Nick and Charlie. Alice Oseman
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Название: Nick and Charlie
Автор: Alice Oseman
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Детская проза
isbn: 9780008147877
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NICK
The next morning I wake up to the sound of Charlie’s phone alarm – he always sets it to an annoying un-ignorable beeping sound, rather than music like I do. Despite this, waking up next to Charlie is definitely better than any other way of waking up. I don’t really know why. My bed always feels sort of cold when he’s not there.
Charlie’s still insisting he has to go to school today because he’s crap at revising at home, so he’s making me get up at seven o’clock in the morning to drive him. While I could go to school to revise, the idea of trying to revise on the first day of my study leave kind of makes me want to burn all of my revision notes, and also we’re both crap at doing schoolwork when we’re together anyway.
I open my eyes to see him stirring. A line of sunshine falls across his chest through the gap in the curtains, and even while I’m still half-asleep I get another sudden urge to take a picture of him. Then I remember that I used up the film yesterday afternoon, and I already took one of him asleep last night anyway, when I found him curled up in my bed after I’d gone to get a glass of water.
Charlie rolls over to turn off the alarm and then goes to climb over me to get out of bed – my bed’s situated against the wall – but as he does I slide my hands round his waist and pull him down on top of me. He lets out a surprised noise and then a small laugh, his voice still sleepy. “I have to go shower—”
“No, stay here.”
“I can’t, I’ll fall asleep again.”
“Don’t go to school.”
“Nick!”
“Stay here with me.”
“I can’t, I’ve got to… I need to revise.”
“Mm, fine.” I loosen my arms so Charlie can wrestle himself out of them. As soon as he’s gone, my bed feels cold and empty again. It’s pretty dumb, really. I sleep alone most of the time.
CHARLIE
I sort of hoped Nick might have picked up on how I’ve been feeling. Normally he’s pretty good at that; like, weirdly good, actually. And I’m not exactly subtle in my attempts to get him to stop talking about uni. But by third period, after I text Nick to see whether he’s awake again (after dropping me off at school, he said he was going back to bed), the excited text onslaught begins.
Nick Nelson
(11:34) We should go uni shopping soon!!! Is it weird I’m excited about buying kitchen utensils?
Nick Nelson
(12:02) Dyou think I should email to check whether I’ll have a double bed?? Like how do people know which sheets to buy?
(12:05) I’d better have a double bed lol your bed is bad enough
Nick Nelson
(12:46) Dyou think I should take my xbox or is that too unsociable? I need people to like me
Nick Nelson
(12:54) Is Kaleem in school?? If he is can you ask him whether he knows about the beds?
Nick Nelson
(13:15) I’m way more interested in home furnishing than I thought.. the ikea website is a dangerous vortex
I reply to all his messages and really try to be enthusiastic, but I can tell my texts sound a bit flat. Nick doesn’t seem to notice though. He just keeps texting me about university and buying stuff for his room and the modules he thinks he wants to take and all sorts of other things that just make me feel increasingly more awful by the second.
We’ve talked about it before. Quite a while ago, actually, back when Nick was looking round universities last summer and when he was applying to them in the autumn. I admitted I was pretty worried about him leaving. I said I was scared of being on my own all the time. It was kind of embarrassing, really. Stupid. Scared of being on my own. I sounded like I was three-years-old.
Nick obviously reassured me we’d talk all the time anyway and everything would be fine. We haven’t talked about it much since then, but only because there’s not much more to say about it.
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