A second chance -Patrochilles reincarnation AU

Chapter 6

Achilles ran to the door as soon as he heard someone knocking on it, he had been waiting for Patroclus to arrive so that his parents could finally leave in peace, knowing their only son wasn't going to be completely alone while they were away. He opens the door and he can't help but smile when he sees Patroclus there, looking as boring as possible, but definitely like a good guy that you wouldn't mind leaving your kid alone with.

"Patroclus! You're finally here!" Achilles says, fighting the urge to hug him, thinking it would maybe be a bit weird. Patroclus also can't help but smile.

"Yup, sorry for taking so long to get here" he had in fact, taken a very, very, very long time to get there, but it didn't matter, he was at least there. Achilles' mom, Teresa, walked towards where the two boys were standing.

"Oh! You must be Patroclus, right? Achilles has told me a lot about you." She says, and when Patroclus sees her, he finally gets just why and how Achilles was so tall, it most definitely ran in the family. "It's good to finally be able to meet you!" She stretches Patroclus' hand.

"It's good to meet you too, uh..." Patroclus says, not exactly sure as to how he should refer to her as.

"Oh, you can just call me Teresa, sweetheart!" She says with a smile on her face, and lets go of the boy's hand.

"Right, it's nice to meet you too, Teresa." And it's obvious that he is trying maybe a bit too hard to cause a good impression, but can you blame him? This is his crush's mother, after all. Meanwhile Achilles is silently hoping for this moment to finally be over, because it was SO awkward.

"Well, how about I show you around the house?" Achilles asks Patroclus, in a desperate attempt to end the awkwardness of that moment.

"Oh, yes! That sounds like a great idea sweetie" Teresa says, and Achilles is now hoping the Earth would just swallow him whole. His mom called him 'sweetie' in front of the guy he liked, super embarrassing. He grabs Patroclus' arm and drags him away from there.

"So... your mom calls you sweetie, huh?" Patroclus says, immediately regretting even opening his mouth. Achilles stops walking for a second and turns to face him.

"Are you trying to make fun of me for it? Yes, she does. And I don't think she plans on stopping anytime soon" Achilles says as he looks away.

"Oh no, I'm not making fun of you at all. I actually think it's pretty cute that you have such a good relationship with your mom!" He really hadn't meant it as a bad thing, though now that he finished processing it, it really did sound like he was making fun of him.

"Cute? You think I'm cute? Well, let me tell you that is not the case." Achilles puts his hands on his hips, trying to appear serious. "I might be attractive, sure. But not cute. I am not, and will never be 'cute'" As he says this, Patroclus is struggling to hold in his laughter.

"Oh really now, then what would you describe as cute?"

"I don't know, small things with fluffy hair, maybe? Like, dogs!" Achilles responds. But as soon as he finishes that sentence, it suddenly hit him. Patroclus was small compared to him and had fluffy hair... did that count as an indirect confession?

"Not all dogs are smart, Mr. I'm super attractive but not cute at all." He clearly didn't realize that Achilles had practically said he thought he was cute, but maybe that was more convenient for Achilles.

"Then what would you describe as cute, Mr. I know a lot about everything?" Achilles says, begging that Patroclus never really notices what he said just a few seconds ago.

"Oh come on, I never said I know a lot about everything! Who even says that, anyways?" He tries to act like he's bothered by it but he just starts laughing a little bit. "Anyways, I think it really depends what exactly we're talking about here. If we're talking about 'cute' people, then I would probably say blonde people take the first place, if we're talking about cute animals, all of them. Each and every single last one of them is cute and I do not take criticism."

"See? You even talk like a smartass, but I completely agree that all animals are cute tho" Achilles says, but then he realizes what Patroclus just said... 'if we're talking about cute people, then I would probably say blonde people take the first place'... oh my goodness. Achilles would've probably started panicking if it weren't for his mom

"Achilles! We're leaving now! At least come give us a goodbye hug!" Teresa shouted from the door, and Achilles took this chance to run. Patroclus smiled to himself for what he had done, he was honestly proud of himself for even being able to finish that whole sentence.

Achilles gave both of his parents a goodbye hug, it was something they always did before Achilles' parents left because of a business trip. Then, they left the house and as soon as the door closed, Achilles started freaking out. He was alone at home with Patroclus, who had just indirectly but also very directly called him cute. He would've probably spent the rest of the day having a gay panic in front of the door if it wasn't for the fact that Patroclus was there, and he approached Achilles very silently and then

"BOO!" Patroclus shouted as he put his hands on Achilles' shoulders, and since he was taking so off guard by this, he let out a small but very high pitched scream that made Patroclus start laughing his ass of.

"What the- why did you do that?!" Patroclus tried to say something, he really did but, his laughter just wouldn't let him "Alright, keep laughing, asshole. I'm going to get vengeance for this!"

After laughing for a long time, Patroclus could finally say something "I'm- I am very sorry, please don't-" but he couldn't finish that sentence because he started laughing again.

"Just you wait and see, I'm going to get my vengeance and I will not have mercy" Achilles said, in a jokingly threatening tone "You better sleep with one eye open tonight" this of course only made Patroclus laugh even more, and eventually Achilles got infected with his laughter.

After a while, when the both of them were finally able to stop laughing Achilles said "Well, anything you wanna do? Watch a movie, play videogames, eat something?" All of these options sounded really good, but Patroclus had a very specific thing in mind, it was something he had wanted for some time now and this was quite possibly his only opportunity to get it.

"I want to hear you play the lyre." Patroclus says "but not through a phone this time."

Hey, me here, again. Just to remind you that I'm going to keep trying to update this at least once a week, but no promises. Anyways have a nice day/afternoon/night/whatever