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It's another night at marcos pizza. 8pm, just a few hours away from closing time.
Nil pulled yet another. All nighter.
His movements are sluggish as he tries and fails to make a pepperoni pizza. The fluorescent lights shine down upon the pizza kitchen harshly. They make a soft buzzing noise, fogging nil's already tired mind.
Dimitri just got off his break, smelling faintly of cigarettes. He walks over to the kitchen and then notices nil dissosating, staring at pizza of all things? Yea nil definitely didn't sleep.
Nil looks down at the half made pizza blankly, trying to keep his droopy eyes open.
Footsteps pat against the tile floor, and the noise falls onto deaf ears.
"Nil"?
No response.
"Nil".
Dimitri taps his back.
Nil gets pulled out of his daze, his face scrunching up as he flinches. He looks behind him.
Nil's face softens.
"Oh shit. Don't scare me like that man"
"Sorry, just checking on ya.. you gonna put cheese on that"? Dimitri points to the half made pizza.
Nil looks back at the pizza and scratches his messy hair.
"Ah..yea i am." Nil says raspily.
Nil turns from Dimitri and grabs some shredded cheese off a nearby counter. He absent mindedly sprinkles some on top, almost too much before Dimitri's pale hand grabs nil's wrist.
"Woah woah too much cheese". Dimitri says softly as he keeps his hand on Nil's wrist.
Nil wants to move his wrist away and say a remark, but he's too tired to even be able to make a pizza properly right now. So he resigns. Besides, Dimitri's hand on his wrist isn't that bad of a feeling.
Dimitri leans over from behind nil, looking down at the "pizza" nil's making. A soft sigh escapes Dimitris lips, causing warm breath to tickle at nil's ear.
Nil tenses up a bit.
Dimitri is usually a close and touchy person so this was something he's gotten used to. But ever since he said he was gonna head off to University, nil thought a lot. About how he was gonna miss fishing, miss 3am slurpies, miss his hugs, miss his touch, miss his voice, miss the person he didn't realize he had a crush on until the very last minute.
He's gonna miss this. Miss him. Badly.
"You didn't sleep last night huh"? Dimitri says lowly.
Nill snaps out of it. When he processes his words he wants to lie, tell him he's fine. But if he did it would be no use, Dimitri knows him too well.
"Huh? Oh.. yea I didn't." Nil says lowly. He then feels Dimitri's hand let go of his wrist, moving to his shoulder.
"You should spend the night, sleep on a real bed instead of a tent for once. Plus we haven't hung out in a while" Dimitri says softly, nil can hear the light smile in his voice.
Nil stays silent for a moment, debating.
Dimitri notices his hesitation.
"My family won't be home till Monday if that's what your worried abou-"
Nil cuts him off. "No I'm not worried about them. And I'll come over, a bed sounds nice right about now" A bed. Dimitris bed.
Dimitris family being over usually nags him.
Something else is nagging at him now.
The night is calm once they get to Dimitris house, the trees sway gently while some leafs fall against the window. Warm lights fill the space of the room.
Dimitri catches up on his studies at his desk. leaning his cheek onto his hand. Nil sprawls out in Dimitri's bed, tossing and turning.
After awhile Dimitri finishes up his work, gets up, and stretches.
From the bed. Nils eyes linger.
Dimitri's eyes end up meeting his. After a moment nil's eyes flick right back to the ceiling.The room goes silent for a moment before Dimitri starts humming softly, nil can hear him shuffling.
Dimitri hums a tone similar to the snailman and slime frog intro as he sits onto the bed, looking down at nil.
"Can't sleep"? Nils eyes flick from the ceiling to him.
"Mhm..this is bullshit."
"Want me to play something on my guitar for ya"?
"not right now.." nil says raspily as he stares up at the ceiling.
Dimitri notices this and frowns.
"Nil"?..
"Yea"?
"is it about me going away to University? Is that why you have been down"? Dimitri asks softly
Nil hesitates before speaking.
"Hm... partially."
"Partially huh. So it's mostly just your insomnia?"
"yes..and no." Nil says lowly. "I just dunno how to explain it right now".
Dimitri tilts his head, wanting to ask more but he sees how much of a tired state nil's in and let's it slide. He lets his eyes linger on nil.
Nil looks up at Dimitri, and instantly regrets it. Dimitri is already looking back at him with those fucking Maroon eyes.
Nil swallows thickly.
After a moment Dimitri lays beside nil on the bed, laying on his side, facing him."We still have a few months left together, don't worry" Dimitri says lowly. Smiling.
"I know." Nil says raspily, trying to avoid Dimitris soft gaze.
But he doesn't want just a few months with him. He wants the only person able to comfort him in this shitty town to stay.
Nil looks around the room lazily. The warm room a reminder of everything they have done together. The polaroid pictures littered on the walls, the stick Dimitri taped up. Cds on the wall of music that Dimitri has introduced nil to. The guitar that has put him to sleep countless times. And this bed, that nil has huddled up in with Dimitri on cold winter nights.
He's broken from his thoughts when he feels a ruffle in his hair. He flicks his eyes back to Dimitri. "What do you wanna do to take your mind off it"? Dimitri says as he looks over nil's disheveled form
Nil can't help but smile a little and swat Dimitris hand away. He tries to fix his hair all the while his cheeks get warmer.
"You still have those snail man and slime frog DVDs"?. Nil asks
Dimitri hears this and grins.
"Hell yea I do."
To be continued