A/N- HEYYYYYYYYYY. I might have had a little too much sugar today so I'm a little jittery. Sorry.
Henry's POV
There was a knock on the door and I hoped it was Nicole. I almost ran to the door. I was disappointed when Mary Margret was at the door.
"Henry! Good your here I forgot my keys," she says relieved.
"Yeah, right," I reply with too much disappointment.
"Waiting for Nicole?"
I nod. School was originally supposed to be today, but it was a last minute Professional Development Day. So if I was going to see her today, I had no control over it.
There is another knock at the door. I grab the door knob and look directly at Nicole. She was wearing a acid wash jean jacket, a grey t-shirt and ripped skinny jeans. It is probably the most boring outfit I have ever seen her wear.
"Hey," She says coldly.
"Hey. Do you, uh, want to come in?" I say awkwardly.
"Sure," Nicole replies, equally as awkward.
Nicole's POV
Henry takes me to the kitchen's island and I sit down on a bar stool.
"Do you want some hot chocolate?" He asks. I caught on to Henry's quirk of putting cinnamon on hot chocolate after a few months of hanging out at a cafe down the street from his old apartment. I was addicted to that after I tried it. I really wanted it now.
"No thanks," I say.
"Well uh, we haven't really talked since. Mainly uh," Henry starts.
"Me yelling at you?" I guess. Yep, I yelled at him the first moment I saw him standing there. He laughs.
"Yes, precisely." He chuckles. I look at him laughing and wonder how long it had been since I had laughed. I wasn't laughing now. Why wasn't I laughing now?
"Yeah," I finish.
There was a long silence after that, we just stared at each other.
"Where were you?" I finally whisper.
"My mom got a case here and we both went. We decided to stay after we found out some family members were here," He explains.
"Family members?" I didn't believe him. He didn't know his dad and was in the foster system since she was a baby.
"Yeah, we found her uh, sister, Mary Margret," He says.
"Right. Okay," I say. I couldn't say that's wrong, I can't prove it.
"Now," He says sliding closer to me "I would like to know why you were at 's recently," Henry says in almost a whisper.
I knew I would have to tell him but now it seemed impossible to.
"A lot has happened since you were gone," I say.
"Like what?" Henry replies, putting his hand on top of mine (A/N- scandalous!)
"My mom came back,"
"What?" He says in disbelief.
"Yeah, she really just knocked on the door one day and everything goes 'back to normal'. My parents never got a divorce so they are still married. Some how she worked things out with him," I finally blurt out.
"Is that it?" He says.
"No,"
"What happened?"
Henry's POV
"I, uh, I" Nicole starts. She had tears brimming her eyes and then a few fell down her cheek.
"Hey, hey. It's okay. Yeah. It's okay. You can tell me," I say squeezing her hand.
"When you left, I was diagnosed with, with," she sobs out. I grab her other hand. "With depression and," she breaks downs into full out sobbing we both get up and I hug her tightly. Did I really cause this? Did I hurt her this badly?
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" She cries.
"No. No. Don't be. You have nothing to be sorry for," I say. She calms down a little bit after that. She looked at me like I hated her.
"I have anorexia," She says wincing. A little piece in me died. She had depression AND anorexia. She was so full of light and I ruined that. She was the most amazing person I had ever met and I left. She is about to start sobbing again so I pull her into a hug and I let her cry on my shoulder for as long as we stood there.
A/N- Woah! Getting romantic there! I absolutely love this chapter because of the raw emotion it it. PLEASE REVIEW!
