Best friends
Chapter 1
Author's notes: This is a Nicki/Tom fanfict set in series 7 episdode 28/29/30 and everything else which happened before e.g. Nicki arriving and Josh finding out he had schizophrenia had all happened like normal and Josh is still in hospital also Nicki has just got punched.
She was now standing in the 'kitchen' part of the staffroom with an ice-pack on her cheek, where kyle had punched her. Kyle had alweay been a bad nut, getting into fights, shouting at teachers but he had never been known to hit a teacher. She was the first. She thought to herself "Did I do something wrong?"
When Tom and Michael finished excluding Kyle, Tom ran straight to the staffroom and straight into the arms of his best knew that she was ther because she had a free period. She would be there marking her Year 11 past papers planning her lessons. He loved his best friend and would do anything for her but there was something between them and they both knew it but none of them had decided to act on it...yet.
He calmly walked into the staffroom and saw her there in the kitchen. Her back facing him as she looked out of the window, holding the ice-pack to her face. "Does it hurt." he asked her. She quickly turned around her hair flying everywhere and replied partly sarcastically "What do you think." He made his way to her now and took the ice-pack out of her left hand. He then grasped her right hand and pulled her into the direction of the chairs.
She didn't know how it happened but she was now with her head in Ton's lap while he was playing with her hair and soothing her cheek with the ice-pack. He had to admit she looked so pretty with her hair strewn over his lap, looking a bit vunerable. He stopped his train of thought and remembered that this was Nicki Boston he was thinking about no way on earth would she ever look vunerable and if she could mind read...Boy, he sure was getting a punch. Just like Kyle had done to her but much...much worse. She had to admit, She liked Tom. He was sweet, considerate and gentle and unlike the other guys in her life she could trust him. He would be there for her and she would be there for him.
He pulled her hair back and looked at her cheek. The swelling had went down but there was a bruise, quite a bad bruise. "You'll need to take a look in the mirror." Tom said to her. She sat up, got a mirror out of her blazer pocket and looked at her cheek. "Oh my god." She said in surprise. She didn't think the bruise would be this bad. A big purple bruise covered most of her cheek. There was no-way she was ever going to live this down.
At that moment Michael walked into the staffroom. "Nicki." He said. "Just the person I wanted to see." There was no-one in the staffroom except Michael, Tom and Nicki. "I just wanted to say take next week off and let that bruise go away and I hope you get better." Michael said to Nicki. He then walked out of the room. "Do you think he will be alright with me leaving the now." Nicki asked Tom. "Yeah, he will be fine with it. I'll find you some cover for your next class." Tom said to her. She ran up to him, put her arms around him and cuddled him. He pulled her closer and put his arms around her. "Thank you." She told him. "For what?" he asked her, wondering what it was he had done."For being there for me." "No problem, you know I'm always here for you." he replied.
Nicki didn't know but Tom loved the position he was in. Nicki's arms were around him, her face was close to his and his head was resting on hers. She was so close that he could smell her perfume and shampoo roled into one. The smell of strawberry's was intoxicating. She pulled away and knelt down to pick her bag that was on the floor. Tom then grabbed her wrist, pulled her up and pressed his lips against hers. She didn't want this kind of attention from her best friend, her best friend was meant to be there for when she breaks up with someone else and was meant to be the one to comfort her. She didn't want this attention. It was unwanted attention. It was like the attention she got from her dad when she was younger.
She pulled away quickly when she noticed what he was going to do. "I can't do this, it's not you...it's me." She said apologising to him and then she ran out of the room. Tom just stood there shocked, he couldn't believe he even tried it, he got the signals wrong, they both wanted to just be friends.
She was now sitting in her car, mascara stains on her face. She didn't want to go home, she wanted to tell Tom about her life about how she was raped and abused when she was at high school. She couldn't. He probably hated her now. What she didn't know is that Tom wanted to tell her how sorry he was for even trying it. He knew how much she didn't trust anybody and he had just crossed that line and ruined their relationship. She had two choices. Either go and tell Tom everything about her life or go home. She chose to go home. She thought to herself he probably wouldn't want to know. She was wrong.
