Pietro stepped close to her so their lips were mere centimetres apart. Scout concentrated and tried to gain focus again, her eyes flickered and opened and she and Pietro were the only ones left in the hall.

"Nice. You gave anyone anywhere near a locker a huge electric shock." Pietro laughed.

"Wh- Where's everyone else?" Scout asked looking around the empty hallways.

"They're all in class, you're been standing there with your eyes closed for the last five minutes." Pietro replied. Scout gasped in shock, how could she have lost time like that?

"I know I'm gorgeous and everything but I've never had that much of an effect on a girl before." Pietro laughed and walked off. Scout gasped, they had their next lesson together, she looked in her mirror, her hair was a mess because of all the static electricity and her face was flushed. Scout knew what everyone would think, she was a mess and she was showing up late to her lesson with Pietro. Scout bit her lip and ran to her next lesson; Pietro had the door open and was just about to walk through. He looked at her and let her walk through first; Scout walked in followed by Pietro.

Some of the boys wolf whistled and the teacher frowned at them obviously thinking along the same lines. Pietro smirked and ran a finger down her spine making her shiver, Scout felt herself losing focus. She instantly turned and ran out of the building.

"Hey Rouge I can't believe you weren't in science! Apparently Scout and Pietro are like, a couple now!" Kitty babbled to Rouge as they got into Scott's car.

"What? How'd you know?" Rouge asked looking at kitty in shock. Kitty smiled, she loved passing on gossip and now was her chance!

"Well they like, came in late to science together. And she was totally a mess, then the boys all whistled at them and some of the girls giggled; then Scout like, totally lost it and ran out." Kitty explained putting on her seatbelt.

"Whoa, she asked me about him yesterday. She said he sat Evan on fire." Rouge mused.

"Maybe he did it to get her attention!" Kitty giggled.

"What! That was Maximoff who did that?! Why didn't you tell me?! That boy's getting spiked!" Evan growled as spikes appeared on his arms.

"Maybe that's why." Rouge replied looking at his spikes.

"Scout! Is it true?!" Kitty asked eagerly as she phased through the door. Scout who had been walking by the door and was slightly surprised to see Kitty walk through a door. She shook it off; she still had to get used to all the weird things that went on around here.

"Is what true?" Professor Xavier asked wheeling into the room.

"Uh, well we heard that Scout and Pietro were, like, a couple now." Kitty explained embarrassed about her outburst in front of the professor.

"WHAT?! WHO TOLD YOU THAT?!" Scout screamed with blue bolts of electricity jumping off of her.

"Now Scout, try to control you temper. It only makes it harder for you to control you power." The professor soothed her. Scout took a few deep breaths and controlled the electricity flowing through her.

"Now Kitty, don't believe everything you hear. Scout explained the whole thing to me. The reason for her leaving earlier today was that she was losing control of her powers and didn't want to do so in front of a whole class, not some illicit affair with Quicksilver." The professor said to Kitty and now the rest of the mutants who had also arrived.

"Oh, sorry Professor, Sorry Scout." Kitty apologised.

Pietro woke up in bed in the middle of the night in a cold sweat; he looked around his room in the dark. ::Just a nightmare:: He reassured himself. Pietro flumped back on his pillow, the dream had been so real. He closed his eyes and remembered it.

Scout had been sitting in his lap snuggled into his chest, he had his arms wrapped around her, he had felt so happy just being near her. She had gasped and jumped up, confused he had stood up and asked her what was wrong but before she could answer she was shot down. He had seen the red bolt of light hit her but he had been to slow to do anything about it.

She had been flung backwards into a tree and with a sickening crack; he had known she was dead.

"That'll teach you to love any of us!" Cyclops had shouted at him, the rest of the X-men had joined Scott and they had all chased him firing shots at him and trying to kill him. He had only just been fast enough to escape some of the shots. Pietro winced; they had actually hurt unlike most dreams of pain. He sighed and tried unsuccessfully to get back to sleep.

Pietro stood in the corridor by his locker; there were three girls who were trying to chat him up. He sighed; he just wasn't in the mood. In fact he hadn't been in the mood for anything much in the past week, he refused to accept that it might have something to do with a certain girl who hadn't been at school in the past week either. He found his eyes straying over to this "certain" girl's locker not for the first time in the last week.

"Hey Pietro!" Lance called him from down the hallway. Without a second thought for the girls who were talking to him he walked of to Lance.

"Hey, you know that girl you like." Lance began.

"First of all I don't like Scout and second what about her?" Pietro frowned.

"If you don't like her then why would you assume I was talking about her?" Lance asked raising an eyebrow. Pietro opened his mouth for a retort but couldn't think of one for the first time in his life.

"Anyway, I went over to the institute to pick up Kitty and she's living there." Lance grinned.

"So why should I care?" Pietro lied as his felt his stomach jump.

"Well I have a date with Kitty tonight and I wondered if you might want to "drive me there" and "accidentally" bump into this girl of yours while your there." Lance replied using too many airquotes.

"NO! What kind of a loser do you take me for?!" Pietro snapped and walked off.