I do not own X-men. I own Tiffani and Lexi.

Story Start

"When can we get off this charter bus?" Lexi sighed to herself before looking across the aisle to see her friend sleeping in her own bus chair. Tiffani was lying down on both seats with her head facing the chairs and her back facing the chairs in front of her. "Not bothering her," she thought and turned her head to look out the window.

She and her friend were heading to New York City. They were taking a short vacation. Lexi was excited to see the sights of New York City again because the last time she visited was in high school. "Five years," she thought resting her head on the window. Tiffani had threatened to hide herself in Lexi's suitcase if she was not allowed to go so Lexi agreed. "She would have hid in there too," she thought about her suitcase, which was besides Tiffani's neon green suitcase at the bottom of the bus.

"Who carries a neon green suitcase? Wait, not surprised," she thought with a smile before looking over at her friend again, who now had a young guy leaning over her. "This won't be pretty," she thought and went to say something to the guy, but he had already touched Tiffani's shoulder. Lexi froze at what was about to happen.

Tiffani's head snapped up and her eyes were in a harsh glare towards the young guy. "What?" she growled and Lexi saw the young guy flinch.

"We're going to stop at a gas station in a minute to freshen up and I thought you might want to get out to put on makeup or whatever girls do," he said as he backed up when Tiffani started growling literally at the unfortunate yet helpful soul.

"Makeup, seriously, who cares about makeup when I've been stuck on this bus for fifteen hours or so?" Tiffani said as she grabbed the blanket, which resided on top of her, and she pulled it over her head. She could still be heard grumbling underneath the blanket about makeup and how she'd throw it all away if she could get some sleep.

"Don't mind her. She doesn't sleep well on charter buses and she just slept for maybe thirty minutes at the most so far on this trip," Lexi said to sooth the young man, who looked insulted and slightly frightened.

"Well tell the freak to put a do not disturb sign or something on," the young guy said in a stammer at first and then a harsh tone before he stalked back to his seat.

"Freak," Lexi muttered in a voice that suggested she would smack the guy if he came near her and Tiffani again. "Why would he call her a freak?" she thought worriedly as she remembered how Tiffani's family had said that she had been acting wilder than usual.

"How do they mean by wilder?" she thought before shrugging and leaving the bus when they stopped at a gas station.

Tiffani was furious when the young guy woke up her but she quickly fell asleep after hearing Lexi's voice. Before she fell asleep, she had also heard the guy call her a freak and it made her heart jump a bit. She had heard her father saying that a snake was terrorizing baby birds in a nest and she had ran out of the house to see the snake. When she saw the snake she felt different towards it than she normally would, which would be give it plenty of room and not bother it.

However, that time her dad had run off to grab his snake catcher, but by the time, he had returned Tiffani was holding the snake in her hands. The snake was calming slithering along Tiffani arm and shoulder, and Tiffani remained calm as well with a small smile on her face. She did not remember much but she did remember holding her hand out to the snake and saying something before the snake was in her hand. A shrug of her shoulders wiped her worry clean before she fell back to sleep on the bus.

Lexi dreaded waking Tiffani up, but they had arrived in New York City and it was time to go to their hotel. The young guy gave her a glare and she smirked when she remembered the incident at the gas station. She had just bought her a bottle of water when she heard the guy from earlier mentioning something was weird about Tiffani's eyes when she had glared at him. She walked over there with her water bottle opened and glared at the guy angrily before water splashed all over him.

She jumped when she realized that she was still holding the bottle straight in her hand, but it now only contained a few drops of water. The guy turned around to accuse her but his friends looked spooked when they had seen that she had not even shook the bottle towards him.

"It's ok, accidents happen all the time," Lexi spoke with the tone of a mother speaking to a child who wet the bed.

"Why you," the guy growled before his buddies held him back. Lexi smirked before quickly rushing to the bus. The weird event with the water had shaken her.

She took a seat and looked over to Tiffani, who was still happily snoozing away. "I don't know what that was but I must not have felt my hand move," she thought before looking to the drive ahead.

Now that she and Tiffani were in New York City, she had the hard job of waking up her friend and not losing a limb or dying a quick death. "Here goes nothing," she thought before the bus driver stepped in front of her and shook Tiffani's shoulder. All of the other bus occupants were outside looking for their luggage.

"Miss, wake up, you're in the city now," he said and Lexi cringed before hearing a low yawn. Tiffani was slowly sitting up and rubbing at her eyes.

"Ok Mom," Tiffani said and Lexi laughed knowing that her friend was half-awake. The bus driver gave a good laugh before he smiled at Lexi and stepped off the bus.

"He wasn't your mom," Lexi said exiting the bus with Tiffani, who had the blanket wrapped around her shoulders.

"Doesn't matter, where are my waffles?" her friend answered looking around and frowning when she only saw fast food restaurants. Her frown disappeared when she saw a Starbucks. "Coffee," she screamed and was about to run through traffic for delicious caffeine, but a hand on her shoulder stopped her.

"Grab your suitcase and let's go to the hotel. We can get coffee afterwards," Lexi said and saw her friend pout at the loss of coffee.

"This suitcase is so bright," an old woman, who had been riding on the same bus, said as she stood near Tiffani's blaringly neon green suitcase.

"Kermit," Tiffani cheered as she grabbed her suitcase.

"Young lady, you named your suitcase?" the old woman asked with a surprised look on her face.

"Doesn't everybody?" Tiffani asked before skipping over to Lexi.

"Not all you need is a pink suitcase and you will have Kermit's lover," Lexi said and she regretted her words at the look on Tiffani's face.

"You're right. Why didn't I think of this before? Lexi, you're a genius. Kermit will have a girlfriend again in no time," Tiffani said and received more weird looks before Lexi drug her away and towards their hotel.

"Only you," Lexi said with a laugh as Tiffani started talking of having a wedding ceremony for the suitcase and his future pink suitcase lover.

"Kermit wants to know if you will be the maid of honor?" Tiffani asked when they entered the hotel.

"I'm not attending a suitcase wedding, but I will happily get you coffee if you wake up and stop talking about suitcases," Lexi said before checking in to the hotel and grabbing the room keys.

"Fine but I want a scone too," Tiffani said with a pout before smiling at the large aquarium in the hotel. "Look Lexi, fish," she cheered and rushed over to the aquarium.

"Don't terrify them," Lexi said as she smiled at the water and the fish.

"That guy already did," Tiffani said and pointed to a random man before going to the elevators to their floor. Lexi looked towards the direction of the man but she did not see anyone. She entered the elevator and heard Tiffani singing a song about cats.