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Emma looked at herself in the mirror. She smiled at her appearance; she was quite satisfied with it. Now only one thing was left to do. Convince Shalimar to come with them.
Emma stepped out of her room and walked towards Jesse's. she knocked on the door. She heard a soft snore from inside. Emma knocked a couple more times, but there was no reply.
When she entered his room, she saw something that she least expected to see. Jesse was asleep. Emma started to get mad. Here she was, canceling her date with Jason to go out with her friends and Jesse falls asleep on her. How dare he.
Emma thought of pouring cold water on Jesse's face for a while. When she reached his bed with the jug in her hand Emma just stopped for a while and stared at him. Jesse looked so innocent, almost like a little boy. Except that his very muscled arms were peeping at her from under the sheets. Emma felt her breath being caught in her throat. She could have stared at him for minutes, except that Jesse chose that exact moment to get up.
"Emma what are you doing here? And what's with the jug? What were you up to Emma?" Jesse asked, still sleepy.
"Kilmartin, you think you can get away with breaking my date and sleeping on me? Think again buster." Emma said and poured the water down on him.
"Emmy! You think you can get away with this." A very wet Jesse said out aloud.
Emma tried to run away but instead she found herself pinned under a very wet Jesse on his bed.
"Let go of me you.. you molecular." Emma screeched.
"No way you little mischief maker. You are going to learn your lesson the hard way." Jesse replied.
"Sleepyhead."
"Bossy psionic."
"Mummy's little boy."
"Miss look-I'm- so-perfect."
While bickering with each other, no one noticed when Jesse's lips were on Emma's. Emma pulled back for a while, startled and then leaned again into his kiss. When they finally broke apart Emma gasped.
"Wow." Jesse said and pecked Emma on her cheek.
"Yeah. I kept wondering when you would finally get around to doing it. God I had so much fun watching you all jealous on Jason." Emma said caressing his cheek.
"Hey I was not jealous. I just wanted you to myself that's all." Jesse gave Emma another one of those boyish grins which she found adorable.
"Hey get ready. We need to work on Shal today." Emma said enjoying the feeling of his lips on her throat.
"Yeah yeah. Okay I'll get dressed. You get Shal."
"Why do I always have the toughest jobs to do?" Emma said.
"That's cause you do them well, sweetheart." Jesse kissed her again.
"Guess I have to call Jason and break it off today. God that guy was fun."
Jesse bit her cheek.
"Ow..ow okay. And look who's not jealous." Emma playfully said and bounced off Jesse's bed and out of his room.
Jesse just sighed and smiled to himself.
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Shalimar sat alone in the lab going over some reports on new mutants, though her mind was elsewhere.
Adam came into the lab and noticed Shalimar looking at the reports, but not reading them. He instantly knew that this was about Brennan.
"What is it Shal? You seem worried." Adam gently asked.
Shalimar just hugged Adam tightly and broke into sobs.
"Sshhh its okay Shal. Just tell me what it is." Adam said.
"I told Brennan that I wanted to be just friends with him Adam. He was upset. And now he wouldn't even talk to me properly. It's like he hates me." Shalimar sobbed relentlessly.
"Are you sure that you just want to be just friends." Adam asked.
"No." Shalimar asked with tear filled eyes.
"If you decide something then decide fast Shal. Otherwise you might lose him. And don't lose him Shalimar. He loves you, I can tell you that much." Adam said.
"I know."
"Okay, now Emma just told me that she and Jesse would like to take you out with them. So please go with them, and don't pain yourself with the decision."
"I will. Thanks for being there Adam." Shalimar said.
"Always Shalimar."
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Emma and Jesse were more than surprised. Shalimar had agreed to go with them at practically zero persuasion. Emma guessed that Adam had something to do with it. However she and Jesse had the plan to fully make Shalimar enjoy their time out.
"Have you asked Brennan if he would like to go with us?" Shalimar asked Emma.
Emma smiled at the warmth in Shalimar's voice, while talking about Brennan.
"No I haven't. but I'll go ask him Shal." Emma said.
When Emma entered Brennan's room it was empty. Emma put two and two together when she saw that Amanda's room was empty too.
Emma could not stand the hurt look on Shalimar's face when she heard about Brennan not being there.
"I think he went off with Amanda." Emma whispered to Jesse.
"I have a feral sense of hearing you guys." Said Shalimar from the back seat of the car where she sat alone.
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That was chapter 6.
Next chapter: The team's night out in town.
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