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Nellie Lovett

Omg I need to know what he says! Alice, the way you draw their expressive faces is amazing! I love being able to read the nonverbal things they say to each other. They are so cute together I can’t ❤️❤️

Carina

The expression in Nick’s eyes is gonna make me cry 😭

Liam Orlando

The suspense!! I cant!!!!!!! ❤️

Sarah Jacobs

Oh of course.... another hang off a cliff 🤣❤️🍂

hllwds

what‘s on your mind Nicholas..

ally

their little smiles make me smile

Laura

Alice…stop the cliffhanger!!! That’s not okay!

Rebecca Barker

Is he finally going to tell Charlie he wants to go to Leeds uni??

Shin__

The second panel, Charlie you cheeky lad

Fern✨

I showed this to my bf just now and he said “us” and kissed me :33

Harry

So…

Chloe ♡

‘so…’ what nick 👀

Caitlin

So? 👁

S

Omg what’s he gonna sayyyyy the suspense is killing me 😭🤚

Jomaries Amezaga

Chalie’s face! OMG! So flirty! He’s a menace! I love it! And Nick eyes then… I’m melting!🫠

Ava

💕😭💕😭

lexi

so?!

Kristen

So….? LOL they really are the cutest! 🍂🥰

Carmen

NOT ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER😭

Brittney

Their smiles, I swear

tara🌞

the way nicks face goes from smiley to 🙁 as soon as charlie turns around…

Beam Bugge

as soon as Charlie isn't looking nick stops smiling... I don't like where this is going

ACxo

Sulagna Maitra

Now, THAT is a cliffhanger!! 🤯😀😂❤️👍

ama

i think the little heart you draw sometimes when they kiss is one of my favourite small details ❤️ nick looks so lost when charlie turns away, this feels symbolic and foreshadowing for when they'll be long distance. and nick probably hasn't really processed that yet, he's realising more and more that (in his words) he doesn't really know who he is without charlie🥺

Jasollie

Oh dear, the smile for Charlie in the second panel and then it drops in the next panel as soon as Charlie turns his back. 😭

Jasollie

And I think they are both ready to go home. 🩷

Maisie

I’m worried about the lack of smiling from Nick in the last panel oh Alice what have you got in store for us

Beam Bugge

but I wonder what he's going to say!

Jmejimz

The smile drop 🙂😕💔

CinD

The way he goes from 🙂 to 😕 as soon as Charlie moves away from him…

Tina

i think he's very worried about not seeing charlie a lot before he leaves for uni 🤔

Robert

So what? You are really hanging us out Alice!!

Zacc

That face Nick is making ahfuhhufhdhd

Cody

😐 Alice!

Caro

the ☺️ from 🙁 and the way nick is holding his own arm, this boy is throughout a lot on his mind now

Karen DuVall

- So, will you still come to my games? - So, do you want to get out of here 😉 - So, what are your thoughts about pineapple on pizza?

reece

Aw Nicky 🥺

Barb

my anticipation for what comes after "so" is running high now😅

Ania W.

I admire the skill with which you build tension, Alice. But as much as I worry about Nick's mental health, I start to worry about myself and my teary eyes every time I look at his face like this.

KayKay

Oh Nick! 🥹 I’m guessing he’s worried about how much they’ll see each other now. Uni is getting closer.

Carrie Lindley

I don’t know if this is what’s coming up for Nick right now, but I got hit by a sudden wave of sadness just thinking about how they’ve already had their last rugby game, their last rugby practice together… and they didn’t even know it was for the last time. Ouch. Reminds me of all the last things during your final year of school… lots of tears shed by my high school senior this past May/ June as she experienced many last times (last choir practice, last golf match, last scout meeting). Alice, this is so real!

Merel

Nick is always trying to make others happy but continues to ignore how he truly feels 🥲

cassidy cassidy

I think Nick is really thinking about that last comment, "I liked playing it with You", him specifically being the only reason Charlie joined. I can't figure out exactly what he's feeling or thinking right now, I believe it could be or is a mix of different things. Such as, the last year or so of them playing rugby together was all at Charlie expense just to make Nick happy. Maybe he feels he pressured Charlie into a sport he didn't really care for just to be liked or noticed. I feel it is most likely in relation to his chat with Elle earlier about uni, all the things they would do together, will Charlie still like them when they go long distance? Will Nick even like them, will Charlie be okay without Nick? "What other things did he do just for me, maybe there's other stuff he doesn't really like" are thoughts I can imagine Nick thinking in this moment. This scene is becoming increasingly interesting

toneelspeler

charlie seconds away from disaster (nick wanting to talk about his own future?)

OSM

Hopefully he's going to ask what he can do to help with Charlie head boy plans so they still have time together

James

So... are you going to open up a little Nick?

ucfnurse

Sooooooo uni is getting closer….☺️🥹😯🫶🏻💞❤️🛣️🌪️⚽️☕️🧸🍂🍁🏃‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🎓🧳✌️🕊️☮️

shpepanie

Awwwwwh the top two panels might have just become my favourite N+C kiss & gaze ever since the gaze & kiss between pages 1556 and 1557. 🥰 Charlie is flaunting ”the tease of a dimple” there. 🫠

Jo S

The sadness in Nick’s eyes is heartbreaking 💔 think he is really contemplating how much life is going to change and how much he is going to miss their life together as it has become :( the closeness and daily contact - is he also wondering that with Charlie’s new found confidence and popularity he will move on without him? It’s ok Nick … he loves you ❤️🫶🏻

Merel

I have a feeling this storyline will be leading into the events of the Nick & Charlie novella. We've seen Charlie truly come into his own, but Nick isn't quite there yet. He's a huge people pleaser and tends to ignore his own feelings and needs in favour of making sure Charlie is doing okay. While that seems sweet at first and makes him look like the 'perfect boyfriend', this mindset isn't healthy and can lead to communication issues. One of the main catalysts for the fight in the novella is Nick and Charlie never having a proper conversation about Leeds and being long distance. I think Nick knows at this point that they need to talk about it, but is putting it off because he's afraid of upsetting Charlie or doing something that might harm their relationship. Nick is still figuring himself out and doesn't want to burst the perfect bubble of "we're Nick and Charlie, we'll be fine" because that means facing who he is on his own. The mantra is cute, but simply believing in a fairytale romance is not enough in the long run. I'm very excited (and slightly nervous haha) to watch this storyline play out!

Nikki

First two panels are top tier kiss and so-in-love-it’s-almost-unbearable-to-watch gazes. Then the way you’re able to change Nick’s expression so quickly 🥺 I think it could be “so…how much time do you think Head Boy duties will take” or “so…how much time do you think we’ll have left for us?”.

Tina

i hope we get charlie cheering nick on from the stands out of this

Beam Bugge

wait hold on I did mention on an earlier page that nick would probably want to spend as much time with Charlie as possible during the last year he's still at truham, and that he therefore was a bit disappointed that Charlie would stop playing rugby, yeah? but he's trying to repress his sadness every time Charlie is around, which is probably why he acts like everything is perfect all the time during the N&C novella - he's managed to convince himself that everything is perfect too but as we've seen with charlie's mental health issues, repressing sadness will only make everything worse in the long run, and we all know what ends up happening in the novella tl;dr my brain is filled with angsty thoughts rn and I don't like it

Claire

Another sort of cliffhanger - love that. And .. could Charlie look any cuter here??

dominique

The way Nick’s expression drops as soon as Charlie turns away. :(

Ashley Robinson

Literally my thought as well. And if Nick gets some therapy he works on himself, but the conversation still doesn’t really happen. Therapy helps, but it’s not magically going to fix all the problems.

S S

The first three panels are killing me 🥺 is gonna be ok, Nick . Also love how tight he is crossing his arms, almost bracing himself to say what he's goin to say to Charlie next. (Alice you are KILLING it with your drawings on literally all updates of volume 6 so far, the details are all so so good and add so much)

Ashley Robinson

I feel a lot of important conversations have happened in kitchens.

Evergreen

Literally anything could follow that “So!” Imagine someday being able to just casually turn the page and find out like it’s no big deal.

Edina

the way nick's grabbing onto his shirt 🥺

Evergreen

I mean we all know what it *should* be. But what will it actually be??

Ariel

This is such a sweet kiss, and I'm still loving Charlie in the earring🥰❤️ (also the little heart....one of my fav heartstopper details!)

Ada Suzany

a bitoquinha 🤧🫰🏻

Ada Suzany

I'm in love with those smiles, thanks Alice!!!

Fran

Oh shi-

Valeria Diaz

so…you’re head boy now, what’s next?

ama

"So.... we won't get to spend as much time together anymore then, we'll really have to make the most of it before I go to uni🥺"

Bob Scardino

that's kind of a 'come hither' look in the second panel and then to the sink. What will tomorrow bring?

hwalker

The kiss is so confident!! They’re growing uppp 🥹

enbykeith

The suspense of knowing what happens in Nick and Charlie and what’s to come 😭😭

RCM

At first glance, those top two panels are just the CUTEST...Nick and Charlie are having a sweet, flirty kiss (and we know how "kissing is SO fun" for them), plus we have Charlie's hoop earring (doesn't it just really match with where he is in his self-confidence right now!), his curly hair being pushed up with the eye patch (goodness knows how Nick Nelson LOVES Charlie's hair), and my favorite, the heart in between them. I love the added detail that it is fully coloured and feels so full...like everything is whole and complete and "perfect"...but then, there are some subtle details that make me worry. As we look at the top 3 panels, we see Nick doesn't move much at all. I love that Alice perfectly aligned the borders of these panels so we can see this!. Charlie leans into him for the kiss, and while usually Nick would respond to such affection by also leaning into Charlie (even for a quick kiss!), here, his posture doesn't change...it's as if Charlie thinks the conversation ended, but Nick was still trying to catch up to his thoughts, and ends up kissing Charlie back reactively and not proactively. And, his little face in that third panel reminds me of when he did the uni tours and was all alone in the dorm rooms at night...it's his "something isn't right" face, but he hasn't yet been able to name the uncertain, anxious, scared, and honestly sad thoughts he has over future changes coming. In the very last panel, Nick just looks so SO tired. Is it from the party? Is it fatigue from trying to push down the inner voice whispers? Does he just want to go sleep next to Charlie and effectively procrastinate about thinking more (remember the blanket burrito with his college applications)? Sweet Nick. It's going to be okay....

Ania W.

When you love a mentally ill person, you are constantly balancing on a knife's edge. When things are good, you're afraid of ruining it, and when things are bad, you're afraid to make the situation worse. So you put on a mask that is sometimes difficult to take off or that only comes down for a moment. A moment that no one sees. And yes, I know it from personal experience

Laura Humber

What is he going to say? 😬😢

boombroadcast

The tiny heart is so cute. Is Nick just feeling sad about less Charlie time? (Understandable!) Wondering whether they’ll be as strong as couple when they’re apart, and maybe this is gonna like a bit of a test run for them actually long distance? Is he stuck on the rugby revelation? About to ask to leave/have a sleepover? We shall see!

boombroadcast

Yeah, but I think we have to remember that Nick’s people pleasing/masking tendencies (and resistance to introspection) aren’t necessarily all about Charlie. These are personality traits of his that predate meeting Charlie and have historically been *worse* in his other relationships, as Nick describes to Charlie in vol 5. It kind of frustrates me when people boil their dynamic and any potential conflict down to, “Being with a mentally ill person is difficult, Nick needs to walk on eggshells around Charlie because Charlie’s sick,” when there has been nothing in the text yet to suggest this is where he’s coming from right now. Nick explicitly denies that this is the way he feels about Charlie in vol 5. (This isn’t about your comment specifically, just something that sometimes frustrates me about the way some fans discuss Nick and Charlie’s relationship, with Charlie’s mental illness as the source of all problems. It feels a bit reductive and stigmatizing, and imo also disregards the wider context of Nick’s characterization - his turbulent upbringing with/without Stephane and David, an unsupportive social environment, etc.)

hwalker

Flashback to volume five: I… wanna be close to you too…”

Ania W.

You're right. Nick and his story are more complicated. Maybe my comment doesn't show it - I never believed that the source of Nick's problems was solely Charlie's illness.

James

Absolutely. Nicks probably the *least* likely to act like this of all the people Charlie's close to. Because he's really LISTENED to him and been on the journey and understands this is the one thing Charlie's afraid of. And Charlie's one of the few people he feels able to remove the mask around, even if it's not all the time yet — he did it last chapter.

Lodge

Ok, I would put actual money on it being: So, since I don't get to see you at rugby anymore . . . you'll just have to spend more nights over at mine. Wanna get out of here?

Lodge

(to me, Nick's last expression is not sad but just serious . . . like seriously ready to take Charlie home 😉)

Murgy

I genuinely don't know which direction it's going to head in the next page. The first two panels are so sweet though I can't get the read on what Nick is thinking

Scott Whittall

So... That always make me nervous.....

CarrieLuvs

More panels of Nick watching Charlie walk away. 😭

Nils

Nick trying to talk about his anxiety about being separated but he will chicken out...

Loveislove

Ahh - well said - you, Alice and one page a day are killing me! I always felt like no matter what challenges Charlie faced he had Nick who had the perfect strengths to see him through. But now that Nick is struggling, he is my kryptonite and very special bean. Anxiety meter is dialing up as I wait for Charlie to notice as I feel Nick the empath would have clocked a similar disjoint with Charlie by now. Makes my tummy hurt 😢.

David C Witkin

I think Nick is about to open up to Charlie a tiny little bit about his fears, or at least ask him a question about their upcoming year, and maybe the year beyond.

CarrieLuvs

The way Nick's smile falls away as soon as Charlie isn't looking anymore...

Nils

Eventually. Yes. Here and now. I doubt it. I would be happy to see it resolved but I got the feeling that Nicks issues will be a major plot part in this Chapter.

CarrieLuvs

Nick clearly wants to talk about something weighing on him, but Charlie's in such a good mood, such a good place emotionally rn, I can see Nick changing his mind and not wanting to "ruin" Charlie's night.

Loveislove

I am going to take a break about worrying about Nick and worry about where the parrot is instead 🐴❤🦜

Cliff

Those eyes! What’s on his mind?

Bee Levy

alice i am begging you to let nick go to therapy in this volume 😭 his smile dropping when charlie turns around is heartbreaking 😭

Lisa

So …. Maybe Nick just wants to leave the party

Emma

I think he's ready to tentatively talk about how he's feeling, even if he doesn't know exactly what he's feeling yet ❤️‍🩹

edirekt

talk about your feelings Nick, you got this!

edirekt

I get there's probably a lot of fear in having the conversation

Elora (EeveeCollectorElora)

My heart hurts for Nick - it’s hard to open up about feelings when you know your other half can take things negatively so easily

Neenie

The kiss! The smirk!