Disclaimer: I don't own any of the girls that starred in the X-men film and sadly, none of the guys. :( Then again, I'd never hold any hottie against their will.......cough*I'm a liar*cough (I do own Tamara, Samari, and Fade, though…. And if u read below the name of Nick."

Rrrrnnnnnnn, for those of you who noticed, yes, Colossus's name isn't Nick. I simply call him this because I like this name and wanted someone in my fic named Nick also, since he doesn't really have that big a part (eek! Spoiler!) I didn't think it'd bother people. Sorry.

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Psych was in her room listening to Linkin Park when Rogue walked in. "Tamara, you aren't ready yet?" "For what?"

"What do you mean, for what? Poor Nick's been pacing the bottom of the stairs for ten minutes."

Psych sat up and her eyes got wide as if she just remembered something, "Oh yeah! It's Friday! We're suppose to be going out."

Rogue just shook her head and watched as Tamara put on a pink tank top and hip huggers, then put her hair up in a ponytail. She looked in the mirror one last time then said, "Yep, I'm ready."

Rogue was right, Nick was downstairs looking at the ground, pacing back and forth. When he saw her walking down the stairs he said, "Hey, babe, you ready?"

"Sure," she said, unenthusiastically. As they walked out of the door, Tamara craned her neck to see if Pyro was in the living room, he wasn't. "That's weird," she thought.



Nick helped her into one of the Cyclops's convertibles, the same one she, Bobby, Rogue and Pyro had driven during their unauthorized trip. The car ride was silent despite Colossus's attempts at starting a conversation, so he resorted to singing along to the radio. Suddenly, Cold's "Stupid Girl" came on and Psych smiled at the thought that seemed so long ago. Colossus apparently thought she was smiling at him so he started singing louder, much to Tamara's annoyance.



They arrived at the theater shortly, and for the first time since their date started, Tamara spoke, "So, what are we going to see?" He hesitated a minute then said, "Old School." "Old School!" she said, "ah, yes, a movie about older men going wild and half naked chicks! Why couldn't we go see something more action packed like Matrix: Reloaded or Pirates of The Caribbean?" He then said, "Well, I already bought the tickets but if you want me to go take em -" "No, that's okay," she agreed, then they walked into the theater.



An hour and a half later, they walked out of the theater and Psych had to admit, she wasn't as disappointed as she thought she'd be. It wasn't long before the two were on the road again and Colossus was asking, "Where would you like to eat, babe?"

"Ummmm I dunno. I kinda have a taste for Italian," she said.

"Frecellonies, it is." he said, turning left.



They arrived twenty minutes later and seated not more than five minutes after that. His spirits seemed really high because he said, "I know this is your favorite place babe, so order whatever you want." She started at the menu, popped an olive into her mouth and thought, "This actually turned out pretty nice." She spoke too soon because when she put her menu down, she saw Pyro and Fade sitting two tables away from them. Psych started to sputter and choke on her olive, causing Pyro to look her way and Nick to look worried. "Are you okay, babe? Here, drink this." He handed her a glass of water which she downed in a minute.

Knowing that several people were probably staring at her right now, she, faked dropping her napkin then said, "I'll go get that." Psych then crawled under the table to get it, but not before she saw a pair of feet approaching their table. "Please let it not be who I think it is," she thought. Nick soon answered that when he said, "Hey, Pie, what's up?" "Nothin much," she heard him reply. "Oh great," she thought. They proceeded to talk about their dates before Pyro said, "Well, I really should get back to my table before our waitress arrives," then he knocked loudly on the table, causing Psych to move and bump her head. She heard the smile in his voice as he said, "Tell Psych I said hey, alright."



When she saw the shoes leave she came back up, rubbing her head. "I'm gonna go to the ladies room to freshen up," she said , then walked off. Inside the ladies room, she looked in the mirror and inspected the big bruise on her head. "Dammit," she thought, "he knew I was under that table." She sat there trying to make her head feel better when Fade walked out of one of the stalls. Fade was Australian with green eyes and short pink hair. An evil thought suddenly popped into Tamara's head.

"You look good today, Fade."

"Thank you," she said in her Aussie accent, "Pyro said that today as well, before we went to see the Hulk."

Psych chuckled, "Oh, he did, did he? Well, you know what he told me?"

Fade stared at her as if she couldn't possibly know, "He told me that he'd never slept with an Australian before and that he's hoping you're as good as the next."



At first, Psych didn't know if Fade had believed her or not, but after the lipstick she'd been holding snapped in half, she knew Fade was angry. Not wanting to be caught in a crossfire she'd caused, Tamara walked out of the ladies room and back to her table. "Everything okay?" Nick asked. "Fine," she said. A second later, Fade came out of the bathroom, walked over to John, slapped him, poured his glass of water on him, then stomped out. Colossus looked just as surprised as the rest but Tamara found it hard not to suppress her laughter. Pyro apparently noticed this, because he glared at her then walked out.

The rest of the date went well and they even managed to make it home before midnight. But that night, Psych had a hard time sleeping knowing that revenge was coming. The next day, Psych was extremely paranoid. She jumped at every little sound, watched her every step, and even accused Rogue o trying to ruin her clothes. "This is what he wants," she thought as she got ready for the baseball game she was helping out with, "For you to be paranoid and piss off everyone around you. Well, it's not gonna work because I won't let it."

By now, the kids shouts were heard loud and clear so she started to run down the stairs. Big mistake, because she tripped on something and, painfully, ended up rolling all the way down. What made it embarrassing was all of the kids started laughing and one of them even took a picture of her laying at the bottom of the stairs. Hair wild and clothes all over the place, she looked at what tripped her, a tiny nascar with the initials J.A. on them. She threw the nascar out of rage but also relief that his revenge was over.

Her day went smooth after that until later that night. She went upstairs to shower and change clothes then came back downstairs and noticed everyone crowding around the TV and laughing. She walked by suspiciously then went into the kitchen and grabbed a coke. She had just taken a big swig when Samari and several other girls came in laughing and pointing at her. Now she knew something was wrong, so Tamara walked back into the living room and saw much to her horror, herself. It was a videotape of her rolling all the way down the stairs. At this point she started panicking, "He must of taped it," she thought, "Great, now everyone knows." When they all turned her way and started congratulating her on how graceful she is, Psych couldn't do anything but run upstairs to her room.



A knock on the door was heard a few minutes later and it was Bobby and Rogue. "We saw the tape," said Bobby, "did you really fall down those stairs on your own?"



"No! I was tripped."

"Oh, well do you know by whom?"

"Who do you think?"

Bobby took a second to think then looked at her, understandingly. "Oh, well I don't really get why he'd do that."

Before they all spent too much time dwelling on that, Psych asked, "Will you guys help me?"

"How?"

"By telling me what type of shampoo he uses."

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The next morning, Psych woke up, showered, and headed down to breakfast early. When she went into the kitchen she saw two people, Cyclops, reading the newspaper, and Samari, eating Fruit Loops. "You're up early today," Cyclops said, without looking away from the newspaper. "Let's not forgot unusually chipper for a person that just took a devastating fall" said Samari. Tamara poured a bowl of Lucky Charms, said, "OOO, I guess it's never too early for someone to be bitter," then sat down.

Slowly, kids started showing up in their pajamas making themselves breakfast and yawning. Most of the conversations were about Psych falling down the stairs which made her angry but then she remembered what she'd done last night and just laughed. Pyro was one of the last people to walk into the kitchen, and when he did everyone went silent. Samari was frozen with shock. "What?" he asked. All the students whispered for a minute then laughed. They laughed louder than they had about the videotape and when Pyro looked bewildered about what was wrong with him, Bobby showed him over to the toaster and told him to look.

Pyro hair was just as it'd always been except it was now blue. When he found out about his new hair color, it seemed as if the kids no longer thought it was funny to laugh out loud so they went on talking about it quietly, forgetting all about Psych. Pyro was absolutely furious and Tamara was finished eating, so she walked right past him out of the kitchen, but not without saying, "You know, I just don't think blue is your color."

About an hour later, he came running down the stairs holding a Head and Shoulders bottle yelling, "You bitch! You put that blue crap in my shampoo!" Tamara just laughed when Storm said to him, "John, we don't tolerate that kind of language around here. I'm sure your hair will be back to normal in a few days." He looked as if he were about to argue but reluctantly, walked upstairs.

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A few days later, the blue still hadn't washed out and Psych was quite sure she'd won. It was Monday morning and she'd overslept because, from the looks of it, Rogue was already dresses and gone. Tamara got out of bed, stretched, opened her closet door and screamed. A huge skunk was in her closet and from the smell of it, it had already sprayed all of her clothes and shoes. It looked like it was about to spray her, so she slammed the door shut and ran out of her room screaming bloody murder.

Cyclops and a few other older students removed the skunk from her closet, but unfortunately, they couldn't do anything about her clothes. After much ranting, raving, and accusing, she agreed with them and sat in her room all day in her underwear. Even though she had passes out of class, she couldn't get out of training, so she, throwing on a pair of smelly clothes, met everyone in the front yard.

The X-men had finished their speeches and literary assignments when they broke into pairs again. Judging by the looks the still-blue-haired Pyro and smelly Psych were giving each other, everyone knew that this session wasn't going to be pretty.

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Well, those two can certainly bicker. You'll find out next week if they resolve this or let it continue on…

Btw, Happy Post-Independence Day for all Americans! And Happy 4th of July for everyone else! (think about it.)