Authors Notes: Again thank you for the reviews and I must apologise for taking so long with this... this chapter was written a while ago and I think it's rubbish personally but you can judge anyway you like. The next part starts to change the story quite a bit... I couldn't think of any good way of how to get R & L together so in the next chapters you will find out where my weird brain decided to go with this!
Last but by no means least... Don't worry about this taking forever to be updated! I have already completed the story a while ago I am now just trying to get it all typed up so all you lovely people can read it.
So read on my friends and for get not to review! It's just like tipping a waiter at the end of you meal but with words rather than money... trust me it's much cheaper xD
One in particular
Of course after my realization I had not wanted to see Dave. After about a week I guessed he had started to suspect something, mainly as one morning he asked:
"Ok Rimmer, What's up?"
"What?"
"You're avoiding me"
"And that's an unusual thing?"
"Come on man, You've been acting weird lately"
"I have not"
"Rimmer..."
I decided not to respond and just lie facing the wall on my bed. I knew he was right but what could I have said? Even now I'm not sure what I could have said.
I had lain there for at least twenty minutes before I heard a sneeze. I had quickly turned; the noised startled me from my thoughts.
"I thought you left"
"Did you hear me leave?"
"No... What are you still doing here?"
"You never answered my question"
"What question?"
"What's up?"
"Nothing! There, you have your answer, now go!"
"Have I done something?"
"No"
"Then why are you avoiding me?"
"I just don't want to see you"
"There must be a reason"
"Lister, I don't have to explain everything to you"
He stood and he stared at me, I lay there looking at him while he stared at me... It was all very strange and confusing.
I'm not sure how long we stayed like that but eventually he seemed to realize he was staring and shook his head as if to clear his head, this had cause my gaze to drift downward so I was now looking at the slightly grubby hard floor, I remember making a mental note to clean it.
"Rimmer?" Dave had asked, I had once again forgotten he was stood there, to busy in my thought of what floor-cleaning product I could use.
"What?"
"If I did something to upset you I'm sorry ok?"
"You didn't do anything"
"Well what ever is making you act like this you can talk to me if you want you know?"
"No, I can't"
"Well if you need me I'm here"
He left with that and I couldn't help think this seemed quite out of character for him but then again he had been acting differently so it shouldn't have surprised me, Dave can be really nice when he wants to be...