-2 Days Later-

~Rave~

Drama

Rave sighed as she laid back against the grassy terrain under the tree. Class was being held outside today so they could find inspiration in the things around them. Already Rave had found a few inspirations and wrote them down on a list, yet she only paid attention to the first.

1. The birds tweeting

2. My friends

3. The track team ;)

4. The floating clouds

5. Nature

Evan and Kitty were... Somewhere...So for now Rave was just relaxing...Well...First Rave had reedited the script of the school's Dracula; the Rock Musical script a bit under Jason's orders...So now she could relax...But when Rave relaxed, her mind would always wonder onto different subjects. The main subjects in her thought pattern for right now; Lance and the Institute.

Lance would always and forever be her brother. They had been through everything together! And by everything, she meant everything. Toddler-years (she was always iffy if Lance had really grown-up in there though), adoption days, family holiday, mother/father's day, puberty...Everything. Their loyalty could make a 25-year old dog bark in surprise. She wouldn't leave Lance...Or at least until she found he was ready to be without her. Both of them knew that Lance wouldn't make it that far alone, Rave had a shot because of her grades and social skills...So it always made her worry whenever the mere thought of leaving him crept into her head.

~elsewhere~

Kitty shoved Evan towards the direction Rave was laying down.

"Go Evan! Ask her before she says yes to someone else!"

"B-But I-" Evan was cut off when he saw Kitty's intense glare and sighed, before going over to where Rave was relaxing.

~Rave~

The Institute seemed like an amazing place to be, filled with beautiful and fun noises. She could have almost sensed the positive aura around the place...Oh geez, did she really just use "aura"?...Maybe she shouldn't read Sketch's Teen Girl Magazines...Yeah, that sounded like a good idea...But back to the subject. Rave also didn't mind some of the residence in the place either and-

"Smile for the camera!" a voice chimed from beside Rave, who turned to smirk at a video-camera wielding Evan.

"Nice cam, but why you tappin' me?" Evan blushed a bit at the question before turning off the camera and grinning at Rave.

"Wh-What are you talking about?"

"I mean, why do you have a camera with you." Evan looked a bit relieved at this before he laid down beside Rave under the tree.

"Well. It's kinda extra credit for my Social Science class."

"Ah...Wait, was that the class you had the Star Wars report for?

...

"...Maybe..." Rave giggled a bit before lightly punching Evan's shoulder.

"Dude, it's okay. You can tell me the truth. Heck, you can tell me anything. I'll always be here to listen." That would have been when the all-knowing bell decided to toll for the end of the class, the 2 mutants got up from their spots and walked inside.

"Hey..Uh...Rave...You still not have a date to the dance?"

"Yeah, sadly."

"How come?"

"Pietro's been up my butt every day now asking me to go." Evan had to suppress the growl that was building up ins his throat, sometimes that dude didn't know when to lay off.

"Hey, sorry about that."

"Yeah, but...What can ya do, ya know? No one that I want to go to the dance with has asked me." Rave said as she unlocked her locker, Evan leaned against the lockers beside it and flipped open the camera a few times. It was now or never, right?

"Hey...Uh...Rave?"

"Yeah?"

"Would you...Um..." Rave stopped sifting through her books to turn her green eyes towards Evan, who was staring at his camera nervously.

"..Would I..?"

"Would you like to go to the dance with...Well...With me?" Evan asked, still choosing not to look up from his camera. Good thing to, because if he did look up, he would have seen the dark pink that tinged Rave's cheeks.

"Uh..Well...um...I." Rave couldn't help but curse mentally at her own stupidity, why did she have to lose every word she knew right now?

"Listen I understand if you don't want to go with me, I just thought that-" Evan was cut off when Rave grabbed him and pulled him into a hug.

"I...I'd love to go with you." Rave managed to whisper, Evan blinked before pulling back and grinning.

"R-Really? Y-You will?" Rave hid bashfully behind her bangs as they fell in front of her face.

"Y-Yeah...Like I said, I'd love to."

"Great." Evan sighed as he brushed a few strands of hair out of Rave's face. The 2 stayed there for a moment longer before Rave blinked suddenly.

"W-We uh...Better get to class."

"Oh! Yeah, yeah, right...Uh, hey. You mind doing me a really quick favor?"

"Sure, what?"

"Mind saying something to the camera?" Evan asked as he turned the camera to Rave, who laughed a bit before grinning brightly.

"Peace, Love, Rock 'n Roll hun." Rave said before she held up a peace-sign as she took out her books and closed her locker. Evan closed the video camera and grinned happily at her.

"Thanks...Uh...I-I'll see ya later?"

"Defiantly." Rave whispered before gently pecking Evan's cheeks and walking away. Unknown to the 2, a certain speed-demon had been watching from around the corner.

:-Sketch-:

PHOTOGRAPHY

Sketch sighed happily as she snapped more pictures of the bird in the tree. Class today focused around taking nature shots, something Sketch did on a regular basis. They had to get 2 pictures of animals, 4 of plants/nature, and 3 misc.

As Sketch smiled as she looked over the photo, she heard another camera click near her and in her direction. She turned quickly and smiled when she saw Kurt behind the camera.

"Hey."

"O-Oh...Hello." Kurt replied as he lowered down the camera, bashfully blushing at being caught trying to take a few pictures.

"So...What are you taking pictures of?" Sketch asked as she stepped over a few branches inside the tree, looking over Kurt's shoulder to see his pictures. Kurt quickly held his camera out of Sketch's range of sight.

"U-Uh...Y-You can't see them!"

"Why not?"

"B..Because!" Sketch's curiosity had to tight of a hold on her, if she didn't find out what the picture's were, she'd blow a gasket! Sketch smiled happily when she noticed that a branch was close to Kurt's outreached hand. Kurt smiled back at her, misinterpreting the smile. Quickly Sketch controlled the small branch and made it slip into Kurt's camera strap. Kurt noticed the slight brush against his knuckles and turned around, giving Sketch enough time to hop up and steal the camera.

"Wha-SKETCH!" Kurt yelled before Sketch giggled and jumped over a few branches, scanning through the pictures.

...

Yet she couldn't help but blush a bit. Each of the 6 pictures Kurt had already taken, somehow had Sketch in them.

"You know, I'm pretty sure the teacher only said 3 miscellaneous pictures." Sketch said as she finally turned to give the camera back to Kurt, who took it back with a small blush.

"J-Ja...I know." Kurt said as he blushed a bit more, before his ears perked up when he heard a small camera click. He turned to see Sketch with her camera up, taking a picture of him before taking another.

"There, now we're even." Kurt blinked at the girl before laughing happily along with her.

-Below-

Jean giggled as she took a picture of the 2 mutants in the tree, smiling happily at the sight before she turned to walk away as the school bell rang.

LUNCH

~Rave~

Rave happily sighed as she exited the lunch line, a bowl of ice cream in her right hand and an apple in her left.

"RAVE! HEY, RAVE!" Kitty yelled from the X-Men table. Already at the table was Jean, Sketch, Scott, Evan, Kurt-

Rave stopped herself from walking a few more steps towards them, she glared a little when she saw the one person in the school she hated more than Pietro; Duncan Mathews.

The football player had dug his way under Rave's skin on her first day there where they had Biology together. Ugh, the guy didn't know ANYTHING!

Rave bit her lip as she noticed Duncan was sitting with the X-Men, or at least purposely sitting with just Jean. If there had been one thing Scott and Rave could agree on, was their hate of Duncan.

Slowly Rave let out the breath she held in, before deciding to eat with the boys.

:-Sketch-:

Sketch had to suppress the notion of yelling at Duncan, who was picking on a few students that sounded like the Brotherhood Boys and Rave. She would have said something, if it hadn't been for remembering that Duncan would probably only remain for a few more seconds before going off to his buddies in one of the corners in the lunchroom. She had concluded long ago that there were 2 kinds of football players; the ones you can stand, and the ones you wanted to pile drive into the ground.

"-then the girl flips me off and said that I knew less than some...Chinchilla, whatever the heck those are." Yep, that sounded like Rave. After a few more minutes of Duncan's bashing on other students, Sketch had enough and scooted her chair back a bit.

"I'm gonna go and...Do...Something." Sketch said as she got up and left the table, earning a few concerned glances but she just smiled comfortably at them.

"Hey, Etch, you mind getting me a water?" Duncan asked from his seat, Sketch turned to him and tried not to glare daggers into his eyes.

"It's Sketch."

"Whatever." Sketch clenched her hands before straining to keep smiling.

"I would think a football player would be able to get a water bottle from a machine that is about 10 feet away, compared to a football field that is 30 times that distance."

"You trying to say something?"

"She's saying your being a lazy ass who needs to stop living on his high-horse." a voice said from behind Sketch, who turned and smiled when she saw it was Rave. Behind her was Lance, who was chewing on a toothpick.

"Butt out of this, Alvers." Duncan growled as he stood up, glaring at the sister of the 2. Lance growled from behind Rave, the older brother stepping forward and glaring down at Mathews. Who knew 1 inch made a difference, huh? (according to some records Duncan is 5'11" and Lance is 6')

"Don't talk to my sister like that."

"Oh yeah? And whose gonna stop me?"

"Duncan, let it go alright?" Jean asked as she stood up, not wanting there to be any trouble. Sketch looked from the 2 arguing boys then to Rave, who was watching the performance.

"Keh, whatever. Come on sis, let's go. We still need to talk." Lance stated as he left his argument with Duncan, Rave nodded her head before leading Lance out of the Lunchroom.

"Heh, be glad your sister came stick up for you, Rave." Duncan called out and laughed at his own jokes, others who heard (besides the X-Men and Sketch) laughed with him. Because really, who else wouldn't laugh alongside the quarterback of the football team?

As Duncan began to sat down though Rave sent a sound wave strong enough to push his chair backwards, causing him to fall and land on his butt. On the way down he ended up catching his hand on the table, causing it to also bump and bounce on the way down to. Once the small chaos ended and the laughter from the other students died down, Duncan decided to go eat with his team mates.

"Finally. I thought that guy would never leave." Sketch whispered in relief, Rogue looked at him.

"Ya mean, ya don't like him?"

"I like Duncan as much as a 5-year old likes to get a cavity." was Sketch's response to Rogue's question.

"Hey, come on. We should relax a bit, ya know?" Scott said as he entered into the conversation, Jean smiled at him.

"Scott's right, we shouldn't be picking fights."

...

...

...

"I gotta go. Rave just paged me I think." Sketch quickly made up the excuse before picking up her tray and bags, waving to the others, dumping her tray, and leaving the lunchroom.

Sometimes Sketch couldn't help but wonder. Did these guys not remember that she and Rave were supposed to be their enemies?.!...But then again, the 2 girls hadn't fared all that well in that field either...With a sigh Sketch left to go to Free Period and wanted to save energy. Because after school Kitty had decided to call up all the girls (Sketch, Rave, Rogue, Kitty herself, and Jean) to pick out their dresses for the dance.