FYI:
~Personal thoughts~
"Normal Conversation (Duh)"
{Musical Lyrics}
I'm With You--Avril Lavigne
ROGUE
~It's been a week since that dance an' the professor still hasn't called me to his office about breakin' curfew. Maybe Logan didn't tell him 'cause he felt bad about upsettin' me. Ah don't know, Ah think Ah'd feel better if the professor did get angry with me an' tell me how it was wrong to fight those creeps.~ Ah was standing on the balcony outside of mah room just like Ah had been weeks before. It was mah escape, mah way of getting away from everybody else. Kitty an' the others had gone to another dance to celebrate her getting her license but Ah was punishin' mahself for missin' curfew. Ah had a way of doin' that an' it always seemed worse than what the professor could dish out. Ah had given her some weak excuse about wanting to stay alive but Ah knew she didn't buy it. Even Logan an' Ororo had things to do tonight an' Ah didn't feel like bein' around the professor an' Beast so Ah holed mahself up in mah room with a book. Ah had changed earlier into more comfortable clothes, jeans an' a sweatshirt, but Ah no longer felt like reading. Ah walked downstairs an' out the front door without even seeing either of the adults. Ah didn't know where Ah was goin', just that Ah felt like getting outta the mansion. Ah left the mansion grounds an' started walkin' down the road. Ah began hummin' mah favorite Avril Lavigne song, "I'm With You" as Ah walked.
Ah reached the bridge that Ah had ridden over a week before with Gambit an' stopped to look down at the swirlin' waters below.
{I'm Standing On The Bridge, I'm Waiting In The Dark, I Thought That You'd Be Here By Now.}
It began to rain an' the waters below began to swirl faster as the rain came down harder an' harder.~Ah wonder what Gambit's doin' right now. It's been a week an' Ah haven't heard a thing from him. He's probably found some other girl to bother. Ah just knew it was to good to be true.~
{There's Nothing But The Rain, No Footsteps On The Ground, I'm Listening But There's No Sound
Isn't Anyone Trying To Find Me? Won't Somebody Come Take Me Home?
It's A Damn Cold Night, Trying To Figure Out This Life}
Ah turned to start walkin' back to the mansion an' saw Gambit standing at the end of the bridge. ~He's got a way of showing up just when Ah want to see him.~ The wind whipped through his trench coat as he stood there watching me. Ah continued walking towards him afraid that if Ah broke into a run, Ah would seem desperate. He stood there smiling at me as Ah approached an' Ah couldn't help smiling back. It seemed that whenever Ah was around him, Ah felt happy.
{Won't You Take Me By The Hand, Take Me Someplace New}
He linked his arm with mine, an' we just started to walk down the road together. "How'd ya find me out here?"
He sheepishly looked down at the ground as he responded, "Gambit followed you."
{I don't Know Who You Are But I, I'm With You}
We walked a while further before either of us spoke again. "Why do ya always talk about yaself in the third person like that. It makes ya sound dumb." ~Please don't be offended!~ Instead of being upset he actually smiled.
"You sound like Piotr. Don't you think it sounds…sexy." It took him awhile to decide on the right word an' didn't seem quite satisfied with the word he had chosen.
"No, it makes ya sound like a redneck or somethin'." It didn't seem like he minded mah cruel honesty.
"Anything for you, Cheri." He was still smiling down at me as he moved his arm to around mah waist.
{I'm Looking For A Place, I'm Searching For A Face, Is Anybody Here I Know
Cause Nothing's Going Right, And Everything's A Mess, And No One Likes to Be Alone
Isn't Anybody Trying To Find Me? Won't Somebody Come Take Me Home?}
"Ah'm glad ya found me out here. It was kinda lonely at the institute, an' it wasn't any better out here."
"Why didn't you go with the others, Cheri?"
"Ah don't know. Ah wasn't up for crowds but Ah also didn't feel like being alone either. But Ah'm fine now, Ah'm with you." Ah looked up at him an' he gave me a reassuring squeeze as we continued walking. By this point we had passed by the institute's gates an' were on our way to bay's shore.
{It's A Damn Cold Night, Trying To Figure Out This Life, Won't You Take Me By The Hand
Take Me Somewhere New, I Don't Know Who You Are But I, I'm With You, I'm With You}
"Ah…Ah don't know anything about ya, Sugah, just ya name."
"You wouldn't like me anymore if you knew my past, Marie." His face grew grave an' he continued lookin' straight-ahead.
{Why Is Everything So Confusing, Maybe I'm Just Out Of My Mind}
~Why did Ah go an' ask a dumb question like that. Because Ah really do want to know more about him.~
GAMBIT
~I should have known she'd eventually ask me about my past. She'd never understand about Bella, the Guild, or the reason I left New Orleans.~