Photographing Love (BxB) (Unedited)

Chapter Seven

Nova woke up with Cassie leaning over him, a rag in her hand.

She smiled and said, "good, you're awake."

He slowly sat up as Cassie leaned back from him and rubbed the side of his head. "How long was I passed out for?"

Cassie was a little surprised that he didn't seem to be shocked he passed it out but shook off the feeling quickly. "Only an hour or so."

Nova then got worried. "I didn't ruin Julian's show did I?" "Did I embarrass him?" His mind started racing with tons of thoughts of how he might of caused a bad image for Julian.

Cassie frowned and grabbed his hands away from his head, holding his wrists gently in her hands. "Hey, hey, take a deep breath. We don't need you working yourself up again okay sweetie?," she said calmly. Cassie wanted to make sure he knew everything was okay.

It was Julian that had told her as he carried the smaller boy in and laid him down on the couch. He was quite panicked and talked even faster than Cassie herself. And she was a very fast talker.

"Julian breathe, breathe honey," Cassie said resting a gentle hand on his shoulder. "What happened?"

"I noticed on the drive here that Nova was starting to fidget and seemed out of it. He was zoning out a lot and I had to get his attention to get out of the car when we first got here."

Julian took a deep break to calm himself before continuing.

"I thought it had something to do with his anxiety and I was going to talk to Mark about him not going out this time but got pulled away before I could." He a ran a hand through his hair glancing at Nova who was breathing normally but still unconscious.

"He was standing in the sea of the crowd and I saw him start to sway, and he just passed out." "I think it was him having a panic attack and it made him faint."

Cassie had gotten a cold rag and was gently wiping it across Nova's forehead as Julian was speaking.

"Poor boy," Cassie said frowning and looked up at Julian. "Are you going back out there to perform?"

"So after a major ten minute, practically screaming, match between Mark and Julian, Mark agreed that he would only have to play half his set instead of the full one."

Nova bit on his bottom lip, feeling bad that he made Julian and Mark fight about him. But when he looked up at Cassie all he said was, "where are my glasses?"

She blinked, expecting something else to come from his mouth.

"Oh, right over here," Cassie walked over to her makeup table and picked them up walking back over to Nova. She figured it wasn't a very good idea to push someone who just passed out from anxiety about how they were really feeling.

Nova had just pushed them up the bridge of his nose when the door burst open making him jump and turn to the noise with wide eyes.

Julian was standing there, his face creased with worry. When he saw Nova awake he quickly rushed over and pulled the boy up into a tight hug.

"I'm so sorry," Julian breathed into Nova's ear making a shiver go down his spine.

Nova shook it off hugging Julian back in surprise. "It's okay, I'm fine," he whispered quietly.

Julian pulled back and shook his head, "don't lie Nova." He hugged him again tighter.

He hugged him the same and just held onto the back of his shirt. Nova found himself calm, but also felt his heart racing, and hoped Julian didn't feel it hammering against his chest.