Luke had been best friends with Reid since he was 5 and Reid was 7. Reid was rude to every one except Luke. Whenever he saw someone picking on Luke at school he'd stand up for him in an instant, and he didn't need his fists like the other boy's in the playground did. No. All Reid needed was his words and the all the other kids wouldn't dare be mean to Luke again. He always thought he was the luckiest boy on the planet to have Reid as his best friend because Reid never really seemed to like people, well at least people who weren't Luke. They'd met on Luke's first day of primary school when Luke saw Reid being his general snarky self to the other kids, looking down on them. Luke was terrified of Reid and was in shock when the boy had sat down next to him at lunch time.
"What's that?" Reid had said pointing to the sandwich in Luke's hand.
"Erm…a sandwich?" Luke replied, giving Reid a 'duh' look with one eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, I can see that" Reid replied giving Luke a genuine smile. He was impressed by the way the younger boy had spoken to him. No one in this god forsaken school had ever managed to match his snarkiness and he liked the competition.
"Why d'you ask then, brainiac?" Luke replied, smiling back at the older boy. Luke decided that he wasn't so scary when he smiled, he looked sort of warm and fuzzy.
"Well, what's in it?" Reid nodded towards the food, ignoring the brown eyed boy's insult.
"Lots of stuff. My Grandma Emma makes them for me. You want some?" Luke offered half his sandwich to the red head with an inviting dimpled grin.
"Sure" Reid Smiled "I'm Reid by the way, but one day everyone will call me Doctor Oliver"
Luke giggled as Reid took the sandwich and ate it faster that Luke had ever seen anyone eat in his entire life. "I'm Luke, but one day everyone will call me Batman."
"Okay then, Batman" Reid giggled "I kinda like you, you know?"
"I kinda like you too Doctor Oliver." Luke giggled in return.
They'd been best friends ever since that day. Reid had the same dream of being a Doctor through all the years he and Luke had been friends, but Luke's plans of becoming Batman had changed a few years into their friendship.
Luke remembered the day that Reid had been leaving to go to primary school. They had sat on the floor in the boy's toilets and Reid had held Luke's hand like his life depended on it.
"I don't want you to go" Luke had cried.
"You'll be joining me in two years, and it'll go quicker than you know it" Reid smiled, raising his spare hand to wipe Luke's tears away with his sleeve "Hey, don't cry. You know I don't cope well when you get all weepy, besides, it's not like we won't see each other. I promise we'll see each other every weekend."
"But my dad say's you get lots and lots of homework at high school. You won't have time for me…and you'll probably start dating girls" Luke screwed his nose up "Girl's are icky"
Reid had to laugh at Luke's face. He honestly had no idea how adorable he was. "Trust me, I won't start dating girls," Reid didn't tell Luke why, he was probably too innocent to understand "and I'll make time for you, I promise."
Reid forced a reassuring smile, not letting it show how much the thought of not seeing Luke everyday broke his heart.
Reid had kept to his promise. He'd go to Luke's house every weekend for some of Grandma Emma's sandwiches and the 2 years past quicker than Luke could've ever imagined and soon he was joining Reid at high school.
"Is it really scary?" Luke asked, sitting next to Reid on the bus.
"Not really, but lets face it, nothing scares me." Reid said to Luke with a wink.
"Hey Oliver, how's it going man, you had a good summer?" an older boy asked Reid as he got on the bus. He was probably from Reid's grade in school.
"Yeah, it's been really good. What about you Fisher?" Reid replied with a smile that he had once saved for only Luke. Luke couldn't help but feel incredibly jealous at the thought of Reid smiling at someone else like that so he scowled at the other boy.
"Not bad, not bad. Hey, who's this little cutie?" The boy laughed, ruffling Luke's golden locks, obviously trying to humiliate him, which Reid didn't appreciate. Nobody touches my Luke like that he thought.
"Hey! Lay off him Danny." He said batting his hand away from Luke's soft hair. The older boy gave Reid an understanding look. He knew about Reid's sexuality, as did everyone else in Reid's grade. He wasn't ashamed of who he was, but he still hadn't plucked up the courage to tell Luke yet. He knew he wouldn't survive if Luke rejected him, but he told himself that the real reason that he didn't tell Luke was that he was still too young to understand.
"Sorry man, it won't happen again." Danny smiled at Luke then took his place further down the bus.
"Hey, people actually like you here! How did that happen?" Luke giggled, looking at Reid with a playful glint in his eye, a look that Reid simply adored.
"What can I say? I'm very likable" Reid winked again, which made Luke's heart flutter in his chest. He told himself that he didn't know why.
2 years later Luke was walking through the halls of school with his new best friend, Maddie. Of course he still counted Reid as his best friend but he figured he needed some friends in his own grade too. He was quite popular actually. He was on the basketball team and was counted as one of the jocks of the school. He wasn't a traditional jock though, he'd never had a proper girlfriend and he didn't bunk off classes, but all the same, he was in the popular crowd. Another thing that wasn't so traditional about him was the fact that he was gay. The only person he'd told was Maddie. He hadn't dared tell anyone else in his year in case they beat the crap out of him and he hadn't ever told Reid because, although it hurt him that they could never be more, the thought of not having him as a friend hurt him even more. Luke had realised that he was in love with Reid last year when Reid had winked at him one too many times. He didn't know how he hadn't realised before. It had felt the same every time Reid smiled at him or innocently touched him but it took him 10 years to pinpoint what that feeling was.
"Hey! Earth to Luke!" Maddie clicked her fingers in front of Luke's face, interrupting his train of thoughts.
"I'm sorry, what?" Luke said looking slightly confused.
"I was asking you about what I should wear tonight on my date with Casey!" Maddie sighed with mock exasperation "but you were clearly in your own little world again. Thinking about a certain red head 2 grades above by any chance?"
"Sorry" Luke replied, flashing Maddie his trademark dimpled smile. "I've got to go to the history room before we get the bus to put my book on Mr Graham's desk, you want to come with?" Luke gave Maddie his best puppy dog eyes and she simply rolled her eyes back at him.
"Fine, you've got me convinced" She smiled and took his hand as they headed down the corridor to the history room.
"I better text Reid and tell him I'm not getting the bus" Luke said opening the door to the history room "and then text my mom to tell her…"
Luke's heart stopped when he opened the door and saw it. He got the feeling that he'd never breathe again. When he opened the door the first thing he saw was Reid making out with that Danny guy on one of the tables. They had their tongues stuck down each other's throats and the kissed looked sloppy and aggressive. They'd stopped the moment Luke and Maddie walked in and Reid looked like a dear trapped in the head lights. Luke just stared at them feeling like his whole world was toppling down around him. He turned to leave but Reid quickly leapt of the table and grabbed his hand.
"Luke…wait…I was going to tell you…I just…" Reid felt sick to his stomach. He never did pluck up the courage to tell Luke that he was gay, but now he wished he had. He didn't want Luke to find out like this. Hell, he didn't even like Danny; he just needed someone to get Luke off his mind. It killed him that he and Luke could never be together, but he didn't tell Luke because the thought of not having him as a friend killed him even more.
"Get your hands off me!" Luke yelled "Don't you ever touch me again!" He screamed, before running out of the school with tears flooding down his face, ignoring Maddie calling after him.
"Shit! What am I going to do?" Reid asked, looking at Maddie, "I was so scared to tell him I was…I was so scared he'd react like this."
"You think this is because you're gay?" Maddie laughed.
Reid gave her a confused look, trying to hold back the tears that were filling his eyes.
"He's in love with you, you dumb shit." Maddie shook her head. Jeez, this guy's supposed to be the brightest spark in the school "He always has been and guess what! you just broke his heart. Congratulations."
"He…but…when?" Reid looked utterly baffled
"Well, he only realised last year, but he's probably loved you since the day he told you he wanted to be Batman."
"Why the hell didn't he tell me?" Reid yelled angrily.
"Probably for the same reasons you didn't tell him." Maddie smiled, realising the snarky, older boy was just as besotted with Luke as he was with him.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Reid yelled legging it out of school after the boy he loved, leaving poor Danny with blue balls. He looked over at Maddie.
"Hey…so, I'm bi. You wanna make out?" he smiled slyly.
"Sure, I've got nothing better to do." Maddie smiled making her way over to the older boy.
30 minutes late Luke was stepping out of the shower when he heard a knock at his door. He groaned, wanting to hide himself away from the world and not talk to anyone, but instead of crawling into bed and crying into his pillow, he pulled on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and ran down the stairs to answer the door. The second the door was door was opened Luke felt a pair of lips crash to his. He knew instantly it was Reid. He could feel it, smell it, taste it. Reid's tongue brushed roughly against Luke's lower lip and they heard a moan, but neither was sure who it came from, maybe it was both of them. When the need to breathe finally made Reid pull back he stared longingly into Luke's eyes.
"I love you. I love you so much" Reid whispered, a tear gently falling down his face.
"You mean it?" Luke whispered back, "Just tell me you mean it."
Reid leaned in and captured Luke's lips again but this time it was gentle, slow and tender. After just a second he pulled away again "I've never been more certain of anything in my life."
"I love you too." Luke closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against Reid's "but what about Danny?"
"If he mattered even half as much as you did, trust me, I wouldn't be here." Reid sighed. "You have no idea what you do to me do you, batman?"
"Hmmm, I think I'd like to find out though." They smiled at each other, the same way they'd smiled at each other everyday for the past 11 years.
They kissed again, pouring into it all the emotion they'd been bottling up for the past 11 years, and Luke was sure that he was the luckiest boy on the planet. They needed this. This was where they belonged.
Feedback=Love+A very happy Harriet
I don't really know if this works but I posted it any way :) What do you guys think?
I will get up the next chapter of my multi chapter fic Devils and Demons soon, I promise. I just had the urge to write a story like this for our boys xD
