p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Outside and in front of everyone else, they were just as cold and indifferent to each other. John would make snide comments, that he didn't really mean, and Rogue would bite and nibble at her lips. Bobby didn't pay too much attention to it. It had just become expected. He did notice Rogue paying less attention to him though. And when he would questioned her, she would just giggle and tell him he was delusional. Bobby would then absentmindedly agree with her. After all, the only other boy he had to worry about taking Rogue from him was John, seeing as they hate each other, it didn't matter./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Here I thought you were such a good little girl." John teased as he pulled Rogue back onto the bed by her elbow./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Two weeks after their 'secret meetings' had started, Rogue ended it with Bobby. Said that she couldn't take the distance he was trying to put between them. Bobby was reluctant at first; then let her go. Saying if she felt that way, then fine. Two weeks after that, John made them public./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Not in the most subtle way either. Just 10 days after she and Bobby had spilt, out in the middle of nowhere John grabbed her in the middle of the hallway, between 3rd and 4th hour, and laid a fat kiss on her. In front of Bobby, Kitty, Logan, Storm, and everyone else./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I never said I was a good girl, you came up with that on your own." Rogue threw a smile at him over her shoulder. "Now I have to take a shower."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Wanting to wash me off?" He released her elbow and watched as she slid off the bed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"With a giggle she turned and pulled him forward by his bare shoulder, "I never want to wash you off, but seeing as I need to go talk to Logan" She graced his lips with a small tingling kiss, "unless you want his nose to pick you up."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No no no. Go take your shower." John chuckled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She pinched his cheek and quickly skipped off to the shower./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Things were as close to perfect as they could possibly get. John had helped her rein in her mutation, thus their more often and constant physical contact, not that that had stopped him before, it was just easier for her now. She wasn't worried about her getting too lost in the situation and hurting him. It had happened once after they had went public. John had snuck into her room while she was taking a shower and when she walked out in only a towel, he wrapped his arms around her bare shoulders. She didn't know it was him until after she had absorbed all his mutation and he hit the floor with a thunk. He was out for about 12 hours, of course from this he learned, let it be known that it's the boyfriend, not a kidnapper or rapist./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""John," Storm sighed, this was the sixth meeting she has had with him within two months. It started out just being his burning things inside, then he burned other people's belongings, then he burned the school's belongings, and so on. Each time he didn't care enough to listen to her lecture. He would just snap his Zippo open and closed an roll his eyes. She was threw with it though. He was going to listen this time. "Do you span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"want/span to be here?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"He narrowed his eyes at her, "Sure, thank you for letting me in this ratty ass school."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Storm released a heavy sigh, "We thought she would have a good effect on you. After all, she has such good grades and behavior. Logan was still so strongly against it, but I told him, for your benefit, that encouraging this relationship was a good idea. So he did."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""emWow/em, gee. Thanks." John commented dryly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""John!" Storm snapped, "Speak now if you want to be here or not."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""By span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"here/span, you mean strongat the school/strong. By at the span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"school/span, you mean strongif I want to be a part of your team/strong. By a span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"part of your team/span, you mean strongpart of the /strongemstrongX-men/strong/em." He spat the last word with disgust. "And to that I answer, no. The only thing keeping me here is Rogue."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Then you have to leave. You're making it hard on the other students." Storm's voice softened again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You're kicking me out?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No. But we cant have you here causing the other students to be uncomfortable." Storm shifted./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Fine." He stood abruptly and snapped his Zippo shut. "Consider me, emgone/em."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""John don't make it against you. Its for the better of the other students, if you change your attitude or leave. There are other schools if you want to try them. They aren't as elite as this-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I'm over school. It drags anyway. The only fun part was being with Rogue. Its not even fun to torture Bobby anymore." He threw his hand in the air and marched from the room./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"His mind reeled back in deep thoughts. That was a whole lot easier than it should have been. The hard part was going to be telling Rogue. She should be waiting for him in her room, since he had been so kindly pulled away from dinner. How was he supposed to say it though?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emThey kicked me out for not wanting to be an X-man./em She was an X-man….thay wouldn't work. She would just pester him with questions of 'why?'./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emI hate it here./em She would take that personally./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Oh well, as everything else he did, it would be spur of the moment./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hey, babe." Rogue greeted him from the small cushioned chair on the far wall, when he entered the room./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hey." He grinned devilishly at her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Uh-oh. I know what that means." She closed her book and wrapped her gloved arms around his neck./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"With questionable eyes John looked at the gloves. She only wore them when she was ill or tired now that she had been able to control her mutation./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I'm just kinda tired. Nothing for ya to worry about." A small laugh escaped her lips as she pushed up to kiss him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You sure?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Yeah. Now what did you have in mind?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"John bent down and kissed her lightly at first. After a few seconds he deepened it. Before she knew it he had her pinned into the bed comforter, just staring down at her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You're beautiful." He pushed a platinum strand of hair from her face. "You'll always be the most beautiful girl to me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You make it sound like you're leaving me. What did Storm-" he claimed her lips again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No talk." He smiled against her lips./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hmm. Works with me." Rogue stroked her fingers down his masculine arms./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"So she couldn't tell him today? She was okay with waiting, after all, they had the rest of their lives right?/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Today was Saturday, so no need to jump up and get out of bed. Besides usually on Friday nights John would just stay over. So when Rogue snuggled over to his side of the bed, it shocked her to find it empty. She eyes flew open only to witness the same thing. He wasn't there and apparently he hadn't been for a long time, since the entire bed was cold./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Maybe he had left. Sometime when she hadn't even noticed. Oh well, she couldn't wait to see him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"The thought of his face when he hears the news made her giggle uncontrollably./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Happily, she bounced out of bed, slipped into a pair of faded jeans and a graphic tee. She tied her hair back into a high ponytail and skipped out into the hallway to greet the day fully. Only the only thing she greeted fully was Bobby's shoulder, seeing as he had been passing as she skipped out./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Sorry, Bobby." She muttered an embarrassed apology./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Its fine." He shrugged and went on./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Well, he wasn't in such a bad mood. Maybe today wasn't going to be so bad./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Just then Kitty emerged from her own room, looking not as happy but still upbeat./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hey, Kitty, you had breakfast already?" Rogue chimed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Yeah." Kitty smiled back at her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Oh." Rogue nibbled at her lip, "Did you see John?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You mean-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You don't know?" Bobby suddenly joined their conversation, making Rogue shift uncomfortably. What did he know about John, that she didn't? "He got kicked out. I saw him with all his luggage in hand this morning around 4 a.m."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Kicked out? Is that why Storm called him out yesterday? And at 4 a.m.? The last time she had looked at the clock with him in her sight, it had been 3:15./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Wait what?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""He's gone. I heard him muttering something about never coming back. How he hated here." Bobby commented dryly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""You're lying!" Rouge shoved his shoulder, roughly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Hey! Don't blame me. Its your boyfriend that took off! I told you that he was a bad idea. Don't you remember?" Yeah, he had pulled her aside a few days after John had made out with her in the hall and told her he was a bad idea. She thought it was jealousy. "He always told me he couldn't wait to leave this place."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Just stop!" She yelled at him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Kitty had slipped away at some point in time, leaving Rogue and Bobby alone./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""I'm going to go check his room! I know you're lying!" Rogue turned away from him and began up the hall./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No, Rogue don't!" Bobby was chasing after her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Hot tears were filling her eyes as she fled down the hall. John had to be here! He wouldn't leave her! Not now! She could hear Bobby yelling at her to stop, but mentally she was blocking him out./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Once she had found the room, her small hand wrapped around it and swung it open as hard as she could. Instead of her heart being greeted with comforting sight of all John's things being in the room; instead of seeing him lazily snoozing away on the bed, as he loved to do on Saturday mornings. She found nothing. Not even his bed sheets! He span style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration: underline;"was/span gone. He didn't leave any trace of him behind./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"emWell, that isn't completely true./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Oh…my…God." Rogue lifted a trembling hand to her lips./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Don't look." Bobby pulled backwards out of the room by her elbow./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"She instantly jerked from his touch and forced herself into the room. This wasn't happening. He was hiding somewhere. Maybe he had just changed his room. He hadn't told her or anyone!/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""Rogue!" Bobby called after her./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;""No! No! NO! He has to be here!" Rogue's tears spilt over, now in streams down her face./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Bobby's arms enclosed around her, and despite her efforts to fight him off, he held on. She screamed and wailed, kicking her legs like a child pitching a fit./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"Soon she found herself crying against Bobby's chest. Pounding him with her fists. Blaming him for John not being there./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"If living with John strongignoring/strong her was hard, wait until she has to live strongwithout/strong him./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"strongI know I had this story going in one direction, but it might work out this way too. PLEASE tell me what you think. After all, you mean lots to me. There is going to be a major time jump starting next chapter. Just to let you know! Thank for reading!/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"strongRAWR/strong/p