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Will yawned tapping his go-card on to the bus,he had just finished a 15 hour shift at the hospital. Will plopped down on an empty seat putting in his headphones to drone out the buzzing of people, all he wanted to do was sleep. Three stops later Will was pulled out of his thoughts by a cute, short man with black hair and dark, familiar, brown eyes tapping him on the shoulder.
“Can I sit here?” He asked, Will could feel the blush creeping onto his cheeks, not only was he cute he had an Italian accent (exactly like his childhood best friend, turned crush) which short circuited his brain. It took Will a few seconds to register what he said.
“Yes! Uhh- yea thats um… fine” he said grabbing his bag and pulling it onto his lap. The man sat down with a big sigh.
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Nico dragged himself to the bus stop. It was stupidly early in the morning and he didn’t want to be awake, but he had to get to Hazels place. She was getting married to Frank next week and of course she had chosen Nico who wasn’t even a girl to be her maid of honour, well man of honour as she had called it. Nico thought it was stupid to have a five day bachelorette party and Nico wasn’t looking forward to spending five days with girls he didn’t even know putting face masks on him. But what could Nico do he loved his sister.
Nico groaned as the bus pulled up it looked pretty much full, Nico scanned the rows for a seat. There a seat next to the blonde mop of hair, Nico walked over and tapped the Man the shoulder.
“Can I sit here” he asked, the man looked up. Nico instantly regretted asking to sit there, this dude was hot, he had tan skin littered with freckles and brilliant blue eyes. The man stared at Nico for way too long, it was starting to make Nico uncomfortable,
“Yes! Uhh- yea thats um… fine” the man said finally looking away and grabbing his bag, pulling in onto his lap. Nico studied the man’s face from the corner of his eye, he was sure he knew him from somewhere? Maybe an old classmate, no. Will!? No it couldn’t be, Will moved to Norway years ago, and this… this is New York! No! Nico thought, I’m not doing this. Not again.
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Will tried to fight the heat spreading across his face as he realised the guy was checking him out, to cool down his face he put his head on the cool glass of the bus window. Will soon started to doze forgetting all about the mysterious man.
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Nico had long retired to reading his book, when he noticed that the man next to him had fallen asleep, reminding Nico how tired he was. Nico shoved his book into his bag and closed his eyes. Nico fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
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Nico peeled his eyes open. Where am I? That’s right on the bus. Nico almost jumped when he realised he was leaning on someone, Noooo not the hot dude next to me. Wait… someone is leaning on me! The hot dude is leaning on me!? Oh my gods what do I do? Suddenly the man yawned, Nico played dumb and pretended to be asleep.
“How long have you two been together?” Nico heard someone say,
“Ohh um, I actually… We don’t know each other… haha guess we both fell asleep” the man laughed
“Oh dear, are you gonna wake him up?”
“Nahh I’ll let him sleep until my stop” the man sighed. Nico waited ten minutes until he faked waking up, he yawned, looked around, blinked a bit and then sat bolt up.
“Sorry!” He said scrambling away from the man
“Sleeping beauty’s awake” the man laughed again, Nico froze. That was the first thing Will had said to him when they met, NO NICO! That’s NOT Will
‘We have reached the last destination please disembark’ a voice rang out. Nico grabbed his bag practically running off the bus, not wanting to continue that awkward conversation.
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Will stared at the door of the bus, he felt bad he had scared the cute, Italian man making him run off. Will looked down the man had left his keys, Will ran after him.
“Hey! Wait up you left your keys” Will yelled, the man didn’t stop. Will ran after him suddenly he turned a corner into an alleyway. The same alleyway he used to live in with frank ((in a house not the alleyway!)), what a coincidence.
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Nico ran all the way to his apartment, Nico dug around in his jacket’s pocket searching for his keys. They weren’t there, Shoot must have dropped my keys. Nico turned to look for his keys coming face to face (more like face to chest, but minor detail) with the man from the bus, Nico looked up. They stared into each other eyes, breathing heavily after running in the cold snow. A flicker of familiarity crossing both of their faces,
“Uhh, your dropped your keys” the man said holding them up.
“Yea, um thanks and sorry again” Nico muttered grabbing the keys.
“Bye” the man yelled walking off,
“Bye” Nico murmured. He unlocked Hazels apartment,
“NICO” Hazel squealed, jumping into his arms.
“Hey Sis” Nico laughed giving her a kiss on the head,
“So Hazel! This is Nico. Is he single?” A girl asked, looking Nico up and down.
“EMILY!” Hazel laughed, Nico rolled his eyes he didn’t care what any of these girls said or thought, he was only here for his sister.
“Don’t worry Nico tomorrow, I have another friend arriving. He can keep you company. And between me and you he is kinda hot” Hazel giggled pulling Nico away from everyone.