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Days passed, with no sign of Pyro, and I had to remind myself that was a good thing. He was, after all, part of the Brotherhood, and technically the enemy.

Enemy. That just seemed too strong of a word, and thinking it was too strong kind of scared me. Made me feel like I couldn't trust myself where he was concerned.

The summer school classes were coming to a close at Xavier's, and Kurt and the other teachers were starting to prepare for the new school year. I was working on filling out all the paper work for my financial aid, and getting student loans before I started my first semester in college. There was no way I'd be able to afford going otherwise.

I was thinking over the things left that I needed to finish up for all that while I was re-shelving books when I noticed two students peeking around the row in front of mine. Both were girls and sophomores, they'd come in earlier from Ms. Monroe's class to work on a research project.

"He's so hot." The blond whispered, but still loud enough for me to hear.

"Hot!? Try gorgeous!" The red head said at the same volume.

Both girls broke out giggling as they continued to keep checking out whatever boy that had their attention, obviously unaware that I was behind them.

I chuckled silently to myself and left them be as I went back to finishing up what I was doing. It made me think of being in school again. I'd done the same thing whenever I saw Eric Johnson; he had been a senior to my freshman. Besides, who was I to get on to them about not doing their class work? I mean it wasn't like I'd ever been the ideal student.

One of the girls gasped, catching my attention again. "He's coming this way."

I grinned as they both started to pretend to be looking at the books on the shelves, appearing to be busy. My curiosity got the better of me and I watched for the boy they'd been checking out. A moment later he walked past and my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw it was Otto.

I had to turn and walk away; otherwise the girls and him would have heard me trying to choke down my laughter. I went and hide in the library's office so they wouldn't hear me. Don't get me wrong, I'd heard all about how cute my brother was since I started school, but since when had he become gorgeous? And I really didn't know why I found it so hysterical either. I guess my brother was just the last person I expected them to be talking about. The way they'd acted I'd figured it had been Gambit they were spying on.

I got myself together and found Otto waiting to check out a book; behind him the two girls were watching him. I raised an eyebrow at them; they took it as a warning and got back to work. I didn't say anything to Otto as I picked up the book he'd laid on the counter. It wasn't the first time he'd come in here, and it was the only way I saw him anymore.

"College?" His voice startled me.

I jerked my gaze up for a moment to meet his, before dropping it back down. "Yea. I got in to college." I almost asked who told him, but knew already. The Professor was our go between guy these days, keeping us up to date on the other one if something came up. He was the only who thought there was anything salvageable between Otto and me.

I prepared myself for whatever he was going to say, expecting the worst.

He hesitated. "Congratulations."

It took several seconds for it to sink in, and I wasn't quick enough covering up my surprise. "Thanks…thank you."

He nodded, but didn't say anything else as he grabbed his book and left.

I watched the door for a moment even after he'd closed it, with mixed feelings. Part of me wanted to hope that was a sign of things getting better between me and Otto, but another part of me, the realistic part, refused to read more into it. I reasoned that Otto probably felt it was best not to be childish about things any more since we were going to continue to run into each other. He didn't want me around but he was dealing with it.

Rogue came wandering up; I hadn't seen her come in, but she brought me out of my depressing thoughts and I was grateful. She still hadn't told me about what had gone on with her and Gambit, but I wasn't going to push. No matter how bad my curiosity was.

The two girls left moments later, and I smirked after them.

"What?" She followed my gaze as I watched the library doors close after the girls.

I told her about what had happen, figuring she'd find the humor in it. "They said he was gorgeous." I shook my head as I headed back over to the cart I'd left behind when I'd rushed off to hide in the office.

"Uh, Bell, he kind of is." She gave me a look that I could only describe as 'duh', as she followed me. It just looked so out of character on her face it was comical.

My eyebrows shot up. "You're kidding."

"Oh c'mon. Don't look at me like that. He's hot. If he wasn't your brother you'd think the same thing."

"Eww. Gross." The little sister in me kicked in and I wrinkled my nose at her as I got to my cart, still half full with books.

"Yea, well, you may think that but the female population of students don't." She said as she leaned against the book shelves. "They see this super hot, older, brooding guy and he's kind of dangerous thanks to his past involvement with the Brotherhood."

"I think you've been reading to many romances Rogue." I chuckled as I started to re-shelf books

She rolled her eyes.

"And brooding?" I cocked a questioning brow at her.

She shrugged. "He doesn't really talk to anyone. Even when we are training he'll keep to himself." I'd forgotten that since Otto was part of the Professors' team that he and Rogue trained together.

"He wasn't always like that." All humor left me.

"No?" She picked up a book from the shelf and scanned the back of it.

"Nope." God, it hurt thinking about the person he used to be.

"What was he like then?"

I paused to think. "Just about the opposite of how he is now."

"Like?" She pressed, which surprised me since she usually didn't try to be intrusive.

I shrugged. "Otto was a normal All-American, small town boy. He made good grades, didn't get into trouble, always home by curfew. He was captain of the football team, had a lot of friends, plenty of girlfriends, even teachers liked him. He liked cars alot; him and Daddy were the family's mechanics. Otto was a happy person, didn't have a mean bone in him." I sighed heavily. "We weren't much alike."

"You two were close, though." She made it sound like a fact.

I glanced over at her as I kept putting books up. "I used to think so."

Rogue was quite for a moment. "You had no idea that he was a mutant?"

I shook my head. "None. No one did."

"How did you find out then?"

I almost didn't tell her, but figured it wouldn't hurt anything. She knew I hated been pro-muntant before coming to Westchester. "I came home one night, him and Daddy were arguing and Mama was crying. Daddy took a swing at Otto and the next thing I know Otto disappears." It's unbelievable that was a little more than two years ago.

"That's crazy." She shook her head.

I nodded. "How'd your family take finding out about you?"

A bitter smile curved her lips. "Not any better, but they'd seen what I could do."

"Had they?" I could only imagine how bad that had been.

"Yea. It might not have been so bad if it weren't for my powers."

I nodded, wondering how she'd found out about them.

Then like she'd read my mind, Rogue told me the answer. "I kissed a boy-my first kiss in fact, and I put him in a coma."

The only word that came to mind was awful. "I'm sorry." I didn't know what else to say. My problems shrunk in comparison to hers.

Rogue just shrugged.

"You'll figure out how to get control." I reached over and patted her on the back.

"Yea." She didn't look like she believed it.

We changed the subject altogether while I finished putting the books up, before going back to the front desk. Eventually she left the library, but when the day was done I meet up with her for a movie.

I sat cross legged on the extra bed in Rogues room, I'd kicked off my flats before hand and had gotten an eye roll from her thanks to the lime green polish on my toes nails. She set down on her bed and used the remote to start the DVD player. It was Friday night, and I marveled at how much tamer my weekend excitement had gotten, but I wasn't complaining. I'd had fun with my friends in Georgia, but Rogue was the first girl friend I'd ever had that I didn't have to worry about going behind my back to talk about me.

We settled in to watched P.S.I Love You. I'd been reluctant since Gerard Butler's character died in it (and I had a thing for Gerard Butler), but Rogue had seen it and promised me a happy ending.

"You lied." I glared at her after the movie was over. "There was no happy ending."

She looked offended. "Yes there was. She's moving on and becoming successful-"

She stopped when I continued to glared. "That's not a happy ending." I said.

"What would have been one then?" She asked with a smirk.

"I don't know. Not that though." I crossed my arms, pouting a little. I hated story's that didn't have a happy ending. Life could be depressing enough, movies didn't need to add to it.

She laughed at me. "So you didn't like the movie?"

"I did." I admitted reluctantly. "But still."

Rogue stood up and pulled a book from the collection she had on her shelf. "Here, read the book then."

I accepted the hardcover she handed me.

"It's different than the movie, but it's still good."

I scanned the description on the inside flap of the cover. I wasn't really into reading, but I might try reading this. I had liked the movie, no happy ending and all. Flipping through the pages as I listened to Rogue talk about the book and movie, something slipped out and fell to the floor.

I frowned and picked it up. Flipping it over I saw it was a picture, seeing who was in it had me shocked. Bobby Drake sat with his arm around Rogue, with Pyro on the other side of Bobby.

"What's that?" Rogue asked.

"A picture." I showed her, but kept a hold on it. I stared at Pyro, a few younger than he was now, but I recognized that cocky smile on his face.

"I completely forgot that was taken." She reached for it, and I finally passed it to her. "It seems like forever ago."

"You and Pyro were friends?" I already knew the answer to this, but I didn't want her to know that, just in case she figured me out.

She smirked. "Not really. Him and Bobby were. Although they didn't really get along all that well. Always trying to one up the other."

I looked at the picture in her hand. "How'd he end up with the Brotherhood?" Maybe she could give me some insight.

She shrugged. "It's a long story, but part of it was that he'd had some bad experiences with normal people before he ever came to the school and Xavier was never able to change his mind about them. Magneto gave him another option."

"What kind of bad experiences?" I didn't want to appear too interested, but I wanted to know more about him.

"I don't know. That's just what Bobby told me, Pyro never talked about his life before coming to the school with me. Bobby knew the most about him besides the Professor."

I frowned as I processed that. Pyro hadn't ever talked about his past with me either, and now I was curious.

"Pyro, huh? Doesn't he have a real name?" I smirked, thinking about how he had refused to tell me his real name. He should have known I'd find it out.

Rogue chuckled. "St. John Allerdyce."

I suppressed the triumphant grin that wanted to creep up. Rogue put the picture in her a on the bedside table before changing the subject and I resisted the impulse to change it back. The last thing I wanted her to know was that I had a thing for my kidnapper.

I went home a few hours later to my empty apartment. I loved being on my own, but sometimes living alone was just lonely. I'd thought about getting a dog, but it didn't seem fair to keep one couped up inside all day while I was at work. So instead of trying to keep myself occupied I went ahead to bed, knowing I'd need my rest for the training with Logan the next day. That man could do some seriously grueling workouts, but I won't complain too much. I was showing improvements. Most days at least.

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