The book

Hero

     Simon was still blushing after a while from what I did to get rid of Emily "Why would you call me your boyfriend? What if Raymond hears? Nyx!" I patted his head and he calmed down a little bit "Look I had to get rid of her and well, you were the closes cute boy." I blushed at the compliment I had given the boy "You think I'm cute?"  I blushed more "Shuttup." I say turning away and going to another group. I went to the jocks "Eyyy Nyx my man! how's it going" I nod at them and laugh when they do "Hows you're ex man?" I laugh as ask him "I don't know, how are you?" he laughed. It was a joke because although he was my ex, we were close friends "Nah man, nah, lets be real for a second, who's that cutie you brought with you? It couldn't be Simon could it? The boy who hardly shows up to class but passed every class with high points." I smiled at the thought of Simon 

     "Yeah, that's him" His jock ex hooked his arm around me "You like him don't you?" I smile and glance around "Maybe" he smiles back "You're really into him aren't you? Just go for it! You can get anyone Nyx I know you." I sigh and drop my head "See the thing is I can't, before I could strike... someone else swept him off his feet" some of the guys around us cringed. I didn't notice Simon was listening to it all. I left a couple of hours after being there. I found Simon, who was drunk, and carried him on my back. When Simon woke up he mumbled a lot but the first one I understood was "Where are we going?" I jumped, pushing him up further "We're going to my house so your parents don't see you drunk" 

"I'm drunk?" I roll my eyes "Uh, yeah."
"What happened"
"We went to a party"
"I remember that because you said you liked me, I mean what happened after that"
"You heard me?" 
"Of course I heard you. You're friend was loud."
I blushed and jump so he stopped slipping. 
"I don't really know what happened but I didn't drink at all, so when I thought it was time I grabbed you and left." It almost seemed like he had fallen asleep until he spoke again 
"I like you too. But I thought you wouldn't like me so I dated Raymond. He doesn't care about me though. I hate that I won't remember this tomorrow..." I could feel tears seeping into my shirt. "It's okay Simon, I'll wait for you" I said, soon after I heard soft snores. 

     I brought Simon to my house and laid him on my bed, covering him up and heading to my couch in my room. I was thankful everyone in my house was asleep because I didn't want to be questioned about bringing a drunken boy into my room. I grabbed my bag of books and propped up a little flashlight on the top of the book I grabbed out and started to read. I read until I was just looking at the words, not taking any of them in, glancing at the words, not knowing they were actual words. Once I realized how tired I was I set the book down on the ground next to my couch and grabbed my phone, putting my music on and set my phone down again, ignoring the texts I had on there, and laid down, falling asleep almost instantly. 

      I woke up before Simon did, and went down stairs to say good morning to my mom and little sister as well as get some water for when Simon did happen to wake up. "You went out last night and I don't remember you telling me Nyxus." My mother scolded me and I cringed for a second "Well mom. I came home at a very reasonable time" I smiled getting the water "And what time might that be?" She challenged me "Some time before 10:30" I said to her looking her straight in the eye. My mom likes to be looked in the eye when you tell her something so she knows if you're lying.

       She stared into my eyes for a couple moments and squinted her eyes "I'll trust you" I smile, making her smile "I'm guessing that's not for you Nyxus. You don't drink" she squinted again "Nope I brought a friend home with me, his name is Simon and he's a year older than me, I met him at the library a while ago." I gave her the truth and didn't catch myself when I blushed "Oh my goodness" She squealed "You like him!" My eyes widened "Shhh! If he's awake he'll hear you, but yes, I like him." I looked away from my mom, embarrassed. "I see, he has a boyfriend doesn't he." I looked at her with curiosity, I never knew how she just knew. "He's awake, go give him the water" She smiled at me and I nodded, carefully running up the stairs. 

      Entering my room I saw Simon standing, hand on head, and looking at all my posters. "Hey" I say quietly. He turns around and I notice his eyes were red and puffy as if he had just got done crying "Hey" . "Hey, are you okay?" I hand him the water with some ibuprofen that I grabbed from  my bathroom "I don't know. My head hurts and I don't remember anything after..." He stopped himself from telling me. "I was scared because I didn't know where I was but," he pointed to something I had on my wall. Something I drew, a dragon, I was 12 when I drew it but it was my best drawing. I looked at my signature at the bottom of the page, it's when I was still going by my whole name, Nyxus. "You're whole name is Nyxus?" I nod and keep my head low from embarrassment "It's a cool name, why do you seem embarrassed of it?" I rub the back of my neck and look back at him with my blue eyes, the eyes to match my father's "My dad came up with it, so when he left I went by a nickname. "

     "You're dad left?" I could see Simon starting to cry "Hey, it's okay, I didn't care anyway I was 12 and he went on a trip and didn't come back, turns out he was cheating on my mom so I kind of told him unless he wanted to fix this family that he shouldn't come back, and well. He didn't come back so I suppose he chose his new family over us, but hey that's okay because I didn't need a dick of a father. I can be the man of the house." I smile at him and he smiles back "You'll have to get yourself a man who can also play the woman" he laughs and I chuckle "I think I have" I said just above a whisper. 

      After some silence that I always dislike I decided to tell him "I know you heard me" I say to him and he kind of spits out the water he was drinking "What?" He asks. I hold up a finger to tell him a minute because I'm laughing too hard. "I should have waited until after you finished drinking the water. I was telling you that I know you heard me telling my friend that I liked you, but don't stress over it if that's what you plan on doing" 

      "How do you know I know?" He asked peering at me, expecting some extravagant explanation  but I shook my head and instead of making up something I just told him the truth "I carried you here while you were drunk and you're very talkative when you have a bit of alcohol in your system." I chuckle at Simon's blushing face "Well I knew it was your room because it's filled with books and the book by the couch is the book  you carry everywhere. It's like your bible or something" he pouted and glanced at my little library. Something must have caught his eye because his eyes widened and he ran to the shelf 

     "You have Fangirl? The library took it off the shelves because no one read it, and I didn't have enough money to buy it at the time." He opened it "I've been looking for this book for a while now, because I heard it's a fantastic book, I have yet to read-" He stops mid sentence when he saw Carry on "You have the second one too?!" I look at the books I forgot I bought from the library a long time ago and removed the stickers "You can read them if you want?" Simon looked at me like I was his savior. "You're my hero!" he jumped up and hugged me close, it must have been his way to say thank you.