Title: Love Maniac
Chapter: 1
Rating: G
Summary: Noah is out clubbing and sees Luke for the first time
Characters: Noah, Luke, Maddie, Jesse, Chester
Genre: AU
Warnings:
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I got inspired by Infernal's song "Love like a Maniac". I don´t own Infernal or the song "Love like a Maniac"

`This is so boring. What excuse can I use to get out of here and go home? School hasn´t started yet, so I can´t use the homework line. I could always go home and do some laundry.´ Noah thought to himself as he was sitting in Yo´s.

Apparently it was the place to hang out in this little town called Oakdale. He had just moved to Oakdale from Branson, when he heard about the "Gay Film Festival" and the video classes, he had decided to move here.

Ever since his father, Colonel Mayer, had kicked him out for being gay. He had been forced to find other ways to study his passion, movies - especially the old black and white movies.

He had always dreamt about going to Northwestern but now, where he had no money and know way of getting enough by the time school started, he hadn´t had any other choice but to apply to OU, and luckily he had been accepted and had gotten a job at a local coffee shop, called Java.

"And then he said ..." Noah´s date for the evening was still talking. He hadn´t noticed that Noah hadn´t listened for the last 20-30 minutes. He would have to remember to thank Jesse for fixing him up with ... `oh God, what was his name again? Ron? Tom? Jack?´ Noah couldn´t remember, but then again, it was not like they would be spending any time together after tonight.

Noah looked out at the dance floor. There were lots of people dancing. Most of them were around his age. He looked at his friend Jesse dancing with his girlfriend Maddie.

Suddenly he saw a blond head of hair. He was dancing like a madman; you could clearly see that he was enjoying himself. Noah was mesmerized by the man.

"Noah! Are you all right?" Noah jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw that his friend Jesse was standing beside him with a concerned looked on his face.

"Yeah, I´m fine, I …." Said Noah and once again glanced out on the dance floor, but the blond headed man was gone.

"See something you like?" Jesse asked with a mischievous grin on his face and blinked at Noah. But before Noah could respond Maddie´s voice broke through. "What are you two whispering about?"

"Nothing honey," said Jesse and walked over to his seat next to Maddie and put an arm around her shoulders.

"What classes are you taking this semester, Chester?" asked Maddie Chester. Noah could feel the blush in his checks, that wasn´t even remotely close to what he thought.

"I´m taking some economic classes, I really want to be an accountant," said Chester with a smile. `Oh God BORING´ Noah thought to himself. But he still heard himself say: "Really, that sounds interesting."

"Yeah, I think so too…" and Noah zoned out again as the blond man again entered the dance floor, this time with a woman. She was smiling and it looked like she had fun.

`I wish I was her,´ Noah thought. "Noah … Noah." Noah felt a hand on his arm and looked surprised at Maddie who had reached over the table to touch his arm. "Are you all right Noah? You seemed a little spaced out."

"Yeah, I fine," said Noah and smiled at her. He really liked her, she was sweet and he had never met anyone, who loved old movies as much as he did. He knew that if he wasn´t gay he would totally be attracted to her.

"Are you having fun?" she asked with a smile while she shoot a quick glance over at Chester, who was now talking to Jesse, who looked like he also had spaced out, under the huge amount of words Chester could say, almost without taking a breath.

`Doesn´t he know how boring he is?´ Noah felt a little bad for thinking that about Chester, but seriously, he was boring. Noah had really tried to stay interested in the beginning, but he hadn´t been able to keep his mind from drifting.

"Yeah, I really like this town," said Noah and hoped Maddie wouldn't notice that he hadn´t said a word about Chester. She just smiled and took a sip of her drink.

Noah looked out at the dance floor and saw that the blond hair man was standing with his front to him this time.

Noah could feel his heart racing because the man was ….. beautiful. There was no other way to describe him. He had short blond hair, which now was spiked up in the air. He had a boyish charm over his face and his slender body. Even the striped shirt he had own didn´t look ridiculous on him, somehow on him it looked like it was the latest fashion from Paris or Milan.

Suddenly a smile broke the man´s features on it was like the whole room was light up. He whispered something in the ear of the man he was dancing with and started walking towards Noah.

Noah felt like he couldn´t breathe. He quickly looked down at his shirt, not his best one but he had always gotten compliments whenever he wore it.

"Maddie," the blond headed man said and put one hand on Maddie´s shoulder and smiled at her. Noah couldn´t help but feel sad. He had hoped that maybe he and the blond man could have been ... something.

`This is nonsense. You just met the guy, you don´t even know his name and …´ Noah thoughts were disturbed when Maddie said: "Luke" and they threw their arms around each other.

After a short while they pulled away from each other and Noah could finally get a better look at the man who was standing only a few feet away from him.

He looked at the spiked blond hair again. Then his eyes glanced lower to Luke´s eyes, a soft brown met his eyes and captured it for a while before Maddie asked Luke a question.

Next were the lips, they looked so soft and plum. Noah couldn´t wait to press him own lips against them, hell he was tempted to just pull Luke to him and do it right now.

He let his eyes once again glance down over the striped shirt and the jeans, the way they framed Luke´s slender form made Noah blood boil.

"This is Chester and this is Noah." Noah´s thoughts were interrupted when Maddie introduced Luke to everyone.

"Hi Noah," said Luke and extended a hand towards Noah, "beautiful ..." muttered Noah under his breath. He hoped that Luke didn´t hear a thing but the way his smile got bigger suggested that he had.

Noah could feel the blush in his cheeks as he took Luke´s hand in his. Immediately he felt the sparks flying through him.

"I´m Noah," he said and looked at Luke. "I know, Maddie just told me." Luke smiled.

"Oh, I love this song," said Maddie and looked over at Jesse.

"Would you like to dance?" Jesse asked and took her hand in his and let her out on the dance floor.

Noah looked at Luke again and saw that he was moving to the music. `What shall I do? I can´t dance.´ Thought Noah but before he could think of a plan, the words: "Would you like to dance?" were out of his mouth.

"Yes," said Luke and together they walked out to the dance floor.

"I´m sorry, I can´t dance," said Noah with an apologetic look on his face.

"What?" said Luke. He slowly lifted his head so that his mouth was right next to Noah´s ear. "What did you say? I can´t hear anything because the music´s so loud."

Noah shuddered at the feel of Luke´s warm breath on his ear. He allowed himself a few moments to savor the memory and then he leaned down and whispered into Luke´s ear.

"I said: I sorry I can´t dance." He felt Luke shudder and smiled again. He was surprised his cheeks didn't hurt from all that smiling.

"That is okay but what about your date?" Noah glanced over at the table and felt a small pang of guilt because Chester was sitting there all alone with his drink, but then Noah felt Luke´s hands on his back and all thoughts went out of his brain.

He simply couldn't focus on anything besides this incredible hot guy, who wanted him, Noah of all people.

He looked into Luke´s eyes and before he even had a chance to think about it, he leaned down and softly pressed his lips against Luke´s. He felt the return press of Luke´s lips. He moved his head so that he could whisper into Luke´s ear again. "Would you like to go on a date with me?"

"Yes." It was all Luke got a chance to say before Noah once again captured Luke´s lips.