Evan sighed as for the thousandth time that moment as Scott dropped him and Kitty off at the school where the bus was awaiting him.
"Good luck," Scott said as he saw Pietro and Toad standing next to Lance's jeep. "If they cause you any trouble, I'll make sure to kick their butts when they come home."
"Thanks, that totally makes me feel better." Evan said sarcastically.
Kitty just groaned as she looked at Toad. "This is like, totally going to suck." She said as she grabbed her huge suitcase that held all her things in it.
"You said it," Evan replied as he grabbed his duffel bag containing his belongings that he was going to need.
They both sighed in unison as Scott drove off. Kitty turned around to see if she could find a girl to sit with on the bus, but instead bumped into Toad.
"We're gonna have a lotta fun together," Todd said, grinning mischievously. "Mrs. Talkalot says we gotta sit with our partners."
"You've like, totally got to be kidding me!" Kitty wailed. "This is going to be like, the worst three hours of my life!"
"It takes THREE hours to get there?" Pietro, joining the group, said angrily.
"Hey, don't think I want to be on the bus cramped up with you either." Evan said, glaring at his rival.
"Everyone, get on the bus and sit with your partners. Make sure you go to the bathroom because it's a three hour drive and we're not taking any potty breaks. Got it?" The teacher said, interrupting all the students' conversations. Mumbles and uh-huh's were heard. "Huh, nobody has any respect for adults anymore." Mrs. Talpatot huffed.
Evan and Pietro filed onto the bus followed by Toad and Kitty.
"We're sitting near the front," Pietro said. He gestured towards seat number 3. "Ladies first."
"What the…Pietro, you do know that I'm going to be the husband, right? Now get in, I want to sit across from Kitty and talk to her during the ride."
"I'm NOT sitting next to the window to be cramped up next to you."
"Oh, I get it. You're claustrophobic or something like that."
"No, it's not that! I just hate being near the window!"
By now, they had drawn a crowd. Kitty, Cindy, Greg, and Todd waited impatiently for the two boys to stop fighting so they could sit down.
Kitty pointed at the school building and said, "It's Principal Kelly hanging by his underwear on a pole again!" During the distraction, she phased through Pietro in order to get her seat. Todd jumped over her and next to the window. "Finally! I should have thought of that sooner."
Evan and Pietro finally noticed the crowd and sat down embarrassed, with Evan at the window and Pietro on the outside.
'Stupid Pietro,' he thought to himself. 'Always getting what he wants.'
Everyone else filed onto the bus, disappointed that Kelly was not on a pole hanging by his underwear and Pietro and Evan hadn't gotten into a fist fight. The teacher, however, looked the most disappointed, but for different reasons.
"I'm very disappointed at you two," she said. "You're already young adults and look at the way you're acting."
Evan's face brightened. "So does that mean you're going to give us different partners?"
"No," said the teacher as Evan's face went from a smile to a frown. "Married couples must learn to work out their differences. The same goes for you."
Evan groaned and Pietro just rolled his eyes.
"Now class, each one of the groups is going to have a cabin with two separate beds approximately five feet apart. Both beds are exactly the same, so there's no reason to fight over them. Inside the cabin, there's going to be a little kitchen area and a bathroom. There is nothing else inside the cabin except for a little trashcan next to the door. Any questions?"
"Yeah," said Greg. "What if some partners end up in intercourse?"
"If anybody does that, I'm going to give you detention for the rest of the year and tell your parents."
A few snickers were heard.
"Any more questions?" she asked. Almost all the boys raised their hands. "That are appropriate and don't have to do with sexual things?" All the hands went down at once. "Good. Now, let's hit the road!"
As the bus driver started to drive, Evan took out his bag and took out a sandwich that Scott had packed for him. Evan opened it up and noticed with delight that it was peanut butter and jelly. PB & J went best with milk. Everyone who was anyone knew that.
Evan grinned as he heard Pietro's stomach growl at the scent of the sandwich. Unfortunately, Pietro noticed and frowned. Well, he wasn't smiling to begin with, but he wasn't exactly frowning either.
"I didn't have any breakfast, so sue me. Toad decided to eat the last bit of the food before I was ready."
Evan just continued to grin and ate the sandwich nice and slowly, trying to torment Pietro as much as he could. Kitty noticed Pietro staring at Evan's food with a bit of jealousy and hunger and felt bad for him as she looked down at her own sandwich, so she tore her sandwich in half and gave the other half to Pietro.
Pietro looked thoroughly surprised, as did Evan. "Uh…thanks." Pietro said, blushing slightly. He quickly regained his composter though and said, "Don't expect me to pay you back or anything."
"Whatever," Kitty said. Why did she even bother? It was like giving candy to a baby and expecting them to show gratitude, but instead they just ignored you completely and focused on the candy.
Pietro wolfed down his sandwich and in the blink of an eye, put his hand in Evan's bag and took out a milk carton.
"Thanks for the donation," Pietro said as he gulped down the milk.
"I wish you had choked," Evan snarled.
"Evan, that's no way to talk to your husband." Pietro chuckled at his stupid joke. "Plus, you had about fifty cartons in there and I was thirsty after all that peanut butter."
"I do not have fifty cartons of milk, I have exactly seven. What's your problem?"
"I don't have any problems," Pietro said. He stroked his hair lovingly. "How could someone as wonderful as me have any problems?"
"You're going to have way more problems than you have now if you don't shut up," Evan said through gritted teeth.
"Touchy, touchy." Pietro grinned.
Evan thought about what Bill had told him to do the night before. 'Just ignore Pietro. He's just a stupid, egotistical idiot who thinks he knows every freaking thing in the planet.'
Pietro gave up on picking on Evan and decided to focus on tormenting the sleeping kid sitting in front of him by braiding his long hair in a wacky style. Evan rolled his eyes and looked out the window. Just lots of boring gas stations and trees. And more trees. Some deer. A man pulling a screaming woman into a dark and mysterious alley, some thugs stealing hot dogs from a hot dog stand, a man swinging from building to building by spider webs, a guy selling cigarettes to some kids, a man that looked an awful lot like Magneto flying in the air in a Superman pose and some scotch in his hand, some naked cannibal ladies dancing around a huge pot with a big, fat guy on crack inside of it (ah, the wonderful things you can see in New York City), and finally nothing but forest area.
Evan got so bored that he fell asleep. He was woken about an hour later by Pietro.
"What do you want?" Evan grumbled.
"Get off of me," Pietro said, his arms up in defensive mode. Evan had fallen into his lap while he was sleeping.
Evan quickly got up and wiped off some drool that had started to trail down his cheek.
"Sorry," he said, not really meaning it.
"Whatever," Pietro said. About thirty minutes later, they arrived at their destinations.
"I hope everyone packed their coats because it's going to be really cold outside," Mrs. Talpatot said. "Now here's the list of where everyone's cabins are." She handed each group a list. "Now, go find your cabins and get settled in. We'll have lunch at three o' clock, and dinner at eight. You can do whatever in between. The real 'bonding' stuff happens tomorrow. Any questions that are appropriate?"
"What if our roommate gets sick or something like that?" Greg asked.
"Nobody is going to get sick as long as you dress warmly and don't do anything stupid," the teacher said. "But, in the slight chance that someone does get sick, your 'husband/wife' will have to take care of them. Of course, if it's something serious, be sure to tell me, and I'll take care of it. Any other questions?"
When no one raised their hands, the teacher smiled and clapped her hands and told the kids to get off the bus. She felt stupid afterwards though since she almost got trampled by all the students.
Pietro got to their cabin first and took a look inside. It smelled okay (better than the Brotherhood house) and was about as big as Mystique's bedroom. It looked exactly as the teacher had described. He threw his things on the left bed and glanced quickly as he heard the bedroom door being opened.
Evan took a look around the cabin. It was exactly how the teacher had described and he was glad that it was warmer in there than it was outside. Not by much, but every bit of warmth counted. He threw his things on the right bed since Pietro's things occupied the other one and decided to take a look around.
Everything was sparkly clean, but he knew that by the end of the two weeks, it was going to be trashed with Pietro's fastness and Evan's spikes and all. 'Well, maybe we'll get along, just a little bit.' He hoped.
Evan then decided that he needed to go to the bathroom and started heading towards his destination, when Pietro realized where Evan was going and zoomed inside and slammed and locked the door at the same time so Evan couldn't get in.
"Let me in!" Evan screamed angrily.
"I'm busy, and I might be in here for about half an hour." Pietro replied in a way too cheerful voice.
'I was way wrong. We're never going to get along.' Evan though angrily.
