Nightmare turned love のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

The next day felt weirdly normal.Which, for me, was weird.It was the kind of silence you get right before chaos crashes through your window—unexpected, eerie, and just suspicious enough to make you wonder if you're in the eye of the storm or just lucky.Midterms were almost over, and this was the part of the week where every hallway resembled a zombie apocalypse. People staggered around like caffeine-deprived ghosts, and every conversation was either about how someone didn’t sleep or how someone cried after Physics.Personally, I hadn’t had a proper nap in two days. I was this close to hallucinating my calculator whispering sweet nothings to me during math. And yes—I may or may not have written "Send help" in the margins of my paper. They’ll probably think I’m dramatic. They’d be right.Exams were evil, and whoever invented them definitely didn’t like teenagers or happiness.On the semi-bright side of things, though, the whispers about me had finally started to die. After the whole

The next couple of days went by in the blink of an eye, and suddenly—Friday was here. The hallways were loud again, buzzing with chatter and complaints, just like they always were on the last day of midterms. And me? I was internally spiraling. Because weekend meant Saturday, and Saturday meant the date. Or… hangout. Group thing. No pressure. Except there was a lot of pressure. Mostly from Eli, who wouldn’t shut up about it. Okay, maybe I was excited too. But at least I had the decency to be chill about it. I wasn't about to get caught looking unprepared. The only problem? Aiden refused to spill a single detail about where we were going. Not even a hint. Not even I could get it out of him—and that boy cracked jokes before he cracked under pressure. All he said was, “Dress casual.” Which, as Eli pointed out, was too vague for comfort. Because everyone sees casual differently. And by everyone, I mean Eli and I see casual differently. Tell me why the moment I mentioned “casua

Aiden’s POV I hadn’t expected tonight to go this well. Honestly, I thought someone would chicken out at the last minute , probably Nova, considering how tightly wound she’d been all week. But nope. She showed up. And not just showed up, she looked unreal. Casual, like I told her, but somehow made it feel like a crime to breathe near her. That damn off-shoulder top? Game over. I had to physically remind myself to breathe when she opened the door. My hands were in my pockets not for style this time, but because I was two seconds away from fidgeting like some lovestruck high school idiot. Which, I guess, I was dangerously close to being. But it was all worth it. Every bit. The waiting. The nerves. The pretending I didn’t stare too long every time she laughed or flipped her hair. The car ride to the bowling alley was chaos in the best way. It felt like our own little world. Eli was dramatic, Ty was chill, and Nova was... Nova. All sharp comebacks and quiet looks when she thought I

I didn’t even know how I’d fallen asleep, but apparently, I did. Because the first thing I woke up to wasn’t my alarm, or even Eli’s screeching, but birds chirping… and something poking my back. Okay. Correction, someone poking my back. I blinked against the soft glow of morning sunlight filtering through the living room windows, my brain trying to catch up with reality. Couch. Blanket. Sleepover. Aiden’s house. Right. Oh my god… Aiden. I tilted my head just slightly and yup, there he was. Lying on the same couch. Way too close. Why didn't he just sleep in his room? Better yet, why didn’t we all sleep in the guest rooms? This mansion definitely had enough of them. He had one arm thrown carelessly across the back of my pillow. So that was what was poking me. Not that I thought it was anything else, okay!? Our knees were practically married at this point. Like, joint tax return close. I stayed still for a second, watching the steady rise and fall of his chest like I was so

The sun was already halfway up, casting golden rays across the neighborhood like the universe forgot I had just been emotionally dragged through the trenches. Birds chirped like they hadn’t witnessed the chaos that was my life just hours ago. Ty and Eli had already left after a solid hour of teasing. At this point, I was pretty sure my ears were hanging by emotional threads. And now it was finally time for me to go home. Alone, preferably. But of course, Aiden insisted on walking me over, and I being the embarrassingly flustered human I was didn’t say no. Don’t judge me. He’s hot. We walked side by side, our hands brushing occasionally. And I swear, it wasn’t accidental. It felt like something out of a cheesy high school romance series, and yet... there I was. Grinning like I’d just won a private concert with my crush. Get it together, Nova. Neither of us spoke at first, but the silence wasn’t awkward. It was easy. Like we were both catching our breath after the hurricane that w