Just as Luke was getting into bed, his cellphone rang and he rushed to see who would be crazy enough to call him at this hour and risk waking his younger siblings. He should really learn to set his phone to vibrate late at night.

Just then he saw who it was and a smile formed on his face.

"Hey you, long time no see!" Luke teased.

Hearing the rich laugh at the other side of the line gave Luke shivers he had never had before. What was going on with him, he couldn't be this crazy about Noah so soon. They had only been on one date, heck they hadn't even known eachother for a whole week and yet whenever Noah called him or looked at him he felt his knees go weak and his heart beat faster. Was this what it felt like to be in love?

"Am I calling too late?" Noah immediately asked, not wanting Luke to get in any trouble with his parents.

"No it's fine. I need to learn to turn my phone to vibrate at this hour anyway, it could wake up the kids."

Noah smiled and nodded, but then quickly remembered Luke couldn't see him and gave him a simple, "mmm."

"So, what's on your mind?" Luke asked, yawning and closing his door to make sure his parents wouldn't listen in on him.

"You", Noah said with a smile he could only hope was on Luke's face too.

"Same here."

"You're on your own mind too?" Noah teased and he loved the way Luke's laugh sounded through the phone. It was a sound he could definetely get used to hearing more often.

"No you idiot, I meant you!" Luke laughed out loud.

After a moment of silence, Luke asked what was up.

"I just wanted to talk to you, is that a crime?" Noah teased.

"This is the second time you've called me today. Add to that the fact that you just dropped me off not more then 15 minutes ago and I'd say you were bording on the line of stalking."

Luke could hear Noah's fake shock gasp through the phone and a smile formed on his face.

"Luke Snyder, you can not seriously tell me that you have enough experience with stalking that you recognize the signals?" Noah wasn't about to let Luke get the better of him.

"Didn't I tell you? Everybody loves me!" Luke said, now laughing fully.

"That I believe. You are quite easy on the eyes."

"Oh, so that's all I'm good for? Something to look at right?" Luke teased some more, not hearing the seriousness that was in Noah's voice at his last statement.

"You don't really believe that do you Luke?"

Luke could tell that their conversation had quickly changed from playfull and funny to serious and honest. Noah seemed to need some sort of reasurance that Luke saw him as more then just a good time and that he knew that Noah saw him as more then that too.

"I don't know, nobody has ever really taken the time to get to know me for more then that. I was always the gay guy that looked cute. Besides there has never been anyone even remotely close to gay in my life before, so I've never had the chance to get to know someone better or let someone close enough to get to know me better. You're off to a pretty amazing start if I say so myself."

Taking a deep breath, Luke suddenly realised that this was the most honest he had ever been with anyone. Except maybe Maddie from time to time.

"In all honestly, I've never told anyone this much about myself in such a short time. Not in the last few years anyway. I learned from my mistakes when I fell for the wrong guy and told him how I felt. Lets just say it didn't end pretty." Luke ended with a snort.

"I'm glad you trust me enough to tell me these things about yourself. I hope to never betray that trust." Noah said, being completely honest.

"I hope so too. Listen, I don't want you to think I'm trying to get rid of you, but was there a specific reason why you called? Because it's getting late and I have class early tomorrow morning."

Noah laughed and put the phone on his other ear.

"No, no specific reason besides wanting to hear your voice. There is something about you Luke Snyder. Something that makes it very easy to fall for you very quickly."

"Is that what you're doing? Falling for me?" Luke asked, surprising himself by being bold enough to ask the question.

"I could very well be, yeah."

They were both silent for a minute, letting eachothers words sink in and trying to think of what to say next.

"Luke, are you going to bed?" Luke suddenly heard his grandma yell from downstairs and he quickly covered his phone to yell back to her that he was working on it.

"Look, I've got to go. My grandma is getting restless." Luke smiled, not really ready to hang up the phone just yet.

"Okay, I think I've kept you long enough anyway. I'll see you tomorrow at school, I'll be the guy with the longing eyes doing his best to keep his hands away from you. At least you're not in my class again untill next week, that will make keeping my hands to myself a lot easier."

Luke smiled and they quickly said good night, with Luke promising that tomorrow after diner, he would be the one doing the calling.

"Good night Luke."

"Good night Noah."

Luke hung up his phone and quickly turned it to vibrate, just incase someone else would be crazy enough to call him at this hour.

He quickly undressed before climbing into bed and staring at the ceiling. "Luke Snyder, you've got it bad," he said to himself before he slowly drifted off to sleep, Noah's face firmly planted in his thoughts.

To Be Continued...