"How is it?" Scott asked.
"It's um… well it's…" Rogue couldn't restraining herself as she started to giggle.
"I didn't think it was that bad."
"Scott, ah'm sorry." se said wiping the tears from her eyes as she glanced down at his very first try at drawing an apple. "Ah just didn` know how much ya meant ya needed help."
"Yea well art was never my strong point." he said chuckling softly as he ran his fingers through his hair. "Think you could help someone as hopeless as me."
"Yer not hopeless. Ya just need more practice is all. If it helps it looks better than mah first apple ah tried ta draw. All ah did was draw a circle with a stem stickin` out of it."
Scott chuckled. "Well I have plenty of time to practice with you." All the time in the world, he told himself.
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Pietro stood in front of his father shocked. "I.. I can't."
"You can and you will." Magneto ordered. "Go and do it now."
"But I…"
"Will listen to what your father says, Pietro. You know the consequences if you don't." He said in a dark voice.
Pietro nodded knowing the consequences and he took off quickly to the Xavier School.
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He stopped outside of the gates seeing Rogue outside with her drawing pad. He glare seeing Scott summers next to her. He had a piece of paper and a pencil. "Oh this is rich. Summers learning to draw. What stick figures aren't good enough for you?" He asked appearing in front of them.
"Shove off Maximoff." Scott said angrily.
"No can do." He said looking at Rogue feeling his heart tear in two. "We need to talk."
Rogue nodded setting her things aside. "Keep working` on it, ah'll be back." She told Scott as she and Pietro walked behind a tree where no one could see them.
Rogue instantly kissed him, but stopped not feeling him return it. "Pietro what's wrong?"
"This is."
"What do ya mean?"
"You and me." He said biting the inside of his lip to keep from crying. "Rogue I'm breaking up with you."
Rogue's green eyes widened. "But…."
"It's just not working out any more. You're an X-Men and I'm apart of the Brotherhood. Plenty of other guys out there for you and girls for me."
"Ah thought ya loved me an` we didn` care `bout bein` enemies."
"Changed my mind." He shrugged seeing her eyes fill with tears. "See you around." he said running off before she could say anything. He stopped a block away from the X-Mansion and burst into tars. That had to be the hardest thing he had ever done in his life. But his father threatened to harm Rogue if he didn't break up with her, leaving him no choice.
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Rogue slowly made her way back over to Scott. " think I almost got it." He said as he looked up and instantly dropped his things. "what happened."
"It's over. Pietro an` ah…. He broke up with me." She said crying.
Scott quickly pulled rogue into his arms letting her cry. He knew how much Rogue cared for Maximoff and was going to find out what happened.