Nights Like These

Twenty two: wildfire

Liam wakes in a hot sweat, his dream last night was vivid. He looks to the cover and he wants to scream when he sees his boner, he shakes his head and wipes the sweat from his face. Turning around to catch a glimpse of Theo but he isn't even in bed, Liam sits and puts his hands to his face.

The kisses felt so real; he and Theo were showering together, like they were that night- and in his dreams all the nights before. But instead they were closer and they were touching more than just to clean each other.

Liam was so desperate to feel Theo underneath his fingers again but he didn't know what the guy wanted, they didn't seem awkward since that night they basically slept naked together. Instead they carried on like nothing had even happened.

But he could tell when he changes clothes in their room that Theo's look lingers a little harder and longer now. Theo also made excuses to touch Liam, moving him with a hand on his waist to get past the boy, or wiping hairs away from his face like always.

But this time the touch felt like it meant something. Felt like a spark of fire igniting on his skin.

He shakes his head and goes to the bathroom to shower... and get rid off his problem. And if Theo was in his mind while doing so then it was only for him to know.

Later on in his day he sees Marlowe, "how have you been?" She questions, crossing her legs like aways.

"Marvelous" he replies, "you?" He does the same, crossing his own legs to mock her.

She sits back in her chair with a look that says 'I'm not playing your little games Liam', but she answers anyway. "I'm fine" he nods at that with a thoughtful look.

"You know 'fine' doesn't actually mean fine, right?" She shakes her head at that.

"Liam" she warns and he puts his hands up in surrender. "What's been bothering you lately?" He scoffs at that, everything? Unknown, Theo, his family, his medication, everything. Everything. Everything.

"Nothing" he says and she nods- clearly not believing his very obvious lie, not that he cares.

"Have you been playing any pranks lately?" She asks with a raise of a brow and he smiles mischievously.

"No, I would never" but in reality, he and Hayden were still torturing their teacher. Mason, Corey, Nolan and he all pulled pranks on Gabe, Brett and Josh, starting with putting marbles in their room's which ended up with them having massive bruises the next day in class.

Dying their clothes all pink, stealing parts of their bikes and cars to piss them off. Theo had helped of course. But they had retaliated every time, nearly worse that what they did.

And of course they pulled pranks on Theo because they could do that now since they were all friends, and they found that they enjoyed it. They all hid in his truck to scare him- it didn't work of course, he flinched and Liam took a fist to the face. Guess Theo was more fight then flight, Liam still had the bruise today.

They got into Theo's phone afterwards and played an alarm every twenty minutes, of people moaning as if they were having sex. The best part was; it kept happening in class, when he went to the dorm Theo quite literally nearly killed him, thankfully he was quick with running.

One time they jumped out at Theo in a mask that Mason had, he was apparently keeping a small box of Halloween items too for pranks and Nolan had called him a hyprocrite for making fun of him.

Theo wasn't scared, he did some strange karate-like moves and had Liam on the floor taking his mask off in no time.

But Liam promised that one day he would scare Theo, somehow. Some day.