Drabble: just a kiss
Author: aphrodite_mine
Info: E is for Ecstasy, Skins RPF, Nick/Kaya, for xthe_ingenue
Nick doesn't too often think about the fact that she's quite a bit younger. Age, after all, goes into the category of things he'd rather not ponder, along side "hey, you're the wee chap from About A Boy; how's it feel to be the one real name in Skins?" and possibly, maybe, according to his girlfriend, internalising Tony Stonem a bit too completely.
The end result of all this avoidance is that Kaya Scodelario comes drinking with the rest of the cast and Nick is proclaimed an asshole.
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And in truth, that may not be the real end result at all, because if Nick has learned anything from Skins, its that drinking does a lot more starting of shit than ending of it. During the course of the night, he gets asked for his autograph twice, flashed, punched in the arm by Bailey--sure to leave a mean bruise that he'll have to explain in the morning (why they go out when they have to work in the morning is a mystery no one knows the answer to)--and kissed just once.
It is a kiss that he'll remember the next day, sitting across from Kaya at the Stonem's dinner table, making faces and acting altogether brotherly. It is a kiss that he'll remember well into the night, wondering if she is simply trying to catch him off his guard, or just being Kaya.
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He's quite sure that no one saw them duck into the alley, press against brick and sigh together; her small body tight against his. She laughed into the night, and he was quiet, for once.