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Name: Nicola Bentler

Grade: 10th

Age: 16

Sex: Male

Appearance: Behind his big black glasses are a set of dark chocolate eyes, unintentionally but usually having a sort of 'deer in caught in headlights' look to them. His hair is only a slightly lighter shade of brown than his eyes, and is generally presentable aside from a few constant cowlicks in the back. Nicola falls an average height for a guy his age, maybe even slightly taller, though it's completely unnoticeable due to the slouch in his walk. Typically he's seen with one of two items; a notebook to write down his sudden, random observations, and when he's not furiously writing, he has this small rubix cube keychain he likes to keep his hands busy with.

Personality: Nicola generally is very flighty, twitchy, and gets distracted fairly easily. This mostly stems from his ADHD, but since he takes medication for this now, it's gotten much better than it used to be. Still, he has this habit of noticing everything and anything about the world around him. When he enters a new room, he's already counted the number of windows and the spaces between the tiles on the floor. He notices how many breaths you take between words, and he remembers that one time you mentioned what your favorite color is. Even with this odd habit, and if you manage to get around how irritating it can be, Nicola isn't so bad to hang around. He's fairly goofy with friends, but has a sardonic sense of humor that unintentionally comes off as more sarcastic than funny.

Brief Background: Originally in middle school Nicola was always bullied for his impulsive actions, such as blurting the answer out in class or pushing kids in the hallway for no apparent reason. It wasn't until later that he was diagnosed with ADHD, but by then he'd already earned the condescension of most of the other kids. Even so, Nicola has this dream of being a journalist, and with his hyper-awareness of his surroundings, he's ended up becoming the main writer for the school newspaper. He's written some of the most interesting articles, ones that keep the school buzzing with every dirty little secret he can write about. Every secret except his of course.

Their Secret: He has this crush. He's constantly writing love poems and confessions of admiration to them, but he's never actually sent any of the the letters; always crumpling up every single one and throwing them away. Unfortunately for him, Jessica saw him throwing away the paper he'd been so diligently working on all study hall, and she curiously went into the trash to see what it was. Now with the knowledge of who his crush is, she's constantly holding it over his head that she could tell the entire school who it is whenever she wants.

Other: He has glasses because of his terribly farsighted vision, which is incredibly annoying for him, being the writer he is.