Bobby

I always knew that there was something that was there, in the dark.

I was always there to witness it happening, right before my very eyes.

It wasn't as if they really tried to hide it from anyone. Well, Scott didn't really notice most of the time, but Jean did, and she would always have a frown on her face when they were together.

Rogue would try and hide it, and say that they were just friends, but the flashes of touches, and of how he now always wore gloves gave it away. She would laugh and joke around with Kitty about him, and Kitty would pull Jubes into the conversation, and they would laugh, and make remarks about how 'Fine the weather was today'. Then they would get all fairies and unicorns, and squeal whenever Scott walked in and called them smartasses for hooting and whistling when Kitty ran into them ahem doing it.

And then He would walk in behind Scott and clap him on the back and tell him that he was proud of the man growing a set of balls, and that would set everybody off again, and Jean would blush scarlet and slap Kitty for telling, Ororo would sit there and shake her head, and start giggling in the corner.

And Rogue would laugh and laugh, and he would come up to her with a little smile on his face, and bend close to her and say something in her ear and she would nod and turn to talk to Jubilee.

He would slip out, pat Scott on the back again and be gone.

Then about ten minutes later, she would follow him.

She would come back with her hair mussed, and her breathing hitched. She would come back smiling and dizzy with desire. Desire to be free of the cloth that separated them, desire to be free of the constraints put on them. She would smile, and in the dark corners, they would touch, just the most fleeting of touches, and she would sigh, and it would be enough for her.

They would stroll through the night on his bike, and stroll through the day close together, heads bent in a silent exchange, From the windows they looked like a pair of lovers hiding from parents and friends.

Eventually, I just stopped asking her where she was whenever I couldn't find her.

Eventually, she would stop lying to me.

Eventually…

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"Humanist credo"

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Dedicated to:

deadrabbits

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