season one

episode nine, different but same.

ALL THE TIMES he'd see Sam kissing him, Sam talking to him, flirting with him, his heart felt cold, it ached, it didn't feel good. Currently, there stood Olivia outside of Demetri's home. There, he came out, staring at Oli who eyes were red and puffy from the crying.

"I just want an answer." She croaks out, her voice breaking. Demetri looked down, he felt so bad, god he felt so bad. "Do you like me?.."

"I.."

It was quiet, Demetri wanted to tell her but he just couldn't. He knew from the dance that she was the one. She will always be the one.

"Listen." He walks up to the girl, grabbing her hands. "One day." Was all he said, Oli felt her chest was getting so tight. She wanted to kiss him, god she hated having a crush. Demetri walked away, going back inside his house, tears rolling down his cheeks. He wanted to date Olivia so bad, but he knew he wasn't perfect for her.

Oli walked back to her home, sobbing on her way. God she sobbed so bad, everything was bad, she hated this feeling in her gut. Someone will love him, again someone will love him, but that someone isn't Oli.

....

THE next day, Thomas was at the park with Aisha, Miguel, and Demetri. "Hey, who was that guy you were having dinner with last night?" Miguel questions. "Oh, Robby? Some dude my dads teaching karate with. He only stayed because my dad needed to watch him." He lied, knowing he was asking because of Sam. "You went to my house?" Thomas chuckles as the thought clicked in his mind. "Yeah it's just, I wanna meet your family but I don't think Sam wants me to."

"Soon, it's just she's probably scared." He explains. "Yeah.." He nodded, looking down. "I still think you're overreacting." Demetri spoke. "I'm not overreacting dude, I know what I saw." Miguel defends. "Robby and Sam barley talk when he's over, she's either in her room or mine. Sometimes kitchen but that's it." He sighed.

Miguel looked up at him, a jealous expression on his face as he heard him say explain the last.

"All right, you saw her eating dinner with some chode who Thomas also knows and is literally telling you everything that goes on when he's there." Eli who now goes by "Hawk" remarks as he kicks a kid in the face, looking disappointed as he fell to the floor.

"What if it's their brother or something?" Hawk asks them. "Brothers don't look at sisters like that." Miguel answered. "Depends what part of the country you're in" Demetri spoke. "And...me and Anthony are the only brothers Sam has." Thomas looks at Demetri in a weird way.

"Look, I just don't want what happened to Sensei to happen to me." He looked down. "We get that, but...Sam's either gonna come or she's gonna go, and you have to prepare for that." He explains. "Or you can go over to this kid and beat his ass so he doesn't have the chance."

Thomas glared at Hawk, who glared back at him. "Oh! That little bitch." Aisha exclaimed as she looks at her phone. "What?"

"You know that video I posted of me breaking that board?" She asks, everyone nodded while Thomas said no. "Look what Yasmine commented." She shows them the phone. Thomas reads the nasty comment, "Oh shit."
"I gotta do something."

"How about we kidnap her and have my boy Rico tattoo 'bitch' on her face." Hawk recommends. "Calm down, Hawk." He rolled his eyes. "All right, I hear how you're saying it, and I don't like it." Hawk looks at Demetri. "Wait, wait, wait. I've got a better idea. Look." She shows everyone Yasmines story.

"Yasmines throwing a birthday party at the Canyon later?"

"Not if we strike first." Aisha corrected. Everyone looked at each other, "Hell yeah." They all agree, Thomas liked the sound of this.

Minutes later, the male was outside of the store with Miguel, seeing he was spamming and calling Sam. "She's not answering me either, she probably got her phone taken away or something." He shrugged. "I'm here, so there's a party?" Olivia showed up, getting excited. "Speak of the devil." Thomas laughs, doing their handshake with her.

"We got beer and vodka, so we're drinking up tonight." Aisha spoke, "Hey Oli!" She exclaimed with a big smile. "Hey." She says softly, her smile stops once she saw Demetri.

Tom noticed this, making himself frown. "So, let's get this party started." He spoke, breaking the air.

.....

AT the party, it was all fun. Kids were drinking, dancing, music was blasting on the speakers, some were even making out. At nighttime, Olivia wasn't drinking nor did she want too. However, Thomas only had a couple beers and felt buzzed, Miguel, well...he was pretty drunk.

Olivia could see Demetri talking to a girl which made her sad, it made her feel like he was already over her. The male looks over, staring at the ginger with a sad expression.

From the corner of his eye, Thomas saw Samantha and Robby. He quickly walks up to her, "Hey, what happened?" He asks.

"Mom took my phone, where's Miguel?" She asked quickly, not even saying hey back to him. "Hey." Miguel came and Thomas knew this wasn't going to be good. "Who's this guy?" Miguel asks with a small smirk. "Hey, I..."

"Wait, this....this your boyfriend?" Robby questions.

"Yeah. Miguel, relax. This is Robby, he works for my dad." Samantha told her boyfriend. "Oh, with your dad. Okay, that makes a lot of sense." He repeats sarcastically. "What is that supposed to mean?" Sam pauses, "Wait. Have you been drinking?"

"Miguel, listen her phone got taken away." He told him but he seemed to not hear Tom. "No, no." He lies with a chuckle. "You don't get to turn this on me. I texted and called you all day, and you couldn't answer me back once?" He asks her. "No, I literally couldn't. My mom took my phone. Ask Thomas!"

"Oh, that's so convenient." He tells Sam. "Hey, man, just tell- you get out of here!" He pushes Robby down on the ground. Thomas sighs, "Miguel..." He looks at him. "Miguel, stop it." Samantha says. "Hey, man, you wanna try that again?" Robby gets back up. "Guys.."

"Try it again, huh?" He smirked, "Don't." Samantha commands. Miguel tries to hit Robby but his arm hits Sam in the face, making her fall. "Guys! What's going on?" Olivia jogged over as she saw Sam fall.

She helps Sam up, "Sam, are you okay?" Thomas asked. "God, you asshole!" Samantha pushes Miguel away from her as he apologized. "What the hell was that?" She asks angrily. "My dad was right about Cobrai Kai. Good luck at the tournament. I won't be there." Sam told him. "I'll see you at home." She says angrily at Thomas which made him look down.

Miguel looked at Sam and Robby walking away, "Hey, it's gonna be okay. She'll warm up." Olivia tells them. A few minutes later Miguel had drank even more and he was even more drunk.

So, Thomas had to get an uber and take him home because he also felt a little tipsy. Luckily, Miguel's mom was asleep and his grandma was awake which she didn't care he was drunk she just cared that he was safe.

Miguel sits on his bed, sobering himself up with a glass of water. "I am never doing that again." He burps, a disgusted expression on his face as he tasted beer.

Miguel went to his drawer, handing Thomas a shirt and pants. This caught his attention. He doesn't like short sleeves. "Y-you uh...you don't have anything long sleeved?" He asks softly. "No." He answered with a sigh, "I can let you borrow a jacket or something." Miguel recommends.

"Yes, please."

"Listen...I'm sorry about your sister. You probably hate me.." He chuckled softly. "You were drunk, it was an accident, she was in the way. I wouldn't hate you." He explains. Miguel smiled softly at him, "My grandmas in the bathroom and she kinda takes a while so, you'd probably have to change in here. I'm gonna go get some pain meds anyways." He got up and left, shutting the door.

Thomas changed his pants as quickly as he could, but once he took off his shirt Miguel walked in with a quick knock which Thomas seemed to not hear. "Oh, sorry!" Miguel says but he quickly froze once he saw the lines on his arms and wrists. Thomas quickly puts the shirt on, but that didn't stop it from covering them up. "Tom?? What happened?? Did someone hurt you? Who did that?"

Miguel was asking so many questions, Thomas sat down. He looks down, Miguel felt worried. "I did them..." He confessed slowly. "What?" He sits down next to him. "Why?" Asked Miguel. It took a few seconds for Thomas to spill everything out, he didn't like talking about it but he knew Miguel wouldn't judge.

"I'm in therapy because...I have depression. And uh, I never like wearing short sleeves because they are visible and they are gonna be there forever. The scars are too big and are every where for them to get covered up." It was pretty quiet. Tom sniffles. "I just feel weak, you know?" He explains, tears going down his cheeks. The boy looked down, feeling bad for Thomas.

"I'm all i'm saying is. My family?" Thomas looks at Miguel. "They never notice me. "

"Is that why you?..." He touches Thomas's wrist, trailing his finger up and down to help him. He just nods.

"Listen." he places his hand on top of Tom's. "Even..if they don't notice you. I do. And I know it isn't much. But Im here." Miguel looked at him and their faces were inches apart. "I think that's all I need right now." He smiles, seeing Miguel was leaning in slowly which made him so confused. His face felt so hot, he didn't know what the hell was going on.

Miguel Diaz's lips were on Thomas Larussos.

The two were kissing softly, Miguel wrapping his arm around his neck while Tom's were wrapped around his torso. They pull away, Miguel leans his forehead on Tom's. "I like you..." He confesses.

Did Tom just hear him correctly?

"I-I like you too."

But he's drunk, right? They're both drunk. The two smash their lips together again, and then the whole night was something Thomas didn't know he was going to feel so bad about.

-- LIV!
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