Chapter Two – Something Unexpected.

Jeff didn't look up at Nick when he spoke to him; instead he just got up and walked away. He could feel Nick's eyes staring at the back of his head as he got further and further away. He had no idea where he was walking to; he just wanted to get away from the brunette. As he was walking, he kept on replaying the other boys' words in his head; "Why don't you talk to anybody?". Jeff didn't know why he kept on thinking about it. Almost everybody in this dump has tried starting a conversation with him; before he got into that horrible fight, now people just let him be when he's around.

After a while of walking Jeff found himself going to his room to lay in bed; anything to get away from all of this. For the first time in the years he's been here, he has learnt how to control his emotions; not feel anything. At first he thought it was impossible, but he got there, eventually. But now? After something like 2 days, somebody is making him feel. Jeff didn't want this to happen; now he was just feeling confusion. He didn't like this; not at all.

Jeff didn't look up when he felt the brunette named Nick sit next to him. He kept the stone look on his face; he didn't really want Nick to know that he felt his presence. He felt Nick shift next to him, but he didn't say anything. Jeff felt a tiny bit of gratitude towards him. And for that bit of emotion, he mentally kicked himself.

Everything was silent for what felt like a long time. Somewhere inside, Jeff wanted Nick to break the silence, say something, sigh, just do something. But a part of him also wanted to keep the silence; he couldn't bring himself to talk again. He hated the sound of his own voice. His mother and father use to always beat him up every time he opened his mouth. He didn't want anybody to hit him if he spoke; even if he knew he could bash them in a second. But he wasn't a very abusive person; unless it came down to it.

Jeff was pulled out of his thoughts when Nick looked right at him, and broke the silence. "Why don't you talk to anybody?"

He didn't bother replying to Nick; he felt discomfort, so he got up and walked away.

Jeff didn't realise that he fell asleep until the nurse came in to give him his medicine. He pretended to take the pills, and when the nurse left he spat them out of his mouth, putting them in his pillow case with the rest of them. He's been doing this as soon as he was moved to this room; they didn't do a room check with Jeff, because they trusted him, thinking he was doing nothing wrong. And for that, Jeff loved not saying a word to anyone.

Nick POV

Nick watched Jeff walk away. Somewhere deep inside he knew that would happen, but he kind of wanted Jeff to talk to him, or even acknowledge him.

Nick never trusted anybody after what happened with his father; he learned not to get close to anyone, never get attached to anyone, and so on. He hated this feeling that he got when he thought about Jeff. He felt something warm inside, he felt this tingly sensation whenever he was around Jeff. This was pathetic; he knew he was pathetic for letting this happen.

Could it be love? No. Nick Duval couldn't love. He was a cold, heartless person. He knew he was; everybody knew he was.

After taking his pills, Nick slowly walked down to the cafeteria to eat dinner. He walked in and looked around for the tall blond, who always took his breath away.

He scanned the cafeteria 3 times with no sight of Jeff anywhere; he felt a slight bit of disappointment. But he didn't let it show. Instead he walked over to the small line, grabbed his tray and grabbed his food.

He sat down at an empty table and stared at his food. He got a small bowl of garden salad, and a serving of lasagne. The food didn't look very good, but at least it was edible.

After Nick was finished eating what barely passed as his dinner, he decided to go for a walk before he went to his room to just stare at the walls all night. He could barely sleep here; especially how he was just down the hall from Matt, who thought he was a wizard. He shouts at the plants in his room all night, trying, but failing, to turn them into some kind of animal. Yesterday he stood on the one of the tables and swore he pulled a fluffy little bunny rabbit out of his imaginary hat. Nick couldn't help but laugh at how typical it was for somebody who thought they were magical, and that earned Matt running up to Nick, thinking his plastic knife was a wand or something, and tried turning him into a toad; claiming that he couldn't turn into a human unless he got kissed by his prince in shining armour. According to Matt, it has to be a prince because it was usually the princess who got turned into a toad, but everybody knew it was the other way around. Nick tried correcting him, and they all know how that turned out; Matt screamed at his, saying how he was playing mind games, that everybody there was, then he threw himself at Nick and tried hitting him before the guards pulled him off and dragged him to his room.

Nick lost his train of thought when he ran into somebody and sent them both flying to the ground. Nick looked up and saw the last person he was expecting. Jeff. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Jeff jumped up and started running off, but Nick was faster. He jumped up straight after him, and grabbed his arm. Jeff stopped abruptly and slowly turned around to face Nick. They stood like that for a few minutes. Nick stared deep into Jeff's eyes, trying to find some sort of emotion, but found none.

Jeff looked down at the ground, as if he found it interesting. And then it happened; "Sorry" He whispered, then slowly looked up to see the shock on Nick's face.

"Please don't tell anybody" he said even more quietly.

Nick looked dumbstruck for what felt like hours, "I won't tell anybody, I promise. But could you do something for me?" Jeff nodded almost straight away, Nick was thinking that's because he wanted to keep this whole thing a secret. "Could you talk to me more?" He asked, with his voice filled with hope.

Jeff chewed on his lip for a few seconds, "Why?"

Nick smiled nervously, "Because I like the sound of your voice" He whispered that so quietly that he thought Jeff wouldn't hear it.

"Do you actually mean that?" Jeff smiled, just the slightest.

Nick plastered a huge smile to his face, "I honestly love the sound of your voice. It makes me feel alive again." After Nick said that, he turned around and ran. He just did the worst thing, in his mind anyway. He showed weakness, he knew that there was going to be consequences for that.

He turned around before he saw the tear of happiness roll down Jeff's cheek.

Sorry it took me so long to update, and this chapter isn't long at all. I've just had so much stuff happed in my life.

I'll try to update as soon as I can, just no promises ):