2. School Daze
I pull into school and let Toad off first. His teachers like to pick on him and if he's late to English again he's gonna get detention for a month. Then I park and take up two spaces. The administration knows not to fuck with my ride ever since I got fined for double-parking and the next morning their main office looked as if a tornado hit it. They can't prove who did it, but they have a pretty good idea. Of course, they don't wanna risk it happening again so they leave me alone. Heh, I owe Pietro for that one.
Don't really know why we still go to high school. Well actually I guess I do. Pietro has nothing better to do, it's either sit home and watch his dick get smaller or come to school. Anything to keep from being bored. Fred wouldn't miss a free lunch for the world. Toad comes cause the rest of us do. As for me...
I see her in the hall walking out of the bathroom with two other girls. Probably just touched up their makeup before class, or something. Kitty doesn't wear makeup though as far as I can tell except for this pink lip gloss and nail polish. I bet it tastes like strawberries...the lip gloss, not the nail polish. Kitty doesn't need makeup. The other girls look like they do.
I'm leaning against the lockers with a toothpick in my mouth. I'm feenin' for a cigarette but Mystique will have my ass if I smoke in school. Dunno what the big fucking deal is--Pietro and Toad have already got her up to two packs a day.
"Hey Kitty," I drawl as she walks past. She pretends not to hear but starts giggling with her girlfriends as soon as she turns the corner, who are looking back at me as if I'm some kind of rock star. Right on.
My first class is Geometry. I sit in the back and put my feet up on the chair of the kid in front of me. Rogue's in the class too. We basically ignore each other. I'm not interested in getting close to her and the feeling's mutual. She thinks for herself though, I'll give her that. Toad likes to look at her as if he wants her, but I think he just does it to annoy her. I'm sorry, but what guy could ever fall for her quasi-goth bitch queen act? Not even Toad is that desperate...okay well maybe he is.
Mr. Barton drones on and on. I don't even pretend to pay attention. He got in my face about it but pretty much gave up on me after the first week. They all do. I'm in classes with a lot of underclassmen, and as long as I don't make trouble the teachers are willing to leave me alone. They think I'm trailer trash, or retarded or something. Not that I give a shit what they think.
The fat, four-eyed kid whose chair I put my feet on and who looks like he could be named "Seymour Butts" turns around and glares at me because I just kicked him in the back. Hey, it was an accident. He can't do anything about it, but he doesn't wanna get up and move to another seat, so he settles for giving me this look through his coke-bottle glasses that's like "You make be bigger and stronger than me but you're just a dumb fuck who'll be pumping gas at the local Jiffy Lube while I'm running my own software empire, blah blah woof woof." Then he turns around and makes a point of copying down today's homework assignment. Little dickless wonder.
Kids like that all think I'm stupid cause I got held back a year and I fail almost all my classes. But they're the stupid ones. They're the ones sitting in their chairs like stupid fatted calves, bending over and taking whatever the teachers have to throw at them. It's cause they're afraid. They're afraid of failure, afraid of going against the crowd, afraid that Mommy and Daddy are gonna kick them outta the house if they don't do exactly what they're told.
But Kitty--my thoughts always end up going back to her--Kitty's not like that, even if her GPA is higher than anyone else's in her class. She's mad smart, so she doesn't need to stress or waste any time on school, doesn't have to give herself up. I've seen her--well actually Pietro's seen her--she friggin' reads quantum physics books in earth science class! She doesn't pay attention, but she still manages beat them at their own game. She's beyond their control, beyond anyone's control.
Yeah, I know she acts like an airhead so she can fit in better with the X-Geeks. Yeah, the guys rag on me cause she's only a freshman. As if I give a fuck what grade she's in.
Yesterday we fought with the X-Geeks over that stupid projector-thing-a-ma-jig...I called her pretty. It just came out in the heat of battle and that sort of thing. I called her pretty and she called me a loser. Damn. OK, so maybe I sent her flying towards a brick wall, but I knew she'd phase through it! And she did, but not only did she phase, she leapt back out of the wall and turned a perfect flip before landing on her feet. Guess cats always land on their feet. Man, is there anything that girl can't do?
"Pretty Kitty..." I don't even realize I'm saying it out loud. No one notices, except Rogue. She looks a little surprised, then when she sees me looking at her she turns away and goes back to looking sullen. Whatever. I don't care if she knows. I'm pretty sure she'll keep quiet, cause I heard that she actually talked to Summers. Rogue having a conversation with anyone is equivalent to a normal girl having with sex with someone. I figure she likes him.
Summers. The pencil I'm holding breaks as I automatically clench my fist. I hate that kid. Not just cause he's a preppy asshole, but cause of Kitty. I've seen the way she looks at him. Man, every time I see the two of them together I wanna walk over to them and rip his eyes out. Wonder if his optic blasts would work without any eyeballs, heh. What the hell does she see in him anyway? Guess it's because she's a good girl and good girls have to like good guys...
But dammit, Summers may be a good guy but he's a dick! You'd have to be a complete dumbass not to notice when a girl like Kitty flashes those big blues at you. Of course, Summers is a complete dumbass, so nevermind. I know he's supposed to be the good guy, but he treats her like crap. He thinks she's just some dumb freshman who can't think for herself. He's too busy drooling over that red-headed ho.
Ok, so I'm jealous. I'd give just about anything for Kitty to look at me that way. She did look at me that way once. Before that redheaded bitch and her bald pimp came in and screwed everything up.
By now class is over and I'm pissed off. Not a good thing when I'm surrounded by a bunch of annoying underclassmen. Seymour Butts, as I've now named him, is just getting out of his chair. I get up and walk by, and just as I go past my arm shoots out so Seymour drops all his papers and falls over his desk. To anyone else, it just looks like the fat little turd lost his balance.
I walk out of the room, whistling, hands in my pockets. Oh yeah, this morning has definitely sucked, but things are looking up...
AAAAH! I just saw "Joyride" and I think I love Lance now even more than I love Pietro!^^ Sorry, I just had to write this, it wouldn't leave me alone :P And I was getting tired of Lance acting lobotomized whenever Kitty's around, or even worse angsting 24/7. Whaddaya think? Lance is a badass but a loveable badass, no??^^
