strings // newtmas au

first date

    Newt nodded as he squeezed Thomas' hand lightly. "Yeah you got Minho's seal of approval."

    For some reason that made Thomas happy, to him it seemed like Newt's band was his family and getting approval just took some stress off.

    "You already know my sister is obsessed with you," Thomas said as Newt smiled.

    "Hopefully not as much as you are."

    "Are you kidding? I beat her in the running for the leader of the WICKED Newt fanclub."

    Newt snorted out a laugh. "Shut up."

    People started filling in the empty seats.

    Newt jogged his leg as they waited for it to start.

    Thomas' phone buzzed in his pocket so he pulled it out, seeing a text from Lizzy yet again. It said "have fun on your date ;) be safe and don't put a baby in my brother." Thomas huffed out a laugh and showed it to Newt who rolled his eyes.

    "Lemme text her back."

    Thomas handed him the phone, watching him smirk as he typed out a text and sent it.

    "Newt!" Thomas' eyes widened when he saw the text he'd sent.

    It said "he's not the one you should be worrying about being impregnated." 

    "Someone had to put her straight."

    Thomas shook his head and turned off his ringer before putting his phone back in his pants.

    Newt was pulling his lip ring between his teeth before letting it go and starting over. Thomas hated how distracting it was. It wasn't like he was thinking about Newt kissing him and biting his lip or anything of that sort.

    "Did that hurt?"

    "Hm?"

    "Your lip thing," Thomas said, feeling his face heat up at how stupid he sounded. "Did it hurt when you got it?"

    Newt shrugged. "I guess a little bit but it was only a second and I guess I don't remember the pain I only remember that it hurt if that makes sense."

    "It does."

    Newt smirked then. "Don't worry, you'll barely feel it when I kiss ya."

    Thomas felt his face heat up again. He was certainly going to go into cardiac arrest by the end of the night.

    The thing that shocked Thomas most about hockey games were the insane lights and how hype everyone was. When one of the teams scored an impossibly loud air horn went off and lights flashed everywhere. The crowd around them jumped up and screamed although Newt didn't seem to be too into that.

    When intermission came around their team was up by one which Newt seemed pretty thrilled about.

    "This is so much better than watching it on TV," Newt said as he turned to Thomas. "Plus you're kinda an added bonus."

    Thomas just squeezed his hand that Newt hadn't let go of, not that Thomas minded at all.

    "Do you have to be up early tomorrow?"

    "No why?"

    "You wanna see my cats after this? Before we go on another date thay have to approve of you because no matter how cute you may be Tommy, they'll always be the number one boys in my life."

    Thomas was about to say yes when he jumped and realized his face was on the screen. He and Newt's fucking faces were on the jumbotron.