Distant Love

Havoc

A Few Days Later:
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So far this week, Nick hasn't done anythingto creep me out yet. In fact, I've hardly every seen him all week besides when we were out in the hall and we had a bit of small talk. I can tell that he wants to hang with me once a week so badly. I'm legitimately scared now. I sincerely hope he creeps me out, though we only have two days left in the week.
Time skip:
The week ended and a new week has begun. Nick hasn't creeped me out in the slightest. I told Nick that we would be hanging out every Monday since all my friends go to anime club. So today, he wanted me to meet his friends. I could already feel that this is gonna end badly. I wait for Nick at the usual meeting place, in front of the caféteria. A few minutes pass by and still no Nick. I was starting to get irritated when suddenly somone hugs me from behind.
"What the fuck?! Who- oh."
I sigh.
I should've known. Nick! Did you seriously have to scare me like that?! Holy shit!"
"Why live if you don't have any thrill in your life? You would just live a boring life if you had no thrill or had any adrenaline pump through your veins."
"Whatever. So anyway, where are your friends?"
"Follow me. They're really looking forward to meet you."
"Okay. Let's go I guess."
I follow him up to the upper quad at some lunch tables that are closer to the front of the school. I stopped, awstruck by who I see sitting with his friends.
"Uzaire?! What the- what are you doing here?!?!"
"I should ask you the same thing. Nick?"
"Remember during the day when we were walking to the office and I asked you who she is and you asked me if I wanted to meet her?"
"Wait huh? Come again? What happened?"
"Basically, we were walking to the office because I wanted to change my math class from Algebra I to Geometry, which I couldn't. But Uzaire came with me and I saw you for the first time. I pointed you out to him and asked him if he knew who you were. He said yes and that he knew tou since the third grade. He said you were pretty nice and asked if I wanted to meet you, but I said no. Mainly because I was too nervous to approach you and if I were to approach you, I'd want to do it on my own."
"Oh yeah. I remember that day. But why is Emma here?"
"The thing is, I fell in love with her."
"Nick are you serious?! Emma, how are you feeling about this?"
"Weird. Slightly creeped out."
"And why are you here with him?"
I sigh and roll my eyes.
"I promised him that if he doesn't creep me out for a week, I would hang with him once a week. He wanted me to meet his friends today so here I am."
"Why the hell did you make him that promise?!"
"Because one, I felt pity, even though he stole my first kiss in front of EVERYBODY, a-"
"Wait.... THAT WAS TRUE?!?!"
"Heh yeah. Sorry for doing that once again Emma. How did you hear about that?"
"ARE YOU SERIOUSLY ASKING ME THAT QUESTION NICK?! EVERYBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT IT FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS!!!"
"It was a while ago. Just drop it."
"Bu-'"
"Drop it!!!"
Uzaire sighs and looks down for a second."
"... Fine. But Nick, do something like that again to her, and I will fucking DESTROY YOUR ASS! GOT IT?!"
"Yes! Yes of course! Not without her permission I swear."
"Yeah. And that's never going to happen. One, I don't (and will never) feel that way about you and hypothetically, if I did like you that way, I STILL wouldn't kiss you because I don't know how to kiss and I don't want to embarrass myself."
Nick talks under his breathe.
"For now..."
"I heard that Nick. I'm serious. Anyways, introduce me to the rest. Lunch is almost over now."
"Oh right! I almost forgot!"
Nick walk more to the table and introduced me to his friends Trevor, Kyle, Zac, Issac, Natalie, Danielle, and Ashley. They seemed nice, Except for Natalie, who seems to have some beef with me for some reason and I'm not liking Issac that much because of his ego. I hung out for a bit with Nick, who was making a bunch of jokes with his friends and was just having fun. While he does that, I decided to talk to the girls. Natalie, Ashley, and Danielle were grouped together laughing.
"Hi."
"Oh hey! Its nice to meet you finally!"
"Yeah. You too. So how long have you known Nick?"
"Well, Natalie has known him since sixth grade but Danielle and I have know  him since seventh."
We talk a bit more and as we're talking, Natalie just keeps giving me the death stare, not even talking to me.
"Well, he seems nice."
"You better not hurt him. I swear to god, if you even making him feel upset, I will personally rip your head off!"
"Natalie! What the hell?! Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?!"
"I've been his friend for a while now. I've seen him get hurt over and over again. Its all been with all ten girls that he dated where they hurt him. I'm not going to see it happen to him again. If you hurt Nick in any way, I will hurt you tenfold."
"What's going on?"
Everybody stops talking and turns around to see Nick standing behind us.
"Nothing. We're just having a friendly little chat with your new little friend.
"No you weren't. I heard your tone of voice to her. That didn't sound friendly at all. Anyway, we gotta go. Come on Emma."
"O-okay..."
I waved to them and quickly glanced at Natalie, who looked pale like a ghost. She was giving me the same death stare but this time she was grinding her teeth with her fists all balled up. We walked down to the lower quad where my friends would usually hang out and Nick quickly grabbed my arm, to signal for me not to walk on.
"Wait. Are you okay? What was going on?"
"I was just introducing myself and after I said 'yeah, he seems nice', and then she just snapped."
"Oh I'm sorry. I don't know what came over her. She's usually nice to others. I don't understand."
"She told me that you dated ten other girls. Nick what's all that about?"
"She told you that?"
"Yes. Nick, I won't judge you too quickly, but I need you to tell me what's going on."
"Basically from grades seven, eight, and even once this year, I dated some girls and they either used me for my intellegence and money, or they just didn't have any morals where they cheated on me, or kept sending me nudes. I'm trying to find the right person. I really am."
"Well, you're not going to find that if you keep hitting on women so quickly."
"I know, I know. You have a really good point. I'm just trying to make friends now, even though I did hit on you. But we ARE friends right?"
"Yeah I mean, I don't see why not. You've pretty much stopped been creepy for the most part."
Just then the bell rang, and now its time to go to class.
"Alright well we need to get to class. I'll see you later."
"Hey! Wait! I know you said once a week, but do you want to hang out again this week?"
"Yeah sure. If you want, we can hang out at the band room tomorrow."
"Yeah. That sounds great. But why can't we hang with your friends?"
"Because they don't like you."
"Oh right. That time when I kissed you , they tried to kick my ass."
"Yeah. You're not exactly on good terms with them. Espeacially when it comes to Bridgett, Katie, and Marilou."
"Yeah. Well anyway, I'll just meet you at the band room in the practice room."
"Okay. Sounds good. I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Alright. Take care. Be safe."
He mumbles something under his breathe.
"What was that?"
"Nothing. I was just talking to myself.Anyway, bye!"
He smiles at me with a comforting, warm, smile, and walks away, towards his class. I looked at him for a few seconds and walked to my class.
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Yes I kniw I haven't been updating and I'm sorry. School just started and I just didn't have the time. The schedule will be a bit messed up until I could set up a stable schedule, but just bear with me.