Arranged / Nick Mara

Chapter Six / Sick Days

Kiley's POV

I sat in hair and make up as I got prepped for my shoot. Work life.

I started to snapchat myself and my make up artist as my phone started to ring.

"Nick?" I answered and he hummed on the line.

"Wanna come over?" He sounded groggy.

"I'm at work, after?" I asked. "Why you sound like that?"

"Yeah come after. I woke up sick I guess." Nick said and I nodded. "When will you be done?"

"Hour or so? Shouldn't take long." I said as the hairstylist curled my hair.

"Okay send my pictures of your shoot ma." I heard the smirk in his voice.

"Shut up. See you later," I said and hung up.

"Boyfriend?" The hairstylist asked.

I thought for a moment before saying "Yeah."

I constantly forget Nick and I are dating to the public world. Nick and I were becoming good friends considering we were forced to hang out all the time. I was honestly so thankful we had gotten over whatever beef we had.

"You're all set." The hairstylist said and I made my way to the set.

I did my thing for about an hour and headed back to my dressing room to put on my normal clothes again which consisted of the shirt Nick gave to me that day we went to the beach, black shorts, and a jean jacket. I left my hair down since it had been curled - even though it had already started to fall - and headed out to my car. I texted Nick and told him I was on my way, but decided to stop by Starbucks. I ordered us both an iced coffee and finally drove to the PM house.

I knocked on the door and Nick answered wrapped in a blanket.

"Hey ma." He said and let me in.

"Brought you some coffee." I said and set it on the counter.

"Nice shirt." He said and I smiled.

"Where is everyone?" I asked.

"The studio. I woke up with a head cold so I couldn't go in." He explained and I nodded.

"I'm sorry b." I said and he shrugged.

"So I was thinking we could go out." He said and I laughed.

"Aren't you sick?" I asked.

"Yes but i can still go out I just can't sing." He said and I nodded.

"Okay Sharkboy. What do you wanna do?" I asked.

"Well KiKi, I say we drive up to The Bluffs and have a picnic in your car." He said with a hopeful smile.

"The Bluffs?" I questioned.

"Okay now we have to go since you don't even know what I'm talking about." He said and threw the blanket off himself to reveal his bare torso. He hurriedly ran around the kitchen packing food into a bag and making sandwiches. I just watched as I sipped my coffee. I pulled out my phone and videotaped him for my snapchat.

"Ma, you want mustard?" Nick said as I finished recording and I laughed.

"Please." I said and captioned the video "B making us a picnic 🤩" and posted it to my story. Nick ran upstairs without a word and I laughed to myself.

He's so adorable.

He came back down wearing jeans and a sweatshirt with some vans.

"Ready?" He asked with his nasally voice and a grin.