𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝔽𝕠𝕦𝕣 | ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ

It took months before Liam stopped feeling like a loser for being duped, after making that stupid decision to leave the bar with Jack... That probably wasn't even his real name.

Going to the bar was a stupid decision.

What the hell had he been thinking that night?!

Things between him and Morgan had been awkward, too. The incident made Liam feel closer to him than he ever had... Morgan had been seriously been his damn hero that night, but things were so...

Weird.

Whatever 'flirting game' they used to play was over for a while. Morgan had generally been ignoring Liam lately, but things turned around about a week ago, when Morgan had suddenly held his hand under the table during a game of cards all the guys were playing in the house one night. It nearly sent Liam's heart shooting straight out of his ribcage to feel Morgan's hand take his like that, and just hold it...

Since then, Morgan seemed to have gone back to normal.

Morgan had recently left for spring break with... What was his new boyfriend's name? Alex? Liam couldn't remember, but Morgan had come to the cabin and then he left for about a week to spend time with his new boyfriend.

Liam hadn't wanted to do anything crazy for spring break this year, so he had been staying at the cabin with Ethan and Julian.

Now that Morgan had left, Liam felt like he was intruding on Ethan and Julian's romantic getaway or something... He didn't expect Morgan to bolt like that once they got there.

"What up, losers," he heard Morgan's voice casually exclaim as the front door cracked open.

Morgan walked in with his duffel bag slung over his shoulder, closing the door behind him. He looked tired.

"Hey!" Ethan exclaimed, "You're back early...?"

"Yeah, we broke up," was all Morgan said when he threw his car keys onto the counter. Ethan rolled his eyes and Julian laughed while Morgan walked into the bedroom that he always claimed when they stayed there. He threw his duffel bag onto the bed.

Liam just continued eating his cereal and watched as Morgan came back out in his swim trunks and a towel, heading back outside. Liam guessed he was probably going out to swim in the lake.

Liam put his empty cereal bowl into the sink and looked over at Ethan and Julian, who were talking about something on the couch in the living room. It looked like a private conversation, so he didn't want to intrude...

Liam peeked outside, watching Morgan walk out of sight before he went to grab his guitar from his bedroom. Liam walked out into the warm spring air, taking a deep breath in and out before looking back into the living room to close the front door. Whatever Ethan and Julian were talking about, they didn't seem to notice him leaving.

Morgan was already in the water when Liam got to the grass, so he just sat down next to Morgan's towel and started strumming.

He didn't think Morgan had seen him out there, but he eventually swam back to shore and walked over to lay down on the towel next to him.

"Liam, can you play a cover for me?" He asked, dripping water all over the place. He skin was soaked, and in the warmth of the sunlight he was practically glowing.

Liam pulled his eyes off of Morgan's body and tried to focus on staring at his guitar while he played. Morgan was so incredibly goddamn distracting... It should have been illegal to be that incredibly, stupidly hot.

"I suck at covers, but... Sure."

"What do you know?"

Liam thought for a moment and then started playing chords from The Jumper, which was one of the very few covers he'd ever learned to play when he had just gotten his guitar junior year of high school. He still remembered it... Most of it, anyway.