The Kiss Thing (THIAM)

Chapter 4

They don't do the kiss thing anymore, until they do.

Theo presses a quick kiss on Liam's lips just before heading for his classes and it's not a big deal.

"What the hell was that?"

Except for the fact that he did it right in front of Mason.

"Oh, yeah, right" Liam shrugs, trying to avoid his best friend's gaze. "This is a thing now."

"A thing? You and Theo?"

Mason advised him to give Theo dick for Valentine just yesterday, so he really shouldn't sound so astonished.

"We're doing the kiss thing, yes."

Mason frowns, confused. "Since when?"

"Since yesterday. I mean, not uninterruptedly."

Not that Liam would have liked that. At all.

Mason is looking at Liam like he's some sort of difficult equation he needs to solve.

"So, are you together or...?"

"Together?"

"Yeah, like me and Corey."

"Oh God no" Liam shakes his head, incredulous. "Why would you even think that?"

Mason has such strange thoughts sometimes.

***

Liam thinks that maybe he can do the kiss thing with Theo again in the car, since he always drive them home after school.

They don't. Theo is mad with his biology teacher who has no idea what he's talking about, apparently. Liam doesn't know how water-splitting in photosynthesis works, but he still sustains that professor Harris is one-hundred percents right and that Theo should check his facts before arguing with a teacher, just to make him mad. Then he watches as the other gets super frustrated and gesticulates violently while driving and throwing up all these scientific facts Liam understands nothing about and his cheeks gets red again.

Liam doesn't know what's so exciting about photosynthesis that makes Theo so passionate about it, but while he keeps glancing and listening at him from the passenger seat sure as hell he's grateful for photosynthesis.

He'd like to do the kiss thing now, like they always do in the movies when someone is talking too much and so you just go and make them shut up by colliding your mouth with their mouth and it looks so cool, but Theo is driving and Liam's nose would not look cool at all if he made Theo crush his beloved truck.

Besides, they're not in a romantic movie. They're in a truck Theo probably stole to begin with.

***

The second his stepfather comes home from work, Theo blushes again.

He looks cute, Liam thinks.

"You look like a tomato" he says. "A rotten one."

"It's just the blood I'm making you split by destroying you time after time. It goes right from your lifeless body to my face" Theo doesn't even divert his eyes from the screen in front of them as he keeps violently pushing his joystick buttons. "You suck so much at this game."

"You won just two times, shut up."

Of course Liam sucks at that game, he sucks at every game he owns now, because the ones he were good at have suddenly and mysteriously disappeared a week after Theo moved in.

He probably hid them in his truck, the little shit.

"Are we together? Like Mason and Corey?"

Liam just lost again when he asks it. He didn't planned it, it just happens.

Theo literally drops the joystick on the floor, clearly taken aback. Liam is gonna make him buy a new one if he broke it.

Theo studies Liam for a long time and then he slowly says 'no'. It almost sounds like a question.

"No, of course not" Liam agrees, nodding. "I knew it obviously."

Theo frowns. "Of course?"

"Yeah. That would be insane, right?" Liam nods firmly, his eyes wide open seeking confirmation. "Me and you together like Mason and Corey? Crazy shit right there."

Theo folds his arms, lips bent in a weird, unreadable grimace. "And why is that?"

"Well, first of all, Corey is a nice guy. You're clearly not."

"I am nice."

"No, you're pretty, but not nice."

Liam can see Theo's upper lips tremble a little, like he's holding a smile or a snarl.

"I'm pretty?"

Liam blinks. "What?"

"You think I'm pretty."

It was a smile.

"I don't" Liam shakes his head, trying not to focus on how pretty Theo looks while he smiles like that. "It's not me. It's fact, you're pretty. I would have to be blind to not see that" He clears his voice and lets his eyes run across the room, uncomfortable. "It has nothing to do with what I think."

"You find me so pretty that if someone didn't you'd just assume they must be blind."

Liam is still very busy at not looking at Theo, but he knows from his voice that the smile is a smirk now. Fucking asshole.

He snorts, glaring at him. "Oh, don't pretend like you don't know you're pretty."

Theo shrugs and he looks so satisfied with himself right now. "I know I'm pretty, I just didn't know you knew."

"Of course I know, I have eyes."

"Do you?"

"Yeah."

"Then why you keep saying pretty instead of hot?"

Liam swallows. When did Theo get so close to his face? Why is he whispering? Why is it so hot in there? Say something smart Liam, come on!

"Look at you, all blushing" Theo mocks him, while Liam is still desperately looking for a comeback. "How cute."

Liam could literally suffocate from indignation. He's got to be kidding him.

"You're the one who talks, you lobster" he snorts derisively. "You're basically a professional blusher by now. You could get paid for it."

Theo's eyes widen. "I don't-"

"DAD CAN YOU COME HER-" Liam's scream dies in his throat as well as his breath when Theo's body suddenly crushes him against the bed and his head hits the wall.
"Shut up" Theo growls from above him, his hand firmly pressed against Liam's mouth.

He's trying for a menacing look, but he's already blushing.

Liam reverses the positions in a second, slamming Theo under him.

"You shut up, lobster" he orders and then he kisses him hard, blocking his protest with his lips and sending it right back in his mouth with his tongue. Just like in the movies.