A/N: So as it says in the summary, this is my first attempt at slash... please review to let me know how I'm doing and help me get better. Brownie points to anyone who spots the How I Met Your Mother reference in the title ;D hope its okay and everyone enjoys it! This is just the prologue but I'll be putting chapter one up in the next day or two...or maybe even in a couple of hours if my brain can stay awake long enough!

Prologue

Matt felt that suffocating frustration rise in his throat like it was choking him every time he looked at Scott's face. The boy was so surly, so grumpy, every minute of every day. He just sat, staring at the ground in intense gloominess.

It was driving Matt insane. The sullen glances, the glares more often than not aimed straight at him, the way the shadows under the other boy's eyes seemed to always be trained accusingly on him…

He couldn't take it anymore. The constant tension between them was making him so mad, and he knew it bothered the others constantly too. He could see it in Jamie's troubled and nervous glances between the two, in Pedro's almost disappointed but carefully composed facial expressions whenever the tension in the room got to a peak.

He was going to have to do something about it.