Julie and the Phantoms imagines and prefrences

trust [Nick X Reader]

Friday was the variety show at school.
Me and the girls were practicing in the music room when Carrie walked in.
She scoffed at us and turned around.
Nick had been following her, he gave me an awkward smile and waved, following her.
"When will he break up with her and admit he has a thing for you?" Kaylei says behind me, shes spinning her drumsticks around her fingers.
I scoff at her and start laughing.
"What's so funny?" She asks me.
"Nick? Carrie's arm candy? Okay I know that you tend to think the best of people but that's just insane. People dont change." I say.
"Well I think he could." Kaylei says.
"Nope. Never gonna happen. After he got rejected by julie hes been with carrie. All he does is follow her around like a lost puppy and let's her be mean to his friends. He literally acts like he doesnt see her flirting with his lacrosse teammates everytime they're around them."
"Sounds like you pay alot of attention to him. Do you like him?" Emma teases tuning her guitar.
"I do not. I was friends with him for years and then he pushed me away when she felt threatened by me. Which should have been a major red flag. He broke every promise he had ever made me in our five year friendship. And then when he liked julie he came to me asking for advice and I helped him, thinking that maybe he had really changed. Then she rejected him and he went running back to carrie and forgot about me again, just when I was starting to trust him. I would never like him in a million years." I rant.
"That's not what you said before Carrie." Lav mumbles picking at a string on her bass.
"Well that was when we were friends. Now let's practice and stop talking about this." I practically yell.
They all look at eachother and start playing.
I play my guitar and sing with so much anger and passion I thought I might break the strings.
Not that it would've mattered.
We finished practicing and I walked out to my brothers car. He still had like an hour of practice and he forgot to give me the keys so I was just stuck standing there.
"Need a ride home?" I hear a voice say causing me to jump.
"I'm fi-" I start but then I see that its Nick and I stop talking. I walk away from him, and he runs after me.
He grabs my arm and I turn to look at him giving him a pointed look.
He let's go and opens his mouth to apologize but I dont give him a chance.
All of my anger takes over and I samck him in the face. Two times.
I want to apologize but at the same time it felt good to finally let my anger towards him out.
He holds his hand to his face.
"Okay yeah I deserved that." He says.
"Damn straight." I say in a monotone voice.
I walk away from him towards my brothers car, I try opening the door but remember its locked.
I slam my fist on the window.
"God can this day get any frickin worse!" I yell.
"Are you okay?" Nick says behind me.
I turn to him, the pure fury in my eyes making him shrink away from me.
"Now you wanna ask me if I'm okay?" I say, he doesnt know what to say.
I turn from him and start walking.
"Isnt your house like three miles from here?" He asks me.
I dont acknowledge him.
I keep walking.
I here his footsteps behind me get quieter and I think that hes finally learned to take a hint.
But then a car drives up next to me.
"I'm not letting you walk to your house alone." Nick says, his voice forceful. Full of determination.
This boy.
"Watch me." I say and continue walking.
"Y/n!" He calls after me.
I dont answer. I keep walking. Theres a turn up ahead of me. It's a few feet away when the car turns blocking my way across the street.
"Come on! I know I messed but let me explain!" He says stepping out of the car.
"No." I go to walk around the car that's in my way, but he blocks me from moving. I step to the side but he does too.
We do this for a while before I give up.
"I get control of the radio." I say passing him to sit in the passenger seat of the car.
"Call your brother tell him you'll be home late." Nick says.
I give him a look.
"I have a lot to explain." He says simply. I nod and tell my brother that I went somewhere with friends.
I turn to the radio but nick covers it with his hand.
I give him a look that says what!?
He gives my seatbelt a pointed look and I roll my eyes.
I put on my seatbelt.
"Happy?" I ask him.
"Very much so." He says giving me the same level of sarcasm.
I have to suppress a smile.
We drive around for a bit before he says something.
"I didnt wanna date her in the first place y'know." He says turning a corner, his eyes focused on the road.
"Well then why did you?" I ask him not looking at him for a second.
"I dont know. I really dont. Life was good, me and you were best friends, I was doing good in school and in sports. I guess I just got greedy, wanted more than I had."
"You never could just settle could you?" I say looking out the window.
"Apparently not. I want to though. I want things to be how they were before carrie."
"Me too but it's not possible."
"And why is that?"
"Because we've both changed and you're still with carrie and even if you did break up with her you would get back with her again."
"I would not!"
"That's what you said last time and here we are!" I practically yell.
This boy is getting on my last nerve.
"Well this time it would stick. I'm sure of it."
"Nick, you say that every time you guys break up and its incredibly toxic."
"But I would be telling the truth this time."
"People dont change so easily Nicholas!" I yell.
"How would you know you've never given them the chance!"
"Yes I have! Last time you and carrie broke up you came running back to me and I helped you and when you failed you ran right back to her! So I'm sorry if I font exactly trust you!" I say. I feel like crying but I refuse to let myself.
"I'm sorry, I just-I- I dont know. It just happened. It's not like I wanted it too."
"I was your best friend and you were all I had in the world. I lost you and you came running back and when I lost you again it hurt like hell. I refuse to put myself through that again." I say. I'm crying. I hate that I'm crying.
Nick finally looks at me.
He takes in the tears on my face, the fact that I'm wearing all neutrals, and I think he finally realizes just how much I changed in the last few years.
"You're so different." He mumbles.
"Yeah, I know." I say quietly. I wipe my nose with my sleeve.
He pulls over and turns towards me.
He moves my head so that I'm looking up at him.
He wipes my tears off with his thumb and looks at me.
"I dont wanna hurt you again, but I need a chance to prove to you and myself that I'm still a good person." I just look at him, im mulling over his words in my head when he whispers, "please?"
I wrap him in a hug. I bury my head into his neck.
He hugs me back.
"You always did give the best hugs." He laughs.
"Are you gonna break up with her?" I ask him, pulling away.
"God yes. It's like I'm a mute puppet, she talks for me and chooses things for me, it's very exhausting." He complains making me laugh.
We talk for a bit more before his phone rings.
I look at the screen to se Carrie's contact pop up. Her name is just Carrie Wilson.
I pull out my phone. I still have his number, never had the heart to get rid of it.
Ya gonna answer it?
I text to him.
The text pops up at the top of the screen.
Y/n/n🙃♡♡
I look at my contact name and smile.
He hasn't changed it.
"No. No I'm not." He says declining the call and putting his phone in his pocket.
"What's with my contact name?"
"Whaddya mean?"
"I dont know. I mean after you stopped talking to me I kept you in my phone but i changed your name to just Nicholas. It used to be Nicky."
"I dont know. Guess I just hoped that we would still be friends someday so I kept it."
"Whys there a heart next to it?" I ask him. It ised to just be the upside down smiley face.
"Oh uh no reason."
"Uh huh. Sure."
"What are you on about?"
"Nothing, just nothing." I say laughing.
"No what?"
"Did you like ever like me when we were younger?"
"Well of course I liked you."
"No not like that I mean like- like like."
His eyes widen and his voice goes up an octave as he shakes his head, "no."
"That's a lie. You really are a terrible liar."
"Okay maybe just a little."
"When?"
"I dont know I just know that it sort of stuck with me."
"Do you still like me?" I ask quietly.
He doesnt answer for a second.
He doesnt answer verbally at all actually. Just kisses me.
I pull away a bit.
"What was that?" I ask smiling.
"Umm... uhh..."
I laugh at his lack of words and lean in, kissing him.
He reciprocates immediately.
He moves his hand to my waist, and my fingers move through his hair.
When we finally pull away we both smile.
"Carrie's gonna murder me."
"Who cares what shes gonna do? As far as I'm concerned she doesnt even exist." He says nudging me.
I laugh and kiss him again.
"You better get me home or my brothers gonna kill you."
He pulls away and starts driving while I laugh at him.
I missed him