"Are you telling me you haven't studied at all?!" I exclaim in shock as I stare at Emily from across the lunch room table. She and Nate were having a conversation that I zoned myself out of, but her words of not studying dragged me out of my sheltered brain in shock.

"N-no." She says shyly.

"Why?!" I shout closing my textbook as I bore holes into her with my eyes.

"I've been busy." She replies lamely making me roll my eyes, when she sees the look in my eye she groans before continuing. "Fine, I chose not too. It makes no sense, we both know my plan is to stay here and take over dad's gym. I've been working there since I was thirteen, it's basically mine."

"Yeah, but still you should at least try." I press making her sigh.

"For you, I'll flip through some books. Happy?"

"Very." I reply with a wide smile before I transfer my attention to Nate. "And you? Have you been studying?"

"As a matter of fact, I am. I already have my mother up my ass about university so you can rest easy love." He says planting a light kiss on my forehead.

"Which university?" I ask hoping he wouldn't try to close the conversation like he'd been doing frequently.

"Which ever one would take me." He replies with a shrug, I hide the relief which floods through my body. If he was interested now I just had to get him to apply for Brown, or at least one in the same city as me. I rather have that conversation in private though, so I reluctantly decided to drop the topic and return to my works.

"How have your scores been in the practice exams?" Nate asks dragging me away from my work.

"Right where I need them to be, I want to get a little higher for some sort of scholarship though. Take the load of the parents a bit." I say with a weak smile as he nods his head in understanding. "What about you?"

"Around two thousand." The water Emily was drinking pouring all over her as my mouth dropped straight to the floor. I stare at him in disbelief as my body stays perfectly still in it's new statuesque form.

"I thought you said two thousand, because that would be insane and not possible and i-insane!" Emily shouts hysterically as she tried to clean her drowning clothes.

"This is why I don't like talking to people about this sort of stuff." He says with a shrug, "I'm doing the university thing for my parents, tattoo artist in the making remember?"

"But you're like a genius! You could go to Harvard or something with those scores!" She exclaims taking the words straight out of my gaping mouth. (A.N : Stop Leslie ya nasty)

"Don't want to." He says with a shrug. "Can we drop it please?"

"No we can't, you're a Sheldon Cooper with tattoos!" She exclaims making me laugh.

"That's more of an insult than a compliment." He says with a clearly, disinterested glare. "I don't want to have this conversation." He says before getting up and leaving in a hurry. Emily begins to get up to go after him but I stop her.

"Let me handle it." She stares at me in shock before nodding quickly, I give her a weak smile before gathering my things and heading to the one place I knew he'd go. As expected the roof door was unlocked, I slip in before closing it behind me. My eyes find Nate leaning over to railing looking over the town instead of in his usual lawn chair.

"You can't hide from me Nathaniel." I say making his head snap my way, he smiles as he opens his arms for me. I don't hesitate to slip my body into his arms, soaking in that rich warmth that drove me crazy.

"Are you coming here to convince me to go to Princeton or something? Because I've heard it all before, from my parents, teachers and now my friends." He say looking out at the midday scenery.

"Why are you against it?" I ask trying not to jump straight into my Brown pitch.

"We don't have the money, I have a never ending amount of siblings and each of them need to go to university. I'm not going to drain my parents for an education I don't need, I'm fine going to a college nearby or not going at all." He says glancing down at me, he stops me as he sees me open my mouth. "Don't say scholarships. I know I can probably get one, but I'm not getting their hopes up for nothing. Plus it'd be selfish of me to steal something someone else actually needs and desperately wants." I stay quiet as I stare up at his clenched jaw, he was looking nervously at me and then back at the view, like he was scared I'd be mad at him.

"You've changed so much." I say making his head snap towards me. "I'm so proud of you." I say before tiptoeing to plant a kiss on his unsuspecting lips. His arms snake around my waist as we relish in the feeling of each other's company, he pulls me closer as he deepens the kiss, dominating it effortlessly.

"Thanks." He says when I pull away for air.

"Would you consider coming with me?" I ask shyly, my nerves getting the best of me. I was scared he would say no and then where would that leave us? "I want to go to Brown, it'sin Rhode Island. That's not to far from New York, that's like a really artsy place right? You could go to a school somewhere close and study Arts or something, it'll help with the tattoo designs right? Or maybe there's a tattoo university, we could look. We could live together and commute, is that too fast? We can live separately, but I want to live together, but I see your point too soon. Your parents won't mind right, we can find a reasonable school or something, you ca-"

"Andy shut up." He says with an amused smile, I stop my short, one-sided conversation as I try to catch me breath quickly. "Love, breath." I listen to his instructions as I take deep breaths trying to settle myself down. "Are you good now?"

"Yeah." I reply meekly, that was nothing like what I rehearsed, I had a nice presentation laid out in my mind with key points and valued remarks that should've sold him. Instead I basically begged him to come with me, rambling about living together, that point was saved for another speech another day.

"Andy." He says snapping me out of my destructive thoughts. "Did you hear what I just said?"

"No..." I say nervously as I watch him sigh.

"How the hell am I going to live with such a scatterbrain?" He grumbles making me sigh.

"I'm sorry! I was just so nervous, you don't want to go do you?! It is halfway across the country and we wouldn't kn-" I stop myself as I replay the words he just said, did he say live? Wait, did he just say live?! "Did you just say live with? As in me!" I ask my voice coming out louder than intended.

"Yeah." He says laughing as he looked at me. "We'd have to get a few things sorted out, but New York wouldn't be bad for me. I'd be study the Arts anyway, where better than NYC." He says with a smile as I dance on my toes before tackling him to the ground. I lie on his stomach, hugging him with everything I had.

"You'll go with me?!" I ask still not really sure if my brain was playing tricks on me.

"Of course love. You really thought I'd let you go so far without me?" He says running his hand through my hair.

"Well these days..."

"I know I've been distant, I'm just worried about her." He says quickly. "She's too okay. I don't want her doing anything stupid because she's lonely. I'm sorry, I know I've been an ass."

"It's okay, I understand. I thought we'd break up." I say honestly, he immediately sits up keeping his grip on my waist.

"I didn't mean to be that distant!" He exclaims. "Love, I'll never let you go, even if you beg me to. You're mine don't you get that? Forever, always mine and nobody else's."

"I know." I say with a growing smile. His fingers rub the spot that represented everything we had.

"When I'm acting like a piece of shit or being completely oblivious to how your feeling, look at this." He says his thumb rubbing the tattoo. "I love you and I always will."

I brush away the tears which began to run down my eyes before kissing him with everything I had.

"I love you so much. Forever. Always mine. Nobody else's." I say resting my head against his own.

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