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State of grace, part one. this is not a good story. I mean it. You've been warned! this is messy but the events of this take place around 2020 when they all lived together.

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“You really don't have to do that.”

Sharky’s laugh echoes in the empty hallway, followed by heavy steps, and a second later, he appears in the kitchen. He finds AJ sitting on a barstool, his face glued to his phone.

“Found your food outside.” He greets him, making AJ smile. Sharky places the brown bag on the island but before AJ can take it, he grabs it again. "Be nice." He warns him and walks by the door to find her approaching.

"I can't walk around the house with shoes on!" She flashes him a quick smile as Sharky pulls her into the spacious kitchen. Her eyes travel everywhere around her. You can tell boys live here.

"Meet someone really quick." He tells his friend and AJ gives her a nod, unwrapping his burger.

"Hi." She shyly says, leaning on the counter close to where Sharky is sitting. AJ's trying not to look at her, but every time he does and Sharky catches him he chuckles, making y/n blush a little.

"Where's Niko and Kenny?"

They saw Chunks leaving as they were getting off the Uber. He said a quick hello, shook her hand, and disappeared saying he was late and his mother would kill him. It's her birthday, Sharky told her later. They're all having dinner together.

"Don't know and editing with George." AJ munches on a fry, suddenly feeling insecure eating in front of people. Well, her. “We have sodas and stuff in the fridge.”

She shakes her head, "I'm good." She would love a soda or some water, anything that will treat her dry throat but it would also make her wanna pee and she is not asking where the bathroom is at a boys' house!

“Well..get me a Mountain Dew?” AJ jokingly asks her, making Sharky tsk-tsked over his friend's boldness.

“Bro!"

"I'm sorry," he doesn't feel that bad over it, she is right next to the fridge! "I just have my food right here and I don't feel like getting up!"

"It's okay." She smiles at him, to show him she doesn't mind snooping around their fridge and walks to it.

“You’re closer, you know.” She tells Sharky as she passes right in front of him.

AJ raises his eyebrows at them. Like telling his friend, I'm sensing a vibe, but Sharky shakes his head as if saying it's not like that.

and it really isn't.

"I can see you.” She mumbles. Her head inside the fridge, her back turned to them but she can sense them talking. She can barely hear Sharky's giggles but she knows he's laughing.

Their fridge is horror. The main items stored there are takeaway boxes, sodas, and water. No real food in sight but she can count over 5 different brands of soda.

"What the.."

Niko enters the kitchen, a shovel in hand and plastic goggles on his head. He's wearing a white/blue onesie and Nike shoes. Surprisingly pulling it off.

“You’re all out.” She closes the fridge door and turns around again. Her eyes fall on Niko's tall frame and unique outfit. She stares at him, and him staring back.

“This is Y/n.” Sharky points one of his fingers at her. He then turns to look at AJ “She’s a friend.” AJ just laughs into his next bite, smirking at his friend. “Say hello Niko.”

Niko simply stares at her. His eyes bored into hers. He feels like he can't move them as if looking away will make her disappear and he doesn't want that.

"Niko!" AJ yells at him, snapping him out of his daydream. "Say hello to Sharky's friend." he teases Sharky back, earning an eye roll from him.

"Yes, hello." He steps closer, extending his hand for a handshake. Confused and with AJ's laugh in the background she takes his hand into hers. For a quick second and then Niko steps back again.

"Okay, if you excuse me now. I have to get back to this." He waves his shovel up and down and exits the room.

"He's just awkward, don't mind him," AJ tells her, still laughing with Niko.

This was the first time they ever saw each other. She used to watch him interview strangers on the street every so often on youtube but still hasn't spilled that secret to him. From that time, Niko could tell they'll be friends. It's just a feeling, he had told her when she asked him how he knew. She laughed at him. She laughed at how awkward he was then and how different things are now between them. When Sharky first brought her home, hoping to get the boys to hire her as a photographer he didn't know how much she would end up meaning to them and how close they'll get. On a Monday morning, a year and a few months into their friendship, Niko got that feeling.

It was the same Monday as the one before. And the one before that, and before that, and so on. He woke up, had leftovers from the night before as breakfast, and left the house to go film for the beta squad channel.

Two hours later, they were there, the filming running late ‘cause of the bickering and messing around that was happening. Just another normal day. And then it happened. For the first time in years, it happened.

He was scrolling through Instagram killing time when he saw the new photo dump she had posted. She was visiting home, for over two weeks now, and from the looks of it she was having the time of her life.

He stood up and walked to the other side of the room. The studio was too loud for anyone to hear him talking on the phone but he still needed his space. She didn’t pick up. He called again, and again and again.

“You’re really annoying you know.” She greets him when she finally answers the facetime.

“I called three times. What if I was dead by now?” He jokes, earning a scoff from her.

“Please! Nothing can kill Nikolas Omilanay.”

He smiles, thinking of many ways he could have been dead by now. He doesn’t mention them, he lets her have this one. “So how’s home? Bored yet?”

“A little. My grandma keeps asking me when I’m gonna get a real job and dad thinks I’m doing drugs again.” She laughs, making him laugh along.

“He still thinks that?” They laugh at the inside joke they created a while ago when her dad was in London and met Niko for the first time. He liked him until the drug jokes came up.

He knows she doesn't have the best relationship with her mother, so he doesn't mention anything about her. They catch up as if they haven't been texting nonstop since she left. A second of silence goes by and then she says, “why did you call? Are you terribly missing me or are you actually dying?”

He grins, not saying anything. He's terribly missing her but he doesn't say so.

“Well-”

Aj’s scream cuts him off. “Niko! Come on man!”

He sighs. “I have to go, we’re filming, and AJ's calling."

"Okay. It was nice hearing your awfully loud voice, Nikolas."

He smiles. "It was nice hearing your terrible, terrible voice too. Come back soon, yeah?"

"You're doing that creepy thing again," AJ tells him when he sits back in his chair. "You're smiling to yourself, man. Share the joke or stop it. It's disturbing."

It was quite disturbing.

Two days later, his phone starts ringing in the middle of the night. 4:30 a.m. Jesus.

"You better be dead." He says, his heart beating so fast, he thinks it might fall out of his chest.

Her loud laugh calms him down. "I know it's late."

"Late? No! Don't say that." He was more worried than angry when she woke him up. Who doesn't sleep at 4 a.m.?

"Can you pick me up from the airport tomorrow?"

"Oh, God." He lets his head fall back to the pillow, the phone still on his ear and a smile on his face. "You woke me up at 4 a.m. to ask me to pick you up? What is wrong with you?"

"You're sleeping during witch hour? When do you cast your spells?"

He laughs, "What a terrible joke that was."

"And yet, you still laughed."

"I did, yeah."

"So..are you? Picking me up tomorrow?" He doesn't know why she started whispering now but he doesn't question it. He whispers back, "of course I will."

"So what were you dreaming?" Her face is hidden under the blankets, the phone resting next to her on the pillow while Niko is on speaker.

"I was in the f.b.i. and we were searching for this ruthless murderer who killed his friend. Stabbed her fourteen times. Turns out, all this time, the murderer had been me." She laughs, making him laugh along. "The stabbed, dead friend is you, by the way."

"Yeah, I got that."

He can hear AJ playing on his computer. His voice gets loud now and then when he loses. He feels the need to go over there and talk to his friend. But he can't move.

"Why aren't you asleep?"

"Oh, it's morning already over here." She lies.

"We're in the same time zone. It is exactly..4:35 in the morning."

"I'm rolling my eyes at you right now. Just so you know."

Around 5 a.m. the phone call ends and Niko is still in the same position. He can't move and he can't make that feeling go away. It's stored somewhere in his lower belly area and he doesn't like it one bit. He phones AJ, despite being two doors away.

"Are you not in your room?" It's the first thing AJ asks him.

"I don't feel well," Niko mutters and rolls to the side, facing the window. He forgot to close the blinds again and soon, he could be able to see the sun rising. There is no way he can go back to sleep now, so he might as well enjoy the sunrise.

"Are you sick?" AJ shuts his computer off and makes his way to Niko's side of the house.

"Maybe. I don't know." He mumbles. The phone call ends as the door to his room opens and AJ steps inside. He lays next to him facing the ceiling and sighs, "I had like two bottles of Mountain Dew and I can't sleep. My stomach is fucked up."

"Something's happening to me," Niko grumbles back. He lays back on his back, keeping his eyes closed.

AJ turns to look at him, "are you gonna throw up?" He stands up on the bed, looking down at him. "You don't look sick."

"My stomach hurts a little bit, or maybe my head, I don't know." He touches his head, his hand slowly falling to his face.

"Is that why you're awake?"

Niko mumbles on his palm, his voice is barely audible. “Y/n called. She woke me up.”

AJ laughs, loudly, almost waking the whole house up and sits back on the bed. He rests his head on his palm, looking at Niko's side profile. "You got bitten by a love bug, my friend."

“What?” Niko opens his eyes but keeps them on the ceiling, afraid to look at AJ and the smug smile on his lips.

“You’re in love, man." He pats him on the chest three times, "You’re not sick. I mean you are sick in the head but this isn’t it.”

Niko catching up on what AJ is saying and gets defensive. “I’m not in love with anyone.” He slaps his hand off his chest and sits up straight.

“Except Y/n.”

Niko rolls his eyes, “Stop it. I don’t allow myself to feel these emotions."

He couldn't allow himself to feel that way about her because he knew she wasn't. He would consider himself lucky if only she thought of Niko as someone worth loving. More than a friend. He was scared he waited too long to say something and now he'll forever be stuck in the friend zone. Stuck in that in-between place. Where you almost kiss on a night out, where you almost lean into each other when the movie gets too boring, and when you have two more shots of tequila you do normally, your lips find each other and it goes from there. He waited so long, being her friend started to make him feel less. Numb, like he was in pain sometimes. Like when he picked her up from the airport and she hugged him so tight, neither wanted to let go. Or the way she would talk nonstop about things while looking at him and not the road ahead of them. He had to stop himself from taking her face into his palms and yell at her to love him back, to reach into his brain and somehow read his thoughts and love him without him having to say it. Because he couldn't bear the thought of confessing these feelings to her and not having her reciprocate them back. Not only would she stop being around, but she would also stop being his friend. She would stop being there every time they were filming, laughing secretly behind the camera. She would stop being Sharky's friend, she would stop coming to the house and slowly they would drift apart. He didn't want to lose her, but he soon realized he couldn't keep living like that. He was miserable, only joking and smiling when she was around. So he made a plan. Α τhree steps plan to make her notice him. Number one was talking to Sharky. He knows Sharky doesn't like her like that. He recently got out of a relationship himself. But, since he was the one introducing them, since he was the one begging them to hire a photographer and basically pay her to hang around with them, he felt like he had to say something to him first. So he decided that the first person he would confess his feelings to would be Sharky. And he would do it tonight, minutes after Sharky had ended his twitch stream and he would be exhausted to tease him much.

Three knocks on his bedroom door later, Niko was seated in Sharkys room. He was still on his computer, lazily scrolling down on Twitter. Niko was playing with his hoodie strings, looking at him from the foot of the bed. This is Sharky. His old friend. It's fine.

"Just so you know, this started being weird and creepy the moment you sat there looking at me."

He rolls his eyes, deciding to say something. "I want to say something to you."

"Noooo" Sharky sarcastically replies, spinning his chair to the side to look at him.

"Yeah actually," this shouldn't have been so hard, but he can't get his words out. "this is about you. Well, not you but this is also about you. But not really. It's more about people you know. And people I know. Because, you know, I, myself, have made a few friends this past year. Years, really."

"So it's about those friends?"

"Yes and No."

"I don't get it."

Niko snaps his fingers. "I kinda hoped you would without me saying anything to you."

"Is this something bad about a person I know?"

Niko shakes his head no.

"Is someone dead?"

"Well, a lot of people have died recently but-"

"Dude!"

"Okay, here's the thing." three deep breaths. "I've recently been feeling weird and it came to my senses that I may have some unintentional feelings about this one person that we both know and I just wanted to see how would you feel about me having these feelings about a person you also know."

"What feelings?" Sharky asks, lost. Niko said so many words, it messed up his head.

"Romantic feelings one might say."

"You have feelings-”

"Romantic feelings,"

"right, romantic feelings about a person I know and you're asking me what you should do about it?"

"Well, no. I'm asking you how that makes you feel."

"That you have feelings for someone?"

Niko nods his head.

"Well, I don't know man. Good? I don't.." Sharky turns to his computer screen again. A second later he spins back around. “You’re not talking about my sisters, are you? I’ll kill you.”

Niko defensibly puts his hands up, “Isn’t your oldest sister like…underaged?”

Sharky nods, “Well yeah, but you confused me.”

His bedroom door snaps open and AJ walks inside, eating cereal out of the box. “Who’s in love with your sister?” He stands in the middle of the room, his attention on both of them.

“Niko.”

“I’m not!”

“You better not be!” Shark shakes his finger towards him as a warning.

“You’re in love with his sister too?” AJ laughs, devouring a handful of cereal.

“Who else are you in love with?”

“Y/n,” AJ says.

Sharky gasps, looking at Niko who pulls on his hoodie strings to close the hoodie around his face.

“Romantic feelings about a person we both know!”

“He said romantic feelings?” AJ takes a seat on the bed, next to Niko and smiles. “You’re so weird. Can’t you say in love or something?”

“I’m not in love with her.” Niko argues, “I barely know her.”

The plan didn’t work. Well, he never made an actual plan. After he told Sharky, he had to deal with his friends making fun of him and teasing him every time she was around. She would laugh, pretending not to understand the jokes. And then one day, she dropped the bomb on him.

“I actually have plans.” She politely declined Chunck's invitaton of them all going to dinner together after shooting all day. Niko knew she’s been living with her best friend for months now, not thinking much about it and thinking she is the one y/n made plans with, he kept scrolling down on his Instagram feed.

“Plans? You have other friends?” Sharky joked with her, touching his heart and pretending to be hurt by her words.

She slapped his hand away, “It’s..more of a date.”

AJ’s head snapped up so fast, he had to close his eyes for a second to prevent himself from fainting. “A date?”

All eyes were on Niko. He kept his head low, pretending his heart wasn’t ready to fall out of his chest. Of course, she has a date. Of course, she’s dating.

“Yeah..it’s..um..it’s not much. We met at this thing my friend dragged me last Saturday and he asked me out, so..why not?”

“Yeah,’ Sharky said, his eyes widening at Niko,” why not?”

“How do you know he’s not a murderer?” is the first thing Niko thought of saying to her. He wanted to sound casual like he was not dying on the inside looking at her smiling about her date with another man.

What the fuck? AJ mouthed at Niko, but he ignored him, too busy looking at her and rolling her eyes at his words.

“He’s not a murderer, Niko. He’s nice, I've seen him before. Plus, it’s not like we’re going to a remote place. Other people are gonna be there.”

“Where?”

“Cinema. We’re seeing a movie.”

AJ rolls his eyes at that, mimicking her voice. “We’re seeing a movie.” His expression turns serious again, “That’s the best he can do?”

“I don’t like dinner as a first date thing. It’s too intimate.”

They were packed up and ready to go separate ways, standing outside of the studio.

“I can drive you home.” Sharky offers her a ride, which she gladly accepts.

The whole ride Sharky was dying to tell her to ghost her date and go to dinner with them. Maybe date Niko, you know. But he didn’t say anything. He dropped her off, told her to have fun on her date with the fakest smile on his lips, and drove off. It was a good first date. Not the best, but she had fun. He was nice and he listened to her rumble about her life. He didn’t kiss her goodbye, which she hoped he didn’t. She stayed up all night, analyzing the date, his personality, and every small detail with her best friend, Faith. “I don’t think you’re feeling him much.” She told her.

She barely had an hour of sleep before Sharky showed up at her apartment door, knocking on the door like a maniac. “We’re going karting," he said the biggest smile on his face.

A couple of hours later, AJ was bragging about his win. “Unreal” he was calling himself, nonstop.

“Maybe don’t compliment yourself so much,” George told him as they were walking to the car. Niko had been distant all day, making her think something was up. He’s never that quiet. He hasn’t even teased AJ yet.

She decided to ride with George and Niko back.

“I’ll go with you too,” AJ claimed, and after making a speech about winning and deserving special treatment, he jumped on the passenger seat leaving Niko and Y/N squished in the back.

His leg has gone numb. He stopped breathing the moment she sat next to him and his heart hasn’t stopped beating that fast since she leaned into him. The car is small. Too small for Niko and his big body frame, too small for two people sitting in the back, and definitely too small for her to be laying in his lap. Is he complaining? Never. George makes a turn on her street and Niko, careful not to wake her, taps his shoulder.

“Go around again.”

“What?” George tosses him a quick look and turns ahead again.

“You’re crazy, we’ve already taken the long way home. I’m not going anywhere.” He almost feels bad for his friend. He almost turns around, but he’s been awake since 5 am. He’s tired and hungry and wants to go home finally.

“I’ll pay for the gas. I’ll buy you a new car! Just…don’t stop.”

With an eye roll and a few mumbles, you’re buying me a car all right, you better pay for gas next time, you owe me dinner, George drives past her house and they start doing circles again. Niko signs and lets his head fall back onto the headrest.

AJ grinning from ear to ear turned to look at Niko, “How long do you reckon we can go around in circles until she wakes up?”

He doesn’t know. He kind of hoped for forever but he can settle for another hour.

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OKAY! this isn't the best but i have to get over them meeting/becoming friends and all before the teasing and flirting begins! Thank you for reading! xx

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