Let me take care of you

Hold my hand

(Not me reading heartstopper for the 5th time 0_0)

Charlie waved goodbye to Tori, as per usual, and was about to walk into school. Suddenly Nick popped out of nowhere, making Charlie jump,
"Hey Charlie!" Nick said cheerfully, walking up to the other boy almost in an urgent way.
"Hi..?" He replied, confused. Nick smiled,
"Me and Tao are still arguing over the chips, I was banished from the table." Nick lied. Well, partly lied, he was banished from the table, but he was waiting at the gates on purpose. He just wanted to make sure Charlie was safe at all times, and since he knew Charlie walked past, them, he just wanted to make sure nothing happened.

Charlie laughed,
"Of course, well could you stop arguing with my friend before a war breaks out between my friend group? Please?" Charlie asked, giggling. Nick rolled his eyes,
"Maybe." He replied. The two boys chuckled, Nick standing close to Charlie as they walked through the gates. As they walked past his ex-friends, Nick looked over and saw them all smirking and whispering, talking to eachother. Nick gave the boys an evil glare, making sure they knew he was watching them. They looked back at Nick, Harry and him made eye contact, Harry stocking his tongue out at him like a five-year old. Nick rolled his eyes once more and entered the school.

The two walked over to their other friends, Tao glaring at Nick in an annoyed way. Nick smiled back and sat down next to Issac, right Infront of Tao, Charlie sat next to Tao.
"Why are you back Nick? I banished you!" Tao said, pointing back to where he came from.
"Come on Tao this is all over some chip flavours. Stop it and let's enjoy ourselves before the bell ends."  Charlie said sternly, placing a hand on his face. Issac nodded, looking up from his book,
"You don't know how much of a struggle it has been reading while these two throw cheap insult's at eachother." Tao slammed his fist down,
"Issac I swear to god do not get me started!" He almost shouted, growling at Issac. Issac was unphased and the two other friends just laughed.

Tao stayed grumpy after that, pouting in his little corner while the other friends just talked about random things, and Nick ranted about how good Charlie was at video games,
"Like cut me some slack! I just want to win once!" He said. Charlie shook his head,
"And hurt my pride? Never!" Charlie laughed, crossing his arms. Tao nodded in agreement,
"Yeah, Charlie never goes easy on anyone, it's the one thing he is very competitive about." Tao simply said, making everyone laugh,
"Yeah well, I like video games okay?" He said, shrugging, everybody laughed.

The bell went of signaling for them to get to their forms. Everybody said goodbye to eachother, Issac and Yap disappearing into the sea of students trying to get to class. Nick spotted Harry and his gang, it looked like they were coming their way to get to their forms. Nick thought quickly, grabbing Charlie's hand and lifting him up, Charlie blushed but was confused,
"Nick, you good?" Charlie asked, as Nick squeezed his hand tighter and led him though the crowd, suddenly he got an idea,
"Ooh! Charlie let's race!" Nick said, speeding up. Charlie raised an eyebrow, picking up his pace,
"Really? Fine, let's do this." Charlie sped through the crowd, getting way ahead of Nick, and dragging him along by the hand. Nick didn't mind this though, in fact he was blushing, Charlie was so excited, he was also so cute when competitive, his face would late up and he would have an adorable determined look on his face.

They crashed into the form room, almost falling over in the speed Charlie ran into the door. People stared at them as they made such a grand entrance, making the two boys burst out laughing,
"Nick! Charlie! Go to your seats! Stop disturbing the class." The form tutor said, pouting to their seats in the corner of the classroom. Boys sniggered along with Charlie and Nick as they nodded and went to their seats.

The teacher cleared his voice and continued what he was doing, which was the start of the register, the two boys laughed for a little while before smirking at eachother and trying not to laugh,
"This is your fault!" Charlie whispered, pretending to be mad,
"I told you you couldn't run straight into the door!" Nick said, rolling his eyes. Charlie looked down in frustration,
"Yeah well you didn't try to stop me!" He said, crossing his arms. Nick shrugged,
"You've got to learn." Nick replied, shrugging. Charlie growled,
"Oh you!-"
"Boys stop distracting the class! Do you want to be moved?" The form tutor said, placing the register back down and glaring at them. Both boys shook there heads, quickly going quiet apart from a couple of laughs.

Then Charlie's phone vibrated, Charles immediate instinct was to quietly check it under the table, usually being covered by Nick. But Nicks own instincts kicked in, one of paranoia, as he immediately assumed it was another one of Harry's mates calling Charlie names.

He grabbed Charlie's phone, Charlie was confused,
"Hey! Nick! Give me back my phone!" He said, louder than expected. Nick grasped the phone tight, not realising what he was really doing. The teacher snapped his head back at the two,
"That's it! Both of you outisde, I'll speak to you two in a moment." He snapped at them. Both boys went silent, Nick hid the phone. The two boys both stood up silently, getting ooo's and glares from the other students.

Nick closed the door behind him gently, not being the type to slam doors. He heard the teacher sigh from the other side of the door, before in incomprehensible register continued.

Charlie snatched his phone back, making Nick flinch and try to take it back, this made Charlie confused and annoyed,
"Nick what's your problem?! Why are you acting so weird?" He asked. Nick sighed heavily, running his hand through his hair,
"It's nothing! I'm just... I don't know." Nick tried to explain, but he didn't want to worry Charlie. Charlie's expression softened, as he placed a hand on Nick's back,
"Nick, what's been up with you? It seems like your paranoid about something, and don't tell me your not, cause I can see right through you." Charlie said, moving himself so that he would be facing Nick properly.

Nick sighed once more, looking down,
"I don't know... I'm just, really paranoid... Of Harry, and Ben, and his mates. I just really don't want them to do anything to you." Nick said, voice shaking. Charlie's gasped, he smiled sadly, looking at Nick, staying silent at a moment. He then laughed silently, cupping Nick's face and pulling it to face him. Nick blinked away tears,
"Look, this is something I am only going to say once, I can take care of myself, they won't do anything to me, even if your not there, which lets face it. I'm with you most of the time." Charlie chuckled, he grabbed Nick's hand, squeezing it tight,
"And as long as I can hold you hand, I will feel safe." He said, blushing slightly.

Nick nodded,
"But if something happens to you... I couldn't, it would be my fault." Nick said, squeezing Charlie's hand. Charlie shook his head,
"No it wouldn't be! Nothings going to happen to me okay? I'm always going to be here, with you, don't think things like that." Charlie said, in a strict way, shaking his finger with his free hand. Nick smiled and chuckled softly.

He hugged Charlie, pulling away and kissing him lightly on the lips, both boys blushing. Everyone was in class anyway, no one would see,
"I love you, did you know that?" Nick said, hugging him tight,
"I love you to!!!" Charlie replied, hugging Nick back. Both boys stayed like that for a while, before hearing the door open and pulling away, still standing side by side, still holding hands.

They then proceeded to have a long talk about disrupting classes, to which they both ignored. All they focused on was how much they loved the other boy. And how they would do anything for eachother.

God why were they like this?