Name: Anything But Ordinary
Author: MeryKey X5-495
E-mail: merykey_x5283@yahoo.com
Summary: Johnny boy desides to come back to Mutant High ´couse he realized he was on the wrong team after all. J/Original Character, M/B
Disclamer: Whatever...
Author´s Note I: I got no reviews for chp. 2... I got the impresion that you guys don´t like my story... Please... if you´re reading this, leave a review!!! I love reviews... it sort of makes me think I´m not wasting my time telling a stupid story... I swear my story is not like the rest... At least, I hope it won´t be... PLLEEEEAASSEEEE!!!! I´m begging you.... Leave this poor writer a small review... Thank you.

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Chapter 3
Friends will be Friends

Someone knocked at the door of Marie´s, Jubilee´s and Iezabel´s room. Ieza was reading a book lying on her bed, while Marie was doing some literature homework on the desk and Jubilee was getting ready to go out with some of the guys to the mall.

"You two sure don´t wanna come to the mall?" Jubees asked before the knocking.

"Yes," the other two girls answered.

Jubilee was the one to open the door. "Hi John," she said to the boy and, both, Marie and Ieza looked at the door hoping they could see him with their nonexistent X-ray vision. "Hey, me and some of the guys are going to the mall, wanna come?"

"No, thanks. Is Marie in?" he said.

"Yeah, come in. Bye girls!" she said to her roommates, though Marie was the only one to 'bye' her back. "Bye John."

"Bye." John entered the room. He hadn´t noticed Iesabel on the bed yet. Unlike Marie, the dark haired girl was still looking at him. He then stood unconfortably next to Marie.

"Hey," John said. Marie wasn´t moving from where she was. Her eyes were looking at the literature text though wasn´t reading and her hands weren´t writing anymore... and I don´t think she was breathing either.

Iezabel saw this and decided they could use some space. "I´m gonna take a walk, ok?" she told Marie, as she took her guitar case. Rogue moved for the first time since John entered, nodded to Ieza, and her friend was gone.

John sat on the bed looking at the floor, "So.. How´ve you been?"

"How do you think?" she answered, still with her back on him, with some anger in her voice.

"Marie listen--"

"No! No 'Marie listen' to me!" she said standing up and walked to where he was as if she was about to kill him, "Don´t come here expecting me to forgive you with some stupid lame excusse! Who tha hell do you think you are??"

"I´m sorry, ok?!" he said looking at her eyes. He stood up the moment she approached him with that killing air on her face.

"No john!"

"What are you so angry about?!"

"Why are you back John? Why?" she asked now more softly, but with the same disappointment.

"Becouse... becouse I missed you guys and the God damn school, ok?!"

"If you had run away from the school I wouldn´t be so angry at ya! But you left with that psyco son of the bitch! He tried to kill me no so long ago! So what do you expect from me, ah? Do yo want me to through you a wellcome party?! To congratulate you?!"

"I don´t expect anything from ya. I´m just... I´m back... and I´m sorry," he said softly.

Her eyes and body softened. She didn´t want to kill him anymore.

"How much did ya miss me?" she asked playfully.

John smiled, "Not that much really, I missed Bobby´s spikey hair most of all."

"Shut up," she said and hugged him, "I´m glad you´re back."

"I´m glad to be back."

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Pyro and Rogue were walking in the school´s huge park.

"How´s you nose, anyway?" Marie asked her friend.

"Uhm... better I think.. It doesn´t hurt that much anymore," John answered.

"It´s a little purple."

"Yeah, but I´m ok, don´t worry."

"I´m not worried... it´s just that it looks like... I don´t know... Not... attractive."

He smiled.

"So... Bobby looks good," John said, trying to bring the 'break up' subject into the conversation.

"Yeah," she simply answered.

"He´s... taller... I think."

"Could be. I wouldn´t really know."

"He's--"

"Just ask me why I dumped him already."

John looked sorprised for a minute, but that was just her. She was so direct, straightforward, never holding herself down, always saying things as they were.

"Ok, why did you dump him?"

"Did he send you?" she asked stopping her track.

"No," he answered.

She approached her face to his leaving a 2 or 3 inches space between them, and look deep into his eyes serching for a lie. "Are you telling me the truth?"

With his eyes really wide open, he answered with a funny, mocking voice, "Yeeaahhh."

"Fine, I believe you," she said walking again. She sighed and then said, "I do love him, still love him."

"Then why?"

Rogue sighed again as she rolled her eyes, and said, "Remember that day at Bobby´s house? When I grab your ankle?"

How could he forget? That sensation of total weakness, the feeling that your life, your soul, is leaving your body... Ok, too dramatic, I know. But it did feel like she was draining his life out of his body.

"Yeah," he answered.

"Well... I don´t wanna hurt him... You felt it... it´s... I don´t know, at least I feel horrible. Everytime I saw him, everytime I see him, I want to jump over him and kiss him to death... Which will happen if ever do it," she said the last part under her breath, "But I can´t, and he doesn´t understand it. He really thinks that we´ll find a way... but we won´t... never will. So I broke up with him, started treating him like shit, tried to push him away, but--"

"He doesn´t leave, does he?"

Marie looked at John with sadness on her eyes. One part of her soul was sad ´couse she couldn´t touch Bobby, couldn´t love him completaly, couldn´t show him how big her love for him was, sad ´couse she was treating him like to a stanger and everytime she did that she felt as if a knife stabbed her heart. But she was happy also, ´couse he was still there, he hadn´t left... he would never leave.

"No," she said, "But at least he doesn´t stalk me anymore... I think he likes Shary... Remember her? 5.3, blonde... too cute?"

"Oh, yeah! she´s hot!" he said really enthusiastically, but then he saw her 'support here, please!' face so he tried to meand it, "but not as hot as you."

She rolled her eyes.

"Marie, look," he started saying now with a more serious tone of voice, "I´ve been back for like what? a day? Well, Bob has been whining ´bout you the entire day... it´s actually pathetic... to see a guy whining for a girl like that... not a pretty sight."

"Whatever..."

John hesitated a couple of times while he touched a small bracelet inside his pocket, but he decided Marie loved Bobby too much and Bobby loved Marie too much, whatever that meant, so he couldn´t just stay quiet ´bout this, the only way they had to be together. This time it was him who stopped walking. Marie was still walking when she realized she had lost her companion. She looked over her shoulder and found him stearing to a very strange bracelet he was holding with both his hands.

"What´s wrong?" she asked.

He tore his eyes from it and looked at Marie instead, "I brought you this."

"What is it?" she asked walking over to where he was standing so she could take a closer look to whatever John had brought to her.

"It´s something I took from Magneto before leaving him."

"A bracelet? I don´t know why but I can´t picture Magneto wearing it."

John rolled his eyes, "He didn´t ear it. He made it. He told me that when that Stiker dude kidnapped Professor X, he put something like this on his head... Anyway, Mystique stole the technology from the guy and Magneto built it. It basically turns you off... you know, your abilities. Here, let me put it on your wrist."

Marie couldn´t stop stearing at him as if it was all part of a dream, as if she was affraid she would wake up and realized John and his gift were all part of a deseiving dream. She was like Cinderella and John her Feary God Mother... Do you imagine John as a Feary God Mother?? I would pay to see that.

The bracelet was made of metal. It didn´t have much buttons or lights or whatever, it only had a small button, and, on the side that is in contact with the skin, there were three small spikes.

"All you have to do is push this small black button on the left and it´s done." The thing did a 'wheee' and the spikes made contact with Rogue´s skin. It stung for like 2 seconds, and she got used to it. "I saw Magneto while he was doing it... If you wanna take it out, you have to push the same button and it´ll open."

"So how do we know if it worked?"

He rose his hand and touch her worm, soft cheek. Nothing happened.

She smiled, "Oh my God," she whispered as John smiled with her, "Oh-My-God!" she then said almost yelling. Rogue hugged him with all her strength, which was quite a lot, since Logan, their former art teacher, current training teacher, made them work out twice a week.

"Ok, ok, I´m gonna need my neck back, Rogue," he said and she let go of him. "I think you´ve got to go find Bobby now," he said, still smiling.

"You´re right." She was about to leave when she felt the urge to say something to John, "John, thank you."

"No need to. I´m sure you´re gonna learn how to control your powers soon--"

"I doubt that," she interrupted, "so thanks." She kissed him on the cheek and ran to find Bobby.

Since the first day he met her, he had felt for her... He had felt something he had never thought he would feel... That thing that´s shown in the movies, heard in the songs, red on the novels... Love... or what he had thought it was love... Is like I have feelings for her... but I think they might´ve changed... Maybe those feelings weren´t what I though they were... or maybe I changed... Maybe I don´t love her anymore... Why else would I feel happy ´couse she and Bobby are getting back together? Mental sigh, I´m such a mess... Love... Another sigh, What a word... What does love mean anyway? Love sucks! Or whatever it is that I´m feeling (or felt) sucks!

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Author´s Note II: The italics are John´s thoughts... I have a question actually... to however is reading this... Should I: a) Make Bobby and Rogue get back together; or b) Don´t make Bobby and Rogue get back together yet. ??? Please review and tell me what you think!!!