You Never Know | The Misfits | Fitz

Optimistic

@TheNil: photo curtesy of @TobyOnTheTele, glad I got to spend some time with him and @Lulu tonight, much needed

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@User1: hanging out with sister Toby and sister Lu
@User2: hope you're feeling better!
@Lulu: we're so cute!
@TobyOnTheTele: ^I agree!
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"Where do you want to go now?" Nil asks out loud.

"I need to be getting home soon, I have an exam tomorrow to study for." Lu frowns.

"That's fine, we can all head home soon. One more stop?" Toby asks as they get in his car.

"Of course, lets go get some coffee!" Lu cheers.

"And hot cocoa!" Nil adds with a cheer.

They all sing along to music loudly as they drive towards Lu and Nil's favorite cafe which they had introduced Toby to that morning when they met up.

As they walked in they noticed it was the same barista and Nil immediately ordered her normal hot cocoa. Toby and Lu ordered as well and as usual, Nil paid and slid a 20 into the tip jar but this time she slid two 20's since she knew the barista had been working all day.

They make their way to a small table and lounge around it playing on their phones.

"What happened the other day? You never talked about it and you said you would," Lu points out and Nil gives her a death glare.

"What happened the other day?" Toby asks.

"I don't know, she told me she'd tell me later and it's been like a week. Basically she asked me to go water her plants because she wouldn't be home to do it because she spent the night with that Fitz guy and I didn't mind since I live down the street but when I got there later she was home and crying." Lu explains.

"Did Cam do something to hurt you? I'll try my best to beat him up for you," Toby offers and Nil can't help but smile at that. Toby can't help but realize that Cam had been acting pretty distant these past few days.

"No he didn't. I promise," Nil smiles at them.

"You were crying though! I've never seen you cry before, you don't care about anything enough for that." Lu points out.

"I don't know if he'd want me to say anything," Nil looks down at her hands.

"Here are your drinks," The barista brings their drinks over to them.

"Oh you didn't have to bring them to us again," Nil smiles softly at the barista.

"It's the least I can do, your tips are always what help me between paychecks. Thank you for helping me out," The barista thanks her and then quickly runs back to behind the counter.

"Why wouldn't he want you to tell anyone?" Toby asks.

"He told me he liked me," Nil looks down at her hot cocoa.

"Didn't you just turn him down? Like you did with that Jay guy," Lu questions.

"I couldn't... I wanted to but..." Nil thinks out loud.

"You like him don't you?" Toby looks at her with a serious look.

Nil couldn't even look up from her hot cocoa, Lu and Toby took that as her answer.

"So what happens now?" Lu asks.

"What do you mean?" Toby looks over at Lu.

"Well she turned down Jay because she doesn't believe in love, but if she couldn't turn down Cam..." Lu starts.

"What kind of nihilist would you be if you fell in love?" Toby finishes.

"An optimistic one..." Nil shrugs.

"So you should tell him," Lu nudges her.

"I couldn't," Nil frowns.

"Why not?" Toby furrows his eye brows.

"Nothing against Cam but the whole dating thing doesn't seem right for me," She explains and Lu hits her shoulder.

"You'll never know until you try!" Lu exclaims.

"He could do better, maybe someone that actually believes in love." Nil rolls her eyes.

"Don't say that, you're an amazing catch. Any guy would be lucky to have you and Cam knows that." Toby ruffles her hair.

"I'll think about it..." Nil smiles gently.

"You've been thinking about it for like a week! Cam has probably been stressed out of his mind waiting to hear something from you!" Lu exclaims.

"I'll... I'll text him then." Nil pulls out her phone.

Nil: Hey Cam
Cam: I haven't heard from you in so long, I was worried sick. Are you okay? I know I texted a few times but you said you wanted time to think so I didn't want to invade your space or anything.

"What is he saying?" Toby asks, scooting forward to look at Nil's phone.

"Shhh," Lu nudges him as Nil texts him back.

Nil: I was thinking...
Cam: I'm so sorry if I was over stepping I really didn't want to scare you off just you got injured and I got so worried. I had no business telling you what to do.
Nil: Cam
Cam: I promise it won't happen again, and if you want to just pretend it didn't happen I can do that, whatever you want
Nil: Is that what you want?
Cam: Is it what you want?
Nil: It doesn't matter to me
Nil: You know that
Cam: I know that but I wanted to make sure you were okay and stuff and honestly whatever happens now is up to you
Nil: If you want to pretend nothing happened we can do that
Cam: Is that what you want?
Nil: If that's what you want to do
Cam: Alright

Nil puts her phone down and looks up at Toby and Lu. Lu can immediately see the texts hit Nil harder than she wants to let on and gives her a big hug, Toby quickly joins.

"You should just tell him, he's just trying to not over step the boundaries again." Lu whispers and Toby nods.

"I've known that man my whole life and I can promise he's just trying to make sure he doesn't hurt you." He explains.

"He was the one that brought up acting like it didn't happen so that's what we'll do. Everything will go back to the way it was." Nil forces a small smile onto her face.