Boom Boom bounced loosely up to Matt and swung he arms around him. She leapt up and pressed her mouth to his. Matt hugged her, a little reluctantly. Rogue looked away. Matt tried to get Tabitha to slacken her hold.
"Watcha doin'?" Tabby asked snapping a big bubble in Rogue's face.
"Just talking about homework." Matt said, winking to the girl in green.
Saturday came rather uneventfully, but Tabitha woke up at early. She crept down the hall to Matt's bedroom. He lay in his shorts with his bare arms thrown to the side. Tabitha sat on his bed and glared into his sleeping eyes. Feeling the intense look he opened his eyes.
"Hey." He said stretching. Tabitha continued her fierce stare.
"What's the matter?" he asked sitting up.
"What's the deal with you and Rogue?" she glowered. Matt raised his eyebrows.
"Me and Rogue?" he asked. "Nothing, we're just friends. You know, like you and Kurt." He said. Tabitha said nothing, all she did was flirt with Kurt when Matt wasn't around.
"We're just friends." Matt said lying against the wall and pulling Tabby against him.
Rogue sat alone in the café running her fingers across her coffee mug. She looked into its brown swirling depths. Yet all she saw was Matt's face. The words 'just friends' wound around her mind. They were just friends. Just friends, nothing more. Rogue brushed the hair out of her face and put it behind her ear. She didn't notice when a familiar face stepped into the café.
Lance's gaze swept across the shop. He could see Rogue sitting alone, just staring at her mug. Lance ordered a latte and paced across the floor.
"Mind if I join you?" he asked peering under her hair.
"Whatever." She mumbled. Lance scooted into the booth.
"How are you doing?" he asked. Rogue gave him a skeptical look. "Like you care." She said. Lance ran a hand through his hair.
"Course I care, we used to live together, remember?" he said chuckling. Rogue just shook her head.
"What do you want?" she asked. Lance looked at her as if hurt.
"Ouch, lighten up Rogue. I just wanted to see how you are doing."
"Ah'm fine." She said looking up. He smiled. He stood up and tousled her hair.
"Kinda miss having you around." He said. "Can't have an intelligent conversation with anyone at home." He took his drink and left.
Rogue watched him leave. Her coffee jumped and sloshed over the table as she slammed her fist into it's surface.
Matt sat with Jean in her bedroom. She sat, legs folded at her desk and he lay on her bed watching a stuffed bear move without stimulation.
"Who is it?" she asked, watching as her bear spun in the air. Matt sat up.
"I don't know." He said running a hand through his dark brown hair. The teddy bear dropped out of the air and landed with a 'pumph' on her bed. "I don't know what to do Red. What would you do?" he looked up. His sad stormy eyes made Jean want to pet him like a dog and tell him everything would be fine. But she didn't have the power.
"I don't know. What do you like about Tabby and what attracts you to Rogue?" Matt sighed. "Tabby is so free, ya know, she doesn't give a damn what people think. But she can also be cruel to other people. But she really has a good personality. Rogue, is like an abused puppy. She only lets in a few people. I look in her eyes and I see all that hate, and fear. I want to reach out to her, tell her things are okay. And her mind, she can tell exactly what kind of person you are, how you react to different things. And her eyes, one look from them can make you want to kill yourself, and another look can make you the happiest person on earth." He stopped and looked off into the emptiness of the ceiling as if her were staring at Rogue's eyes at that very moment.
"So who is it?" he asked her. "What do you think?" Jean sighed. "I think you already know."
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