Unsuspecting Love // Tom Felton

Carol.

A couple weeks past since Jade, Tom hasn't stopped calling her. Nick knows at some point she will need face up to the music and talk to him but not yet. She was doing what she should of done before getting with Tom, she is sleeping with inappropriate men. Her phone starts vibrating on the bedside table, lifting the screen up to see who it is. She sighs and puts it a back down.

Willows daddy🐶 is calling
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"Is that your boyfriend calling?" Peep asks her as he lights up a joint.

"No" Nick starts dressing herself "it's urm. It's no one. You wanna get sushi? Dying for some sushi" she asks slipping into a pair of highwaisted shorts.

Peep offers her a toke on the joint, happily accepting gently kissing him first. Every touch of his lips she sees Tom.

"Urm yeah sure? I've have like two bucks though" Peep laughs as he gets dressed.

"It sound don't worry about that" Nick grabs her bag waiting for him to finish dressing.

They grab their boards heading off toward this great little sushi place just down from her place in the fashion district. Skating boarding was like surfing to Nick, it was her happy place outside of the water. She doesn't have to think about the outside world, just her and the thoughts of not crashing into moving cars. Her dad taught her to skateboard when he would come over to the states snd when she would go over to Australia he would teach her surf. It was their time together, time that was taken too soon in her opinion. Carol had calmed down, obviously found some cash to pay her debts and has left Nick alone for now.

"What's going on in that pretty head of yours?" Peep asks her as he puts a roll in his mouth. But as he spoke she didn't hear Peep she hears Tom's perfect british voice.

"Thinking of my dad" she smiles at him.

He is like her, a little lost soul trying to find their place in the big bad world that is LA.

Carol Benson is calling
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Zella looks at her phone sighing. Putting it back in her bag and getting back to her food. Peep looks at her concerned.

"Is that him?" He asks. She shakes his head.

"Nope" she takes a swig out of her beer "it's my mum. My dad died 2 years ago" she looks at him before taking another roll.

"Oh god. I'm so sorry" Peep thinks he's offended her.

"Don't worry hun. Only the family know" she takes another bite "he Urm killed himself. Wasn't pretty. But life moves on"

The eat in silence for the rest of the meal. But a comfortable silence, like they are just two friends eating no pressures. They decide to go drinking in a couple bars, take her mind off things. Peep didn't know what was bothering Nick but something was and she didn't want to talk about it.

"Hey did you call Lay?" Nick whispers in Peeps ear as they dance together. Nick high as a kit and drunk as a skunk.

"Yeah she said 20 minutes" he kisses her neck.

From the outside they seem to be two normal young people enjoying each other's company. But as Layla and the rest of the boys enter the bar she can see something deeper in Nick. Something troubling her. Layla and Ned who know her the best can see the pain behind her smile and the drugs running through her system to mask it all.