"You know he's home. You could just call him." Leah pointed out as she sat down next to Matt on the Changs' couch in the living room. Somehow Matt had managed to please the retail gods (or finally found a manager who liked and/or felt sorry for him) and gotten not only Christmas Eve but the entire week between Christmas and New Year's off. This of course, translated for her darling idiot of a brother to sit around the Changs and basically avoid the person he needed to talk to the most.

Which honestly didn't surprise her in the least. Give Matt any problem and he would much rather run away from it than actually confront it. She kept waiting for him to blow up at her for running over his GI Joe "action figures" (Whatever. They were totally dolls. Just like Ken) with her bike when he was four. So naturally in Matt-land, being worried that he completely screwed up his relationship with Kurt meant the logical course was to completely avoid the possibility of actually seeing Kurt.

It was completely logical. If you were a moron. Which Leah was beginning to suspect more and more that her brother was.

"No." Matt shook his head.

"Besides he's already done that." Mike pointed out from the recliner he was currently sprawled across, his eyes focused on the video game battle he and Matt were apparently engaged in. "Kurt's either turned off his phone or is ignoring him."

"I draw the line at 14 unreturned messages." Matt shrugged, keeping his eyes fixed on the TV screen. "A man has his pride."

"A man has his pride? Since when are you a man or have pride?" Leah questioned skeptically. That didn't sound like her brother at all. In fact it sounded almost like…She let out a groan as the reason that particular phrase was so familiar came back to her. "Oh dear God. Who let you watch Say Anything? It's like the worst post break up movie ever!"

"In my defense," Quinn began as she came in from the kitchen, a can of Coke in her hand, "the only other movie I had was The Princess Bride, which is so much worse to watch post break up. And he only brought Serenity with him. We both know he can't handle Wash's death when he's in a good mood, let alone when he's all depressed and confused. It was the lesser of three evils."

"I am not depressed and I am not confused." Matt defended himself, still keeping his eyes on the screen. Mike snorted his disbelief at that statement as Leah and Quinn rolled their eyes.

"Obviously he's not in his right mind. Make sure when he gets arrested for stalking his ex to mention that to the lawyer you'll have to get him." Leah directed towards Quinn. "Because I'm not bailing him out jail. I think half my ex boyfriends are down there."

That got Matt to at least look at her. A definite improvement over the past two days when he would barely look at her feet She had known he would hate her for a little bit for forcing him to talk about not only the break up with Geoffrey but the entirely blindingly obvious possibility maybe he wasn't as over Kurt as he claimed to be. But it had to happen at some point. She just didn't think he would try to cold shoulder her this long. "You don't have any exes in jail in Columbus."

"Who said I was talking about Columbus?" Leah pointed out. "And one of my exes is a jailer here in town."

"Geoffrey isn't in town."

"Who said I was talking about that ex?"

Matt dropped his video controller to the ground. "Wow. An entire day since the last time you attempted this conversation. Must be a new record."

"Not really." Quinn shrugged her shoulders. "You only came in here to avoid me talking to you about the very same thing."

"Oh great." Mike sighed as he too gave up the video game. "Now I'm your distraction attempt? I feel the love bro."

Matt stood up, rolling his eyes, pointing to each one of them as he spoke. "You are not a distraction attempt. I'm not avoiding talking to you about anything. And we established back home that you are out of your mind."

"Matty, you know we're only doing this because we love you and it's for your own good. " Leah sighed, her voice laced with patience. They had only had this conversation a few times since his birthday after all. "You tend to get all closed mouth and you tend to convince yourself not to go for something you actually want."

"This again." Matt threw up his hands and walked out of the living room. "Seriously I love you guys but you have to let it go."

"We'll let it go when you admit the truth." Leah argued as she followed him into the seldom used sitting room in the front of the house. Mike and Quinn wisely decided to stay where they were. This would go much better if Matt didn't feel like he was being ganged up on. He was, but he didn't have to feel that way.

"Admit what? That I still have feelings for Kurt? Sure I do. He's one of my closest friends."

"That's not what I meant and you know it." Leah crossed her arms. "You still love him."

"As my friend." Matt emphasized. "I know none of you actually understand why we decided to break up when we did but it was so we could still be friends now. Something we both wanted. And ok fine, it gets confusing sometimes but you know what doesn't help? Every last one of our friends telling us what we feel. "

"Matt, we aren't doing that." Leah softened her voice and reached out to touch his arm. She hadn't heard Matt go on a tirade like that in years. The last time was probably when he had shown up on her doorstep that night in the rain.

"Yes you are. I know you mean well Leah. I know everyone does. But this was for the best. It still is. We're heading in different directions. And we'll always be friends but we can't be together. Not now. And yeah Geoffrey and I didn't work out. And I screwed up at the end there. But you know what didn't help? Constantly hearing at every turn that I was still hung up on someone. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess Kurt and Austin aren't too thrilled with it either."

"Matt….."

"Just answer me one question Leah. Why is it Kurt and I are the only ones not allowed to move on? "Matt turned on his heel, brushing past Leah on his way to the front door. He needed to get out of this house before he said something he wouldn't be able to take back. Every person had their limits and he had reached his. Yes he had broken up with Geoffrey. Alright, been dumped. And it sucked but he was getting through it. And yes he was worried about Kurt. He wasn't the only one worried. He was the only one who had attempted an intervention and potentially did more damage, but Mercedes and Finn were probably only days away from doing the exact same thing. It was a clusterfuck of suck but that was life at times. This constant focus on what he was or wasn't feeling about his relationship (currently lack of one) with Kurt wasn't helping anyone.

He pushed through the front door, grabbing his jacket from it place by the door. He made it as far as his car door before Mike ran out the door calling his name.

"What?" Matt hissed as he best friend ran up to him.

"Kurt's on the phone." Mike said simply, holding out the seldom used cordless phone to him.

"Oh sure Kurt's on the phone." Matt rolled his eyes. This was clearly some sort of ridiculous test Leah or Quinn came up with so they could justify their constant meddling. "And he would call the landline here because?"

"Because your phone is dead? Remember? And who doesn't know you're here during the holidays?" Mike pointed out. "And those fourteen messages? Remember them?"

Matt grabbed the phone out of Mike's hand. Of course they would have gotten Mike involved in this. Mike always could think quickly on his feet and remain calm under pressure. "Don't think I don't know what you're doing."

"Yeah giving you the phone. Big time conspiracy." Mike rolled his eyes as he headed back to the house.

"Hello." Matt said into the phone, waiting expectantly for his sister or Quinn's voice to come through the line.

"Matt?"

"Kurt?"

"Yeah. Can we meet up?"