AN: (tries to explain why this chapter is so, um, special, but instead falls over laughing. Or maybe died. Or maybe "brutally murdered" would be a better way to put it.)

Inside was a silver pair of baby booties with flames engraved in them. On the bottom it read "Will Flamey go to Homecoming with Quicksilver?"

Kitty began squealing. "Awww, that's the cutest thing I ever saw!" Priya shot her a death look. She didn't mind the attention usually, but when it was over something like *this*, it was embarassing.

"Guys.." We looked where Jenn was pointing. Pietro was watching. His eyes grew wide as he noticed we were looking and he turned around and ran. Suddenly, a girl seemed to come from nowhere at a nearby locker. Pietro skidded to a halt, and at a small, surreptitious ripple from Jenn, he fell over. I nudged Priya in the back. She went over and helped him up and the two disappeared around the corner. I grinned at the others and said, "I'll just get her memories later. On "accident", of course. And by the way, good job Staci." The girl that had blocked Pietro waved at us and then faded away.

Lunch that day was one of the most interesting yet. Of course this was mainly because Stalker Dan decided to come try to eat with us. Another was because Pietro and Priya kept shooting each other sappy love looks. Until Dan started talking. Then we were all too busy trying not to laugh at him. And failing.

"Hey, guys. Were you impressed by my powers?" I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, we were." Andy said seriously. "Can you show us the brick again? C'mon, no ones around." Dan smiled and did so. Andy promply picked him up and threw him as far as he could. Dan landed in a puddle and became human again, only now he was very wet. "Ha Ha, that was funny." He said, trying to be sarcastic.

"Yeah, I know." Put in Staci.

"You know I love you guys, so I'll forgive you, this time." He said, trying to look charitable and instead looking pompous.

"Dan, you wanna be a brick again?" asked Andy. "I'll show you a trick."

Dan thought for a second, then turned into a brick. A few seconds later he was back in the puddle. As he brushed himself off again, he tried to ignore our laughter.

"You wanna hear the name I've made for myself? Its really clever and it took me all night. Ok, ready? It's the Brick."

"The brick?"

"Yeah, ya like it?" We started laughing again.

"I woulda though you'd come up with something like 'Captain Dumbass" Staci said. Dan glared. "I'm really just here because of Beth." I blushed and rolled my eyes. "Dan, I'm taken, ya know."

"Really?"

"I've only been sitting by Kurt at lunch for every day since school started."

"So?"

"I've let him hug me." I said blushing even further.

Dan paused. "So?"

"You know how I react when guys do that. They end up getting smacked."

Dan finally seemed to figure it out. It'd only taken a year of him stalking me everywhere for him to do so. He backed away slowly, all the way back into the school.

"Well, all I can say is about time. And that's a good name for him Staci." I felt bad about being mean to him, but he just didn't take a hint.

After school, I went into Priya and Jenn's room to find Priya laying on the bed, staring dreamily off into space.

"Hey Priya, whats up." I surreptitiously placed a finger on the back of one of her hands. She was in such a blissful stupor, she didn't notice. I began to, er, 'borrow' the memories she had had after she had left with Pietro. She probably thought they were just flashbacks. Or maybe it was what she was currently thinking about. I grinned evilly. The memories fully retrieved a few seconds later, I then gave an even more evil grin and said, "Thinking about Pietro, huh?"

She nodded before realizing what she had agreed to. "Shut up!" She said flushing. "I was thinking about, uh, well, uh, never mind!" She threw a pillow at me before I ran out, back to my room, where the other girls were waiting.

"I got 'em!" I quickly turned off the lights and projected it onto the wall.

Priya and Pietro were walking down the hallway, both looking kind of shy. "So, will ya go with me?" She nodded. "Of course I will." "Je t'adore." Pietro whispered under his breath and suddenly his lips were on Priya's. She had her eyes closed and I could feel the excitement that had come with the memory. They pulled away after a few seconds and I barely heard Priya mutter "Wow" under her breath. Pietro's face seemed to share the same sentiment. A bell rang somewhere, signaling the next class. They said a hurried good bye and shuffled off to their next class, both still glowing pink. I noticed her hand was slightly trembling. I blinked and the memory ended.

"We *have* to show Andy. And Dan. And Kurt. And everyone else." Kitty exclaimed, after squealing "Awww" for a few minutes. So we hurried over to the boy's room after getting Evan. I walked in last, and turned off the light and a few seconds later, and Priya once again returned to the wall. Once it was over, the girls returned to excited squeals, while the guys tried not to laugh too hard. Then we heard a very ominous sound from the doorway. It sounded like growling or a stove lighting, or both at the same time.

Everyone whipped around and saw Priya clutching the doorway with one hand, positively livid. Her hands were aflame and so was a small chunk of the door frame.

"What…Are…You…Doing?" She asked, emphasizing each word. We were all frozen in place.

I tried to speak. "Um, nothing, nothing. Don't be angry, we just wanted to see."

The flames slowly subsided as Priya calmed down. "So you know I said yes then." A slow smile played at the corners of her mouth. Kitty smiled too.

"You know what this means?" We looked at her blankly. "SHOPPING!"

Priya was gone as quickly as if she had Pietro's powers.

"What, doesn't she like shopping?"

Later that night, I lay on my bedroom floor doing math. I heard a bamf above me and guessed that Kurt had appeared on the chandelier above. "Whacha doing Kurt?" He didn't answer, but I felt something brush against my arm. I looked up and saw hundreds of rose petals falling around me like snowflakes. Kurt appeared before me, laying in the same way I was. His face was inches from mine. I heard him whisper. "Will you go to homecoming with me?"

"Of course." I whispered back. Our lips met, and I realized why Priya had been trembling, for a second, until everything but what I was doing was forgotten. It was short, but it was the best memory I had, and that's saying something. I heard the door open, and Kurt disappeared as Priya and Jenn came in. They must have seen him as he left or noticed the smoke and smell he left behind, because they gave me very accusing looks and evil grins. "*What*? I didn't do anything."

"What was Kurt doing here?"

"Um, Math?"

Their grins became even wider, if possible.

"Ok, he asked me to the dance."

"And"

"I said yes."

"*And*"

"He, uh, kissed me."

Priya and Jenn fell over laughing.

"Shut up! Don't make me show the memory again Priya!" Priya stopped laughing and glowered at me, but Jenn continued laughing.

"We definitely need to get some dirt on Jenn."

The next morning, before even our alarm clocks went off, Rogue and I were awakened by excited squealing from Kitty. "Like, guys, you totally have to come see this. It's like so cute!" We followed her into her room after she had woken up Priya, Jenn, Staci, and Liz. She pointed at her wall. In it dozens of red roses were phased into the wall. They spelled out "Kitty + Andy = Homecoming?". Kitty was now jumping up and down and squealing again. "Now I *have* to take you shopping, Priya."

"Don't forget Beth too, Kurt asked her last night." She said snickering as I glared at her.

"I gotta go talk to him, tell him yes." She ran through the wall into Andy, Good Dan, and Kurt's room. We were forced to go through the hallway. We came in just in time to see her pounce onto Andy's bed and she started jumping up and down on it. She happened to be currently jumping *through* him, but Andy still noticed that his mattress kept flying about three feet off the rest of his bed. Andy swore, because of course it is quite shocking to be peacefully sleeping and then be abruptly jerked back to the world of the conscious by your bed flying into the air and then falling back down repeatedly. Kitty started excitedly squealing again. "Yes, Yes, YES! I'd love to go with you." Andy suddenly figured out what was going on and his eyes grew wide. "Really?"

"Really."

I whispered to Priya "Reeally Rahul?"

"Reeally Tonya"

"Mera naam Sonia hai!"

We then smacked hands and poked each other's noses. Again.

Jenn elbowed us. "Shut up! They're being cute." We went back to paying attention, but nothing much else happened, except their hands floating half through each other. "Rogue, I so know how you feel now. This is like totally frustrating to not be able to touch!"

Scott came in to shoo us off to get ready for school so we wouldn't be late to school. After getting my stuff, I went in to see if Staci was ready. She was standing by her nightstand, the curtains from her open window blowing in her face. She had some sort of a card in her hand. "What's that?"

She did a sort of half jump because she hadn't realized I was there. She thought for a couple of seconds, then grinned as she stuffed it in her pocket before I got a closer look. "It's a business card for a Victorian shop I wanna open with Jenn some day."

"I can see Jenn with a Victorian shop, but not you. Why would you wanna do that?"

"One word…Ankles." I gasped.

"And what about shoulders."

"Plenty of that. And maybe some bonnets. Or maybe we'll take off the bonnets. Who knows?"

"Oh Staci, if I wasn't so frightend of all things victorian, I might join you in this little endeavor." We then ran off laughing to get a ride from Jenn.

That day after school, I turned a corner on my way to my room and say Evan pulling Jenn by the elbow to the end of the hall and then checking to make sure no one was watching. I quickly ducked back around the corner before he noticed. Evan was dressed in a Victorian gentleman's suit, which included those funny knee socks and a pocket-handkerchief. It clashed horribly with his peroxide blonde hair. He handed Jenn an elegant Victorian fan and then put a frilly pink bonnet on her and tied it slowly under her chin.

"My dearest Emma, for dearest you will always be, whatever the events of this hours conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma-tell me at once. Say 'no' if it is to be said." He pulled a rose from behind his back and offered it to her. "Will you go to homecoming with me?"

Jenn squealed and nearly knocked Evan over with a ripple and then threw her arms around his neck in a very un victorian mannor before finally kissing him on the cheek.

"I'll take that as a yes."

I heard voices behind me and Kitty, Priya, Liz, and Staci came round the corner. I filled them in on what was going on. Staci and Liz said "Awww" as Priya started laughing. Kitty grabbed me and Priya by the sleeve and then walked purposefully towards Jenn and Evan, somehow managing to get a hold of them too. She pracitcally kicked down the door to Kurt and Andy's room, who were so surprized that Kurt teleported 3 feet in the air and came crashing to the ground and Andy tripped over a chair and somehow managed to phase it halfway through the floor. Kitty let go of the rest of us and then went over and picked up Kurt and Andy's phone. She chucked it at Priya and ordered her to call Pietro. He was over about three seconds after Priya said "hello", with a smile and a "why not just talk in person".

Kitty cleared her throat and said one word as explanation for her behavior. "Shopping."