Nico Murray

**Nico Murray** is a student at Essex and Leighton's brother.

## History

### Helping Leighton and First Party

On the day the new freshmen moved into the dorms at Essex College, Nico went over to his sister, Leighton's dorm, where she was upset at not being housed with her high school friends. He took her outside and cheered her up, saying that she was the strongest person he knew. He also told her that his friend, Cory, kept asking about her and was excited she was on the same campus as them. Leighton said she didn't want to talk about her dating life with her brother. Nico said she could handler he new roommates and suggested she do something nice for them to prove she'd be a good roommate.

Nico later ran into Leighton and Bela, one of her roommates, while out with Cory. Nico said that they should stop by Theta's party if they weren't doing anything. At the party, Nico met Kimberly Finkle, another of Leighton's roommates, and told her he'd noticed her checking him out. She tried to leave the party because she wasn't having a good time, but he offered to get a shirt to replace the one that got beer spilled on it so she could stay. Despite this, Kimberly ended up leaving anyway when Bela said she wanted to go home.

### Reassuring Leighton

Nico ran into Leighton on campus and was surprised to see her alone. He assured her she wasn't a loser because her high school friends didn't want to hang out with her. She was embarrassed that he'd told his friends about her.

Nico found out that Kimberly was taking a French class he'd taken the previous year. When Kimberly struggled to keep up on the first day of the class, she went to Nico and told him he was going to tutor her. He agreed to do that.

### Tutoring Kimberly

Nico met Kimberly at Sips to tutor her. He explained that he learned French from his au pair, Camille, as a child. They worked on the pronunciation of words. When they were finished, Nico asked Kimberly to sign a paper because he got an extra half-credit for tutoring her. Nico later came back to Sips to invite Kimberly to watch The Golden Girls in French with him, as he'd done as a child. However, when Kimberly showed up, Nico wasn't at Theta and he apologized, saying he forgot about it.

### Theta-lympics

As Nico was preparing for the Theta-lympics party, Leighton came to him and said she needed to bring some extra people with her to the party. He said that was fine until she told him it was her friends from the Women's Center. He said she couldn't bring them because they were trying to get Theta shut down. She said they weren't as bad as he thought, but he asked her to try to get them not to come. Leighton later texted him to say they were coming. Nico asked if anyone in Theta was a Women's Studies major or minor, but got nothing.

When Leighton arrived for the party, Nico explained all the changes they'd made to make the party more palatable to avoid getting into trouble. When Tova, Ginger, and Alicia arrived, Nico showed them around, highlighting all the things they had in place to keep people safe. Alicia told him to calm down and asked him to hold her feet so she could do a keg stand. They then teamed up for a drinking game, which they won.

When Nico saw Kimberly leaving, he stopped her and apologized, because he invited her, but then he got busy and barely saw her. He offered to walk her home. They ended up sitting on a bench and talking. She asked him about having left a comment on one of her posts and then deleting it. He said he did it because he didn't want anyone getting the wrong idea because she's his sister's roommate. He then left to go back to the party while she went home.

### Parents' Weekend

Nico's parents came to Essex for parents' weekend. While they were there, Henry insisted they take a family photo with them all wearing Essex sweatshirts. He brought fake leaves in order to make the photo perfect. The family then went to a restaurant to have dinner with Leighton's roommates and their parents. The dinner was awkward as the parents, especially Henry and Whitney's mom, Evette Chase, conflicted. When Evette called Henry out for a comment he'd made and forced him to apologize for making Whitney feel bad, Nico and Leighton were shocked.

That evening, Kimberly went to Theta where they commiserated about the dinner. When she talked about not feeling like she belonged at Essex, he said she did and kissed her. Then he took her to his room with her.

### Hooking Up with Kimberly

Nico continued hooking up with Kimberly several times a day. This ended up getting Kimberly in trouble when they started having sex in Professor Bennett's office when Kimberly was supposed to be helping him with his research for extra credit. When Kimberly proposed they not have sex because she needed to improve her econ grade, Nico said he could help her grade and showed her a filing cabinet where Theta kept copies of old tests professors never changed. He offered her a copy of the test she was going to have, but she said she couldn't take it.

### Birthday Party and Fallout

For Nico's birthday, Leighton surprised him with a party, including a special visit by his girlfriend, Maya, which upset Kimberly, who didn't know Nico had a girlfriend. He talked to Kimberly privately and told her Maya wasn't supposed to be back for a few more months, which Kimberly said didn't make things better.

Leighton confronted Nico about sleeping with Kimberly, saying that Kimberly was really upset because she wasn't used to guys like Nico. She told him he needed to make things right with Kimberly. When he didn't, she told Maya he was cheating on her.

Nico confronted Leighton about her talking to Maya, but Leighton felt no remorse and said he was the one to put himself in that situation. She just ended it.

At the Anything But Clothes Party, Nico found Kimberly taking files from the filing cabinet where Theta stored their tests. She told him she was taking them in the hopes that the Honor Board would go lighter on her. He told her to take them if it would keep her from getting expelled.

### Expulsion

When Kimberly went to the administration with proof of Theta's cheating, they started an investigation which led to Nico and several other senior Thetas being expelled. Henry then made a large donation to Cornell to get Nico a spot there to finish his education.

## Relationships

### Romantic

He was dating Maya, but while she was studying abroad in Barcelona, he cheated on her with Kimberly Finkle.

## Notes and Trivia

* He and his friends used to steal from Walgreens.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Welcome to Essex
2. ↑ Naked Party
3. ↑ Le Tuteur
4. ↑ That Comment Tho
5. ↑ Parents Weekend
6. ↑ I Think I'm a Sex Addict
7. ↑ The Surprise Party
8. ↑ Cheating
9. ↑ The Truth
10. ↑ Winter is Coming