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No way Nico was right

“Yo, Alex!”

We both look to the side to find a few of our class at the top of the small sand hill

“We’re going for breakfast at the cafe,” our? Wait, that you, Sykes?”

TheNico in the gut

Nico lifts his head, nodding in their direction

“Mornin’, Des

I offer a flat smile

“Alex,” Frankie proain

Alex swings his gaze back to Nico, then ives me a smile “I’ll find you later, Demi”

“She’ll be busy,” Nico tells him

I have to pinch

Alex glares as he walks off “Nico”

“Dick,” Nico says

“Sykes, you guys wanna go?” Frankie yells again

“No,” I say quickly in case he gets a bright idea to agree “We don’t”

The guys laugh

Nico doesn’t ht

His arlance le word of explanation

It takes a second but then I dart forward “What the hell?!”

“You say that a lot”

“Yeah, well, it’s pretty warranted, don’t you think?” I snap “We’re hardly even, as in not at all, friends, Nico You ignoreattention or around You’re as hot as you are cold and it’s ever-changing Now you’re acting all deht”

He gives a half glance over his shoulder, ignoring everything I just said, and then turns back, stepping up to the cashier lady He orders, coht in front of me

A cross between anger and aggravation is etched across his face, neither of which make any sense

“It was one thing – still a bad idea – to pull the shit you did last night, but to basically confirm the rumor I’m sure has already started to spread? Dick move”

He shrugs “Haht for that to happen”