Chapter 11: sleeping with the ememy

Rogue roled around in her bed, it was 3am, and she'd just woken up. The air was thick and humid, smothering her like a pillow. She sat up stright, putting her feet on the floor and rubbed at her neck, smelling sigarette smoke. She looked around, seeing a shadowey figure leaning against the wall by the balconey windows. A small orange light glowing up and fadeing out.

"Litle eirly fer y' ain it chere." Remy wisperd, so as not to wake Kitty.

He pushed off the wall and steped up to the bed, putting out the cigarette in an orniment on Rogues bedside table. Remy swayed closer and kneeld down infront of her then snaked his arms around her waist as she sat on the bed.

"What are ya doin hear swamp rat!" She wisperd, sharpley.

"Remy couldn' stay away."

"How long have ya bin standin there?"

"From 1am. Remy juss feels like stalkin y'."

"Well don't, cos if Logan feels like takein a walk, he goes all over the mantion. An youre stinkin the place out with yer-"

Remy put his gloved finger to her lips and made a shshing sound as he pulled her stomach close to his chest, still kneeling on the floor, he slipped her off the bed so as she was sitting on his knee, faceing him.

"Remy, please, just leave. If anyone comes in hear, you wont be the onley one in trouble, cos ahm in enough allready." Rogue said, still wispering.

Remy just slipped off his coat and leaned his head into her neck, being carfull not to touch her skin, he gentley rocked them as he hugged to her tightley. Rogue ran her bear fingers through Remys soft, and messey hair as he closed his eyes and just leaned on her.

"Whats wrong Remy?" She finally said, but Remy stayed silent as he lifted her onto the bed and lay down next to her, moveing his gloved fingers inbetween Rogues. He closed his eyes and Rogue fell asleep to the sound of his steady breathing.

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A streem of light draped in through the windows of her bedroom, as she squinted her eyes even more, feeling the covers get pulled from her and an annoyingley pirkey voice shout at her.

"Like, wake up Rogue. Come, on, youll be late for school." Kitty said as she bounced around the room collecting her school things.

Rogue rememberd the happenings of the night before and snapped her eyes open, looking around the bed, the sheets all crumpled and dissplace. Rogue saw nothing, so she roled onto her stomach and ran her hand underneath her pillow, finding a box.

Rogue stopped and pulled it out, looking at it in confusion before she sat up. The box was small, and plastic underneath her fingers as she opend it and gasped. It was a gold necklace with a clear crystal hourglass for a pendent. She played with it underneath her fingertips as she examend it, finding a card inside. 'Happy birthday chere, apologies for the fact that its 2 days late. Love Remy LeBeau.' is what was written on the card. Rogue took out the necklace and put it on, this one was allot longer that the silver locket.

Rogue resentfully went to school that morning. She saw Logan at the end of the hall and wanted to say something to him, but he just glared at her and walked the oposite way. She sighed and mentally kicked herself, for loseing the best friend she had at the mantion, she needed to think before she opend her mouth in future- she thought.

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Rogue just maneged to pull herself through her classes that day, and was supprised to find Alistor waiting beside his shiney blue truck outside school. He beamed at her when he saw her and waved her across, so she walked over, hearing a swift 'Mutie' from Taryn over by the banches, so she held up her left hand with a solitary finger gesturing to the girl as she walked past.

"Hey.....How did you..." Rogue started.

"I got a friend who knows stuff, she told me where to find you."

Rogue looked at him with a half smile, and then niticed him looking at the pendant. He reached out to touch it, like it was hipnotiseing him or something, holding his hand in mid air, he stopped and looked into her eyes.

"Can I see it?" He ast as she nodded and picked up the pendant, placeing it in his hand as he looked over it.

"Its quartz." He said with a smile. "Thats a real nice necklece, wherd you get it?" He said dropping the small pendant to Rogues chest again.

"It was a birthday preasent, from mah........ uhm?"

"Your'e boyfriend?" He said with a smirk and a raised eyebrow on his bronze skin.

"Well...... ah don't know what we are, it's complicated. But if it were anyone els, ahd probley say that he was mah boyfriend."

"So, your kinda seeing him, when youre not supposed to? Right?" Alistor said as he pulled his shineing black hair back into a poneytail. Rogue wen't slightley red and huged her arms around her sholders.

"Sorry, Im being nosey. I don't mean to be rude, honest. It's just that I don't......"

"It alright. Don't worry about it."

".................So, do ya wonna go and get that dinner that we were supposed to have that didn't go to well last night?" He said, his smile returning as he placed his hands in his pockets and rocked on the heels of his boots.

"Alright, but ah can onley get away with sayin ah was held back at school untill 5, so ah gotta be back at the instituit by then." Rogue said with her eybrows raised and a finger pointing at his face.