Oh, Baby Baby ☾cake au

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p.e. is without a doubt luke's least favorite class and today they were playing soccer, which he's awful at. the only truly good thing about the hellish class is that he gets to see calum in a shirt clasped onto his body from the sweat.

the class took their positions on the field. in a rapid motion, a soccer ball is sent flying across the field, signaling the start of the game. luke stays behind as calum runs for it and swiftly kicks it into the goal, earning hoots and several pats on the back from his teammates.

they reset the teams on the field and, again, the ball gets launched across the field. luke chooses to leave the game to the people on the team and instead almost coos when calum slides across the grass to kick the ball again with one foot in the air. his brown eyes meet luke's blue ones and luke almost melts until he spots a blur of a soccer ball hurling towards him and his head gets bombarded by the heavy force, his body hitting the ground.

he lays flat on the floor, his head spinning.

"are you okay?! i'm really sorry."

luke blinks a few times and looks up at the blurry head of messy black hair and tan skin looking down at him. "there are two of you," luke says, earning a small laugh from the boy above him. luke thinks if angels made a sound when descending from heaven, it would sound like that laugh.

"can you sit up?" calum speaks again. luke slowly pushes himself up with his hands and immediately regrets it when his brain starts pounding and he stumbles back down. calum quickly puts one of luke's arms across his shoulders and wraps his own around luke's waist to help him up.

luke stumbles at first and becomes lightheaded but now it's for a whole different reason. the skin on his waist burns at the feeling of calums strong grip on it and even in his condition, the blonde thinks about how it would feel for those same hands to slam him up against a wall and-

"everything alright over here? you took quite the fall, luke," the coach asks once he reaches the pair.

"he's a little loopy," calum says, still holding luke as if he was a puppet, "i think i should take him to the nurse."

"go ahead. he's definitely done for the day." the coach pats luke's shoulder and offers a smile before calum lugs luke off the field and eventually into the cold air of the school.

the hallways are empty since it's the middle of a class period so all that is heard it the heavy steps luke takes and the occasional exhale from calum trying his very best not to drop him.

they make it to the front office where calum find the main desk and says, "is the nurse here?" to which the woman replies, "i'll go get her."

"i'm really sorry," calum says again once they're left alone.

luke smiles weakly, "it was an accident. i'm alive."

"oh god you're bleeding." calum inspects luke's head. he cautiously let luke go to stand on his own as he removes his shirt, leaving himself in only a thin muscle tee.

luke's mouth almost waters as he watches the muscles under the skin of calum's torso move around like hills that have come alive. the tan arms reach up for luke's head and the blonde gets a clear view of a bead a sweat that drips down the side of calum's abdomen and can't help when he licks his lips.

"see something you like?" calum asks jokingly, completely not expecting for luke to nod as if in a trance and not taking his eyes off of calum's skin.

he tries to ignore the blush the creeps onto his face as he presses the material against luke's head. "just hold that there until the nurse gets here."

luke does as he's told and holds the shirt against his head as calum rewraps his arm around luke's torso. the familiar woman with a warm smile and spiraled hair approaches the two. "trying to walk and chew gum again, luke?"

"something like that."

the woman laughs and points the boys to the direction of her office. she ushers for luke to take a seat on the padded bed and calum pulls up a chair and sits in front of luke. he was just planning to leave after getting luke safely to the clinic but suddenly lost all intentions to leave the boy.

the woman looks over luke's head before searching for bandages but luke stops her. "cindy, can't you just give me like a painkiller or something and let me go."

"you know i'm not allowed to give you any drugs but i can give you an icepack. wait here for a second." she leaves luke and calum in the silence of the cold clinic.

calum speaks. "so you're on a first name basis with the school nurse?"

"yeah, she's good friends with my mom," luke says simply to which calum nods.

calum takes a moment to look over luke. his eyes trail from his damp neck, shiny with sweat, to his exposed shoulders under the school gym t-shirt down to his legs in the matching shorts. he's never noticed before but luke could put a model to shame.

"like something you see?" luke repeats calum's earlier question, bringing calum out of his daze.

a smirk appears on calum's lips. "depends on if i can test out the product or not."

luke's cocky smile that once made home on his face was replaced with a trembling lip as he gulped hard and stared at calum.

cindy the nurse came back in with the ice pack she promised and sent the two boys off. calum smiled smugly one last time at luke before heading in a different direction from the one luke was going in.

luke pretty much sped home after getting back in his regular clothes and immediately texted michael.

luke: YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

michael: WHAT HAPPENED????

luke: I GOT HIT IN THE HEAD BY A SOCCER BALL!!!

michael: you're happy about that?

luke: not particularly but calum was the one who kicked it

luke: then he helped me to the nurse's office and i swear he was flirting with me

michael: so you think he's into you?

luke: idk but there was definitely some tension

michael: or he's an ass who acts like that with everyone

michael: either way, you should go for it. who cares we all die anyway

luke: that's great advice michael very touching

luke: i'll see what i can do

michael: i'll talk to you later. i'm gonna try to get ash to suck my dick

luke: wow alright i really didn't need to know that

luke: i can't believe you're my best friend and i haven't even met your boyfriend yet

luke: you're not responding which probably means you're sinning

luke: okay then enjoy yourself