"film day, film day, film day!" chuck chanted, walking around the house, waving a stick about in the air. he was attempting to wake everyone up, and was succeeding.

well, at least he was when it came to newt and thomas.

thomas groaned, rolling over towards newt. "snuggles. please." 

anyone who knew thomas would know that when he was tired, he acted like he was drunk.

but hey, drunk words are sober thoughts.

"i-uh- okay?" newt blinked, hoping that thomas couldn't see the blush on his face. which of course, he couldn't. he was as blind as a bat.

he cleared his throat awkwardly, bringing his hand around the brunet's waist, to bring him closer to him. 

"you don't need to act so awkward." he muttered, smiling against newt's neck. "you can touch me how you wa-"

they both realised what the fuck thomas was saying. he instantly jerked himself away, blush on both of their faces. 

"oh my god. sorry, newt, i wasn't thinking!" he stammered, sitting upwards and grabbing his phone. 

"it's fine." 

he spoke quickly, too quickly.

any idiot could see that newt definitely wanted to cuddle with thomas.

but thomas wasn't just "any idiot".

thomas was OBLIVIOUS IDIOT 2.0.

so, he was feeling bad because he obviously thought newt didn't want to cuddle with him.

they practically acted like a couple anyway, but, whatever, they can spend 200 years pining over each other, i guess. 

because neither of them could man up and ask the other out.

thomas looked through his phone, instantly looking at his notification from teresa. 

he had changed her contact name because they're in scotland and it fit.

also the author thought of this at school during their english test and was like 'brooo'.

loch tess monster: when u wake up meet me in mine and min's room. 

loch tess monster: nothing bad, dw

loch tess monster: we just need to talk about 2 days ago

loch tess monster: as much as i deny it, you know i love you, and care for you. you're the best cousin i could ask for, thomas. thank you.

thomas' heart was just wajfajwfjaw at that moment. 

teresa and him never showed their love, really. 

like yeah, they were cousins, that just happened to live in the same city around 15 minutes away from one another.

thomas smiled softly at his phone. 

"who you texting?" newt quipped, raising an eyebrow. 

mmmm, very jealous newt.

he jumped slightly from the question, turning over to face him. "oh, luigi, obviously."

"of course, of course. how dare i even ask." the blond rolled his eyes, but matched the other's smile.

"it's so offensive that you'd even question me like that. honestly." he paused. "it's tessie, though."

newt nodded slightly, rolling onto his back and looking at the ceiling. "cool." he let out a content sigh, closing his eyes. "we should probably get up. chuck is probably gonna kill us if we don't" 

"yep, we really should."

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"newt!!" chuck raced over to newt, instantly wrapping his arms around the boy. 

thomas raised an eyebrow at newt, who just smirked back.

"hey, chuckie. i think tommy is a bit jealous of me now." he snickered, ruffling the curly tufts. 

"he'll get over it." the boy in question stuck his tongue out at his older brother, who frowned. chuck slowly let go of newt, frowning back at thomas. "i'm sorry. are you okay, thomas? you're still my favourite and i love you."

thomas snorted out a laugh, smiling. "i wasn't seriously sad. it's fine, you can have favourites. as offended as i am, i love you too." 

chuck's face heated up out of embarrassment. "what..whatever. i was joking, too!" he huffed, still walking towards his brother and hugging him. 

"aww." thomas teased. "wait, i need to do something real quick. i'll be back."

his stupid self had completely forgotten to go to teresa. 

he should've done that before going downstairs but oops. 

p.s. that was just the author forgetting what the hell they were doing, and also them having a complete realisation that they had made teresa tell thomas to meet her :') but then they started writing about this and was like 'oh shit i'm not getting rid of it now i cba'

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newtie POV <3

newt frowned at the loss of thomas from the room, but quickly shook it off. he had gotten so clingy, and he had no clue why. like, he was his friend, and even if he was dating anyone, it's none of his business.

plus, the only person out the room was teresa and he was messaging her earlier, so it was probably her he had gone to see.

and they were cousins.

chuck seemed to read his mind.

"guys, did you know that 0.2% of americans date their second or first cousin? which is like, 250,000 people who date their second or first cousin." 

brenda snorted. "what the fuck?" 

newt snickered, rolling his eyes. "see, this is what i mean when i say that us british are so much better." 

"uh, you are not." 

"we are."

"aren't."

"are." he paused. "you literally say 'powdered sugar', like what the bloody hell is powdered sugar? it's icing sugar." 

"icing sugar??? powdered sugar makes so much more sense." gally grimaced, furrowing his eyebrows.

"americans are so dumb, i swear." he muttered.

"heard that."

"whatever. anyway, yeah, no it doesn't. icing sugar. you make icing with it. it's not that hard to work out. even your thick skulls should be able to process that." 

"i am actually very smart!!" 

newt completely zoned out as his friends started to bombard him with their 'i'm not dumb!' whines. 

instead, his mind wandered to how thomas had been gone for so long. where was he? was he okay?? 

he was with teresa, of course he was okay.

but he never specified that he was with teresa.

but it's obvious.

but.. he didn't specify.

"newtie?? you there? aww, thinking about your little tommy-kins are we?" minho faked an over-exaggerated smiley pout. 

he tried to ignore the blush on his own face. "what makes you think that?" 

"uh, the way you're staring into the space of nothingness," he listed, counting on his fingers. "the blush on your face, you also happened to be gazing over at the stairs, and, oh, we can't forget the fact you obviously seem to have a thing for him-"

"i do not!"

"mhm, whatever. anyway, go check on him if you're that worried." minho frowned, patting newt's shoulder.

newt just nodded, meeting his best friend's gaze. "yeah. will do."

he walked off, heading for the stairs. his face was still a bit heated, but he ignored it. 

he also ignored minho's whisper-shout from the living room;

"go get your man, blondie!"

as soon as he walked up the stairs and was on the landing, he could hear hushed whispering. it wasn't that much like whispering, though, as he could nearly make out what they were saying. nearly. he probably shouldn't have snooped - it was very clearly thomas and teresa who were speaking.

but, he was curious.

well, he wasn't curious as such, just worried.

it was an equal balance between curiosity and worry.

so, he did decide to go up to the door, and bring his hand up to knock. 

"thomas, calm down, it's alright. shh, shh, are you alright?" she paused for a second, but newt couldn't hear a response so assumed there was a nod a shake of the head going on. "alright. you don't have to tell me anything, tom, it's o-"

"no!" thomas shouted at her. it made the blond jump slightly. he hasn't really heard thomas' voice raised, he didn't think. "no," he repeated, softer this time. "i need to tell you. i don't know why i keep getting so stressed."

"maybe it's something else you're panicked about. as well, i mean. i've never seen you this.. worked up before. i dunno." he could hear the frown in her voice.

"maybe. i guess. i'm probably just.. not used to the new people and surroundings?" 

newt frowned. was it his fault that thomas was panicked? 

"actually, no, i take that back. they're all nice, but i feel like gally doesn't like me." 

he heard a snort, most likely teresa.

"he doesn't like anyone." a pause. "newt seems to really like you, though. he's usually not that social with people he's never met, but he seems really comfortable with you."

newt flinched, bringing his hand down from knocking. was it that obvious that he liked hanging out with thomas?

"pfft, he probably thinks i'm clingy and annoying." 

the blond shook his head, even though nobody could see him.

"even if he does, is he that far off?" 

they both laughed quietly, before a silence hung over them.

"you need to tell me who rung you, thomas."

hesitation was clear, and he wasn't even in the room.

"it was mom. she sent me a message after saying that she wants me to-"

no. newt couldn't listen to anymore. he made himself zone out, and walked off.

but still, he couldn't help but wonder what thomas was going to say.

ugh that was tiring djsnwndjfj

sorry it's so late to finish ahhh

but uh i just realised in my a/n i said a thominho book but i'm sort of debating whether to do newtmas or thominho and i'm sort of leaning towards newtmas now aaaa

but anyway i hope this wasn't too bad sorry if there's any mistakes

:) 

p.s. new book will probably have smut in but this book won't because i feel like it's soft idk

ok bye ly