Explosion

“Come on, Nudge! Just this one time!” Gazzy pleaded to the dark skinned woman in front of him. 

“For the last time,” Nudge huffed, crossing her arms over her chest. “Gazzy, we are grown adults! It’s time we starting acting like them!” 

Oh, yes. Both of the tiny, scrawny children with wings have grown up into young adults. Nudge was a very tall woman, just a little taller than Max now, with a height of five feet ten inches. She lost her blonde highlighted bangs and had cut her hair short to brush against her chin. Her face lost it’s baby fat and thinned to show the face of a beautiful sophisticated woman.

Gazzy was the one who changed the most, in Nudge’s opinion. Not only had he grown to be six feet, two inches tall (Nudge now had to look up at him and that always annoyed her to no end), but his jaw line made Nudge want to drool. His blue eyes were as piercing as ever and his blonde hair continued to be slightly spiked in the front like it’s been since they were children. 

Nudge thought Gazzy was probably the most attractive man she has ever laid eyes on and it frustrated her that they grew up together because that just means that he most likely sees her as a sister instead of a love interest and life just wasn’t fair and—

Nudge cut off her own thought. She still hadn’t lost her habit of babbling on and on. It was something she was working on. She’d definitely get fired if she babbled mindlessly in front of her boss and accidentally said something that he didn’t like. 

“Come on, Nudge! I’m serious! Just for old times sake?” Gazzy begged once more, his hands clasped in front of him as he bent his knees and his head so that he was at the same height as she was. 

As cute as Gazzy looked when he begged, Nudge refused. “Why don’t you go ask Iggy? You usually blow up things with him, not me!” she argued. 

“Ugh,” Gazzy grumbled. “Iggy’s off to somewhere in California with Ella. He said something about a job offer there that Ella got and he wanted to go with her.” 

Nudge blinked. “But we live in Arizona. You can fly there is probably an hour and a half!” 

Gazzy stood up to his full height and shrugged, shoving his hands in his pockets. “Yeah, but like I said, he’s with Ella and I don’t want to mess anything up.” 

Nudge didn’t say anything, with some restraint, and watched as emotions flickered in Gazzy’s eyes. He was a grown man so attached to Iggy because they had been inseparable since they had all escape from the School. Then suddenly everyone grows up, surviving what everyone thought would be their expiration date, and began to do human things. Everyone went their separate ways and did different things. Even Angel left to go to New York to work for her degree in business. Nudge was the only one left in Arizona with Gazzy and, with Gazzy in his final year of college and Nudge already working the ranks of her job at a fashion magazine, he probably felt so alone. 

Nudge suddenly understood that it wasn’t just the problem that he was bored, Gazzy wanted to relive their childhood where everyone had fun and were together. 

For now, Nudge was all Gazzy had. 

Nudge’s brown eyes softened before she smiled and took Gazzy’s hand. He turned to look at her with wide eyes, a faint blush appearing on his face. “Alright, Gaz. Let’s go blow some shit up.” she then began pulling him towards her car. “But don’t tell my boss about this! It’s illegal and if I get fired, I’ll be ruined in the business of fashion forever!” 

…………………….

Later, Gazzy and Nudge were far out into the desert of Arizona, the back trunk loaded with explosives (where the Hell Gazzy manages to get his hands on these things without the government finding out still baffled Nudge) and setting up whatever Gazzy wanted to do.