"Why him?"

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"Come on come on... ahh yeah yeah...mmm" Luca opens the door to the shared room to see Noah finishing off. His fingers wrapped firmly around his length, moving at speed, with his laptop resting on his one leg. The faint sound of overzealous pleasure emitting from its tiny speaker. "Shit Luca! Fucking knock." Noah whines as he reaches to the bedside table for the tissues.

"Why can't you do that in the bathroom?" Luca complains as he tries to cover his eyes from his bandmate's exposure.

"It's not as comfortable, plus, you told me to knock one out only the other day." Noah points out. He expects Luca to answer, but his bandmate still seems to be elsewhere as he removes his shirt, leaving only his boxers as he climbs into bed. He proceeds to sit himself up and stare blankly at his phone. "Hey!" Noah says, bringing Luca out of his little world as he looks up at Noah staring at him. "Do you have something to say to me, y'know, water spillage..."

"Oh...yeah. Thank You for last night." Luca smiles back before returning to his phone.

"And?"

"And what"

Noah pulls the front of his underwear over his exposed self. "Did you get what you wanted from him?"

Luca looks at his phone. The only action being his official instago page. But that isn't what he was waiting for. What he wanted was a text. A simple message or a phone call from the man who he had become infatuated with. Ash Brown. "He knows who I am now....I gave him my number. "

"You did what?" Noah sits up, with the laptop almost sliding onto the floor from his legs. "Have you gone insane? If Jojo and Dan find out, If management finds out..."

"I trust him." Luca interrupts. "He won't do anything stupid."

"How do you know that? You've known him for five minutes. He may sell you out."

"He saw me, Noah. Me! Not idol me, real me. When I told him I was who I was, he wasn't phased. If I had met him as a regular guy, out at a bar, I wouldn't have hesitated to give him my number..."

"But you're not a regular guy are you." Noah interrupts. "Your famous and you're closet gay."

"It isn't me who wants to hide my sexuality. Not that it's anyone's business.

"But it will be everyone's business because of who you are." Noah pushes his laptop to one side and gets up from the bed. He goes to sit on the end of Luca's bed. "We are like brothers. I just don't want you to get hurt. That's all."

Luca looks back at his phone. "Well it's been almost twelve hours and there's no scandal about it. I searched for it."

"But you've also had no phone call." Noah adds. He sits a bit further on the bed, turning to face Luca a bit more. "Why him?"

Luca's gaze seemed to stare at something in the distance, a small smile tugging on his lips. "Because it feels right."

Noah laughs at the reply. "Whatever. Don't say I didn't warn you." He gets back up from the bed in order to return to his own, leaving Luca to gaze back down at his own phone. He types in his own name to see if there are any new searches but nothing related to him. Just Noah and the water at the fan sign. Then the phone lights up in his hand. A number he didn't recognise. A number in which he hoped was the call he had been waiting for.

Luca presses accept and swallows hard as he puts his phone to his ear. "Hello?"

"Just checking this is not a fake." Comes the reply.

"Hey Ash." Luca feels a sense of relief with hearing his voice. He finds himself looking over to Noah, with a grin. Noah shakes his head as he pulls the laptop back onto his knees. "What can I do for you?"

"I want to return the favour, y'know, the gesture...ow!"

"Are you alone?" Luca asks warily, suddenly having the feeling that maybe Noah was right. Was this a trap?

"Just my friend Lucy. She made me call you."

"Oh my God! Hi Luca!"

Comes an excitable scream from somewhere in the background.

"Don't worry, she is someone I trust. We all have a friend we trust, right?"

Luca looks across to Noah, once again caught up in his laptop. "Yeah we do." He says with a smile. Before focusing back on the voice on the other end of the call. "So what do I owe the pleasure of this call?

There is a moment of silence once again before another"ow ok!" Can be heard, making Luca grin. "I know you must be busy, but when you're free, maybe, pop by after closing. I would like to return the favour, you know, for the ticket."

"Sure." Luca looks down briefly, trying to suppress his growing smile. "I look forward to the favour being returned."

"Hey, not how you're thinking. I don't know you that well yet."

"And that's what I like about you, Ash." Luca is quick to reply. "You want to get to know me."

"And you can get to know me too." Comes the response.

"Ok, it's a date."

"It's not a date."

"Whatever you say. I'll call you when I'm free ok?"

"Ok, bye Luca." The call ends. Leaving Luca smitten.

"What the fuck did I just witness, were you just flirting?" Luca turns to see Noah staring at him with a smirk to his lips.

"What? You shouldn't have been listening." Luca tries to shield his moment of happiness.

"You have got it bad boy." Noah laughs, to which Luca doesn't confirm, nor deny. He didn't know what this was apart from it was new, exciting and he wanted it.