Nick and Charlie

So the other day, after re-reading the HeartStopper series (and then finding it on Webtoon and re-binging it and then binging the entire fourth volume (chapters five and six)), I went and bought the rest of Alice Oseman's books (which I've been meaning to do anyway so here's to that).

The first one I read was "Nick and Charlie". Because who isn't obsessed with Nick and Charlie? Knob heads, that's who.

["CHARLIE: “I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me.”

NICK: “Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in the same room on different laptops. Text each other from different rooms. Make out. Make food. Make drinks. Get drunk. Talk. Argue. Laugh. Maybe we're kind of boring. But that’s fine with us.”

Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they’re inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’, for God’s sake!

But as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough to survive being apart. Or are they delaying the inevitable? Because everyone knows that first loves rarely last forever…"]

Binged this, too. Cried some (would have sobbed if I wasn't in public).

If it wasn't obvious from the blurb above, this novella takes place about eighteen months after the Heartstopper comics. And if it wasn't for my obsessive behavior and stalking art online and seeing spoilers before I should and reading the Heartstopper Mini Comics, aka knowing for a fact that Nick and Charlie are forever end-game style shit, I might have lost my shit.

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