Liam was having a bad day.
Actually, to say 'bad day' would be an understatement, his day was absolute shit.First Liam woke up to his probably drunk step-dad and his mother yelling to each other about his I.E.D disorder, and then he got so upset that he almost wolfed out in front of his parents after trying to stop their argument. School wasn't the best either; Liam had forgotten his lunch money after the whole drama at his house, found out he failed a test to a class he was already failing, and then was ditched by Mason who decided to forget about him and hang out with his newly profound boyfriend, Brett.
Not only this, but now that Liam thought about it, his whole week was pretty crappy in general and he just wanted it to end. That's why when Scott texted him later that day when he got home asking him to hang out with him and the pack at his house, Liam was delighted.
He didn't mean to sound creepy or anything, but the Beta couldn't help but love being around his Alpha. No matter what, Scott always seemed to calm him down, make him feel at home, and not like he was a 'ticking time bomb' as Stiles kindly likes to put it.
So that afternoon, Liam got his reluctant mom to drive him over to Scott's house to hang out with the pack. He suspected she only drove him to Scott's to get him out of the house for a while, but hey, at least he didn't have to walk.
"Thanks, bye mom," Liam said as he shut the door of the car,
"Yeah, whatever," his mother muttered back to him before hastily speeding off without a single goodbye. Liam heaved a sigh, trying to suppress the growing feelings of irritation out of his mind. Now wasn't the time to get mad, he was here to have fun and hopefully maintain a good mood afterwards.
As Liam walked up the steps to Scott's house, he heard laughter and playful yelling coming from inside which couldn't help but make him smile. He checked his hair with the reflection of his phone and stared at his smiling reflection for a moment before reaching up to ring the doorbell. The laughter died down a little and it wasn't long before Liam heard a pair of footsteps making their way towards the front door and opening it for him.
One second passed. Two seconds passed. Three secon- "Hey guys, looks like the shorty finally arrived!"
It was Stiles who had answered the door, and of course, he just had to make fun of Liam right away. The Beta felt his smile drop from his face already but he forced himself to look like he was laughing. Liam heard a few people snicker behind Stiles and he couldn't help but clench his fists to his sides in an attempt to not yell at them. Man, he really hoped coming here was still a good idea...
Soon enough at least an hour had flown by and Liam can safely say he was not enjoying himself. He didn't know if it was because of the I.E.D, which had been acting up a lot in the past week, or if certain people were being extra irritable today but he didn't find any comfort with being around his pack right now. At all.
Liam had tried sitting next to Scott but the spot was always taken by Kira and the Alpha just had to sit on the edge of the couch. He couldn't even talk to him because he was to preoccupied with Isaac, who had come back from from abroad about a week ago and they were catching up on what's been happening in their lives.
So, Liam stuck to watching the show that was playing on T.V. He had no clue what it was and if he was being completely honest the show was terrible, but he didn't have anyone to talk too- everyone was way too caught up in their own conversation. Luckily, Isaac suddenly proposed to teach the whole pack how to play a new card game he used to play back in Paris. Finally fuck, Liam had the chance to have some fun and brighten up his mood.
Right...?
Wrong.
Fuck my life.
The game had started and everyone had formed to sit in a circle in front of the couch. Liam was pleased that he got to sit next to Scott, and he purposely sat closer to him than to Lydia who was sitting directly to his left. The game Isaac was teaching them to play was called Jeu Royal de la Guerre and Liam found himself actually really enjoying it at first. Everyone was having fun learning the game and everyone was having fun playing it.
