Gifted Children

Chapter 17

Isabelle woke up by Nick but realized it was only four in the morning. She decided not to wake up Nick since he was sleeping so well. She got out of bed, but in doing so, Nick slowly opened his eyes from the sudden shifting of the mattress.

"What are you doing, Izzy? It's four in the morning," Nick groggily said, still half asleep.

"I-I just woke up and, um, I wasn't able to go back to sleep."

Nick sat up, rubbed his eyes and chuckled a little.

"Well, looks like I'm up too."

"Nick, you really don't have to do that. You can just go back to-" Isabelle was interrupted by Nick.

"I'm not letting you be alone for another four to five hours, Izzy," Nick said as he stood up and walked over to her. He wrapped his arms around her back. He never realized how small Isabelle was compared to him until now.

"And what are we supposed to do with those 4 hours, huh?" Isabelle asked him with raised eyebrows.

"We could just watch a movie, or go and eat, or play a video game, or dance," Nick gave her a multitude of options.

"Dance to what?" Isabelle asked him with a smile.

"I don't know, whatever you want. Here," Nick told her, "I have a speaker in my bag.

Nick got his speaker and let Isabelle connect to it with her phone. She clicked on a song, and "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran came on.

"Slow song, huh?" Nick walked back over to her and put his arms around her back.

"You betcha," Isabelle told him as she gave him a small peck on the lips.

They swayed to the song, just holding each other in their arms.

After about 6 other songs, "Dead Inside (Interlude)" by XXXTentacion came on, and Isabelle became to hum along with it. Nick's hold on Isabelle tightened a small bit. Isabelle looked up at Nick with calm but happy eyes. Nick looked down at her and kissed her on the forehead. 

"I love you, Isabelle Heims," Nick said as he looked at her with dreamy eyes.

"I love you too, Nicholas Davenport."

Isabelle rested her head on Nick's chest. She just realized that he didn't have a shirt on. 

"You are incredibly beautiful, you know that?" Nick looked at her, almost amazed.

Isabelle playfully hit him on the chest. 

"Hey, what was that for?" Nick laughed.

Isabelle just blushed and looked down. Nick suddenly got a bit more serious.

"Hey," he said as he picked her chin up, "You are beautiful. You know that right?"

Isabelle just smiled.

"I'm telling the truth," Nick insisted.

"Fine, I believe you," Isabelle said as she rolled her eyes. But Nick knew that she wasn't actually annoyed. She was smiling too much.

"Good," Nick said as he buried his face in the crook of her neck. 

"What are you doing?" Isabelle smiled.

"I don't know, I just wanted to get closer to you," Isabelle felt Nick smile as he still held her.

"There was no space between us anyway," Isabelle looked at him with a quizzical look.

Nick just shrugged his shoulders. Isabelle laughed.

"You're a dork, Nick."

"But," Nick brought his head back up, "You still love me, right?"

Isabelle kissed him, then said, "Of course."

Nick pumped his fist into the air while saying, "Yes!"

Isabelle laughed, and the two just looked into each other's eyes. Nick moved his hands from Isabelle's waist to her jaw. He looked at her without saying anything and bit his lip. 

"What?" Isabelle asked him.

"I just like looking at you," he explained to her.

Isabelle blushed again. It just made Nick bite his lip again.

"Here, let me go and get something," Nick said excitedly as he grabbed the room card.

"Can I come with?" Isabelle asked him, slightly hurt that he was so ready to leave. Nick walked back over to her.

"Hey, trust me. I'll come right back. I just have a surprise," he said as he kissed her on the forehead. Isabelle smiled, and Nick went out of the room. 

Isabelle checked her phone and saw that they had gotten two hours down. It was now six in the morning. She couldn't think of what Nick had planned. She watched a little T. V., and after about 15 minutes she started to get anxious. She wondered if he had hurt himself. Finally, he came back.

"I thought you weren't gonna come back," Isabelle teased Nick.

"Sorry. It took me longer than I thought it would," he said as he hugged her. He held her hand and grabbed his speaker. He led her out of the door and led her up the stairs.

"Where are we going, babe?" Isabelle cheerfully asked him.

"You'll just have to wait and see."

Nick kept leading her up the stairs until they got to the top of the hotel. Isabelle's jaw dropped when she saw the scene on the roof.

There was a blanket with snacks and fruit in the middle, with fairy lights all around. 

Nick turned around to face Isabelle.

"So do you like it?" he asked her with an anticipating smile.

"Like it? Nick, I absolutely love it!" She said as she gave him a big hug.

"I thought since we'd be up for a while we might as well get a good view when the sun starts coming up," he said as he hugged her back.

"Where did you get the fairy lights, though?"

"That's what took me so long. I had to look in the gift shop," he said with a small chuckle.

He took her hand and led her to the blanket. They both laid down, Isabelle on Nick's chest. Nick put his arm around Isabelle and then grabbed an apple.

"You want one?" he held up another apple.

Isabelle took the apple with a smile.

"Did you steal these from the lobby?"

"Yep," Nick said as he took a bite.

Isabelle laughed. They laid together for a while, but all of a sudden she felt her phone buzz. It was Markus.

Markus: Let's go.

Isabelle's face went serious. 

"What?" Nick said, noticing Isabelle's face.

"We're leaving for New York."