Sara checked her watch, it was 7:20 and she had turned down Oak Street. She looked at each house and finally came to Nick's. She hoped he wouldn't mind that she was early, she rang the doorbell.
Nick heard the door bell and ran downstairs to answer it. He flicked a hand through his hair and opened to door to see Sara. "Hey... you're early..." He flashed her a grin and motioned for her to come inside.
Sara's smile grew to a grin, "Umm, yeah, hope you don't mind." She walked in the house, "Your house is massive!"
"Nah, not really... well I suppose if we didn't have so much stuff in it." He joked.
Sara giggled a little, "Anyone in?" She said and stood holding her bag. She was wearing her jeans and a red silky top Catherine instead she wore. Her hair was up and you could see the cut she got earlier.
Nick looked around. "Nope... siblings are out and parents are still at work..." he looked back at her and spotted the cut. "Hey, what happened? Was that from at school?" He lightly touched it and looked at her with concern.
Sara moved her head away, "Umm, I hit it on the corner of the locker when Conrad... So..."
Nick shook his head. "Sorry about that... You need anything for it?"
"No, it's fine," She looked into the main room.
"Oh.. hey come on in...." He took her bag and led her into the living room. Sara followed him she couldn't help but check out his ass, she smiled and looked about. He laid her bag down at looked over at her, "Want anything to drink?"
"Yeah sure... whatever, how many sisters and brothers you got?" She asked as she looked at the photos on the wall.
"I'm the seventh and the youngest of them all," Nick called from the kitchen walking back in the room with two glasses of Coke.
"Thanks," She took the coke, "WOW seven? I only have Gil, I guess Catherine is a kind of sister."
"Haha... that's nice though. I mean I know I have a lot of people to hang out with, but you can't really keep your privacy..." Nick smiled. "But now it's just three of us here. My other 4 sibs are off to university or married."
"Ohh, Should we get started? We doing it down here or up stairs? I mean studying down here..." Sara blushed red.
Nick smiled at her "We can go up to my room, that's where all my stuff is, but if you'd feel more comfortable, we can just stay down here."
"No, I'm not fussed! But if your stuff's in your room..." She smiled.
"Alright... follow me.." He picked up his drink and headed up the stairs.
Sara grabbed her bag and followed Nick.
Nick walked into his room and plopped down at his desk. He pulled out another chair from his closet and motioned for Sara to take a seat.
Sara sat down and looked around, she giggled, "Hey, Gil has one of those," she pointed to a chemistry set.
Nick looked over and saw what she was pointing too. "Oh.. that.... yea... I got for Christmas one year."
Sara grinned, "We nearly blew up the house! Right Math!" Sara grabbed her folder and book out her bag.
Nick smiled at her and pulled out his exercise. "Ok... well I'm having trouble with chapter 6..."
Sara smiled looked at the page, "Hmm, well," Sara got a piece of paper and quickly done the 1st problem in her head then faced Nick.
Nick's phone started to ring.
Nick reached over his desk to answer it. "Hello?"
"Hey Queen geek there?" asked Ecklie down the phone.
"What do you want? " Nick frowned at the phone. "I'm kinda busy here..."
"Hey man, chill, wondering if you wanted to go out on Friday night, that's tomorrow."
"Where to?" Nick asked, looking over at Sara.
"To the cafe on the corner then I dunno cinema or basketball courts or something."
Sara was working out one of the equations in the book trying to listen to the conversation.
"Come on man, won't be fun without you!" Ecklie pleaded
"Sure, man... why not... "Nick smiled a little. "Not like I have anything else planned."
"Cool, catch you tomorrow then, talk then about it! Bye" Ecklie hung up and smiled.
"Ready?" asked Sara. "Which question is bothering you the most?"
Nick hung up and looked over at Sara. He smiled sheepishly. "Actually, I'm having trouble with the whole chapter."
Sara smiled, "Right we'll start at the start then."
Two hours later Sara was through the basic exercises in the chapter.
She cracked her neck, and took her hair down from the clasp.
Nick finished up the last question and looked up at Sara. "I think I'm actually starting to learn something." He laughed a little. "So, you up for continuing tutoring me, or am I a lost cause?" Nick smiled at her and closed his book.
Sara smiled, "You have.... potential!"
"Ha.." He snorted. "So you still gonna tutor me?"
"Yes Nick, of course I will." Sara smirked.
"Good... cause I'm gonna need all the help I can get."
"You understand it, just not the way teachers explain it." Sara said as she gathered her stuff.
"Well you're a lot easier to understand." He smiled at her. "And I suppose I should pay more attention in class."
Sara giggled, "Well, then I'd have nothing do."
Her cell started to ring, She answer, "Hi Gil.. no, I'm still and Nick's, it's going fine... they back ye..... ohh, figures! ok, bye!" Sara hung up, "Sorry my brother, he had to tell me my parents won't be back until Monday."
Nick nodded at her "So you're parents work a lot?"
"Yeah, Gil looks after though so it's not that bad." She placed the cell in her bag and sat back down.
He packed away his stuff and plopped down on his bed. "I think my brain needs a rest."
Sara smiled softly, "I guess I should go..."
*Man, I so want to stay!* she thought, *He looks so hot.*
He shook his head and flicked on the TV in his room, "You don't have to.... you could hang out for a bit if you don't have anything else to do." he shrugged.
"Actually I don't, I done all my work I needed to do." Sara stretched to see the TV.
"Anything you wanna watch?" Nick looked up at her and scooted over to make more room for her. "You know you can sit down..." He grinned at her.
Sara blushed a little and sat beside Nick, "Nothing, I only ever watch movies, sport or the crap my brother watches."
"Well see anything you like?" He handed her the TV guide.
"You pick, your house.." She handed him the TV guide back.
He rolled his eyes and smiled. "Hey now... you're my guest... and if you don't pick something soon, I'll have to pick for you," He laughed and tossed the guide back over to her, "Now choose"
She threw it back, "You're gonna have to choose for me!"
He sighed and got up of the bed and turned of the TV. "come with me..." he looked at her and headed for the door.
Sara looked puzzled but followed him, "Where we going?"
"To the movie room..." He walked down the hall and to one closet and opened it up. "Ok, I have about 60 movies here. IF you didn't find anything on TV, then as you can see I have lots of movies." he smiled.
Sara laughed and looked at him, "I don't mind, it's up to you. You have a movie room?" Sara put her hair back up in the clasp "So which movie are you gonna pick?" Sara smirked.
Nick nodded. "It's my older brothers old room. No one lives in there now, so we have a big screen TV with surround sound in there... " He looked back at the closet. "ok, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going downstairs to get us something to eat, and when I came back YOU are going to have a movie ready..." He laughed
Sara smiled and gave in, "Ok, I give in, I'll pick a movie..."
Nick smiled and went downstairs. He grabbed a bag of chips, a bottle of pop and two glasses. He walked back upstairs and met her by the closet. "Find one?"
Sara sighed, "Yeah but we don't have to watch it if you don't want to.."
Sara held up Nightmare of Elm Street.
Nick raised an eyebrow at her. "You're into that kind of movie?" He was surprised. "sure we can watch it... if you want..."
Sara smiled, "What kind of movies did you think I was into? you don't like it? I mean we can watch something else!"
"No.. no.. I just didn't peg you as being into the scary movies... I mean I watch them... so c'mon..." He walked to the 'movie room'.
"Well, I am. Did you think I only watch 'Geeky' movies?" Sara asked as she entered the 'movie room', her mouth fell open at the TV, "WOW."
Nick frowned "No... I didn't think that... just.... nevermind... anyways... let's just watch the movie." He smiled at her and went tot he couch. He put the food and drink on the table in front of them and sat down.
Sara sat down, and took a drink.
Nick got up and put the movie in and dimmed the lights, till it was almost complete dark. He took his place back on the couch and pressed play.
Sara leaned back into the couch. She looked around for a cushion or pillow but there was none, *Crap, there's nothing to hide behind.*
Nick started eating the chips and took a sip of his drink. He looked over at Sara and passed the chips to her. Sara took some chips. She kept looking away at some of the scary bits in the movie, finally, in the movie, someone was walking down a corridor and scary music came on. Sara turned her head into Nick's arm. Nick looked over at her, a bit surprised. He smiled at her and lifted his arm around her, "Scared?"
"Me? No.. well, maybe a little.... is that bit over?"
Nick looked back to the screen and smiled. "Yep.."
Sara looked up, "Good."
Nick smiled and released his hold on her. Sara sat back up and took some more chips.
Nick tried to pay attention to the movie, but kept looking over at Sara. She was a nice girl and he was glad her could spend time with her. A small smile crept onto Sara's face, she could smell what cologne he was wearing. She turned away from the movie again with a small "Epp!"
He looked over to her and smiled "You ok?" he said with a smile.
Sara nodded, "Yeah," she looked up, "Surprised me."
"Don't worry, I'll protect ya..." Nick smirked
Sara blushed and smiled. He'd done that already with Conrad. She got butterflies in her stomach when he said that, *Sara stop it, it's Nick Stokes, you have a snowball's chance in hell with him.*
"Whatcha thinkin' about?" Nick asked.
"Huh?" Sara looked like she'd been caught at some deadly sin, "Nothing.." She turned back to the movie it only had about 10 minutes left.
Nick smiled and watched the rest of the movie.
The credits started to appear on the screen, the movie had ended with a twist, *Big shock there,* thought Sara.
"So... how did you find the movie?" Nick asked Sara as he stretched.
Sara shrugged, "Not scary at all! I wasn't scared for a moment!" Sara grinned.
Nick smiled. "Riiiight...not as long as I was there anyway...."
Sara blushed, "Obviously!" She nodded.
Nick laughed and started to clear away the garbage. Sara got up to help him with a smile on her face.
When they had finished, Nick dumped the garbage and went back to his room. "Thanks..."
"No problem. I'd better be going, it's like 12:30, my brother will kill me." She smiled, "Thanks for the movie."
Nick smiled back at her. "It was fun... we should do it again sometime...." He walked her to the door and gave her bag.
Sara smiled, "Yeah," She sounded surprised more than anything. Sara looked outside, it was really late, *Gil's gonna kick my ass.* She thought.
"You have anyone coming for you?" Nick asked.
She shook her head, "No, I'm walking, only takes 15 minutes to get to my house."
"Sara, it's 12:30 at night, you're not walking home alone. I'll come with you. It's the least I could do." Nick started to put on his shoes.
"No, I'll be fine. Plus then you'll need to walk home alone, I'm not letting you do that."
"I'm a big boy... I can take care of myself... now no arguments..." He put on his jacket.
Sara folded her arms, "Fine, but don't blame me if you get jumped."
"I won't...." He went out side with her and started to walk.
Sara walked with Nick, she kept glancing over at him.
He looked over at her catching her eye. "What?"
Sara's face lit up, "Umm, nothing...This is me." She pointed out her house.
"o.. ok... " He looked up at her house. "Well I guess I'll see-you tomorrow..." He waved and headed towards home.
Sara smiled and waved, "Be careful walking home." she added.
"I will... don't worry.."He called back and continued walking home. He checked his watch. it was 12:50am.
Sara went in the house trying to be quiet so Gil wouldn't notice her coming in at around 1am.
Catherine looked to the doorframe to see Sara creep up the stairs.
Gil heard a creek and looked out, next to Catherine. "Sara.. it's 1 am... where have you been all night?"
Sara walked in the room, "At Nick's... we were watching a movie after we'd done work."
"You kiss him?" Catherine asked grinning.
"Cath..." Gil growled
Sara looked at Catherine, "No"
"Sorry! Just asking... You know I'll find out tomorrow at school.." She looked at Gil's face and turned back round to the TV again.
"Well, you won't find anything out cause there is nothing to find out! Now I'm going to bed!" Sara turned round to go up the stairs.
Gil looked at Sara "Good-night!" He turned back to Cath and half-smiled.
"She so fancies that guy." Catherine commented and went back to the TV.
"I know... but I don't want to see her get hurt..." He sat next to Cath and put his arm around her.
"She's smart Gil, and plus no offence to Sara but Nick tends to go for 'popular' girls."
"I know... so I'm hoping that she won't get her hopes up, just because they watched a movie.."
"I don't think she will, she's smart and knows how is goes at school. Come on lets go to bed!" Catherine said pulling Gil up.
Gil smiled and followed Cath.
Nick heard the door bell and ran downstairs to answer it. He flicked a hand through his hair and opened to door to see Sara. "Hey... you're early..." He flashed her a grin and motioned for her to come inside.
Sara's smile grew to a grin, "Umm, yeah, hope you don't mind." She walked in the house, "Your house is massive!"
"Nah, not really... well I suppose if we didn't have so much stuff in it." He joked.
Sara giggled a little, "Anyone in?" She said and stood holding her bag. She was wearing her jeans and a red silky top Catherine instead she wore. Her hair was up and you could see the cut she got earlier.
Nick looked around. "Nope... siblings are out and parents are still at work..." he looked back at her and spotted the cut. "Hey, what happened? Was that from at school?" He lightly touched it and looked at her with concern.
Sara moved her head away, "Umm, I hit it on the corner of the locker when Conrad... So..."
Nick shook his head. "Sorry about that... You need anything for it?"
"No, it's fine," She looked into the main room.
"Oh.. hey come on in...." He took her bag and led her into the living room. Sara followed him she couldn't help but check out his ass, she smiled and looked about. He laid her bag down at looked over at her, "Want anything to drink?"
"Yeah sure... whatever, how many sisters and brothers you got?" She asked as she looked at the photos on the wall.
"I'm the seventh and the youngest of them all," Nick called from the kitchen walking back in the room with two glasses of Coke.
"Thanks," She took the coke, "WOW seven? I only have Gil, I guess Catherine is a kind of sister."
"Haha... that's nice though. I mean I know I have a lot of people to hang out with, but you can't really keep your privacy..." Nick smiled. "But now it's just three of us here. My other 4 sibs are off to university or married."
"Ohh, Should we get started? We doing it down here or up stairs? I mean studying down here..." Sara blushed red.
Nick smiled at her "We can go up to my room, that's where all my stuff is, but if you'd feel more comfortable, we can just stay down here."
"No, I'm not fussed! But if your stuff's in your room..." She smiled.
"Alright... follow me.." He picked up his drink and headed up the stairs.
Sara grabbed her bag and followed Nick.
Nick walked into his room and plopped down at his desk. He pulled out another chair from his closet and motioned for Sara to take a seat.
Sara sat down and looked around, she giggled, "Hey, Gil has one of those," she pointed to a chemistry set.
Nick looked over and saw what she was pointing too. "Oh.. that.... yea... I got for Christmas one year."
Sara grinned, "We nearly blew up the house! Right Math!" Sara grabbed her folder and book out her bag.
Nick smiled at her and pulled out his exercise. "Ok... well I'm having trouble with chapter 6..."
Sara smiled looked at the page, "Hmm, well," Sara got a piece of paper and quickly done the 1st problem in her head then faced Nick.
Nick's phone started to ring.
Nick reached over his desk to answer it. "Hello?"
"Hey Queen geek there?" asked Ecklie down the phone.
"What do you want? " Nick frowned at the phone. "I'm kinda busy here..."
"Hey man, chill, wondering if you wanted to go out on Friday night, that's tomorrow."
"Where to?" Nick asked, looking over at Sara.
"To the cafe on the corner then I dunno cinema or basketball courts or something."
Sara was working out one of the equations in the book trying to listen to the conversation.
"Come on man, won't be fun without you!" Ecklie pleaded
"Sure, man... why not... "Nick smiled a little. "Not like I have anything else planned."
"Cool, catch you tomorrow then, talk then about it! Bye" Ecklie hung up and smiled.
"Ready?" asked Sara. "Which question is bothering you the most?"
Nick hung up and looked over at Sara. He smiled sheepishly. "Actually, I'm having trouble with the whole chapter."
Sara smiled, "Right we'll start at the start then."
Two hours later Sara was through the basic exercises in the chapter.
She cracked her neck, and took her hair down from the clasp.
Nick finished up the last question and looked up at Sara. "I think I'm actually starting to learn something." He laughed a little. "So, you up for continuing tutoring me, or am I a lost cause?" Nick smiled at her and closed his book.
Sara smiled, "You have.... potential!"
"Ha.." He snorted. "So you still gonna tutor me?"
"Yes Nick, of course I will." Sara smirked.
"Good... cause I'm gonna need all the help I can get."
"You understand it, just not the way teachers explain it." Sara said as she gathered her stuff.
"Well you're a lot easier to understand." He smiled at her. "And I suppose I should pay more attention in class."
Sara giggled, "Well, then I'd have nothing do."
Her cell started to ring, She answer, "Hi Gil.. no, I'm still and Nick's, it's going fine... they back ye..... ohh, figures! ok, bye!" Sara hung up, "Sorry my brother, he had to tell me my parents won't be back until Monday."
Nick nodded at her "So you're parents work a lot?"
"Yeah, Gil looks after though so it's not that bad." She placed the cell in her bag and sat back down.
He packed away his stuff and plopped down on his bed. "I think my brain needs a rest."
Sara smiled softly, "I guess I should go..."
*Man, I so want to stay!* she thought, *He looks so hot.*
He shook his head and flicked on the TV in his room, "You don't have to.... you could hang out for a bit if you don't have anything else to do." he shrugged.
"Actually I don't, I done all my work I needed to do." Sara stretched to see the TV.
"Anything you wanna watch?" Nick looked up at her and scooted over to make more room for her. "You know you can sit down..." He grinned at her.
Sara blushed a little and sat beside Nick, "Nothing, I only ever watch movies, sport or the crap my brother watches."
"Well see anything you like?" He handed her the TV guide.
"You pick, your house.." She handed him the TV guide back.
He rolled his eyes and smiled. "Hey now... you're my guest... and if you don't pick something soon, I'll have to pick for you," He laughed and tossed the guide back over to her, "Now choose"
She threw it back, "You're gonna have to choose for me!"
He sighed and got up of the bed and turned of the TV. "come with me..." he looked at her and headed for the door.
Sara looked puzzled but followed him, "Where we going?"
"To the movie room..." He walked down the hall and to one closet and opened it up. "Ok, I have about 60 movies here. IF you didn't find anything on TV, then as you can see I have lots of movies." he smiled.
Sara laughed and looked at him, "I don't mind, it's up to you. You have a movie room?" Sara put her hair back up in the clasp "So which movie are you gonna pick?" Sara smirked.
Nick nodded. "It's my older brothers old room. No one lives in there now, so we have a big screen TV with surround sound in there... " He looked back at the closet. "ok, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going downstairs to get us something to eat, and when I came back YOU are going to have a movie ready..." He laughed
Sara smiled and gave in, "Ok, I give in, I'll pick a movie..."
Nick smiled and went downstairs. He grabbed a bag of chips, a bottle of pop and two glasses. He walked back upstairs and met her by the closet. "Find one?"
Sara sighed, "Yeah but we don't have to watch it if you don't want to.."
Sara held up Nightmare of Elm Street.
Nick raised an eyebrow at her. "You're into that kind of movie?" He was surprised. "sure we can watch it... if you want..."
Sara smiled, "What kind of movies did you think I was into? you don't like it? I mean we can watch something else!"
"No.. no.. I just didn't peg you as being into the scary movies... I mean I watch them... so c'mon..." He walked to the 'movie room'.
"Well, I am. Did you think I only watch 'Geeky' movies?" Sara asked as she entered the 'movie room', her mouth fell open at the TV, "WOW."
Nick frowned "No... I didn't think that... just.... nevermind... anyways... let's just watch the movie." He smiled at her and went tot he couch. He put the food and drink on the table in front of them and sat down.
Sara sat down, and took a drink.
Nick got up and put the movie in and dimmed the lights, till it was almost complete dark. He took his place back on the couch and pressed play.
Sara leaned back into the couch. She looked around for a cushion or pillow but there was none, *Crap, there's nothing to hide behind.*
Nick started eating the chips and took a sip of his drink. He looked over at Sara and passed the chips to her. Sara took some chips. She kept looking away at some of the scary bits in the movie, finally, in the movie, someone was walking down a corridor and scary music came on. Sara turned her head into Nick's arm. Nick looked over at her, a bit surprised. He smiled at her and lifted his arm around her, "Scared?"
"Me? No.. well, maybe a little.... is that bit over?"
Nick looked back to the screen and smiled. "Yep.."
Sara looked up, "Good."
Nick smiled and released his hold on her. Sara sat back up and took some more chips.
Nick tried to pay attention to the movie, but kept looking over at Sara. She was a nice girl and he was glad her could spend time with her. A small smile crept onto Sara's face, she could smell what cologne he was wearing. She turned away from the movie again with a small "Epp!"
He looked over to her and smiled "You ok?" he said with a smile.
Sara nodded, "Yeah," she looked up, "Surprised me."
"Don't worry, I'll protect ya..." Nick smirked
Sara blushed and smiled. He'd done that already with Conrad. She got butterflies in her stomach when he said that, *Sara stop it, it's Nick Stokes, you have a snowball's chance in hell with him.*
"Whatcha thinkin' about?" Nick asked.
"Huh?" Sara looked like she'd been caught at some deadly sin, "Nothing.." She turned back to the movie it only had about 10 minutes left.
Nick smiled and watched the rest of the movie.
The credits started to appear on the screen, the movie had ended with a twist, *Big shock there,* thought Sara.
"So... how did you find the movie?" Nick asked Sara as he stretched.
Sara shrugged, "Not scary at all! I wasn't scared for a moment!" Sara grinned.
Nick smiled. "Riiiight...not as long as I was there anyway...."
Sara blushed, "Obviously!" She nodded.
Nick laughed and started to clear away the garbage. Sara got up to help him with a smile on her face.
When they had finished, Nick dumped the garbage and went back to his room. "Thanks..."
"No problem. I'd better be going, it's like 12:30, my brother will kill me." She smiled, "Thanks for the movie."
Nick smiled back at her. "It was fun... we should do it again sometime...." He walked her to the door and gave her bag.
Sara smiled, "Yeah," She sounded surprised more than anything. Sara looked outside, it was really late, *Gil's gonna kick my ass.* She thought.
"You have anyone coming for you?" Nick asked.
She shook her head, "No, I'm walking, only takes 15 minutes to get to my house."
"Sara, it's 12:30 at night, you're not walking home alone. I'll come with you. It's the least I could do." Nick started to put on his shoes.
"No, I'll be fine. Plus then you'll need to walk home alone, I'm not letting you do that."
"I'm a big boy... I can take care of myself... now no arguments..." He put on his jacket.
Sara folded her arms, "Fine, but don't blame me if you get jumped."
"I won't...." He went out side with her and started to walk.
Sara walked with Nick, she kept glancing over at him.
He looked over at her catching her eye. "What?"
Sara's face lit up, "Umm, nothing...This is me." She pointed out her house.
"o.. ok... " He looked up at her house. "Well I guess I'll see-you tomorrow..." He waved and headed towards home.
Sara smiled and waved, "Be careful walking home." she added.
"I will... don't worry.."He called back and continued walking home. He checked his watch. it was 12:50am.
Sara went in the house trying to be quiet so Gil wouldn't notice her coming in at around 1am.
Catherine looked to the doorframe to see Sara creep up the stairs.
Gil heard a creek and looked out, next to Catherine. "Sara.. it's 1 am... where have you been all night?"
Sara walked in the room, "At Nick's... we were watching a movie after we'd done work."
"You kiss him?" Catherine asked grinning.
"Cath..." Gil growled
Sara looked at Catherine, "No"
"Sorry! Just asking... You know I'll find out tomorrow at school.." She looked at Gil's face and turned back round to the TV again.
"Well, you won't find anything out cause there is nothing to find out! Now I'm going to bed!" Sara turned round to go up the stairs.
Gil looked at Sara "Good-night!" He turned back to Cath and half-smiled.
"She so fancies that guy." Catherine commented and went back to the TV.
"I know... but I don't want to see her get hurt..." He sat next to Cath and put his arm around her.
"She's smart Gil, and plus no offence to Sara but Nick tends to go for 'popular' girls."
"I know... so I'm hoping that she won't get her hopes up, just because they watched a movie.."
"I don't think she will, she's smart and knows how is goes at school. Come on lets go to bed!" Catherine said pulling Gil up.
Gil smiled and followed Cath.
