SUMMARY-The high school years of the Mutant X gang. Shalimar/Brennan, Emma/Jesse. Shalimar and Brennan are Seniors, Emma and Jesse are Juniors, and Adam and Eckhart are teachers.
DISCLAMER-I don't own Mutant X or any of the characters, I wish I owned Brennan! This is my first fanfic so be nice. A special thanks to Outonalim and Lazerkay for helping me. Hope you like it.
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CH.1 MUTANT X HIGH
Brinnnggggg! The last bell of the day rang out across the campus of Mutant X high school. Emma got up from her desk and quickly stretched before heading out the door of Professor Adam's Biology class. The sun stung her eyes as she walked out of the classroom; in the room her eyes had become accustomed to the dim lighting and had trouble readjusting. When she refocused her eyes and looked up, she saw her best friend Shalimar Fox was walking a couple of feet in front of her, she was leaning into her boyfriend Brennan Mulwray as they walked, and off to the side stood Emma's boyfriend Jesse Kilmartin, taking long strides to keep up with the two lovebirds. Brennan, who had his arm wrapped around Shalimar's shoulder, was whispering things in her ear that made her giggle. Shalimar smacked Brennan playfully and then giggled again.
"Shalimar!" Emma yelled to catch her friend's attention. Shalimar, Brennan, and Jessie all turned to look and smiled as they spotted her. They stopped walking for a moment to let Emma catch up with them. Emma ran up to Shalimar's side. "Hey!" she said, "what's up?"
"Nothing much," replied Shalimar. "You ready to go? We're taking Brennan's Isuzu today."
Emma smirked as she saw Shalimar's face light up when she mentioned Brennan "Not yet - I still have to go to my locker." Emma's face contorts to a frown at the mention of homework. "Mr.Eckhart gave us sooooooooo much homework; I still don't know how he can give us homework for gym. An essay on 'What Gym Means To Me' sounds really stupid. What's the point?"
Shalimar giggled as she remembered the pasty, plastic looking teacher she had last year. She had always been good in gym because of her feral side, but that didn't mean Mr.Eckhart had to like her. He had always given her the creeps; he was just too fake looking, and he never smiled. "Okay, then I'll come with you," she told her friend.
Brennan untangled his arm from around Shalimar and said, "Jesse and I will go and start the car. Don't talk about us while we're not there. " Before he walked away, he quickly kissed Shalimar on the lips, and then hurried to the car with Jesse. As she watched Brennan walk away Shalimar thought ::Gosh, I love it when he does that. He always knows how to make a girl feel special::
"So, what's going on with you and Brennan?" Emma let her smile grow wider as she asked the question. "He must be one hell of a guy for you to hold on to him for so long"
"Oh my gosh, you have no idea," Shalimar mused as the two girl start making their way to Emma's locker.
Emma gave her a shocked look before saying, "Oh? Do tell!"
Shalimar flipped her hair back and quickly said through a giggle "Well, that's none of your damn business, is it?" Emma gave Shalimar her best puppy dog face, and after about 5 minutes of persuasion, Shalimar finally broke. "I think I'm falling in love with him!" she admitted , somewhat worried.
"Well then, you should be happy; he's a great guy. You don't have to be so tough, seeing as I know you're not," Emma said, half laughing, half sincerely.
"Yeah, but don't you tell anyone," Shalimar said through a smirk. "So, now that I have told you about my love life it's your turn, what's up with you and Jesse?"
Emma thought for a second "I think it's about the same. I really care for him a lot; I just hope he feels the same."
Shalimar smiled at her love struck friend. "I know he does. I've seen the way he looks at you."
"Kind of like the way Brennan looks at... Emma's sentence was quickly cut off by her screaming obscenities: "OW!!!!!!!!! CRAP THAT HURT!!!!!" Not paying any attention, she had just walked into the metal gates by the lockers. "Guess we're at the lockers," she said, gritting her teeth in pain.
Shalimar gave Emma a look of sympathy, and then said, "See, God got you back for pestering me about Brennan."
Emma shot her a nasty look, and then made her way over to her locker. Spinning the combination as fast as she could. All she wanted to do was get her homework and get out of school.
Shalimar frowned playfully at Emma. "Well, I have to go to the ladies' room, so I'll meet you in the lunch area in about ten minutes, okay?"
"Sounds good. See ya in 10!" Emma said before proceeding to open her locker and stuff her books in her bag. Emma took a second to glance in the mirror to make sure her run in with the metal gates hadn't left her with a nasty bruise.
***** 5 minutes later *****
Emma had gotten her books and gone to the lunch area to wait for Shalimar. She sat down at one of gray tables made of stone and thought about Jesse. She thought about what Shalimar had said, :: 'I know he loves you, I've seen the way he looks at you.' ::
"HEY!" Emma was brought out of her deep thoughts of Jesse by a harsh voice that could only belong to one person, and it was not Shalimar'. "Hey, DeLauro! Get up and face me!" Emma got up and turned around to see her old friend Kendra, who was also a new mutant with the ability of super strength. They had been friends, but had had a falling out and it had gotten really ugly. Kendra walked closer to Emma. "It's pay back time. I'm going to kick your a$$ for ditching me!"
Thoughts rushed through Emma's head at the site of Kendra ::What am I going to do? She can kick my a$$ across the school with her abilities. If only Jesse, Shalimar, or Brennan were here. This is really going to hurt if I live through it.
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