NOTE: Here's Gambit and I made him a skater but don't worry he can still charm the ladies, is still Cajun, and is still acrobatic. The characters: Truman Greene, Eve Raymond, Nina Ruiz, Drake Williams, Vara Marshall, and Rachael Chase belong to me. Also Magneto's kids: Fred Dukes, Pietro, and Wanda are in this chapter as students at the school. I want to thank everyone for reviewing this story but a special thanks to Seeking Serenity for her suggestions -I really liked them. The epilogue is right after this chapter. R&R please. The songs used in this chapter are as follows: Linkin Park- One Step Closer, Crazy Town- Butterfly, and Musiq Soulchild- Love, all of which are great songs!
Jubilee, Marie, and Nina Ruiz walked into the ballroom.
More than half of the kids in the school were already dancing to the Linkin
Park that was blaring. Ororo, Logan, and Hank were already down there chaperoning.
The professor was in London so Hank replaced the professor as a chaperone.
"Chicas I wanna dance. Any of y'all seen Piotr?" Nina
said as she scanned the room.
"Don't over do it this time Nina. Remember the last
time when you scanned the room but you couldn't control your x-ray
vision and you saw everyone naked?" Jubilee said and then burst out laughing.
"Hey that was a traumatizing experience…seeing Mr.
Summers naked!" Nina said and then burst out laughing herself.
"Dere's Piotr sugah. Yah see Truman anywhere?" Marie
asked.
"He ain't come down yet," Nina said and went to join
Piotr.
"I don't see Pietro either. He's supposed to be
fast and I took almost 2 hours in the bathroom and still beat him down here!"
Jubilee said to Marie.
Suddenly a blur flew through the crowd of students and Jubilee
felt herself being tipped backwards.
"Sorry it took me so long Jubilee. Do you think we can dance
to the last few moments of this song?" Pietro said in his trademark speedy
voice as he held Jubilee up.
Jubilee looked up at him and blinked while trying to translate
what Pietro just said. Finally after a moment of thinking she said,
"Uh…sure,"
Marie stood awkwardly in the doorway of the ballroom. Everyone
entering the ballroom moved around like she was a rock in the middle of a
river. Bobby and Betsy danced by her. As usual Betsy paid her no attention
but Bobby gave her a little wave as he danced by her. Marie waved back and
watched them pass her by. She turned around to look for Truman to come down
the stairs but instead saw Kitty and Kurt coming down the stairs together.
Kurt and Kitty both smiled at her as they headed towards the dance floor.
Marie smiled back sadly and then started backing away softly towards the
staircase. She was about to turn and go up the stairs as fast as she could
when suddenly she bumped into a chest. A man's chest to be exact. Marie
took one glance at the flannel shirt and then buried her face in it. Immediately
strong but gentle arms enveloped her.
"It's okay darlin'," the gruff yet gentle voice
said.
Marie held in her tears and allowed Logan to lead her up the
stairs, down the hall, and towards the front entrance. Logan sat down in
one of the porch chairs and even though she was wearing a prom dress Marie
sat down on the porch and put her head in Logan's lap. Logan gently
stroked her hair as it spilled over his leg.
They sat in silence for awhile until Logan spoke up.
"So where's your date Tony..or.. Thomas….or whatever
his name is?," Logan said.
"His name's Truman and Ah don' think he's
comin' down any time soon," Marie said softly.
"Well any guy that would ditch you doesn't know what
he's missing because you look beautiful," Logan said.
"Thanks Logan," Marie said and suddenly she grew daring, "Sooooooo….how
are thangs with Ms. Munroe?"
Logan was about to answer when suddenly he stood up in a fighting
stance. The move was so quick that Marie ended up sprawled on the porch.
Logan stepped over her as he said, "Sorry darlin' ," and stood at the
top of the porch steps.
A few moments later a tall handsome boy with long hair rolled
into view. He gracefully hopped off the skateboard he was on and with a quick
move with his right foot kicked the skateboard up into the air and caught
it with his left hand. He started to climb the stairs but when he got to
the top of the stairs Logan blocked his way.
"Well 'ello cher and 'ello Logan," Remy said.
"Hi Remy," Marie said from her spot behind Logan.
"What'd you leave to New Orleans for?," Logan said.
"Business but since yah asked me that I shoul' be able
to ask yah why yah wen' to Canada all dem months ago?," Remy said.
Logan growled in reply.
"Well since yah won' tell me Ah don' have to elaborate
on my trip den. Now if yah will 'cuse me Ah gotta dance to go to. Cher
yah wanna dance with me?," Remy said without breaking his eye contact with
Logan.
"Naw sugah," Marie said.
"Aight….well 'cuse me Logan," Remy said and brushed
past Logan and went inside.
Marie watched Logan for a second. "Sugah yah can calm down
now he went inside," she said to him.
"I just don't trust that Cajun," Logan said and went
back to his seat. Marie remained standing. "Da professah said he has potential…just
like you," she said.
"Chuck compares me to him?," Logan said and then started chuckling.
"Let's go back inside, maybe Truman's come back
down," Marie said as she brushed the dirt off of her prom dress. She accepted
Logan's hand in her gloved one as they went back to the ballroom.
She entered the ballroom with Logan to hear Crazy Town blaring.
Remy was dancing with Eve Raymond and Vara Marshall at the same time while
Jubilee and Pietro were having a good time spinning around in their own private
tornado. Logan gave her one final hug and then went over to join Ms. Munroe.
"Marie I'm so sorry I'm late. My sister Tina started
throwing up and Wanda helped me a lot. She'll probably stay up there
with Tina though," Truman said as he approached Marie.
"Oh dats okay sugah," Marie said. Just then John came on the
microphone.
"This is probably gonna be the only slow song I play all night.
Ms. Munroe made me play it so if you hate it blame her and risk getting an
F or blame me and risk finding a little surprise on your pillows tomorrow
morning. Its by this dude named Musiq Soulchild and supposedly he's
really good so get close to your date or in Remy's case dates and dance,"
John said. A few moments later the first few notes of "Love" started playing.
Truman and Marie nervously smiled at each other and stepped
closer to each other. Truman carefully wrapped his arms around Marie's
waist and Marie gently put her head on Truman's shoulder. They slowly
started to sway together.
"So on a scale of 1 to 10 how was everyone's night?",
Ms. Munroe said. She was in charge of the clean up committee which also consisted
of: Dr. Grey, Jubilee, Kurt, Bobby, John, Marie, Truman Greene, Vara Marshall,
Paige, Wanda, Fred, and Fred's date Rachael Chase.
"7. That spinning was fun but now my hair's gonna pay
the price," Jubilee said.
"You looked like you were about to throw up at one point,"
Jean said.
"I know but luckily I didn't," Jubilee said.
"Ah'd give mah night a 9. Truman was so sweet even though
he was late," Marie said. Truman smiled at Marie. Kurt glared at Truman.
"What about you Ms. Munroe?," John asked.
"A ten. It was amazing but Logan was a complete gentlemen,"
Ms. Munroe said. All the girls giggled.
Just then Remy entered. "Remy decided to help y'all so
continue wit' y'all discussion," he said and sat down next to
Dr. Grey.
"Well Fred and Rachael you two can do the vacuuming. Jean,
Rogue, and Kurt will put up the leftover food. Paige, Jubilee, and I will
do any necessary mopping, and the rest of you will pick up trash and dispose
of it. After that Bobby, Remy, John, and Kurt can move the furniture back
to its original location," Ms. Munroe said.
"Wait. Before dis group breaks up couldn' you two ladies
just use your powers an' lift everything?," Remy said.
"What and take the fun out of this?," Dr. Grey said as she
got up. Everybody else followed after her to get to work on their task.
"So'd yah have a good time wit' Kitty?,"
Marie said.
"Jah. I wanted to ask you for a dance vut I couldn't
find you," Kurt said as he wrapped the leftover hotwings.
"Dat was probably when Ah was talkin' to Logan outside,"
Marie said and put the leftover punch in the refrigerator.
"Truman shouldn't have come so late. If I had asked you
to the dance do you know what I would have done?," Kurt asked Marie.
"No… what?," Marie asked.
"I would have come to your room and met you with a dozen white
roses…," Kurt said.
"How'd yah know Ah liked white roses?," Marie asked him.
"Sources. And then I would have handed them to you and kissed
your glove and then put your glove to your mouth for a few moments. Then
I would have teleported you downstairs to the ballroom and taken you to the
DJ and paid him to play music by your favorite bands Creed and 98 Degrees
for as long as you wished," Kurt said.
Marie smiled. "Yah really would've done that? Did yah
do dat fo' Kitty?," Marie said.
"I gave her a rose and she got a song dedicated to her from
me. It was a Mariah Carey one but for you the night would have been way more
special," Kurt said.
Marie stepped closer to Kurt then and locked eyes with him.
Slowly Kurt raised Marie's gloved hand and pressed it to her lips.
She gently kissed it and Kurt pressed the glove to his lips. Just then Dr.
Grey walked into the kitchen and the two stepped away from each other and
went back to work.