chasing hearts

pilot

"what up pussies!"

aj greeted his friend group as he slung his arm around wilson and ruffled kevin's hair with the other. wilson let out a chuckle.

"can you not asshole?" kevin gritted out and shoved aj's arm off from around his shoulders and fixed his wavy hair that aj had frizzled up.

noah held an irritated expression as he shoved the taller lengthy boy who barely jolted from the push.

"you're late axel, you were supposed to be here thirty minutes ago." aj blushed lightly at hearing his name instead of his fairly often used nickname.

"sorry i was too busy banging nicks' mom." aj joked and nick made a disgusted expression while noah turned red from the bluntness of the joke.

"dude gross, that's my mom." aj winked jokingly to nick.

"are you losers gonna sit out here and bicker all night or are we going to get into this party and shake some ass?" jane asked the bickering boys with an annoyed tone. they all eyed her and she stood her ground, her dr. marten boot pressed hard against the wooden patio floor.

"yeah because i'm ready to turn up." zachary commented as he pointed at the house before them.

"well let's get this party started!" wilson yelled as he opened the front door to the house party thrown by a girl named daisy. the friend group hollered as they all entered in at the same time, loud music already blasting.

aj stayed back as he reached out and grasped noah's forearm.

"you look mouth watering tonight banerjee." aj winked at noah and waltzed off into the house, leaving noah with big eyes and a wide mouth, looking like a fish out of water.

noah personally could never tell if aj was joking with him or was being serious. aj joked with everyone in their friend group like that all the time but noah felt different when aj treated him like that.
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noah always hated parties, it was never his thing. all of his friends would butcher him into going out with them and "let loose" for once in while. noah always felt so weak when he would give into their pure pressuring.

so here he is, sitting on a random couch with a pink solo cup in hands, on a thursday night at a random girls birthday party that he doesn't even know. everyone else knew her personally, just not him.

the space next to him on the couch sunk in when a tall lanky boy was sat next to him. it was aj, a fairly intoxicated aj. even high, maybe?

he threw his arm around noah's petite form. noah leaned in barely and inhaled. he smelt purely of alcohol, cigarettes and just a hint of marijuana, along with that intoxicating cologne smell he always wore.

"what're you doing all alone on this couch banerjee." he nuzzled his face into the crease noah's neck mumbling with a rasped voice, giving noah evident chills down his spine.

"axel, you're drunk." noah chuckled at his friend who was clearly under the influence. he gently pushed his head off of him because his arm was beginning to hurt. aj's head bounced up as he chuckled and eyed noah's cup.

he leaned over, "mmm what's in here?" he peaked into noah's solo cup. before noah knew it, aj took the cup out of his hands and drank it, tasting the fruity substance.

"it's fruit punch." noah mumbled, blush forming as aj basically jacked his drink from him. "yummy, i can taste it." he licked his pink thin lips and tossed the now empty pink solo cup onto the floor.

"axel it's rude to litter in someone's house and steal my drink." noah huffed and made a face at aj like a disappointed mother.

aj threw his head back in a comedic matter. "what are you my mommy?" he made a fake pouty face. "man i need a ciggy." he groaned out.