IN TOO DEEP || Liam Dunbar [3]

TWENTY

A/N: so it's been a while...yeah that's my bad...but on a completely new note I'm dating a guy named Liam now :)

When Mason finally stepped out of the elevator and found his way over to them, he looked ready to take a nap. His eyes dropped slightly out of exhaustion and the moment he saw the two of them grinning at each other, he held up a hand. "Nuh uh. I'm gonna have to stop you right there because I cannot deal with your cute garbage right now."

Katherine just rolled her eyes. "How do you think I felt about you and Corey, hmm?"

"That's different," he huffed.

"How? Because it's gay?"

"Obviously, Katherine."

"I'm confused," Liam sighed to himself.

Grinning to herself, she climbed into the back seat. For Masons sake and the fact that he's dealt with the pile of nasty for her, she'd give him shotgun without complaint. "I know you are, you loser," Katherine beamed. "You're supposed to be."

"Gee thanks," he muttered while Mason just snickered to himself.

From the hospital they drove to the school, now wanting to figure out what kind of supernatural being of hell could cause rats to get all tangled up and die. Naturally, the one place they knew to look for some ridiculously weird things was the schools library as it had yet to disappoint them on information as well as there being a late night study hall. That was Mason's reasoning anyway; she knew it was because he was running low on gas.

Once they parked in his usual spot she slid out of the back seat. Cool wind blew through her clothes in a way that made her cringe, but Katherine ignored it. She'd be inside soon anyways. With her hands stuffed into the pockets of her jeans and her shoulders drawn up, she shoved herself into the space between the two idiots she'd happily do anything for.

Mason and his clumsy hands that tried to put keys in his pocket; Liam with his floppy hair getting blown around his face.

"Hey what'd you do with that rat?" Liam frowned as he rounded the front of the car to join them.

She watched as Mason blinked. "I...lost it. In the fight." He tiredly shook his head. "Melissa is going to kill us."

"Probably," Katherine hummed.

"I don't think we can ever go back there again," Liam grimaced, though the faintest of smile was growing on his face.

Mason scoffed at him. "That might work for you, but what about me?"

"Could be a problem," Liam agreed.

They shoved the blue doors open and stepped into the hallway. The lights were off as they always were at night, but the moment she stepped inside the hairs on the backs of her arms stood up. She paused.

Judging by the look on Liam's face, she wasn't the only one who'd picked up on the fact that something was wrong. His brows furrowed and he'd tilted his head slightly to listen.

"Shit," Mason muttered. He dug around in his pockets for a moment before pulling out his keys. He made a fist around them with the end poking out between his pointer and middle finger.

"Because that's totally gonna work," Katherine muttered, but made her way over to him anyway.

"Look, it's all I've got right now," he grumbled while shooting her a look. "and I don't see you swinging your bat around like a freaking crazy lady."

"It's in the car," she hissed back at him.

But they began slowly moving their way through the halls with Liam behind them, Katherine in the middle, and Mason at the front with his useless key that he insisted would be helpful.