A/N: X-Men2- 05.02.03. I realized that the title made sense with the first version of this story, but now it doesn't. I only read over this once because I wanted to post it, so I hope you like typos. I need IDEAS for chapter VIII. Also, thanks Tatiana. Refer back to this after you have read the chapter- don't panic Ryro lovers.
Monday, 12 August 2002 –
VII. Fondalation
There was no waiting for the morning; our punishment did not need to wait according to Jean. We had woken everyone anyway, she told us.
"Sorry," Tess mumbled. That sent Jean off like a firecracker. She sure as hell was going to make us sorry. We had ran away in the middle of the night-a school night- alone into the 'dangerous world' with out permission, stolen a car, and disturbed everyone else in the process.
"We didn't run away," Tess said correcting her. "We went to the mall."
Nice excuse, but Jean already knew that because she was the one who had to get the professor in order for him to use the cerebro.
"You're teli. Why couldn't you the thing," Tess replied. Why? Because the thing could kill this teli. A risk she was not going to take for two rebellious teenage girls making stupid decisions.
"Who you callin' stupid? You're the one being stupid, making such a big deal out of-" I nudged her. Shut up, Tess. She looked at me, and I shook my head, telling her that there was no need for her to continue.
"Cut to the punishment," Tess commanded. As if this was not enough. The punishment, that I had been forced into because Tess needed some 'more adventure' in her life, was a month of service to teach us respect. To who? Jean and anybody in authority.
"We're basically your bitches!" Tess screamed. Jean raised an eyebrow challenging her to rebel. She had, of course, asked for it.
"I didn't ask for shit! This is-" Shut up, Tess.
"We're basically their bitches," Tess whispered fiercely. "What kind of punishment is this? It's horrible. Inhumane."
But that was what we got for being unreasonable, and what were we thinking going out in public in our pajamas? Were we asking for attention? Jean yelled all of this into our faces.
"Sure as hell got it," Logan mumbled. What did he mean by that? Jean wanted to know.
"Some guys were all over them," he stated. Jean turned to us. Were we happy? We had found some guys to flirt with.
"They found us, and Rogue was the only one getting fondled," Tess told her.
"No one asked who was fondled," I told Tess, glaring at her. Jean asked what the hell I was thinking fooling around with some guy? Did he touch my skin? Did anyone see?
"No," I answered.
"Like I said before. Touch? No. Fondalation? Yes," Tess proclaimed. Should I or should I not kill her?
"He kissed her," Logan stated. What she did next was basically blame it on my hanging out with Scott.
"It has nothing to do with Scott," I told her. Wrong answer. She only got angrier at my calling him Scott. When she decided she had had enough of us, she sent us to our room.
As soon as we walked upstairs I was ready for the rumors to start rolling. Kitty and Jubilee were waiting in our room, sitting on our beds ready to greet us.
"How'd you get in here?" I asked. Of course, they already knew the code. They had acquired it from Tess a long time ago.
"Where'd you go?" Kitty asked excitedly.
"The mall," Tess answered.
"The mall?" Jubilee asked. "We could have gone tomorrow."
She looked at the clock. "Today."
Tess shrugged.
"What happened?" Kitty asked. Tess smiled and looked at me. I rolled my eyes at her immaturity.
"Rogue got some action," Tess explained.
"Who'd you fight?" Kitty asked eagerly.
"I didn't fight anyone," I answered, insulted.
"She and some guy… well, fondalation," Tess responded. How many times was she going to say that?
"Fondalation?" Jubilee asked. Tess nodded elatedly.
"He gave her a goodnight kiss and his number," Tess replayed. Kitty and Jubilee gasped, and then screamed with joy. Kitty ran to me, and tried to hug me, but stopped when she saw the look on my face.
"Show them the note," Tess said. Kitty snatched it from my hand before I had a chance to say no. She and Jubilee read it, and then screamed again.
"Wow, this is so cool!" Kitty said.
"It's sweet," Jubilee replied. Sweet?
"And guess what?" Tess asked.
"What?" they asked simultaneously.
"He was…twenty-three!" she exclaimed. They shrieked again, and then giggled.
"Stop! Do not scream again," I demanded. There was a knock at the door. They all went wide-eyed.
"Answer it!" Kitty whispered. I was standing closest to the door. Their screaming had probably disturbed someone. I turned around, and headed for the door. I slowly pulled it open.
"I came up here to check on you, and you're still making a racket," Logan said.
"We're fine, Logan. Rogue's not traumatized or anything," Tess said.
"Was he hot?" Jubilee asked.
"Very," Tess answered.
"You're not-" Logan started.
"Talking about Ben? No," Tess lied, giving away the truth. He looked incredulous.
"What are you two doing here?" Logan asked. They got up, and giggled as they walked passed me.
"What's wrong with them?" Logan asked, after they left. I shook my head.
"You always running people off?" Tess asked, walking towards us. "It's past your bedtime, Logan."
She closed the door, and I walked to my bed, and sat down. The note was lying on my bed.
"Call him," Tess said.
"I don't really want to," I stated. "He was too aggressive."
"No, just experienced," she said, laying down. I put the note in the top drawer, and turned off the light, and laid down.
"You can call him," I said.
"You went to the mall?" John asked, skeptically.
"I didn't have much of a choice," I told him. Tess turned around and smiled.
"So are you ready and willing to serve?" Jubilee asked.
"Serve?" Bobby asked sitting down. "Who?"
"Scott," Kitty said. I wish she would stop with her Scott obsessing.
"Serve Scott how?" he asked.
"Anyway he demands," Kitty answered. He looked at Tess, then me.
"Not just Scott. Jean, Logan, Ororo, the professor," Jubilee said. "Mostly Jean.
"No Bobby. There's no sign up sheet," Tess said. He glared at her.
"I wish they'd stop with the flirting," Jubilee said. A rude comment, a glower… if that's what you wanted to call flirting.
"What'd you do at the mall?" John asked. I bit my bottom lip.
"That where you went last night?" Bobby asked. Kitty, Jubilee and Tess looked at each other and smiled.
"Fondalation."
"What?" Bobby and John both asked confused.
"Rogue got groped," Tess answered. Did she have to explain what happened so loosely, as if to make it sound like I wanted it to happen?
"Ben was all over her. He could probably identify her in the dark by touch," Tess explained. I bit the inside of my cheek. John and Bobby looked at me. I tried to pretend not to notice.
"And there was a good-bye kiss, and he gave her his number," she continued. No one asked for the details. Why was she giving them out?
"The note said, 'I hope you always look like this. Let me come over to your place-'," Kitty started.
"No, it didn't. It said, 'I hope this is the way you always look when you wake up. Come over to my place… we'll fuck, then find out," Jubilee interrupted. John looked disturbed. Bobby cleared his throat.
"You made out with this guy?"
"He was twenty three!" Kitty exclaimed excitedly.
"I didn't make out with him. He kissed me," I said.
"How'd you kiss him?" Bobby asked. What kind of question was that?
"What do you mean?" Jubilee asked. "Their lips touched, and I'm guess their tongues did, too."
"I didn't kiss him," I repeated. "He kissed me."
"And fondled," Tess added. "Breast fondalation."
"And you let him do this?" Bobby asked. Like I had a choice. Why was he so interested?
"I didn't let him do anything," I said.
"What's with the interrogation?" John asked, breaking his silence.
"Nothing," he shrugged, "just questions. So you're not going to call him?"
"No…." I answered.
"Here comes Scott," Kitty proclaimed. "Nothing about his glasses yet."
"He probably has a whole drawer full," Jubilee stated
"Did Logan find out about your boxers?" Jubilee asked Tess. Tess nodded.
She nodded, "I'm not giving them back."
"Sorry bout yesterday. Hope you don't miss the boxers too much," John said.
"It's okay. I still have your to go flinging around at people," I replied.
"If that'll make you feel better," he laughed.
"You have his boxers?" Bobby asked. "How did you get his boxers?"
"Shut up, Bobby," Jubilee replied. He sat back in his chair.
"I don't see how she kissed him," he mumbled. "How'd he get around her powers?"
"How else did she sleep with John," Kitty asked, staring at Bobby, as if he was stupid.
"She didn't sleep with John," Bobby retorted. Neither John nor I said anything.
"Told you he was a liar," Jubilee said.
"He was lying?" Kitty asked confused. "Why would he lie?"
"That's what I said, Miss ready and willing to serve," Jubilee answered.
"You're the one who said that," Kitty retorted.
"So what?" Jubilee answered.
"Do you like Ben?" Bobby asked.
"Rogue would not go over with them, so I had to tell them her real name," Tess stated.
"How did he know you had just woken up?" Bobby asked.
"We were in our pajamas," Tess answered.
"Did he ever say he wanted her to come," when would he stop, "over to his place?"
Tess looked at me, "I'm not sure."
"Did he tell her to call?" she shrugged.
"Did he hug her?" he asked.
"No, but he held onto something else, if you know what I mean," Tess answered.
"I'm sorry. I don't," Bobby said angrily.
"But I said it before. Breast fondalation," Tess answered.
"And where were you?" John asked.
"I was talking with the other two, then they left for some privacy, and when they came back, he gave her a good-bye kiss and fondled," Tess explained. Was that her favorite word, because she could not seem to say anything else?
"Privacy?" Bobby asked. "You left with some guy you just met?"
I was getting annoyed and pissed. I raised my hand. Jean looked up.
"Restroom," I said. She narrowed her eyes, but nodded. I stood up, and walked towards the door.
"You're not going to ask the same thing in five minutes, and meet her are you?" Jubilee asked John. I walked out of the classroom with no intention of coming back.
"If I had known the questions were bothering you I wouldn't have answered any," Tess told me later. She was facing me from her bed.
"I mean I didn't know the questions were bothering you," she stated. She had already said that, had she not? I was working on a worksheet Jean had given us, sitting on my bed perpendicular from Tess.
"Cause I thought you didn't mind the questions until you never came back," she continued, "and then you never came back."
She had repeated herself again. I looked up to see that her nails were distracting her.
"I think you got Jean mad, cuz she looked mad at the end of the period," Tess stated, still looking at her nails. "What if she's mad? I wonder why she hasn't given us any work yet, cuz she hasn't given us any work yet, and she seemed really mad when we got her mad for leaving school. Why was Bobby being so rude, and asking all those questions about last night? Jerk. He needs to learn some matter, and Jean, too. They need to learn some matters together in a 'learn your matters' class or something. I can't believe Ben kissed you like that, on the first date. It wasn't even technically a date, and he kissed you. And he must of thought you two were together, cuz he touched your breast."
As if I had not noticed. I continued to work on my worksheet, while she talked and looked at her nails.
"Maybe you should call him, but then what about John! I think you should forget about Ben, and get with John. I mean you haven't even known Ben that long anyway, and he's a little old. If you get together you have to tell me first, cuz I want to be first to know that you and John are dating. You think Sam likes me? I'd date him if he did, cuz he's cute, and I want to date him. Maybe we could double date! That would be so cool if jean will ever let us out the house again! How can Logan like her? I'd never double date with him, if he was dating her cause how can he like her? I'm willing to bet on her hair dye, it's a relationship based off sex. Why? Why? Why would he date her? When you and John get together, tell me first, cuz I want to be first to know when you and he get together. Then we can double date. You and him, and me and Sam. When are you going to get together? Jubilee could get you together. She's really good at that kind of stuff. Don't take forever okay, cuz if you do, I'll get Jubilee to get you together cuz you were taking so long to get together, and she's good at that stuff. Then we could double date-" There was a knock at the door, and to my surprise she stopped talking. She looked up from her nails, and glanced over her shoulder towards the door. She sighed, and pushed herself off the bed. The person's impatience showed when they knocked again.
"Coming!" she yelled, ambling slowly towards the door, bringing up her other hand to look at her nails. She rolled her eyes when the person knocked again.
"I said I was coming," she said irately as she opened the door. Bobby pushed passed her, stepping into the room. He stood there, like he was waiting for a greeting.
"Excuse you," Tess said fumingly, and then mumbled. "You need some damn manners."
"I forgot something," he stated. He walked towards me, staring me intensely in the eye, and then walked between our beds towards the dresser.
"Forgot what when?" she asked. He did not answer instead he opened the top drawer, and started rummaging around, making a mess. He made an ample amount of noise as he looked around the top drawer. He closed it, and opened the bottom drawer.
"What are you doing?" I asked, getting ready to get off the bed, panic setting in my heart. He closed the bottom drawer, and went back to the top. He stopped for a moment, staring into the drawer, and closed it, holding a box of condoms in one hand, and something else in the other. Tess rolled her eyes.
"Like you'll need those," she said sarcastically.
"And you will?" he asked. She held the door open for him as he walked out, closing it after him also.
"He totally messed up that drawer, and didn't even fix it," she stated. "Like I said manners needed."
I went back to my worksheet as she looked throw the drawer.
"He took the note," she stated. I glanced at the drawer. Why would he take the note? What would entice him to take the note? What would induce him to-?
"Why would he take the note?!" she asked. I shrugged.
"Maybe he wants to pretend it's for him," I stated, picturing Bobby reading the note over and over every night as a guilty pleasure.
"Huh? No, I think he going to start some rumors!" She replied. I looked up at her. That was a possibility considering it was most likely the truth. A deep swell of regret for keeping the note, and not stopping Bobby inundated me, and then left. I went back to the worksheet.
"You can't just let him run your life!" Tess exclaimed exuberantly. That was the last thing he was doing.
"Okay," I mumbled erasing an answer from the worksheet.
"This would be so much easier if you were dating JOHN!" She yelled angrily. "It would put an end to Bobby and his crap because John could just beat him up! For talking shit about his girlfriend!!"
"Oh, I'm sorry. It's all my fault," I replied sarcastically, rewriting the answer I had previously erased.
"Yeah, and it would be like a soap opera," she said, not paying me any attention, and sitting down, "and I could win the Academy Award for best supporting actress at sixteen."
Tess was gone finally. She was downstairs eating dinner with everybody else, and her absence was much needed. She had been spending a lot of time with me since we had gone down to the sublevels. She was convinced that we had 'so much in common', and with her came Jubilee and Kitty. They had all started to get on my nerves. How much of them did they think I could take? Then, there was Bobby and his fickleness that had decided that they owned me again. What would induce him to take the note? Was he going to call Ben? And say what? 'Back off, she's my bitch.' What did John think of all this? He had not said much. Did this lower his opinion of me? His opinion, unlike the others, actually mattered to me. Did he actually think I wanted to make out with Ben?
I laid sprawled over my bed, one arm hanging over the side making the blood trail into my hand to join the razor, the other beside me on the bed, bent at the elbow across my stomach. I would have to change my shirt before I went to dinner. I arched my back and neck, and tilted my head to the left a little to see the clock. Dinner was almost over. Back to the regular agenda, dinner after dinner with Scott in the kitchen. I was not sure if I looked forward to it or not, considering that he knew about the mall incident. Who did not, but did he know about the boxers and glasses?
I walked down the hall towards the stairs. Someone was behind me. I turned around, and Bobby stopped walking.
"Did I scare you?" he asked. I turned back around, and started walking.
"I didn't think you were the type to kiss some guy you just met," he stated, following me.
"You were right," I responded.
"Why'd you keep the note then?" he asked. "Were you going to call him?" I did not answer him, and kept walking. I did not need to justify anything to him. I did not owe him any responses.
"I decided to call him. See if you made him up," he replied. Why would I make him up, and then write myself a note? Or maybe the correct excuse Bobby was looking for was, 'I don't have a life.'
"Why'd you take the note?" I asked.
"Why did you have the note?" he asked angrily. I rolled my eyes. He followed me down the stairs.
"He's a mutant," he said. I stopped walking. What kind of a sick joke was this?
"I told him about the school," he finished. I turned around.
"You're lying," I said. He raised an eyebrow.
"Bad mistakes come back to haunt you," he replied. I narrowed my eyes.
"What is it that you want?" I asked angrily. "What happened a year ago that made you feel like you needed to patronize me to get revenge?"
"Nothing," he answered.
"Nothing?" I asked angrily.
"Nothing," he repeated, looking my in the eye. I turned back around and started walking again. He did the same, stepping beside me instead of behind.
"Why don't you eat dinner with the rest of us?" he asked changing the topic.
"Why aren't you eating with the rest of them?" I asked, wanting him to stop following me. He shrugged.
"Let me eat with you tonight," he said. Eat with whom? I looked at him to find he was watching me.
"I'm booked," I answered, looking away.
"I don't think Scott will mind," Bobby replied.
"Maybe he would," I responded.
"Maybe he wouldn't," Bobby answered.
"Yeah, I think he would," I retorted.
"Why? You're not dating or anything. I wouldn't be interrupting something," he stated, and then looked at me. "Right."
What would he do if we were? Tell Scott to back off 'his bitch'? Maybe I should just tell Bobby how I felt.
"Because I don't want to eat with you, and truthfully I don't really like you," I proclaimed. He did not say anything, and I did not look at him.
"Maybe Scott does…." He said gravely. Was that supposed to be a joke?
"Maybe not," I retorted quietly. Sorry to have to throw it in his face like that. Oh wait, no I was not.
Before we entered the kitchen, he took my arm. I pulled back. Why was it that guys tried grabbing your attention by grabbing your arm?
"R-Marie, um, I, uh…." he started. Was he trying to communicate with me?
"Sorry," he muttered almost inaudibly. My eyes went wide.
"What did you just say?" I asked, a smile coming to my mouth. I knew just how hard this must have been, and how much it must have hurt his ego, and I loved it. He looked around to see if anybody was around first.
"Sorry," he mumbled again quickly.
"You're just saying that so I'll let you eat lunch with me," I replied. He smiled.
"Well, if that was a yes," he walked ahead of me into the kitchen.
"That wasn't a yes," I called after him. I sighed, and walked after him.
VII. Fondalation