The Kiss Thing (THIAM)

Chapter 1

"I want chocolate."

Liam looks up from his history paper, placing his eyes on Theo.

He's been staying with him for some weeks now and the initial embarrassment the other teen showed about literally every little thing -like that time he drank his coffee with salt instead of sugar because he didn't want the Geyers to know he wasted their coffee and their salt - is now totally vanished, replaced by an irritating bossy behaviour. Liam even had to change the red curtains in his room because Theo preferred them green and wouldn't stop complaining about it. The only reason why he doesn't punch Theo in the face every time he gets bossy is because he really didn't like the first days when Theo looked so scared and out of place, like he expected to be kicked out of the house at any moment.

Now he's annoying, but at least he looks like Theo, which is better.

Well, not necessarily better, just right. It's just right for Theo to look like Theo and not like some stray cat afraid of his shadow.

He has his own room, but he still spends half of the time in Liam's one and he seems to think of it like his second room or something like that: he moves objects and scolds Liam when it's not clean and he always throws himself on the bed like he owns it. Part of Liam finds it annoying, but another part of him doesn't mind too much: it's probably a consequence of Theo being homeless for so long, now he wants two bed and two rooms to make up for when he had none. Or something like that, Liam is still not sure of how Theo's mind works.

"I want chocolate" Theo repeats, sprawled on Liam's bed with his phone in his hand. Liam can see the Instagram app opened. "It's Valentine's day and everybody is eating chocolate. I want chocolate too."

He says it like it's Liam's problem, which is clearly not.

"Go to the store and buy it then" He suggests, because he just can keep himself from helping others human beings, even the annoying ones.
"By myself for myself? On Valentine's day? That would be embarrassing, Liam" Theo snorts, and then he smirks like he always does before saying mean stuff, which is basically always. "I bet you did it at some point. You're embarrassing just like that."

Liam totally did it at some point, more than once actually, both before and after Hayden.

"Then pretend to buy it for someone else. You can ask for a nice package" Liam replies with an obvious tone which implicitly adds a "you idiot" at the end of the phrase.

"That's even more embarrassing. You didn't ask for a package while buying yourself chocolate now, did you?"

Liam totally did.

"Then go fuck yourself."

It was a nice pink package covered in hearts. He doesn't regret it.

"Listen, this is what we'll do" Theo gets up from Liam's bed and his face is all happy now, like everytime he has a terrible idea. Liam already hates his plan, because even if it's his plan, Theo already said we. What we'll do. Liam doesn't like it because what Liam will do is finish is history paper. "You buy me chocolate and I buy you chocolate."

Theo is so satisfied with his idea, Liam can see it in his face. His lips are not, but his eyes are totally smiling now.

"So we both get chocolate, but we don't buy it ourselves and it's not embarrassing, you get it?"

Theo looks at him expectantly.

"So I go to the store, buy chocolate, come back, give it to you and then you go to the store, buy chocolate, come back and give it to me, that's your plan."