Chapter 7: Full Moon

Later that night, Alyce had found out that Emma was still going to be teaching the class. And as expected, Alyce was the one getting in trouble. Bella got to stay with the X-Team, something Alyce already knew. The Professor had warned Emma that if she ever talked down to Bella again, she would pay dearly. What he really meant by that, Alyce did not want to know. She was sure the Professor had a few things up his sleeve. As for Alyce's punishment? A certain Pyro couldn't be seen in her room after 8pm. But right a certain Pyro was still in her room. And he didn't care that it was after 8pm.

"You're going to get in trouble." Alyce muttered as she began to pick out clothes from her closet. She had told the Professor that she was going to drive down to Pennsylvania, to go visit her parents. It was a two hour drive, but if she sped up a bit she could make it in under an hour. She was going to surprise her Dad with the brand new car he had been hinting at for months. Why he didn't make it himself, she didn't know. They had exactly the same power, except he was only able to use it in the dark. When she was younger, she would call him The Boogie Man.

Alyce began to stack a few pair of jeans in her arms and walked to her bed. She plopped them down and looked back at John, who was glaring at her. She ignored him, pushing her jeans inside a large duffel bag. "You don't care that you're going to get in trouble?" She asked him once more. She stopped packing her bag and looked at him.

He still glared, glancing at her duffel bag with a distaste. "Why are you leaving me here to rot?" He finally spoke, looking annoyed. Alyce raised an eyebrow. "It's my Dad's birthday. Do you want to come?"

"No. Your dad scares me."

Alyce let out a chuckle. "He's the most sweetest guy. If you don't want to come then don't complain."

John let out a huff and reached over the bed, grabbing Alyce by her wrist and jerking her across the mattress. He wrapped an arm underneath her and placed his other arm over her chest. He interlocked his fingers, trapping her. He lowered his face down to hers, but instead of giving her a kiss, he began to lightly bite her neck. She began to squirm, fits of laughter coming out of her mouth. She kicked her feet in the air, trying to get free of his grip, but he had her held down tight.

"You're leaving me here. All alone." He spoke for a second then returned back to biting her neck.

"O---O--OK!" She managed to shout out. "I'm sorry!"

John stopped, but kept his mouth on her neck. He gently began to kiss her neck. All he wanted was to hear a sorry. And he had got one. It was nice to know he could make a tough girl like Alyce surrender so easily. He was about to kiss her lips when the door to the room bursted open. Both of them looked up, scared. Where they going to get in trouble, again?

"Oh, don't mind me. I only, like, sleep here too." Bella entered the room. She closed the door behind her and covered her eyes with her hand. Bella began to walk her way to the bathroom, but knocked into the bed frame. Alyce laughed, tapping John's hands so he could let her go. Reluctantly he did, and Alyce got up, following Bella as she staggered to the bathroom.

"You can stop that now."

Bella took her hand away from her eyes and smiled, opening the faucet. She ran her hands under the water and splashed her face. "So, I heard you're going to see visit Uncle James for a few days."

"Yea, I was. I wanted to surprise him. I was going to ask if you could drive on down as well, tomorrow, to surprise him too."

Bella dried her face with a towel and turned on the shower. "That sounds like a plan. How long are we going to stay for?"

Alyce peeked outside the bathroom door, throwing up five fingers to John. "Five minutes..." The gesture spoke. He rolled his eyes and Alyce closed the door to the bathroom. Alyce sat on the toilet, looking down as Bella began to take off her clothes. The two of them had been doing weird things like since they were young. If one of them was in the shower, and the other had something important to talk about, they would do it just like this. They had been together since childhood, they had no reason to be scared of each others naked bodies.

"I was planning on staying for about two weeks or so. I want you to come up, so you don't have to be here with that woman."

Bella stood quiet and got inside the shower, closing the curtains. Alyce bit her lip knowing that Bella was still worried about going to that class if Emma was going to be teaching it. What Emma had said, was just plain wrong. Alyce still didn't know why she had even said something remotely like that.

"Bella, you know that you'll still be with us in class? I talked to the Professor and he cleared it all up with her."

"I wasn't worried about that." Bella squeezed a massive amount of Lilac shampoo into her hand and began to wash her hair. "That woman has a personal vendetta against me. And I didn't even do anything!"

"I know, I would like to know the reason as to why she said those things myself. At least we won't be here for two weeks, so that way we won't have to deal with her."

Bella let out a chuckle. "Alyce, if I didn't stick to you like glue now, I'm going to be doing it a lot more now."

Alyce smiled. "That's fine, Bellz. I won't let her talk to you like that, again."

"Or else you'll go grrrrrr. You should go finish sucking face with John before you guys get in trouble."

Alyce rolled her eyes. She hated the term Bella used, 'sucking face.' It made her feel like a monster. Alyce got up from the toilet and was about to open the door when she suddenly remembered the events of last night. "Don't think I forgot about you getting shit-faced."

Bella stuck her head out of the curtains, her hair mopped up together with shampoo and resting on top of her head. "Let me have some fun." For a cousin, Alyce sure got over protective. But Bella didn't really mind. It was nice to know that there was someone ready to defend her at a moments notice. She stuck her tongue out and popped her head back in the shower.

"After I beat up Pietro, sure."

Bella began to sing, ignoring what Alyce had just said. Alyce laughed and opened the door to the bathroom, steam floating out. The cold air hit Alyce and she breathed it in. She smiled to John, who was covering his ears. She closed the door and made her way back to her bed, crawling over to John and sitting down next to him.

"I'm about to leave in a few." She said. Alyce slapped her hand over her duffel, and almost immediately the bag began to fill up with different types of clothes. She zippered up the bulging mass and looked over to John. He got up from the bed and took her bag with one hand.

"I'll walk you to the garage."

Alyce nodded, she looked back to the bathroom and shook her head. "Tell Bella I said goodbye ok. I'll call her tomorrow."

"No problem. Let's go."

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Emma walked down into the garage. She wanted to find Alyce and apologize. Well, in all actuality, she didn't want to. But the Professor had asked nicely. So she was going to comply. Emma walked around rows and rows of cars, no sight of Alyce anywhere. Had she already left? Emma sighed, stopping in her steps and looking around. That's when she finally caught a glimpse of Alyce—right in the middle of an intense make out. Emma rolled her eyes, remembering that is was the boy who had stopped her in the class that she was now making out with. No wonder he had sprung up from his seat so fast.

Emma watched them for a few minutes trying to see how far they would go. She decided to make her presence known when she saw his hand slide up her shirt. Talk about pent up sexual frustration.

"Alyce?"

The two pulled apart and Alyce turned around. She glared with her icy blue eyes and turned back to John. She gave him one last final kiss and murmured something in his ear. They locked hands for a few seconds and John walked away, also giving Emma the glare from hell.

"What do you want?" Alyce asked, turning back around and leaning on the side of her car. She placed her hands on the roof of the car and waited for Emma to answer.

"I just wanted to talk to you for a bit. Are you in a rush?"

"Actually, I am."

"Just give me two seconds?"

Alyce sighed. She nodded her head toward Emma but opened the drivers side door. "I'm listening..."

Emma smiled. "I just wanted to apologize to you about what I did to Bella this morning. I don't know what came over me."

"You shouldn't be apologizing to me. You should be saying this to Bella. I wasn't the one who was crying."

"I was going to--"

"Don't go near my cousin. If I find out that you did, trust me when I say, I won't miss again." Alyce intensified her glare, watching as Emma stammered. Alyce knew perfectly well that Emma was going to babble this to the Professor, no doubt getting her in trouble again. But she wasn't about to start being nice with this woman.

"Look..." Emma spoke getting frustrated. "I'm just trying to mend what I did. But if we're not going to get along then that's fine."

Alyce didn't respond. She plopped herself into the car and roared the engine to life. Emma watched as Alyce drove out of the Mansion garage, the small car disappearing on the night road. Emma smirked to herself, placing a hand on her hip.

"You're going to be sorry, Alyce."