"So" Eve said once they spilt apart, Nico was silent and the whole room was a bit awkward then after a few more moments went by until a loud beeping could be heard.
"My Cornetto's*" Nico cried and with that the tension evaporated as Nico ran to save his pastries. Luckily Nico was able to say all of the delicious pastries and all the Baxter's gorged themselves on the puffy slices of heaven. Unfortunately, they lost track and Eve and Nico missed the bus so Mike drove them only ignoring some traffic laws. Once they entered the building Eve was immediately surrounded by her friends and Nico started to slink of into his little corner. But Eve wasn't about to let that happened and put her arm around his waist holding him in place.
"Hey guys I'd like to introduce you to my boyfriend Nico" Eve said proudly then looked at Nico and whispered "Can I call you that?" Nico eagerly nodded not sure if he would be able to form a coherent sentence. The rest of the day went smoothly and before they knew it, it was time for ROTC and Nico was already heading to his art spot when he was stopped.
"Hey Nico" Even called running towards said person.
"Hi Even how are you doing" Nico asked turning to face his friend.
"Forget about me did you seriously get the Eve Baxter to be your girlfriend" Even said incredulously gesturing widely.
Nico blushed** and said "I don't honestly know I'm just waiting to wake up."
"Even looked around then whispered "Does she know about well you know."
"Yes, the whole family does and they don't treat me any different" Nico said smiling.
"Good for you man, I just wish my parents were like that" Even sighed annoyed at his parents closed-mindness.
"Well think of it this way if they weren't bigots I would've never had a chance with Eve" Nico said for the first time in a long time thinking on the bright side.
"Hey Even get your ass over here you can chit chat later" Trevor yelled, Even smiled apologetically at Nico before running to the field. Nico continued on his way quickly setting up shop at the top of the fill turning to face the ROTC kids.
Now despite popular belief this spot was not perfect for art though it was nice there were several better spots. The true reason was the it gave him the perfect view of the ROTC training field and more specifically Eve, Nico has had a crush of Eve since coming to America and found that this place was the perfect one to not only get a good view of Eve but also to paint her. He was in his painting zone for about an hour before he senses that someone was coming up the hill so he quickly hid it like he always did and greeted Eve as she came up.
"One day you will show me what you're working on" Even said leaning against a nearby tree.
"Not a chance" Nico vowed thinking he would die of embarrassment if she found out.
"Well I believe I promised you a date so shall we" Eve said internally hitting herself at the weird line.
"I would love to but where would we go and what about Mr. Baxter" Nico asked excited but also super nervous.
"I told dad we were going out so he won't come to pick us up and I thought we could go to the rang" Eve said shrugging slightly self-conscious.
"Oh, that'd be amazing I love archery me and my sister used to compete against each other" Nico said getting even more excited.
Eve decided to just go with it "Cool come on it's only about a ten-minute walk from here. With that they both left to head to the archery range, after they walked about a quarter of a mile Eve noticed someone in the distance. "Hey Kyle over here" Eve called which caused said boy to jog over to the couple.
"Oh, hi Eve and Eve's friend" Kyle said kindly panting slightly from running.
"This is my boyfriend Nico, Nico meet Mandy's boyfriend Kyle" Eve said, both boys shook hands before just standing there awkwardly.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Kyle Mandy talks about you a lot" Nico said trying to ease the tension and it worked Kyle immediately brightened if that was even possible. They talked for a while until Kyle realized he had to get back home to get ready for his date with Mandy.
"So that was Kyle" Eve said after a few moments of silence.
"He reminds me of my friend Will back home they have the same disposition" Nico said leaning into Eve who put her arm around his waist.
"Really do you have a lot of friends back in Italy" Eve asked.
"Not a lot the main reason father sent me here was to escape the transphobia at my school but I do have a few close friends" Nico said both saddened and happy at the thought of his school.
"And here we are" Eve said when the range came into view changing the subject with ease. They entered and quickly got their bows and quivers of arrows, both quickly learned the other was quite talented and it quickly became a fierce competition with trash talk a plenty. In the end it was close but Nico came out on top and Eve per their bet had to buy Nico ice cream.
As they made their way to the ice cream parlor they got to talking about politics and were surprised at how much they agreed and when they disagreed they had a civilized debate both having quite a bit of fun.
Out of nowhere they hear a women's voice call "What is the freak doing here!"
* Cornetto: Italian pastries like croissants but sweeter and with less butter
**I'm sorry I know he's super OOC and he is blushing way to fucking much but I just love writing characters that flustered easily
