A/N: This is not going to be a happy story like I normally write. This was inspiration from life itself. Either way, I do hope you enjoy it. Please review.

Pairings: One-sided Romy

Disclaimer: I do not own X-men Evolution or any the characters related to Marvel.

Friend, Always

I smiled, one of those happy, content, easy smiles. He grinned in response. I swear he knew what I felt for him but I would never breathe a word of it. For a girl with poison skin, he made me feel wanted, needed, and alive even. He flirted shamelessly with me. I often felt like the lines between friend and something more, were blurred with him. I hated to admit to myself even that I had fallen for none other than Remy Lebeau.

Alas, it was never meant to be. He was engaged to Belladonna. I knew they didn't get along perfectly but he always said he was doing what was right. I think sometimes he didn't want to though. He loved her; I was just a friend, always. Always had been, always would be. I was sick of hearing him say, he was my friend, always.

I let a sigh escape my lips. I looked a mess. My formal dress was dark green with matching gloves. My hair pinned up in loose curls. My waterproof make-up stayed in place despite the tears running down my face. I wiped at them furiously. Remy only chuckled on the other side of the mirror. He must have thought my tears were tears of joy not sadness. I gave him a watery smile, fixed his bowtie and left him in his change room alone.

I sat at the back of the chapel on Remy's side. He smiled at me from the front, I couldn't help smile back. I stood like all the others as the wedding march started up. The bride's maids went first in their gorgeous red dresses then Belladonna in a fairytale white wedding gown. She looked beautiful I couldn't disagree with that. As she passed by me, she smirked. She knew she had him and I didn't. I loved him in ways she never could but she had him, I never would. I'd be his friend, always.

I sat back down when told. The minister said a bunch of lines, he must have memorized by heart. I knew as the minister said vows that each one of them had written their own. I listened to her vows half-heartedly but the tears ran down my cheeks as Remy recited the vows I helped him write. It was my heart that I had poetically written on the page for his vows. I couldn't take anymore. I dashed out the back of the chapel.

I didn't look back as I ran in the pouring rain toward the X-chopper I borrowed to come down here. I had left Louisiana before Remy would even know I was gone. I would have to lie about the real reason I left, like an X-men emergency or something.

I don't know how I managed to get home but as I set down back home, and I opened the door, Logan came helping me out. He let me cling to him for a long while as I sobbed into his shirt. I had left my heart with Remy back in Louisiana and yet somehow it still had been destroyed as if he had put a charge on my heart causing it to explode. I knew I would never love another quite like I loved Remy Lebeau. Logan knew that too and he would have torn the Cajun to little bitty pieces if he knew I would be just as upset if he did that. He simply led me the back ways to his room and let me curl up in his bed. I was being hidden away from everyone until I could pull myself together.

"Tomorrow" I whispered. Tomorrow I would be strong. Today I would cry for a loved lost. I would smile when he came home to the X-men with his new wife. I'd be the best friend, always. I was always going to love him. Just today would be the last day I cried. I promise myself, always.

The End