Chapter 68

With nothing for him at school and no one to talk to Nico was back to square one, Clay switched his seat in the one class they share, and he made it clear to Christian that he wanted nothing to do with him so now he's all alone again.

It's night and he's at home on the couch with nothing better to do than to stare at the wall and think of all the ways he's messed up, Nico's mom walks in "hey," she sits next to him and he doesn't bother looking at her or replying. "Did all your homework?" He nods, "and studied for you chem test?" Nico nods again, his mom realizes she's not going to get much out of him so she starts talking more. "I was thinking earlier about how I haven't seen much of you lately," she thinks it's because he's out having fun with friends but really he just drives to Clay's house and sits outside in his car thinking if he should go in. "I mean I guess I would have something to say about that, but I got your progress report the other day and so far they're all As."