I glanced over at Izzy and Mimi who took to cowering in a nice, dim dinner room; their heads bent almost touching as they discussed something that was obliviously none of my business. I did not how this whole "stalker" processed worked since I never actually had the urge to do so, but I must say it is frightful to watch! Tai kept rewinding the tape, pausing it, then replying it once again as we waited for Matt to arrive. I always found myself glancing at the disturbing sight of my friend, the light of the television set flashing over his face, the remote held tightly in his hand and words falling out of his mouth that only his mind could hear. I tried to keep my mind busy, not to worry about my dear friend as his mind slowly became a hollow wasteland between his large ears, but I failed. Suddenly Tai turned to the door, a tilt in his head made me aware that he must have heard something I did not, maybe the ting of the elevator door as it open. Before I could even reflex on his new movement, he had ran to the door and flew it open. Reaching out in the hallway and dragging a poor old woman inside Izzy's apartment. Tai was so sure that he had grabbed the right person; he did not even look to see whose hand he held, he pulled the old woman to the sofa and pointed to the television set.

"There! See that!" His finger tapped on the screen hard, "Who is she!" He turned and I would have paid a million dollars for someone to take a picture of his alarmed face at that very moment! His face went white, his mouth slacked open and he stood there blinking.

"Well…" The old woman peered at the television set, "I don't know who she is." She put on her too small of glasses and squinted at the television screen. "No, I don't know who she is." She blinked up at Tai, waiting for something, something I was not even sure what it might had been.

"Err…" Tai scratched his head in confusion for a moment, "Um…just as well, thank you all the same. I thought you would have been of some help but I was mistaken." He pulled her off the sofa gently by the elbow and slowly walked her back to the door. "Please feel free to stop by anytime Ma'am." Tai waved to her as she treaded down the hall, "My home is our home!" Tai yelled before shutting the door.

"Why did you tell her that?" Izzy asked.

"What?"

"That this house was her house? You don't even live here!" Izzy glared at my delusional friend.

"I had to tell her something, the poor old dear thought I was going to throw her out the window because she didn't know who the girl was."

"She was frightened because you dragged her out of the hallway!" Izzy told him.

"Well…" Tai grinned embracing.

"Hey," Matt walked through the half open door.

"It's about time!" Tai shouted, "Where the bloody hell were you!"

"I came from my house Tai. It does take a few minutes," Matt glanced my way quickly with an eyebrow arched.

"A few minutes yes but I called you forty-five minutes ago."

"And I got here as fast as I could," Matt replied.

"If the shoes were on the other feet I would have been here faster!"

"If the shoes were on the other feet, you wouldn't have to been needed here at all because I wouldn't have been obsessed with her!"

"Hey," Izzy stood bravely between the yelling beasts. "Matt's here now, he got here softly and that's all that matters. Right?" The two friends continue to glare at each other. "Fine, then both of you out!"

"What!" Tai's mouth fell open. "But.." He started to say, pointing to the television.

"I'm not having you two brawl in my apartment," Izzy crossed his arms, still standing between them.

"We weren't going to…" Matt started.

"Like hell you weren't," Izzy cut him off. "When ever you two start glaring and circling each other, someone ends up punching someone else."

"That's because he doesn't remember to duck!" Matt spat.

"ME!" Tai pointed to himself.

"Do try to keep up," Matt arched an eyebrow.

I leaned back on the sofa, watching the boys exchange words when Mimi interrupted my thoughts once again.

"This reminds me of a show I was viewing that day I was off school three days for being sick." She moved closer to where I sat.

"What show was that?" I asked, popping some popcorn in my mouth.

"I think it was Animal Planet." She said.

I started to choke, "What?" I gasp for air.

"I'm sure it was an animal channel of some sort. They were discussing a wild pack of dogs."

"Okay," I said slowly.

"You see," Mimi practically sat on my lap to keep her voice down, "It's a dominance issue."

"A dominance issue?" I put my chin on the back of the sofa, watching as Mimi pointed out some interesting detail.

"Yep. See Tai isn't himself at the moment. He's a little err…off, shall we say."

"That's being nice," I smiled at her.

"Well he is. Tai is usually confident and does not let things get to him, he is laid back. He is like a young pup. He's growing out of that puppy stage and into that adult doggie stage."

"Really," Okay this was getting interesting. I never compared the boys' behaviour with a pack of wild dogs.

"Sure. Tai is use to just bouncing around…"

"Chasing after a ball," I snickered thinking of him on the soccer field.

"I don't know what you mean but anyways, now he reached the level in the pack where he wants to push his maleness around."

"His maleness?" I frowned, "What do you mean?" I asked, taking a quick look at the still arguing boys.

"Tai wants the other boys to know that he is at the same level as they are. You know how the pack pyramid goes…"

"Sure but who's the leader? Tai always lead us when we were younger."

"That was then, when we were just being kids. Now we are coming to adults and we are leading ourselves."

"So why does Tai need to show the others that he's at the same level?"

"Well…for one thing, their minds hadn't evolved like ours."

"Okay," I said slowly. "You should stay away from the educational programs Mims."

"Seriously. He wants the others to know that he grew up as much as they have and I think he feels a little threaten with Matt's present."

"Why?"

"Matt talked to this girl. He must know her!"

"Not necessary." I shook my head, "He talks to a lot of people."

"No he doesn't." Mimi shook her head, "He wears that glare that says, "Don't speak to me!" it works most of the time. Anyways Matt has a control issues."

"Dominance issue," I nodded, not sure why.

"See Matt could be compared as an Alfa dog. He is fine to be shut up with another person as long as he is in control. "

"Matt isn't a control freak," I told her. "I know some of them and he is not one."

"Not in that sense but he does dominate you, doesn't he?"

"No."

"Really? How about that fight you two had?"

"What about it?"

"You two started to speak to each other on his terms."

"He was sulking."

"Yes but he was in control of it never the less." Mimi patted my arm, "It's natural for him because he has been caring for himself for so long, he doesn't know to let other people care for him."

"Whatever…" I shrugged, "You are right about one thing, Matt and Tai are always butting heads." I agreed.

"Right. So now this would be where the pack of dogs would start making their hair stand on their backs."

"I'm glad Matt doesn't have a hairy back," I told her.

"Err…I'm happy for you," She blinked rapidly before turning to the boys, "When they said their first words, it would really had been a few low growls if they were dogs. Then Izzy stepped forward, showing them that this is his territorial. This is when the dogs would roll their lips and bare their teeth."

"I can accept that."

"Right!" Mimi smiled; happy I guess now that I understand where she is going. "So now they have a territorial issue as well as a dominant issue, but Izzy is more submissive so Matt and Tai don't feel threaten. See how they are closing the gap between them?"

I turned to watch the boys instead of watching Mimi as she spoke. Matt and Tai were indeed in each other's face. "This is where the wild dogs would be snarling and snapping at each other, not biting just a warning snap. SEE!" She pointed wildly, " Did you see that glare! Matt glared at Tai from the corner of his eye! That was threat, a threat that Matt would attack if Tai kept it up." Mimi gripped my arm tightly. "Err…I mean a sign that Matt is getting close to strike a blow to Tai's face."

"You know I am getting sick of your cheeky attitude!" Tai moved closer to Matt.

"And that was how Tai warned Matt to back off before it's too late. Just like in the show where the one dog does this weird deep growl, tightens his muscles and hunkers down close to the ground."

"OUT!" Izzy interrupted them, getting both of their attention, "Either shut up and sit down or get the hell out of my apartment!"

"That would be Izzy declaring that this is indeed his territory." Mimi smiled at Izzy, who didn't even notice we were watching.

"Oh, now look!" Mimi pointed at Matt and Tai who continued to glare at each other, then slowly they glanced over at Izzy. "This is just like the show! See Matt and Tai are now realising that Izzy isn't going to back down this time. Isn't this marvellous?" Mimi grasps my arm and sighed lovingly at Izzy. I just started at her, patted her hand and turn to watch the show.

"Relax, Iz." Matt ran his hands through his hair, "We aren't going to fight in your apartment so cool down."

"That was your boyfriend's way of saying sorry with out saying sorry or that he was wrong. In the wild, you would see the dog back slowly away, but still ready to attack if need be. By running his hands through his hair, it was a sign that everything is all right. Like how a dog relaxes the hair standing straight up once they realise the threat is gone. See he took one-step back but he is still keeps glancing at Tai from the corner of his eye and then focus back on Izzy. He's backing away but with a lot of cautions. Does your boyfriend have trust issues?"

"I don't think so…" I frowned at that question. Where did it come from?

"Yeah," Tai scratched the back of his head.

"And that was how Tai was relaxing his hair?" I asked.

"Nope, see he scratched his head. It is like a puppy that is yelled at and then slowly moves his back leg up to scratches his ear to look cute and innocent. It also means that he accepts Matt's apology while saying that he too was sorry."

"So that's why he does that!" I shook my head in disbelief.

"See Tai is more like the pup in the pack, full of energy and ready to forgive and forget."

"While Matt is the sulky loner," I nodded, still love that boy though.

"Yep, and Izzy is the type that when sees a dominion type, he'd roll over on his back."

"But not this time."

"See, we're cool." Matt said.

"Matt is now accepting Tai's apology," Mimi smiled.

"Glad to hear it," Izzy nodded.

"In other words, he was accepting both of their apology while threaten them not to even think about starting again."

"I'll never think of the animal planet the same way now." I shook my head.

"Could you please just take a look at the television screen?" Tai asked Matt, pointing to where Mimi and I sat with the remote in his hand. Matt walked over and sat on the other side of me; he threw his arm behind my head and gave me a quick kiss on the top of my head.

"Thank you for not fighting," I said softly.

"We weren't going to," Matt lied. I had learned from his father how to tell when he is lying or telling the truth. He had this habit of grapping either the hem of his shirt or his sleeve and rubbing the material between his forefinger and thumb, which was what he was doing to the hem of his shirt.

"All the same, thank you." I kissed the bottom of his lip quickly and felt a small smile tug on the corner of his lip. Another thing I had found out from his father was when Matt started to smile with good humour; the left side of his mouth would tug upward before breaking into a full smile. While if he was smiling because of mischief, the right side of his mouth would tug upwards. I had found out that when Matt was in a very 'loving' mood, he would grin a lot with the right side of his mouth going upwards, and then I would find myself swept away in an empty room with him.