So sorry for lack of posts! Gah I'm a terrible human being... Anyway, enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 8

Will's POV (Again...)

"Why do I have to sit with you?" Nico asked impatiently. "You keep forgetting I'm not some lost cause; I have other friends too!"

"You're gonna sit with us, because I saved you a seat! Why would I do that? Oh, maybe it's because we're friends!" Will argued. He had the slight urge to grab Nico's hand and drag him to their table, but he didn't. Take things slowly, William. He thought to himself. Don't rush it. "Just come sit with us, okay?"

"I still don't understand you. Why would you want to be friends with me?" Nico looked down at his feet, trying not to draw attention to himself. It definitely wasn't working, at least not with Will. He could never take his eyes off of him.

"I don't want to be friends with you, Nico." Will whispered. "You know... What I want. It's just that neither of us are ready, you know? Don't make me explain... I just couldn't, not here. Please, just sit with us."

"Fine," Nico grumbled as he followed Will to their table. Lou Ellen and Cecil were already there, chatting up a storm. Cecil had had a crush on her for basically forever. Lou Ellen didn't really feel that way until their first date. She kind of had a moment of realization; She was in love. Their table was a weird sight, a hodgepodge of people. You have the nerdy kleptomaniac. You have the punk girl who was obsessed with reading. You have the perfect boy, who happens to have a crush on the not-so-perfect boy. You have the not-so-perfect boy who would give anything to fade into the shadows. Most people would think they would have nothing to do with each other, but they were wrong.

"Will," Lou Ellen snapped. The blonde didn't hear her. "Will!"

"What?" He asked.

"The two of you should stop staring at each other, and eat your goddamned food!"

"We weren't-" Nico started.

"You were, actually," Cecil said, backing his girlfriend up. "Both of you. I mean seriously, get a room. We don't act this couple-y and we're actually a couple!" Cecil gestured between himself and Lou Ellen. His girlfriend gave him a look that could only mean; So, you want me to break up with you? "Umm," Cecil gulped. "So, what's new, guys? Events of the day?"

"Numbers seven and four are in an argument," Will noted casually. He had been keeping tabs on that couple recently, and they argued more than they agreed.

"You really have an obsession with seven and four," Lou Ellen noted. "We don't even know them that well."

"Wait, slow down for a second... What are seven and four?" Nico asked helplessly. Will had almost forgotten he was new to their table.

"They're code names for people. Seven is Clarisse, four is Chris. I don't know why, but I really like their dynamic; how Clarisse is a raging ball of fury and how Chris is the only one able to calm her down. If she's right to be angry, then he'll just step back and let her go to town on her victim's sorry ass. It's great... Like I just sit here and watch them act all couple-y." Will tried to explain.

"God, you're worse than Jason." Nico groaned. "At least he stalks someone he knows, his girlfriend! But, you stalk people you barely know and gush over their personal life? I don't understand how that's amusing."

"No, bro..." Cecil started. Nico raised an eyebrow and mouthed 'bro?' to Will. "You've got it all wrong... It's not an invasion of privacy, it's an interest in what's going on around you!" He dropped his voice to a whisper, and leaned over to Nico. "Do not, I repeat, do not insult Will's OTP. He will literally throw you out a window, that is, after he's done beating your ass till it's flat."

"I heard that, you know!" Will shouted. "I promise not to throw anyone out a window... At least, not yet."

"You didn't promise anything about not beating peoples asses, though..." Lou Ellen laughed.

"Yeah, Will." Cecil added. "Are you planning on-"

"No. No. No. Stop, you're killing my eardrums with your strange perverted-ness!" Will denied. As if on cue, his eyes drifted beneath the table to look at Nico's behind in those skinny jeans. He stopped himself, realizing how creepy that was and how much he was blushing.

"Okay, let's get this straight," Nico started.

"Straight?" Lou Ellen smirked.

Nico rolled his eyes, before continuing. "Nobody is flattening anybody's ass. Nobody is being perverted. Nobody is hating on anybody's OTP. We're just having a nice, peaceful lunch, okay?"

"What does peaceful mean?" Cecil joked. "Why make peace, when you can just steal things?"

"Or prank people?" Lou Ellen added.

"Because having some good, quality alone time is so much more peaceful." Nico argued.

"I don't understand why you like being lonely," Will started. He would have finished his thought process, but the bell rang for them to head to their dorms. He watched as Nico walked away from him, not answering his question.

"You have it bad, don't you?" Cecil asked from the other side of their room. Will turned from his laptop to better see the speaker.

"What?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at Cecil. He had a cold, that might be what he meant... "My cold?" He sneezed, laughing at the irony of it.

"Quit pretending you don't know what I mean," His friend started. "I know you're not stupid, Solace. So quit playing dumb."

"Dude," He started, coughing again. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"God, you really like Nico, don't you?"

"I..." He tried. It was true, he really had it bad for Nico. He and Cecil had been roommates for the past three years, so naturally he knew that Will liked guys. They were close, really close. He could tell Cecil anything, and he would listen. They met when they were twelve years old, way back when Cecil had braces and the worst haircut ever. He wasn't going to lie; he hated Cecil at first. He was annoying and hyper, and he constantly stole his stuff. But something changed one day, something big. Practically every guy in the school had a crush on Drew Tanaka, so a few days after they met, Cecil worked up the nerve to ask her out. He got rejected horribly, and the only person he went to for help was Will. Now, they trusted each other with their lives.

"You what?" Cecil prompted.

"I do... I really do like him..." The words were a shock to him, even though they rolled of his own tongue. "We just can't be together. Not like that..."

"Why not?" Cecil asked. For some reason, Will's mind went blank. Why couldn't they be together? Who was stopping them?

"That's a really good question that I don't know the answer to," He said. "Maybe we're just not ready."

"Or maybe you're nervous," Cecil accused. "Remember when you convinced me to ask Lou Ellen out? Look at us now! All it takes is a little bit of faith in yourself! Plus, you already know he likes you. You have to ask him out, promise you will?"

"Why would I do that?" Will asked.

"Because if you don't by a week from now, I'm asking him out for you. Now, do you promise or not?"

"I promise."

I probably won't post tomorrow; I have a swim meet all day! I have to be at my school at 6:45 AM tomorrow! Anyway, that's all for tonight, bye!