Nicholas gradually closed the bedroom door behind him, making sure to not to create any loud noise that could have him caught. But even in that state and condition, his mind was replaying back, again and again, the moment when Althea leaned forward and pecked his cheek.
She kissed him…
His excitement jumped out of the roof, as he slowly touched the very spot on his cheek, where Althea had kissed him and jumped up and down, rejoicing the sweet moment that he had just lived through.
His smile stretched all the way across, from ear to ear, hurting his cheeks as well. But that hurt wasn’t anything that Nicholas was worried about because all the pain in the world that he had ever suffered through felt numbing to him because he had found a painkiller to suffer and go fight through his struggl
