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[Flashback]
"Normal Conversation (Duh)"
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*Sound Effects (usually just Kurt's bamfing)
{Background noise--music, crowds, etc.}
HYDRA
I sat Indian style on my bed with my laptop enjoying the breeze coming in through the balcony doors. The curtains billowed in like a pair of friendly ghosts as I typed away to Mark.
%DragonPride37: so whats it like
geetairgirl13: not bad…found ur twin
DragonPride37: o?
geetairgirl13: names sam and ur both wrecks around gurls
Dragon Pride 37: not true im cool round u
geetairgirl13: thats cuz im like a guy
Dragon Pride 37: first guy i no with boobs :-P
geetairgirl13: shut up :-O
Dragon Pride 37: im not talking
geetairgirl13: then stop typing! :-D
Dragon Pride 37: sounds like u like it
geetairgirl13: its ok not home
DragonPride37: not home her w/o u either
geetairgirl13: suck up
DragonPride37: goin 4 fb up there
geetairgirl13: of course tryouts r fri
DragonPride37: same here good luck
geetairgirl13: wont need it :-D
DragonPride37: some1s smug
geetairgirl13: NEthing fun in the cove this weekend
DragonPride37: nope u?
geetairgirl13: might B goin 2 the beach
geetairgirl13: 4get the last time i was at the beach
DragonPride37: i dont ur dad took u fishing 4 ur 11th Bday%
I stopped typing and stared at Mark's last message. ~That's right. I made myself forget 'cause I made myself forget my father.~ I swallowed at the pain I felt in the back of my throat and was grateful there wasn't any water around.
%DragonPride37: u there?
geetairgirl13: yep
DragonPride37: sorry
geetairgirl13: 4 what?
DragonPride37: i know that dads a touchy subject
geetairgirl13: its cool i have a father just not a dad%
"Hey luv." I looked up to see Betsy walk in wearing a dark purple bikini. She dug through a dresser for a cover up and tossed one aside in disgust.
"Going some place?"
"The pool. You coming? It's super hot today." She settled for a pink one and tied the see-through skirt around her waist before grabbing a towel and throwing it around her shoulders.
"Sure why not." %geetairgirl13: mark i g2g byes
DragonPride37: K byes ;-)
DragonPride37 has logged off.%
I closed the laptop but Betsy had already left. I dug in my dresser 'til I found my favorite swimming suit. I put on the tankini top and boy cut shorts and grabbed a t-shirt to throw on over top as a cover up. I found a towel, which I slung over my shoulders and headed into the hall.
ICEMAN
"Man I'm telling you that you don't stand a chance in a cannonball contest with me."
"Bobby my name is CannonBall!"
"He's got you there, Icepick." I crossed my arms over my chest refusing to see the point in Sam's logic despite Ray's supporting him.
"We'll let Jubes judge."
"That's not fair. You two are practically dating." Roberto caught my trick immediately making me scowl.
"Then Amara."
"You two were dating. Come on Bobby, pick someone who'll be fair."
"Fine, fine, how about Kitty?" Sam, Roberto, and Ray all shrugged in agreement. Ray's jaw dropped though as he saw something behind me so I turned to see the group of girls getting ready to tan. "What's the big deal?"
"Check out the new girl. She's hot." I zeroed in on Allison and frowned as I watched her stretch. She had on a bright blue swimsuit and Sam was practically drooling.
"She's not that cute. Besides, she's just showing off."
"Didn't say she was cute, man. She's hot." He drew his eyes off her for a moment to look at Sam who was struggling to look anywhere but at the group of girls. "How about it Sammy?" He nudged him in the ribs bringing him back to earth.
"What?"
"Isn't Al hot?"
He shrugged as he glanced at the diving board. "We doing this contest or what?"
"Come on you can't tell me you don't think she's good looking."
"She's okay." I rolled my eyes.
"Forget it Ray, Sam doesn't think any girl is cute."
"Icepick, Kitty's the cute type. Al…she's the hot kind. Tall and filled out in all the right places if you know what I mean."
"Do you have to talk about the girls like they're a piece of meat?" Sam looked indignantly at Ray who ignored him. "And I do think some girls are cute."
"Oh, who then?"
"Well…um…" He stammered slightly as I backed him against a wall metaphorically.
I rolled my eyes. "Watch this guys." I started walking over towards Allison getting ready to push her in when she wasn't paying attention.
"Hey, you can't do that! You'll freeze her." I ignored Sam's outcry as I approached her.
"You're like actually going to swim?"
"Duh, that's what you do in a pool."
"But you'll like get all wet that way. And then your suit and hair will like get all yucky from the chlorine."
Allison rolled her eyes as she continued talking to Kitty who was floating on a pool raft. Without notice she waved her hand causing a wave of water to leave the pool and splash me in the face. "Don't even think about it Icy." She turned and glared at me then smiled. "You gotta remember that we're now in my element, so start watching your back." I fumed when I heard the other guys start laughing at my failed attempt to humiliate her. With one final smirk, she dove backwards into the water gracefully without even splashing Kitty who gave a sigh of relief.
HYDRA
I resurfaced at the edge of the pool and slicked my wet hair back enjoying the coolness of the water. ~Who really cares about the chlorine messing with my hair or suit? That's what swimming's all about.~ I folded my arms on the edge of the pool and watched a now sopping wet Bobby return to the group of guys completely humiliated. Sam shot me a thumbs up as Ray was doing his best not to roll on the ground laughing. Roberto simply smiled. ~From what I've seen so far, he and Piotr are the quiet ones around here.~ Of course they were all in swimming trunks so it was hard not to notice that all of 'em were pretty well toned. ~Not bad, considerin' they're all juniors and sophmores. No, I am not thinking that, am I?~ I shook my head of those thoughts but found 'em to be interrupted for me
As I watched a brown wolf like dog came running by the pool with a towel in its mouth with Jamie and Sarah in chase. "Rhane! Give me back my towel!"
"I'll get it for you Sarah." Jamie multiplied and surrounded Rhane who returned to her human form giggling. She had her hair pulled up in two pigtails and had on a Hawaiian floral print one-piece bathing suit.
I drew my attention away from the three younger students and turned to watch Bobby try and coerce Kitty into something. "Please, Kitty. We just want you to tell us who has the biggest splash."
"Like there's no way I'm letting you splash me."
"You won't get splashed."
"Yeah, right. Like I'm not that stupid. I know how you guys are." She pulled herself outta the pool and crossed over to where Piotr was sitting talking to Betsy at one of the lounge tables. She sat down in his lap and refused to move despite all of Bobby's pleading.
"Come on, you can stay right there. Just watch."
"Ask one of the other girls."
"The guys think it's fixed though if I ask Amara or Jubes."
"Like what's wrong with Allison?"
"She hates me." I smirked as I listened in to the not so discrete conversation.
"Imagine that. Like someone doesn't fall for Bobby's charms in an instant. Too bad she likes Sam over you." I frowned at the insinuation. ~Okay, Sam's nice, but I do not like him. Well, I do, but only as a friend.~
"Yeah, so she'll favor him in a competition. Come on Kitty, just judge it for us."
"Nope." She stuck out her tongue like a small child, stood up and went inside to the kitchen. Bobby turned back around and saw me floating at the edge. I quickly ducked back under the water and swam underwater into the deep end. I loved the feel of water surrounding me. It probably had to do with my mutation but it was like second nature and I know I didn't even feel the need to come back up for air. I was half tempted to stay down there to test my theory but decided it would be unwise because I might pass out or something on the bottom.
I swam over to the pool ladder and climbed out. The guys were still arguing over how to hold a diving contest without a judge and I just shook my head. ~Boys will be boys.~ I squeezed the water from my hair and went to find my towel. I wrapped it around my waist like a wrap around skirt and was about to go inside to make some tea.
"Hey, wait up." I turned to see Sam and waited. "They can't make up their minds and I'm getting tired waiting."
"Well, I'm glad to be your back up plan." He frowned in confusion causing me to laugh. "It's cool. I was gonna go see if they have enough sugar in this place for a decent pitcher of sweet tea." He raised an eyebrow at the mention of the good stuff and smiled as well.
"Sounds like a plan to me."
CANNONBALL
I found a pitcher while she dug through the pantry for the iced tea mix and sugar. Kitty was already in there pouring herself a glass of lemonade and shot us one of her 'aww' looks. "Like I think it's totally cool how well you two get along already."
"Why?" Al stood back up straight with the tea mix in hand while I filled the pitcher up with water and ice cubes.
"Oh, well, like Sam is totally girl shy so it's nice to see him actually flirt for once." I stiffened and dropped the pitcher but the water and ice hung in mid air while the pitcher bounced off the ground.
"Hey, watch it there." The water moved through the air and dropped down into the sink while Kitty snickered then oohed and awed.
"That was like totally cool. You like got some pretty good control, huh?" Al shrugged as she set the containers of sugar and tea down on the counter and took over my job of getting a pitcher. "And like totally obvious." I frowned as I stood back and let Al just finish the job figuring too many more comments from Kitty and I'd be dropping a whole lot more than a pitcher.
Al put in three scoops of sugar then frowned as she stirred. She then added another three. When she glanced back in the sugar container she shrugged and dumped the rest in. "Like, got enough sugar there?"
"I hope so. There wasn't very much in here." She poured a glass out and took a sip and smiled. "Just right."
Kitty was in shock at the amount of sugar used in one pitcher of tea and made it known. "It's like totally a good thing you're not Pietro, or you'd be like totally up the walls by now."
"Who's Pietro?"
"One of the Brotherhood. They're our mortal enemies for one, second they're jerks…"
"And third, they're like totally annoying. Especially Pietro. He thinks just because he's like super fast that he's like totally the best too."
"Oh, okay. So where are they hanging out? Some secret lair."
"No, a boarding house down town where their leader, Mystique puts them up."
"Alright, Mystique and Brotherhood—baddies. Got it."
"Oh like it's not just them. There's like Magneto and Apocalypse too."
"Okay. So what happened to all of these people as children to make them so evil and hate the world?"
"Mystique we haven't got a clue. Apocalypse was the first mutant and just wants to make the whole world mutant. And Magneto got it bad during World War II. Not only did they hate Jews, but mutants as well."
"Ouch." She took another thoughtful sip as she let the information sink in. "Well, lucky us. We ended up turning into mutants simply because of our raging teenage years." She leaned back against the counter while I helped myself to a glass.
"Hey, this is good. Where'd you learn to make sweet tea like this?"
"My dad." She didn't add anymore information there but I decided it was time I take a page outta her book.
"You haven't talked much about your family. What are they like?"
"Yeah, like come on and spill already. Do you have a cute brother or something?"
"I though you were dating Piotr?"
"Well, I can ask can't I?"
Al rolled her eyes. "It'd take me a week to tell you about my whole family. I'm related to ev'ryone in the Cove, literally. Well, as far as immediates, there's my mom, my gram, my aunt, and two cuzs. My cuz Lori, she moved to Virginia, and Jeremiah just does his own thing. So it's pretty much me, my mom, Gram and Aunt Vicky."
"You like just mentioned your dad though." I watched as Al's eyes flashed a bright blue briefly then went back to their normal steel green shade.
"I haven't seen him since I was eleven. Didn't bother to call me on my twelfth birthday and haven't heard from him since."
"Oh." Kitty's voice was as tiny as a mouse, which is kinda ironic.
"He used to take me fishing on the Chesapeake and all sorts of stuff. Taught me to ride a motorcycle, hunt with a bow and arrow…" She trailed off her eyes changing yet again to a misty blue as she set her glass down. "Excuse me." She practically ran outta the room causing Kitty and I to exchange looks.
"Was it like something I said?"
"Actually I think it was something she said."
HYDRA
~I swore I wasn't going to cry anymore, at least not over that ass who I got blessed with as a father.~ I had taken down the wedding album and was currently considering ripping up ev'ry picture inside up into itty bitty li'l pieces.
A knock at the door brought me outta my destructive thoughts and forced me to focus on something. "Come in." I tossed the album onto the floor and stood up to get the album with pictures of Mark and Kelly out.
Sam poked his head in through the slightly ajar door looking worried. "I just wanted to check on you. Um…if you want I'll come back another time."
"No…it's okay. I prolly look like shit."
"No, the other girls would look worse. You know with mascara running, all that." He pushed the door open and sat down on the third bed nervously looking down at his hands with sudden interest.
"You know just how to make a girl feel better." I shot him a wry smile.
"Everyone's always saying that if something hurts to just talk about it. Personally I think it's a load of bull, but if you…" He looked up at me as I sat back down on my bed cross-legged with my other album.
"You prolly could care less." He shook his head emphatically and I sighed. ~Prolly couldn't hurt to just get it off my chest. Someone here will eventually drag it outta me.~ "My parents, they divorced when I was three. My father was a drunk and my mom didn't like it. It was the average divorce, my mom got me and my dad got a new wife." I laughed as if that should be funny, even though it wasn't in the slightest.
"I got to visit my dad three or four times a year and had to put up with a step mother who hated me just for existing and two step brothers who became jealous of my father's attention. That was all when we lived in D.C. "
I was gazing down at a picture of Mark and I on horseback and Kelly was standing between the two horses, her head thrown back in laughter. I forced a smile at the memory. "Eventually my mom decided to move back to her home town so that we could be near my gram after my pappy died. That's when my dad stopped calling and even stopped seeing me. It's stupid really, but it's basic abandonment." I scoffed again at my own stupidity.
"It's not stupid. It sucks, your father doesn't know what he missed out on." Without me even noticing it he'd picked up my parents' wedding album and was looking at it. When I did, I was upset at first then just shrugged it off.
"I look like him, huh?"
"A little."
"I act like him too. I'll prolly start acting like a total ass here and abandon my friends for no reason."
"Just 'cause you look like someone doesn't mean you'll act like them."
"I guess you're right. God, I better pull myself together or I'll have to have this whole conversation over again with Betsy."
"I'll go then."
"Thanks." He nodded and disappeared out the door.