Head tilted sideways, Evan stares at the picture on the wall. He's known about his powers since he was sixteen and came into them. He's worked for years to try and control them, but it wasn't until he was in college and met his best friend that he was finally able to focus enough to control them. It was also about the time he fell in love. Unfortunately, he'd fallen in love with that same best friend who just happened to be straight.

Evan sighs as the picture straightens itself and he nods before walking into the kitchen. He and Drew had become such good friends in college that when they were done- both majoring in art history and minoring in world history. After college, they'd decided to get a job together in Evan's hometown of St. Louis. And when they'd both been hired on at different museums in St. Louis- Evan at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Drew at the St. Louis Children's Museum-, Drew had suggested they move in together to save money. Evan had pretty much jumped at the chance to live with Drew more. Even though he knew he didn't stand a chance with his straight best friend, he still felt an almost desperate need to be around him.

As he fixes dinner, he leans against the counter, using his powers to do the work. He watches the spoon stir the chili and frowns. Drew had been on a date the night before with their neighbour. Kelly Blank was probably the prettiest girl Evan had ever met. She was sweet and pretty and built. Evan hated her. Worse, he wanted to hate her, but she was so damn nice, he couldn't actually hate her.

Then he hears what he's been dreading since Drew started dating the lovely Kelly a month ago. A girlish giggle coming down the hallway and Drew's low chuckle have Evan biting his lip and before he knows it the spoon is flying across the kitchen and the entire pot of chili is being tipped onto the floor. Evan dives for it to try to catch it only to end up burning himself. "Ow. Fuck. Fuck!" he yells, backing away and holding his good hand to his arm.

The door bursts open and Drew takes in the mess and shakes his head before he goes to Evan. "Ev."

"I don't know... I turned my back and I must've caught the spoon on my shirt or something 'cause it went flying and I turned too quickly and the pot tipped and..." Evan bites his lip. He's gotten really good at lying to Drew about the weird things that have happened around the house since Drew started dating Kelly.

"C'mon, Ev." Drew helps him to his feet and over to the sink. "Kelly, be careful, that's hot."

Kelly makes a face and nods. "Are you okay, Ev?"

"Yeah." Evan closes his eyes as Drew runs cold water over the burns. He could tell Drew that he can heal the burns himself. He doesn't really need the assistance and the cold water is doing nothing to help the burning. He opens his eyes to see Kelly cleaning up the mess. "Don't!" He flinches as a glass falls off the counter and crashes to the floor. "I've got it, Kelly. I can clean up my own mess."

"Oh. Okay. I was just trying to help."

"Evan, be nice." Drew frowns at him.

Another glass crashes to the ground and Evan jerks his hand away from Drew. "I'm fine. You and Kelly can go on about whatever you were doing."

Drew sighs and turns to Kelly. "Kel, can you wait outside? Please?"

"Sure. Bye Evan. Hope you feel better." She sighs and leaves.

Drew turns to Evan. "You've no right to make her feel like she's not welcome."

"It's my house too! I don't bring dates home do I?"

"You're welcome to. I don't care if you bring men home, Evan, so why do you care so much when I bring Kelly home?"

Evan sighs. "Forget it. Just leave. Go be with her."

"Evan."

"Just go." Evan flinches when he hears several of the plates shatter in the cupboard.

Drew frowns. "Fine. I won't be home tonight since you don't want Kelly in our house." He starts for the door and turns when he hears more of their dishes shatter. "What is that?"

Evan just shrugs and pulls a towel off the refrigerator door and starts mopping up the mess from the chili.

"Fine." Drew sighs. "I'll see you tomorrow."

Evan ignores him and when he hears the front door open and close, he lets the tears trickle down his cheeks. It's not because Drew left or even because Drew left with Kelly. It's because they'd fought and he and Drew had never fought until Drew started dating Kelly. And it was all because Kelly was different from the other girls. A few dates and Drew had left them behind. But Kelly... She and Drew were together all the time and Evan was losing his best friend. He'd already reconciled himself to never being able to love Drew the way he wanted to but losing his friendship was killing Evan.

He sighs and finishes cleaning up the chili as he listens to glasses shatter. Taking a deep breath, he focuses on the cabinets and uses his powers to try to fuse the dishes back together. Last time this had happened, he'd ended up with one clump of dishes that were all part of each other.

Opening the cupboards, he winces. Every dish in the cupboard is now one big clump of glass. He sighs and grabs the clump, tossing it in the garbage. Apparently he's going to go shopping today. He checks on the glasses and tosses the clump of glass there. Target it is. This is probably the fourth time he's had to replace the dishes because of fights with Drew.

After taking out the garbage and cleaning up the pot from the chili, Evan grabs his wallet, shirt and shoes and heads out to buy new dishes. Once he gets there, he smiles a little as the associate who always helps him just smirks. "Back again, huh, Evan?"

"Shut up, Teddy." Evan laughs a little.

"Need new dishes again?"

"Yes. Glasses and coffee mugs too."

"How the hell do you and your roommate break so many dishes?"

"We fight a lot." Evan smiles and follows Teddy to the dishes aisle. He picks up a couple of boxes of glasses and points to the right dishes. "Two please. Thanks for the help, Teddy."

"Always happy to help. Do you need anything else?"

"What do you need to sell?"

"Nothing for once. I've met my quota of selling stuff." Teddy grins. "Just wanted to make sure you didn't need anything."

"Ah." Evan bumps him with his hip. "Thanks, but this is it."

"Should I order a few more sets, just in case?"

Evan laughs. "No. If we break more, I'll just have to start buying a new pattern."

"I still want to know how you break dishes that are virtually unbreakable." Teddy shakes his head and sets the two sets of dishes on the counter and takes the glasses from him. "I'll help you out."

"Thanks." Evan pays, sighing a little. He's put more money into dishes than he has anything else in that house.

Finally, he's on his way back home and he unpacks the car as quick as he can, running all the dishes through the dishwasher. He starts another pot of chili before he pulls out the ingredients he needs for cornbread. This time, he doesn't use his magic to help. It's too likely to go strange on him again.