Thiam Alternatives/Oneshots

Pick Up Lines (2)

To say that Liam was the absolute worst at flirting was an understatement, because he couldn't really flirt to save his life. He had only been interested enough in two people in his entire life - interested enough to make a move, and it had sure backfired on him at the beginning for the most part.

With Hayden... they had hated each other because he had punched her in the face one time, so they started off on the wrong foot. And when Liam figured out he liked liked her, not only did he wanted to crawl into a hole and die from embarrassment, but he didn't know how to talk to her. He screwed up everything until by some miracle she ended up liking him back.

With Theo everything was ten times worse. They had been in way worse terms before with the whole betrayal and hell business, and now they were learning to become friends. Somewhat friends, because more often than not they'd bicker or make some snide comment at each other. But they were friends nonetheless.

When Liam realized his true feelings for Theo he screamed. He grabbed a pillow and let out a muffled scream because what the shit did he get himself into. Theo, whom he had a history of being enemies. Theo, whom he had punched and broken his nose multiple times.

If he had punched Hayden once and ended up dating her for months that meant that he'd end up spending the rest of his life with Theo, judging by the amount of times he had punched the chimera in the face, which had been a lot.

Well shit, he was screwed.

Liam was awful at talking to people he had a crush on, he was the kind of person who would get super nervous then would either stumble on his words or he'd end up just staring at them until the person would tell him to leave or ask him if he was okay.

Now if that was with people he had a crush on, then being attracted to someone while throwing feelings into the mix was even worse. And judging from experience he wasn't graceful at it at all.

Thankfully an opportunity landed on him sooner than expected.

One lazy Friday night he had been watching TV with Theo. They were randomly changing through channels after a history documentary that Liam had been watching previously ended, and they stopped in a channel that was showing a reality show of people trying to score a date with a person they liked.

"Do you have a name or can I call you mine?" the guy on the show exclaimed and the girl seemed to give a flirtatious smile. He heard Theo snort from his place on the couch, Liam immediately looking at him.

"That was somewhat decent!" Liam exclaimed, defending the poor guy even though he didn't know why. He hated pickup lines too, found them extremely cheesy and felt it would just set someone up for failure, but that one hadn't been that bad.

"If you say so," Theo replied, somehow slipping further down in the couch lazily. It was way past 1am and yet they were still in the living room. Over the past couple of weeks, they had somewhat adopted that habit of watching stuff together, even if sometimes what they wanted to watch was completely different from their interests.

"Do you hate pickup lines?" Liam asked in return, partially to continue the argument and also because he was curious, his own feelings for the chimera present once again in the back of his mind.

"I'm not saying all pickup lines are bad, just most of them," Theo deflected the question right away, but instead he had given Liam somewhat of an idea.

"So if anyone tried that with you, would you punch them in the face?" it took a couple of seconds for Liam to realize that maybe the question sounded a bit too obvious, but there was no going back now.

"Depends. Got any on mind?" Theo turned to stare at Liam with that look that made him want to push him against a wall and kiss him. The look plus the question had Liam's nerves on such a flight mode that he stumbled over his next words.