CH4-Exposed

Summery-What happens when the foursome is exposed as New Mutants?

Thanks once again to Outonalim for editing my story. Three cheers! Hope you like it Ch5 soon to come.

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The next 2 months dragged along slowly. Shalimar wasn't the happiest of people, and Brennan did everything to try and make her happy and comfortable, meanwhile Jesse and Emma began to get close to each other. After a month in the cast, Shalimar became very difficult to be around: by that point she was very hostile. She would grew more restless every day, then the day finally came when Doctor Breedlove removed her cast and said she was free to go.

"Thank goodness that thing is off!" Shalimar said as she stretched our her shoulder for the first time in 2 months. "I don't think I could have lasted another day in that thing." With that, she and Brennan got in his car.

"Yeah, well, I'm glad you're happy; I've missed that smile of yours." Brennan reached over and touched Shalimar's cheek, gently running his hands along her face. He leaned over and kissed her, and she returned his gesture without hesitation. "Now here comes the bad news," Brennan joked.

"Umm... What's that?" Shalimar purred happily as she rubbed her nose against Brennan's.

"We still have to go to school," Brennan said with a laugh as slowly he moved away from the blonde beauty and drove out of the parking lot.

When they got to school, they saw Jesse's new PT Cruiser in the parking lot, so they went to park next to him. As they rounded the corner, they saw that Jesse and Emma were busy. Very busy.

In the car, the two lovebirds were making out in the backseat; they didn't see Brennan pull up alongside them.

Brennan tapped on Jesse's window: "Are we interrupting anything?"

Emma and Jesse separated so fast that Jesse hit his head on the front of the seat. "Ow... Dammit, Brennan! Don't do that - you scared us half to death!"

"Relax, man. It's ok, you guys are allowed to do that; we aren't the love cops. Now let's go. We've got class," Shalimar giggled.

When they got on the school grounds, everyone turned to look at them like they were aliens.

Emma was the first to speak up. "Something isn't right," she said nervously.

Shalimar stopped another senior standing near them. "What's going on?" she asked him, trying to sound as nice as she could.

"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FREAK!" the young man yelled, then ran off.

Shalimar was about to run after the man, but Brennan stopped her from tearing his head off. When Brennan stepped in front of Shalimar, he had also stepped on something else that had stuck to his shoe. Brennan bent down to pick it up; once he saw what it was, his eyes widened in fear and shock.

"HEY, YOU GUYS! Come look at this. You're not going to like it."

They all went over to Brennan. He was standing by the stone lunch tables looking down at a school newspaper.

"Wonder what he's so worked up about," Jesse frowned.

When they read the headline of the paper, they understood why Brennan was so shaken. It read: "Freaks at Mutant X High". In the paper their pictures were posted telling people that they were freaks with non-human abilities, and it gave a detailed account of the fight between Kendra and Shalimar.

"We are so... screwed," Emma whispered frightfully.

Brennan put his arm protectively around Shalimar's waist and Jesse did the same to Emma. "No. All we have to do is go about our day like none of this is real, talk to no one about this, and hope that it sorts itself out," Brennan ordered.

They all struggled to get through the day. People would look at them like they weren't human, and say things like, "Go back to where you came from FREAK!" Some of their teachers backed away from them and made them go outside for the remainder of class. By the end of the day, the only thing they had left to get through was an assembly. During the assembly they all sat together, and everyone else sat 10 feet or more away from them. Everything was going ok until the lights cut off and large groups of men burst through the doors.

"EVERYBODY DOWN!" Two of the men walked over to the foursome. "Come on, freaks, you're coming with us."

They stood up together, Shalimar next to Brennan and Emma next to Jesse.

"Like hell we are!" Shalimar growled.
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Remember R&R Ch5 soon to come. Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed it!