Chapter 13: Fuck, an indirect kiss

                                    

                                          
Ayato didn't say anything, he stood there like mute while pinning Thoma against the wall and staring at him.
Thoma's hand is still trapped in his hands and Thoma moved a little, "Have you looked enough?"
Hearing Thoma's voice, Ayato finally snapped back to reality.
"No," Ayato said, he couldn't help but to smile a little, then widely. He repeated, "No, I haven't looked enough."
Thoma felt that he'd been infected by Ayato. He started smiling too and couldn't force the corner of his lips down even if he tried to. Very silly. He moved his hand and opened the door to leave, "I'm going back."
Ayato didn't hold him back, he called out to him, "Thoma."
Thoma turned, but Ayato wasn't done calling his name, "Thoma."
Thoma is getting a bit annoyed, he was about to say "What do you want?"
Ayato paused for a moment and then said, "Nothing, just want to get used to my boyfriend's name."
These words sounded familiar, Thoma thought about it and remembered when he came into the school.
"Just want to get used to my deskmate's name."
The two of them stood at their doorways, staring at each other for a long time.
Thoma felt this was a bit silly and then he heard Ayato say, "Go in, sleep early."
He shut the door and prepared to take a quick shower before going back to doing some questions in his mock paper.
When he finished each subject, he looked up and found out it was already 11pm.
He thought he had calmed down but when he closed his eyes, he clearly felt his own heartbeat, which had not calmed down yet.
"Fuck, young love." Thoma muttered to himself.
The next morning, the speakers started to blare loudly, "Good morning students! Midterms exams are coming! So get out of bed, if y'all want high grades!"
"This is abnormal."
"Why do we have to suffer so much?"
Thoma quickly puts on his ear buds and covers himself in his covers, the corridor is filled with people, he can faintly hear people calling out, "Hey Ayato!"
Ayato greeted some friends and went over to knock on Thoma's door.
"Thoma, are you up?"
Thoma let out a loud groan as responds.
"Is that Thoma?" Someone walked past and asked.
"Yeah, cute right?" Ayato smiled, the person stared at him weirdly, how is that cute? Or does he mistake the word cute for scary? But either way, he does not want to be involved so he walks away.
A few minutes later, Thoma got up and opened the door for Ayato to come in.
Ayato didn't get any sleep last night, he stayed up all night and thought about: Thoma is now his. His housewife. His boyfriend.
He fell onto the bed as soon as he stepped into the room.
"Didn't sleep last night?" Thoma folded his arms and gawked at his boyfriend.
"Not much, come and sleep too," Ayato answered.
"You took the bed, how am I supposed to sleep?"
Ayato flipped over to make space, "Boyfriend, come in."
Thoma picked up a pillow and threw it at him.
They went to class together, Thoma thought that now that they are dating, the atmosphere will be different between them but it doesn't seem the case.
Kazuha was a few minutes late, Zhongli looked at him and asked, "Why are you late today?"
Kazuha remembered the amount of alcohol he drank last night, he thought hard and looked at Ayato at the back.
He then remembered the reason that Ayato gave on the first day of school, "Well urm, you know the school nurse is attracted to my good looks so I was forced to stay in there to ta-"
Ayato ".........."
Thoma "..........."
"Ok, stop," Zhongli sighed and continued, "Just go back to your seat."
Lumine and the others tried to hold in their laughter, Gorou shook his head when Kazuha sat down, "If the school nurse really likes you, I really don't know what to say."
The class dismissal rang, Zhongli packed his things and went out of the classroom.
The class burst into laughter, "What's up with that?" Aether wiped his tears away, "I remembered Ayato on the first day of school."
Itto looked through the window to see what the laughter was all about, he peered in and noticed his best friend sitting at the back, very close to the cold deskmate, talking about something. Pretty normal.
But then, he paused and looked again, he squinted his eyes and his gaze landed on Ayato's hand.
Where are his Ayato's hands wandering?
"It was an accident, really, my hand slipped." Ayato said, Thoma glanced down at his thighs where Ayato's hand was placed and the pen he threw that landed on between his legs.
"Just hurry and take it back," Thoma was getting a bit annoyed.
Ayato had never loved his pen so much before, his fingers touched the tip of the pen. Itto was staring at them, waiting for Thoma to kick him off or something but Thoma sat still.
This cold deskmate let Ayato touch him for a while and even responded when Ayato talked to him.
Unbelievable.
The next period was just lunch break, and Ayato and friends went to play basketball.
"Boyfriend, basketball?"
"No."
Thoma sat in the classroom alone and then he saw Aether walking in, before Aether could even come over and recite formulas to him, he immediately went out to the basketball court.
His grades are better than him, why does he need to recite for?
Gorou noticed Thoma came and waved, "Thoma, are you joining?"
"No, just came to watch."
Ayato came to him and leaned closer, "You came to watch us.......or to watch me?"
Thoma thought, Neither, just came to avoid Aether.
But it was written all over Ayato's face: Just say it that you are here to see me, just say it!
Thoma sighed and then said, "Came to see you, I came to see my boyfriend."
"Ayato! You done?" Kazuha shouted, "Coming!" Ayato turned back to his housewife and said, "Watch closely, I'll show you how amazing your boyfriend is."
Thoma watched as Ayato dribbled the ball and then shot a three pointer, he watched him as they played rounds and then Ayato turned and blew a kiss.
The people in the area glanced at each other, searching who was the recipient.
Thoma, the recipient didn't react much, he leaned against the wall and thought, quite cool.
Then he thought again, no, maybe not 'quite'.
He is very cool.
They decided to take a break, Ayato walked towards his boyfriend and took several gulps of water from a bottle, then handed to Thoma, "Drink?"
Thoma wasn't thirsty, but he accepted it anyway.
When his lips touched the mouth of the bottle, he felt a faint wetness and remembered that Ayato touched that place too.
They thought of the same thing: Fuck, an indirect kiss.