Chapter Four: Don't touch the Cake or Suave
Disclaimer: to remind you all, I own not a thing but my characters.
"Ok, ok, Keith, just stop singing!" I chuckled as the senior sang another line of 'We Are the Champions'. "Here's the popcorn, now shut up." I shoved it at him and he smiled taking a handful. "Though it was mine first."
"You mean it was that guy's first, just got out of the line," he swallowed the mouthful of popcorn he had, "and you use your temporary 'little gift' to make him want to give it to you."
"I don't see you complaining."
"I'm not, just saying it technically isn't yours."
"It's amazing what a pretty face and telepathy can do." I smiled and glanced at the court as we wound our way to the bleachers and where the rest of our group was sitting. "Well, TNT is certainly having fun and difficulty avoiding Pietro."
"Pietro?"
"I did a little snooping," I admitted looking ashamed of myself, "bad girl," A pushed my head over in a mock slap. Keith just shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Anyway, that guy's a friend of Todd and Cami, he's got…. OMF!"
I ran into someone having been watching Jordan and fell back and my glasses fell of. Oh shit, my glasses fell off. I closed my eyes but had caught a glimpse of the guy I'd run into. With my power, I can tell every time I look at a mutant cause something happens to tell me, like with Jean Grey I felt a slight wave over my brain that told me just what the power was, and how to use it. That's what I do, copy powers and the level of control the person I copied them from. This time a tremor went trough my body, not like one anyone could see, but just one I could feel and I immediately knew the power… earth manipulation.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" Keith, being the 'big brother over protective' one of the group, immediately got in the guys face. Ok, time for a mental scan of this guy.
"Hey, look, I'm sorry ok, just back off." As I was handed my sunglasses not by Electro but by the guy who ran into me, Lance, I found that that wasn't his personality. I also found that Xavier had started to take a hold of this guy's mind. Fortunately it was weak enough to break with my current level and the moment my eyes were safe to be opened I placed a hand on the side of his head and smiled.
"Thanks, I need these." Out of my personality, but somehow touching him gave a stronger link thingy whatever it was and I managed to break Xavier's hold. Pretty good for just a copycat.
"Your welcome." He stood up and faced Keith. "And you, it's none of your business so why don't you just back off ok?"
"Considering Jewels is my friend, her business is my business." No it wasn't.
"Well maybe she doesn't want you to be in her business." I was beginning to regret breaking that hold, the two looked ready to beat each other to pulps. Just then the crowd broke into cheers and I saw that Bayville had gotten three points tying them with Riverside.
"Woah, hold it boys." I sprang up between them taking the distraction to slap them both. I won't admit that I enjoyed it but I'd always wanted to slap Keith when he got over protective. "No worth fighting or arguing and if you really want to take it outside."
"Not worth my time anyway," Lance grumbled and turned, immediately being pounced by Cami. Todd and their big friend were behind her.
"How long does it take to park a stupid jeep?" Cami demanded looking up at him. "We got you a hot dog, but Fred ate it. We weren't sure if you wanted it with everything on it so we got you ketchup and mustard, fortunately I remembered you don't like relish, not that I blame you, but now it really doesn't matter because you took so long we could no longer guard your dinner from Fred."
"Ok, which one of you got her a soda?" Todd immediately pointed to Fred who shrugged.
"I think she's interesting this way."
"Yeah, totally out of character, yo, but interesting." Todd replied with a shrug. I didn't hear the rest of the conversation because Keith grabbed my arm and dragged me away from the scene.
1 X
"Angela, drop the cake now!" I looked over my magazine at Ivy and Chameleon ganging up on the poor girl who'd been dumped and was trying to see if food would make it better.
"Why can't you leave me alone?" Angela, or Pixie, whined curling up with the cake on the couch. "Neither of you have ever had a boyfriend to dump or mourn over."
"Mourn over?" Lily looked confused at Mak and the brunette disappeared into the background. Lily stepped back and watched the girl looking around on the couch for Chameleon. Suddenly the cake was shoved into Angela's face and I went back to reading my magazine.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Angela whipped cake off her face and took after the two older girls... and here we went again. "GET BACK HERE!" I put my reading material on my lap and watched as the ran across the living room and Mak disappeared while Lily earned her code name Ivy by making the ivy that decorated the railing and around the windows to restrain Pixie. All this was tinted blue by my glasses that kept me from being able to do such things also.
"Come on, you three, no powers in the house." Jordan came up from the guy's room in the basement and shook his head. "Nice face mask, by the way, Anne." The living fairy started to thrash in the vine, dragonfly wings pressing out from her shoulder blades, the reason she wore shirts low in the back and she started to flap wildly.
"Aw darn it!" Came from downstairs. "That's no fair, my concentration was broken." It was Calvin whining now, probably about being beaten at a video game.
"Well, you're loss, you're using your powers anyway." That was Zac. Why those two ever played video games together was beyond me. They both cheated too. Calvin would use his mechanical manipulation and Zac would slow time just for Calvin and beat up on him. Everyone in the house had long ago learned to ignore the games they played.
"Children, children!" Irene made her way from her room to where we could all hear her. "Do you want me to bring back the no powers in the house rule?"
"No, but they were going to take my cake away!"
"You seemed so good at the game, Anne, what happened?" Jordan 'tsked' waving his finger at her.
"You try smiling and being hyper for that long now let me down!" With a nod from Irene Lily retracted the vines and Angela drew in her wings.
"I expect when we move you will all be much more behaved." Irene put her hands on her hips. Her cane swishing back and forth in her hand.
"Move?" I dropped my magazine onto my lap and stood up making it fall to the brown carpeted floor. "Who ever said we were moving?"
"Our founder, she wants us in Bayville now that you and Keith exposed us to the X-men."
"Aw, for all they know we were random freaks." I shrugged turning around to knock on the window to get Keith's attention. He was outside powering up the electric car he'd gotten. Saved a lot of money considering we never had to pay or take a long time to recharge it. Its power source was its driver.
"Don't we have any say in this?" Jordan demanded. He, Keith, and I were the oldest and usually spoke for the group about big decisions. Only reason I was in it was probably because I was the oldest of the girls.
"Meet Raven and I in my room in five minutes, then we'll hear your reasons."
It was Monday, again, if there was thing I hated it was Mondays. I liked being able to sleep in. Mondays I never got to, unless of course I could ignore the Toad bouncing on me along with the growing wind around me. I tried to, believe me I did try.
"Come on, Fred, get up, my eyes are starting to hurt!" Cami complained focusing a strong stream of wind at me. "GET UP!" Lately, we'd all gotten use to her. After Lance snapped out of what Pietro called his "X- men happy state" she'd been just about the only one to calm him down when he got worked out with out making a big scene.
"Ah, Cami, watch where you're aiming!" I opened one eye to see Todd splat into the wall.
"Opps, sorry Todd." Cami stopped her attack and went to poking me. "Come on, we're going to be late for school! I know it sucks, but still… there's got to be a reason to go!"
"CAUSE I SAID SO!" And a small tremor rippled under the house.
"Ok, come on Fred before Lance goes homicidal or something on us all. You know he could probably take out this whole block if he wanted to."
"Lance going homicidal, now there's an interesting thought," commented Todd rubbing his chin while pondering.
"Ugh, no." I decided to get up before they started off on their own conversation. Just this weekend they started talking about how aliens had abducted Lance, the reason for his personality change. "I'm up ok?"
"Ok, oh there might not be much of breakfast left." Cami dodged out the door before I could react. Why did everyone think I was obsessed with food? Sure I liked it and needed a large amount to keep me satiated, but my weight was my mutation. I got dressed and trudged into the kitchen. There was enough food left to sustain me till I got to school. I had just sat down when another crisis hit.
"Pietro, you've been using my soap!"
"I have not."
Cami grabbed the collar of his shirt and smelled him before pushing him back. "Then why do you smell like a fresh spring breeze?"
"Cami, it's soap, it's self cleaning," Lance sighed going to grab his bag.
"Well, consider the last thing I washed and the first thing he washed. Let me guess, you used my Suave shampoo and conditioner too." There was no answer. "You used my Suave!"
"Yes, but it's like a whole new world. The scrubs and the smelly stuff…" Pietro paused for a second. "Plus, feel how soft my hair is."
"I'd rather not." Cami let out a long breath and shook her head. "Let's just go to school, and you can explain to everyone why you smell fruity."
Lance grabbed his keys and went out the door calling over his shoulder, "Yeah, let's MOVE IT!"
2 X
"Cami, why are you doing your science homework just now?" Lance asked tapping his plastic fork against his plate.
"Because I didn't get it done last night and it's my last class of the day," she replied writing with her right hand and eating with her left. "What should it matter anyway, we're learning about weather, yay!" She rolled her eyes and kept working.
"What did you put for the 'what makes wind?' question?" I asked looking over at her. I was in class with her since I knew nothing about science.
"I just rambled on until I got so much the teacher can't figure out if I got it right or wrong."
"I don't think that's going to be very effective," Todd put in.
"I could put me, but that wouldn't be very effective either."
"Very true."
(A/N: Gak, I'm getting writer's block, please bare with me, I promise it'll get better *crosses her fingers*)
Disclaimer: to remind you all, I own not a thing but my characters.
"Ok, ok, Keith, just stop singing!" I chuckled as the senior sang another line of 'We Are the Champions'. "Here's the popcorn, now shut up." I shoved it at him and he smiled taking a handful. "Though it was mine first."
"You mean it was that guy's first, just got out of the line," he swallowed the mouthful of popcorn he had, "and you use your temporary 'little gift' to make him want to give it to you."
"I don't see you complaining."
"I'm not, just saying it technically isn't yours."
"It's amazing what a pretty face and telepathy can do." I smiled and glanced at the court as we wound our way to the bleachers and where the rest of our group was sitting. "Well, TNT is certainly having fun and difficulty avoiding Pietro."
"Pietro?"
"I did a little snooping," I admitted looking ashamed of myself, "bad girl," A pushed my head over in a mock slap. Keith just shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Anyway, that guy's a friend of Todd and Cami, he's got…. OMF!"
I ran into someone having been watching Jordan and fell back and my glasses fell of. Oh shit, my glasses fell off. I closed my eyes but had caught a glimpse of the guy I'd run into. With my power, I can tell every time I look at a mutant cause something happens to tell me, like with Jean Grey I felt a slight wave over my brain that told me just what the power was, and how to use it. That's what I do, copy powers and the level of control the person I copied them from. This time a tremor went trough my body, not like one anyone could see, but just one I could feel and I immediately knew the power… earth manipulation.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" Keith, being the 'big brother over protective' one of the group, immediately got in the guys face. Ok, time for a mental scan of this guy.
"Hey, look, I'm sorry ok, just back off." As I was handed my sunglasses not by Electro but by the guy who ran into me, Lance, I found that that wasn't his personality. I also found that Xavier had started to take a hold of this guy's mind. Fortunately it was weak enough to break with my current level and the moment my eyes were safe to be opened I placed a hand on the side of his head and smiled.
"Thanks, I need these." Out of my personality, but somehow touching him gave a stronger link thingy whatever it was and I managed to break Xavier's hold. Pretty good for just a copycat.
"Your welcome." He stood up and faced Keith. "And you, it's none of your business so why don't you just back off ok?"
"Considering Jewels is my friend, her business is my business." No it wasn't.
"Well maybe she doesn't want you to be in her business." I was beginning to regret breaking that hold, the two looked ready to beat each other to pulps. Just then the crowd broke into cheers and I saw that Bayville had gotten three points tying them with Riverside.
"Woah, hold it boys." I sprang up between them taking the distraction to slap them both. I won't admit that I enjoyed it but I'd always wanted to slap Keith when he got over protective. "No worth fighting or arguing and if you really want to take it outside."
"Not worth my time anyway," Lance grumbled and turned, immediately being pounced by Cami. Todd and their big friend were behind her.
"How long does it take to park a stupid jeep?" Cami demanded looking up at him. "We got you a hot dog, but Fred ate it. We weren't sure if you wanted it with everything on it so we got you ketchup and mustard, fortunately I remembered you don't like relish, not that I blame you, but now it really doesn't matter because you took so long we could no longer guard your dinner from Fred."
"Ok, which one of you got her a soda?" Todd immediately pointed to Fred who shrugged.
"I think she's interesting this way."
"Yeah, totally out of character, yo, but interesting." Todd replied with a shrug. I didn't hear the rest of the conversation because Keith grabbed my arm and dragged me away from the scene.
1 X
"Angela, drop the cake now!" I looked over my magazine at Ivy and Chameleon ganging up on the poor girl who'd been dumped and was trying to see if food would make it better.
"Why can't you leave me alone?" Angela, or Pixie, whined curling up with the cake on the couch. "Neither of you have ever had a boyfriend to dump or mourn over."
"Mourn over?" Lily looked confused at Mak and the brunette disappeared into the background. Lily stepped back and watched the girl looking around on the couch for Chameleon. Suddenly the cake was shoved into Angela's face and I went back to reading my magazine.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Angela whipped cake off her face and took after the two older girls... and here we went again. "GET BACK HERE!" I put my reading material on my lap and watched as the ran across the living room and Mak disappeared while Lily earned her code name Ivy by making the ivy that decorated the railing and around the windows to restrain Pixie. All this was tinted blue by my glasses that kept me from being able to do such things also.
"Come on, you three, no powers in the house." Jordan came up from the guy's room in the basement and shook his head. "Nice face mask, by the way, Anne." The living fairy started to thrash in the vine, dragonfly wings pressing out from her shoulder blades, the reason she wore shirts low in the back and she started to flap wildly.
"Aw darn it!" Came from downstairs. "That's no fair, my concentration was broken." It was Calvin whining now, probably about being beaten at a video game.
"Well, you're loss, you're using your powers anyway." That was Zac. Why those two ever played video games together was beyond me. They both cheated too. Calvin would use his mechanical manipulation and Zac would slow time just for Calvin and beat up on him. Everyone in the house had long ago learned to ignore the games they played.
"Children, children!" Irene made her way from her room to where we could all hear her. "Do you want me to bring back the no powers in the house rule?"
"No, but they were going to take my cake away!"
"You seemed so good at the game, Anne, what happened?" Jordan 'tsked' waving his finger at her.
"You try smiling and being hyper for that long now let me down!" With a nod from Irene Lily retracted the vines and Angela drew in her wings.
"I expect when we move you will all be much more behaved." Irene put her hands on her hips. Her cane swishing back and forth in her hand.
"Move?" I dropped my magazine onto my lap and stood up making it fall to the brown carpeted floor. "Who ever said we were moving?"
"Our founder, she wants us in Bayville now that you and Keith exposed us to the X-men."
"Aw, for all they know we were random freaks." I shrugged turning around to knock on the window to get Keith's attention. He was outside powering up the electric car he'd gotten. Saved a lot of money considering we never had to pay or take a long time to recharge it. Its power source was its driver.
"Don't we have any say in this?" Jordan demanded. He, Keith, and I were the oldest and usually spoke for the group about big decisions. Only reason I was in it was probably because I was the oldest of the girls.
"Meet Raven and I in my room in five minutes, then we'll hear your reasons."
It was Monday, again, if there was thing I hated it was Mondays. I liked being able to sleep in. Mondays I never got to, unless of course I could ignore the Toad bouncing on me along with the growing wind around me. I tried to, believe me I did try.
"Come on, Fred, get up, my eyes are starting to hurt!" Cami complained focusing a strong stream of wind at me. "GET UP!" Lately, we'd all gotten use to her. After Lance snapped out of what Pietro called his "X- men happy state" she'd been just about the only one to calm him down when he got worked out with out making a big scene.
"Ah, Cami, watch where you're aiming!" I opened one eye to see Todd splat into the wall.
"Opps, sorry Todd." Cami stopped her attack and went to poking me. "Come on, we're going to be late for school! I know it sucks, but still… there's got to be a reason to go!"
"CAUSE I SAID SO!" And a small tremor rippled under the house.
"Ok, come on Fred before Lance goes homicidal or something on us all. You know he could probably take out this whole block if he wanted to."
"Lance going homicidal, now there's an interesting thought," commented Todd rubbing his chin while pondering.
"Ugh, no." I decided to get up before they started off on their own conversation. Just this weekend they started talking about how aliens had abducted Lance, the reason for his personality change. "I'm up ok?"
"Ok, oh there might not be much of breakfast left." Cami dodged out the door before I could react. Why did everyone think I was obsessed with food? Sure I liked it and needed a large amount to keep me satiated, but my weight was my mutation. I got dressed and trudged into the kitchen. There was enough food left to sustain me till I got to school. I had just sat down when another crisis hit.
"Pietro, you've been using my soap!"
"I have not."
Cami grabbed the collar of his shirt and smelled him before pushing him back. "Then why do you smell like a fresh spring breeze?"
"Cami, it's soap, it's self cleaning," Lance sighed going to grab his bag.
"Well, consider the last thing I washed and the first thing he washed. Let me guess, you used my Suave shampoo and conditioner too." There was no answer. "You used my Suave!"
"Yes, but it's like a whole new world. The scrubs and the smelly stuff…" Pietro paused for a second. "Plus, feel how soft my hair is."
"I'd rather not." Cami let out a long breath and shook her head. "Let's just go to school, and you can explain to everyone why you smell fruity."
Lance grabbed his keys and went out the door calling over his shoulder, "Yeah, let's MOVE IT!"
2 X
"Cami, why are you doing your science homework just now?" Lance asked tapping his plastic fork against his plate.
"Because I didn't get it done last night and it's my last class of the day," she replied writing with her right hand and eating with her left. "What should it matter anyway, we're learning about weather, yay!" She rolled her eyes and kept working.
"What did you put for the 'what makes wind?' question?" I asked looking over at her. I was in class with her since I knew nothing about science.
"I just rambled on until I got so much the teacher can't figure out if I got it right or wrong."
"I don't think that's going to be very effective," Todd put in.
"I could put me, but that wouldn't be very effective either."
"Very true."
(A/N: Gak, I'm getting writer's block, please bare with me, I promise it'll get better *crosses her fingers*)