hello... once again
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10: Coffee Break
"So, what does he look like?" Mat grinned, dragging out the question with a teasing tone.
"Aw Mathew! Seriously!" Lucy rolled her eyes with a groan.
"Yeah! Come on, I wanna know! Do you have any pics?" He grinned, scooting around the cushioned corner bench they sat on and gave her shoulder a nudge.
"No! I absolutely do not have any pictures!" She cleared with a cringe.
"He is good looking though?" Mathew then asked with raised brows and an encouraging nod.
"Well, yeah," She scrunched her nose lightly as she thought about it.
"Ok! I need details here love! I can't read minds!" He turned to mock scolding, giving her a raised brow look and causing her to laugh.
"So what are we working with here? Tall, dark and handsome?" Mat offered helpfully.
"Yeah I guess," She gave a one-shouldered shrug.
"Ooo, check you!" He grinned, giving her another nudge and getting another small laugh.
"Is he…clean cut or more worn and ruggish?" Again his questions came.
"Dunno, he's not majorly ruggish, like lumber jack, animal ruggish, just…" Lucy trailed off with a mumble as she thought.
"A bit of bite not chomp, I get it!" He waved away causing Lucy to snort out a laugh and quickly slap a hand to her mouth to stop it.
"Never herd that one before," She giggled.
"He good or bad?" At this he gave a wiggle of his brows while Lucy just scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"Well he ain't good, now come on lets go!" She huffed, standing from her seat and grabbing her bag, her friend in toe.
"My hair was proper frizz this morning, I had to straiten my long bits!" Mathew chatted, stroking his fringe and the longer front layers his hair was styled into.
Lucy simply gave a nod, rather irritated once again that Gambit had crossed her mind, she didn't want or need guy troubles and defiantly not with him.
"Aw, you don't know how to deal with your guy troubles," Mat pouted, poking fun at her as he slung and arm around her shoulder as she opened the door for them both.
"Don't worry love, I'll help you!" He carried on, puffing out his chest and causing a smile to light her face.
"Aw my hero! What would I do with out you!" She laughed, wrapping her arms around his middle in a side hug.
"I'd dread to think!" Mathew over acted a cringe, getting another laugh from his friend as they both stepped down from the door of the café, pausing as a man, hurtled past them in a sprint.
Lucy jumped with wide eyes and froze; looking after the man as he instantly skidded to a halt and backtracked, stopping in front of her and Mathew before turning and pointing towards her.
"You…are a hard lady to find!" He huffed in his thick accent.
"Obviously not hard enough," She muttered rolling her eyes to look away from Gambit.
"Well, you never said he had an accent," Mathew mumbled quietly, bowing his head so he could whisper it to her.
"I never said a lot," She whispered back.
"Well I like, you don't want him, I will!" He grinned in his whisper causing Lucy to shake her head.
Gambit gave a light frown as he looked between the two as they stood rather cosy together, her arms around him and his arm around her, his eyes then rested on the light haired Mathew with curiosity before he bluntly questioned.
"Who's he?" He jabbed a thumb towards her gay friend while she brought a hand to rest on her hip, still keeping her other arm loosely around Mathew's waist, while he kept his arm around her shoulders.
"Jealous?" Mathew instantly questioned with a grin, causing Lucy to raise her brows at she simply watched on as the question caused his jaw to drop.
Gambit closed his once gaping mouth and turned to the man with a frown as Mathew tightened his grip on Lucy, hugging her close.
"I would be!" He grinned, watching as a very un-amused look fell over the accented man's face.
"Don't worry! I'm single!" Mathew was quick to taught with a wink, releasing his friend with a laugh.
"Right! I'm off sexy!" He gave her a light smack on the bum, to which she didn't even react.
"Alright babes, see you," She smiled and waved as he strutted off.
When she finally turned back to Gambit she soaked in his confused, shocked, irritated glare before stating.
"That was my gay friend Mathew," She spoke flatly.
"Yeah, I got as much," He nodded.
"Not at first you didn't," Lucy grinned and started on her way home, walking past him.
"And sorry to disappoint, he's not single," She grinned.
"No disappointment 'ere Cher!" He stated truthfully with a shake of his head.
"You let all the guys you know tap your backend?" He then questioned, the hopeful tone of his voice causing her to turn to him with raised brows and upon seeing his grin she frowned.
"No!" She cut bluntly.
"So, why'd you find me?" She sighed, taking on a slow walk.
"Well, 'em cards you so kindly turned blank turned back to normal after half an hour," He stated, falling into step with her.
"More questions? Fun," Lucy gave a sigh, her shoulders sagging somewhat with irritation.
"Did you think of 'em?" He raised a brow towards her.
"No, because that would mean thinking of you, and when I met up with Mathew my mind was blissfully clear and made the head ache you caused, vanish," She shot him a frown before suddenly speeding up.
"Wait! Wait, wait!" He called trying to slow her down.
"So the cards came back coz you weren' thinkin' of 'em, right?" He stepped up next to her and watched as she gave a nod
"Sounds a good enough reason," She shrugged
"…Den how come, my queen of hearts didn' come back after you switched her?" He continued, raising a brow towards her.
"Well… it was an accident, I didn't know I did it and I can hardly forget about something I don't even recall doing!" She threw her hands up with her shrug before looking both ways and crossing the road.
"Makes sense," Gambit mumbled with a shrug before following after her.
000
"I'm thinkin' we should experiment," Gambit called vaulting the ticket barrier while Lucy put her ticket threw.
"No!" She instantly barked, giving him a frown.
"Aw come on Cher!" he tilted his head back with a groan.
"No! I don't trust you, you used me! You lying, arrogant, twat! Leave me alone!" She whacked him on the arm and stormed off.
"Ow! …Cher!" He rubbed his arm lightly and followed after her.
"Come on! Gambit's sorry," He offered, trying to get to her but finding himself wedged out the way by a small group of people that had all filed onto the same escalator as Lucy.
"Cher, I want to help you," He called down to her.
"I said leave me alone!" Lucy called back, crossing her arms from where she was stuck on the large escalators heading down to the underground, people having decided to clog up the whole escalators, preventing her from moving anywhere.
"And I said I'd help! Der ain't no gettin' rid of me Cher!" Gambit called back from where he stood a few steps higher, blocked from getting to the woman only four steps down.
"You ain't helping! You're a user!" She turned and shouted back up at him.
"Aw, you cut me real deep with dat one!" He placed a hand over his chest as if that was the area in pain and gave a roll of his eyes.
"You ain't felt nothing yet love!" She shot back.
"Oi! Lady, we all had a bad day too, now I don't need some prissy little pms-ing bitch, in my face!" A balding man yelled, dressed in a dark grey suit and scowling so bad it brought all his wrinkles out.
"Hey! Dat ain't no way to be talkin' to a lady!" Gambit frowned, a look of distaste instantly falling over his face.
"She ain't a lady!" The arrogant, balding man scoffed, turning back to look down at Lucy with a sneer.
"She's nothing but a stuck up, winging little madam that needs to be put in her place," He leaded towards her with a scowl, while Lucy's jaw dropped like a led weight.
She never saw her self as stuck up and sure she had a whine every now at then but who doesn't?
"W-why you..!" She stumbled, obviously shocked at the vulgar man, just starting to lean back from him when he was luckily ripped from her view.
She had to jump to attention and clear her eyes with a hard blink before looking around for the man, soon finding him in a vice grip by the only person she knew on the escalators.
Gambit had flown down the few steps, reached past the one person in his way and fisted his hand into the white shirt buttoned right up to the man's neck, yanking him from Lucy and towards him, tightening his grip that bit extra, the man's shirt now starting to dig into his own neck so bad the skin started turning red.
"You need to learn how to talk to a Lady properly, now, I suggest you apologise," Gambit's voice almost came out as a growl and Lucy couldn't help but watch with wide eyes.
"God! Sorry," The balding man spat like a thuggish teen who had been caught by police and forced to apologise, hardly meaning it and only saying it so he would be freed.
With a sudden thunderous look his grip worsened, causing a strangled gasp to jump from the man, right before Gambit forced him to turn, put a hand to the back of his balding head and knocked his head against the plastic conveyor belt of the moving railings before yanking the dazed man upright while Lucy jumped in surprise, tucking her arms into her chest to keep out the way as she watched wide eyed.
"Na, say sorry to the pretty lady like you mean it!" He taunted in a soft tone, like speaking to a child.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it… please," The elder man spluttered, his voice hitching up a notch and not only because of the grip Gambit had on him but because of the lump starting to build in his throat, before he whimpered out a small cry, his nose now bleeding.
With a satisfied nod, Gambit pushed the man back and took his place, letting the grovelling man fall back into the legs of the stunned witnesses and sit on the metal steps.
Lucy blinked up at Gambit next to her a step up, unsure on what to say, giving a look to the man still sat, wiping his bloody nose in his sleeve.
"You're still not forgiven!" She then piped up, turning to face the right way as she finally came to the bottom of the escalators and jumped off.
"I can live with dat for the moment!" He nodded, again following after her.
LONDON UNDERGROUND! london underground!
...when ever i thin of the London underground the song just pops into my head an it makes me giggle
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