That night, Benji fell asleep on Ashton's couch and neither Luca nor Ashton could shake him from his sleep. It seemed he was a deep sleeper.

With Benji being Luca's ride, he felt a little awkward to be left alone in the house with Ashton. He contemplated walking home, but it was dark out and he figured he'd probably get lost. And he wouldn't ask Ashton for a ride, because felt that was rude and he couldn't leave Benji.

And okay, he was overthinking whilst Ashton seemed completely calm as he asked if he'd like some tea.

"Tea?" Luca asked, eyes widening slightly as he stared up at Ashton.

Ashton nodded, "Unless you prefer coffee?"

He shook his head, "No tea is fine."

Ashton smiled a little before leaving the room and Luca almost collapsed against Benji's sleeping body.

"You hate him," he grumbled to himself, "And your feelings are totally non existent."

But who was he kidding? Luca's feelings for Ashton were like a pile of fireworks going off everytime he merely looked at the boy. At least he knew the feelings could never be reciprocated, and he was glad because he didn't want them to be.

A couple minutes later, Ashton returned with two mugs of tea and handed one to Luca.

He fell back into a seat beside Luca, and looked over at the boy with curiosity.

"Do you know what's even more confusing then my feelings and Benji's words?" he suddenly said, and Luca glanced over.

Luca avoided eye contact at all costs, drifting his gaze across Ashton's other features. He noticed a lonely freckle on the side of his left cheek and his hand reached out at the sight.

Luca's fingers grazed over his own right cheek because he had remembered having a lone freckle there too.

"What?" he whispered.

Ashton had noticed the movement and wasn't quite sure what Luca was doing, but he found himself, not being able to remove his eyes from Luca's face.

He remembered how much he had wanted the boy to smile, how much he still wished to be the reason for those lips to pull up and how fucking confusing it was for him to want something that damn much.

"You," he finally whispered back.