familiar? (𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕝𝕠)

24

"i'll think about it." max says simply. chris smiles at him before standing up.

"wanna go hang with everyone else?" he asks.

"sure. i feel like i haven't seen them for ages." max laughs, following behind chris.

they walk out the hotel room and knock on audrey and kennedys room door.

they wait a few seconds before audrey opens the door.

"why hello. fancy seeing you two." she smiles sweetly.

"hey audrey." chris walks in the room, "hey guys." chris sits down on the bed, max sitting next to him.

nick looks over at chris and can instantly tell he's tense. he doesn't know why, but he knows his brother. somethings on his mind.

he pulls out his phone and texts matt

nick
hey-
is everything good with chris

mattyB
yeah?
why?
is something wrong?

nick
he just seems kinda tense
that's all

mattyB
he does?

nick
yeah-

mattyB
the boys and i are coming

nick puts his phone down and waits for the knock at the door. when it comes he springs up off the ground and rushes towards the door.

"hello friends, come in." nick says to vincent and art.

"hey nick." art says giving him a hug. nick returns the hug, he's missed art. it's been not even 24hrs since he saw him, but so much has happened, he really needs to talk to him.

once the two boys walk past him, he makes eye contact with matt. matt looks at him confused, he looks over nicks shoulder to take a look at chris.

"oh shit." matt whispers to nick.

"yeah. i have no idea what's wrong."

matt knows what's wrong. it has to be about max. that was what he was doing in the hotel room right? it must've not gone well.

"do you know why he could be acting like that?" nick asks. matt tries to think of a valid excuse so nick will drop the subject.

"umm, no i'm not sure." matt says not coming up with anything. nick looks at him skeptical for a moment, matt knows something he doesn't. he just doesn't know what.

"matt, nick. what the fuck are you doing?" vincent chuckles. he's sat on the ground, sitting up against the end of audrey's bed.

"sorry." nick says. he walks away from matt. "this conversation isn't over." nick whispers before he goes and sits down next to kennedy. he gets comfortable by resting his head on kennedys shoulder.

"hey nicky." kennedy says putting her hand on his knee.

"hey ken." nick smiles.

"you ok?" she asks softly.

"yeah, just tired." nick closes his eyes.

"how come?" she starts to draw comforting circles on his knee.

"late night." he sighs at the memories of last night.

kennedy notices that his eyes are shut and just lets him rest.

matt looks at the two and smiles. they're friendship has always been so pure. they've never gotten into an argument, well at least a serious one.

matt looks away from the two friends and meets eyes with chris. nick was right, he is rather on edge.

you alright? matt asks with his eyes.

yeah chris responds, not verbally of course.

matt looks at him like he doesn't believe him. chris rolls his eyes before pulling out his phone

krisp
i promise i'm fine

mattyB
u sure?

krisp
yeah?

mattyB
you don't seem so sure

krisp
max just kinda freaked out when i asked about nick

mattyB
about asking him out?

krisp
yeah...

mattyB
shit

krisp
it's ok though
he said he'd think about it

mattyB
well that's good?

krisp
yeah
it's all good now
if i seem tense, i promise im fine
trust me

mattyB
ok
i believe you

krisp
thank you :)

matt looked over at over at chris and smiled. chris smiled back, a small sigh leaving his lips.

they just wanted nick to be happy, that's all they've ever wanted.

helloooooo
i hope you enjoyed this chapter! it was a little filler but got a little more of the storyline.
thing are gonna happen quiet quickly because i get bored quickly and if there isn't something important happening i procrastinate writing. so shits gonna happen pretty fast, j hope that's ok. but dw, it won't be TOO quick

thanks again for the support, it means so much :)