Homecoming Pt. 1

Devin 74

I stood looking into Nico's eyes and the selfish part of me was telling me to keep moving and not even speak to him, but the rational part of me was telling me to at least talk to him. Khalil said I needed to forgive my parents and if I could do that then I could forgive Nico as well. I looked at Enzo and he kept walking, I put my hands in the pockets of my basketball shorts and stared into Nico's brown eyes.

"Hey....." I said and I was kinda embarrassed, after everything we've been through the best I could come up with was 'hey'. "I mean I thought you were in New York." I said quietly.  Nico didn't say anything he just stared at me and I began to feel subconscious I was wearing a sweaty t-shirt, basketball shorts, and some running shoes. Nico opened his mouth to say something but the quickly closed it, I was starting get mad but I checked my anger and waited for him to say something.

"Hey....." He said and then started to smirk, I pushed his shoulder gently and started smiling as well. "I was in New York but I wanted to spend my last summer home. I figured I'd come get something to eat. How have you been?" He asked.

"I'm good I've just been doing me, y'know? How long are you going to be in town for?" I asked.

"Until August at the very least, but truthfully I'm not sure if I want to go to NYU anymore. When I got up to New York it wasn't what I expected, it just seemed like everyone was moving a lot faster than I was. It really wasn't my scene, I had only been up there a month and I was already home sick." Nico said.

"That's how I felt when I moved down here, you gotta tough it out....... but that's just my opinion, you can do whatever you feel is best for you. What are you gonna do if you don't decide to go back?" I asked.

"I'm not sure...... I was thinking about Baylor or a community college....... Devin I really don't wanna talk about school, this conversation feels forced and I'm not gonna lie I saw you sitting in there with Enzo about thirty minutes ago and I was working up the courage to talk to you. I felt weird about how we left things and I just wanted to make sure you know...... we were good." Nico said.

"I mean things were pretty weird when you left but I feel like the reason for that was there was no real closure. It was like we went from best friends to lovers, lovers to a couple then we just fell into a downward spiral and before we could get some type of balance all that shyt with Keith happened and then you were gone before we knew where we stood with each other. But it's like I said I'm good, I want us to be friends if nothing else." I said looking into his eyes.

"I want us to be friends too Devin, I wanted to come to the hospital after that shyt happened with your foster parents but I knew I was probably the last person you wanted to see. Plus your crazy ass brother probably would've tried to kill me." Nico said with a smile.

"Yeah Cam's not all there." I said laughing.

"Well since I'm going to be in town for a while, maybe we could hang out...... just as friends." Nico said, the second those words left his lips Antonio popped into my head then I started to feel like if I hung out with Nico it would be like I was cheating on Antonio, which was weird because we weren't even together.

"Umm..... I'll let you know, but I need to tell you something Nico.... you know the one thing about me is I've always been honest with you Nico so here's the truth.... I'm kinda talking to someone right now and I really wanna see how he feels about me and you hanging out before I can give you a solid answer and not because I don't want too I just don't wanna feel like I going behind his back. So can I get back to you later and I'' let you know what's going on if that's okay with you." I said, I could see the hurt in Nico's eyes and I felt bad but I knew in my heart it was the right call to to tell him about Antonio.