(Charlie's POV)

"Oh hell no" Aled said grabbing my phone out of my hands "Give it back Aled.." I managed, my entire world felt as though it was breaking away and speaking was proving to be quite difficult "Charlie, just think, once you do this you'll be the one crossing a line that you can't ever come back from.. you and Nick belong together, we don't even know the truth of what we saw, Nick's saying it means nothing! You can't just ignore that!" I sighed, putting my head against the train window; part of me wants to believe what Aled is saying, of course I do, but I can't, all the shit that happened at the start of summer, now this? It feels like everything has changed, I would never do this to Nick, was I really being unreasonable?

I sit up in my chair and put my hand out "Give it, I've made my decision" Aled actually seemed to shrink in his chair, but he complied nonetheless, suddenly the phone began to vibrate, a call was coming in from 'Unknown Caller' I looked at the phone unsure what to do, I looked at Aled and said "If it's nick just hang up" and I hand the phone back to him "Yes" he says answering it, "Oh, right uh, one moment. Charlie, Ben Hope?" And my eyes go wide, I take the phone and it begins.

Charlie: Wow, you're certainly something Ben I'll give you that.

Ben: I'm not calling to argue with you Charlie.

Charlie: Then what exactly do you want?

Ben: I want to make sure my mistake doesn't ruin yours and Nick's relationship.

Charlie: I'm listening.

Ben: Look, I haven't had many friends, and Nick? He's just been so good to me over the past two weeks, I mistook it as flirtation and he helped me with loads of really personal stuff, please, that kiss was a massive mistake, if I could take it back I swear I would, it was all just verisimilitude, I wish I could have seen that at the time.

Charlie: Goodbye Ben.

And that was that, Ben had taken responsibility for everything, I should feel better right? Be happy, yeah? Well I don't, I'm still angry, I still feel like my heart is being pulled out of my fucking chest. What was I supposed to do now?

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(Nick's POV)

Me and Tao had been sat in silence just staring at our phones for what felt like forever, realistically though probably no longer than 15 minutes. "What the hell does this mean!?" I say as I look at Tao, he simply shrugs his shoulders "Best guess? Aled intervened" I pondered that a moment "Why?" He looked at me confused "Nick.. our entire friendship group centres around the relationship you and Charlie share for fuck sake we traveled over 200 miles to watch you play a rugby match, we're all commited to you two working things through".

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Charlie Spring: Nick, I just spoke to Ben, he basically said everything was his fault and I shouldn't blame you.

Nick Nelson: Oh, well I'm glad he owned up to it I guess.

Charlie Spring: Tao, I take it Nick didn't get Ben to do that?

Curtain hair 💆: Nope

Charlie Spring: I'm not angry anymore Nick. I think I've just realised it's not fair of me to expect you to behave a certain way at University.

Nick Nelson: Charlie what you expect is not special it's just not to fall for anyone else or have hookups, that's not a lot.

Charlie Spring: Yeah but it's University, clearly that's too much, look I don't want to get into an argument over it, it's just better if we just don't continue the arrangement.

Nick Nelson: Arrangement? This is our relationship you're talking about!

Nick Nelson: If you're going to give up on us Charlie, you're gonna do it properly, you're gonna say it properly.

Charlie Spring: Why are you being like this? You think I want this?!

Nick Nelson: I DONT KNOW THATS WHAT IM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

Nick Nelson: Listen, I will apologise to you for the rest of my life and beyond for what happened today, but I will not pretend to be okay with you breaking us up.

Charlie Spring: Nick, I'm not 'breaking us up' I'm recognising reality, I cannot just sit around worrying that assholes like Ben are gonna take advantage of you, and it's not that I don't trust you but how am I supposed to believe that the next guy who kisses you won't be better looking than me? Or smarter than me? Or isn't fucked up in the head like I am 😭

Our Queen 👑: Charlie that's not true ❤️

Nick Nelson: Charles, I know very few things in life are guaranteed, my philosophy is to grab onto what you know is forever and to treasure it for as long as you can, and when we met? I feel like from that first 'Hi' I grabbed onto you, and I'm sorry but I'm not letting you go, yeah you have issues, so do I, so does everyone else reading this, our issues aren't what define us, and being with you? They honestly don't even matter, for the love of God please don't do this.

Charlie Spring: I'm sorry Nick, you deserve to be happy. Good luck finding someone.

Nick Nelson: Charlie...

Charlie Spring: FUCK OFF NICK take the fucking hint will you

Nick Nelson: This is wrong and you know it, this is bullshit

Charlie Spring: You kissed Ben Hope, you betrayed me, I can't trust you, I don't love you. Just FUCK OFF.

Nick Nelson: Okay I will

Charlie Spring: Good.

Nick Nelson: Say that to my face first.

Charlie Spring: Excuse me?

Nick Nelson: Well we've been together three years I'm not being dumped by text, if you want to break up with me that's fine, but you do it properly, you get your shit together and say it to my fucking face.

Charlie Spring: No I'm on the train home I can't just turn around.

Nick Nelson: Alright then, I'll come home. See you soon.

A/N: I totally didn't cry writing that massive paragraph from Nick to Charlie YOU CANT PROVE I DID 😭😭😭