Locked Away

Chapter 6

[Oscar's pov]

I woke up to quiet giggles and a flash. I groggily opened my eyes, watching wearily as a dark figure came into my vision. I felt Austin's toned arms around my waist and his soft breath tickling my neck. As my eyes adjusted, I saw my mother smiling down at us, a camera in her hands. I glared at her, I didn't want her taking picture of us together, not in this way at least.

"Mum, go 'way. M'tired." I pushed out.

She just giggled and skipped away. No wonder I turned out gay. I look behind me, at Austin, and my breath caught. His sandy hair flopped over his forehead and light stubble covered his chin and jaw. I reached out a hand, going to feel the scratchy hair, but he grumbled and started to stir. I quickly let my hand drop.

I watched attentively as his eyelids fluttered open, revealing his pretty blue eyes, which soon caught my own.

A small smile graced his pink lips. "W'time s'it?" He mumbled.

"Nearly ten." I said checking the clock on the wall, suddenly blushing as I remembered our close proximity.

I went to sit up but Austin tightened his grasp on me. "You're warm. Don' leave me."

"Okay," I whispered.

"Okay," he repeated back to me

I paused. "Okay," I said slowly.

"Okay."

"You really are a little sap." I chuckled.

"M'manly, pr'mise." He yawned.

I shook my head, snuggling into his chest. We stayed there for another ten minutes, until the sound of the doorbell ringing broke the 'spell'.

There were muffled voices and shuffling, closely followed by quiet footsteps coming down the basement steps. The door cracked open and a head of ginger hair poked through. Ed.

I quickly sat up, pushing myself away from Austin. I don't think he saw anything, hopefully. What was he doing here anyway? How did he get my address?

"Austin, can we talk?" He asked in a hushed tone, almost frightened.

"No, go away." All sense of Austin's calmness had suddenly dissipated. "How did you even know I was here?"

"I went by to your house yesterday, you weren't there, and so I thought... you were here. I went back to school, got Oscar's address from the directory. Here I am today. " Ed explained.

"Whatever. I don't want to speak to you."

I peeked over at Austin; I hadn't seen him so...defensive.

Ed went to speak again but Austin burst out, "ED, FUCK OFF, OKAY!"

I reached over and touched Austin's shoulder, "Hey, calm down." I said coolly. He turned towards me and his eyes instantly softened.

"O-oh. I'm sorry Oz, I didn't mean to shout."

"It's okay. What's all this about anyway?" I asked now speaking to both of them, "I thought you two were best mates. What happened?"

"Yesterday when you were singing and you stopped because-of that, it put me off in form because I didn't want to leave you alone, I was worried. And Ed wanted to know," He paused, sending a quick glare to Ed. "So I got a little pissy, and shouted at him. And wow- it seems so stupid now." Austin chuckled.

Ed nervously laughed along, "Haha, yeah. We were acting like toddlers, huh?"

Austin nodded. "Wow. Mates again, yeah?"

"Of course."

I smiled, I loved helping people. I used to want to be a therapist when I was younger.

"Why don't you watch a film with us, Ed?" I looked over at Austin for conformation that this was okay, he slightly nodded his head.

"Sure, yeah. Is that okay?"

"Yes, come over here." Austin smiled.

I chuckled at how quickly they trusted each other again, whilst putting The Inbetweeners on the projector.

"Oh, and for the record, I saw you guys cuddling." Ed smirked. Austin and I both blushed, not saying anything.

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"BOYS!" My mum called down the stairs. "GET UP HERE!"

The three of us all stood and jogged up the stairs, going into the kitchen where my mother was cooking, as per usual. We all looked at her expectantly.

"You lads need to go outside. You've been stuck inside all morning watching films. Spend some quality time together."

"But mum, we wanna have a movie day." I whined.

"I thought you and Austin had a movie night yesterday. Besides, what are you pair going to watch for date night later, there's going to be nothing to choose from."

"Mum! We don't go out." I said, embarrassed.

"That's what they all say!" Ed called, skipping out the door. A few moments later he popped his head back through, "You coming or what?"

"Yes they are, off you go now." My mum said, speaking for us. "And keep the PDA to a minimum because I'm sure dear Ed here would be embarrassed and feel left out."

I rolled my eyes and left, Austin following behind.

We went to a local park about ten minutes away from where I lived. There was a small lake and a pebble 'beach', which we sat on, throwing the small rocks into the water. Random things ran in and out of our conversations, stories of the past, little jokes, family talk, my mother... erm. But right now, there was silence, the satisfying plop of the water being the only sound.

"You two are close." Ed said. It wasn't a question or an enquiry, but an observation.

I raised my gaze to Austin, who just stared onwards.

"Yeah. Yeah, we are." He finally said, his lips curving up into a smile, which soon turned into a mischievous smirk. Oh no.

Austin shifted over to me, climbing on my lap. "Tee, what are yo-" He cut me off by pressing a finger to my mouth.

"Closer now." Ed remarked, amused.

Austin continued to wrap his legs around my waist and his arms around my neck, like a koala. "Now?" He asked cheekily.

"A lot closer." Ed laughed.

I felt a wet, tingling sensation on my collarbone. Austin was giving me a hickey. Austin fucking Blake was giving me a hickey.ME. AUSTIN BLAKE!

"O-oh." Choked the ginger lad sitting next to me.

Austin detached his lips and slipped his hand to the reddish purple mark appearing on my skin, rubbing it slightly.

I let out a nervous laugh, really not knowing how to react. Do I play along with it, as if it was normal? Push him off?

"You know I really like my sweaters on you." Austin murmured.

Ed's eyes slightly widened and he opened his mouth, ready to say something.

"Ha yeah." I said, beating everybody to speaking. "Wow, would you look at that?! It's getting late."

Ed sceptically looked at me as I detangled Austin from my figure. In my defence, it was actually nearly half five.

Because Ed didn't live our way, he walked the opposite way across the park to us.

"What was that for back there?" I asked Austin five minutes into our walk. He shrugged and carried on walking. I decided to ignore it. It didn't mean anything. Besides, Austin wasn't gay...right?