Edge Of Seventeen Nick x Nadine

Chapter 7

(A/N: So, if anybody is actually still reading this I wanna let you know this is really old and I didn't really know how to write good fanfiction ((I still don't really feel like I know how)) but anywho I did my best I think I wrote this two years ago, anyways credit goes to RosieAsRose for starting this and I kinda wanted to finish it, sorry if it wasn't their vision if their reading this)

Nadine (P.O.V)

"Nadine!"

I turn to see Nick grabbing my arm and drag me away in the opposite direction. I assume they are heading where they might usually skip.

After a while, we see a few people with a bottle of wine. Obviously grown-ups. "sick dude! let's steal it!" Nick suggests. "but how do we get it without them noticing!?" "I have an idea, babe why don't we get Nadine to distract them while I snag the wine?" Becca suggests. 

WHAT?

"I do not think that is the best idea.." "Oh come one Nadine! One time?" Alyssia asks. Nick makes eye contact with me.

"YES" I blurt, I guess Nicks eye contact can be persuasive. I walk over and pretend I am having heart problems, I collapse. I stay there for about three minutes until I hear Becca running back away I assume with the wine. "HEY! Wow, I feel so much better now thank you so much! You saved my life!" I say as I run away.

"That was a hell of a performance, Franklin!" Clarence tells me as he takes a sip of the wine. "I could use a drink for keeping up with you guys!" I say as I take a sip. I make the most normal face and pretend that I liked it. "Hey, where did Nick and Becca go?" I ask as I pass the wine to Erin. "Probably making out somewhere in this forest.," Nathan adds and we all laugh. Our town had a forest on the edges of the town and with several little cliffs, course you could still drive down and head to more places but our city was BIG. "I will go check up on Nick and Becca" I propose as I walk to find them, I follow the sound of their incredibly faint voices. I have really good hearing, so I guess that comes in handy sometimes. I hear it get louder. Like they are yelling at each other. I find them and hide behind a tree. 

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE BREAKING UP WITH ME!?!?"

"BECCA. YOU ARE A WHORE. A. WHORE. NOT ONCE HAVE WE GONE ON A DATE AND NOT HAVE SEX" 

"AND YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT!?? YOU ASKED ME TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND. YOU ASKED ME TO TAKE MY VIRGINITY. YOU ASKED ME TO LEAVE MY FRIENDS AND STAY WITH YOU!!!"

She kind of has a point...

"I NEVER ASKED IF WE COULD HAVE SEX THE FIRST TIME IT JUST HAPPENED! AND YOU LET IT HAPPEN!"

"YOU CAN NOT BREAK UP WITH ME!"

"I JUST DID!"

"OHHH. I SEE NOW. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. YOU THINK I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH SO YOU WANT TO BANG NADINE"

"THAT'S NOT-"

"IF ANYTHING YOU ARE THE ONE BEING A- A POON HOUND"

"PLEASE REBECCA. I KNOW YOU SLEEP WITH THE WHOLE SCHOOL FOR MONEY"

"YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO RUSH INTO THINGS WITH NADINE. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. BECAUSE I KNOW HER. SHE IS AN INNOCENT GIRL AND YOU ARE JUST A-"

I made sure to clear my throat loud enough for them to hear. Nick and Becca turn. 

"Nadine... You were not supposed to-"

"Save it. Maybe Becca is right. You are a poon hound." I say as I run past them to one of the mountain ledges. I cry until I do not even know how long. I estimate about five minutes until I hear Nicks calm voice.

Nick (P.O.V)

Becca was right.

I do like Nadine. But I do not want to use her like I used Becca. I was in the wrong to do that.

I need to convince Nadine that what I feel to her is true. And not just me wanting sex. I take a deep breath, and start to speak to Nadines turned back, she is curled up into a little ball sobbing. I feel so bad.

"Nadine..."

"GO AWAY NICK!"

"Nadine... Please listen to me..."

"Everyone in my life always lets me down! Why should you be any different!?"

"Nadine." I put my hand on her arm gently. She jerks her head up and I see tear marks on her cheeks. She does not wear thick clumpy mascara as Becca does but they were crystal outlined which made me feel worse.

So innocent and so fragile.

Like a little bird that fell out of its nest.

"Nadine... Let me start off by saying what Becca said was true but As much as I had known you..."

"We barely know each other."

"Okay, okay... But we have science together and I have seen you help other people and being so sweet to others..." 

"What is your point?"

"My point is I like you! A lot! And when I was dating Becca I was not really in love with her... I was dating her because I never thought that you liked me back, and she was lonely so-"

"it was blind desperation" she finishes my sentence as she sits on her knees and looks at me. 

"I have been there too..." she whispers. "Do you really mean that?"

"Of course I mean it, you are the real thing, Nadine... Becca is fake... You are as real as it gets. caring, nice, responsible, incredibly sweet, beautiful without any makeup, so innocent it is adorable and so outrageously hot"

"Outrageously hot, huh?"

"See how I listed that as the last thing? That is the last thing I care about."

I take a breath.

"Nadine Franklin... Will you-"

"be your girlfriend? On one condition..."

"Anything."

"Do not pressure me to do anything. I am not a sex doll so do not treat me like one. I will love and respect you as long as you do the same." She asked in such a timid voice. Becca was the one to always ask for things. Sex just happened between us but it never had any meaning to us.

I now realize Nadine and I are inches from each other's faces and she is waiting for an answer. I put my hand on her cheek.

"I could never do that to the girl I have been crushing on all school year" I vow. Nadine smiled her small innocent one, It made me want to make our first kiss happen quicker. 

"good" she whispers. She lets me pull her closer until our lips graze. They land in a soft kiss. Nadine's lips were soft with the taste of vanilla. I can not stop comparing her to Becca.

How much more perfect she is than her.

Becca and I never had any soft ones like this. It was like one of us was dying. I sensed Nadine's energy. She was calm and relaxed. She trusted my word. 

That was the best feeling in the world.