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Jordan stared at his computer screen barely seeing anything, he was so lost in his thought that for a moment he didn’t remember where he was and just what he was doing, it’s been over two months since he moved here to California and even though he wasn’t in his best right now, he was actually doing better than he would have thought, leaving New York was the best decision for him, even though his parents have been pressing him to come back home for Christmas celebrations, he just wasn’t in the mood to celebrate especially not in a city that he did his best to forget about.The past two months here have been busy for him, he didn’t let his sadness weigh him down and unlike the office in New York, he didn’t get any pity stares here which help him a lot, the people here were friendly too and he was able to hang out with them a couple of time, not to mention he enjoyed working here.Of course, he still gets sad when his mind went to Liam, he hasn’t heard from him or his parents since he ca
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“Don’t make me cry you, idiot, I am a hormonal woman,”Kat said in a dramatic way, Jordan rolled his eyes, hormonal or not Kat was the same sassy woman, and he didn’t want to be the reason for her to feel bad.“Yeah, like you didn’t start it, I love you too Kat, and would want to go back to our childhood too but I am happy with the way things are now, you are doing fine and that’s what I want,”He said with a smile.“Yeah, but you are not, and if you are not then I can be happy, I don’t want you to be alone for Christmas Jordan and I can’t be with you either, please go home,”She pleaded, it was true and it hurt, he has never spent Christmas alone.“Don’t worry about me Katrina, I am doing better than you think.”“Fine, I love you bye,”She said and hung up without letting his reply.“Yeah, such fake love,”He mouthed as he closed his eyes to sleep.The next two days went by in a flash and all he could think about was what Kat had told him, everyone at the office was either going home
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Liam kept cursing at himself as he drove towards his parent's house on Christmas morning, he should have just remained in his house and spent Christmas on his own but he didn’t want his parents to feel alone on Christmas Day, even though they rarely get along all through the years, he made sure to get them presents for Christmas and he felt like not going would make them sad, their relationship was still tainted in a lot of ways but he had tried to build back what he had with them.He had called at their house two months ago and had a talk with them, they told him they didn’t love him any less but just felt they had to let him get what he wants for once, he told them he didn’t like that they shut him out and his mom had told him that it was how they felt each time he shut them out too, he had apologized to them and they were cool but they no longer taunt him with calls or their presence that he began to miss them and miss the times they were all over his business, when they had called
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“Son, I didn’t know you would turn up, thought you wanted to spend the holidays on your own, good to see that you changed your mind,”His dad said coming to hug him, it didn’t take long as the friend also hugged him too.“Why is everyone so surprised?”He asked with a laugh even though he didn’t even feel like laughing, he wanted to ask who they were but figured it would be rude to so he had to wait till he was alone with his parents to ask, he didn’t need to wait long as the next person to enter the room gave him a clue as to who the other two people were, Jordan, the man who has been over him when he was still in the hospital came into the room, he was shocked to see him too as his eyes widened.Liam didn’t expect to see him here either, over the last two months, he had thought of him once in a while and had wondered where he was and what he was up to, he didn’t ask though.“Wow, you guys were going to have a party without me?”He asked turning to his mom and then his dad.“You were
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Liam stared at the man in front of him, he wasn’t even smiling but Liam felt his heart race, maybe it was the alcohol in the cake he took, since he wasn’t a drinker, anything could make him tipsy, or probably the glass of wine he had before he started eating, whatever it was, it wasn’t doing him any good, he should have stayed away from anything that contained alcohol, or he should have not shown up here in the first place, but how was he supposed to know that the man would be here and that he will be affected by him? No way for him to have known that, why was he looking at him too, and with those longing eyes, it made it impossible for him to look away and everything else in the room faded away and it was just them, looking at each other with his heartbeat increasing by the seconds.“Liam, son? Are you okay? You look pale?”His mom asked, touching him and shaking him out of his trance, he broke eye contact with Jordan and looked at his mom, forcing a smile.“I am fine mom, you don’t
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“That must have been nice?”He said after a while.“It was,”“So? Are you going to tell me why I haven’t been seeing you around? Yes, I know you work but you just don’t show up anymore,”He questioned.“Why are you suddenly curious about me Liam? You told me to fuck off your face, now that I did, why are you still asking questions?”He asked and Liam wondered why he was curious too, maybe because of the long talks he had with Mark which sometimes involves talks about Jordan too even though Mark tried as much as possible not to mention his name or changed the topic when he did speak about him, Liam had been tempted to ask him about Jordan but always stopped himself and told himself it was none of his business, maybe he should have asked.“I am just curious to know,”“Don’t be curious about me Liam, just be cold-hearted towards me like you were when you woke up from the coma, don’t try to be nice to me now, I don’t need it,”Jordan warned.“I am not being nice to you, what are you even
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Jordan couldn’t believe what was happening, Liam was kissing him, this has to be a dream, he just knew that the whole shit was a dream, no way was Liam’s lips against his asking for entrance, he knew he shouldn’t allow him even if it was a dream but he missed Liam so much, even though he tried not to admit it to himself, he missed his touch, missed kissing him.Okay to be clear, he started the kiss but he didn’t think he would let him kiss him nor did he expect Liam to take over the kiss.All night, it has been pure torture being in the same house with Liam and having him not say a word or even acknowledge him, he couldn’t even say hi or make eye contact with him, it had gotten to the point that Jordan just needed to get out of the house only for Liam to follow him and start asking him questions, from the moment he had arrived, all Jordan wanted to do was throw himself at him, he missed him so much and nothing has even changed for him, Liam was still the same person for him.The kiss?
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“Why are you running away? Don’t tell me you really thought much of the kiss. Bro grow up, it is literally just a kiss, or haven’t you kissed someone before? Are you a virgin bro? You can’t be right? So you can’t be running away just because we shared a kiss,”Liam said. Jordan didn’t bother to respond to him, there was no point in engaging with him as he would just keep saying things that would make him more pissed, he walked back through the part he had taken before, walked past both of their parents in the living room and out of the house, his mom was with him as soon as he was outside.“Jordan, what’s going on? What happened?”She asked with concern, lancing her words.“When are you guys leaving? It is late,”He said avoiding her questions.“We originally planned on spending the night here but if you don’t want to, we can leave, their son is here too and I am sure he wants to have some alone time with his parents too,”His mom said and nodded in appreciation.“Can we do that pleas
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