IT FUCKING BEGINS HERE. ENOUGH FLUFF. THIS IS THE JUICY BIT. (Of course there'll still be fluff, but this is where real shit starts going down)

2d and his overthinking. Name a more iconic duo. Lately, it had been hard for 2d to not be thinking about Murdoc and what was going on between them, and that's exactly what 2d was doing. It was Friday morning and 2d was in lesson, day dreaming about Murdoc. No one really bothered paying attention in lesson anyway, they were all too tired, yet at the same time too excited for the weekend. Some kids were chatting, a boy was napping on his desk, a group of popular kids near 2d was playing truth or dare, and a girl at the back of the classroom was doing her makeup. Nothing out of the ordinary.

2d caught himself getting worried over nothing again; it was all so complicated. I think I need a serious talk with Mudz again; I want to clear some things up, but most importantly, I gotta know how serious he is about this. We started as nothing, then his determination made us friends. From there, the hugs and kisses ...and touching... escalated to the point where my heart skips a beat when I see him. He's so sweet and caring and passionate and, the list just goes on... The point is, there's more now. With this whole "technically dating" thing I caused, it's worse. I'm thinking about him more and more. I wonder if he thinks about it as much as me...? Lately I realised that I've been letting him touch me more, in those places. It's not even weird or awkward. What's going on? He wants to touch me, and I want him to touch me too. It's fine for now, but... hmm... he did say that he has gay thoughts about me... and kinda admitted that he wants to fuck me...

2d's cheeks turned a rosy red and his heart sped up at the thought.

No. No. No. Stuart, stop being gay! That's Murdoc's job! Ugh... He sighed. Mudz said that he'd rather a relationship, than a one night stand. Does he really want to date me...? More importantly, do I want to date him...? 2d shuddered when thinking about the answer. The denial in him was strong. What if... what if I do.....?

2d was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts by the bit-too-loud laughter of one of the girls who was playing truth or dare. He glanced at the group and saw that they were having the time of their life, completely careless. They made it look as if life was easy. Now a bit curious, 2d decided to find out how the game was going, he wasn't too keen on returning to his thoughts. From the looks of it, it was Mia's turn. She was pretty and popular, with a name that sounded like 'meow', and that's what everyone called her. It was a cute nickname that really suited her cute face, and mostly cutesy personality, she had a darker, more slutty, side to her though...

"Truth or dare, Meow?" A boy, who was known for mischief, asked. He had a smirk on his face, but it was nothing compared to Murdoc's. 2d noticed that only Murdoc was able to pull off the 'bad boy' act, or at least according to him, other guys just didn't look attractive.

"Dare." She smiled bravely; it was Friday and she wanted an adventure. Be careful what you wish for...

"Alright then..." The boy glanced around at his friends, making sure that his crowd was enjoying themselves, before continuing. "I dare you to... have a one night stand with the Murdoc Niccals." He said the name itself quieter, not wanting to summon the devil.

2d's eyes widened. You mean... my Murdoc Niccals...?

Gasps were heard, but soon the laughter continued as people urged Meow to go through with it. They found it amusing. Murdoc was known for fucking around, but he hadn't been doing it lately. People didn't think there was a specific reason for it, aka 2d, but assumed that he got bored of the girls at this school and started picking on other schools.

"Ok, ok." Meow spoke up, silencing the crowd. "I'll do it." 2d looked down, no longer interested in their game, and started fumbling with his fingers. "I'll talk to him after school." She got a cheer.

2d couldn't stand it anymore, this was ridiculous. They were talking about his Murdoc as if he was some fuck boy with no standards. He turned to face the group and made eye contact with the mischievous boy, no one else seemed to notice. 2d raised his eyebrow questioningly, but the boy just shrugged, before turning back to the crowd. That was all 2d could do, give him a weird look. He had no reason to argue, because no one knew what was between him and Murdoc.

This is ridiculous, why would she bother? He won't do it so she might as well give up. He won't fall for that pretty face of hers.

Right...?

- - -

It was lunch. 2d walked to the gay haunted staircase, he got a text message to meet Murdoc there ASAP because he had some sort of 'good news'. He was still plagued with worry about that girl, but decided not to tell Murdoc about it. He wanted to see what he would do. Would he actually go with her? But that would also mean ditching band practice... It didn't matter, 2d would understand...

2d became more on edge with every step he took, yet he had to stay calm. He didn't want Murdoc to know that something was wrong. This was a test of some sort. No words, just actions. Hopefully, it would reveal some of Murdoc's true feelings towards him.

A buzzing sound in his back pocket made 2d flinch. A text message. As he took his phone out, he wondered if it was Murdoc, telling him to hurry up. It was his mom.

-mom-

"Stuart darling, could you please pick up some groceries on your way home after school? The shop isn't open long enough for you to go after 'band practice' so you'd have to go immediately after school. You can take Murdoc with you, and the car, to keep you company."

"Ok mom, I'll tell Murdoc. He probably won't mind missing practice this one day, but he'd be more offended that you called it 'band practice'. Why did you?"

"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"

"MOTHER. We really do actual work there!!"

"Sure you do."

"..."

"Have fun sweetheart, see you in the evening. Here's the shopping list:
•..."

"Bye mom"

-

2d sighed and put his phone away. This made things easier for Murdoc, he wouldn't have to worry about 2d and band practice while driving off with that girl.

-

Murdoc's eyes lit up when he spotted 2d walking around the corner.

"2d!" He cheered, causing the boy in question to lightly smile at his enthusiasm.

"Hi Mudz..." 2d walked up to him and slumped his bag onto the floor. He looked down at Murdoc who was reaching his hands up towards him in a childish manner.

"You'll never guess what sort of marvellous thing I managed to accomplish today!" 2d knelt down and immediately got caught up in Murdoc's limbs, like an octopus capturing its prey.

"You're right, I won't. So how about you tell me?" Murdoc wrapped his legs around 2d's waist and his hands around his chest, pulling him in real close. 2d was laying sideways on Murdoc's body, smiling to himself. If Murdoc wanted to, he could easily turn the situation around so that they'd be laying stomach to stomach.

"I got Russel and Noodle to join the band!"

"Wait, really?" 2d lifted his head up to make eye contact with Murdoc, genuine surprise on his face.

"Yup." Murdoc grinned. "I told you I could do it."

"Mudz, that's great news!" 2d smiled, yet it soon faded away a bit, eaten away by sadness and worry. "I bet they really wanted you to stop bothering them."

"Absolutely." They both chuckled. "Hey 2d, what's wrong?" Murdoc asked the dreaded question. He could read 2d like a book.

"Uh... nothing..." 2d rested his head on Murdoc's chest again. He couldn't tell him about the girl, but there was something else that was really bothering him that he needed to talk about. "Crap..."

"What? What's wrong?" Murdoc questioned, starting to pet 2d's hair.

"It's just, agh, well I got a text message from mom, telling me to pick up some groceries after school. I agreed coz I didn't know that, y'know, this would be an important band practice. I'm really sorry Mudz..."

"Awe, band practice without my singer?" He hugged 2d a bit tighter. "It's alright, we always have Monday. Wait, no, Tuesday." He corrected himself, remembering that 2d had after school maths lessons on Mondays. "I'll try not to die without you. So, when are you going?"

"Mom told me to go straight after school."

"Hmm." Murdoc thought. "That's ok, have fun."

"I'll try... Anyway, what are you going to do during band practice? Is it still on?" 2d asked, cuddling himself into Murdoc.

"Yeah, I can't let these two slack off. I guess I'll just introduce them to some songs and see how well they can play."

"That sounds nice." 2d smiled. The rest of lunch went by quickly, with just chatting and cuddling. Soon it was time for lesson, and afterwards, the moment of truth...

- - -

While 2d was sitting in last lesson, silently stressing out, Meow was already going through with her plan. About 20 minutes before the end of lesson she left the classroom with permission from the teacher to go to the bathroom and the intentions of not coming back. She left her bag so that it wouldn't look suspicious, she asked one of her friends to take it after lesson, and then went to search for Murdoc.

After about 10 minutes she did, in fact, manage to find him. Murdoc was resting against a wall, playing on his phone, about 5 minutes from a classroom. Meow knew that this wasn't Murdoc's classroom because she knew who had lessons there: her friend Elizabeth, that mischievous boy, 2d... After a swift sigh and a moment of mental preparation she felt ready to approach him.

"Hi!" She caught Murdoc's attention along with a raised eyebrow. Realising she sounded too enthusiastic, she quickly corrected herself. "Um, heh, hi." She smiled nicely. Murdoc looked her up and down and then put his phone down a bit. "You're the famous Murdoc, right?"

"Yeah." He replied harshly, wondering if the girl was brain dead for not knowing it already and approaching him. "What about it?"

"I've always kinda wanted to meet you, someone so strong and awesome..." This was a nice change for a moment, flattery. Murdoc's ego definitely enjoyed it, but it would have been so much better if 2d was the one who was telling him all this. "I'm Meow by the way."

"Yeah, I've seen you around school a few times." Murdoc now put his phone away and turned to the girl, enjoying the entertainment while waiting for 2d. "Is Meow your real name, or..?"

"Ah, well, it's just a nickname, but-" The girl started rambling excitedly. They soon got into a conversation, something Murdoc rarely had with people other than 2d, and Murdoc found that it was actually enjoyable.

- - -

The hallways slowly begun to flood with students about 5 minutes before the end of lesson. Eventually, it was also time for 2d's class to be released. Everyone ran for the door almost immediately, no one wanted to stay. 2d followed slowly, he didn't have anything to look forward to. Once he finally pushed past enough of his classmates to actually get out of the class, he ended up bumping into someone.

2d looked up from the ground and his eyes met with the mischievous boy. He was smirking. His eyes quickly jumped from 2d, to a place a bit further down the hallway. 2d turned from the boy and his small crowd to see what they were looking at. It was Murdoc, and Meow, talking. 2d's heart sank.

He looked back at the mischievous boy only to see that there was something more in his smirk, something almost like a 'you're welcome'. The boy thought that by hooking up Murdoc with Meow he was doing 2d a favour. After all, it meant that 2d could spend less time with that dreadful demon. He didn't know that 2d liked Murdoc...

A light nod was the only 'thank you' the boy received from 2d before he walked off. Ideally, 2d would have preferred to walk away in the opposite direction to Murdoc, but that hallway led nowhere near to the exit. Hesitantly, with his head down and stomach turning, 2d made his way past Murdoc and the girl, on the complete opposite side of the hall. He was almost sliding against the wall, begging the gods to stay unnoticed. Despite this, he couldn't help but glance at Murdoc, out of pure curiosity, but just as he did- his eyes met with Murdoc's. 2d flinched, how could he have possibly hoped for Murdoc not to notice his vibrant blue hair moving through the crowd?

"Oy 2d." Murdoc's strong voice managed to silence the entire corridor at once. The students around 2d parted like the Red Sea, completely exposing the boy. "Where are you going? Come here." 2d gulped and begun to walk through the student body, which was pretending to mind its own business and not get in either ones way.

"H-Hi Murdoc..." 2d mumbled as he approached the two. He found that he couldn't actually look Murdoc in the eyes, so instead he looked at Meow, who wasn't giving him an approving look. He could guess that the mischievous boy didn't want him to get in the way either.

"Where were you going?" Murdoc repeated himself, this time slightly more impatiently. 2d looked down.

"I-I was-" He tried but was cut off.

"Look at me when you're speaking." Murdoc harshly commanded, making 2d flinch again. He was observing, wondering why the hell 2d was acting like this. 2d shyly looked up, but couldn't maintain eye contact with Murdoc for too long.

"I-I was going sh-shopping. M-My mom said-"

"I know what your mom said." Murdoc interrupted him again. "Why didn't you at least bother to come here to say goodbye? Huh?" 2d looked down, his heart was pounding from fear.

"I-I'm sorry, I just... Well, y-you were talking t-to... her... a-and I didn't want to, to interrupt..." He mumbled, bringing his fingers up to fumble with them. Murdoc sighed angrily.

"Well, what if I had something to talk to you about?" Murdoc argued. What he said was true. 2d blinked a few times before realising the mistake he made by trying to walk away without a word.

"Your keys..." 2d said under his breath.

"What?"

"Your car keys." 2d slightly looked up. Of course. He thought. Of course there'd be no other reason for Murdoc to be here except to retrieve his car keys from me. How else would he drive this girl home? Home. In that moment 2d realised that despite countless whores being there with Murdoc, 2d wasn't even allowed to know where Murdoc lived. Maybe all this really was meaningless...?

"What are you on about?" Murdoc furrowed his eyebrows.

"I-I'm sorry for not realising this earlier." 2d said in a hurry, he wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. He reached into his back pocket and retrieved the car keys, immediately after handing them to Murdoc. "How would you get home without your car?" 2d reached his hand out towards Murdoc with the keys, but Murdoc refused to take them.

"What?" Murdoc looked really confused, and he was. 2d wasn't answering any of his questions.

"I mean," 2d reluctantly continued. "You'll need your car if you want to drive your one night stand home..." He looked away, taking a deep breath to calm himself down. Murdoc's eyes widened. So that's what's going on here, huh?

"A one night stand, eh? Haven't had one of those in a while." A sly smirk spread across Murdoc's face as he observed 2d grow uncomfortable, still holding the car keys up. "Who did you say I was having that one night stand with?" Meow crossed her arms, feeling like there wasn't enough attention on her, but hoped this would be over soon.

"Anyone you want..." 2d grumbled. Murdoc's smirk widened. He suddenly grabbed the car keys and 2d's hand in a tight, uncomfortable grip, causing 2d to yelp in surprise.

"Right, Meow, was it?" The girl, who was now being addressed, nodded. "It was great meeting you, you're a real nice girl, but according to 2d here I've got a one night stand to attend to. So I'm afraid we'll have to continue this conversation later." Both 2d and Meow were shocked by Murdoc's statement, but before either one could react, Murdoc put his arm around 2d's shoulders and started dragging him off in the direction of the exit. "Let's go then."

"Wh-What??" After a few steps 2d managed to untangle himself from Murdoc's grip, both on his hand and around his shoulders. "Murdoc, What are you doing??" 2d realised that the car keys were still in his hand.

"What do you mean?" Murdoc looked at him nonchalantly, like nothing was wrong. "You said I could have a one night stand with whoever I want, and I want you."

"What...?" 2d's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. "B-But! That girl!"

"What about her? Did you really think that I'd choose her over you? You're insane." Murdoc laughed.

"R-Really...?" 2d whimpered.

"Yes, fucking really. 2d, What do you think that whole 'technically dating' thing of ours means?" 2d's eyes once again widened at the mention of it. He remembers?

"W-Well, that I feel like this could be something... more?" 2d hesitated.

"Something more?" This was more like a statement than a question.

"Well... sometimes it feels like it... a-and just... that I wouldn't mind it being something more..."

"And what does this mean in terms of you and me?" Murdoc kept asking the questions, so that 2d himself could realise that he had no reason to be worried.

"I.... I belong to you......" 2d looked down, maybe slightly ashamed.

"Belong to me. So you're exclusive to me?" Murdoc didn't wait for the answer. "No one else can touch you, no one else can try to be with you." 2d didn't disagree. "2d, for fucks sake, didn't it occur to you that the same rules would apply to me?" 2d didn't reply, he couldn't. "Hasn't it fucking occurred to you that this is mutual? That if you belong to me, I belong to you too?" Murdoc's voice went quiet at the end. Slowly, 2d looked up and they made eye contact.

"Mudz... you mean that...?" He asked unsurely.

"Of course I fucking mean that. Why wouldn't I?" Murdoc sighed and looked away for a moment. "Look 2d..." Murdoc's hand collided with 2d's, lightly grasping it, as they made eye contact again. "You mean a lot to me." In that moment, 2d had the strongest urge to just stop in his tracks and pull Murdoc in for a kiss, but he couldn't, not in school. For him, this was unbelievable. Murdoc really did care, why would he doubt that?

"Y-You mean a lot to me too..." 2d said, blushing. It felt so nice to be holding Murdoc's hand. "S-So..." 2d decided that they've had enough serious talk for today, everything was now settled and felt better. "So why are you here? Weren't you supposed to go to band practice?"

"Yeah, but I wanted to walk you to the car. Can't I?" Murdoc smirked lightly, it was refreshing to watch him so calm.

"The car? I'm not taking the car Mudz." 2d stated.

"Yeah you ar-"

"No I'm not, Mudz. You need it to get home after school." 2d argued.

"I live nearby-"

"No you don't." Murdoc ignored this comment and kept speaking. 2d was growing confident around him.

"I do. Besides, I'm not letting you walk all the way home with heavy groceries. It's going to get dark soon."

"Murdoc, I can handle it." 2d tried to defend himself.

"But I'd be worried about you." Murdoc complained.

"I'd be worried about you too, after all you'd be going home even later than me." They sounded like an old married couple.

"2d, it's my car and I decide what happens to it." Murdoc said sternly.

"But Mudz-!" 2d wasn't having this. They were now outside, near the car. Murdoc noticed this, he had to act fast.

"Fine, then how about this? You take the car to do grocery shopping, and then you come pick me up from school and we can hang around your house for a while. How's that sound?"

"Ok..." 2d mumbled, giving in. They were now standing in front of the car.

"Oh, and 2d? One more thing." Murdoc quickly said just as 2d was trying to let go of his hand.

"Wh-" But before 2d had any chance to respond, Murdoc pulled his hand, causing 2d to stumble closer to him. While one hand was still holding 2d's hand, Murdoc's other hand landed on the small of 2d's back, pushing their bodies closer. 2d's wide black eyes stared back at Murdoc's closed ones as their lips collided. Slowly and unsurely, 2d's free hand settled on Murdoc's shoulder and he closed his eyes, kissing back. Small movements led to 2d beginning to nibble on Murdoc's top lip, completely getting lost in the moment, but before he knew it, Murdoc pulled away. He looked down at the blushing 2d in his hands. He was beautiful.

"Have fun, yeah?" Murdoc smirked.

"Y-Yeah..." 2d could barely find the words to speak.

"Good." Getting lost in Murdoc's smirk again, 2d almost fell when Murdoc's hands let him go. They then parted ways, after a long time of looking into each other's eyes, and 2d got into the car. All the while Murdoc stood on the side, watching and waiting for 2d to leave the school premises. That's when he decided he could make his way back to the building. He was in a great mood.

Remember when I said I'll make the chapters longer? What I meant was changing the length from 1000-1600 words to 1600-2000 words. And you know what this is? Exactly 3882 words (counting both A/N's too). Ridiculous! That's double the amount of words this was supposed to have! All because I couldn't leave you hanging on this important scene. You know what the best part is? This isn't even the end of this chapter! Yup, out of the 6 events I planned to occur on this specific Friday, these are only 3 (morning game, lunch with Mudz, and after school talk). Crazy that... but I guess the longer the better. For you.