Space cowboy

Born under punches (the heat goes on)

"Babe, I'm sorry but that's truly the dumbest costume I've ever seen, you don't even watch Star Wars", Louis told his boyfriend of 3 years.

"And what are you supposed to be?"

"I'm a devil", Louis said, sounding a bit defeated at his boyfriends mean tone.

"Slutty devil and you're calling my costume stupid?"

"Whatever Charlie, can we just go?" He asked, adjusting his horns for what felt like the 60th time.

"Yes just let me put on my shoes", he replied, grabbing his keys and walking them towards their car.

Once seated Louis looked at him again, "I'm sorry for being mean, it's actually pretty cute you know".

Charlie smiled at him and kissed his cheek, "just wait till I put the mask on".

Louis giggled, god his boyfriend was an idiot.

They walked inside the party and greeted their friends for a while before going to the dance floor. Louis was having the time of his life, dancing the night away, swaying his hips in a way he knew was hot. He felt someone yank his arm all of a sudden and winced.

He looked at who was holding him and saw the stupid stormtrooper suit, "Charlie you're hurting me", he whined.

"Why do you have to do that?" Charlie asked, his voice sounded different through the suit, Louis didn't mind, made him believe it wasn't his boyfriend being mean to him.

"Do what?" He asked, rubbing over the spot where Charlie had held him.

"Dancing and making everyone look at you? Are you looking to cheat tonight? Is that it? Are you that tired of me? Do you have to throw your ass in every guys face?"

"No, what, no, Charlie", Louis felt tears well up in his eyes, had he really been flirting with other people? "I was just dancing I promise, I love you, only wanna be with you"

"Doesn't fucking seem like it, first you dress like that then you go around and dance all slutty, it's like you thrive when you see me angry".

Tears were falling now, "Charlie please, I'll stay with you for the rest of the night, won't leave your side or whatever but please keep this night fun".

"I'm getting more punch, go cover up and fix your face, you've got mascara everywhere".

Louis sniffled and went up to the bathroom, wiping his face down with water, he liked the coolness of it, made him look less puffy. He looked at his arm and saw a bruise had formed. He shook his head, Charlie and alcohol was never a good combination. He combed through his hair again and put his horns back on smiling at himself in the mirror. He looked so good tonight, it was a sad thing Charlie told him to cover up. He got it, Charlie was protective, didn't want other guys looking at what was his, but still, for once, Louis just wanted to be able to dress slutty and have Charlie show him off, in a way of, look everyone, I've got the hottest boyfriend in the world and he's all mine. That day was never going to come though.

He walked out, looking for Heather, one of his best friends and the girl that threw the party, he was going to ask for a hoodie and some sweatpants. He turned around the corner and saw a familiar suit. The stormtrooper was looking back at him and called him over. "Has anyone told you you're looking really horny tonight?" He asked, touching Louis' devil horns.

Louis chuckled and shook his head, his boyfriend was an idiot.

"Don't worry, I was just going to cover up". He said quickly.

"Now why would you do that? You look amazing".

Louis was confused, hadn't he just been told to go cover up? He shrugged, maybe God had heard his prayers and his boyfriend had finally come to his senses.

"Wanna go dance together?" He asked.

Louis positively grinned at that, he didn't know who had been talking to Charlie but he had to thank that person, Charlie never danced with him, always just stood on the sidelines holding a beer and looking downright miserable.

He took him back to the dancefloor and did some awful dance moves, Louis was smiling the entire time though, he was having so much fun, and Charlie looked like he was having fun as well, of course Louis couldn't see his face, but he was being so goofy and actually caring for Louis for once. Louis started testing his waters, he knew it was dumb, but he wanted to see how far he could go tonight. He started swaying his hips again, his boyfriend noticed and came up behind him, grabbing him by the waist and grinding against him. Alright. He had completely lost his mind, not that Louis was complaining.

After an hour of dancing and more punch for Louis, he got a little tired and a lot worked up, he still had his back pressed up against his boyfriend, Charlie's arm loosely draped around his waist, he hadn't gotten this much attention from him since the beginning of their relationship, it felt amazing.

"Babe", Louis said, "lets go to your place tonight Yea?" He winked as he said it.

All Charlie did was nod, they went outside and he heard Charlie call for a cab, his boyfriend not driving while he was drunk? When did this man become responsible? he got himself in the backseat and just looked out of the window for most of the ride.

Charlie put his hand on his thigh after a while, squeezing before just resting it there. Louis looked at him. A soft blush and an adorable smile covering his face.

"For a devil you're looking positively angelic right now, you know?"

The complete 180 his boyfriend did in a matter of minutes was getting weirder by the second but Louis was loving it. "Oh stop, you're just saying that".

"No I'm serious, you're so gorgeous, I can't believe you're coming home with me".

"Of course I'm coming home with you silly, can't exactly go to my place now can we? Especially not tonight, my roommate wouldn't be happy with that".

"Oh, you have a roommate?"

Louis just laughed, was this part of Charlie's thing tonight? Just pretend they don't know each other?

Louis felt the cab pull up in the driveway and looked, where the hell was he? This wasn't Charlie's house.

"Babe where the hell are we?" He asked.

"My place?" Charlie answered, "like you asked".

"This isn't your place".

"Right as if you'd know where I live", he giggled, "come on I'll give you a tour of the house first".

"Charlie, I love you and I love this change but this isn't funny anymore, what's going on?" Louis asked, getting scared.

"Who's Charlie?"

"Take your mask off and quit playing babe, please".

Louis gasped as the stormtrooper took his mask off, tears started running down his face and he just fell to the ground, too drunk and too overwhelmed to properly deal with his emotions right now. He saw the stranger pay for the taxi before he felt a soft touch on his shoulder.

"Hey", the stranger said, "I'm assuming I'm not who you thought I was".

Louis nodded, wiping his eyes.

"Come inside with me, you can just sit on my couch and make a call to whoever I was supposed to be, I'm really sorry this happened".

Louis slowly got up and followed him inside. Too confused and emotional to take in what was happening.