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A Flower

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Chapter One: Hey, little twerp! it's dinner!

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A flower lives

A flower gives

A flower makes

A flower takes

A flower loves

A flower grows

A flower wilts

A flower dies...

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Jamie looked at himself over and over again... this was him. Him with his own little cheery smile. His cute mussed hair, brown and tangled. His eyes normal brown ones. He was nothing special. He reached out to touch his own cheek... That is, his multiple's.

"Do you... do you love me?" Jamie whispered to his mirror, inches apart from him.

"Of course, Jamie, of course." His duplicate answered, closing his eyes in the soft touches on his cheeks.

Jamie couldn't help but smile. Someone loved him. Even if it was himself. He called in his dupe and laid his head gently on his pillow. He looked up at the ceiling dazed at what he had just done. Was his multiple telling the truth? Everyone can lie. Even he, himself lies.

Is he really loved?

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"Give my diary back, twerp!" Jubillee screeched running in the halls of the Xavier's Institute for Gifted Children.

"Not a chance!" A multiple teased throwing it to another behind Jubillee. An echo of laughter sparked as Jubillation Lee slipped and landed face first on the floor just beside her diary which, one of the multiple dropped by accident.

Jubillee stood shakily and was glowing red! She marched holding her diary and grumbled to herself things along the line of "... the X-jet'll be waiting!" or the sort.

Jamie called his multiples back in and couldn't help but grin from ear to ear. It was always fun to do these things, I mean, with multiples around, what else is there to do?

He walked down the hall plotting with a cheeky grin plastered on his face, not caring where his feet will carry him. He was too happy to realize that he's wandered into one of those hard to go to places and bumped onto a pair of Scott and Jean making out. His eyes widened and it reminded him of his multiple and his question and how honestly the multiple answered him.

They were so close and loving. The world seemed lonlier this way. He didn't understand. He should be happy for them. He ran as fast as he could far from the scene. He even heard the distenst cry from Scott, asking him how he found them. Gladly Jean was too stupid to chase his head to read it.

He reached a secluded spot and called out a multiple. He looked him in the eye and without realizing it, he started crying on his shoulder. He wept and whimpered on how he will always be alone and how unfair it was. All the while his multiple soothed him, trailing soft touched up and down his baack and slightly ruffling his soft brown hair. Whispering words he didn't think he ever would hear. He squeezed his duplicate to a chocking state, but the multiples never choke, they fade away, just like waht happened. And Jamie fell on his knees hugging himself rocking his body back and forth, sobbing on his own. If he called out another multiple, it would just fade away just like the others.

He wept himself for almost forever to him until warm arms were wraped around his figure on the floor.

"Jamie? What's wrong? What are you doing here?" It was a male. He knew that voice anywhere!

"Bobby... Bobby... *sniff* I don't wanna be... I don't wanna be... *sniff*" He whimpered and tried to finish the sentence, but another voice interrupted.

"It's dinner, Bobby, Jamie. Can you just talk later!?" Scott's cold low voice came and Bobby just helped me up and led me to the dining room, sympathetic to me. I could feel Scott glaring at me in a -How-dare-you-interupt-me-and-my-girl-?- type of glare but we never know because of those god-awful shades.

Jamie sat beside Bobby feeling like he needed to.

"So Jamie, what's wrong? you cry or somethin'? Are you sick?" Roberto asked in worry.

"I... I..." Jamie stuttered, voice breacking in some points.

Bobby hugged the lithe boy and whispered him to calm down and let him handle 'Sunnie'.

"He's sort of sick, but he'll be fine! It's just, he accidentally got poked in the eye in class today and it hurts." Bobby smiled pleasantly with the message -LEAVE-HIM-ALONE-!-!-! plastered on it.

Errr... Roberto and Bobby stared at each other, wordlessly arguing about Jamie. Roberto bore his teeth and widened his grin. Bobby did the same cocking his head sidewards.

The battle went on as they ate and Jamie couldn't help but blush. He was the center of attention of two teenage boys. Errr...

After dinner he went straight to his room, head clearer now that he had enjoyed yet again a *normal* mealtime with his mutant family.

tbc...