I woke up in a foreign location but with Remy by my side. His head was resting on the bed I laid in as his gloved hand held mine. Gloved...
He stirred awake and I was about to smile, but Belladonna runs in the room. She hugs Remy, "I'm so glad ya'll are both okay!"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Rogue is de only one a lil banged up but she is gon be fine too."
I did kiss Remy, right? That wasn't a dream? No... it wasn't so... this makes this all so awkward. "I'm sorry 'bout your friend Bella. I tried to-"
"I know yah did. That kid has been following her around like a sad puppy our whole junior year and you know how nice she is. She wouldn't ever tell anyone to leave her alone, but I never thought he'd ever do something like this! He seemed so... mild mannered."
"People can surprise you," Remy simply stated.
"I'm just glad you two are okay. I can't believe you went back in dat school Remy LeBeau! It took me forever to find you guys."
"Well, you know wit Anna's condition she can't go to a normal hospital."
"Oh, I never thought about dat."
A somewhat familiar face entered the room. I remember him from the school, the one with the ice slide. "Looks like the patient is awake. You probably have a lot of questions. Do you mind if we speak alone?"
Remy protested, "Yeah, I kinda do."
"Remy-"
"I have questions too Anna."
"Bella looks a lil shaken up and could probably use a cup of coffee, don't yah think?" Growing up with Remy as I have helped me get used to this secret society of mutants with the people we have met along the way. But Bella doesn't know what I can really do or what Remy can do for that matter as if his eyes were any hint to his outcast status. I felt like I was about to be flooded with all sorts of ideas and knew she couldn't handle it.
"Coffee sounds great," Bella agreed.
"Okay..." Remy said skeptically. As Bella and Remy left she mouthed: He is SO cute! I laughed because he was cute. He looked like a surfer boy from California but spoke a little funny. He was definetly an East coast boy with that accent. But his first impression would make you think otherwise. His sandy blonde hair was cut short as if he were gearing up for a hot summer of beach time fun and his blue eyes were soft, endearing.
"Where are we?"
"A small doctor's office just outside of town. We... borrowed it for the day."
"My leg-"
"Is fine."
"And you are?"
"My name is Bobby and I'm part of the X-men."
"The X-men? Why did your introduction sound like an AA meeting?"
"Its just a group of people. Like you."
"I doubt they are like me."
"Well not exact copies of you, but you have to know that you and your friend Remy are different."
"Yeah and what do you want with us?"
"We want you to come to New York and join our team."
"My mom always warned me about strangers who knew about my gift. How did you even know about the school shooting and what I am? Those other guys knew too."
"The Brotherhood. That guy Pietro you met had a plan to convince you to join his team. We have a very powerful mutant, our Professor, who can track down mutants. When we found out about the Brotherhood's plan to kidnap you-"
"You decided to make up your own little plan to convince me to join your team?"
"Not in that exact sense. We just want to let you know that we exist and that we can help you."
"Help me?"
"The Professor thinks that your powers can be manageable."
"They aren't right now."
"Yeah, one of our teachers who has a healing ability tested your powers while you were asleep to see if they were still active and he recieved a rude awakening."
"I don't like being tested."
"Thats not... We are the good guys Anna."
"Sure you are."
"ANNA!" Cody came running in the room and was about to hug me.
"What are you doing!" I pushed him away being especially careful.
"What do you mean?" Bobby's eyebrows raised and he slithered out of the room to escape the drama. "I heard you got shot and I called Bella. She let me know where you were."
"Okay..."
"I just wanted to make sure you were okay."
"Yeah, I'm fine. You don't have to be here."
"Why are you actin all cold toward me?"
"We haven't talked in months."
"And thats on you. Maybe I'm here because I still have feelins for yah. I-"
"Which is exactly why you shouldn't be here."
"What is wrong with you?"
I looked outside my hospital room's window. Remy and Bella were in the hallway hugging. She kissed him and I felt a pain in my chest. He kissed her back. Because he is her boyfriend. They are in a relationship Anna. Get that through your head! What am I doing? What is wrong with me? Belladonna has been nothing but a friend to me. I like her. I really do. But Remy and I... makes all this complicated. Looking at them together I realized Remy wasn't going to break up with her. They were Lousiana royalty and I would just be getting in the way. I couldn't do that to Bella, someone I called my friend. Remy wasn't going to hurt her and call it quits. I am just... in the way. Thats when I decided to leave. Leave Remy and Bella and Cody to live their lives and for me to start my own. A fresh start. Somewhere new where no one knew who I was.
xxxx
I left with the X-men to New York that day.
Without goodbyes.
May, June, July, August, September. Senior year. Everything was so different now.
"Hey, I have a suprise for you,' Bobby said as he entered my room.
"And whats that?"
"Close your eyes."
I could hear him walking closer towards me and soon I felt his cold breath near my face. Instantly I pushed away, "What are you doin?"
"Thought I could give my senior girlfriend a kiss on her first day of school."
"Yeah, I don't think so. Are you crazy?"
"I have a plan."
"Kissin me shouldn't involve a plan."
"You don't trust me."
"No, I don't! I just found out yesterday that you're a junior. You could have told me that before!"
"Like it matters? We are both seventeen?"
"Yeah but I didn't know you were such a baby," I joked.
"Oh please. You know I'm not that immature. My last relationship with my ex ended because she thought I was immature and-"
"Don't mention the ex. Never mention the ex. I don't like the ex's name and I don't like hearing ex. At all."
"Okay, I'm sorry." He laughed.
"Oh yeah hilarious! Hilarious that your ex girlfriend hates me and has all of her little sophomore friends hating me."
"Kitty is a little..."
"There you go saying her name. Again."
"Okay, Okay! My bad."
"We have been going out for three months when is she going to get over it?"
"Probably never. But who cares! Lets get back to what I came here for."
"Bobby, no."
"I have a plan."
"You are startin to annoy meh."
"Just close your eyes."
"FINE." His cold lips touched mine. It was like... I can't even describe it. The first word that comes to mind is minty and I don't think that is how you should describe a kiss but it was nice.
"See?"
He leaned in again, but I stopped him. "Just one for today. I don't wanna hurt yah."
"You won't hurt me. I'm focused-"
"I don't want you to be focused on anything else but me. I don't want you to have to think of controlling yourself yah know? You knew the rules getting in this."
"I'm not regretting us, alright? I just thought..."
"I'm gonna be late and I still haven't put on any eye makeup."
"You look like you already have some on!"
"Thats because I haven't finished yet. Trust me my makeup used to be a lot more heavy than this. I can't part with it just yet."
...
School was uneventful but of course coming home to teenage rath is always a kicker.
"I don't want to be on her team!"
"Yeah I don't really trust Kitty as my team mate either at this point," I agreed. We were in the middle of a Danger Room Session. We go through random obstacle courses which mostly I am no use in. I don't get why I am even here. Its not like I can shoot things out of my eyeball or claw my way through a metal door.
"You both have to learn to work together," Storm chimed in with her usual tale of team cooperation.
"Maybe if she hadn't stolen my boyfriend I might be a little nicer to her!"
"I didn't steal your boyfriend! You guys had been broken up for four months! Get over it!" Its not like Bobby is my soul mate or anything but I've grown to love his company.
"Four months? Really, is that what he told you?"
"Girls, please stop."
A voice came over the intercom, "Rogue you have a vistor. He is driving up the drive as I speak."
A visitor? I made my way from the basement to the first floor with Kitty not too far behind me wanting to know the latest gossip first hand. A motorcycle pulled up in front of the entrance. The roaring engine came to a halt as the rider removed his helmet. Remy in black trench coat made his way toward me.
"He is cute," Kitty whispered behind me. "Thats you're exboyfriend right? Lets see how you like a little competition."
"Will you shut up?" Adressing Remy, "What are you doing here?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Nope. Obviously it isn't because-" After nearly five months of not seeing him he could still take my breath away. He kissed me. Damn him.
This is not okay.
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