Cheesecake = Radiohead fanfiction.
One of my favourite quotes from my favourite cheesecake
“Colin, you can do accents, right?”
Colin shrugs
“I don't know”
Jonny cries from upstairs “COZ, DO THE MONTY PYTHON ACCENT
YOU KNOW”
“YOUR MOTHER SMELLS OF ELDERBERRIES!”
And I finished the third chapter of my own cheesecake.
The first two chapters can be found on here: http://www.freewebs.com/cozzie_in_mexico/r...dfanfiction.htm
Chapter 3 – Reconciliation
It took the band quite a while to forget about what had happened. Thom could talk to Colin and Ed without shouting at them after a few days, but everyone was sure that he still had not forgiven them. Jonny did not really know hot to handle the situation, but as he hardly ever left his bedroom, he did not need to worry about it too much. Colin tried to comfort his brother, but he found it rather difficult because Jonny would not talk to him. Without knowing what should happen, the band had not talked to each other or even been in the same room together for a whole week. Maybe Thom talked to everyone else if he was alone with one member, but he never talked to two or more members at once.
It was at the beginning of the second week that the band could be in the same room together again. Thom and Colin were sitting on the couch in the living room. Thom had put down his head onto Colin’s shoulder and Colin stroked along Thom’s left arm, which was lying next to his.
“Mmh… Colin?”
“Yeah?”
“I wanted to ask you something. And you too, Ed”, Thom shouted over to Ed, who was constantly gazing at the TV screen at the other end of the room.
Ed replied, “Mmh… Okay.”
“So, why…”, Thom started. But Jonny interrupted him.
“No, Thom. Don’t.” Jonny lay on the floor.
“But Jonny, I have to know.”
Thom turned his head around to Phil. “Phil. Could you come over here for a minute?”
Phil nodded and slowly moved from the table to the couch.
“Ed. Colin?”, Thom started. “What was that whole thing on about, about me and Jonny getting drunk?”
“Once again, I am really sorry about that, Thom. I don’t know what has gotten into us, but me and Ed, we only did that because we were completely wasted”, Colin explained. Ed nodded in agreement.
“But… I still don’t understand. How on earth could you do such a horrible thing? Especially because you know that Jonny isn’t used to drinking alcohol. And you even enjoyed watching us…” Thom turned away his head in disgust.
“Thom, we are terribly sorry. I wish I could make it undone”, Ed admitted with a hoarse voice.
“So, I think we settled this… You two didn’t intend to do what you have done, yeah? Did I get that right? So… I hope you really will never do that again”, Thom finished his speech. The others looked quite relieved to have finished the conversation, but Jonny could tell that Thom only had finished because he did not want to go on. Jonny had had a terrible week, he felt much better now with the band talking to each other again.
Phil and Ed went away again and Jonny got up to go the kitchen.
“So, we have the room to ourselves, eh?”, Thom said smirking.
“Yeah…” Colin nodded, his mind far away from the couch he sat on.
“But… Colin… I don’t get…”
“You actually want to know why I found Ed’s idea of you and Jonny getting drunk so good?”
“Er… Yes.”
“Well, the answer is… I couldn’t think properly.”
“But still, it’s your brother!”
“Yeah, but…”
“No ‘but’…” Thom went silent.
“OK, Thom… So… Yeah, Ed and I wanted to find out what happens if you and Jonny get drunk. Alright. I am sorry about this, but… We all were drunk and did stuff we normally wouldn’t do.”
Thom shook his head. “You shouldn’t have gotten drunk then.”
“Obviously, for you it’s easy.”
“Fine.”
“Oh, come on, Thom.”
“No.” Thom pouted and moved away from Colin.
“No, Thom. Please. Stay here. I feel so cold now.”
“Don’t get huffy. You see… It’s not my fault.”
“Sorry, but you were about to shag my brother!”
For a second, nothing happened. But then, Thom moved back to Colin again and slapped him across the face.
“What’s that for?!”, Colin asked breathlessly.
Thom did not answer and just turned away. He restlessly stroked through his hair, struggling to reply to Colin.
“Coiln”, he finally said. “I… I’m sorry, but… Oh, I feel so bad. Poor Jonny”, he sobbed.
“Oh, no, Thom.” Colin put his arms around Thom and whispered into his ear.
“Thom, no… I… I’m sorry. Please don’t start crying. I feel sorry for being so rude.”
“Oh, no, it’s okay.”
“No. No, it’s not. I should have…”
“What?” Thom looked up.
“I should have told you the truth right from the beginning.”
“The truth?”
“Yeah.”
“So…”
“I… I didn’t like how you treated Ed and Jonny.”
“But… Is hurting Jonny fair then?”
“No, you’re right. But… I…” Colin couldn’t finish his sentence.
“Colin?”
“Yeah?”
“It’s okay now. You don’t have to explain.”
“Really? Are you sure?”
“Yeah, absolutely.”
“Oh, Thom!”, Colin yelled and embraced Thom so tightly that Thom found it hard to breathe.
“Oh, sorry, I think this was too tight”, Colin said shocked and let go of Thom.
“Yeah, it definitely was too tight.” Thom grinned and pulled Colin back to himself.
“Hey…”
“Aw, come on, Coz. Keep your cool.”
“Oh yeah?” Colin rolled his eyes.
“So…” Thom grinned at Colin.
“So what?”
Thom hissed, “Oh, you know exactly what I am talking about.”
“No…”
“Oh, come on”, Thom moaned and nibbled a bit on Colin’s left ear.
“Oh, stop that”, Colin said, not completely convincing.
Thom continued, now kissing the ear.
“What the heck are you doing, Thom?”, Colin asked and started laughing.
“Oh, you know what I want to do.”
“Ah, shut up.” Colin was giggling and trying to push Thom away. But Thom now just clung to Colin and put his left hand into Colin’s hair to stroke through it.
“Hey, Thom…”
Thom did not say a word. He had closed his eyes and moved his face closer to Colin’s.
“No, Thom.”
Thom opened his eyes. “Why not?”
“Because…” Colin gazed at Thom, thinking about what he was going to say.
“Because… I feel so bad about what I’ve done to you and Jonny. So… I can’t. I really can’t do this now.”
“Oh, Coz. I thought we had settled this. Just don’t think about it.”
“But Thom. I can’t. It’s really hard for me to do that.”
“Aw, Colin. Don’t think about it. Really… don’t”, Thom said with a soft tone of voice and gently stroked through Colin’s hair.
“Oh Thom”, Colin whimpered and quietly sobbed into Thom’s shoulder.
“There, there, Colin. Oh, don’t cry.”
Thom felt like crying as well and embraced Colin very tightly. Then he let go of Colin, although it had felt really nice to feel Colin’s body so close to his own.
“Oh Thom. Thank you for comforting me, even though I haven’t deserved it.”
“No, don’t say such a thing. I can’t stand seeing you so sad.”
“Oh Thom!”, Colin cried and simply moved closer to Thom. When his lips touched Thom’s, a shiver went through his body. He could only kiss Thom for a few seconds, so he then took off his lips of Thom’s and just looked into Thom’s eyes.
“Do you still want to be together with me? Like… as a couple?”, Colin asked carefully and worried.
“Of course, Colin. I can’t imagine anything better than this right now.”
Colin smiled happily and closed his eyes, feeling Thom’s hands upon his chest trying to unbutton his shirt. But then Colin put his hands upon Thom’s shoulders and forced him to lie down on the couch. His face was so close to Thom’s that parts of his hair were touching Thom’s skin.
“You’ve got really nice hair”, Thom mumbeld.
“Thanks, but you’ve already told me so often.”
“But it’s because I mean it. Your hair is so smooth and soft… And your skin…” Thom’s hand was trembling when he stroked along Colin’s cheeks. “It’s so silky. What do you do with it?”
“Er… Nothing.”
“Colin…”, Thom breathed. “You’re so pretty.”
“Oh… thank you. You’re very pretty as well. VERY pretty.”
“Oh no… You are much prettier than I am”, Thom said decisively and pulled Colin’s face closer to his and kissed him softly.
Colin opened his eyes again. He gazed at Thom and ran his fingers through his friend’s hair.
“I wish this could last forever”, Thom whispered. He quickly mumbled, “As cheesy that may sound, but I’m being serious.”
“Thom… Don’t you think we should go upstairs?”, Colin suggested carefully.
“Mmh… Yeah… Just another minute.”
“Okay.” Colin placed several quick kisses upon Thom’s face, before resting his lips upon Thom’s and moving his hands down Thom’s neck.
Suddenly, there could be noise heard from upstairs. Someone was running down the stairs and into the living room.
It was Jonny.
Without Thom or Colin noticing, Jonny looked at the two in horror. He began to speak, “Er, Coz. Could I talk to you?”
His voice sounded hoarse. He was crying.
Colin quickly opened his eyes and moved away from Thom.
“Oh Jonny.” He looked at his little brother concernedly. “What’s wrong?”
“I… I… I had an argument with Ed.”
“And…”
“Could I talk to you in private?”
“Er, sure, Jonny.”
Colin got up and walked up to Jonny.
“Let’s go to the kitchen, Colin”, Jonny sobbed.
“OK.” Colin was so concerned that he could not say much. He just followed Jonny into the kitchen.
Before Colin could say a word, Jonny had already started speaking.
“Colin… I… Ed…” Jonny broke off, as he was crying so badly.
Colin embraced his brother and gently stroked along his back. “Jonny, calm down.”
“I can’t.” A flood of tears was streaming down Jonny’s face.
“Jonny, please. Tell me what’s wrong.”
Jonny took in a few deep breaths before he started speaking.
“Ed is a mess up in his room. I couldn’t take him crying so desperately. I… just ran away. Oh… I wish I could help him. I feel so sorry for Ed. He has always been nice to me, but I just treat him like shit.”
“You treat him like shit?”
“No… I mean… Yeah… Actually no. I… Ed likes me a lot and… and I like him as well. But in a different way. I don’t love him, but I… I like him. He’s a nice guy and everything. But… I don’t love him.”
Jonny’s cries came out in big waves of sobs and he was trembling so badly that he had to cling to his brother tightly.
“Jonny, please”, Colin tried.
Jonny shook his head and did not let go of his brother.
“Jonny. You said Ed is a mess. I think I should look after him.”
Colin tried to get away from Jonny, which was very difficult, as Jonny had dug his finger’s into Colin’s flesh. But after a few attempts, Jonny loosened his embrace.
“I’ll just be there for a few minutes. Don’t… Just stay. I’ll be back in a couple of minutes”, Colin said and then disappeared.
Jonny could hear him rushing up the stairs and going into Ed’s room. Then it got really silent.
Jonny stared at the kitchen table, lost in thoughts. He still saw Ed’s begging face in front of him. Although he had wanted to kiss him, he could not do it, merely because he knew he would only do it to comfort him, not because he loved him.
“Oh Ed”, he whispered.
Jonny hid his face in his hands and was just listening to the silence that had surrounded him. He just stood there for a couple of minutes, when he heard Ed’s and Colin’s voices from upstairs. And Phil’s voice could also be heard. Jonny raised his head out of his hands and looked outside the kitchen through the door.
Colin entered the kitchen again and said, “Jonny, we’re bringing Ed back home to Susan and his kids. He is so down, we can’t leave him here. You understand that, don’t you?”
Jonny nodded slowly.
“So, erm, I’ll see you later. I don’t know when we’ll be back yet.”
“Yeah, Colin. Bye.”
Jonny gave his brother a hug and followed him outside into the hall. He also waved goodbye to Phil and did not look at Ed whose face was wet of tears and his eyes were red.
Without turning back, Jonny went upstairs to his room. He closed the door after himself and opened the door to the balcony. It was already dark outside and the stars were shining bright up in the sky. This sight stunned Jonny. He leaned against the balcony doorframe and just stared up into the sky.
The sky was extremely beautiful and the air was chilly. Everything was just perfect. Jonny let out a sigh and closed his eyes, only listening to the sound of the night and feeling his body touching the doorframe.
“You’re alone in here?”
Jonny winced. He took his hands off the doorframe and opened his eyes again.
“Thom?”, he whispered.
“Yeah, it’s me”, Thom replied.
“You didn’t go with the others?”
“No, I didn’t.”
Jonny felt that Thom was standing right behind him.
“So you’re here as well.”
Thom let out a friendly laugh. “Yeah, I am.”
Jonny gasped when Thom embraced him from behind. Thom’s hands were touching Jonny’s stomach and Jonny could feel Thom’s breath on his shoulder.
“The sky is really beautiful tonight”, Thom said.
Jonny was lost for words. He couldn’t believe that this was really happening. He felt so bad for Ed, as he had always been longing to be somewhere else. And now he was standing together with Thom pressed against his body on the balcony. Jonny started crying again.
“Oh no, Jonny.”
Thom stroked along Jonny’s arms, which was really soothing, and he pushed his face against Jonny’s back. Jonny was whimpering and shaking. He did not want Thom to be here with him. He did not want Thom to touch him.
“Jonny, what’s wrong?”
“I… Get off me, please”, Jonny begged.
“Why? Do you want no one to comfort you? You had a really bad argument with Ed today.”
“No… I want to be alone.”
“Jonny…” Thom’s voice was shaking.
“Yeah?”
“I… I feel so bad about this. It’s… It’s my fault. I wish I could make it undone.”
Jonny could not help but wonder. Did Thom really believe it was his fault?
“It’s not your fault, Thom.”
“But yes, it is.”
“No.”
Thom did not reply. He moved away from Jonny and went away, down the balcony and out of Jonny’s bedroom. Jonny followed him worried. Quite relieved, Jonny discovered that Thom had only gone to bed in his room. Jonny had reached Thom’s bed and realized that Thom was already asleep. Suspiciously, Jonny moved his face closer to Thom, but could only see that Thom was really sleeping. For a moment, Jonny was pondering and then laid down on the bed next to Thom, put his arm over Thom’s and cuddled up to him. After a couple of minutes, Jonny had fallen asleep as well.
Slowly, Thom woke up. He did not want to open his eyes, so he kept them closed. Soft lips were touching his skin, carefully kissing his lips. Thom still did not want to open his eyes and just enjoyed the kisses on his face.
A warm liquid slowly dropped onto Thom’s cheeks. It felt really nice. But when he heard quiet little sobs, he relized it was tears. The kissing stopped and Thom dared to open his eyes. He caught a view on Jonny, sitting at the end of the bed and holding his head in his hands.
Jonny was asking himself why he had kissed Thom and why Thom had given him a kiss only a few weeks ago. He did not know and all he knew was that he wanted to kiss Thom again.
Thom peeked under his eyelids and saw how Jonny moved back, so he closed his eyes again, pretending to be stilll asleep. This time, Jonny got on top of Thom and started kissing along Thom’s neck. His fingers slid below Thom’s shirt, which made Thom tremble, and he stroked along Thom’s chest with his fingertips.
Without Jonny noticing, Thom let out a quiet moan and was breathing heavily. Before Thom could do anything alse, Jonny had already moved away from him, leaving him lying on the bed.
Quite disappointed Thom pulled the sheets over him and continued sleeping.
At ten o’clock, Thom got up and went downstairs into the kitchen. Jonny was sitting at the kitchen table and staring into space.
“Morning, Jonny.”
“Morning, Thom.” Jonny was staring at the floor when he replied.
Thom oved over to Jonny and quickly gave him a hug, before Jonny could say anything.
“Why are you so sad Jonny?”, Thom wanted to know.
“I don’t know”, Jonny mumbled.
“Aw, I don’t want you to be sad. You know that, don’t you?”
Jonny shook his head and was still staring at the floor, although he wanted to look up at this point.
“Jonny?”
“Mmh?”
Thom was now on his knees in front of Jonny and took Jonny’s hands into his own.
“I wanted to say something.”
“OK.” Jonny slowly moved his head up and looked into these beautiful green eyes.
Thom opened his mouth and moved even closer to Jonny.
But in this moment, they heard Colin calling after them.
“Thom? Jonny? I am back.”
He entered the kitchen and went up to Thom and Jonny. Quickly, he placed a kiss onto Thom’s lips, who looked at him thunderstrucked.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” Colin smiled.
“Nothing”, Thom replied smiling as well, but there was a hint of insecurity in his voice.
“Where’s Phil?”, Jonny asked quietly.
“He’s at the bookshop”, Colin replied.
“Oh, I see”, Jonny mumbled.
Now Colin’s glance fell upon Jonny’s hands in Thom’s. He did not say anything, but he somehow guessed that Thom was not only trying to comfort Jonny. Nevertheless, Colin just went on telling them about how desperate Ed was and that his wife was completely shocked to see her husband in such a dreadful condition. Thom nodded understandingly from time to time and Jonny kept silent the whole time that Colin was talking.
“Are you alright, Jonny?”, Colin asked concernedly.
Jonny nodded, although he felt weird. Thom was still holding his hands and Jonny knew that Thom had been about to kiss him. He wanted to taste these lips again, he wanted Thom to hold him, but there was his brother who could give Thom so much more and who wanted more than just a kiss and Thom to embrace him. Jonny swore to himself that he would never kiss Thom again because he was so happy that Thom and Colin enjoyed each other’s company. He did not want to spoil this.
“OK, well…”, Colin continued. “We’d better have some breakfast now.”
Thom and Jonny nodded. Both of them got up at the same time, avoiding each other’s glances and started helping Colin to put the dishes and cutlery onto the table. A few minutes later, Phil arrived and helped his friends. When the band had finished breakfast, they were all wondering what to do.
“We could all go outside for a walk”, Phil suggested.
“Yeah, sounds cool”, Thom muttered.
“I’ll stay here. I want to finish my book”, Colin mumbled.
“And you, Jonny?”, Phil wanted to know and turned around to him.
“I dunno. A walk sounds nice.”
“So, it’s decided. We’ll have a walk. See you later then, Coz.”
“Yeah, okay”, Colin replied.
The others went outside and Colin went up to his room. He grabbed a book and opened it. As soon as he had looked into it, he knew he could not read it. Not at all. Colin closed the book and threw it back onto the table. Then he got up and went downstairs to watch TV, feeling very empty and lonely. Before going to the living room he went into the kitchen and took a piece of cheesecake out of the fridge. With the cake in his hand, he went to the living room, threw himself onto the couch and turned on the TV.
There was nothing particularly interesting on, so Colin just switched through the channels. He stopped when he was on the homsehopping channel, where you could buy a vacuum-cleaner.
“Oh, what a crap.” Colin switched the TV off. He finished his cake and then just laid down on his stomach, resting his head on his arms. For ten minutes, he kept still and just stared at the wall. He was thinking about why Jonny had been so upset lately.
Ten minutes had passed and then Colin decided to go to bed, as he was really tired with his mind on Thom all the time and because he had not slept well the night before. Slowly, he got up from the couch and went across the living room, scuffing his feet and with his eyes barely open.
“I need to get some rest”, he mumbled and went up the stairs. The walk to his room seemed to take ages and when he could finally enter the bedroom and let himself fall onto his bed, a great relief spread across the whole of his body. He got really hot when he was thinking of Thom and his heart filled with the greatest pleasure possible to imagine. But did Thom really love him? Had there not been a change of Thom’s behaviour since their relationship as a couple had started? He thought so and tried to find the reason for this. But he could not find the answer. He fell asleep.
“Hey, Phil, do you think we could prepare lunch now?”
Thom put the keys, with which he had opened the door before, onto the shelf next to the door. The clock on the shelf said that it was one o’clock.
“I don’t know, Thom.”
Thom scratched his head.
“I think we could do it in an hour or so”, Jonny mumbled.
“That is a good idea”, Thom said.
“OK then… I’ll have a nap up in my room then”, Phil announced and then disappeared up the stairs.
“Erm, I’m off to the living room” Jonny glanced at Thom for a second and then left him.
Thom was not quite sure what to do. He remained in the hall for several minutes, untile he decided to go to his room. When he was at the top of the stairs he suddenly changed his mind and went to check on Colin. Thom opened the door of Colin’s room and discovered Colin sleeping in his bed. Fascinated, Thom stared at his friend who looked so peaceful and whose appearance was the one of an angel. Thom smiled blissfully and mover over to Colin to stroke through his hair. Colin himself was still sleeping and was dreaming.
In his dream, Colin went down the corridor on the first floor. He could hear voices coming out of Jonny’s bedroom. It was two people speaking. Colin opened the door and was paralyzed by what he could see. Jonny was hancuffed to the bed and Thom was on top of him, kissing him and stroking Jonny’s entire body.
“Oh Jonny. I could do this forever.”
Jonny grinned broadly. It was an evil grin and this was what shocked Colin the most. This could impossibly be his sweet little brother who always looked so cute and innocent. That was some monster longing for Thom to… He did not even want to think about it.
Colin was angry. Really angry. So angry that he could beat his brother up. What was he doing there with Thom? Thom belonged to him and no one else should share Thom with him. Tears of hatred and jealousy were pouring out of his eyes and his whole body was shaking. He was about to signalise Jonny and Thom that he was there and could see them. But then he realized that someone shook him.
Colin opened his eyes and he spotted Thom’s concerned face.
“Colin! Is everything alright?”
Colin was not sure what to say. He realized that he was really crying and sighed.
“Colin. What’s wrong?”
Thom tried to take Colin into his arms, but Colin shoved Thom’s arms away.
“Did you… did you kiss Jonny?”
Thom looked at Colin in horror.
“Er… no.”
This was not even a lie because in fact only Jonny had kissed him. He had not kissed Jonny. But then Thom was afraid of Colin’s next question.
“Did he kiss you?”
Could he read his thoughts?
“No, I don’t think so.”
If he had not been awake, he would not know about Jonny having kissed him.
“Thom”, Colin sobbed. “I don’t believe you. You… you don’t love me.”
“Why do you say that, that’s not true. I do love you. I love you so much, Colin, I can’t put it into words.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, of course.” Thom laughed. He was relieved. Of course he loved Colin. Why else should he have kissed him three weeks ago? Thom skook his head and smiled at his stupidity. Then he gently embraced Colin and stroked through his lovely shiny hair.
“Thom?”
“Yeah?”
“Could you… could you, er…”
“What?” Thom looked at Colin questioningly.
“I would like to invite you for dinner tonight again.”
“Oh, I see. Yeah, I… I could… I will come. Yeah. Thank you.”
Thom, still holding Colin in his arms, put his head against Colin’s arm and closed his eyes. They remained like that for a few minutes. Then Colin sat up in bed and removed Thom’s arms from his upper-body.
“Colin. Why…” Thom could not finish his question. Colin moved his face towards Thom’s neck. Thom strained his body in anticipation and breathed in deeply when Colin started kissing his neck. Colin kissed him slowly and passionately, enjoying the taste.
“Mmh… I like your neck.”
“Why?”
“It’s really nice.” Colin laughed quietly.
Thom laid down on Colin’s bed and felt Colin’s warm body moving on top of his.
“D’you like this?”
“Yeah”, Thom breathed.
Colin grinned and moved his right hand along Thom’s body and down into his trousers. Thom held unusually still, but Colin could feel the tension in his friend’s body. He was still kissing Thom’s neck and stroked along Thom’s upper-body. After another two minutes, Colin stopped so that he could catch his breath, and his left hand remained on Thom’s chest. Thom took the initiative and enclosed Colin’s right arm with his hands and forced it further down his trousers. Colin gasped and closed his eyes. Thom bit on his lip and had his eyes closed as well. Gently, Thom ran his fingers through Colin’s hair, whereas Colin rested his head on Thom’s chest. The two of them of them were lying in bed like that for several minutes, which seemed to be an endless amount of time to them.
The door opened quietly. A tall slim figure stood in the doorway, staring at Thom and Colin lying in bed. The person’s glance fell upon Colin’s right hand in Thom’s trousers and it wandered up to Colin’s and Thom’s faces, which were glowing and had joyful expressions on them.
Thom opened his eyes and looked into the direction of the door. He caught sight of Jonny, who had a terrified look upon his face. With a bad feeling inside his stomach, Thom opened his mouth to say something, but Jonny just looked at them and when his and Thom’s eyes met, Thom was shocked to discover that Jonny’s eyes were full of pure hatred. Thom immediately had to think of last time when Jonny had discovered them and felt guilty that he had treated him inappropriately. He had a bad conscience.
These big brown eyes stared at Thom. They expressed hatred and complete bewilderment. Why would Thom treat him so badly?
Thom did not know why he did that to Jonny. He did not want to hurt him. But Thom was not sure why Jonny was so hurt anyway. Was it because of his brother? He did not know.
With another hateful glance at Thom and Colin, Jonny left the room. Only then Thom realized that he still was with Colin. He put his right hand onto Colin’s arm and fastened it around Colin’s wrist. Slowly, he pulled Colin’s arm out of his trousers and then let go of it. Then Thom raised Colin’s head in his hands and kissed him on the lips. Colin replied the kiss and slid his hands below Thom’s shirt. Colin moved his hands up and down Thom’s back, gently stroking Thom’s skin.
“Oh, Colin. That’s so nice. Please don’t stop.”
Thom had actually said what he was thinking and could have slapped himself for that. But Colin just smiled and followed Thom’s demand.
Thom stroked along Colin’s face, amazed at how soft and smooth it was and whispered, “I wish you’d stop smoking. You’ve got such nice skin. You’d ruin it.” Tears were coming out of Thom’s eyes which got his face wet.
“Why are you crying, Thom?”, Colin asked concernedly.
“I… I don’t know. Everything is just so wrong.”
“How do you mean?”
“I mean that… Colin. We should have something for lunch.”
“I am not hungry.”
“Neither am I.”
“So, why did you ask me then?”
“Dunno.”
“Oh, come on, Thom.” Colin embraced him tightly. This made Thom cry even harder. “There there. Just cry as much as you want. Let everything out.”
“But I can’t”, Thom whimpered. He dug his fingers deeply into Colin’s flesh and sobbed uninhibitedly into Colin’s chest.
To keep him from getting more depressed, Colin was just holding Thom in his arms and rocked him back and forth. Nevertheless, Colin enjoyed Thom’s company and he could think of nothing more pleasant than holding Thom in his arms and comforting him. So they spent the rest of the time in bed until half past two.
“Where have you been?”, Jonny asked Thom and Colin, when they had come downstairs. Thom avoided Jonny’s glance. “We’ve already prepared lunch.”
“What have you prepared?”, Colin asked interested.
“Rice and vegetable sauce.”
“Aw, sounds great”, Colin said with a smiled upon his face. Colin and Thom went into the living room and joined Phil on the couch. Phil was watching a documentary on potato production in Colombia.
“The production has improved”, Phil informed them. “The workers are better paid and the firms get machines at a lower price.”
“Sounds cool”, Thom said and scratched on his chin.
“Ah, shame. You have missed most of it. It’s been on for almost an hour and you just arrived now”, Phil said disappointed.
“That’s okay.”
“Yeah, Thom’s right. It’s okay”, Colin added.
“Jonny has made rice and vegetable sauce”, Phil said and looked at Thom and Colin.
“Yeah, we know. He’s already told us”, Colin replied smiling.
“Ah, okay.” Phil smiled back.
“So, we’re having it in here?”, Thom asked.
“Yeah, I think so”, Phil answered and nodded.
Four minutes later, Jonny entered the room with two plates in his hands and put them on the small table in front of Thom and Colin. The space on Phil’s side of the table remained empty. Jonny quickly went back into the kitchen again and came back with the other two plates for him and Phil. Colin got up and helped Jonny with getting the water bottle, the glasses and the cutlery from the kitchen. Only seconds later they returned, Jonny holding the bottle in the one hand and the cutlery in the other and Colin carrying the glasses.
“I hope it tastes good”, Jonny mumbled before he and the others started eating.
“I guess it will taste marvellous”, Phil said and got a thankful smile and glance from Jonny.
Later on, when everyone had finished his meal, Phil suggested so go to the studio to play some music. Everyone agreed on this and so they all left the house and went there.
Thom and Jonny had a really nice conversation about birds. Thom admitted that he would be a small, yet colourful bird.
“Yes, you would definitely be that.”
“What about you?”
“Dunno. Guess I’d probably be something boring.”
“No, you wouldn’t. You’d be the most beautiful bird of all.”
Jonny blushed. To hide his embarrassment, he asked, “A bird?” He grinned.
“Oh, you know what I mean.” Thom laughed and found it really hard not to kiss Jonny.
“Weird”, he thought to himself and shook his head.
At the studio, the band went to the recording room in an instance and were already tuning their instruments, when Phil noted, “But Ed’s not here. What shall we do without him?”
Thom shrugged. “Just play.”
Phil did not seem satisfied, but he went back to his drumkit.
Thom went over to his guitar and took it into his hands. He strummed a chord.
“Sounds great”, Jonny called from where he was standing.
Thom did not reply, but smiled secretely without anyone else noticing.
“OK, I’ll play it again”, Thom announced and then played the chord another few times until Colin strummed the notes A-E-F-
“Yeah!”, Jonny shouted and played several notes after one another at high speed.
“What was that?”, Thom laughed.
And then Phil played a medium-speed rhythm. The overall sound was slightly psychedelic.
For some reason, Thom wanted to sing a few lines. He immediately knew what to sing, although he had never sung it before. It felt as if it was just a song they had always played.
“You’re away now… What have we done to you? Can’t you see what’s happening? Now we need you more than ever before.” Thom stopped.
“That’s absolute crap”, he shouted annoyed.
“No, it’s not. It’s really nice”, Jonny mumbled.
“Can I go on?”, Colin begged.
“D’you wanna sing it as well?”, Thom asked him.
“Yeah.” Colin nodded. He cleared his throat and sang.
“Now I feel better… Now that you’re gone. Oh no, that’s not what I want to say, please come back another day.”
Phil started laughing, but Thom did not pay attention to him. He just stared at these beautiful lips forming these words and he listened to the beautiful voice of Colin, soft and slender. It almost made him cry. Thom swallowed hard.
“Er, well… Yeah. I… Sorry. I’ll never try it again. I know it was dreadful.
“No.” Thom could hear his voice but found it hard to believe that he was actually talking.
“This was really beautiful.”
“But… the words”, Colin muttered.
“Ah, who cares about the words? Please, could you sing it again? As well as what I have sung?”
Colin was really surprised, but started singing again. Thom did not play guitar but just stood there, embracing the microphone stand and listening to the music and Colin’s voice.
The end of the session was just after they had finished playing the new song. Colin and Thom just went to the Mexican restaurant and Phil and Jonny went back home.
“So, erm… It’s just a few blocks away”, Colin said and led Thom to it.
“Mmh… Sounds nice.” Thom was looking at the menu outside.
“OK, so… We’ll just go inside, right?”, Colin asked and took Thom with him.
The two of them went to a table in a corner and sat down.
“Thom.”
“Yeah?”
“I came here because I need to tell you something.”
“OK.”
“Thom, it concerns Ed and Jonny…”
“Yeah…”
“… and you.”
“Oh.”
“I don’t know whether you have noticed, but Jonny has been behaving strangely lately.”
“Yeah.” Thom was scared of what Colin would say next.
“Thom… Ed loves Jonny.”
“I… I thought that. They are a couple, aren’t they?”
“Kind of…”
“What, ‘kind of’?”
“Jonny doesn’t love him.”
“Does he not?” Thom seemed shocked. “Since when?”
“He never did.”
“But why?”
“Oh Thom, don’t you understand? Jonny felt sorry for him.”
“Ah, okay… So… Why are you telling me this?”
“I thought you might be at least that tactful that you could show some concern for ther other members in the band.”
“You know I don’t mean it like that.”
Colin kept silent.
“Colin. What?”
“Jonny doesn’t love Ed, but…”
“Someone else.”
“Yeah. Er, how do you know?”
“I was just guessing…”
“Jonny loves you.” Colin had spoken these words very quickly.
Thom just stared at him and then slowly shook his head. “No, he doesn’t.” For a second, Thom could only express disbelief. But then he burst into tears.


: Ok great. I think me and Jonny have finally got Lift sorted. We just needed to approach it in a different way and you guys leaving Radiohead has finally gave us the chance to try new things. So here it is... oh and it's called "the lifitng carriES ME all the way upWrrds to the inFRENNOS (IS It hoti n here or isit gjust me?)" now. I thought that was more interesting.
: Don't overreact Thom. Couldn't you just change the lyrics a little and change the title to Bombers or something? No one would know.