Kevin is Nicky's number three.Īfter Seth's death, Nicky is the second oldest member of the team, after Renee.

He and Erik have a list of celebrities they are allowed to have affairs with called 'The List'. He continues to flirt with him until Andrew puts a stop to it. When he meets Neil, Nicky is immediately interested in him and tries to find out whether he is gay. Nicky teaches Neil to play video games in this room (a horror game). Nicky speaks fluent German, due to his stay in Germany.Īaron and Nicky enjoy video games. It is noted by Neil that Nicky's personality is probably more reserved than he typically shows, but that he portrays himself as loud, optimistic, and extroverted as a way to compensate for how closed off the twins are.

He attempts to get along with everyone, though he sticks with Andrew's lot during most of the series.

He is easily upset by the tragedies that many of his teammates experience during the series. 'Nicky was dark, with jet-black hair, dark brown eyes, and skin two shades too dark to be a tan.' (The Foxhole Court Chaper two). Because of the time he took off between high school and college, although Nicky is only a sophomore during the series, he is the second oldest member on the team after Renee. Nicky intended to only stay in America until the twins finished high school, but was offered a position as a backliner for the Foxes by Coach Wymack, a choice which Erik supported wholeheartedly. Andrew came to his defense and nearly beat them to death in an effort to defend Nicky, which put him in legal trouble. Nicky would return to America only long enough to graduate from high school, and then he would return to Germany and live with Erik until his aunt Tilda died, and he would come back to take custody of his cousins, Andrew and Aaron, to keep them away from his own upbringing.ĭuring his time with his cousins, Nicky was attacked in front of a nightclub by four men. While in Germany, he would meet his host brother, Erik Klose, who he would gradually form a relationship with. Nicky spent his senior year of high school on a study abroad program in Berlin, Germany in an attempt to get away from his home life. As a result of this, his difficult relationship with his parents and the repression of his own sexuality, he became depressed. Nicky is a gay man, but struggled with this in his religious and homophobic household. Nicky was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. His mother was 'rescued' from Mexico by his father, a Baptist minister, while he was doing volunteer work in Ensenada. Nicky is the only son of Luther and Maria Hemmick.

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