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005 ⸺ valentines day (au)

High school au :)

That's all I have to say

No warnings for this chapter as it's really just fluff

UNEDITED

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T h o m a s

Thomas' day so far had been mostly uneventful.

It consisted of the usual. Wake up too late and have to rush to get ready, walk to school in the freezing cold of winter because his dad couldn't drive him, barely make it to first period before the bell, having to force himself through his morning classes till he finally gets a break at lunch, eat the definitely-not-nutritious food they serve in the cafeteria, and finally reach his favorite part of the day; History.

Not that he particularly enjoys history, quite the opposite, he finds the class particularly boring. But history class was the only one he shared with Newt, the person he had been silently crushing on for nearly four years, ever since 8th grade.

Thomas sat right in the middle of the class, while Newt was sat a few seats to the right of him. Thomas usually caught himself staring at Newt throughout the class, he often had to physically restrain himself from making blatant heart-eyes in the blonde's direction.

Sometimes Newt would notice and flash him a soft smile, that Thomas often didn't see as whenever Newt caught his eye he would frantically look anywhere but him to try and disguise the fact that he was just staring only moments earlier.

He was worried that Newt would start thinking that he was some weird creep if he knew that Thomas stared at him (if he didn't already think that).

While Newt wasn't insanely popular or anything he had a decently large friend group and was much more social than Thomas, who had one person he would talk to semi-regularly, that being Teresa. But even then he spent more time interacting with his teachers than any kids his age, which was quite sad if you thought about it.

Thomas had been lost in his thoughts as he sat at his desk in history. When he finally pulled himself out of his thoughts he panicked at the sight of everyone around him bent over their work. He quickly grabbed his pen from his bag, frantically scribbled down his name and the current date, February 9th, and got to work on the review questions on the first page.

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N e w t

Unbeknownst to Thomas, Newt had just finished the assigned questions and had been silently watching as the brunette realized what everyone else was doing and fumbling to get caught up.

He felt his heart swell at the sight. He found Thomas unbelievably cute and he could stop himself from chuckling to himself.

Newt looked away but continued sneaking glances at Thomas over the next few minutes, hoping to catch his eye. He was aware of the was Thomas stared at him during class. He knew that if he didn't have a slight crush on Thomas he would probably find the staring a little strange. But the staring let him entertain the idea that Thomas may like him back, and he didn't particularly mind it.

He found it adorable how Thomas would try to avoid eye contact whenever Newt would catch him staring.

He pulled himself out of his thoughts with one last glance at Thomas, and looked back at the teacher who had started marking down notes on the whiteboard.