Ghosts Aren't Real. sapnap

7. pandanap

sapnap

I look over at Alex, who is still sleeping but replaced my cat with a pillow. ‘I don't
understand this person’ I thought with a smile shaking my head. I pick her up and I carry her to my room. I place her down on my bed and cover her up. I hesitate for a second before leaving the room. I decided to leave a note for when she wakes up. Satisfied with my note I set it down and headed to my living room. I make some food for me and Alex. I made some pancakes and eggs since it was still fairly early. Then I waited for Alex to wake up.

Alex

I wake up in an unfamiliar place. I look around “Oh yeah. I'm in Texas” I say to myself setting my feet on the ground. I look at the table beside the bed and I read the note.

My dearest Alex who loves ghosts,
When you wake up. I will give you a hug you can remember.
My cat doesn't like you. She told me :)
I’ll be in the living room. Come see me when you wake up
~Nick ♥
P.s Ghosts aren't real

I chuckle at the note and I fold it up. I walk around the room before going downstairs. His  room is pretty clean, surprisingly. I open the door and Nick must have heard it because he looked over at me.
“Sorry for passing out. It's hard to sleep without having my comfort object.” I say
laughing a little. Nick pat down on the seat next to him and I walked over to sit down.
“You know you could have brought your giraffe.” He said. I shake my head no.
“You would have made fun of me” I say quietly so that he wouldn't hear me.
“Do you really think I would make fun of you? You're the coolest person I ever met. A stuffed animal is not going to change my views on you.” He says jokingly punching me at the end. I give him a side hug. Kinda awkward but it was comforting. “Can you play me a song on your ukulele now?” He asked. I laugh getting up and grabbing it. I tune it quickly and play 3 cords.

“What song?” I ask looking at his eyes. He smiled and I immediately knew. “You're such a dork you know that.” I say jokingly, rolling my eyes and starting to play the chords.

‘Step one, you say we need to talk
He walks, you say sit down, it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left, and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life’

I stop playing and a tear slipped from my eyes. This song brings me so much comfort
and being able to play it with the person who brings me comfort was very overwhelming.
“Alex, that was amazing! You have such a great voice. I could listen to it all the time.” He says with a hint of passion. I laugh as I put my ukulele back in it's case.
“Well thank you. You're the only person that has heard me sing. I don't like to play
around people” I say.”You got any food? I'm as hungry as a ghost.” Nick laughs and walks into the kitchen and brings back 2 plates full of pancakes and eggs.
“I made us some food.” He says handing me a plate and a fork. I start laughing and ate my food while we watched the movie that was on the TV. After we put all my stuff away and joked we got bored.
“What do you wanna do?” I ask, “You're the Texas master” I let out a small laugh. He checked his phone. I got a text from a group chat.
“Theres nothing really to do right now. It's a monday so everything is closed.” He says. I sigh out of boredom.
“Can we go bowling or something?” I ask and he smiled.
“Alex you are a genius!” He says jumping up from the couch. “I'm gonna beat you in bowling!” He yells as I run and get my shoes on. I wait for him at the door while I have my phone and ready.
“Come on slowpoke!” I yell as I text George and Clay. We where getting to know each other even more than we do. Clay still doesn't want me to see his face. I'm okay with that, I told him to take his time. George sent me a meme of Nick. I had to hold my laughter back. I finally see Nick walk out of his room, changed out of his sweatpants and baggy clothes. I didn't change because I don't really care what I look like. We walk out to his car and it's like a 30 minute drive.
“I wanna play my music.” I say.
“No, I wanna play my music!” He whines. We both jokingly argue, I cave and let him play his music. We joke and vibe to the music. We finally get to the bowling alley and get our shoes. We walked through an arcade into the alley.
“On our way out we should play in the arcade” I say, and Nick agrees. We get to our lane and start to bowl. I started out with knocking down 7 pins
“Boom!” I yell as Nick starts to laugh. He goes up and bowls a strike.
“Boom back to you!” He yells. We both continue bowling and bullying each other. At the end Nick had beat me. “You suck.” He says. I laugh as we turned our shoes in and get tokens for the arcade. We played a basketball game and ski ball. We spun the wheel game and just had fun. At the end we had 532 tickets. Nick had went to the counter to get something for the both of us. I was waiting on a bench and he was taking a while. I just went on my phone and scrolled through my twitter. He finally walked over to the bench and sat down.
“So I couldn't find anything I want but I got you something.” He said, pulling out a panda stuffed animal.
“Nick,” I say in shock, “You didn't have to.” I grab the animal and hug him.
“I had to. You couldn't sleep without it” He says letting go of me. I look into his eyes as my eyes start to water. “Don't cry!” He says pulling me into another hug. “You hungry? We can get some food” I shake my head yes as I wipe my tears away.
“Chick-Fil-A?” I ask and he agrees. We drive to one and get some food. We get back to
his house and eat the food while watching Adventure Time. My Pick. I yawn and try to hide it.
“You tired? You can go to sleep, it's late. I get it you had a long flight.” He says and I
agree. I hold my panda tight and lay my head on Nicks lap. “Hey I wanna ask you something but you don't have to answer… why do you need something to hold while you sleep?” He says softly. I pull the panda closer to me.
“It's my anxiety.. I always had held something while I sleep and I can't without it. It's weird I know” I say closing my eyes and trying to fall asleep. Nick had just been watching the tv and played with my hair. After a while we both ended up falling asleep, both of my pandas close to me.