// muke one-shots //

you're cold and I burn, I guess I'll never learn (3/3)

Michael sat down across from Luke at a table in the corner. He looked at Luke and couldn't help but smile, Luke looked different, he looked healthy, happy even and it suited him. It really, really did.

The past couple months, he'd been staying on friend's couches and working. It was hard for him to not check up on Luke at first, but he finally had learned to let go. He had to move on and he had to let Luke do the same. He still always thought about Luke, of course he did. He loved Luke. He still did, and he knew he always would. He was happy they ran into each other again, it was nice to catch up. It was nice to see Luke finally looking like his normal self.

"I'm still so sorry Michael, you didn't deserve to be treated like that-" Luke started to say, for the third time in the last fifteen minutes.

"I told you it's fine, that's in the past Luke, don't worry about it. you're better now, that's all that matters"  Michael told him with a small smile.

The two boys continued talking until the sun was starting to set, they talked about their lives and what they were doing now. It was good to catch up. Talking was always easy for them, they could talk for hours and never get bored. Michael was glad to have his Luke back.

"you're wearing the necklace I gave you" Michael pointed out, grinning.

Luke nodded and Michael noticed his cheeks getting red.

"I thought you had threw it in the bottom drawer of the dresser and you'd never look at it again"

"I was an asshole Michael, but I'm not like that anymore. I care about you, and this was all I had left of you so I wore it everyday while I was in rehab. It helped. It made me feel like I had a piece of you with me"  Luke admitted, biting his lip.

"I care about you too Luke, I really really do"

-

Once it started getting dark, the two decided they should probably get going.

"do you um, wanna come back to our- I mean my apartment and have a movie night like we used to?" Luke asked.

Michael smiled, and nodded yes, because he had really missed their movie nights. He had really missed Luke.

-

When they got to the apartment, Michael immediately felt like home. There were a lot of memories made in the apartment, mostly bad ones but some pretty great ones too.

"what movie do you want to watch?" Luke asked, walking into the living room.

"it doesn't matter, you can pick"

It took awhile but Luke finally decided on a movie that they used to watch all the time "500 days of summer".

They sat on the couch, a blanket was covering the two, and a bowl of popcorn was between them

The sat  in a comfortable silence for more then half the movie, then Luke broke it.

"Michael, I know I keep saying this but I just can't stop feeling guilty, I'm so sorry for how I treated you. I should have been better, I should have treated you right. I am so sorry and I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make it up to you, Michael I-" Luke started to ramble.

Michael leaned in close to Luke and placed a hand on his cheek, causing him to stop talking. Their noses were almost touching. Luke could feel the warmth of Michael's breath on his lips. Luke stared at Michael, his eyes were wide but filled with adoration. He moved an inch so now their lips were touching. Softly and lovingly. They put everything they had into that kiss. The kiss was hard but soft, new but old, a split second but also forever. While their lips were attached, Michael felt at home. It was a nice feeling.

Michael pulled away. "Shit, Luke, I'm sorry, you just looked so adorable and I've really missed you, I'm sorry I-"

"shut up and kiss me" Luke said with a smirk.

Michael rolled his eyes and mumbled "dork" against Luke's lips before kissing him for the second time that night, but definitely not the last time.

A/N: so you guys were kind of disappointed that they ended as friends but I just wanted to make this story a bit more realistic, because I know what it's like to have an alcholic in my life and it's hard to rebuild a relationship with them. So yeah, but hopefully you guys liked this! I wasn't sure about how to write a kiss, so I looked up how to write it and there were some descriptions and I used some ideas from few of them and changed it up a little to make it different so credit to those people. comment and vote please, i love you guys. thanks for reading. x :)

And by the way "500 days of summer" is an actual movie and its one of my favorites, it's really cute and sad and I love it and that wasn't meant to be a joke, it's just the first movie I thought of.