someone else. Vic wasn't in my last lesson and I was a little bit concerned and hoped I hadn't been too harsh on him. I did feel a little bit bad but I quickly shoved away that thought when I remembered what he accused me of. For god sake. Tony and I are just friends.

~~Vic P.O.V~~

I watched Nina storm off away from me and felt the tears run down my cheeks. How could I have been to stupid and selfish. I felt horrendous, I wanted to run after her and tell her how sorry I was but I had a feeling that would only make things worse. I couldn't face going back to school so I turned and slowly made my way home with my head down so no one would see me crying, kicking a stone the whole way home. Thinking about it, I had said that Rhi meant nothing to me and that was true but I hadn't actually made that much of an effort to keep her away from me.

I reached home, thankfully mum and dad weren't in so I ran straight up to my room, let the tears I had attempted to hide run freely and thought about how much I had messed up. I know I'd only known Nina for a few weeks but she meant so much to me and now she hated me.

I knew what I would do.

~~Nina's P.O.V~~

It reached the end of the day and there was still no sign of Vic. Guess he had just bunked off for the afternoon.

I met Tony outside of school and we walked round to my house so we could practice for our music. It so happened that Tony noticed that Vic was gone as inquired about it so I told him everything that happened because I was comfortable with him knowing, wasn't like he was going to go around and tell everyone.

'Im sorry Nina, maybe I shouldn't come round now you know..' he said furrowing his eyebrows. It was adorable.

'Don't be silly Tony, Vic can think whatever the fuck we wants as long as I know it's not true.' I stately simply, Tony still wasn't sure but eventually agreed.

Nobody was home because my parents were in Cambridge going to see my grandparents and my brother was out at the gym(again) but that was fine because it meant we could use the living room.

Tony and I practiced our music for an hour before we both got bored.

'Are you hungry?' I asked Tony as he say down on my sofa.

'How did you guess?' he smiled. It was great to see Tony laughing and smiling, it seemed as if he hadn't for a long long time.

I chucked Tony a packet of crisps before I came and sat down next to him.

'So Tony, what about you?' I asked 'Brothers, Sisters, parents, mum, dad, what do they do?' All we had talked about was my life, I hadn't yet heard any of his life.

'Nope, no brothers, no sisters just me, My mum is an accountant and my dad.. Um' He faltered a little. 'He um.. He passed away.. Almost a year ago.' Tony looked down clearly upset. Shit I felt bad for making him say that.

'Oh god Tony I'm so sorry.' I said unsure of what to do.

'It's fine.' He said. But it quite clearly wasn't. A year was nothing and I could see it was upsetting him now. His eyes filled with water.

'Hey, hey Tony!' I sympathised moving closer and pulling him into a tight hug. He wrapped his arms around my waist and we held each other there for a good 5 minutes without talking. I could tell that he was in need of a hug. Probably didn't get one that often if ever. His mum probably got up early and got back late. But I was here for him now. He would be fine.

'Come on.' I said a few minutes later, pulling away but keeping my arms rested on his shoulders. I pulled one away momentarily and wiped his hair off his fore head so I could look him in the eye. 'Tony you know I'm always here ok? I just want you to know that yes?' He nodded and out on a smile.

'I know.'

'Good. Now come on, lets go upstairs and put some really loud music on and annoy the neighbours!' I said jumping up off the sofa and quickly running upstairs followed closely by Tony.

I was lying face up on my double bed while Tony was perched on the edge. The idea was that he lay by my side but I guess he felt a bit uncomfortable. I rolled my eyes. 'Hey Tony' I said turning to my side and supporting myself up with my elbow on the bed an hand on my cheek, 'I heard you've got some wicked tattoos!'

'Oh uhh yeah.' He grinned.

'Let me seeee.' I pleaded.

'uh no?'

'come on, I'll let you see mine?'

'you have tattoos?' He asked confused. Almost everyone did that, nobody expects me to have tattoos.

'Yeah I've got a bird tattooed on the back of my right shoulder and a triangle just here' I said pointing to the middle of my stomach where my rib cage folds outwards. (where compressions are normally done) 'But nobody well nobody now except you knows that.'

'Thats so cool.' Tony said 'Didn't think you would have tattoos.'

'I could say the same about you! Wanna see?' I asked knowing he would say yes.

'Yeah!'

Exactly.

I was just about to lift up my top when I turned and said 'Only if I can see yours?'

'Finee' he responded. 'You first.'

'Hah, don't trust me?' I asked lifting up my top and pulling It over my head. Less hassle than holding it. Besides I had a bra on and I didn't have a problem with Tony seeing my body.

Tony's eyes scanned me, but then what's I expect from a teenage boy. I turned so he could see the bird.

'That's awesome.' He said

'Your go.' Was all I responded. Tony sighed but eventually took off his t shirt as well.

Fair play, Tony's body was amazing. I wasn't gunna lie about that.

'Christ Tony! Do you workout?' I said astonished, not even really noticing his tattoos.

'Er yeah I started going to the gym seeing as I had no friends and had nothing else to do.' He looked awkward.

'Well fair play to you Tony and nice tattoos.' He had quite a few over his stomach and chest, my favourite one I picked out was a tattoo of a turtle down at the hem of his trousers by his v-line on his left side.

Tony reached for his t shirt but I quickly ripped it away from his reach and ran away with it in my hand laughing all the way. I'd pretty much made a circuit of the house with Tony following me when I heard the door bell ring. Probably George. I quickly put on Tony's t shirt and ran over to answer the door. Gods knows where Tony had gone.

I was a little bit flustered after running about so I tried to slow my breathing but I didn't want to keep George waiting so I ran over to the door and flung it open. It my very obvious surprise, it wasn't George stood at my door, it was Vic.