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monday arrived and nini wasn't mentally prepared to face the hallway stares and whispers

she knew that her fans were having theories about her and ricky, but they were wrong. she was convinced of it. right?

when she arrives to school, she sees people doing the usual staring and chattering about her, but she ignores them and heads straight inside to her locker where her friends were waiting for her

"hey neens." ashlyn smiles

"hey guys."

nini opens her locker and gets whatever she needed before turning to ricky who was scrolling through the comments on her phone

the girl shakes her head and turns his phone off

"hey!" he laughs

"never read all of the comments." she says "there are some that will stand out and it's usually the bad ones."

ricky smirks "i didn't get any for your information."

everyone groans and nini giggles, shaking her head "you should also turn your phones off from time to time. all of the notifications can cause your phone to crash-"

"already ahead of you." carlos sighs sadly

everyone laughs before the bell rings and nini watches as gina and ricky walk off to their class together.

"you coming?" kourtney asks, snapping her out of her thoughts

nini nods "uh-yeah. yeah let's go."

the first two lessons went by slowly, nini kept herself focused on her work because she was determined to not let ej caswell ruin her normal-life experience.

when lunch arrived, nini sat down at the cafeteria table and got a text from abby

when lunch arrived, nini sat down at the cafeteria table and got a text from abby

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"oh my god!!!" nini screams, earning more stares from everyone, but she honestly didn't care

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"oh my god!!!" nini screams, earning more stares from everyone, but she honestly didn't care. her excitement was too high

"are you okay?!"
"what's wrong?"
"did something happen?"

nini laughs at all of the concern looks from her friends and shakes her head

"i get to do a concert singing the song i sent to abby and if it goes well, it could be nominated for the billboards!!" nini squeals

everyone's jaw drops and they congratulate her with happiness before she turns to ricky with a smirk

"what?" he asks confused

"well, that's not all the news i got..." she trails off, showing him the phone

his eyes widen and his jaw drops "no. freaking. way."

"what?" everyone asks

he looks up at nini "seriously?!"

nini nods

"what?!" everyone asks again

"oh my god!" ricky exclaims

"for the love of god will you tell us?!" kourtney sighs

"the song he posted on his instagram got a lot of views and likes that my manager might want to sign him and the producers will want to record his song." nini explains with a giddy smile

everyone shrieks in excitement and nini laughs

"i can't believe it!" ricky breathes

"i can! that song is amazing ricky!" nini smiles

ricky looks down at his food and thanks her, trying to not allow his cheeks to turn red

after school, nini walked down the empty halls after spending a few hours in the music room.

she was humming ricky's song that's been stuck in her head after listening to it over and over again until she felt someone grab her arm, pulling her into the janitor's closet

"what the-?!"

nini tried to open the door, but it's locked and she can't see anything. she hears someone breathing behind her and the fear rises inside

"i swear to god if you're going to kill me, i know k-"

"nini."

her heart stops and she turns the light on, seeing the tall raven-haired boy standing in front of her

"ej."

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