"Hey, watch where you're going fatty!"
Foggy sighed with a roll of his eyes. 'Real original.' He didn't even know the name of the goon that had rammed into him, he'd maybe seen him in one of his larger gen-ed's but he'd never had an actual conversation with the guy. It was obvious to Foggy the guy was just showing off for his cronies and he was totally above that, don't give them what they want and they will lose interest.
"Are you serious?"
Apparently Matt didn't believe in the same philosophy.
"You're the one that ran into him."
"Aw, how adorable!" The dick laughed, his buddies cooing beside him. "Gotta have your defective friend defend ya there pudgy. What? Ya can't speak for yourself?"
Foggy's eyes darkened, he didn't take issue with Doofus calling him names, but he was not allowed to say something like that to Matt. "Why don't you just back off?"
"Now they're defending each other! What an adorable couple you make, Fatty and the Freak!"
"Don't call him that!" Matt and Foggy shouted simultaneously, and while Foggy was infinitely grateful for his friend's support, them speaking in unison did nothing to defend their case.
The leader of the group laughed tauntingly before pushing his way between them. One of his goons shoved Fogy the other sneering "defective" in Matt's ear as he slid past.
Foggy scoffed in disgust, shaking his head as he started toward their dorm. "Come one, they were just some stupid rich kids."
"Even if they were right?" Matt spoke, voice hushed, feet rooted to the ground.
"Hey now, are you calling me fat?" Foggy jeered, rounding on his friend with a smile that soon faded as he realized Matt was serious. "Matt, they were just some entitled jerks trying to get a rise out of us."
"That doesn't mean they were using untrue statements. I mean, it's not like all five of my senses are exactly functioning." Matt mumbled, scuffing a foot across the sidewalk.
"Hey," Foggy began gently, discarding his bag on the ground and gripping Matt by the shoulders. "You're not defective, or some freak of nature."
"No, just disabled."
"Matt you are the most abled disabled person I have ever seen."
Matt chuckled, swiping quickly at a wet gleam by his eye that Foggy pretended he hadn't seen. "I don't think you're fat either." He whispered.
"Oh I could stand to do a few more crunches." Foggy countered, dropping his hands and retrieving his backpack.
"But will you?"
"Absolutely not!"
Both friends laughed loudly, slinging an arm over each other's shoulder they began to amble at a slow pace back toward their dorm.
"Why weren't you going to defend yourself?" Matt questioned suddenly.
"I wasn't gonna give him what he wanted; I could see he was just a bully ya know?"
"Oh. I guess I ruined that plan didn't I?"
"It's okay." Foggy assured with a shrug. "You couldn't see him."
Matt laughed again but quickly fell silent, he spent a moment contemplating a thought before voicing it. "But you were going to defend me."
"Of course! No one talks to my best friend that way!"
Foggy couldn't help but grin at the contented smile that stole Matt's face. "Well thank you."
"And thank you, for sticking up for me."
"Anytime mon frère."
"Seriously? French, Spanish, any other languages you know?"
Matt shook his head with a grin, "I mean, I know like five words in French."
"Uh translation: at least five whole conversations. Dude I can barely remember any Punjabi."
"That's because you barely passed the class."
"Ouch. Well Murdock, if that's the way it's gonna be, see if I defend you next time!" Foggy said, shoving Matt just hard enough to make him stumble forward slightly.
"Is that so?"
"That is so."
Matt tipped his head back, laughing deeply and relishing the warmth of the sun on his face and the beat of his best friend's heart in his ear.
A/N: Hey there! I hope everyone's summer is going well. Mine is kind of crazy and stressful but that's a story for another day. Anywho, so I have two more chapters basically finished and then a bunch more in the works. I will try to update as fast as possible but I've also got another story idea that is currently eating away at the inside of my head and may cause permanent damage if I don't write it soon. So we'll see where everything goes. Please drop a review if you enjoyed this chapter and if you're interested in more, I could really use a bit of support in my life right now. Thanks guys, until next time!