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Liam prom, the only place where all Liam's went to Liam Academy to be the most Liam Liam's they could be. It felt like it was made for him! But this Liam didn't need his famous suspenders or the shoes that normal Liam... probably wore on his vampire feet. This Liam was a worm, as Liam prom was coming up Worm Liam had to find a date. But could any other Liam really understand what its like to be a worm? No other Liam could understand how difficult it was for him being a worm! He could never do his pop quizzes and he always had to write with his mouth. Which was a lot harder with sharp vampire teeth. When he went to shop for clothes that he wasn't going to be able to put on anyway. He couldn't get his nonexistent arms through the shirt! Don't even get him started on shopping for pants! It was hard being worm Liam. But he had to fight through this misery to find a partner for prom!
As Worm Liam slithered up to class he looked around, searching for someone he thought was as good as him. Centaur Liam? No... too many feet. Its not like Centaur Liam was the most charitable folk. Four feet and Worm Liam was allowed to have any! How selfish of him. Many of the Liam's did their own thing. Making friends at Liam Academy was one of the hardest things to do. There were yearly awards at the end of the year and the only reward for most friends was given once to Sunglasses Liam. Who represented Liam's desire to go outside in the sun but not want to ruin his eyes. He had 3 friends! Then that reward was never given out again because they ran out of printer ink. But Worm Liam could still try his luck with at least one friend. Someone he could open up to about his difficulties during winter when there was salt on the roads. When it's raining so he has to leave his underground home to go outside (A Liam's worst nightmare)
Suddenly Worm Liam saw A different Liam. One that also had nothing in common with any other Liam. This Liam was.. buff. He was very loud, catching the attention of Worm Liam while Buff Liam was bench pressing random Liam's. Causing many screams of terror from various other Liam's. Buff Liam was everything worm Liam could have asked for in a Liam. He was buff, and the other things that made him perfect would surely come about while they got to know each other. While Worm Liam kept watching Buff Liam's pursuit for a Liam that was a suitable weight to work out with he got confronted by the Principal. Principal Liam.
"Pray tell, what endeavor occupies your time, Buff Liam?" Principal Liam looked distressed. Buff Liam quickly put Cat Liam down. He looked embarrassed but its not like Buff Liam had any choice... right? If only the Liam's had put any budget into the gym. Maybe then there would be actually weight or workout machines instead of putting the word gym on a big building that was actually just a library. For how smart the Liam's were it seemed the only thing they couldn't do was exercise anything but their mind. Which put Buff Liam to shame. "I was working out y'know? Getting my reps in!" Buff Liam said nervously.
"Dearest Liam, it is with great concern that I note this marks the third occasion within the week that you have initiated the unorthodox practice of bench pressing your fellow students! I am appalled by this behavior and don't try changing my mind by showing how easy it would be to pick me up again! As previously stated, should there be a fourth infraction, you will find yourself summoned to Liam detention." Oh no! Buff Liam was going to get sent to Detention! This couldn't be happening to the Liam he had just laid his wormy eyes on just seconds ago. He had to defend his fellow Liam. He started worming his was to Buff Liam which took about 3 minutes but luckily Principal Liam had started reading the rule book. Trying to find the infraction that Buff Liam had actually been breaking. "Section 3? No.... that's the dress code. Permit me a moment, I shall review the entire document once more, which shall undoubtedly invigorate my thoughts." Principal Liam stood reading the rule book over again once more. Giving Worm Liam plenty of time to get over there.
"Hang on Principal Liam! It wasn't him bench pressing students... IT WAS ME!" Worm Liam declared. Surprising everyone, such a selfless Liam he was! Risking his grades to defend a student. However Principal Liam didn't seem very convinced. He looked much more confused. "Are you declaring that it was indeed you who engaged in the sport of bench pressing students?" Principal Liam looked at Worm Liam. Then at Worm Liam's arms. Or lack thereof. Worm Liam of course quickly noticed his wrong doing, however he knew the perfect excuse. That could hopefully get them both off the hook. As Worm Liam didn't want to be stuck in detention. He didn't even know this school had a detention. Probably because all other Liam's were just too good to get on.
"Well I don't know how you bench press but I do it with... with my tongue." Worm Liam blurted. What the hell was he even saying? There was no way Principal Liam was going to believe that! Do worms even have tongues?! Its not like Worm Liam paid that much attention in Biology but I guess if there was anyone to know it would be the smartest Liam in school which was obviously the principal. "hmm.. ok. However do refrain from such conduct in the future. It would be more suggestable for you both to engage in cerebral pursuits rather than physical exertions. Such is not the manner befitting a true Liam" This comment while not understanding a sentence he said, was comforting in the fact he didn't hand him a detention slip. Meaning he'd be safe and now could introduce himself the that cutie Buff Liam!
Only for Worm Liam to look at the time and realize it was already class time. Maybe walking over there took a longer time than he thought it would. But it was only him right outside of the school and his class was on the second floor. Lucky him the Liam's didn't think he'd be able to go up the stairs and so he got a pass for the elevator. Even though Worm Liam was one of the only Liam's who could go up the stairs without getting insanely out of breath. He got to class just in time to be marked late and to look at the new seating arrangements of Liam history class. He was right next to Buff Liam yes! A dream come true, a real coincidence that had an absolutely negatable chance to actually happen. He took his seat and the lesson began. He conveniently fell asleep during the whole class. But woke up when Professor Liam begun to state the names for the partner project. Which was that everyone was working alone. Which disappointed Worm Liam but he was surprised to see that Buff Liam was just as disappointed. But he was a Liam! Shouldn't he be excited about working alone on a project that would take him days on end to complete?
"What's wrong Buff Liam? Don't you love projects?" Worm Liam hadn't ever seen such a sad Liam. Except for the homeless Liam's he would see slithering home from school.
"Pfft No! I'm not like those other Liam's. I don't like independent projects I think it'd be cool to work with other Liam's! Y'know? Get to know each other!" Buff Liam beamed his charismatic smile. Making Worm Liam melt in his seat. Do worms get boners? Because if they could that smile would've given him one. Someone put a pair of pants on this man.
"Well maybe we should work on it together Buff Liam! I'm sure the teacher wouldn't mind altering the groups! We'd get to know each other... and we'd work on uh... whatever we learned about today!" Worm Liam tried to sound as natural as he could but on the inside his brain was just melting out of how insanely Buff, Buff Liam was. Straining against his Liam attire. It seems those clothing stores only made one size for the average Liam. Not very inclusive of buffer Liam's were we?
After class Worm Liam decided it only fair to ask the teacher about the groups. After lots of back and fourth. Actually no it was pretty easy. Glad to see Liam Teachers were so open minded about Partner work nowadays! Back in the old Liam times the people there were going extinct because they were so independence they wouldn't ever get married or have any Liam babies. Before the big Liamsurgence of 1742 where the Foreign Liam's including Jojo Liam and Bunny Liam were so cute that it caused everyone to find a new love in themselves... and other Liams. Yet Worm Liam couldn't focus in Liam history class, if only they were learning about the stuff he already knew, that would make this project a lot simpler but no.
After school Worm Liam and Buff Liam decided to meet somewhere that non of the other Liam's went, they went to the real gym right by the library. Unsurprisingly one of them was much more popular for them to go to. But the gym was a quiet place for them to work on the project. But everytime they would start they'd get distracted. It became a cycle of looking into each others eyes lovingly before one of them shook their head and started to talk about something unrelated to the project. By the end of the night there had been no project started but they definitely felt like they had gotten to understand their fellow Liam better than previously thought of them.
"same time tomorrow?" Worm Liam was shaking in his boots. Face blushing like a maniac. Buff Liam was like no other guy he could've imagined! He was truly unique. He could stare at him (And his pecs) for hours. Watching him workout or try to solve a math problem. Which would take the same amount of time. But the math problem might take him longer.
"..what's tomorrow" Buff Liam looked confused. But despite Worm Liam's confusing words he had taken a liking to Worm Liam. He thought it was kind of awkward that he was fully clothed while Worm Liam didn't mind being naked with him. In nothing but showing off his wormy purple bod. Which had no muscles unlike Buff Liam when he had his clothes off. He figured Worm Liam was smarter than him though so He just nodded along with whatever he said.
Over the days of the project they hung out every day together. It didn't matter what the other Liam's thought about Buff Liam, because it wasn't like he could comprehend what they were saying about him anyway, and Worm Liam didn't even technically have ears he didn't care how dumb people thought he was for showing up naked to school everyday. It's not like they made clothes tailored to his uniquely wormy body. But they still hadn't gotten any of the project started about the great Liam war. The obviously knew it probably started with either the east or west Liams being mean. But they didn't know which side, or what they would say. Or how the war ended years later. They could've searched it up but Buff Liam had no idea how to spell and Worm Liam's bionic arms were still on backorder, that plus the fact they just didn't want to do the project meant that they didn't even open the computer to their project, they didnt even notice that they had already failed the project, which actually turned out to be due by the end of the week and it was already a week and a half.
But failing the project was really just a miracle in disguise. As it was the journey that counted, not the destination. Which is the same thing they told Professor Liam after noticing their normal 96 and 87 in history had gone down to a 73 and a 64. Turns out projects matter a lot more at the end of the year when its your 'final project' or whatever he called it. But he knew it was absolute poppycock! Buff Liam and Worm Liam were smarter than anyone would have thought though. After enough pressuring to Professor Liam, he gave them ten minutes to do the project. After staring at the computer and logging into it for the first 3 minutes, the next 7 minutes were spent asking Professor Liam so many questions about the Great Liam war that he ended up writing both of their final essays for them, in an attempt to explain it to the numbskulls who couldn't look forward in class for the vampiric life of them. They of course got a 100 on the project. Afterall it was created by Liam! So it wasn't like he didn't write it right?
The day.. or night of Liam prom had finally come. Weeks of staring into Buff Liam's glasses surely paid off. He wasn't just getting a partner for the prom. He was getting a friend. Hopefully a friend that would take his shirt off for him so he could stare at his muscles all day like he was a statue. Worm Liam finally built up the courage to ask Buff Liam to the prom.
"You wanna go to Liam Prom with.. me? The dumbest Liam of all the Liam's?" Buff Liam watched Worm Liam's blank stare. The one he always had when he was supa serious. It surprised Buff Liam. He was always one of the most hated Liam's. Just because he didn't focus on reading all the cool fancy book! But Buff Liam didn't care about Liam and Liamet. Buff Liam lived in the moment, and nothing would be better to him than spending his moments with worm Liam. The wormiest of the Liam's!
"You may be the dumbest Liam to those losers, but you're the Liam who stole my heart" Worm Liam couldn't deny anything any longer. Buff Liam had taken his heart away in away that no other Liam could. It isn't like there was any other Liam that would want to spend time with Worm Liam. After all he couldn't even pick up a book. He always made a disturbance in the library since he was knocking the books over trying to grab them!
Buff Liam looked scared and ended up looking for a replacement heart for worm Liam the next few minutes. Before Worm Liam had to admit that he only stole it metaphorically. So he didn't have to worry as it was still inside his body, giving him air or whatever the hell the heart did.
Liam Prom was magical! Buff Liam wasn't much of a dancer but he was great at showing off his buff skillz. Using Worm Liam as a barbell and bench pressing him on the dance floor. Which was more than Worm Liam could have ever asked for in a dance partner. It was definitely a night to remember for Worm Liam. A great day for the real life Liam too, who finally got to be the buff man he's always secretly wanted to be.