Hey Happy Holidays to everybody, no matter their religion…um yeah I got some suggestions on the last chapters and I thank you all. I know the last one was dramatic, but I cant help it…its this habit of mine to make my writing dramatic and to tell you the truth, it gets on my nerves too. Well I'll try not to make this one that bad. Hope you enjoy.
I don't own the X-Men ok? Alright. Read on.
I spent an hour sitting by that tree out in the woods. I was scared of what to expect on returning to the house. After I got over my scare though, I came to my senses and told myself to not be such a baby. This was all kinda hard to take for me right now and I was still pretty pissed at what Jubilee had told me about the Professor. I was hoping it wasn't true, but deep down, I knew it was.
"Madison! Are you out here?!" came a voice from somewhere in the trees. "Madison! Hey where are you!?" came another voice. More joined in after that. Why were they looking for me? I stood up and walked forward and bumped into Rhane. "Hey lassie, everybody's looking' for ye."
"Yeah, I know. Why cant the professor just find me in his head?"
"E's sending us out to find ye kinda as a training session."
"Not much of one when I'm only in the backyard," I muttered. She shrugged and took my wrist and began leading me to the front of the woods. We met Jamie and…Roberto I think his name was. "Come on, I found her in the back o' the woods. Lets get to Mr. Logan." They nodded and Roberto followed close behind Rhane. Jamie led the march.
"Alrigh' we found the lost lassie in the woods!" Rhane called to Logan and a few of the X-Men. "Don't call me lassie," I mumbled as she dropped my wrist and walked proudly to Logan. "Hey Madison. We were worried about you. You okay?" Logan asked.
"I'm just fine. I was-thinking," I lied to them all. Then I marched up to the house and in to my room. Evan and Rogue had followed me and stopped me before I slammed the door. "What!?" I exclaimed, annoyed. They exchanged nervous and confused looks. "Are you okay? You're like all pissed and freaked out. We want to help ya out."
"The last time I got helped out, I ended up in a pool."
"No, come on. Let us in and we can talk. Okay? Please? I want ta help you. Evan too."
"Yeah," Evan said in a quiet and uninterested voice. I pulled the door open and they came in. I went to my bed and sat down. They sat at my table. "So what? I don't want some dumb long sappy thing okay? I don't even need any help okay?"
"Yeah ya do. Somethin' is wrong with you."
"Nothing is wrong! I'm fine and normal. I'm so used to everything that happens to me and I want to be left alone!" I crossed my arms as I glared at them. "Ok. Fine. We'll leave ya alone. We don' wan' to push anything'." They got up and left. I ran to the door as Rogue was leaving, "Rogue, I appreciate your offer to help, but I don't need it. Thanks though." She nodded and left.
I went back to my bed, fell on to it, and tried to clear my head. I whispered to myself to think of things that made me happy, or laugh, to drive all of the distracting and deceiving things from my mind. It worked a little bit. My mind was now less crowded and worrisome. Then you know what? I smiled wide because of two things. Two people. I first thought of Gambit always grinning at me with that sexy mouth. And then I thought of Pietro hugging me, followed by my kiss. Why did these things make me smile? I shouldn't be thinking of these things. That was nothing like me.
After a glance at my clock, I sighed. I had lay there on my bed for nearly four hours. Not moving or talking. At that moment, I really had to use the bathroom. I got up and dashed down the hall to the bathroom. Somebody was in there though. "Hey! Whose in there? I need to go to the bathroom! Hurry up!" Nobody answered, but the door opened a few seconds later and Amara came out. I ran past her and slammed the door. I heard her laugh in the hallway but I ignored her. When I finished, I stood at the sink staring at my pale face. I thought it was pretty, but then again, it was a bit ugly. To people that didn't know me, I was probably hideous. A hideous, monstrous, freak. I rummaged through the medicine cabinet above the sink and found some foundation. I put some on to see how I would look with color in my face. I didn't like it. Maybe I was ok like this. I shouldn't change for anybody. I tossed the foundation away and began to wash my face. As I did, water began leaking form underneath the sink. The pipe was loose and water was spurting through! Amara must have had something to do with that. That's probably why she was laughing. Damn it! I turned the water off and wiped my face then left as if nothing had happened.
"It's dinner time!" Jean called up the stairs from the foyer. I was hungry. So I ran for the stairs and met Rogue there. I smiled at her, and her at me, and we all of a sudden began to chat. Down the stairs and into the dining room we talked about whatever came to mind. It was weird, but really nice to have somebody to talk to. I sat next o Kurt, then Rogue sat on my other side. Across form me was Amara and Tabby. The rest of the students were with friends and all chatting loudly. The professor came in, but I couldn't really stand to look at him after what Jubilee had told me. Storm, Kitty, and the blue man I had not been introduced to, came in with the food. "Don' eat anything' Kitty makes," Rogue whispered in my ear. "How do I know what she made?" I asked her just as quiet. "She'll tell all of us what she made. Always does. Just don' eat it. She can't cook tha' well." I nodded and kept my ears open so I wouldn't eat anything she had prepared. This was really nice though, I haven't had a big dinner like this since I was 12. Like everything else. Everything good stopped at 12. But I smiled as we all talked and ate. Happily. As a family. A real family that didn't care what I was or want me dead. That made me happy.
Ew, I don't think I like the end. But I think it is essential. Iono, we'll try it and see how you all like it okay? Lets see some more feedbacks and stuff. Thanks a lot guys…see ya. Oh, and I'm not sure if I spelled Rhane's name right. I can never remember! LOL. Ok see ya guys!