Perfect Strangers

Chapter 23

"Hey Nick" I casually say while slamming my locker door.

"You don't got Brad with ya?" He asks while leaning against the lockers

I think back to last night and how Bradley had screamed at me to get out. Looking anxiously around the school I couldn't find Bradley anywhere. I look back up to Nick who is waiting for me to answer.

"No.. I haven't seen him since last night actually"

"I'll text him later round if you want"

I offer Nick a warm smile as I make my way to my class. The last time I was in this class I was followed and stalked by Shane. This time I decided to sit on the left side towards the middle of the class. I pull out a notebook and pen, through the corner of my eyes a familiar shadowing face sit in the opposite class. It was Shane.

I snap my head down to look at the notebook. Avoiding Shane's glare Nick happily takes a seat next to me and I sigh in relief.

Nick laughs looking at Shane "he's a creep man"

I chuckle and look up into Nicks dark brown eyes "oh believe me I am well aware Shane is a creep"

"Hayley?" Nick questions

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to stay at my dorm for the night since you don't have a place to stay?"

My eyes widen as I look at Nick "H-How do you know about that?"

"You'd be surprised how fast things get around"

I groaned and spent the rest of the class worried where Brad was. Sure, we will only have one course together but usually he wanders around campus if he skips.
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I stand outside room 224 and give the door a light knock. Seconds later the door swings open and Nicks face lights up with excitement.

"MY NEW ROOMMATEEEE"

I cock an eyebrow up and look at Nick "I am spending the night.."

Nick chuckles and gestures me to come inside his house. I walk into and set my stuff down on the bench.

Nick is already in the kitchen making us a bowl of popcorn. I chuckle as I watch Nick struggle with cooking the popcorn. I shake and walk over to Nick. I take the bag from his and show nick that you just place the bag into the microwave.

The rest of the night we just sat in Nicks couch and scrolled through Netflix until I convinced him to watch '13 reasons why' with me.

I watch Nick closely as he gets up and walks into his room to what I expected to get changed into some joggers and a T-shirt but I was wrong.

Nick cheerfully walks out in his pajamas which consisted of a matching blue shirt and pants with little trains in them.

I started laughing and I mean dying of laughter. I ended up dying of laughter when I finally got up to go put some shorts in and a sweatshirt.
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•Brad•

"BRADLEY" Jace screams from the other Side of the yard.

Before I can acknowledge what was going on, my face slammed into the concrete.

I sat up unaware where I was. The it hit me, I was back in the building where my dads gang always was. It turns out, Jace's gang and I had killed most of my dads gang but the problem was that they knocked me out and I was in the concrete within seconds of the punch. I have never. never. Been punched and then knocked onto the ground ever. This made me rage more, I got up and walked over to the punching bag that we located in the same room I was in. I let a few good hits get my anger out and then my mind flashed back to when I was yelling at Hayley.

I remeber yelling at her to get out of the apartment and that was the last I saw of her. Hearing a noise by the window I look up at my escape out. There was no way they were keeping me held until I agreed to join back in the gang. I looked around and saw it my dads gun. It looked like I had been flung across the room, luckily no one on my dads gang noticed it.

With one solid punch at the glass, my hand went through the window. I almost screamed in pain at the sight of some glass pieces that in my hand followed by the trail of blood. At times like this I wish Hayley was here.

I managed to kick out the rest of the glass then pull my self up and out of the window. I took notice of my surroundings then started my walk back to campus. I was disappointed that my dad was still alive but I was able with the help of Jace to have most of my dads gang killed.
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•Hayley•

I glanced at the time seeing it was 2am. I sit up realizing I was laying on Nicks chest.

"Nick" I whisper

"Yea" he groans

"It's 2 am... are you okay?"

"Yeah" Nick smiles and rests my head back in his chest.

I smack Nicks hand away and hear a laugh erupt from him. Before falling back asleep I walk into the kitchen to grab a glass of water and sit at the table scrolling through my phone. My thumb lands on a certain name and I feel an urge to text.

Hayley: hey I alright? I know you might not want nothing to do it's me now but I just want to make sure your alright.

After waiting 10 minutes for a response I then just throw my phone on the charger and walk back to the couch. I shut off the t.v and sit next to nick and throw a blanket over us.
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Authors Note: clarification for anyone~ Nick is Bradleys best friend (not sure if he should be part of the gang)

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