well, i'm back again! i hope you all like this one, it's matt x mike, which is my headcanon and is completely under-appreciated!

spoilers: let's just say season 1 for matt and mike being bffs, i can't remember exactly which episode it is they're introduced in... otherwise, the rest is imaginary and isn't based on canon events.

disclaimer: i don't own glee. and unfortunately never will. :(

it's almost uncanny

how close you are

{the way you can r e a d each other's minds}

:maybe, it was inevitable that you would end up as:

*m o r e than f r i e n d s*

no-one seemed very surprised when you announced it

so you just grinned at him

[and he gave you that little smile]

slightly lopsided

the one that reads:

'i'm really happy, but i'm not going to go over the top about it.'

-you wonder w h e n it was that you learned w h a t each of his smiles meant-

and find that it doesn't really matter that much.

.o0o.

[it's the first day of first grade, you've just got out of kindergarten]

you sit down at your desk and get your pencils out

:then there's a quiet little knock on the door:

'ma'am? i'm matt rutherford.'

the teacher knows who he is

{the new kid}

/he's so quiet/

but you know how it feels not to have many friends

so you sit next to him at lunch time

'hello. i'm mike chang. do you want to be friends?'

-and he smiles at you, like you're just what he's been waiting for-

.o0o.

*you g r o w up, you make more friends*

but matt is the one who will a l w a y s be there for you

(waiting outside your house to walk to school)

{hanging around in the school yard, watching you talk to finn hudson}

:you try to be there for him too:

so when he decides to try out for the football team

you do too

together, you find out that f o o t b a l l is something

matt is really good at

you are the first one to get to him after he wins your first game

you are the one who hugs him the tightest

you are the one who smiles the widest

.o0o.

{things change, after that football game}

people look at him differently

they want to chill with him

:and now you think you know how he felt last year:

[now you are the one always hanging around]

|the difference this time is|

he always, always makes time for you

so your friendship pulls through

-maybe it's stronger for it-

.o0o.

it's hard, looking back

to recall exactly w h e n it was that you started to see him as

:something m o r e than just a friend:

|perhaps it was the time|

you took a picnic to the park

/lay in the green grass, watching clouds pass by/

&&realised&&

(that it wasn't something that friends would normally do)

-perhaps it was the time-

after football practice

{he showed you the bruise his drunken father gave him}

/purple, blue and black blossoming over chocolate skin/

(all you wanted to do was kill his dad)

:because how could anyone want to hurt him?:

but when he comes to your house in the middle of the night

'will you always be my friend, no matter what?'

you say yes, of course

.:when all you really w a n t to say is:.

(i love you, nothing could change that)

he looks into your eyes

/coffee-bean brown that you could fall into/

mike...i'm bisexual.

{and you almost want to cry from happiness}

you've been wanting, waiting to hear those words

to know you're not alone

^but there's more^

i tried to come out to my parents... my dad didn't take it too well.

&&he lifts up his shirt&&

(oh, god, matt.)

/purple, blue and black blossoming over chocolate skin/

[but it's so much worse than that time in the locker room]

you don't say a word, just hold him

hold him, hold him

.:until the tears won't come any more:.

.o0o.

-so now, as you sit on the grass-

{under the New Hampshire sky}

watching as he runs with your s o n

teaching him how to throw the football

just so

.:you think that:.

:maybe, it was inevitable that you would end up as:

*m o r e than f r i e n d s*

so... did you love it? hate it? whatever it was, please review and tell me! (although if you did hate it, give constructive criticism and don't just flame!)