Heya! Glad you all liked last chapter (I hope lol) and – thanks to a special request (good idea; allyg1990) here's couples and kids:
-Lexa/Pietro – Iris – 16 months and also – Tory – 16 months and also – Maddie – 3 months
-Kitty/Lance – Ben – 14 months and also – unnamed – pregnant with
-Jean/Scott – Rachel – 12 months
-Wanda/John – Reece – 3 months
-Lorna/Piotr – Illyana – pregnant with (betcha didn't see that one coming!
-Amanda/Kurt – unnamed – pregnant with
-Rogue/Remy
-Betsy/Warren
-Tabby/Bobby-Jubilee/Ray
-Amara/Roberto
-Danielle/Jamie
-Rahne/Sam
-Ororo/Logan
Key:
"…" Speech
'…' Thoughts
(…) Extra information
Songs are in bold
Written letters or notes are underlined
"Telepathic thoughts and the other line of the phone is in Italics and speech marks"
Chapter 2
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20th December, Lexa and Pietro's house; late evening
Checking up on the kids who were in the room next door to the one that the rest of the women were sitting in, Ororo turned off the lamp that was still on, watching as the six young children all gradually fell asleep one by one, nestling into their cots. With a quiet snap she shut the door behind herself and nodded to her friends that it was ok to resume talking again. "Fast asleep, bless those children…"
Betsy looked to Lorna inquiringly, "talking of children; is it another Christmas baby?" Laying her head on the stomach of her best friend, Betsy frowned, giggling as she felt a kick where her hand was placed.
"I'm not that fat!" exclaimed the pregnant mother.
"Sorry…"
"She ain't; look at her concentrating on yahre belly. Ah can betcha she has no ahdea what y'all jus' said!"
"I was listening!"
Other side of the room
"So how's life?" Lexa poured another cup of tea for Jean, herself and Wanda before walking to offer the pot around, letting Jean know she was still listening by turning around to look at her every now and then.
Sipping her scolding tea, the redhead frowned, thinking for a suitable answer, "well we're thinking about having another baby but haven't got round to that just yet. We might have a bit of a break first and let Rachel grow up. Um…nothing else is happening; everything's pretty average really."
"And how's Rachel doing?" questioned Lexa whilst she sat down again next to Jean.
"Rachel, well she's fine; getting to be a right genius and at such a young age; kids grow up so quickly huh?"
Wanda muttered to herself more than anyone; "tell me about it."
"And Scott?"
"Everything with Scott's fine, just had a little tiff…"
"A little one! Trust me Lex, you could hear it the other side of the mansion." At this remark, Wanda received a glare from Jean and so the Goth decided to go to the other side of the room, shoving Betsy to one side so she could place a hand on Lorna's bulging belly. "How far are you?"
Watching with amusement as both Wanda and Betsy squealed, feeling another kick, Lorna frowned as she thought it over, "um…8 months I think. It's due to be an end of January baby."
"Boy or girl?" piped up Amanda, stroking her own miniature lump with one hand whilst passing Kitty her cup of tea, "me and Kurt want a boy…he's so excited and it hasn't even been four months yet!"
"Ooh; now that would be telling…" and with those six words from Lorna the whole room, full of gossiping women, fell silent; Lorna felt the eyes of Rogue, Betsy, Ororo, Wanda, Amanda, Jean, Lexa and Kitty bearing down onto her. "What's yours Kitty?" but the girl just raised an eyebrow; not that easily fooled, leaving Lorna to her predicament. "Well I couldn't possibly say…"
"Oh come on!"
"Ah think it'll be a boy; Piotr looks lahke a boy tahpe guy."
However Ororo sent Rogue a look, "child, you can't guess the sex of the baby by the look of the father."
Wanda spoke up, "well then; by the looks of the mother I think it'll be a boy." And with that the room burst into laughter whilst Wanda's head was shoved from Lorna's lap as the green haired woman made a mock-offended noise, "what? I do!"
"Well you're all wrong." Shocked, the whole room fell into silence; anticipating what Lorna was going to say next, and what she did say just shocked every body else twice as much as they thought it was going to. "Illyana isn't a boy's name…"
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A bar on the edge of townKurt walked over to the table the rest of the men were sitting around and deposited several drinks, joined moments later by Remy who put his own drink down before going to the pool table to give Logan and John their beers. Scott, Lance, Pietro and Warren all sat around the table, listening as Piotr described the holiday; a lot had happened in that year.
"Et de family farm?"
"Surviving," full of worry, his thick Russian accent rumbled thoughtfully, "I noot sure whether to come back…boot I did; Lorna say to come home, so we did. I go back soon though, da."
Nodding, Remy looked thoughtful, "its always good t' go back every now et den, jus' t; make sure everyone's d'accord; y' been back yet Johnny?" Questioned Remy to the Australian who returned to the table, muttering something about losing having lost the pool game drastically.
"Na mate; ain't got nothin to go back to…got everything oy need royt here."
Respectfully, he nodded to Pietro who simply smiled cheekily. "She's got you rapped around her little finger!"
Laughing at this out loud was Logan's reaction and he stuck up for John; "what, and Lexa hasn't?"
"Oh come on! With that girl you don't have a choice; she's a tricky one, always manages to get her own way no matter how hard I try…but I guess if it makes her happy," sighing wistfully, Pietro smiled and was clapped on the back by Lance.
"Soppy git. Fancy a game of pool?"
"Play de winner," Remy called after only for Lance to refuse the offer, "quoi? Jus' cuz y' know ol' Remy would win; widout cheating," was the comment he made to Warren who was laughing uproariously and looking very disbelieving. "D'accord…anyone fancy un petit game o' cards?"
Rubbing his hands together was to mentally prepare himself for the game and immediately Logan held out a hand for the pack that Remy drew out of his pocket; "give 'em here Cajun. I don't trust ya anymore than I can throw ol' tin can here. I ain't giving ya the chance to cheat on me," was the older man's reasoning when Remy attempted to refuse him the cards. "Don't make me come and get 'em Gumbo."
"Pass him the pack Remy," encouraged Scott, gulping the rest of his beer down so he could clear a space for his own hand whilst Warren lifted a hand to acknowledge he'd play. However, sat by the pool table, watching Lance and Pietro, Kurt simply refused the offer whilst the ex-Brotherhood boys decided to take their chance at a hand. "What we playing?" Scott asked as the hand was dealt out without choice of a game.
"Game's gin-rummy."
"Da, I play pool with Kurt; I drink it, yet I noot play gin," and with that Piotr stood up, taking a cue from Lance as the boy swung a chair around, leaning on the back of it whilst taking over Piotr's hand.
Examining his cards to contemplate his next choice of action, Logan immediately got into the game and smirked; sat opposite him was the Cajun and that was whom the older man was focussing on. As he threw down the first card, Logan raised an eyebrow at the cocky Cajun, muttering quietly to himself, "game on…"
Ten minutes laterWith an expertise flourish, Remy Lebeau placed a set of four on the table and threw down his last card onto the pile; "looks like Remy win, eh mes amis?"
"Ya cheat! Ya knew oy wanted that ten!" John threw his own cards onto the table and, with a huff, folded his arms; leaning back into his chair to sulk until Logan raised an eyebrow at him. "Foyne, oy'm gonna watch the pool."
"That man's gonna have to grow up soon," laughed Warren, picking up the cards to shuffle them himself this time, "with a kid of his own he needs to act just a bit more like an adult."
Laughing uproariously, Lance picked up his hand whilst taking a swig of beer, "it isn't ever going to happen. Besides, talking of kids; what's happening with you Warren." The shrug showed everything and only made Lance laugh more, "should I say lack of?"
"Betsy ain' int' de whole kids t'ing?"
"Na…I guess it makes sense though, doesn't it? She is a model after all and it could potentially ruin her career; a successful one at that."
Frowning slightly as he picked up his cards, Remy seemed to pause momentarily, thinking best how to word his next sentence without making it sound spiteful or rude…but that wasn't possible so he just said it anyway. "De femme shouldn' be throwing away de chance; she be lucky dat she can have kids…Rogue…well…Remy t'ink dat if Rogue knew Betsy wasn' having kids jus' t' keep her figure in check Betsy would be mort (dead) right now." It was commonly known to the Xmansion that Remy Lebeau thought himself to be the ideal father figure and wanted to live up to his own expectations…and Rogue herself wasn't exactly not broody. Watching the other female inhabitants of the mansion practically spouting out children seemed to fuel Rogue's desperation at kids of her own. Only problem was that everyone knew it wouldn't be happening soon and that only seemed to make matters worse as Rogue went to drastic measures; that time she'd spent wearing the collar for a whole day had cost her a week or two in the infirmary.
"Well that's why everytime if people are talking about kids they avoid putting 'Betsy' and 'children' in the same sentence when Rogue's around," confirmed Pietro.
So Betsy hadn't told Rogue yet…at this fact Remy frowned, "let's jus' hope Rogue never finds out huh?"
Sorting out the hand he currently held, Warren put his first card down before looking at Remy, "personally, I think that if Rogue ever does find out…well, their friendship might go through a bit of hell." His worried expression said it all, not to mention that everybody sat around the table was thinking it too, because secrets in the Xmansion can never last long.
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Ray and Jamie's dorm; 11:00pmPassing himself another bit of sticky tape, one of the Jamie's stuck it down before another multiple folded the other end of the gift, passed a piece of tape by the first multiple. Other 'Jamies' worked on more gifts and in the time that Ray had been to have a shower they had all finished the presents, all but one. The last one – a gift for his girlfriend Danielle – Jamie decided to be sentimental about and wrapped that one alone.
"Where is everyone?" questioned Ray as he walked into the room, turning from Jamie to a mirror to style his hair.
Waiting to finish the present before answering, Jamie put the last one on the pile – writing on the label as he thought about the question, "dunno…didn't Kurt say earlier that they were going out?"
"Something like that…dunno where to though. They always like to leave us at Christmas…quite a bitch really." But even though he said that, Ray felt completely the opposite and was practically bursting to have the house to himself and the rest of his fellow 'New Mutants.' Nowadays they were all far from being that but they were still referred to the nickname out of simplicity the boy supposed.
Suddenly cheering voices resounded throughout the Mansion and a boy came tumbling through the room before disappearing again, leaving a trail of ice behind that soon began to melt. But neither Jamie nor Ray cared because they had heard what Bobby said and both charged out after Bobby, Ray following the iceman down the stairs whilst Jamie rebounded off of the wall the other side of the corridor. Whilst the boy himself careered after Bobby and Ray, his multiples headed off in the direction of the other New Mutants' rooms.
Tabitha came waltzing out from one of the girl's bathrooms in a towel and her underwear, too busy hand drying her hair with a towel to notice Jamie who came sprinting past. But as soon as his voice reached her ears the girl let out a whoop and rushed to her bedroom. As soon as she entered it; oblivious of her roommate Danny, who was currently reading magazines with Amara, Tabby threw the towel onto her bed and disappeared into the walk-in-wardrobe, practically jumping up and down in excitement.
"What's going on?" Amara mouthed at Danny, but the girl had no idea herself and so the Nova Roma princess repeated herself loudly to Tabby only to have a familiar looking box thrown at her.
"Professor Xavier has left the Mansion to meet with Magneto for the next few days and Mr McCoy went with him."
"So?"
Reappearing fully dressed in her new Christmas outfit; a slutty, very short Christmas dress (the usual red dress with white wool in all the right places) with the hat to match and red heeled shoes, Tabby looked in confusion at Amara. "Duh! The monkey and Prof. X have left the mansion…" still neither girl got it although Tabby could see dawn finally rising on Danny's face. "Could I put it any simpler? The new mutants rule the school!" and with that finally Amara got the gist of things and let out a cheer – it looked like the New Mutants getting left in the mansion alone was becoming an annual event.
Taking example from her friend, Danny disappeared into the wardrobe and reappeared in less than five minutes in a matching outfit to Tabby's, although she went for the practical choice in red dolly shoes. Leaving their room was immediate and they were soon joined by Jubilee, Amara – who had ran to her own room – and Rahne – who was fiddling with her Christmas outfit. The girls linked arms and began to walk excitedly towards the stairs; heading to the usual hang out area of the Rec. room whilst Tabby carried the precious box under one arm.
Within moments they were running down the stairs; racing to the Rec. room in which waited the boys and Bobby received a welcome greeting from his girlfriend – her breasts practically flying out of her low cut dress. The rest all followed after, high on their adrenaline rush and panting with spontaneous fits of laughter as they fell onto their significant other halves. Rahne curled up next to Ray beside the Christmas tree, Jubilee sat beside Ray and Amara wriggled into Roberto's lap whilst Danielle followed suit; pecking her boyfriend Jamie on the cheek. However, Tabby and Bobby left the room, bringing back with them popcorn and drinks moments later that the boys had obviously prepared earlier.
"When did they leave?" questioned Rahne curiously, "their scents are pretty damn strong."
"You all heard Roberto cheering right?" all of the girls nodded, giving Roberto amused looks whilst the boy shrugged without a care in the world, "that was right after the jet had flown out of the waterfall. There's always that light that goes on after the jet leaves the mansion isn't there; well he started cheering as soon as it turned on."
"Awesome!"
Smirking, Tabby looked around; "you know what's even better? Look what I remembered," and the girl revealed the box she had been hiding behind her back, throwing it into the middle of the room whilst she sat on the sofa, lying her legs across Bobby's whilst the boy leant forward.
"Go on Jamie open it!"
"Can't I?"
"I think Tabby should; it's her box."
"Hey I was the one who let everyone know the professor had gone!"
"HEY!" yelled Bobby over the racket and stood up, balancing the box on one hand whilst he raised the other, "who was the one that the Professor told about him leaving? And!" exclaimed the boy as everyone else began to argue, "who got rid of Mr McCoy? If it wasn't for a little initiative thinking, Hank would have stayed; it was my little encouragement that we all looked forward to him looking after us this evening that had Mr McCoy running."
Standing behind Bobby to kiss him on the cheek, Tabby smiled, "nice one Bobby."
"Ya kinda fell sorry for Mr McCoy huh?"
"It is funny though ain't it."
"Go on then Bobby; open it."
"Ya hurry up!"
For a dramatic effect the boy placed the box on the floor again and knelt beside it with Tabby; holding one of the ends of a piece of tape, Bobby smirked at Tabby and bit his lip seductively before pulling it off with a wrench. Every member of the New Mutants gang shuddered excitedly, and practically squealed in excitement as the second piece of tape was pulled off before Bobby – slowly and teasingly – began to open the box.
"Oh Bobby!" begged the boy's girlfriend, "hurry up!"
"Well," Amara giggled, "now we all know what she says in bed!" laughter resounded throughout the Mansion suddenly silence as Bobby lifted the final flap of cardboard up.
"Horns for everyone my friends!" and he chucked each boy a set of reindeer horns that they all shoved onto their heads; Jamie fighting with several of his multiples so he could fit it on. When everyone was sat contentedly with a drink (non-alcoholic of course…?!) Bobby looked around; "Let the games begin! Truth, dare, double dare, kiss, command or promise, Ray?"
21st December, several hours later; 3:00amJamie; blushing furiously, finally removed the baubles from the dress he had 'borrowed' from Betsy and bowed to his friends who all stood up, clapping and cheering uproariously at his fabulous rendition of Cascada's 'last Christmas.' Shrugging himself out of the gorgeous Chanel dress, Jamie handed it to Amara who dotingly pressed out any creases as she hung it on the back of the door. Within seconds of doing so however, she practically tore it down and hid the dress out of sight whilst the others turned off every single light in the room, closing the door slowly so the candles didn't give the New Mutants away.
Voices were heard faintly outside; obviously loud due to the fact that everyone could hear them in the Rec Room and in a minute the entrance foyer was filled with uproarious laughter that was the men coming home from their evening out. It wasn't hard to work out that many of the guys were off their heads. Only an hour before at the most, the women had come home; a lot quieter but some of them still off their heads. Hushed and hardly daring to breathe the New Mutants simply waited until all the voices had disappeared upstairs and begged to the Gods that Logan wouldn't sense them.
They all let out deep breaths when, among some roaring laughter, each mutant could recognise Logan's laugh; his healing abilities hadn't kicked in yet and so the man was definitely still drunk.
When the last voice had disappeared upstairs, all of the mutants closed the Rec Room door properly and turned the lights on again, but dimly. Wouldn't want to risk anything.
However, Jubilee soon got everybody back into the swing of things and chucked around a few more beers to get the party started. Eventually music was put on faintly in the background but that was only about ten minutes later – when she was sure everybody should be in bed, Danny placed both hands to her temple and began to sift through the dreams of the older mutants. Within minutes they were all securely in dreamland and it would take a hell of a lot of noise to wake them up, not to mention the ice barrier Bobby formed on the walls and ceiling to bar any noise getting out. It was a foolproof, non-melting, soundproof encasing and the mutants relished in it.
Their annual games got into full swing and before long Jamie had given Amara her options at which she had fatally chosen truth, only to have to admit that she and Roberto had had sex together…a lot of times in their year+ relationship. With that she had been unable to pick her next victim and was thrown a bottle by Bobby that the girl spun around…only for it to land on Bobby.
He was only to happy to choose a dare and very willing – for the amusement factor – to perform the art of testing Jamie Madrox's frigidness. Running a finger very slowly down the centre of Jamie's body, starting from the top of his forehead all the way down to his toes, Bobby's finger turned itself to ice halfway down just to really test the youngest boy. But, to many people's disappointment, Jamie didn't flinch even the slightest bit.
With that it was Bobby's time to choose and he looked squarely at his girlfriend, "truth, dare, double dare, kiss, command or promise?"
"Well…I think I'll go for the one nobody's has picked so far; promise."
"You're abut to find out why no one has picked it just yet," passing his girlfriend another drink was only to distract her whilst the boy thought this one over and – knowing everybody was drunk and so would only find it amusing – Bobby decided. "Promise me you'll give me a full oral check over later."
Giggling, and quite tipsy, Tabby ran a hand down her boyfriend's body, "there's not much to check on then is there?"
Laughter filled the room whilst Bobby simply did a fake gasp whilst removing the bottle from his girlfriend's hand, with his other he undid the button on his jeans and pulled the fly down. As though he'd done it every day of his life, Bobby pushed Tabitha into a kneeling position and made her apologise to his penis. "Good," the boy said when tabby had done as she was told with everyone else in the room in reels of laughter, "now kiss him better." And once Tabby had done as she was told; giving the very tip a light peck, Bobby put everything away and fell back onto the sofa, pulling Tabby onto his lap so that the girl was straddling him.
"Ew!" exclaimed Danielle. "Get a room!"
"We're in one," Tabby muttered whilst momentarily breaking away from kissing her boyfriend; everybody else just laughed.
Many hours later; 8:00amCasually stroking the hair of his girlfriend as Rahne drifted between the land of the sleeping and the land of the conscious, Sam listened curiously to everybody's talk, which had somehow turned to children.
"Dunno what the obsession is; I mean, the woman had twins and now she has another and yet apparently they were talking about having a fourth kid. Pietro wants a boy and I think Lexa's contemplating the idea." Yawning, Bobby kissed Tabby on the forehead whilst the girl rested contentedly with her head on his shoulder. "I don't really want children yet…too young. Got my whole life ahead of me."
Giggling tiredly, Amara stifled a yawn, "really? And here I thought you were dying tomorrow."
"Well if he did you wouldn't be laughing then would you," wisely inputted Jubilee before laughing lightly.
Sam frowned, thinking upon something he'd overheard a couple of weeks ago and brought the subject back to children, "doesn't Warren want kids?" and when Bobby agreed with this question, Sam pouted thoughtfully, "I wonder why Betsy won't have them…she'd be a pretty cool mum. She eats healthily, isn't too much of a drinker, doesn't smoke or do drugs and can afford to have a kid, not to mention Warren's rich enough to buy a baby anything it could ever want."
Reminded of something as Betsy's Chanel dress caught her eye, Amara replied, "but it would ruin her modelling career though…wouldn't it?"
"Yeh," knowing the exact conversation having heard it discussed between Kitty and Betsy herself just a few days earlier, the girl looked around knowledgeably, making sure everyone's attention was on her as the other New Mutants began to wake up, slowly but surely. "That's exactly why she doesn't want kids; she can't bear the thought of stretch marks and won't have children just in case the marks ruin her figure and effectively finished her career."
Tabby – at this latest news – looked thoughtful and contemplated something for a while, before, turning to Ray, she spoke what would become dreaded words; "truth, dare, double dare, kiss, command or promise?"
"Ooh I'm feeling a bit kinky this morning after that nap," this statement caused wolf whistles and sleepy cheers at which Ray bowed, thanking his admirers with many winks. "I'll be going for a command I think, Tabitha." The silence that followed those words was deafening: everybody in the room could feel the aura spreading from Tabby that could only mean one thing; she was considering a command that could potentially cause a hell of a lot of trouble. A command that the legendary Ray 'never-backed-down-from-a-dare' Crisp could find fatal. "Well? Come on Tabby; give it to me. I can handle anything after last night!"
"You are going to regret that Ray," warned the blonde as her eyes sparkled mischievously. Maybe it was the sleepiness that made her do it…maybe the drink was still getting to her…or possibly Tabitha Smith was just feeling in one of her daring moods. But whatever it was, the words slipped out of her mouth as easily as if Tabby had been wanting to say them for the whole of her life; "I command you to let Rogue know exactly why Betsy Braddock isn't having children…"
Many swear words followed that simply command and even Bobby Drake himself stood up in surprise, the room suddenly waking up in shock, "no way Tabitha!"
"That's going a bit too far isn't it?"
"Rogue will kill her!" Rahne said worriedly, snuggling into Sam's chest as they curled up by the Christmas tree.
But in reply Tabby simply raised both hands for silence before finally speaking up; "if she kills her Betsy will deserve it, and anyway; that girl needs to be knocked down a notch or two. Some people in this world can't have children and if one of those who can isn't going to just because of her bloody figure then she deserves everything she gets!" The passion in the girl's voice hit Bobby hard and he looked at his girlfriend inquisitively, but Tabby simply refused to meet his eye.
Boldly raising a hand to silence everyone Amara smiled at Tabby, "I agree; Betsy shouldn't be so stuck up."
"It's her choice if she doesn't wanna have kids!"
"So! If she didn't wanna have kids she should have just said that instead of telling everyone she didn't want them because she might get stretch marks that would ruin her figure." Roberto's accurate impression seemed to reach out to everyone because after that nobody said a word more and simply stared at Ray. It was all up to him and the boy took the bull by the horns.
Standing up with a fist to his chest as though honoured by the challenge awaiting him, Ray lifted his head proudly, "alright then. I accept!"
And exactly a second later the New Mutants heard voices coming down the stairs, tired and quiet, but voices nonetheless. Jamie was quick to action: "quick! Hide everything!" Several items were chucked over the sofa; including the Chanel dress, and box along with it's contents as the New Mutant's annual game came to an end and, as usual, the television was switched on just as several Xmen walked into the room.
Immediately the group got into their roles, trying to ignore the fact that the first two in the room were Rogue and Betsy.
"Bobby didn't I tell you to turn up the TV?"
"I couldn't earlier just in case some people had hangovers," and Bobby nodded to Remy who stroked his face delicately in a self-pitying manner.
"Well do it now; we still can't hear it from over here," Ray stuck up for his girlfriend, placing an arm around her whilst raising the other in greeting to the older mutants, "morning. Have fun yesterday evening?"
Suspicious, Rogue eyed them all; "have y'all been t' bed at all; did ya sleep in here yesterday? Ahn where's tha Professor ahn Hank?"
"Left yesterday to see someone; they told Logan and Ororo first I think and they'll be back in time for Christmas Eve…who was it that they saw?"
"Wasn't it something to do with the President?" asked Jamie, but soon yelped as he was electrocuted slightly for his apparent stupidity.
"No stupid that was last week, he's meeting with Magneto, and Hank just went along to get out…couldn't imagine why?" Roberto sent Bobby a look and the two boys sniggered.
"Yeh, it's only us here."
Rolling her eyes as she sat on the nearest sofa, Wanda sighed whilst muttering quietly, "I think that's why he went."
Giggling, Kitty leant over and whispered back to the Goth; "a choice between the New Mutants and Magneto and I think I know who I'd pick every time!"
"Yahre telling meh!"
"Well I dunno about that one," Lorna said with a laugh before being confronted with at least a dozen surprised greetings, "hey guys! Nice to see you too," overwhelmed as all of the girls and several Jamie's leapt to hug her at once, the pregnant woman flopped down on a chair that Bobby vacated for her. "Miss me huh?"
The comment went unnoticed as the mutants all instead discovered the obvious bump and Amara squealed delightedly before kneeling beside Lorna to rest her head against it, "we didn't know you came home last night! Ooh! You're pregnant! How old is it?"
"She's 8 months gone."
"She!"
"Oh I knew you'd have a girl as your first kid!" and with that Danielle joined Amara on the floor, "and she's gonna be the most beautiful gal in the whole wide world," cooed Danny to Lorna's bulging stomach, "yes she is!"
Unfazed by the reaction she has received by almost everyone Lorna simply sat back with a smile, "you think?"
"Well with her mother's looks that'll be enough," Bobby cheekily spoke up, almost yelping when Tabby hit him over the head.
Jubilee realised something and spoke up from Ray's lap – which she was currently sat on, "that must mean Piotr's home?" unknowingly she got a look behind her from Ray who seemed to be jealous of this question; Jubes had got quite a crush on the large mutant when he'd first arrived. But her next comment soothed Ray, whom Jubilee had felt tensing at the mention of her ex-crush, "how was your holiday?"
"Fantastic, thanks."
But just as she started to talk about the time away, Ray brought her crashing back down to earth, "your quite big…will you get any bigger?"
"Just a tad…but hopefully I won't get too bad stretch marks when she comes out," and the girl would have gone on to say more but before Lorna could even open her mouth Ray had spoken up, leaving the whole room in silence.
True to his word, the boy raised his head high, fulfilling his 'command', "isn't that why you don't want to have kids Betsy; in case the stretch marks ruin you modelling career?"
"Uh…" was all Betsy could say and the woman bit her lip fearfully and rightfully so: sat beside her, her face contorted with rage as she directed a full on death glare at Betsy, was Rogue Lebeau.
End of ChapterHeya! I hope everybody liked this chapter cuz I've been up all day typing it! Dun, dun, duuun! Betsy's in bollocks, huh? Ooh and I really hope you liked the New Mutants fun! That box is full of fun things to do and I hope you all found them as amusing as I did when writing them! .x.Thriller.x.
