Author's note: The languages being spoken are Greek and Italian. (Greek and Italian translations.
Chapter 3-What about your friends
Claudette stood outside waiting for her sister to show up so the two could walk home. She sat there on the steps drawing in a sketchbook Nicole gave her a few months back. She had been in the front of the school for about a half hour after-school had actually let out. She just sat there on the stairs, sketching an image of a certain blue-eyed speed demon, which was actually quite good. Claudette sighed, "Pietro, I hope this lasts for…"
"Ever?" a voice stated above her, Claudette had looked up to see her sister and 3 other girls hovering right above her as she drew.
Claudette stood up and started grinning, "Nah, Long enough until I can find another guy with 'fringe benefits', alright?!" Nicole just shook her head in pity as her sister laughed.
"So I know I've seen you guys around here." Claudette said, "What are your names?"
The girls introduced themselves starting with Rogue.
"Hey! I'm Rogue, pleasure ta meet ya sugah." She said smoothly.
"What's up hon, the name's Jubilee."
"Yeiasou, eimai Damia Eneas (Hello, my name is Damia Eneas.)"
"Yeah, back at ya honey." Claudette said acting as if she didn't understand the girl. "So where are we going now?"
"We're going to go to Two Guys Burgers." Nicole answered. "It is only a few blocks away."
Claudette didn't question it, she and food were best friends and they loved each other's company. When the girls got there, they saw Tabitha at the door; she was standing there like she'd been expecting them. Tabby joined them, the girls quickly found a booth, and began ordering.
"Ok, since everyone here has ordered," Claudette said playfully to the waitress, "I guess I'll start with the left side of the menu, and my dessert is the right side." Everyone including the waitress looked Claudette as if she'd lost her mind. "I'm just kidding." She laughed, "I'll have four burgers, three orders of fries, and a chocolate-caramel Milkshake. And make it a double, would you honey? Thanks you're a doll." Everyone still stared at her like she was insane.
She just sat back and smiled, "You guys, nothing can bring down my high at this point."
"Why?" Rogue asked, "What're ya happy about?"
Nicole looked at her sister, then back at the rest, and said coldly, "My sister had a little romantic escapade at school today."
"NICOLE!!"
"What? It's the truth, is it not?"
"Oi mou (Oh My.)" Damia exclaimed.
"Are you serious?" Jubilee asked, "With who? And where?"
"I don't know if you guys know him or not."
"Tell us anyway Sug, maybe we do. Ya'll neva' know if ya don't say somethin'"
"Ok. His name is Pietro Maximoff."
All the girls, minus Nicole, shouted, "PIETRO!"
"Oh, well I guess you guys do know him then." Claudette blushed.
"Heck yeah we know 'em. He's a major jerk! Hun, You slept with him?!"
"Ok. You do realize that I've lived with him," Tabby said, "So I know he's no good. He's a player. He only uses girls until the finds something better."
"Well I haven't known him long," Damia stated, "But that's what I've seen so far."
"See Claude. That's what I was trying to say earlier. You didn't know him well enough to be fond of him like that."
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. What makes you think that I'm with him for a committed relationship? Sweeties, I'm only in it for the nookie." Claudette started chortling; "I could care less about a relationship at this point."
"So was it worth it sister dearest?"
"Definitely. Nic, he's an eye roller."
"What's an eye roller?" Jubilee asked.
"Oh, it's a guy that gets you to a point intimately where your eyes start to roll to the back of your head."
Damia, Rogue, and Tabby started chuckling. Damia then sighed and said, "John einai megalos se ekeini tin periochm. (John is amazing in that area.)"
"Really? Is he now?" Claudette stated, smirking.
Damia's eyes widened, "Perimenete, milate ta archaia ellinika? (Wait, you speak Ancient Greek?)"
Nicole spoke up for her sister, "Nai kai oi dhio. Itan poli proklitiko gia na mathei, alla aitos einai ti to ekane ti diaskedasi. (Yes, we both do. It was very challenging to learn. But that's what made it fun.)"
"Gia tin, anangastika na matho (For her, I was forced to learn.) Ugh. Nic, why is it always some kind of academics with you. Every time the conversations get juicy, you manage to change the subject."
"Well, Screw you too, then Claude."
"Nicole, Vlepo oti echete deisei ena endiaferon gia Scott Summers. (I see you've taken great interest in Scott Summers.)" Damia stated.
"Uh huh, Kanei to tazidi mialoi moi se enan kosmo tis evcharistisis. (He makes my mind travel to Nirvana.)" She replied.
"English, please." Tabby said smirking.
"Basically what my sister just said was that Scott Summers is her eye roller, and he doesn't have to get physical."
"CLAUDETTE!" Nicole exclaimed.
Imitating her sister, "It's the truth, is it not?" Then, she started cackling.
Nicole pulled her sister's hair back, yanking her head back. Claudette let out a squeak as she did it.
"What's with all da hostility?" Rogue laughed.
Just as their food was coming out. Nicole noticed a scar on Rogue's arm. The cut was from an earlier X-men battle involving Damia and her archenemy.
"Oh my goodness." Nicole expressed, "Rogue, how did you get that awful cut."
Rogue looked down at the cut and panicked a little about what to say, thinking that Nicole and Claudette were human. "Uh, it's nothin'. It's uh paper cut ah got from school a few days ago, no biggie."
Nicole not believing her, "I really don't think that it is a paper cut. Let me see that." She reached for her arm, and pulled up Rogue's sleeve.
"NO!"
Nicole touched Rogue's skin, and she went in to shock. She gasped for air as Rogue managed to remove Nicole's hand. One of Nicole's eyes had turned green and one of Rouge's turned brown. Claudette looked at Tabitha, and began getting very nervous, neither she nor Nicole knew what just happened. The two still thought that the other girls were human. Claudette thought Nicole might have been experiencing a new power. But Nicole and Rogue had put two and two together and finally realized...
"You're a mutant." the two said in unison in a whisper.
Everyone started looking at each other. They couldn't believe their ears or their eyes.
"Nicole? Claudette?" Damia said as she looked at the two.
"I can't believe it." Claudette said still dismayed, "I thought we'd never find anyone else here like us."
Nicole shook her vigorously for a few seconds, when she looked back up, her eyes had returned to normal, Rogue had done the same. Since Nicole had touched her for a brief second, Rogue didn't get many of her memories, just the ones she had been recently thinking of.
"Wow." Rogue stated "Ah can't believe it, eitha'. Ya guys are like meh, ah was constantly runnin', too."
"What else do you know?" Claudette asked.
"That ur hugest mutant power is that ya two can form in ta one person. An Tabitha knew about ya."
Tabitha just chuckled nervously.
"That's all ah got."
"So what else can you guys do, or is that it?" Jubilee asked.
Claudette looked at her sister who had returned to her normal, cool state. "Should we show them?"
Nicole nodded. She lifted her hand and began making the two soup cans on the front counter float in the air to her. She put each one between her pinkie fingers and her thumbs on each hand, and crushed them as if someone had just ran over them with a car.
"Whoa!" The X-girls said in unison.
"That's nothing." Tabitha said, "When we first met, Pietro tried to hit on her, and she threw him clear across twenty feet."
The X-girls laughed, but Claudette frowned.
"So what can you do, Claudette?" Damia asked.
"How far do you think I can get if you blink once?" Claudette challenged her.
"Oh I don't know." She replied.
"Blink."
Damia blinked once, she looked around and couldn't find her. The girls looked outside, and saw Claudette hovering 10 feet in the air over the toy store across the street. They blinked again and she had disappeared.
"Hi guys." A voice spoke and startled them. Claudette was standing in front of the booth. The X-girls applauded her. Damia started acting strangely; she looked at Rogue, Jubilee, and Tabby.
"Well hun, we have ta be goin'." Rogue said, "See ya, at school tomorrow."
They all got up to leave. "Thanks for the show, you guys." said Jubilee as she stood up.
"Eos otoi sinantame pali tis kiries. (Until we meet again ladies.)" Damia stated.
But as Tabby got up to leave with them, but she felt something hold her arm back. It was Claudette.
"Why are you leaving?" She asked.
"I'm so sorry guys, I forgot to tell you earlier. I left the boarding house early this morning. I'm back at the institute."
"Why?" Nicole asked.
"I just have this weird feeling that the institute is where I really belong. I'll see you guys later."
They watched as Tabby walked out the door. The girls had taken the rest of their food to go. They girls had gotten three-quarters of the way home, when the girls had started talking.
"Nicole, non sanno loro che noi lavoriamo con la fratellanza faccia loro?" (Nicole, they don't know we work with the brotherhood do they?)" Claudette asked.
"No." Nicole answered calmly.
"Loro sembrano bello penso che noi lo terremmo quel modo. (They seem nice I think we should keep it that way.)"
"Io più definitivamente dicono di sì sorella. (I most definitely agree sis.)"
"So Damia has slept with John?"
"Lei sta uscendo con lui. (She's dating him.)"
"Lei sta uscendo con John. Lo danni! Lui era il mio prossimo obiettivo!
(She's dating John. Damn it! He was my next target!)"
"So che lui sia estremamente attraente. (I know he is extremely attractive.)
"Moltissimo così, Nicole. (Very much so, Nicole.)
"Solo sia felice per lei. (Just be happy for her.)
She sighed then asked, "Well what about Rogue, who's she seeing? I know there's someone."
"I didn't want to hurt your egotistical feelings. But, she's seeing that Cajun gentleman, I think his name is Remy."
"Lei è con Remy!!! Oh fagioli del scopata!!!!! (She's with Remy!!! Oh fuck beans!!!!!)
Che sanno, che lui anche sia sfarzoso. (I know, he's gorgeous too)
Claudette grinned evilly, "Ma non come caldo come quella Scott Summers è lui? (But not as hot as that Scott Summers is he?)
"Chiuda su. (Shut up.) Nicole replied coldly.
Claudette cackled.
"Almeno non sto avendo rapporto su università della scuola. (At least I'm not having intercourse on school campus.)" Nicole told her heartlessly.
"L'approvazione, ora lo chiusero buco di torta. (Ok, now shut your pie hole.) Claudette retorted.
As soon as they opened the door, they saw Lance standing in the middle of the floor. He was in his battle uniform. He turned to the girls and told them, "Suit up Ladies, we got a job." The girls grabbed the other's hand and merged into Monet. Monet then ran up stairs and got ready for her first mission with the brotherhood.
***Author's Note 2- Claudette and Nicole start speaking different languages when their conversation's get heated. And it's obvious that their conversation after the meeting with the X-girls is definitely heated.
***Author's Note 3- I would like to thank the following people—
Pandoras Box: Thanks Alana for letting me use Damia and for the greek translations. You are such a big help and a great cheerleader to me. *Ashleigh tears up*. LOL : ))
FSD: Thanks for the review it has much appriecated. But when I wrote about Damia, I did mean Damia. But I'm not forgetting about Amara, she's coming up on later in the story. But, thanks for looking out, I'm glad your making sure that I have the right characters. Thanks a bunch.
To the rest of my reviewers: I have much love for y'all. I truly thank you guys for your reviews. You make my proud to be a writer. ;..))