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N I N E

I woke up the next morning sweating and my nose was stopped up.

"Uhh great I'm sick" my voice was barley there. I groaned and got up and my head started pounding. I dragged my feet down the stairs and I kept sneezing. I grabbed a tissue from the pantry to cover my nose.

"Dang ma" Nick said. I felt my cheeks heat up but I tried hiding them with the tissue and my hair. "You look horrible" he said.

"Why thank you, Nicholas. You don't look that great either" lies. He was drop dead gorgeous, even with his hair everywhere. He snickered and grabbed me some Tylenol out of the cabinet.

"Treat it before it turns into a flu" he said and handed me the bottle with the nasty liquid inside. I measured out the medicine and scrunched my nose as I swallowed it. I quickly fixed some water and started gulping that down.

I heard Nick laugh as he walked back upstairs. I walked into the living room and grabbed a blanket and sat beside my brother who was watching a movie.

"I'm sick" I said after I coughed. "Ew, get away from me" he said pushing me away and him scooting over.

"Wow thanks" I said and stood up to walk back upstairs. I met Nick at the bottom of the stairs. He changed his clothes and now had shoes on.

"Where are you going?" I asked him. "To the drug store to get you some medicine" he stopped to tell me. I nodded and mumbled a thanks and he continued out the door. He can be sweet sometimes but I can't get use to it. It only happens once in a million years.

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"Jessica" I heard a voice as someone sat on the edge of my bed. My eyes jolted open and I turned over to face the person.

"Can you sit up?" Nick asked. I obeyed and scooted closet to the head board. He handed me a pill and some water. I took it and swallowed it. Wait- what if he just poisoned me? Nah.

"I got you some food" he handed me a McDonald's bag. "Thanks" i said and grabbed the brown bag.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked him. "Doing what?" He asked. "Being nice"

"Well your sick" he said.

"Nick" I went to grab his hand but his voice made me stop.

"I'm only doing this because we're being forced to date. I don't like you, Jessica" his words burned a hole in my heart. I pulled my hand back and looked away from him.

"Well I'm definitely not doing this because I want to" I fired back.

"Jess- I don't want this. We both know we can't stand each other. I'm just trying to be nice but we both know there never will be an us" he said. Tears threatened to come out.

"Go" I mumbled.

"Jess I-"

"I said go" I cut him off. He slowly stood up and looked down at me but I kept my eyes on my hands that were in my lap. He left and shut my door.

And to think I had hope about us.

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"Jess do you want anything to eat?" Edwin asked as he poked his head in my door.

"No, I'm not hungry" I said from my bed. I haven't left my room all day nor eaten, well besides what Nick bought me but I didn't eat all of it.

"Jess, you haven't left your room all day. Are you okay?" He asked as he walked further into my room.

"Fine" I mumbled and whipped the tears from my eyes with a tissue I had.

"Honey there's tissues everywhere" Edwin said as he started cleaning them out of my bed and throwing them in the bin next to my desk.

"I'm sick" I said and pulled the covers up closer to me.

"Need anything?" He asked once he was done.

"No" I said and he nodded and left.

Nick's pov

"Man what's wrong with Jess? She hasn't left her room and she isn't eating anything" Edwin said as he walked down the stairs.

"She doesn't feel good, I think she has a really bad cold" Brandon said from the kitchen.

I'm such a d-

Knock knock

"I'll get it" I said as I stood up and opened the door. Tayler was standing on the other side of it.

"What do you want?" I snapped.

"Uh, Jess she um-"

"Yeah, she's sick and isn't wanting any company. Bye" I said and shut the door in his face. Yeah I know he likes her and he isn't gonna get her.

Wait what?!

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