Chapter 2
The next morning the phone ran. Nat picked it up.
“Hello?” She said sleepily.
“Is Nick there?”
“Yeah hold on.”
She hit Nick with the phone.
“Owe. What?”
“Phone.”
“Oh... Thanks.” He said as she handed the phone to him.
“Hello?” He said into the phone.
“Hi Nick.”
“Ashley? How did you get this number?”
“School.”
“Oh. Okay.”
“Any ways, what are we going to do today?”
“I have to go to some birthday party.”
“Oh. Okay then we can do something tomorrow?”
“Yeah sure.”
“How did you sleep?”
“Okay. You?”
“All right. Where did you sleep?”
Nick looked at Nat and smiled. She was trying to sleep. He started to play with her hair. Nat tried to make him stop by hitting him. He just laughed and did it anyway.
“On the floor.” He said on the phone.
“Oh. Well I’ll see you tomorrow at school.”
“All right. Bye.”
“Bye. I love you.”
“Me too.” He said and hung up the phone. He looked at Nat sleeping and blew in her ear.
“Hey what are you doing?” She said.
“Wake up. Sleepy head.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s time to get up.”
“No its not.” She pulled the covers over her head.
“Come on sleepy head wakey wakey.” He pulled the covers all the way off of the bed.
“Nick, I wanna sleepy.”
“You wanna sleepy?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I don’t wanna let you sleep.”
He got on top of her and started to tickle her.
“Come on Nicky stop it!”
“Are you going to call me Nicky?”
“Not unless you stop tickling me.”
He pined her down.
“Promise?”
“I promise.” She said that and started to laugh.
“What are you laughing about?”
“You.”
“What about me?”
“Your breath smells.”
“So? Your not so great smelling right now either.”
“HA. HA. Now het off of me.”
“But I like it up here!”
“But your hurting me.”
“I’m sorry, forgive me?”
“Yeah, of course.”
“Ha, yeah right.”
“It’s true Nick.”
“No. It’s not.”
“So what are you going to do if it’s not?”
“Come here.”
“She went up to him from underneath him.”
“So what now?”
Nick pulled her into a kiss and they kissed. After they finished kissing Nat got up and went to the bathroom.
Nick lay back into the bed and felt his lips and slowly went back to sleep.
Nat got out of the bathroom and saw Nick sleeping there so she squirted some water from her water gun.
“Hey!” Nick said wiping the water off his face.
“Wake up. You woke me up so wake up.”
“No, sleep for Nick!”
“Nick go wash up and go downstairs to eat right now.”
“Okay, Okay. I’m up.”
Nat went downstairs and pulled out some cereal and started to eat.
“Her mom came downstairs.
“How’s your eye doing?”
“All right, Nick told you?”
“Yeah, you know that you can come to me and tell me what happened.”
“I know, I guess Nick is a little easier to talk to. Sorry mom.”
“Its all right, as long as you talk to someone about it.”
“Yeah.”
“By the way where is Nick?”
“Upstairs slowly getting up again.”
“Shouldn’t you make him something to eat? Since he stayed with you?”
“Like I can cook. The only thing I can make is pudding.”
“And it’s still watery.” Nick said as he walked in.
“I love you too.”
Nick came up to her and gave Nat a kiss on the check and hugged her.
“Same hear. Hi Mom!”
“Hi Nick, How are you?”
“Alright. How about you?”
“Same. Help yourself to anything since someone being mean and won’t cook you anything.”
“That’s okay. Everyone has at least one bad point.” Nick said smiling at Nat.
“Well you two have fun. I’m going down to Aunt Samie’s. I’ll be back tomorrow.”
“Okay. Bye Mom.”
“Bye. Be good. Both of you be good.”
“Bye mom.” Nick said.
She walked out. Nick sat down bringing his food with him. Nat kind of just started at her unfinished bowl of cereal.
“What’s the matter?” Nick asked.
“I was just thinking.”
“About?”
“What you said.”
“What I said?”
“Yeah how you said everyone has at least one bad point.”
“But its true.”
“But I mean I’ve got more than one at least.”
“Well, that’s normal. A few is okay.”
“No, Its more than a few Nick.”
“Don’t say that Nat. Its not true.”
“Yes, It is I mean I can’t cook. I can barley break up with a guy who beats me. I hate it.”
“Nat?”
“Yeah.”
“Just say the word and I’ll do it for you.”
“I’ll think about it.”
“You’ve already done that.”
“What do you mean by that.”
“I mean...” He got cut off by the phone.
“Hold on I’ll get it.”
Nat walked over to the phone and picked it up.
“Hello?”
“Hey Nat.”
“Hey Bri.”
“So your going to the party today?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Good, I’ll pick you up at six?”
“Yeah sure.”
“Okay. I gotta call Nick.”
“Brian?”
“He’s there?”
“Yup.”
“Just tell him to be at your house at six.”
“Alright.”
“Bye.”
“Goodbye.”
Nat put down the phone and sat back down at the table.
“Now tell me what you meant by that.”
“You hate him, I can tell just by whenever he comes by you, you just turn away. I can tell there’s some type of hate all over you.”
“Yeah, I’m just scared too. Anyway, that was Brian he told me to tell you to be at house at six so he can pick us up.”
“For what?” He asked.
“The birthday party. You should know about it you turned down Ashley for it.”
“Yeah I know.”
“What did you expect not to go?”
“No, not really.”
“Okay.”
“So what are you going to do about Don?”
“Avoid him for now.”
“Then if he comes up to you.”
“I’ll say bye. I guess.”
“Go you.”
“So what did you want to do with me?”
“Stay home rest your eye.”
“Okay. TV?”
“Just what I was thinking,”
“Lets go.”
They spent the rest of the day until five watching TV and talking. Nick left to change while Nat went upstairs to change.