Okay this is about to go down. This chapter and the next one kind of swerves this whole story in a direction to where I want to go. Hopefully I don't fuck this up. I really do hope that it turns out good and that I don't lose my inspiration before I stop writing. Oh almost forgot something. People have asked me where I get my inspiration from and that is all because of one song. It's been my favorite song for about 3 years now. It's just the type of song that gives me the chills and allows the words to flow out of me like a waterfall. The song is called 'Viva La Vida' by Coldplay. They're a British band and are my whole inspiration to writing. What the song lyrics have to do with the this story. I have no fucking clue. But I can try to come up with a good reason of why I am so in love with the song. I'll give you time to read the story while I do that.
Have fun-3 Hopeless Time
I look at Liam, breaking the silence." Okay so what are we eating today?"
Liam looked at me with a confused look." I thought you were choosing."
I smile." I can't. I chose yesterday."
"I wouldn't mind getting what you want. Do you want rice cakes again?"
"No. They were deliciously satisfying and ravishing but..." I rub my chin." Oh and we still have some at the dorm in the fridge."
Liam nods his head slightly agreeing that idea was off the plate." Okay, so you want me to chose?"
I nod." Just get me whatever you get and I'll eat it."
He looked hesitant looking for a reply." But what if you don't like it?"
I look at him with a reassuring look." Just get me whatever you eat. I'll eat it." He stops and crosses his arms. I stop in my tracks and turn around.
"What?"
"Can you get them?" He says after a silent pause.
"The food?...Alright what do you want?"
"A smoothie and a doughnut. A glazed one." He told me. Why did he stop all of a sudden? And why was he acting so strange again? I shake it off and he hands me a 20."It should be about 15 for the both of us."
I accept the 20 dollar bill. I would've objected and told him that I could pay but eventually I was going to start to run out of money. Father would send me my next check, I got every 2 weeks...But after that meeting with Mother I don't even know if I have it in me to accept money from the guy.
"Where do you want me to buy it from?"
He looked around and locked eyes on a stand. I was going to turn around to see exactly what he was so focused on but he quickly said something making me turn back to him." C-Cloud! I'll just tell you where to walk."
I grin at the stupid suggestion."Why not tell me the name of the place so I can walk over there normally?"
Liam's face became a light red again. Just like this when we were in the dorm...That's when I connected it all together. I feel really fucking stupid now. I guess I have to take away when I said that I was getting over overlooking shit because I was just now noticing how my blushing roommate was acting.
I look over my shoulder to see Andrew at the stand wiping down the bright yellow counter. Have you ever seen the meme where he replied with 'Are you fucking serious?' look. If you haven't then look it up. I'm serious Google the shit right now and go to images. That is literally how I felt my face doing. I look back at Liam.
"W-What?" Liam replies innocently.
"Did you honestly expect me to waltz over there and without realizing what you were pulling here?" I'll admit he was pretty clever. I almost fucking went over there.
His light blue eyes traveled to the ground."...I don't know. I mean..-I knew you were going to figure it out, but I was hoping that you wouldn't catch on so quickly."
"Why won't you talk to him? Yourself? And not send other people to talk to him. I'm sure he'd like to speak to you."
"Because I- I don't know. It's harder to talk to someone knowing that they don't know what feelings you have." He threw his hands in the air out of frustration.
"And sending me over there would help how?" I wait for Liam to reply. He doesn't. I lower my voice even though were far enough from him." Listen I'm sure Andrew thinks that your probably really shy around him and all for no reason. But yesterday I kind of put a hold on that thought."
Liam joined in the whisper conversation we were having." What are you talking about Cloud?"
"Yesterday when you replied back sadly, I noticed a look on his face. It was the kind of look that Donnie gave Archer when he wouldn't talk to him the same way after the breakup. It was sad and a little...lustful."
Liam squeaks and jumps back covering his mouth with both hands. He was now blushing red. And not just a light red. But a deep red."...Cloud...Are you trying to say what I think your trying to say?" He muffled through his hands.
I smile and shrug my shoulder." I could be wrong. But I don't think that I could ever confuse that look."
Liam's hand still covered his shocked expression."...You could be wrong..." His eyes fell back to the ground." He doesn't even go that way."
I shrug again." Who knows? He could still be in the hiding."
He finally got control of his breathing and moved his hands down from his face, which was now back down on it's way to a light blush."...He doesn't like me. I'm just a friend to him and...that's all we'll ever be."
"But is that what you want?" I ask not whispering anymore. I would of told him about how Andrew told me about wanting to be his roommate. But I don't think that he could take anymore information or he would explode.
"What?" He ask, caught off guard by my question.
I shake my head a little." Here. What do you feel here Liam?" I place my hand on my heart.
"My heart?" He asks, his voice getting softer.
I nod.
He closes his eyes and places his hand on his heart. I know it was on top of all that material, but I wanted him to not notice that and only notice to his heartbeat when he thought of Andrew.
"Okay, Now Liam. When ever I mention his name tell me if you feel a sudden skip in your heartbeat or an increase." I look at his face waiting for an reply.
"Cloud this is-" He says with his eyes closed.
I start interrupting him from talking any further." Yesterday I found out a lot of shocking things about all of this." He cracks an eye open.
"How is this suppose to help me by telling me about your life?"
"Just listen." He sighs lightly and closes his eye back." Anyways, I learned some things about my roommate. He's an fairy and he told me his deepest and darkest secret that he has yet to tell any but me, Aiden, Callen and Owen." I see him gulp down his saliva." He let me know about his love. A love that is not only gender wise but also supernatural." I lower my voice." His name is Andrew." I see him jump a little at the name and relax again. I sigh." My friend has an crush on the dessert guy. You haven't allowed him to make any advances towards you because your scared of what the outcome will be. Your always shy around him and you never talk. When your scared about talking to him about this, your the one who is holding yourself back. I can't guarantee that he likes you the same way, But I do know that if you don't make a move now and at least try to let him know that you enjoy talking to him as a friend, then you will be allowing him to leave because from his point of view. He only sees the guy that he could possibly like back, isn't returning those feelings." I say calmly.
I move back analyzing Liam's face. His eyes were open slightly and he was looking at the ground. His eyes looked glossy, making it seem like he wanted to cry. And that's when I saw it. One tear rolled down his face. I start to get worried. I-I didn't want to make him cry I was just trying to make a point.
I look at him worriedly." I'm sorry Liam. I didn't mean to make you cry...I-I took it to far and I-"
Liam interrupted Cloud and shook his head." Y-You didn't do anything wrong. It's me...I've been doing this all wrong." He gives off a small smile, letting another tear roll off his face.
"What?..." I look at him still worried and confused.
"I have been hopelessly waiting for nothing. He doesn't know how I feel about him and I.." He wipes the tears that had fallen down his cheeks with the hand that was on his heart." I don't know why I waited so long. He's not going to say anything about it because I couldn't even have a straight conversation with him without me becoming shy. And I didn't say anything because I...I was waiting for a miracle to just appear and him tell me that he was an all of a sudden homosexual and that he loved me. But...I know now that if I really want this thing to work then I have to be willing to stand up and actually talk to him."
"About you being in love with him for 2 years?" I question.
"No." He smiles while sniffing." I said I'm going to talk to him not try to get him to date me on the first conversation." He said in a sarcastic tone.
I smile after I know that he was going to be okay. I place my hands on his shoulders and pull him towards me to hug him." One little step at a time."
He nods still a little startled by my unexpected move." One little step at a time."
With that I hand Liam back the 20 dollar bill and tell him that he should be the one to go over there. He wouldn't go until he was for sure that his eyes returned back from a pinkish red back to a white...Okay now he was ready. I could tell that he was nervous and that he was starting to doubt if he should really do this. I gave him a pep talk assuring him that it was going to be okay. I asked multiple times if he honestly wanted to do this and that if he didn't then he didn't have to go an talk to him right away. He cut me off right there and told me that if he didn't do something sooner then Andrew could start to lose interest in them ever being anything more than friends. I'm glad that he got his boost of confidence today. Because today is the day where Liam will talk to Andrew face to face. Forgetting shyness or even him being in love with him. They would talk like friends and nothing more. Just as friends for now.
Liam walks past me to walk over to Andrew. He looks over his shoulder and nods with a nervous grin. I smile, I wasn't for sure if I could get all the shyness out of him but whatever at least he was finally making a move. I watch as he approaches the stand, waving shyly.
I think he's got it. I stand there amazed by what I had just done. I got him to make a move...Good Job Cloud. Good Job. Putting my freezing hands in my jacket pockets, I stand there looking on to what I had done. Liam deserved to be happy, for almost 3 years he held this secret in. I can't even imagine how scrutinizing that must've been to love someone and them not know a single thing of it. Liam was finally making a move because he had realized that he if he wanted it to work then he would have to put work into doing just that. And I couldn't be more proud of him. He had faced a barrier that was blocking his path for years and now today he was facing the barrier head on by finally climbing over it. I had a pain in his heart to know that Liam had pain in his heart from all these years because he couldn't talk to the Autumn headed guy. And it must of been painful...I knew exactly what that pain felt like, when Father told me that Mother had left to be with another family. Right before I felt anger and disgust. I felt hurt and anguish knowing that I wouldn't ever be able to speak to her or even see her face when she sang a lullaby to me. I didn't want to believe that she would give up on us so easily, but eventually months turned into years and I had to let go. And then when she left I knew that the only people who I could depend on were Archer, Donnie and my Father. But right now I can't bare the thought of even talking to my Father. He lied to me all these years just to satisfy himself from being hurt, Donnie didn't believe me when I told him a secret so big to the point I needed support. And archer was down on the ground level so I couldn't exactly run to him for help without teleporting a bunch...Then I remembered Mother. She told me she would always be there and I knew that too. But to what extent?...She would always be there In my heart. But who would I lean on physically? For emotional support because obviously I had no one right now. I wanted someone to hold me and tell me it would be alright. And yes even though it sounded like the gayest thing that I could have ever thought of...But right now at this point...I didn't really care.
My thoughts were interrupted by someone screaming at someone to stop. But sadly for me, I didn't react quick enough.
I was pushed backwards landing on my butt and head. The cold and dirty concrete floor on my hair didn't exactly mix with a clean and tidy person that I was. I started to get immediately sick to my stomach and tried to push my self off the ground but the person on top was to strong for me. Whoever it was, leaned on me like they were watching television lying down, but on my chest. His elbows piercing me.
I then hear a males voice approaching me- and whoever was on me." Callen your ridiculous."
I sigh and open my eyes, the light shining on them. I shift my eyes to see Callen's face with a smile. I turn my head slightly and see Aiden walking up to us.
"C-Callen...did you really have to leap on me?" I say knowing who the mystery person was.
"Sorry. I couldn't help it. Dog instincts took over by seeing someone I knew." He leaned on me and hugged me. This was so uncomfortable.
"And that's why your tail is out." Aiden replied to the Callen, aware that it wasn't directed towards him.
Callen's jaw dropped." Your joking?.." Callen popped up sitting on my stomach like the pony toy you would get when you were a kid." He looks over his back to see a brown fluffy tail wagging happily creating a little wind."...Damnit!"
"And your ears." Owen added walking up to us with a bunch of stuff in his hand. I think it was food.
Callen immediately moved both hands to the top of his light brown hair. He felt them sticking out pretty far."Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!" He pushes himself off me making me groan as he put force on my stomach. It was still sore...Callen really was strong.
"That's what you get." Owen tries to take a bite of something." Your always..."He tries again missing." leaping..." He misses again." On somebody and that is your consequence." He tries again after the seventh time of trying and manages to get a bite.
Callen and Aiden look at him with the meme face I was talking about earlier. Callen comments on it first." What the fuck dude? Tying to give yourself a heart attack?"
Owen rolls his eyes." Hardy har har. Your so motherfucking hilarious. You already know I eat like this everyday and yet somehow out of generosity I end up giving you some of it. But since you intend to make fun of me. I guess I'll have to eat all of this food by myself."
Callen face turns from laughing to an 'I'm sorry' one as he begs for his friends forgiveness. I sigh and wonder why I didn't attempt to get up earlier. I push my self up. Damn I hope my uniform isn't dirty. I look down at my uniform, my hair getting in the way of my vision. I check my suit for any tears or smudges. That was the last thing I needed to happen. Going in on the first day looking like some slob and he had just gotten his suit a day before. I brush my jacket off and then my pants.
I look up, reminding myself that Callen and Owen were now arguing. At first I was going to jump in and tell Callen that he should just go and get his own food. But that was until I saw how much food was in Owens hands. It was nearly enough to feed a classroom of 30 kids.
"Owen your going to eat all of that yourself?" Owen and Callen stopped arguing and looked back at me.
"Reapers have quite the appetite." Aiden says nonchalantly, knocking the attention from me to him.
"Quite!? Reapers are fucking stingy with their food that it's ridiculous, but then they're known to have skeletons so that makes a lot more sense." He crossed his arms and looked away from the upset reaper holding all the food.
"Okay first of all, hairball. I'll have you know that I am not stingy your just so fucking greedy all the time like a-"
"Dog!" The both yell out in unison.
"How many times have I heard that line before?" He crosses his arms and rolls his dark green eyes.
"Your a greedy bum." Owen says breaking the silence.
"And your are a stingy douche!" Callen yells back at his taller friend.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"I am not a douche."
"Your are a douche. And you know it."
"Says the homeless bum who is always begging..."
"I'm not a fucking bum!"
"Fine...you can be a whore bum." Owen says with a smile.
"I fucking hate you! Your such a piece of shit!" He replies angrily. He ears and tail were more alert.
Owen snorts. Callen then looks at him in anger and knocks a breakfast bar down from the pile in his arms. It hits the ground cracking everywhere. Owen narrows his eyes at Callen, inching closer to him." Don't. Mess. With. My. Food."
Callen replies with the noise Owen gave him. He snorts." It's not like you don't already have enough..."
Okay I think it was time to stop this before they ended up beating each other senseless. Aiden must of thought the same thing and cleared his throat." May you dumb asses control yourself?" He always sounded so proper without even trying.
They both ignore him and continue arguing. The continued to argue until Aiden came up with a plan that could classify as the best thing to stop this, or the worse because we all almost shit our pants. Aiden used his ability to his advantage by stomping the ground letting the ground rumble a little, leaving a crack between us all.
I step back and look at the little crack in between us. Good thing he can control how big the crack is.
"Ahh! Aiden!" Callen whimpered and almost jumped in Owen arms, making him almost drop him food. Callen really did have dog like behaviors.
"Aiden what the fuck!? I almost dropped all my food." He yelled.
Callen remembering his anger looked at him. But yelled at him for a different reason." I could of fallen through if that crack opened up wide enough and all you care about is your fucking worthless food!"
"...Callen stop taking everything out of proportion. I wouldn't have let you fall neither would of Cloud or Aiden." Callen seemed relieved to know that we still cared about him.
"That better be the truth." He looked at me." Would you of saved me knowing that one asshole would save food rather than me and the other asshole is the actual person that tried to kill me?"
I look at the both and they are just rolling their eyes at the over reacting Callen. I look back at him and nod." Yeah of course. But lets be glad that it didn't happen, Right?"
Callen's anger eventually subsided of his face and he smiled brightly, letting his tail move quickly." Sure. I'll let you two slide this time but that's only because of Cloud."
I laugh at their annoyed gestures on their faces. Even though everyone is always getting angry at Callen. I knew that if he wasn't there then they wouldn't be the same. No one would have anybody to argue with. If Aiden wasn't there he wouldn't be able to keep Callen under control. If Owen wasn't there then he wouldn't be able to boast of his so called manly features that me and Liam didn't have. And if Liam wasn't there then he wouldn't be able to yell at Owen, Callen and Aiden to stop getting on my nerves...-Liam! I totally forgot about Liam!
Callen's ears perk up and move around so adorably."...Is it just me or does any notice that Liam isn't yelling for us to stop?"
Owen looks at Callen then at me." I just thought he was getting some food."
I look past Callen and Owen quickly to see an unbelievable scene. Liam was laughing with Andrew. And he wasn't being shy about it. He was actually enjoying him and Andrew was too. They were kind of far so it was a little hard to depict the exact emotions by each moment. But all I knew was that Andrew had that look in his eyes. The same look Donnie gave Archer when they dated. He was happy and so was Archer. I smile feeling like a proud parent of what we had achieved...One step at a time.
Callen notices me staring in a direction with a smile and immediately looks back in the direction I was staring at, Aiden and Owen turning a little slower than Callen. They were now seeing what I was seeing. Liam and Andrew. Seconds turned into minutes of us staring. Not saying anything.
"...Well I'll be damned..." Owen said with a smile.
"He's really talking to him...That is Liam, right?" He turned towards me. I nod giving him his silent answer.
"...About time he made his move." Aiden said with a small grin, pushing his glasses up his nose.
"Guys, That's our Liam...The Liam who wouldn't say shit to the guy and would make us go up there and get food for him." Callen said happily.
Well like I guessed, we must of looked like fucking idiots staring at them talk and laugh because 4-5 minutes later Andrew's head looks past him. We could see Andrew laughing and pointing slightly at us. Liam turned around amused by Andrew's smile until he realized exactly he was talking about. He turns back around telling him something. They wave to each other and Liam whole demeanor changes from him turning around to us. He looked like he wanted to fucking choke us and then keep doing it until he knew that there was no breath left.
"Umm Guys?" Owen says in a nervous tone." I think we made 'Our Liam' a little angry."
I gulp and as he approaches, marching angrily, his arms balled into fist on the sides. We all try to say that we were looking at something past him or doing something that was totally irrelevant to them.
"I was looking at that...umm interesting bug there." Callen says pointing at nothing.
"I was...umm daydreaming." Owen says abruptly.
Damn he took my excuse." I umm...was practicing..my staring skill for a...umm stare contest." Callen and Owen giggle silently at my excuse and I nudge them both with my elbows. We all look back at Liam with a smile.
"My glasses just gave off that I was looking over there." Aiden said turning from us and to Liam.
"...You guys are so embarrassing." He rubs the bridge of his nose." Did you expect him not to notice that a bunch of guys were staring at us with the look of desperation and happiness?"
"Well what the hell do you expect!? You've been dreaming about this guy your entire life here and to see 'Our Liam' talking to him is so..so..so cute." He walked up and pinched Liam cheeks. I could imagine it being pretty painful.
Embarrassed, he grabs Callen's wrists and pulls them from his face." It's not suppose to be for you guys to look at. It's not a got damn show."
"Whatever, the thing is that you finally made a move on the guy. I mean I can't tell you how long you had us walking over there to get your food for you." Owen said while smacking on some kind of cake with cream filling. Something that I don't think that was a breakfast item.
Liam was really embarrassed." I didn't send you guys over there that much."
Aiden, Owen, and Callen all looked at him with 'that meme face'. Callen looks at me and raises his hands to his mouth on the side and whispers to me." If only you were here to see how much this guy told us to go over there. Then you would be agreeing with us."
Liam looks over at Callen and bops him on the head." I can hear you!"
I giggle at them." What we all meant to say was that were happy that you decided to talk to him."
Liam still embarrassed says with a smile." Well, I wouldn't of said anything if you hadn't help me realize it."
Everyone except Liam looks back at me." You helped him?" Aiden asked shocked. I had never really seen him with any other emotions other than calmly and laughing. Gee I just realized how much I make the guy sound like a robot...And did I just say gee?
I look at them all and nod." Yeah...Why? Was it a bad thing?"
"No No not at all. We've been talking to him about this for-" He sighs." Years. And he just wouldn't budge."
"That's because Cloud's our love expert." Callen wraps his hand around my neck and smiles." This is the guy to come and ask if there is any who needs love advice."
"I don't really think I am." I say with a smile.
He hugs me tighter." Dude! Of course you are! You broke Liam and that's enough to be called an expert to me."
"I was never broken to begin with." He says as he reaches in his pocket to pull out his flip phone.
"Liam did you listen to me when I told you about your phone?" His phone was a light blue flip phone. I thought it was cute...But Owen, Aiden and Callen didn't.
"What?...Oh about changing it. Yeah I'll get that done..." He looks back down to his phone." Once it never works again."
"Aiden has a point. Your phone is so old fashion and who the hell still carries flip phones? Get with the crowd Liam, we all have touch screens." He takes another bite of the cream filled cake.
Callen nods." Yeah see Liam?" He takes his phone out and moves it side to side.
Liam glances up quickly and then back down at his phone." I'm not throwing away a phone when there is nothing wrong with it. If it were cracked or damaged or anything to the point that it wouldn't power up then fine. But if it can turn on and I can actually get what I need done on it. Then No I am not changing phones."
Callen sighs. "What about you, Cloud?" With his arms still around me I couldn't see his face but I could tell it was about my phone.
"What? My phone?" I ask, already knowing that was what he meant.
"Yeah your phone. Let me see your phone." He urged.
I don't know if my phone was any better from Liam's. It was a touch screen but it was an older version, probably 4 years back. It was average size and the color was a lime green with black lines through it. I pull it out of my pocket and hold it out.
He doesn't say anything at first. He probably was debating on what to give it. He finally speaks." It's alright." Well he doesn't hold in the truth. does he?
"What's 'alright' mean?" I ask.
Aiden walks over and grabs the phone from my hand. He flips it around in his hands, eyeing it closely." This is an 4 years older than our phones... Made from a good company...but it turns off sometimes on it's own."
I smile, impressed by his knowledge in technology." Y-Yeah. Wow how'd you know all about that from just looking at it."
"Because I've had every phone that is out there, every computer, tablet, radio." Aiden hands me back the phone and the cold touch of it feels natural to my hand from the cold air.
"Were you taking that course at your college before you came here?"
"I worked at an IPhone store and was the manager." That is still pretty good. He had his life figured out, but no one suspects for someone to be sent down there to tell you to come up to another college.
"I worked at the mall sporting center." Owen says proudly. He lightly shrugs his shoulders." I would show you all my muscles but at you can see my hands are full."
"As much as we would love for you to gloat about your manly muscles, we have to get going." Liam says looking up from his phone. He slides it into his pants pocket.
"Is it really that late?"
"Yeah it's 8:00." He replies back.
"You guys must've already took the surprise tour huh?" He brings his arm from around me and stretches. Surprise?...I look at him confused. He opens his eyes to see Liam glaring at him angrily. Callen looks at him oddly." Why are you looking at me like that?"
"No Callen we haven't taken the surprise tour, because he didn't know about it until you said something." He says through his teeth.
"Oh...S-Surprise." He spreads his arms out halfway.
"There was a tour?" I smile through my confusion.
He sighs." Yeah, I planned on taking you around the school so you could know where everything is."
I smile brightly."Perfect! I needed to finish some paperwork anyways. But I didn't know where the right offices were."
Liam smiles back."Great, so we can get that done and if time lets us then I can show you around a bit. Alright?"
"Okay." I reply." What about our donuts and smoothies?" And on that cue I can see Andrew approaching us. Aiden, Liam and Owen couldn't see him because they were facing me. So only Callen and I could.
He moves his face towards my ear whispering again." Do you see what I see?"
My eyes still locked on the figure, I nod.
"What?" Liam turns around trying to see what we were talking about and Andrew walks up to him.
"A-Andrew...What- Did you.." Andrew smiles at his friend's confusion.
"Haha I brought it for you guys because you said you were going to buy something from me and we ended talking the whole time." He hands him the food and drink; also handing me the other smoothie.
"You didn't have to do that. You brought this with your money." Liam accepted the food still dumfounded.
"It's fine. It's fine. You don't owe me anything." He dropped his hands by his sides.
Liam looked at the food and back at him." Umm thank you. I'll find a way to repay you."
He starts to speak up again but Liam cuts him off." Please allow me." He stands there thinking about it.
"Fine. But I get to choose what it is, Okay?"
Liam nods." Of course...Thanks."
"Haha you already said that." He laughs." It's no problem." He looks up at us. I think he was just now noticing us." Oh later guys."
He jogs back over to his stand and fades into the freezer room...Wow. That was crazy.
I feel a smile wanting to jump up onto my face to tell him about Andrew but Owen is the first to budge.
"Liam." He smiles.
"Y-Yeah?" It was as if he had been struck with cupid's arrow and wasn't really listening.
"Remember all those times where you were doubting if he liked you more than a friend type of way?"
"Yeah..."
"I seriously think that you need to stop thinking that and think about more serious things, like who is going to kiss who first." Liam tunes back in when he says that and he turns around, blushing.
"...Whatever, Come on Cloud. We can get the paperwork done while we eat." He walks through us and begins walking to the school doors.
I look behind me as he marches angrily to the doors. Honestly, how cuter could these two get? They secretly had a thing for each other.
"That guy seriously likes him." Aiden points out silently so Liam couldn't hear.
"Liam?" Callen asks.
"No the other guy."
"How do you know for sure?"
He looks beside him, looking down at his friend." Do I even have to answer?"
I shake my head and smile." I'll see you guys later." I run up besides Liam and walk at his pace.
A smile spreads on my face. I knew it would come sooner or later.
He looks at me." What's that smile for?"
I shake my head and take a drink from my smoothie." Nothing...Just that you do know what me and the guys think right?"
He grips the bag tighter making a crunch sound." Yes, I know what you guys think."
"And what do you think about it- And don't say that he doesn't." I say before he could talk.
A small smile cracks on his face." I honestly don't know. I don't know if he is trying to do something or if he is just being a really good friend and helping. Sometimes I wish I could just read his mind."
"That's good to know that your not denying it anymore...About you not liking him." I elbow his arm lightly and he looks over." Your learning."
He smiles." Shit Cloud, Callen was right. You really are like a love advice person." He laughs." Or like a cupid."
We both share laughs and walks inside the building. We walk to the office while eating our hot and delicious donuts and drinking our healthy and nutritious beverages. The office won't allow us to bring our things inside so we have to finish them outside of the office. Which I thought was really stupid, but since were both respectful young men, we ate outside joking about it silently. I finished the paperwork that I had to fill out and were home free with 15 minutes left. It took almost half our time.
"It took up most of our time. I'm sorry Liam you wanted to do something nice for me." We stood in the hall where classes were about to begin and some students were walking.
"It's fine. I can show you around maybe next weekend." He nods and looks at me.
"Next weekend?" I question.
"Your supposed to be hanging out with Archer this weekend, remember?"
"So, Are you planning on coming back to visit anytime soon? I don't think I can handle too much of him."
I put on a thinking face." Yeah I do plan on coming back down to see you and Donnie. But first I need to figure out how I'm going to get there. Well whatever it is I'll call every week and keep you updated. And I'll see what I can do this weekend."
It played back in my head as he reminds me that I did agree on meeting with my best friend this weekend.
"I totally forgot that I agreed to meet him this weekend."
"We might not have time for the tour but I can show around to your classes." He points to the schedule that I had in my hands. I only had 4 classes which was really awesome.
"Alright." I hand him the slip of paper and he carefully looks over it. I hope I don't make him late because of this." Are you going to be late for your classes for showing me around?"
"Oh no, I should be there actually 10 minutes early. There isn't a lot to show you in 15 minutes so we should be fine." He wraps his arm around mines and starts to run through the hall. Were told not to run several times by passing security guards but right after we past them we take off running again. We take the elevator to the 3rd floor that is on the floor where our dorms are.
We walk onto a hall with classes for witches."Okay so this is kind of like your only hall that you need to stay on because this hall is for the classes with witches. The only two classes that you won't have on this hall are study hall and Physical Education."
I sigh heavily at the sound of gym. I can't get away from it even when I'm at college." Do we get to use our powers?"
"Yeah, but it's not really much of help when your just starting out and you can't really do anything." He replies.
My shoulders drop from hope." Fine, Okay so what are the classes that are up here?"
He laughs a little and continues reading." Alright your first class starts at 9:10, it's all about spells. I have some friends that are witches and they told me about the class. You may be lectured about some spell decision making and that everyday you should be learning a new spell."He continues reading." Your next class should be right down here."
We walk down the hall." Across and 5 doors down?"
He nods." Yeah it seems so. That's probably why they say that you shouldn't be late to classes."
" Alright. So what's this class about?" I peek through the rectangular window on the door and I see the teacher writing on the door preparing for class. I'm getting nervous now.
" This class is about personal magic." He brings the paper closer to his face to see." They wrote a description on the paper...Okay they say that in this class you'll learn a personal spell that you learn, but...I don't think that's all you do in here."
I look back at him." You don't know what else we do?"
"Nope. This one's a mystery to me." He finger glides down the paper as he goes to the third class." Alright if we want to make it in time for classes were going to have to run."
"Run?" I repeat.
"Run." We take off running to the elevator to get to the first floor. As were running we near two double doors, and I had already knew where we were going. We both push open a door, making it echo in the big open space.
"And this is our gymnasium." His voice echoes through the air." I personally hate gym, all of the tougher supernaturals are always bothering the weaker ones. So in truth, gym becomes war where we are fighting each other."
I gulp." I'm not going to survive in here."
He laughs." Look at me I'm surviving and I'm a fairy."
I join in with him laughing. Our laughs hitting the walls of the gym, we ended up leaving because we hear the coach yell 'Who was there?'. We run back through the doors and we finally stop in front of the library. We both were leaning on the walls trying to regain our breaths.
"...Why...did we just..take off running?" I ask out of breath.
His laugh is kind of wheezy." I...have no idea..."
"Were dumb..." I smile.
He nods with a smile too. We lean on the wall for about 4 minutes and after were good we walk into the library. He lowers his voice." And this is where your last class is." He spreads his arms out waving the paper around and bowing.
"Thank you, Liam...But what is this class suppose to be? I know where in the library, but I still don't get it." I look around the elegant and quiet library. Classical music played softly in the background and the librarian was checking some books in but she kept eyeing us making sure we weren't doing something up to no good.
"This is your study class. You come here and you study. Matter of fact." He looks down at the paper." Yeah this class is called study hall."
I smile while looking around." Wow the last time I had study hall was in high school."
"I know, but in college it actually counts. And some of the idiots here don't know that you have to at least come and sign your name in. But the smart asses, like me, know that you can skip this class if you sign. So then they'll count my name and say that I attended." I didn't know that he was the kind to skip.
"Liam, you've..." I lower my voice when I'm interrupted my the librarian hushing me."...you've skipped before?"
"Only twice. I wanted to see if it suited me. But it didn't really so I just attended the damn thing."
"Wow Liam the badass." I both laugh silently, annoying the librarian. We decide it's best to leave before we make her anymore angrier by our silent laughing."That lady doesn't look like the nicest person here."
"She's always been like that. Grumpy for no reason..." He smiles." But then again we did just kind of barge in there making noise." We walk down the hall, our shoes clicking against the marble.
"She should be happy that anyone even goes in there. I bet whenever we leave like in the movies she smiles and ends up secretly liking the job." I have been watching too much TV.
"Haha...You have been watching to many lifetime movies."
"Lifetime movies are the best."
"They really are."
The bell interrupts us and we both take out our phones to check the time. The time on the clocks read:
9:00
We both rush to the elevator before the students tried to get onto it. I press the number 3 and he presses 4, right above me. His hall must be upstairs, the hall for fairies. I bet his classes are fun. I only hope for the best for mines too.
The elevator comes to a stop and as I'm about to get off, Liam pats me on the back and wishes me good luck.
"Thanks." I say getting off the elevator.
