Felix nodded his head while trying in vain to regain his composure. He took a few deep breaths, letting his heart calm slowly. It did eventually, leaving him able to think just a little more clearly. It was simple curiosity, that was all. There was nothing more to that thought, to that single searing image, then it being a vague possibility. Matt had said it himself, he wasn't interested in men. Something which Felix had never been sure about. He'd always been too busy to ever find out.

"I'm sorry," mumbled Felix weakly. "That isn't what I meant ... Not at all. I meant that you seem like you could do anything you put your mind to." The teacher had slipped to the front of the class with a stern look for the girls. Oh it was a relief! Though Felix was going to have to rely on Matt during the class to help him along.

"Alright." Was all he could say to Felix, he was hoping he was okay but his face was red. It didn't look like it came from him swallowing wrong, looked more like blushing. However he just let it go, he didn't know him that well to pry into it. He just watched him to make sure he was really okay, he was wondering why he was blushing; was it cause he was gay? Or something he said, did you say the right words. His mind was racing with thought at the possibilities, he hoped he didn't say the wrong word.

He came out of thoughts and smiled at Felix, "It's all right, I know what you meant. Still allot of musicians were deaf, allot of people with disorders do things that most people wouldn't even know they are." He told him reassuringly, he looked at the teacher who just looked at the girls. Guess he didn't like them either, but then again he was the one that told him what they said about him.

Slowly red faded away as the young man listened half-heartedly to the teacher explaining how things worked in his class. "And you're an ace mechanic, or so it seems from what I keep hearing." The words were mouthed only, for fear that the teacher might hear. Felix pretended that he was taking notes and doodling the diagrams, but in truth his mind was racing.

Uncertainty filled him as he thought of dark locks and pale skin becoming flushed with excitement. A long breath escaped Felix as he tried to banish such thoughts, but they persisted like flies. Once one was swatted away, another replaced it and kept buzzing about instantly, leaving no room for thoughts of what happened in class. Soon they were guided towards the cars and told to peer inside it's entrails.

Their task was simple that day. They just needed to look and name what they could see, well write it down upon a piece of paper. Felix found himself shuffling about nervously at the thought of having Matt standing close enough to peer into the car alongside him. He was glad the teacher was there to make sure everything went well. If not, he was certain that another embarrassing scenario would have happened once again. For the moment, the popular boy peered at the puzzle before him with complete and utter confusion. At least class was serving as a distraction, albeit an ineffective one.

Matt just watched the teacher, he wasn't paying attention really to what he was saying, he heard the speak countless of time and it never changed. He looked at Felix and chuckled lightly, he wasn't a the best but he was trying to be. He need to go to college to improve more, nothing he tried seem to teach him anything new; he new it all already. He watched his doodling and shook his head lightly, he wasn't really paying attention like him either.

His mind was back on thoughts of the day, he needed to get to work after this class. He was just glad the teacher knew him and let him park his bike behind the shelves where the students where not allowed. He kept his helmet and leather jacket with the bike to make it easier to leave when he had too. However he was still tired and wasn't looking forward to working seven hours of busting tables, he hated having to work night shift while tending to school. He offend thought of getting his G.E.D. but then he met Felix and he wasn't sure if he wanted to leave when he might have made his first actual friend.

He pressed against the lights on the car as he wrote down all the parts he knew; which was all of it pretty much. He handed the paper to Felix so he copy if he wanted to, he reached inside the hood and started to undo a cap. He looked inside the and shook his head before he placed the cap back on and knelt on the floor, the car had a bad oil leak and he wanted to tinker with it. The teacher looked at him and shook his head no which made him put on a sad face, it would be easy for him to fix granted he may not have all the time to but he wanted to so bad.

Felix was quite perplexed about everything in the car. A sound of frustration escaped his lips as the smell of oil and gas filled his nose. The young man ruffled a hand trough his hair as he thought and thought about what the teacher had given them during class. Nothing came to mind. Overwhelming relief flooded trough Felix at the sight of paper being handed to him.

He sent a brilliant smile Matt's way. "Thanks!" Carefully he jotted everything down while trying to remember which parts the name went with. Once that was done, he glanced curious at his friend. "What are you pouting about?" It was kind of cute actually ... That brought on another bout of blushing, though this time Felix didn't even notice.

The teacher just walked away as Matt stood back up, he wanted to fix it but he wasn't allowed to. He scratched his head thinking of something to do when saw Felix speak. "The car has a leak and the teacher won't let me fix it." He told the teen, he took paper and wrote his name on it so he could turn it later. He looked at the rest of the car, it had allot of problems with it and his bet was they were going to fix it throughout the first year of the class.

He looked at Felix who started to blush again, "Why are you blushing?" He asked confusedly, the man did blush allot or so it seemed. He still wasn't sure if his face was red from the coughing or if he was blushing the last time. they still had allot of time to goof off during the class and he was getting bored; til he saw the welding equipment. It was all brand new, he looked at his teacher. "Are you going to weld this year?" The teacher looked at him and shook his head 'no.' Which made him sad, he loved welding the car parts back together. "Awe, that sucks." He replied to his teacher, who just shook his head at the young man.

Well that made sense. It didn't do anything to help Felix's complexion though. His usually neat writing had become a messy scrawl and that, along with other things, made him realize he might have been developing a crush on Matt. If that wasn't surprising enough in itself there was the added fact that he felt so self-conscious and uncertain around the other boy. Felix wasn't used to feeling flustered, or to liking another man, but there it was.

"Because I just know I'm going to embarrass myself the moment we start tinkering with cars ... Unless you help me out. I have no clue what is what!" Oh such a handy excuse! Felix was more glad then ever he'd had so much practice acting. There was no way he was going to tell Matt the truth.

He just smiled at Felix, "We'll probably have to fix this like last year." He told the teen, he was excited to but knew he probably would hate it. He was walking around the car before he got on his back and barely crawled barely under the car, "Ooo, the alignment is messed up; it's going to need a new arm." He was excited he wanted to start on it now but the teacher just rolled his eyes at the deaf kid as Matt continued to look underneath the car.

He could still could see Felix's face as he spoke, "You'll be fine, could be worse. You could be like those girls." He said feeling their glares and the swooning over Felix. They hated Matt cause he didn't want anything to do with them and that he was taking all of Felix's time from them. He was playing with parts under the car and started to get geasy when the teacher came and tapped Matt's leg with his foot. "Matthew Lee Addams, get out from under the car. You'll get to that point soon enough." He said before leaving the deaf kid, he was mumbling as he left. Slowly Matt out out and scratched his face without knowing he had grease on his fingers, it smeared onto his face as he just sat there sad he was caught.

Felix turned a little to send the girls a warning glance. All of them turned away hurriedly save for Charlene, the most annoying of them all with her twittering squeaky voice. Hearing Matt's voice, Felix shifted to peer about and find his friend. An amused chuckle escaped the young man once he noticed the boy had crawled under the car without waiting to see if that was what they were supposed to do that class.

He fell silent as the teacher came over to tell Matt off. It was a shame really, considering how obvious it was that the dark haired youth enjoyed tinkering away with cars. The moment Matt came back into sight Felix fell into a bout of nervous laughter. "Come on, cheer up." Without thinking his action trough the brunette grabbed the edge of his shirt and used it to clean up the smear of grease on Matt's cheek. His thumb brushed gently against skin to linger there longer then necessary, making a blush sweep across his cheeks and snatch his hand away quickly. To forestall any questions, Felix lifted his dirtied shirt as evidence of the grease's existence and as explanation of his actions with a hopeful look. He almost seemed like a puppy, waiting to be praised but expecting the worst. Felix truly didn't want to explain his actions.

He just sat on the ground looking at Felix oddly til he saw the grease on his shirt, he looked at him finger to see them covered in grease. He smiled and wiped the grease on his pants, "Thank you." He said standing up and dusting himself off. He looked at Felix and smiled, "I wouldn't have known I was covered in grease til that, again thank you." He said happily, granted it was weird not that he touched him but that lingered with his thumb for a second longer then needed. He looked at the ground and stared at it as he was thinking about that moment just a second ago. It was weird feeling to him, a feeling he didn't understand.

He looked at Felix, his face lightly pink. He looked down at the ground again, it was the first time he blushed from the awkward feeling he was getting. He played with his lightly grease covered hands, he was hoping the bell would ring soon and end the awkward feeling. He looked at the clock, it was a minute or two before the bell would ring and he was glad for that.

Felix stood along with Matt. He glanced nervously at the clock before returning his eyes to the other boy with a nervous smile. He'd been acting weird since they'd met. "You're welcome." His dark eyes caught on something he hadn't noticed before. Felix titled his head to the side curiously with a small amused quirk of his lips.

"Are you blushing Matt? Now why could that be?" He couldn't believe it! Felix found a flood of relief rushing trough him at the thought that he was acting normal again, or at least relatively so. The bell rang, and most of the others rushed out of the room. Not so Felix who moved to block a direct exit trough the door. He wanted to hear what Matt had to say, and how he would react to his light teasing.

He never looked at Felix after that, he was shy out of nowhere and it was a different feeling then what he was used to. He was to deep in thought to pay attention to the teen beside him, he never heard or read a word he said to him. Only thoughts of the feeling and the questions why he was feeling like remained on his mind and ate all his attention up.

He looked up seeing all the students rush out of the room then to Felix as he blocked his path, he read his lips and shook his head lightly. "I do not know." He answered honestly, it was new to him and made him just as curious as the teenage boy in front of him. "I never blushed before." He told him shyly, "I have to go to work." He told Felix before walking over and opening the garage door. He walked behind the shelf and put on his black leather jacket. He placed his helm on before walking his bike out and out of the garage, he was glad his face was covered now.

Felix wanted to reach out and brush his hand over Matt's cheek again, instead he shoved the offending limbs into his pocket with a playful grin. "Well I'll see you tomorrow then." For some reason he was amused about the situation. They'd both made each other blush and now .. Well now Felix realized he would have to come to terms with having a crush on Matt. They'd just met that day, and there was so much else to know.

Thoughts like that kept running trough his mind all trough the rest of the day, trough the night until dinner came around again. Felix had pulled on a pair of tight jeans, and a dark blue dress shirt. It wasn't tucked in, nor was his hair in anything but disarray. Even so, he'd made an effort to look good. Girls looked at him in admiration, and he played along even though his mind whirled away to wonder about Matt's reaction to all this.

Soon enough he was settling down by the door of the workshop and eating his dinner alone. It was actually pretty nice not to hear people chattering away at him about the latest stars and gossip.

He tried to push today events into the back of his head as he worked, he wasn't allowed to talk to the customers so he had placed head phones into his ears to make it look like he was listening to music to stop them from talking to him. He made a pile of dishes into the tub before moving to the kitchen to wash them, the girls where at the restaurant talking about Felix and gave him dirty glares when he would walk by to clean off a table but he ignored them.

It was the fifth time he walked by the tripped him and laughed when he fell, all the dishes broke and he had gotten hurt from it. He looked at the girl who just mouthed 'sorry' in her snooty way before they left. He looked at the mess before cleaning it up, he would be picking glass out of his chest and arms for days not to mention his check getting docked for all the dishes that broke. He tossed the knife that cut his forearm into the tub as he pick it up and took it into the kitchen before returning with a broom to finished. He couldn't afford to go to the E.R. instead he would just have to got to his mother when he got home, she was now a nurse so she could clean him up.

Thankfully the rest of the night went without incident and he hide his wounds pretty well, but men did he hate those girls with a passion. After he got home his mother was yelling about the cuts and how he got them but he just ignored her, if it was up to her he would be put in a bubble and never leave the house. His house was close to school, not even a block away but he still rode his bike to it most to go to work. He was downstairs inside of his room, that was his room, the basement. He was laying on his bed thinking about today as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

Felix hummed softly to himself and flipped open the script of his latest production. It was The Phantom of the Opera and usually high school students couldn't pull it off ... But with a lot of hard work, the staff believed their students could. The brunette didn't know what role he'd been assigned yet, though he had it from a reliable source that he'd gotten one of the two main men. He'd thought he wanted to play Raoul, but meeting Matt had him thinking that the Phantom might suit him best for some reason.

He let out a sigh and lifted his tomato sandwich to take a bite. The fruit's juice sprayed all over his shirt, leaving Felix in a horrible mood. He stood and slipped the thing off to throw it casually onto the floor. He didn't really care if anyone walked by, they'd already seen him half-undressed in Aladdin anyway. Soon he was sporting a simple white t-shirt and sitting on the ground once more with his script. Sometimes he burst out with a line, motioning and miming the things he imagined the character would do, then Felix settled down again to murmur softly to himself with a concentrated expression.

He would wake up from time to time, his mind couldn't stay still. He would toss and turn trying to get comfortable in his bed, he was just glad he had tomorrow off and the day after. He buried his face into the pillow trying to get to sleep and after a few hours of trying he was successful. His dreams wore normal, random dreams that would make a therapist look at him oddly. He dreamt of what it would like to be normal most of all, fallowed by a werewolf eating those horrible girls in shop class. He loved that dream the best out of all the ones he had, maybe he was secretly evil; he didn't know.

It was five in the morning when he woke up again, instead of sleeping or getting more. Matt got out of bed and went to his bathroom to shower and get ready for school. He combing his wet hair then shook it to give him the messy hair his mother hated. He put on his black jean pants with his converse, fallowed a black wife beater and a red semi-long sleeve shirt with a motorcycle silhouette on the front. The bandage where showing around his wrist and hands but their was nothing he could do really. He took a poptart from the cabinet and started to walk to school, it was really early but he would just handout at his locker til the shop was open.

The morning had gone by so fast and now dinner seemed to be dragging on too long. He was impatient, and nervous. In fact, time had passed by so fast he wasn't even sure if he'd gone to the first class or even what time it was. Felix let out a small sigh, then a long one, as his breath escaped his lips. He fidgeted nervously and stood to move away from the shop and towards the lockers where he'd first met Matt.

He stumbled and fell to the ground with a thud, distracted by his thoughts as he had been since he woke up. Frankly, Felix was a bit of a mess.

He finished his poptarts as he rounded the corner, it was still a little before seven but he like going to school so early. Matt just walked into the school and made his way to his locker, he twisted in the combination before opening it. He grabbed his back pack and closed the locker door. He knew the shop would be open soon and the more he thought about the car, the more he couldn't wait to get to work on it.

He had his backpack flung loosely over his shoulder as he walked to the classroom, he looked at the at the ground to see Felix laying there. He ran up to him and knelt beside him, "Felix?" He asked the guy, his backpack resting beside him as he shook the teen, hoping he could wake him up.

((Ugh, so sorry for my posts not making sense. ><))

The boy mumbled softly to himself before coming to with a strange look upon his face. It was the first time he'd lost consciousness like that before, at least not in recent years. Though Felix probably knew why. He shifted and looked up at Matt with a pouting face. "I forgot to eat breakfast." And strangely enough when he didn't have breakfast his body rebelled and decided to sleep in order to get the energy he'd neglected to give it.

It had been so long since the last time that happened. In fact, Felix had nearly forgotten about it. "Don't worry I just need some food." With that he reached to his own bag after sitting up and rummaged inside to grab an apple. The moment he started munching on it, Felix began to feel much better.

- It's okay, it could be me. My mind is groggy today. -

He smiled in relief as Felix woke up, he didn't mind the strange look on his face, he was glad he was alright or at least he thought. "Oh, if you want the cafeteria is opening right. We could get something to eat there." He asked the teen on the ground, he could deal with some food about now, the poptarts weren't feeling him much. He just watched the boy curious as to why he was on the ground from just not eating, he never heard of it before, much less saw it.

He just waited for his reply on the breakfast as he ate the apple, he would enjoy it allot but he wasn't sure if the other boy would. He couldn't help but worry, he really hoped he did accepted the breakfast offered. He would even pay. Matt just sat there quietly thinking about what to say to the teen.

The sound of food, and lots of it, sounded like delightful music to his ears. "Sure, it's a date!" Riotous laughter leaped from Felix's lips. A blush swept across his cheeks again as the young man finished off his apple and stood to throw the core away. He held out a hand to help Matt up, silently hoping that the boy would take his hand so he could feel what it was like.

He was just teasing and goofing off like he did with everyone else. That was what he wanted Matt to believe anyway. Letting the other boy know about his crush was such an absurd idea, he though not of revealing it for even a moment.

Matt just smiled as the teen laughed and noticed the blush but brushed it off this time. He just watched as Felix stood up, threw the apple; however he was glad he accepted the offer to get food. He took his hand and stood up, he didn't think anything of it when he placed his hand in Felix's. "Thank you." He said taking his hand away from his. He bent over and grabbed his backpack and smiled at Felix, "Shall we?" He asked him happily.

Matt was rather hungry himself today, normally poptarts did the trick but today was different. He felt awkward after realizing his bandages where showing and hope Felix won't ask about them but he knew he probably would. Any normal person would, well most would he wasn't sure about Felix yet.

The young man smiled and nodded his head at the mention of leaving. His head bent down as he caught sight of something incongruous wrapped around his friend's wrist. Unthinkingly, Felix reached out to brush a finger against the white gauze with an overly worried frown. "What happened?" Now that he'd caught sight of the one, he could see the other scratches and bruises marring Matt's body.

That he was so acutely aware of the little wounds bothered Felix a little, but he wasn't about to let that show.

He lifted his hands and looked at the wrappings, "I fell last night onto tub of dishes." He was telling the truth just hiding how he did. "I wasn't paying attention." He said smiling at Felix, he hoped he didn't ask how you fell. He was a sickening honest person and couldn't help but tell him how it happened. He placed his hand down and began to walk towards the cafeteria, he wasn't sure what to say about his newly injured body.

He looked at Felix after he remember the books, "I forgot to bring the books today." He told him sadly, he couldn't believe he forgot them. "After shop I'll go get them for you." He would go during lunch but he like playing around in shop during that time.

He made a small sound which Matt could take as he wanted. Falling into step beside him, Felix glanced from the floor to his companion quietly. It was rather unusual for the boisterous and talkative Felix to be so silent, but under the circumstances he'd no idea how to react. He wanted to know more, and yet he had the sense that Matt wanted anything but to speak of it.

"It's alright, don't worry too much about it." They'd arrived at the cafeteria, and luckily there was barely anyone there. Quick as he could think of what to eat, the young man was paying then choosing a table off the corner.