This is also kind of filler, sorry! I just need a couple chapters before I drop the bomb c:

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"Hey." I noticed Liam sit up in the bed, the way he sighed as soon as he did assured me that he's already dozed off for a few minutes. Typical. "You done already?"

"Yeah, it just took me a few minutes to dry my hair," I said as I turned the light in the bathroom off, and walked over to him, still running my hand through my hair. It wasn't even completely dry; I was just too lazy and the blow dryer was too loud.

"Okay," Liam mumbled and watched me as I set my knees on the bed, and smiled when he looked up at me, "You're wearing my shirt."

Like the idiot that I am, I took a look at the shirt I pulled on when I finished my shower, and smiled too. "Well, it was the only one I could find. And I like how it looks like a dress on me."

"That's a great dress, then," He grinned and reached up to trace the Imagine Dragons logo on the shirt; during which his smile faded. "Are you feeling okay?"

I rolled my eyes even before he finished his question; I knew it was coming. "I am. I really am," I nodded at him in reassurance, and finally laid down next to him. "I mean, I've never felt more sore in my life, but..."

I started laughing loudly at the look on his face; I knew exactly what I was doing, and his reaction was amusing, to say the least. "Is that why you wanted to do it?" He mumbled, "To torture me later?"

"I'm torturing you?" I laughed again, looking at him as he looked at the ceiling. "No, I'm just saying. You could have given me a heads up."

I noticed him frown, "How does a guy give a girl a heads up about his dick?"

Liam looked at me again as I started laughing, again, the loudest I had the entire night. "Oh my God, I don't know," I said through a chuckle, "Maybe something like 'hey, I don't mean to scare you, but you should know that I have a rolling pin in my boxers'?"

"Oh my God," He groaned loudly and I couldn't help but start cackling once more. "Don't fucking call it a rolling pin, what the hell is wrong with you?" I could barely hear him as he rubbed his face with both hands, embarrassed because of me.

"Well, to be honest-"

"No," He interrupted me, "Don't be honest. Don't ever be honest about it again."

I bit my lip; it was actually really cute how he called it 'it' in front of me. "Can we go to sleep now?"

"No," He surprised me a little when he shook his head, "I can't sleep."

I frowned, "You have the energy to stay awake?"

"Well..." He began as he sat up again, and let himself fall back down in three seconds, "It's barely two in the morning. I usually don't go to sleep until three."

"Are you serious?" I widened my eyes a little, "Even on a school night?"

"Sure."

"How can you manage to stay awake?"

"Coffee, or energy drinks," He shrugged, "And then I spent the entire day sleeping."

I breathed out a laugh; that made more sense. "Then when I wake up I do homework or study, and then I'm on my laptop 'til I go to sleep."

"Your laptop?" I raised my eyebrows, "Where's your laptop?"

Liam turned his head to look at me, his eyebrows a little furrowed at my sudden change of tones. "Um, it's over there?"

I swiftly turned around in the bed, to see his laptop on the ground, plugged into a charger. How is it that I haven't noticed it before? "Alright," I muttered and turned back around, trying not to act weird. "Is it a macbook?"

He nodded slowly, and so did I, "Macs are cool. I wanted a mac, but I only have a PC." Wow, what a lame save.

Luckily, Liam chuckled and looked at the ceiling again. "You can use mine whenever you want to, if you want to."

I smiled at the side of his head; that was actually adorable of him. If only he knew I had no idea how to use a macbook. "Thanks. You sure you don't wanna sleep?"

When he shook his head, I turned on my back too so I could join him at staring at the ceiling. "Okay. Wanna do something then? As in, play a guessing game or something?"

From the corner of my eye, I noticed him turn his head toward me but he kept quiet for a few seconds. "Really?" He started, and didn't continue until I faced him as well. "You wanna play a guessing game after we did the sex?"

I narrowed my eyes at him, "Did you just say we did the sex?" All he did was grin at me; we both knew that he was thinking of Tumblr when he said that. "Um..." Instead of telling him that I'm never going to sleep with him again, I shifted as I looked back up at the ceiling and answered his question, "Yeah."

Once again he kept quiet for a while, so once again I looked at him. "Why are you staring at me like that?"

"Oh, nothing," He shook his head lightly, "It's just that... the last time I didn't want to sleep when you did, you kicked me like three times and kept your back turned on me." He grinned when I rolled my eyes again, "So I guess what I'm saying is, who are you and what did you do to Sally Dustin?"

Unlike last time - when I told him she'd be back in half an hour - I just shrugged. "I think this is me when I'm normal," I explained and smiled a little as I heard him laugh. I couldn't blame him; he was just becoming used to my other 'normal' self.

"This is you being normal?" I nodded at his question, "Then whom have I been dating the past month?"

"No one," I narrowed my eyes at him again. "You weren't dating anyone. Nor was I. Nor are we now."

I noticed him turn on his side and continue watching me; great. "Yeah, right." His response to what I'd said and the smug smile on his face actually surprised me a little, "You keep thinking that."

"What?" I frowned and sat up a little, while he didn't even flinch. He still had the same expression. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"Oh, nothing," Liam shook his head and laid on his back, but the knowing smile on his face wasn't giving me peace. "Absolutely nothing."

"Alright," I said, somewhat uneasily, "Keep it that way." At my words, he chuckled and shook his head, as if what I'd said was absurd. I was only hoping he was joking too.

"So," He began in a casual tone as he sat up, his legs crossed and an entertained smile on his face as he watched me. Here we go. "You'd rather sleep with me than be in a relationship with me? I must say, I'm quite heartbroken."

I rolled my eyes again, "It's one thing to have sex, and another to be in a committed relationship." I gulped, "I find the latter a lot more serious."

"Yeah," He agreed, and for once I felt like we were on the same page. "Doesn't make me any less heartbroken, though."

I blinked at him a couple of times, "You're an idiot." I shook my head as he grinned, and had to lie down too so he wouldn't see the smile that my lips were forming against my own will.

"Wow, you're even smiling." Guess he noticed anyway. "Seriously now, what did I do to deserve this version of you?"

I raised my eyebrows at the ceiling, this time honestly thinking about an answer. "You got rid of the sexual frustration, I guess."

"Seriously?" He said after a few seconds, and I had to bite my lip at how disbelieving his tone was. "You're telling me all those month of yelling at me and punching me was sexual frustration?"

A smile was appearing on my face again, so I bit harder onto my lip but after a few seconds it was pointless; he'd already noticed. "Um, I'm not sure. Maybe. Probably."

I looked up at him, to see his eyebrows raised and a barely noticeable smirk on his lips. He already knew the answer, then. "Alright, yeah, it was, but can you blame me? I mean, it's been, like..." I trailed off and looked outside the window, a little embarrassed on some level. "Years."

Fortunately, Liam only laughed at that. I could only imagine all the things his dirty slash brutally honest mouth could have said. "Okay, well then," I noticed him cross his legs again from the corner of my eye, "Can we have sex again? And then again? And after that, again?"

I breathed out a laugh and then sighed, overly dramatic, "Oh, sure. But you might have to buy me a charger, like the one your laptop has." I glanced at his mac again, just to make sure it was shut.

"Nah, I'm kidding," He chuckled, "I won't make you do it like... more than once a day."

"Oh, well isn't that just relieving?" I grinned at him.

"Anything to keep this version of you around."

"Okay," I kept smiling and looked away at the ceiling, "Then I'll make sure it stays around for Christmas, too," I hinted and even though I couldn't see his face, I knew that he knew what I meant by that.

"Sally?"

I bit my lip, "Yeah?"

"I love you."

I frowned a little, an entertained look on my face as I turned my head to look at him, and catch him gulping as soon as I did. "What?"

"For... for the Christmas gift, I mean." I grinned again at his further explanation, and rolled onto my stomach so I was lying halfway on the bed, and him.

"Of course you do," I mumbled with a smirk and lowered my head down to place a short kiss on his lips. "Do you want anything else for Christmas? I mean, like, an actual present?"

Liam blinked a couple times, and looked away around the room. "Um..." He swallowed before his eyes met mine again, "Maybe like... a band shirt?"

"A band shirt?" I repeated, my eyebrows raised, "Don't you already have enough band shirts? Too many of them, in fact?"

"You can never have enough band shirts," He quickly shook his head, "And besides, I don't have any that match."

I slowly frowned at his explanation, "Match? Why'd you want to have two identical shirts?"

"So I can give you one," He smiled, just as slowly, "That'd be kinda badass. Like, people would know we're together, and that we have good music taste."

Instead of correcting him and telling him we're not together, yet again, I smiled at the idea. "Really? That's why you want matching shirts?" My smile widened when he nodded, "That's adorable."

His smile was soon replaced by a frown, "Adorable? No, I said badass. I'm not adorable."

"Yes, you are," I grinned, and continued talking when he opened his mouth to protest, "You, and your band shirts, and your shitty babysitting, and... and your annoying talking whenever I want to sleep, and... your underbite."

That last one was completely random, but I couldn't help but point it out as I kept scanning his face. As if reading my thoughts, Liam stopped smiling again and frowned at me, again. "Underbite? What, I... I don't have an underbite."

"Yes, you do," I assured him, though I was pretty sure he knew it himself. I mean, it'd be weird if he didn't. "And it's adorable."

He narrowed his eyes at me, "Stop calling me adorable. You wouldn't have used that word half an hour ago, am I right?"

It seemed like a great day- night, to wipe the smirk off his face. "Oh, but I would've."

"Really?" He held out the word, "How come?"

"You called me sweetheart in the middle of it."

Liam blinked at me, and then slowly closed his eyes at the memory; he knew I wasn't making shit up. "Dear lord," He sighed and caused me to laugh - another thing I found adorable, is when he was embarrassed. It was quickly becoming one of my favorite reactions of his.

"I mean, if that's not adorable, then I don't know what is," I kept teasing him, hoping to make him feel even more awkward; and as he rubbed his face with his hand and then kept it covered, I knew I'd succeeded.

"Aw, come on, don't hide that pretty face," I said, barely managing to hold in my laughter, though I couldn't as he gave me a murderous look.

"You know what, I take that back," He said, and for a second I didn't know what he was talking about until he continued, "I hate you right now."

I gave him a fake pout, "I wouldn't want you to, would I?" I grinned again when he removed his hand from his face, and gave me a skeptical look. It was gone as soon as I leaned down again, this time for a longer kiss.

My hand flew up to his cheek as he parted my lips with his, and I felt his hand low on my back; I knew that he was trying to show me what he wanted, instead of telling me, but I was hoping he also knew that I actually wanted to sleep.

"Liam," I muttered against his lips as I felt his fingers reach under his shirt that I was wearing, "Liam, come on. You can't be serious."

I felt him chuckle but didn't say anything; I took that as a sign that I should take matters into my own hands. When he assured me that he was nowhere near stopping his actions, I sighed and forcefully pushed myself off of him, and back onto my side.

One of the few things that shocked me during the entire evening, was that he sat up and leaned over me to kiss me again. The monkey.

"Liam," I repeated, this time in a much whinier tone as he laughed against my lips, "I'm tired, I can't do this aga-"

"I don't want you to," He interrupted me, "I just like kissing you." The information slowly sunk into my head, as he continued to kiss me just as slowly. "Now shut up and give me a minute before you go to sleep."

I laughed into the kiss, not allowing him to continue it properly, but after a while I decided to give him that one damn minute. I even trusted him when he reached down for the hem of my shirt... again.

"What the..." He mumbled, and when he pulled away I noticed a frown on his face, as he looked down. "Hell are you wearing?"

Liam pulled my shirt to my stomach, for a different reason now though. I was relieved when a smile started forming on his face. "Are you wearing my boxers?"

I rolled my eyes at him, mostly to cover up my embarrassment. "Well, you know, since this is your apartment, your clothes are the only clean ones I can find."

He chuckled, "Now that's what I call adorable." He leaned down and placed a kiss on my covered hipbone, and then came up to place one on my lips as well. "You're given permission to sleep now."

"Oh my God, really?" I asked in a squeaky tone, lighting up like a Christmas tree, "Thank you! I love you too," I joked as I kissed him once again, and while he kept staring at the side of my head, I got under the covers and turned my back on him.

There's something that didn't change.

A few or so seconds later, I felt him shift beside me and then his arm was around my waist too, as he pulled me closer to him. When he kissed my cheek one last time, I knew I could finally doze off.

I just wasn't sure if he'd said 'I love you' again, or was I just imagining it.

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