A/N: Hello again! I just want to thank all those who reviewed and story-alerted, it really means a lot that people actually like this story, so thank you again! So here's the newest chapter, sorry in advance for any spelling/grammar mistakes. Erm, I'll probably update the next chapter within the next couple of days, my last exam is on Wednesday so probably after then whoop whoop! Okay, I'm going to shut up now and let you get back to the story.

Disclaimer: Never have, never will and never going to own Glee; though it would be pretty damn awesome if I did.

"...Okay, so if I add these two together then I should finally get nine poin- wait, what? No, n-nooooo. How can I keep getting this wrong?" He sighed.

He looked back at the paper and scrunched his face, as if he was trying to decode an alien language. "Fine, what about if I added this and thi-..." He whispered to himself before tapping furiously into his calculator.

Jeff squinted, as his eyes slowly readjusted to the light at the same time, trying to locate where that incessant tapping noise was coming from. He then noticed that it was Nick brutally attacking his calculator.

"Mmmm, easy nicky, what did the calculator do to you?" He chuckled lightly, voice still deeply hoarse from sleep.

"It's not giving me the right answer, that's what!"

Jeff took his phone out from under his pillow - expecting it to be nearly time for breakfast. He struggled putting his password in as only one eye was open; the other was much more rebellious and refused. Once his phone was unlocked, his home screen automatically popped up which was a picture of him and Nick, his hand unconsciously reached for the silver pendant hanging from his neck and smiled fondly as his mind drifted back to that day.

That particular day found Jeff lying on his bed, sulking. He and Nick tried auditioning today for a solo again; this would have been his sixth attempt and Nick's third. However, when he found out that Blaine got the solo instead, he was extremely upset and it kinda put a damper on his day.

Nick turned his head to the side and studied Jeff's face - the frown lines, the furrowed eyebrows and his sullen mood. He could see how worked up his best friend was about it and no matter how much he tried to comfort him, it still proved ineffective. Nick paused for a second, looked thoughtful and then hurried out their room; just as he was leaving he shouted out to Jeff that he'll be back. Jeff didn't think much of it; in fact he was so engrossed with his own issues that he didn't even notice Nick come in two hours later. It was only when he felt a dip on his bed and a hand on his knee, was he brought out of his daze.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" Nick whispered.

"Better, I guess." He shrugged. "Sorry for being so dramatic, I guess its just one of those days."

"Don't apologise dummy, you have every right to be upset. But..." Nick grinned. "...that's where the amazing Nick BAD-ASS Duval comes i-"

"Dude?" Jeff interrupted. "Your middle name is Milgram." He said with a smirk.

"Bro!'' Nick said, putting his hand in front on Jeff's face. ''Never interrupt the Nick-ster when he's in full flow, okay?"

Jeff sniggered and put up his hands up in mock surrender. "Oh, I'm sorry, Your Highness."

Nick nodded. "Good." He then looked deep in thought. "Now what was I saying?"

"Something along the lines of you being a bad-ass...?"

"Oh yeah! So... because I'm such an amazing friend, I got you something. Well, technically I got us something. I had to buy me something too, cos I felt kinda left out."

Jeff grinned at him and laughed, "You're such a goof ball you know that?"

Nick poked him in the stomach. "Yay! You're smiling again."

Jeff just simply giggled at his best friend. "Shut up." He said whilst smiling. "Okay, so what's this present you got me?"

"Oooh, okay, you have to close your eyes okay and promise not to open them until I say so, deal?"

"Deal." He agreed.

Jeff closed his eyes and felt Nick shuffle beside him, a moment later he felt something cold being put around his neck.

"Okay, you can open them." He smiled.

Jeff opened his eyes, looked down and saw a shiny metal pendant hanging from his neck. He slowly lifted it up and saw that it had an engraving on it. He tilted it so he could read it and saw the word S I X written in the centre, next to it was a small heart shape. He looked up at Nick with awe. He saw Nick smiling and pull out the same pendant from under his t-shirt, it was the exact same but instead it had the word T H R E E written on it instead.

"Just because we auditioned numerous times, doesn't make us terrible singers." He began. "I love it when you sing Jeff, your voice is remarkable and even if you never got the solo, you're always welcome to sing for me." He took Jeff's hand and gave it a squeeze.

"You've been my best friend since forever. You're the six to my three Jeffy...'' he giggled. ''...and I wouldn't have it any other way. And plus, now we've got two super-duper cool codenames to use and no one would know what on earth we're talking about." He grinned widely.

Jeff pursed his lips and raised his eyebrow.

"Well...when you put it like that..." He smiled.

Nick's eyes lit up and smiled. "Come here, you fool" he said with his arms wide open.

Jeff giggled and made his way towards his best friend; he hugged him back and melted in the embrace. "Thank you Nicky." He whispered. "It really means a lot; I'm never going to take this off."

Nick just held him tighter. He then leaned back and ruffled Jeff's hair before taking out his phone and motioned Jeff to come closer.

"Say cheddar dude!"

Nick took a picture of them both lifting up their pendants towards the camera and smiling like madmen. It was moments like this that it really hit Jeff how much Nick actually cared about him. I mean, you always get people saying they care and what-not, but it's all words. But it's not like that with Nick, Jeff then made a mental note that no matter happens, he would do anything for his best friend.

Jeff smiled fondly at the memory, his eye then caught the corner of his phone and he froze.

"Nick." Jeff called out slowly, with confusion written all over his face. "I think my phone is playing tricks on me."

"Yeah? Why's that?" he replied half-heartedly, as he was still trying to figure out the answer to the question he's been working on for the past fifteen minutes.

"Cos it says its 3.17 AM..."

"Umm..." Now Nick was the one with a confused face. He took his face away from the textbook and gave Jeff a puzzled look. "That's cos it is!" He chucked lightly.

"..."

A look of pure horror made its way onto Jeff's face. "...Dude. You're absolutely shitting me."

"I shit you not bro!" Nick giggled.

"Oh my God, NICK!" He screeched. "It's three in the morning! Three! Why am I awake? Why are you awake?"

Nick laughed and threw the nearest cushion at him. "Shut up fool, it's not by choice. I did sleep pretty early yesterday; I guess my sleep just sorta...ran out?" He shrugged.

"R-ran out?" He repeated slowly. "Dude! Sleep has no limit." He shook his head with disbelief and sighed. "You're mad you know that! Bloody mad!"

"Yep, and you still love me." Nick giggled and grinned widely.

You have no idea, he thought to himself.

"So..." Jeff asked. "Care to explain why I woke up to you torturing your calculator? What you stuck on?"

"Well... '' Nick began. ''Cos I couldn't sleep, I thought I might aswell revise for my Chemistry exam seeing as it's in a couple of days. So I started with some buffer questions and I was doing well but then I got to this question and I just can't seem to figure out where I'm going wrong." He huffed.

"Here let me see." Jeff moved to get up from his bed before Nick stopped him.

"No, don't be silly. Its three in the morning, go back to bed otherwise you're gonna be all grouchy and moody in class."

"Look its fine, honestly. I'm already up anyway".

Nick looked down and felt guilty; he was afterall the reason why Jeff woke up. "I'm sorry." He said sheepishly.

Jeff just waved his hand dismissively, "Don't worry about it, now scooch over." He pointed towards the chair Nick was sitting on. Nick shuffled down in his seat to make room for Jeff to sit down as well.

"Okay, so let's look at this..." Jeff began. He then read the question before reading Nick's working out and nodded to himself understanding where he went wrong.

"Ahh, because you used this formula, you've just forgotten to convert Ka to PKa. Don't worry." He reassured him. "It's just a simple mistake, other than that, everything else was right."

Nick sighed deeply. "You're so lucky that you did this a year early."

"Hmm, not really dude. I suffered just as much as anyone else. Only earlier." He chuckled.

Nick giggled. He then smiled up at Jeff gratefully "Thanks Jeff."

Jeff just shook his head and returned the smile. "Don't mention it."

"...And I'm sorry again for waking you up."

Jeff put his hand on his knee and looked him straight in the eye. "Honestly its fine. Plus, seeing as you always wake up before me..." He pointed towards Nick's hair. "I'm not gonna miss the rare opportunity to see your bed hair." He grinned.

Nick looked horrified. "Duuude!" His hand automatically reaching up to cover his hair.

Jeff just laughed and tried to move Nick's hand. "Ah come on, don't. You look adorable."

He just carried on laughing unbeknownst to him that Nick was frozen in his spot, his mind replaying what Jeff had just said. Jeff's laughter slowly faded out as he noticed Nick's silence.

"What?" He asked.

"Y-you think I'm adorable?" Nick asked shyly.

Oh shit, did I say that out loud? Jeff bit his lip, hesitating a moment before looking up at Nick.

"Erm... I-I uhh..." Jeff replied, stumbling over his words.

He then looked into Nick's eyes that were sporting a sort of hopeful look. This was enough to give Jeff some courage to tell the truth.

"Y-yeah... I do." He looked down, his face all red and flustered.

Nick had a small smile playing on his lips; Jeff noticed this, smiled and shook his head.

"Shut up. I can practically see your head getting bigger."

Nick giggled softly and looked up at Jeff to meet his eyes. "Thank you." Now it was Nick's turn to blush. "For the 'adorable' comment, I mean. Not the one about my head getting big." He added.

Jeff just smiled and met his gaze. They were both staring intently at each other for what felt like eternity. Jeff could have sworn he saw Nick's eyes drifting towards his lips, he then saw Nick leaning forward slightly. What was Nick doing? he thought to himself. He then slowly felt himself matching Nick's actions , before realising what was happening and stopped himself.

Jeff just looked at the ground; he couldn't face looking at Nick. "You should probably be getting back to your work." He whispered.

Nick was just confused. What had just happened? Was I just about to kiss my best friend?

"Erm, y-yeah..." He hesitated. "I should. Yeah."

Jeff just nodded slowly. "I'm gonna just go-" He motioned towards his bed. He then got up and walked towards his bed, and went under the covers. His mind couldn't help but drift back to before. Why did Nick lean forward? Did he want to kiss me? Jeff thought to himself. No, he was probably just confused, it's really late. Yep, that was probably it, he tried to convince himself. Jeff realised that there was no point dwelling on it; he shouldn't get his hopes up as it was probably nothing. He nodded to himself, closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep.

Meanwhile, Nick was just staring into space trying to make sense about what had just happened earlier. Why did he lean in? I mean, he can't like Jeff, not like that. But the way he was looking at me and his eyes. Oh gosh his eyes, I was just so lost in those gorgeous hazel eyes of his. Nick could feel this fluttering feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Nick just frowned; it doesn't even matter anyway whether or not I like Jeff, he doesn't like me back.

"You know what, why am I getting so worked up over this?" He whispered to himself. "It was nothing. An accident. I was just tired and stressed, and I don't know what I was thinking." He nodded. Yep, that most definitely must be it.

He then paused to look at Jeff who was fast asleep.

"Me?" He asked. "Fancying Jeff!" He chuckled to himself. "...that's just absurd." He then just shook his head and went back to his work. ''So...'' He began. ''4.92 of ethanoic acid...''

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