airplanes(Thiam)

chapter 28: Foot... meet mouth.

"Dude, it's two a.m. why are you-"

"I have the gays!" Liam blurted, regretting it a moment later because that was definitely not how he'd intended to start the conversation. He yanked the phone away from his face with a panicked scream and hung up with fumbling fingers. He tossed the phone to the side, it hit the metal with a soft thump. A few moments later a rattling buzz sounded as a text was received.

Liam considered stealing Theo's truck and taking a long drive off a short bridge.

He also considered there was a small chance he was overreacting...

There was no way.

No possible way that this was actually happening.

The phone buzzed again, Liam ignored it, Eyes returning to where Theo had disappeared.

There was no freaking way.

It was Theo. No one would ever have a crush on Theo, he was rude and abrasive and obnoxious. He had a smirk that made Liam want to punch him in the face and spoke in a drawl that made Liam roll his eyes almost constantly. He'd killed Scott. He'd betrayed them all. Liam could never like Theo... he'd have to be insane to like Theo.

Liam flopped down, smashing his face into the pillow and letting out a muffled yell. Only to inhale a lungful of fir and citrus that had him sitting back up instantly, tossing the pillow out of the back of the truck with a cut off scream.

Because it was Theo. Who Liam had been stuck watching people flirt with from day one. Liam knew for a fact at least a few of Theo's coffees had been for free after he'd thrown a suggestive smile at the barista and ordered in a voice soft like honey. Theo, who knew all the names of aliens in Star Wars and made jokes so stupid they made Liam groan. Theo, who had a smile that left Liam breathless, as his heart fluttered in his chest. Theo, who fought at Scott's side and knew all the words to mambo number five. Theo, who'd wormed his way into being Liam's friend, his anchor, someone who even the thought of him leaving made Liam feel sick.

"This is not happening." Liam hissed, throwing himself out of the truck and pacing the length of it. "This. Is. Not. Happening." The phone buzzed. Liam sunk to the ground in a pitiful heap.

He couldn't like Theo.

And yet Liam found his eyes tracing the horizon for any sign of the chimera once again because somehow he'd wriggled his way under Liam's skin and decided to force Liam to become privy to that information just after dropping the 'hey I'm abandoning you' bomb.

It wasn't fair. Theo was meant to be safe. He was meant to be easy, one person who would stick with Liam, annoying him to no end but still being there when he needed him. Even if he bitched about it. Liam wasn't sure when he'd started thinking that Theo being there was a given. When life after the road trip had begun to include Theo helping him through supernatural problems and coming to movie nights with Mason and Corey when Scott and the others left.

Theo wasn't meant to leave. He wasn't meant to make Liam care and then run away like everyone else seemed to do. He wasn't meant to use Liam as a stepping stone to find another pack to join. They were meant to complete Theo's dumb real boy list and have an uncomfortable friendship where everyone but them thought they were crazy for being friends, He was meant to lurk and annoy the hell out of them.

Liam tugged at his hair giving a small groan because it didn't matter what Theo was meant to do, Theo liked to see what he was meant to do then laugh as he ran in the other direction.

Theo was an asshole, he was everything that Liam should hate. He was selfish and broken and Liam couldn't even begin to tell himself that he didn't like him. Annoying pain in the ass flaws and all.