This chapter contains smut. Read at your own risk 😏

"You're an asshole!" Shouted Luke just as Aaron slammed the door shut. He had ignored him for so long, then he blatantly revealed his indifference and now he was off to God knows where.

Luke was annoyed at himself for letting his emotions get the best of him and confess to Aaron like that. If anything, it had only made it worse. He sighed and sat on his bed. Aaron was probably outside running his wits out in the freezing cold of October. Good for him!

But Luke was restless.

He tossed and turned for about an hour and Aaron still wasn't back. He finally decided to go and look for him. That boy was an idiot, he had to be stuck in the locker rooms or something. Luke grudgingly put on his his coat over his pyjamas and slipped on his trainers. He switched his flashlight on and headed towards the locker room.

He yawned and opened the room, half expecting to see Aaron lying on one of the wooden benches.
But he wasn't there.

That was odd.

Was he still running ? He would get sick if he ran for so long by such a freezing temperature. Not that he was worried or anything.

Luke was about to go back to his dorm when he decided to at least take a look at the track. He pushed the same doors Aaron had an hour earlier and pointed his flashlight towards the track. It was hidden by a hedge so he crossed the field and looked over the fence.

Then, his blood froze in his veins.

He saw Aaron lying unmoving on the cold track and his mind went blank. He ran as fast as he could towards were the other boy layed. Luke noticed the dark red puddle under his head right away. He knelt next to him in panic and pressed his ear to his chest. His heart was beating but very faintly.

Luke made a split second decision. They were alone in the cold, it was the middle of the night and the only person here to have a phone here was the principal. He would definitely be grounded for waking him up but he couldn't risk Aaron's life.

He kissed his forehead and ran towards the principal's room. He desperately banged on the door until the principal appeared, eyes still sticky with sleep.
"Mr Deans what are you doing here? You're supposed to be in your room, it's night." He yawned.

"I know and I'm really sorry to wake you up like this but there's no time! Aaron Smith fainted on the track and he's bleeding! You need to call 911!"
"Okay why don't you calm down and tell me exactly what's going o-"
"Now!" Shouted Luke on the verge of tears.

Mr Gant must have felt the urgency and the despair in his voice because he went back inside his room to fetch the phone.

"Where is he?"
"The track I told you we have to go there quick!"
Mr Gant sighed and pulled his slippers on.

"I swear if this is another sick joke of yours you are getting detention for the rest of your time here." He muttered.
"It's not a joke please we need to run!"

They finally reached Aaron and Mr Gant instantly checked his pulse.
"Oh God he really has lost a lot of blood"
"Please call 911 now?" Cried Luke. "He's freezing cold." He added, falling to his knees next to Aaron and gently lifting his head to settle it on his knees

"Okay I'm calling but how did he even get out? Whatever we'll talk about punishment later."
Mr Gant walked away and dialed the emergency number.

Luke focused all his attention on Aaron, removing his own coat to cover the ice cold body and cradling his head in his arms.
"I'm so sorry" he cried
"I shouldn't have let you go out." Tears ran freely down his cheeks.

Mr Gant came back after what felt like hours.
"Help is on it's way so calm down, he's not dead for gods sake. And you have a lot of explanation to do young man."
Luke just ignored him, relief washing over him. Aaron was going to be okay.

Minutes later sirens blared through the night and medics ran towards them.
They carried Aaron into the ambulance and Luke watched them drive away into the night.

Mr Gant cleared his throat "Now get back to bed we'll talk about this in the morning." He said before heading towards the main building.

                                ***

The following days dragged on painfully for Luke. He spent most of his time in class and in detention, copying hundreds of lines, cleaning blackboards or removing pieces of gum stuck to desks.

He would spend what little spare time he had in his room at first. He cried a lot, overthought a lot and missed Aaron a lot.

Trey was preoccupied, he knew that his friend was sad but he didn't know how to comfort him. The days where all the same.
Aaron was constantly on Luke's mind. He didn't care if he was punished, he wouldn't leave his room except for class, wouldn't eat and couldn't sleep. Minutes felt like hours and hours felt like days. Time seemed to be so long without him.

Luke was so used to the teasing, to the laugh, to the dumb comments that he had come to miss them.

        ***

Today was just like any other day. Luke opened his eyes with the sound of the blaring alarm and instinctively looked over towards Aaron's bed.

Just in case.

But of course, he wasn't there.

Luke closed his eyes again and cursed. Would he ever come back? He had only fainted, why did he have to stay at the hospital for so long?

Whatever, he was over him now anyway. With Aaron gone, he had had plenty time to think. He had come to realize that his relationship with him was unhealthy and that it had to stop. Of course that was easier to say when he wasn't there.

Luke finally got up and stared at the tape that still divided the room. He smiled remembering why it was there. He was childish, Aaron was right about that.

So he bent down and ripped the tape off. He crumpled it and threw it away.
The room suddenly felt bare.

This is it he thought. All this misery has to end it's eating me from inside I can't go on anymore, I need to move on.
Easier said than done.

Especially when at the end of the month, Aaron came back.

        ***

Everyone seemed to be aware that he was back. Everyone except for Luke. He had finally found some peace inside the quiet library he didn't know even existed before now. He discovered that reading kept his mind off Aaron.
For a few hours at least.
It was a start.

So when the golden boy came back, he was the last to know about it.

As Luke left the library, carefully clutching his last reading in his hands, he failed to notice the overall excitement and the whispers in the corridors. He was so lost in his thoughts that when he oppened the dorm door and saw Aaron's back facing him, his mind went blank.

And when the other boy turned around, his signature smirk plastered on his face, Luke's eyes widened and he dropped his book.

"A-Aaron? What are you doing here?"
"Well it's kind of my room too you know." He responded with a chuckle.
"I get that having the space all to yourself must have been really great and everything but um... I don't really want to sleep in the hallway. It's a bit cold."

"W-what?" Asked Luke taken aback by Aaron's laid back attitude, he was acting like he hadn't almost died.
Are you okay? Why did they keep you so long? Is it serious?
Was all he wanted to ask Aaron, he had been so scared. But no, he had promised himself he would move on. He had to be strong so he replied in a distant voice as he picked up the fallen novel.

"Okay well I guess you're back now, I didn't touch your stuff even if I really wanted to clean the room."
That wasn't totally true: he had kept one of Aaron's shirts under his pillow and he would sometimes sleep in it, breathing in his scent, but he would never tell him that.

Bad Luke.

He was supposed to move on and forget about him. That had only been a mistake in a moment of weakness.
"Are you sure? Not even my shampoo?" Teased Aaron still smiling.

"No Aaron let it go it's childish."
"You also got rid of the tape."
"Yes it was childish too. Now let me read in peace please, I very much enjoyed the silence while you weren't there." Luke closed the door and took a step towards his bed, hell bent on ignoring Aaron for the evening and perhaps even until then end of the school year.

But Aaron had other plans.

His smile fell and was instantly replaced by a scowl. He grabbed Luke's arm and pulled the blond boy by the arm so that his back was pressed against him.
And he wrapped his long muscular arms around his shoulders. His voice was almost down to a whisper now.
"Hey I missed you, don't ignore me." He rested his head on Luke's shoulder.

"Aaron let me go." Replied Luke as he tried to free himself from the boy's grip. But it seemed that even after spending a month in the hospital, he was still stronger than him.

"Aaron I'm not joking. Let me go." He seethed.

"What is up with you? Didn't you worry about me even a little?" He asked bringing Luke even closer and caging him in his steel arms. Luke breathed in sharply. He could feel all of the other boy against his back. He could feel his warmth, he could smell his familiar scent and worse, he could feel all his muscles, even under his sweater.

And he somehow felt safe in his arms.

No! Concentrate!

He chastised himself. Now was not the time to wander into useless fantasies.

"No Aaron, I didn't because I don't care about you anymore. So would you be kind enough to let go of me like I asked."
There, he had said it. His voice was shaky and unconvincing but he had said it. So why didn't he feel relieved like he thought he would? His heart was aching strangely and a tear rolled down his cheek.

Aaron was getting angrier. Luke could feel it. He turned the blond boy around and grabbed his shoulders.
"Luke?" He was getting serious, Aaron almost never used his surname.

"I dare you to look me in the eye and tell me that you don't care about me. Because oddly enough, it seems that I don't believe you. The medic told me that you were right next to me when the ambulance arrived, and that Mr Gant was there too. But he couldn't have known that I was outside. You were the only one who knew so you must have been the one who went to get him."

Luke averted his gaze
"Hey, look at me." Ordered Aaron. He gently lifted Luke's chin and bore his amber eyes into his.
"Please don't cry." He added in a surprisingly soft voice.

"I know that I'm a jackass, I know that I'm not the easiest to deal with, that I have a shitty temper and anger issues. But I also know that you like me enough to stay by my side despite my mistakes and my mood swings. And somehow, I think I've come to like you too." He chuckled.

"So if you really don't care about me I want you to say it to my face." He was back to his serious self.

"I-I don't...
Aaron, I don't...
I can't do it! There are you happy? I wanted to forget you, to cut you out of my life and I was finally geting better but then you come back here as if nothing happened, you joke around as if you didn't almost die..." Luke was nearly sobbing know, it was too much for him and everything was being let out.

"And I couldn't forget you, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't forget you, my body couldn't forget you, I rememered everything you said, everywhere you touched and it drove me crazy Aaron. And despite all that, I can't say that I don't care about you anymore because even if I shouldn't, some part of me still does. I even took your shirt because I-"

Luke's words were suddenly cut off as Aaron's lips slammed onto his.
"Mmph..."
His mind tried to fight it, but his body seemed to disagree.

He gradually stopped fighting Aaron off, and lost himself in the feverish kiss. It was harsh and passionate, Luke had been so scared to find Aaron lifelessly lying on the ground... Desperation filtered through them as their tongues danced together. Aaron brought him closer so that both their bodies were molded with one another.

"Wait, Aaron what are we doing? We should-"
"Hey, I know that you want it as much as I do" Aaron whispered and kissed him again, hoisting him up to deepen the kiss, his hands moving to his face. Luke's legs instinctively wrapped around the taller boy's upper body and Aaron gently pressed his back against the wall for support.
Luke moaned out of pure pleasure.

But they had to stop.

"Aaron please listen." Begged Luke. He was getting scared of himself, Aaron made him loose any self control and it was getting dangerous. He could feel the other boy's arousal brushing against his behind every now and then.

To his surprise Aaron stopped. He was panting, his breath was labored and he was looking at him with hooded eyes.
"What's the matter Luke?" He asked in a deep voice.

"We still have to talk. What tells me that you're not lying, that you won't act like before and that you're doing all that just to-"
"To what Luke? What would I be doing this for? You really think that I'm just going to let it go now that you've admitted that you can't hate me?"

"I don't know anymore Aaron, you've done it before." Replied Luke.
Aaron gently put him down and looked deeply into his eyes before taking his hand and slowly guiding it towards his throbbing erection.

"Is that enough to convince you that I like you?" Aaron whispered in his ear.
Luke gasped.
"Aaron... You're so hard. Why?"
"Because you're so close! Do you understand the things you do to me? Or do I need to show you?"

Luke's mind was running in circles, Aaron was reacting to him, he hadn't been imagining it. He should just leave him to sort it by himself but...

But he was getting hard as well.

"No need to show me. I know what I'm doing." He heard himself reply. But that wasn't him! It couldn't be! He was going to walk out the door this instant and-

Luke's train of thoughts where interrupted once again when Aaron gently nipped at his neck.
He let out a shaky breath, his hand still on Aaron's cock.

"Well? I'm waiting princess." He chuckled.

And that was the moment where Luke lost all rational thinking. His mouth found Aaron's once again and they were kissing like they had never stopped. He slowly rubbed Aaron's  cock, successfully making him groan, before slipping his hand into his sweatpants.

He hesitated just a second, but Aaron's hand came over his again and Luke kissed him deeply.

The jackass was right, he wanted this so bad it hurt.

Luke slowly got down to his knees and pulled Aaron's sweatpants all the way down. His cock was now right in front of him, begging to be sucked. Aaron was so turned on that it hurt. But he had to think of Luke first.

"Hey it's okay if you don't want to, I'll just-"
His voice got caught in his throat as he felt Luke's soft lips close around his tip. He instantly threaded his hands in the blond curls and softly pulled on them. Luke had decided to torture him and he was doing a great job right now.

He flicked his tongue over Aaron's leaking tip, tasting his precum. The taller Boy let out a throaty moan.
"Luke! You can't just do that." He hissed and pulled harder on his hair.

But Luke was in control now, and nothing was going to stop him. He slowly took in the rest of Aaron's length, his eyes never leaving the amber ones, and began stroking his own cock.

He could feel Aaron refraining from slamming his hips against his mouth in order to create that delicious friction. Luke smiled and started moving, maintaining a slow pace. Aaron's self restraint was thinning out fast,
until he finally lost it and pulled on Luke's hair to regain control.

He was done playing games.

Luke moaned around Aaron's cock, and he almost came then and there. But that wasn't enough for him, he wasn't fully satisfied. Aaron thrusted in and out of Luke's mouth faster than he had before, making a moaning mess out of the blond boy.

"Luke! Shit, you feel so good, I think I'm going to come!"
"Ah-uh me too!"

And Aaron came, right in Luke's mouth, his fingers still clutching the blond curls, his breath coming out in short pants and his chest heaving. Luke swallowed all of Aaron's load, gave himself a few final strokes and also came, sparks of pleasure exploding in his navel.

Aaron slid to the ground and kissed Luke on the forehead.
"You didn't have to do that you know?" He said softly.
"You're right, but I wanted to." Replied Luke with a dazed smile.

They both slept in the same bed that night, their bodies close to each other, the bunched up tape and the grey shirt long forgotten, lying somewhere under the desk.

{Yay finally chapter 19 is done! I made it extra long to reward all those who patiently wait for my updates, you guys are the best!
See you in chapter 20!}
Xoxo Moonlightshow 🌙}