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Liam had never seen himself as someone who would seek revenge, he had never seen himself as someone who would do something just to annoy someone who had annoyed him, but here he was.
He knew that Scott hadn't meant to annoy him, he hadn't meant to make Liam feel bad or upset him, he just wanted Liam to know that he was there for him, that he could count on him. However, Liam already knew that and Scott hadn't used the best approach, so Liam hadn't been exactly happy about it.
Saying that Liam could rely on him was okay, reminding him that he wasn't alone was okay too, but touching the Hayden subject in a way that made it seem like Liam was a little boy who couldn't deal with heartbreak, and saying it with a voice coated with pity and something else that made it look like Liam was a time bomb that could explode at any moment, that wasn't okay. Liam didn't like it one bit.
Scott shouldn't treat him like that, it wasn't right. He was worried, but he should deal with it in a different way, not making Liam feel like a little kid, or at least that was what Liam thought.
That's the reason why he was doing this right now, he wanted Scott to be annoyed, he wanted him to be pissed off and, in a way, he wanted him to hurt. If Scott thought he was a little kid, then he would show him just how childish he could be by acting in a vengeful way.
Maybe he was going a little too far, doing this couldn't possibly be a good idea, there is no way in hell it was a good idea, but that knowledge just made it more appealing to Liam's plan.
Scott would feel hurt and angered and, at the same time, Liam would get to show him that he can deal with heartbreak and that Hayden is out of his life, that's for sure. It wasn't a good idea, but it was perfect.
Slamming the door behind him, Liam entered the house like a hurricane and climbed the stairs two at a time, even though he knew that the plan was perfect to piss Scott off, he feared he might talk himself out of it if he took too long to set the plan in motion. He was in his room in under a minute.
"I need you to be my boyfriend," he said the moment he entered.
Theo raised his eyes from the book he was reading, sitting on the chair in front of Liam's desk, his eyes found Liam and he squinted at him, confused about what he was saying.
"What?"
"I need you to be my fake boyfriend," Liam repeated.
Theo looked at him weirdly, eyebrows raised and a doubting look in his eyes.
"Is this some kind of plan to keep tabs on me and make sure I don't lash out and kill someone?"
"No," Liam scoffed. "Of course not."
"Good, because keeping me in your house is enough," he offered a sarcastic smile.
"You didn't have anywhere to go anyway, at least like this you have a ceiling above your head, clean clothes, warm water and good food."
Theo looked at him, unimpressed.
"What?! Want me to thank you for keeping me trapped like a wild animal in a zoo?"
"You can get out of the house," Liam rolled his eyes, it wasn't the first time they had this conversation.
"Yeah, and if I'm out for longer than an hour I have you calling me or following my scent to find me, not much difference."
"We're just being cautious," Liam sat in the bed.
"You call it being cautious, I call it being paranoid."
"We're getting out of topic," Liam grumbled.
"Right, back to that. You want me to be your boyfriend?" He asked.
"Fake boyfriend," Liam corrected.
"Same thing."
"I'm pretty sure it's not the same thing."
"Not the point," Theo waved him off. "Point is, why do you want to date me?"
"Fake date," he grinned when Theo glared. "And I want to piss Scott off."
"You?! Little beta, angry puppy Liam, want to piss Scott off? What did the guy do?" Theo couldn't stop his laughter, Liam doubted he even tried to.
"He annoyed me."
"Wow, must really have annoyed you then. Thought you looked up at the guy like he was a god."
"I don't," Liam glared. "And he said some things about Hayden, and me not being over her and he made it seem like I'm a little kid. I didn't like it," he explained.
"Of course it always comes back to Hayden," Theo mumbled, but Liam heard him. "He was kinda right."
"Seriously? You too?"
Theo sighed. "You are a kid, Liam, a kid with anger issues and your girlfriend left not long ago. It's understandable that you feel bad about it."
"I'm not a little kid," Liam snapped. "And you're only two years older than me, don't act like you're thirty or something."
"Might as well be, with everything I saw in the last ten years."
"I-" Liam started, but he didn't have an answer for that.
"Let's go back to the first subject, we keep getting out of track," Theo sighed, not wanting to talk about the subject any further. "You want me to be your boyfriend to piss Scott off. Let's say I accept, what now?"
"We act like a couple, make Scott believe for some time that we are together and when he's pissed off enough and I feel better we can drop the act."
Theo raised an eyebrow, looking at Liam like he was someone he had never seen before, like he had grown two heads or like he had said he was going on a mission to find werewolves in Mars.
"Are you sure that you want to get some kind of revenge just because Scott implied some things?"
"Stop trying to talk me out of it. I thought you of all people would want to see Scott angered and hurt."
"Yeah, but I don't think you're thinking about the effect this lie can have on your relationship with Scott. He's important to you, like an older brother, you look up to him, you shouldn't let a little conversation, where you understood things, things I'm sure Scott didn't mean to imply, get in between you."
"Since when do you care about me and Scott?"
"It's not that I care, Liam, is that I'm pointing some facts you might have forgotten. You care, that should be enough to just go to Scott's house and talk to him."
"No," Liam tapped his foot stubbornly. "I know that already, I still want to do this though."
"Okay," Theo raised his hands. "What do I gain from helping you?"
"You get to annoy everyone?"
"This might come as a shock to you," he sassed. "But I don't really care about that."
"Okay, then what do you want?"
"I don't know," Theo smirked. "I'll help you and then we'll see what I want."
"So we're gonna do this and I will have to give something to you in return, something I don't have any clue about? I don't think so," Liam shook his head.
"Then I guess you'll have to find someone else to go along with your plan," he shrugged, turning on the chair to go back to his book. "Gabe or Nolan maybe... I'm pretty sure that would hit Scott hard."
"I'm not gonna pretend to date Gabe or Nolan!" He scoffed like it was an outrageous thought.
Theo turned back to him with a cocky grin on his face.
"But you don't mind pretending to date me... I wonder what that means."
"It means that I don't want to fake date someone who was on the hunters' side and pointed guns at our head to kill us."
"You do remember what I did, don't you?" Theo raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, I remember," he rolled his eyes, he didn't need to be reminded. "But you're different."
"You sure I won't kill you?"
"You have been living in my house and I'm still breathing."
"I might be waiting," Theo suggested.
"You're not. You're not going to kill me."
"If you're so sure of that," he shrugged. "Well, do we have a deal or not?"
Liam sighed.
"Okay, okay, if the plan goes as I want it to go, I will give you whatever you want in return after we're done."
"Okay, boyfriend," Theo smirked and went back to his book like nothing had happened.
Liam looked at him and groaned, burying his face in his hands.
"Already regretting this?" Theo was smirking, Liam knew that even without having to see his face.
"Yes," he admitted.
"Well, too bad, it's too late now to go back with your plan."
"What did I get myself into?" He asked, but the only answer he got was Theo's amused chuckles.