"How was your joyride with the X-Losers?" asked Pietro.
Lance and Pietro were in the living room. Lance had joined the X-Men and just came back to the Brotherhood yesterday.
Lance shrugged. "Summers was a dick as always."
"Good thing I decided not to go."
"Yeah. It was a waste of time. You were right. Non of them excepted me and they blamed me for riding in Summers's car, the X-Van, and the X-Jet. It was Drake, Lee, and Guthrie who did it."
"What can I say, man. Those guys are hypocrites. They talk about uniting mutants, but when they meet one that's not like them, they treat 'em like dirt."
"Got that right. The only one who gave me a chance was Kitty."
"Okay, Lance," said Todd.
He, Fred, and Tabby walked into the living room.
"We thought long and hard on what your punishment for ditching us should be. We decided that for forty-eight hours."
"That's two days," said Fred.
"I already knew that, Blob," said Lance.
"You will have to wear the rainbow colored Afro," finished Todd.
He dropped the wig in Lance's lap.
"You can't be serious," said Lance.
"And," said Tabby. "You have to wear these giant sunglasses." She handed Lance the glasses. "And these clown shoes." She held up the big, red shoes.
"For two days?"
The three nodded.
"Only around the house, right?"
"And when you go out," said Todd. "Fortunately for you today's Sunday, so you don't have to go anywhere. But Monday we have school."
Lance started to fake cough.
"(Cough, cough) I think I (cough) caught something. I don't really (cough) feel so good. (Cough, cough)"
"Nice try," said Tabby.
"Now, now, guys," said Pietro. "Let's not be to hard on him. After all, he only did what any other man would do for their girl."
"Thanks, Tro," said Lance. "You always have my back."
"I have a much better punishment in mind."
"I can believe you're making me say sonnets to Kitty while you guys and Tro's girlfriend watch," complained Lance.
His hair was nice and neet. He wore dress pants and a white shirt with a collar and bottoms.
"Would you rather wear the rainbow wig and have everyone at school laugh at you?" asked Pietro. "And be glad it's only Rahne I invited. I could've invited the X-Geeks. Would you want Summers here?"
"No."
"Okay then. Now go."
Kitty and Rahne waited in a gazebo. Lance came and Rahne went with Pietro and the other as Lance got on one knee and pulled out a piece of paper to read the sonnets.
(Sonnets are love poems if you don't know.)
The first one he read was called Beauty.
Beauty is liberal as the heavenly air,
Beauty is boundless as the universe:
The waves of evil ponderously immerse
The pearl of good; beauty is everywhere.
Beauty is a devout a deep despair;
Hopes that with heaven's highest stars converse:
The poisonous blossom of a devil's curse;
The first and last word of an angel's prayer.
Creation and destruction at thy beck
Call love and lust: through battle's bloody swarm
That youth with smiling face sees but thy form:
And, 'mid the shrieks of the fast sinking wreck,
A poet, standing on the wave-washed deck,
Stares awe-struck at the beauty of the storm.
"Oh, Lance," said Kitty.
Lance got up and kissed Kitty on the lips.
"Gag," said Tabby.
Pietro and Rahne snickered and they kissed too.
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