On the First Day of X-Mas a Mutant gave to me: Magnetism Gardening, Book shopping and Daughtry!
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Bryce Harrington closed his eyes groaning as light streamed in through the parted curtains of his dorm room window. He had a nasty habit of leaving the curtains open every night. His desk was in front of the window and he often made his roommate laugh when he sat on the desk and looked out the window at night. He had always been a night owl and now his bedroom window happened to face a spot that wasn't anywhere near any city lights and he could get a perfect view of the sky outside.
After rubbing the sleep from his eyes he heard a familiar song coming from his phone, September by Daughtry. He reached for it blindly before answering without looking at the caller ID.
"Morning Sleepy!" He heard Ruby's voice giggle from the other end. He grunted in response making her laugh harder.
"How are you so alive at the ass crack of dawn?" He yawned out sitting up and wobbling a little before making it to his feet. He stretched before making it over to his closet and pulling out a pair of skinny jeans and a dark green polo shirt. Hanging up on his girlfriend as she continued to laugh at him on the other end, he smeared his speed stick on and pulled a black undershirt on over his head. After slipping on the polo and struggling to get into his own pants, he threw on a pair of socks and his converse then headed down to the kitchen with all senses being overloaded by the thought of coffee.
When he entered the kitchen and made his way to the instant coffee where he smiled for the first time that day. As he started to open the container he used his mutation to pulled on the handle of a drawer and retrieve a spoon. He measured out his coffee and added water from an electric kettle that was sitting on the counter top. He added what any other person would call an insane amount of sugar to his coffee before leaning silently against the counter and sipping quietly.
"Would you like some coffee with your sugar?" A voice asked him from the doorway. He snapped his head sideways not quite ready for sarcasm that early in the day. It was some guy with brown and green hair. At least he thought it was a guy they looked like Dante but had a very effeminate face and were wearing black eyeliner.
He just rolled his eyes and finished his cup of coffee before walking out into the dining room and meeting up with Blake who looked like she was off in another world. She had a cup of tea on the table in front of her but wasn't really drinking it. Shylow was having oatmeal for breakfast and having a seemingly one sided conversation with her. Bryce yawned and moved to sit down beside his two friends saying nothing, not wanting to interrupt them.
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It was now eleven in the morning, about two and a half hours after the three students had met up for breakfast. They were now on their way to meet Darius at the bookstore where Blake's copy of 'The Hunger Games' had come from. All four had last minute Christmas shopping to do and while Blake and Shylow had just picked up the last of their purchases, Bryce still had to figure out exactly what he wanted to get for his girlfriend and for another one of his friends. On the last day of Exams their whole group had drawn names out of what Max had referred to as the mystical bag of fate, which in reality was a Santa Clause hat.
He had in fact gotten Max's name and was kind of at a loss what to get him. He hadn't really known Max for very long. Max hung out with the girls more than the guys if he wasn't alone with Shylow or if all of them weren't together so he hadn't really gotten the opportunity. Plus Trinity left before he got the chance to try and skirt his way into finding out something about the bleach blonde male that could help him. The one rule they had was that they couldn't just flat out ask anyone for help shopping for anybody.
Bryce was too caught up in his own head and failed to realize that one of his two friends had spotted his frustrations.
"What's the word hummingbird?" Blake asked the male, falling in step with him.
"What do you know about Max?" He asked flatly watching as Shylow stopped to look in the window of a shop at something giving them space to speak privately.
"Um… He's tall?" She replied looking confused making the other bring his hand to his face.
"Everybody is tall compared to you!" He whispered forcefully before taking a deep breath and speaking, "What does he do… I don't think I've ever even had a conversation with just him before!" He continued making her shake her head.
"Well he's a Wiccan, that's why he wears that pendant around his neck… he love's candles but since we can't have them in our dorms he has a couple oil burners and incense…" She started thinking to what she knew of the phaser, "He also has like six or seven piercings…" She mentioned making Bryce's eyes go wide.
"I know he's got his belly button, his nose and then four on his left ear… he might have a nipple ring too…" She told him turning to Shylow, "Does Max have a nipple piercing, I heard a rumor that he did and I wanted to be sure!" She informed the dark hair boy who shook his head.
"Nope just his naval and the ones on his face…" Shylow told her before looking over toward them, "Who told you he had his nipple pierced?" He asked with a confused look on his face making her smirk.
"He did!" She told him chuckling as he groaned audibly and pulled out his phone. Blake and Bryce laughed as they walked past Shylow whose face was a mix of irritation and amusement.
When they arrived at the bookstore they found Darius sitting back in one of the Letter shaped seats that were throughout the shop. He was reading one of those for dummies books and staring at it very intently.
"Are you trying to teach yourself German?" Blake asked him with a chuckle. She could tell that he was very adamant to do so before he had even responded.
"I want to be able to get Kurt's blessing… just being with him!" Darius told his sister and friends, "Plus I work for an International Intelligence Agency Higher than the CIA or INTERPOL… It may come in handy someday!" He added looking up to see his sister smile. While Blake, Darius and Shylow continued their conversation in the back of the store Bryce started to search the fantasy section with a list in his hand.
He had secretly taken inventory of every single vampire romance novel that Ruby owned and was now trying to find something that she didn't have. Then he smirked laughing to himself, she didn't own the ORIGINAL vampire romance novel. He made his way to the S's in the fantasy section and found a beautiful hard covered copy of exactly what he was looking for. He walked up to the counter and quickly made his purchase.
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Bryce was now sitting in an arm chair in the first floor sitting room drinking a large cup of coffee. Many of his friends said he was addicted to the stuff and Jamie once even went so far as to say that he didn't have blood in his system but just more coffee. He was enjoying the solitude of having the room to himself when he saw four people enter through his periphery.
After a moment he recognized them to be Anne Marie, Jean, Scott and Remy. He smiled when Jean came over and sat down on the couch on his left.
"Hey Jean, how has Muir Island been?" He asked her getting a smile in response. The first time he had ever spoken to Jean he could tell she was a very genuine and very kind person. She care greatly for others, even people she didn't know. He felt that she deserved to receive only the best in life in terms of luck because of the things she did for others.
"It has been amazing! Just like here at the institute I've been given so much time and ability to pursue knowledge but I feel like with what I've learned there I know even more ways to use it to my advantage!" She told him eyes lighting up at the thought of the past few months, "I've gotten to work with Specialists in the science behind Mutation, Mutant and Non-Mutant alike… Plus Moira and several of her colleagues have degrees in Mathematics, Literature, History, etc... So if someone wanted to come back and teach here it's an option for them!" She finished receiving a smile from Bryce. Just before he could respond however heard someone clear their throat from the door way.
"Excuse me Jean but would it be any trouble if I borrowed Bryce for a second?" Storm asked them both kindly.
"Oh no it's ok we were just talking, see you later Jean!" Bryce told his teacher before saying goodbye to his friend.
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Bryce followed Storm to the dining room where that annoying kid from that morning was kneeling beside a planter box with a stern look on their face. He couldn't possibly imagine what they wanted him to do if it had something to do with plants.
"Bryce this is River Borodin, a junior and one of our school's most avid gardeners!" Storm told him motioning to the elder student.
"Yeah I've met him…" Bryce replied seeing River's eyes roll at his response, "What?" He asked the elder student who looked over at him.
"Not a him…" River responded motioning, "Not a her either before you ask…" They added as Bryce came over still looking confused.
"I'm just a them… or a… well I'm a River!" River clarified holding out a hand and shaking with Bryce, "Ok to make a long story short there is like a metal tube stuck down inside the soil too deep to just grab with fingers!" River told him pointing to a hole in the soil.
"Ok so what am I here for?" Bryce asked looking from Storm back to River.
"Well a Telepath might accidently pull up the roots of a plants if they tried to grab it but since your mutation strictly deals in magnetic telepathy and magnetism with think you might be able to get it out!" Ororro told him as she kneeled beside the younger student. Bryce nodded before holding a hand over the small hole and concentrating hard. After a moment a tube came sliding up through the soil and into his hand.
River took the tube and placed it carefully into the soil in another planter, making sure not to let it go any deeper than they could reach before pouring water down into it and pulling it back out.
"Why do you do that?" Bryce asked out of curiosity.
"Gets water deeper into the soil helps the roots… if you do a little bit on top and a little bit in the middle it distributes better… plants grow greener and fresher sometimes even larger too…" River told him water the other two planters. They continued to talk about plants and gardening without even noticing a smiling Storm slip out to go to a meeting.
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So Happy Early Halloween… have a Christmas story lol this is part 1/12 and will be updated weekly. I will admit I got this uploaded about four hours later than I originally intended to but whatevs cause what's done is done! Each week will rotate a male or female character leading up to Blake on Christmas… actually uploaded on Christmas! Also be sure to check out my scavenger hunt and try to win a prop-like item brought to life from this series! Hope everybody enjoys this and also be sure to check out some of my other stuff… till my next upload my lovelies!
-LB