Teenage Prodigies {Gustholomule}

Chapter 16

Gus's P.O.V

I open my eyes to see Matty, sleeping peacefully with his arms wrapped around my upper body and his face dug into my chest. I smile, gently moving a loose strand of hair to behind his ear. I hear a gasp coming from the doorway. I turn my head quickly towards the sound. Only to see Luz Noceda, standing there with her eyes wide and mouth covered by her hands.

I shake my head in disapproval before gently removing myself from Matt's grasp and getting off off bed. I sigh, walking over to the doorway to meet Luz.

"What the hell? You don't just walk into ou- erm, my room like that." I say, looking back through the doorway, seeing Matt, who was now hugging a pillow and shivering.

"Oh, well sorry... I mean it is 10:30, we were wondering if you guys were okay... you usually wake up relatively early..." Luz's smile faded, looking at her shoes.

"Yeah sure, whatever." I sigh, turning around and walking back into the room, closing the door behind me. I walk back over to the bed and contemplate getting back in. I eventually decide to not. I pull the covers up over Matt's shivering body before grabbing the bag from beside the bed. I grab a clean set of clothes and get changed before settling down on a chair in the corner of the room. I pull out a book from the small bookshelf and start to read.

Around 30 minutes later I hear Matt rustling around in the bed. He sits up, looking around the room with a confused look on his face until he spots me and let's out a relived sigh.

"Goodmorning Matty!" I say cheerfully, putting my book back onto the shelf.

"Yeah.. goodmorning.." He mumbles, getting out of the bed. He doesn't seem to be in the best of moods. "What time is it?"

"Its like, 11 I think." I reply, standing up and walking towards the door. "Meet me downstairs!". He groans and shakes is head before grabbing the bag.

I make it to the common room where Luz, Hunter and Willow were sitting. The Blights usually sleep in really late on weekends and Boscha always leaves early, soccer stuff I think.

"Goodmorning Gus!" Luz says happily, setting down a plate of food on the table "How's Matt?"

"Hey fine, he didnt seem to be in the best mood when he woke up though..." I reply, sitting down at the table where Luz had put the food. "Thanks by the way."

"Don't mention it.." Luz starts, "And he's probably just mad that you weren't beside him when he woke up." Luz has a smug smile on her face as she sits down on the couch.

"Yeah that makes sense, Edric does that sometimes." Hunter adds.

"You say that as your sitting out here as he's in bed still." Willow scoffs.

"Yeah well I wasn't about lay awake in the bed for 6 hours." Hunter sighs.

"Whatever.." I mumble, poking at the plate of eggs infront of me. Luz looks over at me with a confused look.

"Uh, are you okay Gus? You dont seem to be in the greatest of moods either." Luz asks.

"Yeah no, I'm okay. Matt probably just gave me some of his bad energy." I roll my eyes before taking a bite of the food.

"Do you want me to drive you home when Matt comes down?" Hunter asks.

"Yeah thanks!" I reply between bites.

Eventually Matty comes down to the common area. He was wearing a purple sweater with black and white plaid pajama bottoms. He yawned as he walked into the room. Sitting down on a sofa and setting the bag on the seat behind him.

"Goodmorning Matt!" Luz exclaims.

"Yeah, goodmorning Luz." He replies with a forced smile.

"Okay well, I'm driving you guys home now." Hunter said, grabbing his keys. Matt rolled his eyes before getting up off the couch again.

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"Yeah, so she was actually pretty critical to the success of the mission!" Matty says, smiling widely, looking through a old history book. He looks so happy talking about this kind of stuff, it's been what, an hour? He's just been talking the whole time. With me adding in a question every here and there.

"And you know about this guy right?" He points to a photo in the book. I shake my head, I have no idea who that is. "Ugh, so that's..(insert important historical figure here🤓☝) and he.." I loose track of what he's saying. Getting lost in how happy he looks talking about this. He is extremely knowledgeable and he looks like he enjoys talking about it. He looks really cute, goofy smile and sparking eyes.

I hear the door open. "Hey guys, time to get ready for bed okay? You have school tomorrow." My dad says. I nod my head as I get off the bed. Matt looks dissapointed, but puts the book on the desk and walks towards my closet.