Just a Spark (LiLo)

Just a Broken Heart and a Cynic

"I'm sorry, Liam, it's just not working out for us."  

"You're not the type that I'm looking for."

"I can't focus on a relationship right now."

"I don't see us going anywhere. We don''t fit."

"I just feel like I'm going down one path and you're going down another."

Liam's heard all of those and even some more. They all sounded the same to him in the end. He just wasn't what anyone that someone was looking for. As always, he tried to figure out what it was that he had done wrong in the relationship that would lead to the breakup. 

He could never figure it out. He always did his best to be a gentlemen to anyone he was dating. He'd open the door or pull out a chair. He'd ask them questions about themselves or about their day. He was invested in learning about the other person he could see himself with. Liam wanted to be one of those boys in the films that girls always ended up wanting in the end. Sure, people weren't living their lives by script but finding love and being in a relationship was something that many people want to have.

Then why didn't anyone want to have that with Liam? 

It didn't matter how many times he'd been broken up with because they all hurt him just the same. As soon as he thought he found somebody, they seemed to find something that just wasn't going to work with Liam in their life. 

Even with his failed relationships, Liam still found himself going to the one person who thought relationships were just a big scheme in life. Romance was a just some rumor somebody made up a long time ago and now there were all of these expectations and stupid holidays to waste money on. There was nothing romantic about any of it to his best friend. 

Their friendship wasn't built on romance, thankfully. Liam met Louis in his second year in university. Louis had been in his third year. Louis was big on theater and production so when he was passing out flyers to random students, he slipped one to Liam and told him he just had to come. His show wasn't worth missing. Louis had been right. He was brilliant.

Liam had more serious relationship than Louis did. During the last terms of university, Liam had two serious girlfriends and Louis had one and then a few nights with randoms. 

He asked Louis what happened when he broke things off with Eleanor just before graduation. He just shrugged his shoulders and told Liam that it he just got bored of relationship standards. It had nothing to do with being in or out of love. Louis just wasn't going to live by the setup of romance.

"What happened this time?" Louis said once he opened the door to his flat. He stepped aside and let Liam walk inside.

He closed the door behind him and went right over to his fridge to grab a couple of beers for them to drink. Liam's beer was used for sulking over another failed relationship and Louis' beer was just something to do while he listened to Liam go on about it. 

Liam didn't wait for Louis to invite him to sit. He sunk down into the cushion of the couch and let out a sigh. "She just didn't feel like there could be anything real between us." He told Louis, who was now holding his beer out to offer it to him. Liam shook his head and pointed over to the table for Louis to set down.

"Suit yourself." Louis placed the can down before he sat into his own chair, the one across from his television. "What the hell does that even me? 'I just don't feel anything'. Did you not touch her enough or something?" Louis chuckled to himself in his own amusement. 

Liam sent him a scowl. Louis' jokes usually went right along the lines of being dirty. He thought he was being funny to try and cheer Liam up but it didn't work when he was basically making fun of Liam and his relationships.