"It's, he's in your eyes." Indeed, I could see him reflected off her face. She squinted at my eyes. "I think it *is* Logan. But there's nothing you can do about it now. You have to try to go back to sleep. You look pretty beat. Plus." She made a face 'There's *school* tomorrow."
I somehow managed to fall back asleep, even with Logan's image in my mind. It was pushed out of my mind the next morning by Jenn and Priya coming in and literally leaping through the air onto my bed, which happened to contain me at the moment.
"Ouch, guys, what the heck."
"I Just got an email from my parents and there gonna send me money so I can buy a car!" Jenn was actually being loud. She must be really excited, since usually she spoke barely above a whisper. Now her sound ripples were continually trying to knock Priya and I back.
Jenn jumped off the bed and started skipping around the room singing, "I'm getting a ca-ar, I'm getting a ca-ar."
"You know who needs this rubbed in his face right?" Priya said looking cheeky. Large grins spread across our faces. "Oh, An-dy!"
Andy was far more unlucky that I, because instead of being pounced out of sleep by only two, shrieking, hyper midgets, he was attacked by three. His word choice was a little more, um, colorful than mine when he snapped open his eyes. We could hear German words coming from the bed on the other side of the room. (Andy and Kurt share a room) Priya perked up at a couple of the words that she knew, and I giggled. "*Kurt*"
Andy was somewhat awake by now. "What's going on *now*?"
We explain why Jenn was so excited. He looked even grumpier. "I *had* a car. Then I became a mutant." He mumbled under his breath. The three of us perked up even more. We hadn't heard this story yet.
"Well, my car is now phased halfway through the garage wall. We can't get it out. Half of it is in the living room."
"Andy, couldn't you just phase into it and drive it out?" Andy thought for a minute and then smacked himself on the forehead.
"Excuse me while I go call my parents." He ran off to find a phone and Kurt bamfed over to where he was sitting.
"When are you going to buy your car? Do we get to come too?"
"I'm going Sunday and everyone can come! If the car dealer doesn't knock off a couple hundred dollars just to get us to go away, then I don't know what would."
It was hard waiting Friday and Saturday, knowing what we were going to do Sunday, but the time finally came. Priya, Staci, and I of course had to accompany Jenn, and Andy decided to come along as well to make sure Jenn didn't get a better car that the one he had that was currently stuck through his living room wall. Kurt, Kitty, and Evan insisted on coming along as well, although we nearly through Evan out of the vehicle when he wouldn't stop quoting Jane Austin. As we were about to leave, a blur that was Pietro showed up along side the car.
"How'd you know about this? Jenn didn't tell anyone at school yet."
Priya looked guiltily at the ceiling and tried to whistle.
"Uh,…"
"Did Flamey tell you?" I looked sneakily at Priya, who was giving me a death stare.
"What?"
"Oh, get." He obeyed and we broke out laughging at priya"And Priya, if you start the car on fire, we'll all die." I looked pointedly at Pietro. Priya wouldn't actually die, since she was flame retardant.
So instead of killing us all, Priya just smacked me upside the head and made death threats.
We finally arrived at some used car dealer, and decided to wreak a little havok before we actually bought a car.
"But how should we attempt to do this?" Asked Priya in mock concern.
"Don't worry, I've got it all planned out." I said and pulled several tubes of glitter gel out of my pocket. The guys seemed reluctant to touch such evilness, but no one else minded. We started out by putting huge globs of glitter on the back of the door handles, and streaks on the windows. The salespeople were looking at us suspiciously. They kept trying to come over and talk to us.
"Do you need any help sir? Sir, uh what are you doing?" Andy was currently rubbing glitter on the headlights.
"Lubricating the lights."
"Oh." He looked confused and walked over to Kitty, who was putting smiley faces and peace symbols on a Volkswagen beetle with her lipstick.
"Ms., why are you, uh, coloring on the car?"
"Like, ya know, I'm making it look like this little car I had when I was 7."
"You had a car when you were 7?"
"Yeah, like totally! Well, not really me, more Mrs. Tiddly, my barbie."
"Your doll had a car?"
"Yeah, it was plastic and you could decorate it with crayons."
He backed away slowly, completely convinced Kitty was crazy.
I was currently releasing the parking breaks of the cars that were on inclined ramps or slight hills. They mainly rolled into ditches filled with water. He seemed to give himself a pep-talk and then hurried over to where Jenn and Evan were fencing on top of a van.
"What is going on here?"
"What does it look like? We're practicing. We have to be in condition for the car fencer association's annual competition tomorrow."
He took a step backwards, meaning to flee when something very warm grazed his ear and he whipped around and looked up. Kurt had teleported Priya to the top of the building, where she had lit the car dealer sign on fire.
The man screamed and ran inside.
We all fell over laughing. Priya nearly fell off the roof.
We all walked slowly inside and tried to keep straight faces. We swiped all the chocolate from a dish on someone else's desk and ate it, making us even more hyper. Jenn walked up to the man who was quaking under his desk. "Excuse me, I'd like that car over there. How much is it?"
"5,000 dollars"
"Oh, that's well out of my price range."
"The lowest we can go is 4,750."
"I was looking for something more like 2,000. I suppose my friends and I will have to go back out and look some more." Priya pulled another tube of glitter out of her pocket and started to open it. The rest of us grinned.
"Its your! I can make it that price, just don't stay here anymore."
"Do I get a pair of fuzzy dice?" Jenn looked at him pleadingly.
"Whatever you want, just as long as you guys don't touch anymore of our cars."
We formed a large circle and skipped around singing, "Jenn got a ca-ar, Jenn got a ca-ar." Then we all fell over. Hmm, maybe we should stop eating candy, but what would be the fun in that?
We drove over to Andy's house to get his car out of the wall. We tried to be more normal here, but it didn't work very well. Priya and Jenn kept talking in third person and scaring Andy's mother. Andy himself kept trying to hold Kitty's hand and failing, so it looked as if they were walking around with parts of their hands inside each other's.
Pietro kept zipping around and knocking things over, although Jenn's near constant laughter ripples did about as much. The rest of us were telling parent-inappropriate jokes.
"Andy, maybe its time you fixed the car. It's nearly dark and you know how I feel about you driving in the dark." Andy's mother had finally spoken up.
"Sure. You guys get to see my expert driving now." He was grinning like crazy.
"If you're such a good driver, how did the car end up through the wall anyway?" Priya responded with a wide, sinister smile.
"Priya, respect your elders." Priya kicked his ankle. "Hey I need that for driving."
"So how *did* you manage this excellent bit of driving?"
"Well, I was driving into the garage, a tad too fast." Andy said sheepishly. "And then my mutant powers showed up for the first time when I tried to step on the brakes. My foot went right through the pedal and the car went halfway through the wall before I stopped phasing. It was not fun."
"Poor Andy." Kitty said sympathetically. "I fell through the floor all the way to the basement my first time."
Andy had phased into the car by now and had managed to phase and start it. He managed to get it out of the wall and it was quite interesting to watch him use his rearview mirror while reversing even though for the most part he was staring at the wall that was halfway through the car. (Darn those habits subliminally ingrained into our minds from driver's ed that force us to do them even when its pointless.) Then Andy and the car melted away into the wall and we heard him honk the horn.
"That's an interesting feeling." Was all he said.
We were about to return to the institute with our new cars (well, Jenn and Andy's *technically*) when Pietro's beeper went off.
"Aw crud, they need me. Gosta go, Mera zindagi." And with that, he was gone.
"Pietro has a beeper?" Staci asked amazed.
"That's not important. Priya, have you been teaching him hindi?" I asked.
"Um, maybe?"
"Silly Priya, Hindi's for movies!"
"Was that a joke?"
"So what if it was?"
"I don't like Jokes!"
"I don't like you!"
"Shadup!" we yelled together and then smacked each other's hands twice and poked each other in the nose. We're quite odd, don't mind us. (and if anyone knows where this is from, please tell me so I can be amazed)
Suddenly, we all heard Professor Xavier's voice in our heads. "Come back to the institute right away, Troubles starting."
We jumped in our cars and drove home.