A/N: Tabby knows Lance is a mutant, as well as Todd and Fred
who were in the Brotherhood when Tabby knew them. Pietro, however, was
not in the group and so she doesn't know that he is a mutant.
Summary: First day of school and they get their classes, Tabby meets the Cajun charmer known as Remy and Rogue instantly likes him. And a certain silver haired boy is in all of Tabitha's classes...
Chapter 5
School Times
In Jean's homeroom, Scott and her are sitting next to each other in their Trigonometry class when Kitty came running up from behind them. She's full of energy as usual and looks like the only Sophomore in their class. The rest of the class was mostly Seniors with a few Juniors.
"Hey I didn't like know you two were in my Trig class!" Kitty said very happy to know some people in her Trigonometry class.
"Cool, Kit, I never did see your schedule so..." Jean tried to explain.
"Don't like worry, this class is going to be like, so much fun!" Kitty said with a huge grin. Just then a girl who looked like a Junior came up to Kitty. She was about an inch or two taller than Kitty and had light brown hair that was curly. She had hazel eyes that complimented perfectly.
"Hi, I'm Jessica Drew, but everyone calls me Jess. You look new here."
"Yeah like totally, I'm Kitty Pryde." So Kitty and Jess walked off to a small group in the corner of girls and she began to make some friends in Trigonometry. Scott and Jean smiled liking how Kitty wouldn't bother them too much.
"You glad she's gone?" Scott asked Jean hoping the answer was yes.
"Somewhat sometimes she can be a pain, but she's nice, I hope I will make some new friends."
"I'll show you around meet some of my friends ya know?"
"Yeah, that'd be fun, I already met this one kid Tucker Crawford yesterday." Jean's eyes turned all dreamy just thinking of his name.
"Jean?"
"Oh yes sorry Scott, he moved here from Virginia, Tabby's from Virginia too."
"Oh." Scott said thinking of this Tucker character.
"Oh, there he is!" Jean said seeing Tucker walk in the room. Scott looked over towards Tucker and saw the clock at 7:15 exact, the last warning bell before tardiness.
In Rogue's homeroom, Speech, she was looking around at everyone who was laughing and hanging out with friends. She was by herself and looking at her Discman, which she played extremely low, compared to Tabby's. She was listening to "Cherry Lips" by Garbage when a boy around her age, with jet-black hair walked up. The one thing she noticed especially was his bright green eyes that stood out.
"Hello, why is such a pretty girl all by herself?" the boy asked being very flirty.
"Cuz some gals lahke ta beh bah themselves an' listen ta music."
"Ouch that hurt, I'm Chris Aaronson...and you are?"
"Rogue."
"Nice name, Rogue."
"Ya well Ah lahke it, it's not common."
"That's for sure. So you must be new then?"
"Yeah, Ah am."
"That's cool well you need any help just ask me. Well good thing we didn't get assigned seats yet."
"Wah?"
"You never told me your last name."
"Ah don't use a last name usuallah. But tha one Ah do use is Adlah."
"Nice I think you'll sit near me, Aaronson and Adler."
"Yeah Ah guess." Rogue said with a huge sigh.
Over in Tabitha's homeroom, she is listening to her music louder than before and is surrounded by guys, three of which are Evan, Kurt, and Ray. Kurt, however, wasn't blue and fuzzy, he did have his blue hair though. He looked normal thanks to an image inducer given to him from the professor awhile ago, when he had first came to the institute. He had explained all that to Tabby before. Then there were a few other guys Tabby had no idea who they were, but they seemed to stick around her. She finally decided to take her headphones off and talk to everyone to see if she can learn names and all.
"Tabby, I'd like you to meet some of my friends." She heard Ray saying. He then pointed to a boy with black hair and hazel eyes,
"This is Chris Bradley, and this is Devon Alomar," Ray finished pointing to a boy who looked a year older than them but had light brown hair with green eyes.
"Hey Chris, and Dev, nice ta meet ya, I'm Tabitha Smith." Tabby said being very friendly to the two boys. There was another boy who seemed to be arguing with Evan, but Ray didn't introduce him. The boy arguing with Evan was tall very skinny and had silver hair and light blue eyes. He was very slim.
"So-Daniel's-still-think-you-have-a-shot-at-beating-me?" The silver haired boy said talking very fast.
"Wow, Ev, who's your friend?" Tabby said standing up and walking in-between them.
"He's not my friend."
"Oh, then who is he?"
"I'm Pietro Maximoff." Pietro said shaking her hand and then kissing it.
"Wow, and what are you arguing over."
"Nothing." Evan said obviously getting mad.
"Fine then." Tabby said changing her attention to the other boy. He had dark brown hair and dark brown eyes that matched. He was very tall, taller than Pietro that's for sure and looked old, maybe a Senior, and somehow very familiar.
"Hi!" Tabby said still bursting with energy. The dark haired boy looked up and smiled.
"Hey, I'm Lance Alv-Tabby?"
"Yeah, Lance!!! Rocky!" Lance smiled at her.
"Like my jeep?"
"Sorry bout that." Tabby smiled and gave a little laugh at her old friend.
"It's okay,"
"Wow get any new mutants to your group?" Tabby whispered that question hoping no one would overhear her.
"Just one,"
"Oh cool you have to invite me over sometimes."
"Yeah Fred and Todd will be glad to see you" Lance said sarcastically as Tabby bursted out in laughter. She looked around the room where all the kids were talking, she saw Evan and Pietro quarrelling, Ray and his two friends Chris and Devon chatting, and then she looked back to Lance, she sighed thinking of how this is only first period and there is still an hour and half of it.
Bobby and Amara were chatting away in their Russian Studies class for homeroom. Bobby had just introduced his best friend Jesse Aaronson to her who Bobby had mentioned had an older brother Christopher Aaronson in Rogue's grade. Jesse, like his brother, had green eyes, but had dark brown hair instead of black.
"Hey look Bob, Dani is here!" She heard Jesse say as he had called Dani over.
"Amara this is my best girl friend Danielle Moonstar, or Dani." Jesse had continued.
"Hi, was it Amara?" Dani said very friendly, she was about Amara's height and had jet-black hair with black eyes also, she reminded her of Jubilee, except she looked like an Indian not Chinese.
"Yes, Amara Aquilla, you can call me Mara though."
"Thanks Mara!" Dani said with a big grin on her face, "Is Betsy here?"
"Yeah, over there." Bobby had pointed out.
"Betsy, come here!" Dani shouted as the teacher scolded her for yelling. Sure enough a short girl with black hair and green eyes walked over, she was very short for their age as she can tell.
"Elisabeth Braddock, meet Amara Aquilla." Bobby had said.
"Hi Amara, call me Betsy."
"Hey call me Mara too."
Soon enough everyone was in his or her classes hanging out, finally the announcements came on and everyone got assigned seats in every classroom. In the trigonometry room Kitty had sat on the end of a row next to a boy named Piotr Rasputin, she had learned that his name was pronounced Peter, and that he was Russian. Scott was next to two girls, Taryn Talley, and Cindy Sinter. Jean however was sitting behind the boy she had met yesterday, Tucker Crawford, and was on the opposite end of the classroom than Kitty, sitting next to a boy named Paul Funel. In Rogue's Speech class she had to sit next to Chris, as he had said earlier, she was in the seat next to him and on her left was Brian Apian. Over in Tabitha's Algebra 2 she had sat next to Jono Starsmore who had happened to be a Junior. On her other side was some girl named Jennifer Sileor. Jono seemed way more interesting then her so she watched what Jono was doing, he reminded her of St. John Allerdyce, the boy she met yesterday. He had brown hair and hazel eyes though not like St. John's reddish blonde hair and blue eyes. Jono reminded her of Bobby. Amara in Russian Studies had her seat next to Jesse's and also Betsy Braddock, she was happy she made some new friends, the clock had struck 7:30, time for an hour and a half to waste in school, especially this class, Amara was thinking.
Jubilee, Rahne, Roberto, and Jamie were still at the mansion and getting ready for school. They had to take a bus to school so they had to make sure they weren't late. Jubi was rushing around her room trying to find her one shirt and finally found it. Then she grabbed Tabby's green jean skirt. She loved Tabby's skirts as they always fit her right and Tabby barely wore her green one so she wouldn't miss it anyway. Jubilee and Tabby always stole clothes from each other and neither one of them realizes it till they need what the other one is wearing or as last time Jubi caught Tabby putting her shorts on. Finally Jubilee headed downstairs and ate her breakfast with Rahne and Roberto. She had grown found of them as to any of the other X-Men. Storm and Hank were eating breakfast with them. Soon it was time for the school bus to arrive so they headed off outside with a backpack over there shoulder.
"Hey guys wait up!" Jamie yelled from behind and they reluctantly slowed down but never completely stopped.
"Jubi I bet we're in the same homeroom, cause our last names are around the same part of the alphabet.
"Oh lord save me now!" Jubilee said as Rahne and Roberto laughed.
"So when do we get our schedules?"
"In homeroom."
"Oh god I'm going to get lost."
"No you won't they purposely put you on our team since your from the Xavier Institute, so we should be in some classes together." Rahne said.
"Besides, I'll be in your homeroom." Jamie said.
"Anyway we always have gym together and most likely the same teacher too." Rahne said, "Hey Jubi sit with me on the bus."
"Sure."
"Oh I have to sit next to Jamie?"
"Just hope we don't hit a bump." Rahne said with a laugh. Finally they got to school and Jamie and Jubilee were in the same homeroom and compared their schedules, which were totally different from High School's schedule. High School's have four periods a day and hour and a half classes, while Middle School has 45-minute classes with one-hour period per day, and seven classes.
"Let me see the schedule!" Jamie said as he ripped it out of Jubilee's hands.
"Wow! We're in A, C, and F period together!"
"Good then you can show me where A period is, what class is that?"
"Pre-Algebra 1b, it's upstairs I know where it is."
"And what's C period?"
"English downstairs."
"F?"
"Science. Diagonal to this room"
"Cool." Soon the announcements came on saving Jubilee from talking to pesky Jamie, and after they got their assigned seats she was glad there were a few kids between them. Then A period came and Jamie and her headed off to Pre-Algebra part 1b. Once they got there Jamie introduced two of his friends, Michael 'Mickey' Tork, and Marie-Ange Colbert. Marie-Ange liked to be called MA and Michael liked Mickey. MA had brownish red hair like Rahne with blue eyes while Mickey had brown hair and black eyes, just like herself, other than she doesn't have brown hair. Soon MA introduced Faith Zeeder, Faith unlike anyone she's ever seen, except Kurt in his non-holo form had unusual hair color, purple, her eyes were an amethyst purple color while her hair was more dark purple black.
"Wow, Faith I love your hair. Did you dye it?"
"Nope, it's all natural, my mom doesn't like dying things, especially hair."
"That's so cool and your eyes wow, amethyst purple."
"Yup, like my birthstone, barely though, born February 1."
"That's so cool!" Jubilee was having so much fun as they all compared their schedules. MA was in all of Jubi's classes including all of her specials and same gym locker room. Faith was in Jubi's A, B, C, E, and G. B was gym, and E was specials. Mickey was in her A, D, and F, Jubilee was looking forward to this year knowing that MA, and her would become close friends, closer than she expects. It was now 8:36, in the middle of A period, only 45 minutes in these classes in middle school.
Back at the high school, everyone's first period, A, was over and all the kids scurried to their lockers or to their next class, 9:00, that meant 5 minutes to get to where ever and the bathroom and locker. Kitty had ran out of her Trigonometry class to hurry across the building to get to her Astrophysics class. She knew she'd never make it if she stopped at the bathroom or her locker. It just so happened that Tucker was also in her Astrophysics class and they had smiled when they saw each other arrive at the door from two different directions.
"Kitty?"
"Tucker, hey I didn't like know you were in Astrophysics."
"Yeah, I am, wow at least I'll know someone."
"Yeah, like I know what you mean." They entered the class together and sat down together and began to talk about things nothing in particular except Jean. Eventually they got put in alphabetical order and Pryde and Crawford were not near so Kitty had to sit in the back. She did however sit next to Ben Russel a Junior and sweet he was. He had brown hair and brown eyes but there was a certain something that drew him towards her. The strange thing about him was that anytime she was moving she could feel his eyes on her and if she would tap her pencil he always asked her to stop cause it bothers him, she always stopped of course but always confused. Kitty also noted Sharon Smith, she didn't talk to her or anything but she had the same last name as Tabby, and had white hair with cat like orange eyes.
Amara slowly walked to her locker and opened it with ease putting her backpack in it and then closing it. She sees Tabby leaning against a locker and notices her banging on it and eventually she gets it open. Once open she tossed her backpack and headphones in it, and then relocked it. Amara saw Rogue walk up to her and then Jean come out of her Trigonometry class and to them.
"Hey Amara!" Tabby yelled across the hallway. So Amara walked over to them.
"You in French?"
"Nope, I'm taking German."
"Aw, Amara, if ya would a took French, ya could a been in our class!" Rogue said disappointed.
"Sorry, I like German better, just like Kurt."
"Well duh, he's from Germany." Rogue said.
"Oh yea well." Everyone laughed.
"Well see ya Amara, we don't want to be late for French." Jean said.
"See ya Tabby, Jean, and Rogue!" So the girls separated, Jean, Tabby, and Rogue went upstairs and to the left as Amara went to the right upstairs. In Amara's German class she noted Beth was in here. Beth seemed to be a social butterfly; she kept jumping from group to group but always came back to a tall slim girl with red hair and blue eyes. Eventually Amara noticed Betsy waving to her and calling her over.
"Mara, over here!" So Amara followed Betsy's voice and stood next to her and the red head. "Mara, this is my one good friend Clarice Ferguson, we just call her Ice for short.
"Nice to meet you Ice, I'm Amara Aquilla, or Mara."
"I love your name!" The red head Ice squealed, it was kind of weird since you always think of silver or white for ice, never red as in her hair color.
"Thanks, you also have a cool name."
"Yea, it gets kinda boring though when you hear someone yelling 'Clarice come here.'" Amara and Betsy laughed.
"Guten Morgen class." The German teacher said with a big smile on her face. Soon the teacher had put everyone in alphabetical order in which Betsy sat next to Amara again, Amara was first though. They all had to pick German names and Amara couldn't choose she loved them all! Eventually she settled for Catarina.
Over in the French classroom everyone was talking and hanging out basically. Tabby sighed, she wished she didn't put her Discman in her locker. Then all of a sudden she saw Pietro in front of her. 'How did he get in front of me so fast?' Tabby wondered to herself that question, she kept thinking and was totally oblivious to Jean and Rogue asking her who he was.
"Earth ta Tabbah?" Rogue said swaying her hand in front of her face.
"Uh, what?" Jean, Pietro, and Rogue laughed.
"Are you going to introduce us to your friend?" Jean asked with a smile.
"Sure why not, this is Pietro Maximoff, he's in my Algebra 2 class, he's a Junior."
"Nahce ta meet ya, Pietro." Rogue said gruffly.
"Well glad to meet you as well, uh what's your names?"
"Oh sorry I forgot about that, the one with red hair, she's Jean, and that's Rogue. Jean is a Senior, Rogue is a Junior." Tabby added as she stuck her gum under the desk she was sitting in. However this one guy was watching Tabby and saw her stick the gum under the desk and walked over and pulled her aside. The young man looked to be about a Senior and he had dark brown hair and was wearing dark sunglasses so she couldn't distinguish his eye color, she immediately thought of Scott and his glasses.
"Bonjour, mlle. Je vous crois ai collé votre gomme sous votre bureau, oui?"
"What the hell? I got out of that, hello, miss, yes, and I. In English please!" The boy laughed and smiled.
"Bonjour, Miss. I believe you have stuck your gum under that desk, oui?"
"Oui, okay, enough French, so what's your name, you have a strong accent."
"Remy Lebeau, Cajun."
"Ah that's why."
"And your name?"
"Tabby Smith."
"Really, Remy's friend met y' yesterday."
"Really? Who?"
"St. John Allerdyce, Australian, inch shorter den Remy, blonde an' orange hair."
"Yeah, I met him he's great."
"Oui."
"So why are ya wearing shades?"
"Eye condition."
"Really? So if I ask St. John, he'll say the same thing?" Tabby thought she pronounced St. John's name right and Remy noticed that as well.
"Oui. An' did y' recover fr'm a black eye?"
"Yeah, I know it's still a bit visible."
"Oui." Just then Tabby leaned against the desk and it moved sending her onto the floor hard.
"Ow." The whole class looked at Tabby and a bunch of people crowded around her, Jean looked for the teacher and saw none assuming that he or she was in the lavatory or hallway.
"Tabby, you okay?" She heard Pietro saying. Remy extended his hand as Tabby remembered St. John doing the same thing to her. Remy bent down slightly so he could reach her down there and Tabby got a quick glance at his eyes before he pushed the frames back up. She was used to things being different and all but what she saw was the white part of his eye was black, and the pupil was red. She didn't gasp but whispered to him when he helped her up,
"Red on black, nice, gotta love those eye conditions." Remy gasped as she grinned. The teacher soon came in and settled the commotion down and assigned seats. Rogue sat next to Michelle Balters, she had black hair with brown tints in it and she was also wearing sunglasses like the boy she saw Tabby talking to. Rogue kept thinking of Remy all day, she liked him a lot even though just by looks alone with his little beard thing, he has to be a Senior.
Jean Grey was seated next to Angelica Jones, or Angel as she asks to be called. Angel had orange hair that was short and curly with orange eyes, which was unusual Jean had thought. On the other side of her was Gregory Gang, or Gregg, he was nice enough with brown hair and green eyes and a cute smile but he was obviously not a Senior, but Angel wasn't either. In the far back of the classroom was Tabby who had just been yelled at for having her feet up on the desk. The girl next to Tabby, Jen Stavros, a tall blonde with brown eyes giggled when Tabby got yelled at. She seemed Jean's age and assumed she was a Senior. On her other side was a boy named Fred Smeer. She looked ahead where she saw Pietro sitting next to Remy, and smiled thinking of her two new friends. The French class had an option of picking a French name, most didn't though.
Over in the middle school A period had ended a while ago and they were in B period, or gym. Rahne and Jubilee were in the same locker room and were happy about that. Rahne introduced Faith and Jubilee to another friend of hers, Sandy Turner, a blonde with bright emerald green eyes. For some reason Rahne and Sandy seemed very close, but yet so distant to Faith and Jubilee when they were together. A quick comparison of their schedules revealed that she was in Jubilee's B, C, D, and F. Rahne however was in her B, C, E, F, and G. As B period quickly ended, at 9:59, Rahne, Faith, MA, and Sandy all walked to their lockers and left for C period, English together. Jubi warned Rahne that Jamie was also in their English and she groaned. To everyone's surprise Roberto walked in their English class, when he saw Rahne and Jubilee he smiled.
"Hey Rahne! Jubilee! We're in the same English class!" Roberto looked so happy to see them all. With a quick look over of Jubilee and Roberto's schedule they found they are in the same C, D, E, and G. Soon they all got seats in English, unfortunately for Jubilee, she had to sit next to Jamie. Although, he wasn't as annoying as he usually is, and Jubilee liked him when he wasn't annoying, he was even cute from this one angle. Directly in front of her was Roberto and in front of Jamie was MA. She glanced towards the back of the class and saw Sandy and Rahne sitting next to each other and Faith was behind Sandy. Eventually, Jubilee had gotten bored along somewhere and totally spaced out. When she spaced back in she looked at the clock, which read 10:35, she sighed, twelve minutes left of this torture.
However, at the same time, all the high school students left their B period and were headed into C or lunch, depending on when they were scheduled for lunch, all of the X-Men had lunch after their C period. Kitty headed from her Astrophysics class a few classes away to her Computer Science class. She noticed the one boy following her, Lance Alvers as she recalled from how they were seated. She turned around and Lance stopped as well.
"Why are you like following me?" Kitty asked talking to him in the middle of the hallway.
"Cause I'm going to Computer Science and it seems your headed in the same direction."
"Really, like hey that's cool, we're in the same Computer Science class." Kitty said excited. So Lance and Kitty walked to the Computer Science class chatting about nothing in particular, Kitty had wondered if this was the Lance that Tabby stole a jeep from, but she pushed the thought out of her mind. When they got in the class Kitty quickly scanned the room for people that were in any of her other classes. She frowned, only Lance was in another class of hers so she stuck with him and chatted. He introduced two of his best friends, Todd Tolensky and Fred Dukes. Fred was humongous, he was very tall and on the large side, extra extra large that is, maybe even another extra! He had a blonde Mohawk though, and had small brown eyes. Todd on the other hand wasn't a Senior like Fred and Lance; he was a Sophomore as well and was very short indeed. He had shaggy dirty blonde, or can be considered very light brown hair. His eyes were very different being yellow.
Tabby, Rogue, and Jean all exited the French class and parted their own ways to get to their next class. However the boy named Remy caught up with Tabby.
"Tabby, wait up!" Tabby recognized the voice as the Cajun from French class.
"Remy?"
"Oui."
"We're out of French ya know." Tabby said as they began to walk together, Tabby was headed for her locker, which was around the same area as Chemistry, her next class. She figured, to drop the newly acquired French textbook with her Algebra 2 in her locker.
"Oui, natural t' say it."
"Cool, so where are you going now?"
"What class Remy's goin' t'?"
"Yeah, since you're headed in the same direction as me and I know I'm headed to my locker to throw our French text in, then to Chemistry with your buddy St. John."
"Remy's also in Chemistry." So once they stopped at Tabby's locker she gave him her schedule as she opened her locker and threw the French text in and slammed it shut and turned the dial on the lock.
"Same Chemistry class, cobbers?" said a familiar voice to Tabby she turned around and saw St. John Allerdyce.
"Wow, hey St. John."
"Tabitha," St. John winked at her then looked at Remy's schedule,
"Hey mate, loioks lioke it's us three."
"Trois?"
"Told you Cajun he's with us, I told him earlier."
"Okay y' g't Remy, Blondie." Remy decided to call her that since she called him Cajun.
"Okay great..." Tabby said out loud and smiled, St. John leaned closer to her and pointed out the chemistry room again to her. Tabby could smell his cologne and she liked it very much and was well being Tabby, which meant flirting. So the three of them headed into the chemistry room that St. John pointed out. Already inside Chemistry were Ray and Sam from the institute. She also noted Pietro in there and grinned, thinking 'Wow that kid Pietro is fast and is in 3 of my classes, creepy'. Pietro recognized the blonde walking in with his old buddy Remy and St. John.
"Hey Allerdyce, Lebeau, Tabby." Pietro said standing right in front of them after they sat down at a table together. 'Damn he's fast' Tabby thought as she dropped into her chair, St. John sat right next to her and Remy sat on the other side of St. John. Pietro however stayed standing on the other side of Tabby, Ray and Sam who were up the next table turned around and grinned at Tabby.
"Hey ya all!" Tabby said brightly as she noticed a lot of girl's staring at her and realized they were jealous that five guys were paying attention to her, and not them.
"Tabby, what is this our third class together?" Pietro asked smugly, putting a cute smirk on his face.
"Yup, I believe it is, and do you have gym next?"
"Yup. But you'll be in the girl's gym to change and all but we'll see each other on the field!"
"Sweet." Tabby said with a grin. Ray and Sam smiled as they saw a friend of theirs; Sally Blevins walk into the room. Sally was short being 5'1" and had short curly light brown hair and brown eyes. She walked over and sat with Ray and Sam as they introduced Tabby, and Tabby introduced St. John and Remy.
Rogue and Amara had planned on meeting up and walking to Geometry together as Rogue was waiting for Amara, who she thought forgot.
"Rogue!" Amara called out.
"Mara?"
"Right here, sorry took me so long, it's like a Rush Hour I swear." Rogue laughed at her joke as they headed to Geometry. "Bobby is in our Geometry class but he says he'll meet us in the room."
"So ya lahke Bobbah as a boyfrend?"
"I like him a lot just am unsure of how to tell him."
"Well it seems he lahkes ya a lot as well. So it shouldn't beh ta difficult."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Amara agreed as they walked into the classroom. Bobby was already sitting in a desk waiting for the girls as they walked in. Amara noted Bobby talking to Dani, and saw another boy with them as well as another girl. The boy was about Bobby's height and brown hair like Bobby but had dark black eyes. The girl with them had black hair and dark brown eyes. She was an inch shorter than Amara, who was a meek 5 foot 3 inches.
"Rogue, Amara!" Bobby said calling them over and waving. "I'd like you to meet some more of my friends." Bobby smiled and Amara blushed. Bobby pointed to the black haired girl, "This is Johanna Cargill or Jo, and this is Tyler Dayspring, or Ty." Bobby finished, however Rogue had no clue who Dani was.
"Ah'm Rogue." Rogue began, "Who's thaht?" she gestured to Dani.
"My bad Danielle or Dani Moonstar."
"I'm Amara Aquilla." Amara added.
"Yeah, I remember you!" Dani said with a genuine nice smile. Soon another boy walked up to Tyler and Bobby.
"Hey guys." The blonde blue-eyed boy said.
"Hey, Amara, Rogue this is Brian Braddock, Betsy's twin."
"Nahce, who's Betsah?" Rogue said confused.
"Another friend of Bob's, I'm Amara by the way." Amara said to Brian who smiled.
"Yeah, Betsy is nice and well you should meet her." Brian said to Rogue. When class started Rogue ended up next to Amara, who was next to Brian then came Jo who was next to Ty and last was Bobby, and that was the whole first row.
Jean had ran from her French class to her American Literature, which were not that close but she stopped at her locker to drop off her textbooks, Trigonometry and the new French. Soon she arrived into her class and spotted Scott sitting with a whole bunch of girl's. Jean felt a little left out, so she sat near the back to wait for the assigned seats. Jean wasn't entirely thrilled in this class as she looked back at Scott whom she thought she liked a tiny bit. She looked at the girl who sat next to him in class, Sharon Smith, that name sounded familiar other than Smith being Tabby's last name. She ignored it however and decided to try and concentrate on her American Literature. She did however glance at the clock once and saw that it was 11:00, she sighed there was still a great deal of class time..
However at the Middle School there was 35 minutes of D period left, they had switched classes again. Jubilee was with Roberto in social studies. Mickey from her A period was also there, with MA from all her classes, which she'll always be in and of course Sandy. She did however meet two new boys thanks to Roberto, Doug Ramsey, a boy of about Amara's height 5 foot 3 and with bright blonde hair like Tabby and black eyes. The other boy Troy Yalon, was tall for his age being 5 foot 6, and had Kurt's hair sort of, except very light blue. However, not fuzzy, but he did have blue eyes. He was very shy even though kids did make fun of his hair that he had claimed was platinum blonde but dyed blue, the truth was though he really had blue hair. After sitting through the rest of the class, those 35 minutes it was lunchtime.
So Roberto decided to meet Jubilee next to her locker and walk her to the lunchroom. Once in the lunchroom Roberto and Jubilation spotted Rahne, MA, and Faith waving to them. They quickly walked over to them and set their lunches down on the table. Soon enough Doug, Troy, Jamie, Sandy, and Mickey joined them as they chatted away about random topics, most of the revolving around Jubilee since she was new.
Lunch ended at 12:08 and they all got dismissed and went to their E period, which was specials, Jubilee was in home economic with Roberto, Rahne, MA, Doug and Faith. In home economics they got to pick tables of where and whom they wanted to sit with. They decided to split up having Jubilee, Rahne, and Faith, at one table while Roberto, MA, and Doug had gotten their own table. The tables were right next to each other though so they could easily chat the six of them. E was the hour period today and they had first lunch today, meaning they ate before the hour, having second lunch was splitting the hour period and third lunch was after the hour period.
Over in the high school it was 12:12, everyone had exited their classes 2 minutes ago and many were headed to lunch including all of the X-Men. Amara sat with Bobby and Rogue and some of Bobby's friends that she had met earlier, that included, Dani, Jesse, Betsy, from A period, and Brian, Jo and Ty from C period as well as Ice from B period. Rogue sat Semi-out of the group, at the end next to Chris A, from A period and two boys who introduced themselves as Chris's friends and they were in her C period, Jonothon or Jono Starsmore, he was in Tabby's A period but Rogue didn't know that. Also, Benjamin or Ben Russel, he had been in Kitty's Astrophysics class, and they were all Juniors.
Kurt was also sitting with Rogue. Jean had decided to sit with Tucker, Scott, and the jocks basically. Kitty had decided to sit with Lance, and Jess Drew from her Trigonometry class. Lance was also with some of his friends, Fred and Todd, Kitty tried to ignore the fact Todd stunk, and he resembled a toad to her. Tabby however was sitting with Remy, St. John, Pietro, Ray, Sam, Sally, and some other boys she met before but couldn't remember their names, one she thought was Devon but didn't want to open her mouth and say his name incase it was wrong.
At 12:45, lunch ended and all of the X-Men and some new friends of theirs were all headed to the gyms to get locker row assignments as well as lockers and information on sports. It was the last period of the day so mostly everyone headed to their lockers and got all their stuff. Jean had carried her books in her backpack and met up with Kitty who had a ton of books as well, Trigonometry, Astrophysics, and a Computer Science book, all of which are thick and heavy. Jean carried her Trigonometry, French that wasn't as thick, and American Literature book, which wasn't hardback, like the rest. Rogue had gotten to her locker and got out all her books, she didn't bring a backpack like Jean, Kitty, Amara, and Tabby. She grabbed the light Speech book as well as the French, and Geometry, which was probably the heaviest. She put her headphones on and turned Garbage up, as she looked around as of not sure where to go and spotted Amara and Bobby. Bobby was talking to her as she unloaded her books into her backpack. She noted Geometry, German, and Russian Studies as she zipped it up.
"Amahrah!" Rogue called out as Amara turned and saw Rogue walking towards her. Bobby quickly left to go to the boy's gym as Rogue caught up with Amara.
"I promised Tabz I'd wait for her, come on her locker is right there." Sure enough Rogue saw Tabby yanking out her backpack and shoving in Algebra 2, French, and a Chemistry book. She then grabbed her headphones and put them on and put the music on as well. Near her locker was St. John who saw Amara and Rogue. He left with Remy to gym when he saw them approaching Tabby.
"Amara!" Tabby called out as Amara and Rogue joined the blonde.
"Hey Tab, come on let's get to gym!" amara said as the three girls set off for gym. Once they got there they sat down with Kitty and Jean and began to chat a bit, until they were put into squads, according to what teacher they had, they all had the same teacher so had the same locker room row.
Over in the Middle School is was now 1:20, an hour later the high school would be letting out and then a half hour later the middle school's would let out. It was now F period, Jubilee had survived the hour period of home economics and now was in F period science, she knew she was going to die having the most boring teacher in the world who only knows how to talk very slow and with no emotion. She had to sit next to Jamie, which made it even worse, even though she thought he was cute, but annoying she reminded herself.
They had to sit at tables of two and Jamie was her partner. She glanced behind her and diagonal and saw Rahne yawning. Glancing ahead and diagonal the other direction she saw Roberto listening intensely as if he would miss something. Next to Roberto was MA who looked to be asleep and she smiled to herself. Right behind Rahne were Mickey and Sandy who were both passing notes from back and forth and eventually included Rahne. The teacher of theirs seemed not to notice or not to care.
Over at high school the bell had rang finally and they had gotten their bags and books and all headed towards their transportation. They had called the same rides as before so Amara and Tabby were walking towards her jeep as Rogue, Kitty, and Jean headed towards Scott's car. Tabby jumped in the jeep and threw her backpack down on the floor where Amara slid in.
"I could hold your backpack you know." Amara said nicely.
"Doesn't matter just text books that need to be covered are in there. Discman is on me."
"Oh okay then." Amara said as she waved to Bobby and Sam walking over to the jeep. Ray and Evan ran up behind them as well and everyone piled in, Bobby sat up front next to Amara, while the three others were in the back.
"Come on let's get this party started!" Tabby said turning on her jeep and fixing her rearview mirror. Tabby then pulled out of the school fast as her usual way.
"Uh, Tabby do you have a license?" Bobby asked.
"Nah can't wait till I get one though." Everyone other than Amara turned pale white.
"She' a good driver though." Amara said, as they stared in disbelief, "Well only when she wants to be." Amara added giggling. Tabby looked into her rearview mirror and saw Scott's car right behind them, Scott waved, as did everyone but Tabby, who was watching the traffic light turn green. Her jeep lurched forward as they began their journey home and arrived quickly as possible.
In Middle school it was 2:25, Jubilee was so excited to be in her last class, foreign language or reading, for the first half of the year she was in languages and the second half she got reading. They had German right now for 30 days then Spanish and then French. The German teacher was funny and had woken Jubilee up from the boring science teacher. The seating arrangement was unpredictable, it wasn't in alphabetical it was random, unlike her homeroom, but Jubilee liked her seat even if she was front and centered. To the right of her was Doug; the blonde who was also in her D and E and on her left was Rahne. Right behind her was even MA and behind her was Roberto. Faith sat next to MA right behind Rahne and Sandy was on the other side of Doug. Jubilee was happy when the bell rang and she got her backpack out of her locker and shoved her binder and math book in, the only book she received today. Rahne, Jamie, and Roberto met up and all walked to the bus dock together where Faith and MA were talking.
"Hey Faith, MA, I didn't know you rode our bus."
"Yeah, we do. We just didn't know you before when we were on the bus."
"Makes sense" Jubilee said with a grin.
"Doug and Sandy ride bus 80, and Troy and Mickey they walk home, they live diagonal, they're neighbors basically." MA had informed Jubilee.
"That's so cool."
"And we all live together as well." Rahne added with a smile.
"Yeah, you told me that before." Faith said with a smile.
"The Institute for Gifted Youngsters." MA added, "Something like that."
"Si." Roberto said as their bus pulled up and they boarded it.
At the mansion, Jean and Amara were hanging outside by the pool, Rogue was talking with Kitty in the family room and Tabby was up in her room blaring her music, Nine Inch Nails, "Closer". Logan growls hearing her music and hears Tabby singing along,
"I wanna fuck you like an animal!" Logan walks in and turns off her music.
"Blondie, I'd rather you not blare that music."
"Why not?"
"I wanna fuck you like an animal? What's wrong with that picture."
"Oh oops, sorry I won't blare that song, or any with the word-"
"Okay fine" Logan cut her off. As he wandered downstairs as Tabby changed the CD's in her 5-disc CD changer that was in the room when she came, it was on her Guns N Roses CD, "November Rain" was playing. Tabby laid back on her bed as she heard the lyrics start:
"When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain"
Tabby puts a magazine over her head and begins to think about the lyrics, and then to some of the guys she met today, Pietro, Remy, and St. John, but she met him yesterday. Soon she hears her door open and bolts straight up on her bed and sees its only Jubilee, which meant the rest of them were home.
"Tabby what are you doing with a magazine on your face and playing your music so loud as always." Jubilee said in a happy singsong voice turning the CD player down.
"Just been thinking of the lyrics to the song that's all."
"Oh" Jubilee said sitting down next to her and grabbing the magazine.
"Thinking about a guy?" She asked looking at the article of the magazine, "Ten Things Guys Hate."
"What?" said Tabby shocked and surprised and sees the article she wasn't even reading, but had read before.
"So how old is he, name, classes, appearance?" Jubi started to ask as Tabby laughed.
"If we could take the time
to lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain"
Jubilee heard the lyrics and pondered for a few moments then finally she spoke up.
"So ya gonna tell your favorite roommate anything about him?" Tabby laughed.
"You're my only roommate."
"That's why I'm your favorite."
"Okay well there are two that I like in particular and then there is this other one who seems to follow me around a lot."
"Oooo, a stalker!" Tabby laughed.
"Well the one I met yesterday at the school, St. John Allerdyce, however his first name is pronounced Sin Jin, but he tells me to call him John, but hey I try to call him Sin Jin." Jubi laughed,
"His name is funny."
"He's Australian."
"Ah going for a man with an accent." Tabby smiled at Jubi.
"Yeah, well he's outa my league, a Senior just like the 'stalker.' Both Seniors"
"Bummer."
"I know."
"And the third mystery man?"
"Pietro Maximoff, sweet guy a Junior, I might have a chance with him."
"Ooo do tell about him." Jubi said flipping through the magazine and glancing at Tabby.
"Well he has silvery hair with pale blue eyes, tall, very skinny. Very fast at everything, he talks fast and moves fast and always seems there." Jubilee smiled at the description and laughed at the last words.
"Well how many classes is he in."
"Well all of them, except in gym he goes to the Boy's Gym but then again we do meet outside when both gym classes come together."
"You're so lucky!" Jubilee squealed from delight. Just then Kitty phased through the door and into Tabby and Jubilee's room.
"Hey guys, like a party and no one like invited me?" Kitty said looking from the music, which had just ended, to Tabby and Jubilee on the bed with the magazine. A new song started up "Back off Bitch." The CD Tabby had put on Random order. Kitty walked over and sat on Jubilee's bed across from Tabby and Jubilee.
"Not really just chatting." Tabby answered.
"Okay like whatever but I was just passing by and like heard you talking about like boys. So spill who you like, like!" Tabby laughed as she told Kitty about Pietro and St. John.
"Like in gym you got to like point the guys out for me." Kitty said once Tabby had finished.
Outside Rogue had joined Amara and Jean because Kitty had left to go to the bathroom. Amara and Jean were talking about how their day went and all the people they met and how they liked it here much better than where they were.
"So Rogue meet any guys you like at this school?" Jean asked curious as to what the Goth of the group would say.
"Ah saw this one cute guy talkin' with Tabbah, and saw some othah guy who kept flirtin' wit' meh."
"Really?" Amara said.
"Yeah what about ya, Jean?" Rogue asked.
"Tucker Crawford, I just love him he's such a great guy."
"So fah." Rogue said with a snort, she didn't like Tucker from the first time they met.
"Your just jealous aren't you." Jean said stubbornly.
"Hey cut it out you two." Amara said as Rogue and Jean were beginning to feud over boys again. Amara had rolled her eyes and picked up her backpack that she never took to her room yet and headed inside away from the fight. Going inside she bumped into Logan who was headed out to swim it looked since he was in his bathing suit and had a towel in hand.
"Sorry, Mr. Logan." Amara said bending down to pick up her books, which had spilled out.
"It's okay, Mouse" Logan said bending down and helping her pick the books up. Amara noticed how he called her Mouse again and assumed it was a nickname like, Blondie, for Tabby. When she had collected her books Logan moved out of her way as she walked up to her room, and he headed outside.
Upstairs she walked past Tabby's room hearing music she never heard of playing and entered her room. She went to her night stand which had a bookshelf underneath and placed her backpack there, however first she dumped the contents out on her bed. She began separating the papers by class and grabbing an old binder from her closet from last year to put the papers in. Soon Kitty had phased into her room and was sitting beside her.
"Hey Mara! What's up?"
"Nothing, just using an old binder of mine for my papers."
"You know like the institute has a ton of binders?"
"Really?"
"Yeah, from like zipper 3 inch ones, to like non zipper 1 inch ones. They are in the office. I like grabbed one before, like a zipper one, let me like see your papers." So Amara handed over the papers as she stacked the books into a pile.
"What binder should I use?" Amara asked quietly as Kitty scanned over the papers quickly.
"Nothing exactly suggests one for like each class so I say like come with me and let's get you a binder, like notebook paper and dividers, oh and pretty colored folders!" Kitty said smiling as they phased through the door. And she led her to the office. Outside Jean and Rogue aren't speaking to each other from their argument as Logan skims the pool watching them. Eventually Rogue gets annoyed and walks inside to find Kitty, someone she could talk to, maybe the fuzzy elf, she thought.
"Now Red, what are you two arguing about?" Logan said making Jean's nickname Red, the color of her hair, similar to Tabby's nickname Blondie, her hair color.
"Umm we always fight, usually about guys."
"Oh and why?"
"Cause she never likes the guys that I like, I mean I don't want her to like them but to just like them, you know what I mean?" Jean asked nervously.
"I never heard 'like' so many times in one sentence."
"You obviously haven't talked to Kitty much then."
"Oh okay, now explain this to me again."
"I would wish Rogue would like the guy I like as just a friend, she always disapproves of the guys I like saying she doesn't like him."
"Okay, well she just needs time I guess." Logan said wishing he never got involved. Jean stood up and walked back inside the mansion deciding to get all her school papers out and organized before dinner, at 6:00, they were all eating dinner together again since the new plan didn't work. Walking inside she glanced at a clock, 4:00 she had two hours before dinner, plenty of time she thought as she walked to her room.
Dinner came and went fast as they all chatted watched television and fixed up their school stuff. They learned that tomorrow they were going to have a training session at 3:00 until 4:30 or 5:00, depending on how well they do, and Logan is running it, so it wouldn't be as easy with Beast as they had it. They also learned the policy that to have friends come over they had to ask in advance so everyone is prepared to not use their powers.
At midnight Tabby finally began to get her school stuff ready putting everything in a binder just throwing it in there, when you opened it you saw three notebooks, three folders and three dividers as well as her French book in it. She sighed cause she knew she wouldn't be asleep until late as usual, being the insomniac that she was. She soon wandered around the house looking around the building and everything until one when she went into her room and into her bed, and tried to sleep, forgetting yet again to set her alarm clock.
Summary: First day of school and they get their classes, Tabby meets the Cajun charmer known as Remy and Rogue instantly likes him. And a certain silver haired boy is in all of Tabitha's classes...
Chapter 5
School Times
In Jean's homeroom, Scott and her are sitting next to each other in their Trigonometry class when Kitty came running up from behind them. She's full of energy as usual and looks like the only Sophomore in their class. The rest of the class was mostly Seniors with a few Juniors.
"Hey I didn't like know you two were in my Trig class!" Kitty said very happy to know some people in her Trigonometry class.
"Cool, Kit, I never did see your schedule so..." Jean tried to explain.
"Don't like worry, this class is going to be like, so much fun!" Kitty said with a huge grin. Just then a girl who looked like a Junior came up to Kitty. She was about an inch or two taller than Kitty and had light brown hair that was curly. She had hazel eyes that complimented perfectly.
"Hi, I'm Jessica Drew, but everyone calls me Jess. You look new here."
"Yeah like totally, I'm Kitty Pryde." So Kitty and Jess walked off to a small group in the corner of girls and she began to make some friends in Trigonometry. Scott and Jean smiled liking how Kitty wouldn't bother them too much.
"You glad she's gone?" Scott asked Jean hoping the answer was yes.
"Somewhat sometimes she can be a pain, but she's nice, I hope I will make some new friends."
"I'll show you around meet some of my friends ya know?"
"Yeah, that'd be fun, I already met this one kid Tucker Crawford yesterday." Jean's eyes turned all dreamy just thinking of his name.
"Jean?"
"Oh yes sorry Scott, he moved here from Virginia, Tabby's from Virginia too."
"Oh." Scott said thinking of this Tucker character.
"Oh, there he is!" Jean said seeing Tucker walk in the room. Scott looked over towards Tucker and saw the clock at 7:15 exact, the last warning bell before tardiness.
In Rogue's homeroom, Speech, she was looking around at everyone who was laughing and hanging out with friends. She was by herself and looking at her Discman, which she played extremely low, compared to Tabby's. She was listening to "Cherry Lips" by Garbage when a boy around her age, with jet-black hair walked up. The one thing she noticed especially was his bright green eyes that stood out.
"Hello, why is such a pretty girl all by herself?" the boy asked being very flirty.
"Cuz some gals lahke ta beh bah themselves an' listen ta music."
"Ouch that hurt, I'm Chris Aaronson...and you are?"
"Rogue."
"Nice name, Rogue."
"Ya well Ah lahke it, it's not common."
"That's for sure. So you must be new then?"
"Yeah, Ah am."
"That's cool well you need any help just ask me. Well good thing we didn't get assigned seats yet."
"Wah?"
"You never told me your last name."
"Ah don't use a last name usuallah. But tha one Ah do use is Adlah."
"Nice I think you'll sit near me, Aaronson and Adler."
"Yeah Ah guess." Rogue said with a huge sigh.
Over in Tabitha's homeroom, she is listening to her music louder than before and is surrounded by guys, three of which are Evan, Kurt, and Ray. Kurt, however, wasn't blue and fuzzy, he did have his blue hair though. He looked normal thanks to an image inducer given to him from the professor awhile ago, when he had first came to the institute. He had explained all that to Tabby before. Then there were a few other guys Tabby had no idea who they were, but they seemed to stick around her. She finally decided to take her headphones off and talk to everyone to see if she can learn names and all.
"Tabby, I'd like you to meet some of my friends." She heard Ray saying. He then pointed to a boy with black hair and hazel eyes,
"This is Chris Bradley, and this is Devon Alomar," Ray finished pointing to a boy who looked a year older than them but had light brown hair with green eyes.
"Hey Chris, and Dev, nice ta meet ya, I'm Tabitha Smith." Tabby said being very friendly to the two boys. There was another boy who seemed to be arguing with Evan, but Ray didn't introduce him. The boy arguing with Evan was tall very skinny and had silver hair and light blue eyes. He was very slim.
"So-Daniel's-still-think-you-have-a-shot-at-beating-me?" The silver haired boy said talking very fast.
"Wow, Ev, who's your friend?" Tabby said standing up and walking in-between them.
"He's not my friend."
"Oh, then who is he?"
"I'm Pietro Maximoff." Pietro said shaking her hand and then kissing it.
"Wow, and what are you arguing over."
"Nothing." Evan said obviously getting mad.
"Fine then." Tabby said changing her attention to the other boy. He had dark brown hair and dark brown eyes that matched. He was very tall, taller than Pietro that's for sure and looked old, maybe a Senior, and somehow very familiar.
"Hi!" Tabby said still bursting with energy. The dark haired boy looked up and smiled.
"Hey, I'm Lance Alv-Tabby?"
"Yeah, Lance!!! Rocky!" Lance smiled at her.
"Like my jeep?"
"Sorry bout that." Tabby smiled and gave a little laugh at her old friend.
"It's okay,"
"Wow get any new mutants to your group?" Tabby whispered that question hoping no one would overhear her.
"Just one,"
"Oh cool you have to invite me over sometimes."
"Yeah Fred and Todd will be glad to see you" Lance said sarcastically as Tabby bursted out in laughter. She looked around the room where all the kids were talking, she saw Evan and Pietro quarrelling, Ray and his two friends Chris and Devon chatting, and then she looked back to Lance, she sighed thinking of how this is only first period and there is still an hour and half of it.
Bobby and Amara were chatting away in their Russian Studies class for homeroom. Bobby had just introduced his best friend Jesse Aaronson to her who Bobby had mentioned had an older brother Christopher Aaronson in Rogue's grade. Jesse, like his brother, had green eyes, but had dark brown hair instead of black.
"Hey look Bob, Dani is here!" She heard Jesse say as he had called Dani over.
"Amara this is my best girl friend Danielle Moonstar, or Dani." Jesse had continued.
"Hi, was it Amara?" Dani said very friendly, she was about Amara's height and had jet-black hair with black eyes also, she reminded her of Jubilee, except she looked like an Indian not Chinese.
"Yes, Amara Aquilla, you can call me Mara though."
"Thanks Mara!" Dani said with a big grin on her face, "Is Betsy here?"
"Yeah, over there." Bobby had pointed out.
"Betsy, come here!" Dani shouted as the teacher scolded her for yelling. Sure enough a short girl with black hair and green eyes walked over, she was very short for their age as she can tell.
"Elisabeth Braddock, meet Amara Aquilla." Bobby had said.
"Hi Amara, call me Betsy."
"Hey call me Mara too."
Soon enough everyone was in his or her classes hanging out, finally the announcements came on and everyone got assigned seats in every classroom. In the trigonometry room Kitty had sat on the end of a row next to a boy named Piotr Rasputin, she had learned that his name was pronounced Peter, and that he was Russian. Scott was next to two girls, Taryn Talley, and Cindy Sinter. Jean however was sitting behind the boy she had met yesterday, Tucker Crawford, and was on the opposite end of the classroom than Kitty, sitting next to a boy named Paul Funel. In Rogue's Speech class she had to sit next to Chris, as he had said earlier, she was in the seat next to him and on her left was Brian Apian. Over in Tabitha's Algebra 2 she had sat next to Jono Starsmore who had happened to be a Junior. On her other side was some girl named Jennifer Sileor. Jono seemed way more interesting then her so she watched what Jono was doing, he reminded her of St. John Allerdyce, the boy she met yesterday. He had brown hair and hazel eyes though not like St. John's reddish blonde hair and blue eyes. Jono reminded her of Bobby. Amara in Russian Studies had her seat next to Jesse's and also Betsy Braddock, she was happy she made some new friends, the clock had struck 7:30, time for an hour and a half to waste in school, especially this class, Amara was thinking.
Jubilee, Rahne, Roberto, and Jamie were still at the mansion and getting ready for school. They had to take a bus to school so they had to make sure they weren't late. Jubi was rushing around her room trying to find her one shirt and finally found it. Then she grabbed Tabby's green jean skirt. She loved Tabby's skirts as they always fit her right and Tabby barely wore her green one so she wouldn't miss it anyway. Jubilee and Tabby always stole clothes from each other and neither one of them realizes it till they need what the other one is wearing or as last time Jubi caught Tabby putting her shorts on. Finally Jubilee headed downstairs and ate her breakfast with Rahne and Roberto. She had grown found of them as to any of the other X-Men. Storm and Hank were eating breakfast with them. Soon it was time for the school bus to arrive so they headed off outside with a backpack over there shoulder.
"Hey guys wait up!" Jamie yelled from behind and they reluctantly slowed down but never completely stopped.
"Jubi I bet we're in the same homeroom, cause our last names are around the same part of the alphabet.
"Oh lord save me now!" Jubilee said as Rahne and Roberto laughed.
"So when do we get our schedules?"
"In homeroom."
"Oh god I'm going to get lost."
"No you won't they purposely put you on our team since your from the Xavier Institute, so we should be in some classes together." Rahne said.
"Besides, I'll be in your homeroom." Jamie said.
"Anyway we always have gym together and most likely the same teacher too." Rahne said, "Hey Jubi sit with me on the bus."
"Sure."
"Oh I have to sit next to Jamie?"
"Just hope we don't hit a bump." Rahne said with a laugh. Finally they got to school and Jamie and Jubilee were in the same homeroom and compared their schedules, which were totally different from High School's schedule. High School's have four periods a day and hour and a half classes, while Middle School has 45-minute classes with one-hour period per day, and seven classes.
"Let me see the schedule!" Jamie said as he ripped it out of Jubilee's hands.
"Wow! We're in A, C, and F period together!"
"Good then you can show me where A period is, what class is that?"
"Pre-Algebra 1b, it's upstairs I know where it is."
"And what's C period?"
"English downstairs."
"F?"
"Science. Diagonal to this room"
"Cool." Soon the announcements came on saving Jubilee from talking to pesky Jamie, and after they got their assigned seats she was glad there were a few kids between them. Then A period came and Jamie and her headed off to Pre-Algebra part 1b. Once they got there Jamie introduced two of his friends, Michael 'Mickey' Tork, and Marie-Ange Colbert. Marie-Ange liked to be called MA and Michael liked Mickey. MA had brownish red hair like Rahne with blue eyes while Mickey had brown hair and black eyes, just like herself, other than she doesn't have brown hair. Soon MA introduced Faith Zeeder, Faith unlike anyone she's ever seen, except Kurt in his non-holo form had unusual hair color, purple, her eyes were an amethyst purple color while her hair was more dark purple black.
"Wow, Faith I love your hair. Did you dye it?"
"Nope, it's all natural, my mom doesn't like dying things, especially hair."
"That's so cool and your eyes wow, amethyst purple."
"Yup, like my birthstone, barely though, born February 1."
"That's so cool!" Jubilee was having so much fun as they all compared their schedules. MA was in all of Jubi's classes including all of her specials and same gym locker room. Faith was in Jubi's A, B, C, E, and G. B was gym, and E was specials. Mickey was in her A, D, and F, Jubilee was looking forward to this year knowing that MA, and her would become close friends, closer than she expects. It was now 8:36, in the middle of A period, only 45 minutes in these classes in middle school.
Back at the high school, everyone's first period, A, was over and all the kids scurried to their lockers or to their next class, 9:00, that meant 5 minutes to get to where ever and the bathroom and locker. Kitty had ran out of her Trigonometry class to hurry across the building to get to her Astrophysics class. She knew she'd never make it if she stopped at the bathroom or her locker. It just so happened that Tucker was also in her Astrophysics class and they had smiled when they saw each other arrive at the door from two different directions.
"Kitty?"
"Tucker, hey I didn't like know you were in Astrophysics."
"Yeah, I am, wow at least I'll know someone."
"Yeah, like I know what you mean." They entered the class together and sat down together and began to talk about things nothing in particular except Jean. Eventually they got put in alphabetical order and Pryde and Crawford were not near so Kitty had to sit in the back. She did however sit next to Ben Russel a Junior and sweet he was. He had brown hair and brown eyes but there was a certain something that drew him towards her. The strange thing about him was that anytime she was moving she could feel his eyes on her and if she would tap her pencil he always asked her to stop cause it bothers him, she always stopped of course but always confused. Kitty also noted Sharon Smith, she didn't talk to her or anything but she had the same last name as Tabby, and had white hair with cat like orange eyes.
Amara slowly walked to her locker and opened it with ease putting her backpack in it and then closing it. She sees Tabby leaning against a locker and notices her banging on it and eventually she gets it open. Once open she tossed her backpack and headphones in it, and then relocked it. Amara saw Rogue walk up to her and then Jean come out of her Trigonometry class and to them.
"Hey Amara!" Tabby yelled across the hallway. So Amara walked over to them.
"You in French?"
"Nope, I'm taking German."
"Aw, Amara, if ya would a took French, ya could a been in our class!" Rogue said disappointed.
"Sorry, I like German better, just like Kurt."
"Well duh, he's from Germany." Rogue said.
"Oh yea well." Everyone laughed.
"Well see ya Amara, we don't want to be late for French." Jean said.
"See ya Tabby, Jean, and Rogue!" So the girls separated, Jean, Tabby, and Rogue went upstairs and to the left as Amara went to the right upstairs. In Amara's German class she noted Beth was in here. Beth seemed to be a social butterfly; she kept jumping from group to group but always came back to a tall slim girl with red hair and blue eyes. Eventually Amara noticed Betsy waving to her and calling her over.
"Mara, over here!" So Amara followed Betsy's voice and stood next to her and the red head. "Mara, this is my one good friend Clarice Ferguson, we just call her Ice for short.
"Nice to meet you Ice, I'm Amara Aquilla, or Mara."
"I love your name!" The red head Ice squealed, it was kind of weird since you always think of silver or white for ice, never red as in her hair color.
"Thanks, you also have a cool name."
"Yea, it gets kinda boring though when you hear someone yelling 'Clarice come here.'" Amara and Betsy laughed.
"Guten Morgen class." The German teacher said with a big smile on her face. Soon the teacher had put everyone in alphabetical order in which Betsy sat next to Amara again, Amara was first though. They all had to pick German names and Amara couldn't choose she loved them all! Eventually she settled for Catarina.
Over in the French classroom everyone was talking and hanging out basically. Tabby sighed, she wished she didn't put her Discman in her locker. Then all of a sudden she saw Pietro in front of her. 'How did he get in front of me so fast?' Tabby wondered to herself that question, she kept thinking and was totally oblivious to Jean and Rogue asking her who he was.
"Earth ta Tabbah?" Rogue said swaying her hand in front of her face.
"Uh, what?" Jean, Pietro, and Rogue laughed.
"Are you going to introduce us to your friend?" Jean asked with a smile.
"Sure why not, this is Pietro Maximoff, he's in my Algebra 2 class, he's a Junior."
"Nahce ta meet ya, Pietro." Rogue said gruffly.
"Well glad to meet you as well, uh what's your names?"
"Oh sorry I forgot about that, the one with red hair, she's Jean, and that's Rogue. Jean is a Senior, Rogue is a Junior." Tabby added as she stuck her gum under the desk she was sitting in. However this one guy was watching Tabby and saw her stick the gum under the desk and walked over and pulled her aside. The young man looked to be about a Senior and he had dark brown hair and was wearing dark sunglasses so she couldn't distinguish his eye color, she immediately thought of Scott and his glasses.
"Bonjour, mlle. Je vous crois ai collé votre gomme sous votre bureau, oui?"
"What the hell? I got out of that, hello, miss, yes, and I. In English please!" The boy laughed and smiled.
"Bonjour, Miss. I believe you have stuck your gum under that desk, oui?"
"Oui, okay, enough French, so what's your name, you have a strong accent."
"Remy Lebeau, Cajun."
"Ah that's why."
"And your name?"
"Tabby Smith."
"Really, Remy's friend met y' yesterday."
"Really? Who?"
"St. John Allerdyce, Australian, inch shorter den Remy, blonde an' orange hair."
"Yeah, I met him he's great."
"Oui."
"So why are ya wearing shades?"
"Eye condition."
"Really? So if I ask St. John, he'll say the same thing?" Tabby thought she pronounced St. John's name right and Remy noticed that as well.
"Oui. An' did y' recover fr'm a black eye?"
"Yeah, I know it's still a bit visible."
"Oui." Just then Tabby leaned against the desk and it moved sending her onto the floor hard.
"Ow." The whole class looked at Tabby and a bunch of people crowded around her, Jean looked for the teacher and saw none assuming that he or she was in the lavatory or hallway.
"Tabby, you okay?" She heard Pietro saying. Remy extended his hand as Tabby remembered St. John doing the same thing to her. Remy bent down slightly so he could reach her down there and Tabby got a quick glance at his eyes before he pushed the frames back up. She was used to things being different and all but what she saw was the white part of his eye was black, and the pupil was red. She didn't gasp but whispered to him when he helped her up,
"Red on black, nice, gotta love those eye conditions." Remy gasped as she grinned. The teacher soon came in and settled the commotion down and assigned seats. Rogue sat next to Michelle Balters, she had black hair with brown tints in it and she was also wearing sunglasses like the boy she saw Tabby talking to. Rogue kept thinking of Remy all day, she liked him a lot even though just by looks alone with his little beard thing, he has to be a Senior.
Jean Grey was seated next to Angelica Jones, or Angel as she asks to be called. Angel had orange hair that was short and curly with orange eyes, which was unusual Jean had thought. On the other side of her was Gregory Gang, or Gregg, he was nice enough with brown hair and green eyes and a cute smile but he was obviously not a Senior, but Angel wasn't either. In the far back of the classroom was Tabby who had just been yelled at for having her feet up on the desk. The girl next to Tabby, Jen Stavros, a tall blonde with brown eyes giggled when Tabby got yelled at. She seemed Jean's age and assumed she was a Senior. On her other side was a boy named Fred Smeer. She looked ahead where she saw Pietro sitting next to Remy, and smiled thinking of her two new friends. The French class had an option of picking a French name, most didn't though.
Over in the middle school A period had ended a while ago and they were in B period, or gym. Rahne and Jubilee were in the same locker room and were happy about that. Rahne introduced Faith and Jubilee to another friend of hers, Sandy Turner, a blonde with bright emerald green eyes. For some reason Rahne and Sandy seemed very close, but yet so distant to Faith and Jubilee when they were together. A quick comparison of their schedules revealed that she was in Jubilee's B, C, D, and F. Rahne however was in her B, C, E, F, and G. As B period quickly ended, at 9:59, Rahne, Faith, MA, and Sandy all walked to their lockers and left for C period, English together. Jubi warned Rahne that Jamie was also in their English and she groaned. To everyone's surprise Roberto walked in their English class, when he saw Rahne and Jubilee he smiled.
"Hey Rahne! Jubilee! We're in the same English class!" Roberto looked so happy to see them all. With a quick look over of Jubilee and Roberto's schedule they found they are in the same C, D, E, and G. Soon they all got seats in English, unfortunately for Jubilee, she had to sit next to Jamie. Although, he wasn't as annoying as he usually is, and Jubilee liked him when he wasn't annoying, he was even cute from this one angle. Directly in front of her was Roberto and in front of Jamie was MA. She glanced towards the back of the class and saw Sandy and Rahne sitting next to each other and Faith was behind Sandy. Eventually, Jubilee had gotten bored along somewhere and totally spaced out. When she spaced back in she looked at the clock, which read 10:35, she sighed, twelve minutes left of this torture.
However, at the same time, all the high school students left their B period and were headed into C or lunch, depending on when they were scheduled for lunch, all of the X-Men had lunch after their C period. Kitty headed from her Astrophysics class a few classes away to her Computer Science class. She noticed the one boy following her, Lance Alvers as she recalled from how they were seated. She turned around and Lance stopped as well.
"Why are you like following me?" Kitty asked talking to him in the middle of the hallway.
"Cause I'm going to Computer Science and it seems your headed in the same direction."
"Really, like hey that's cool, we're in the same Computer Science class." Kitty said excited. So Lance and Kitty walked to the Computer Science class chatting about nothing in particular, Kitty had wondered if this was the Lance that Tabby stole a jeep from, but she pushed the thought out of her mind. When they got in the class Kitty quickly scanned the room for people that were in any of her other classes. She frowned, only Lance was in another class of hers so she stuck with him and chatted. He introduced two of his best friends, Todd Tolensky and Fred Dukes. Fred was humongous, he was very tall and on the large side, extra extra large that is, maybe even another extra! He had a blonde Mohawk though, and had small brown eyes. Todd on the other hand wasn't a Senior like Fred and Lance; he was a Sophomore as well and was very short indeed. He had shaggy dirty blonde, or can be considered very light brown hair. His eyes were very different being yellow.
Tabby, Rogue, and Jean all exited the French class and parted their own ways to get to their next class. However the boy named Remy caught up with Tabby.
"Tabby, wait up!" Tabby recognized the voice as the Cajun from French class.
"Remy?"
"Oui."
"We're out of French ya know." Tabby said as they began to walk together, Tabby was headed for her locker, which was around the same area as Chemistry, her next class. She figured, to drop the newly acquired French textbook with her Algebra 2 in her locker.
"Oui, natural t' say it."
"Cool, so where are you going now?"
"What class Remy's goin' t'?"
"Yeah, since you're headed in the same direction as me and I know I'm headed to my locker to throw our French text in, then to Chemistry with your buddy St. John."
"Remy's also in Chemistry." So once they stopped at Tabby's locker she gave him her schedule as she opened her locker and threw the French text in and slammed it shut and turned the dial on the lock.
"Same Chemistry class, cobbers?" said a familiar voice to Tabby she turned around and saw St. John Allerdyce.
"Wow, hey St. John."
"Tabitha," St. John winked at her then looked at Remy's schedule,
"Hey mate, loioks lioke it's us three."
"Trois?"
"Told you Cajun he's with us, I told him earlier."
"Okay y' g't Remy, Blondie." Remy decided to call her that since she called him Cajun.
"Okay great..." Tabby said out loud and smiled, St. John leaned closer to her and pointed out the chemistry room again to her. Tabby could smell his cologne and she liked it very much and was well being Tabby, which meant flirting. So the three of them headed into the chemistry room that St. John pointed out. Already inside Chemistry were Ray and Sam from the institute. She also noted Pietro in there and grinned, thinking 'Wow that kid Pietro is fast and is in 3 of my classes, creepy'. Pietro recognized the blonde walking in with his old buddy Remy and St. John.
"Hey Allerdyce, Lebeau, Tabby." Pietro said standing right in front of them after they sat down at a table together. 'Damn he's fast' Tabby thought as she dropped into her chair, St. John sat right next to her and Remy sat on the other side of St. John. Pietro however stayed standing on the other side of Tabby, Ray and Sam who were up the next table turned around and grinned at Tabby.
"Hey ya all!" Tabby said brightly as she noticed a lot of girl's staring at her and realized they were jealous that five guys were paying attention to her, and not them.
"Tabby, what is this our third class together?" Pietro asked smugly, putting a cute smirk on his face.
"Yup, I believe it is, and do you have gym next?"
"Yup. But you'll be in the girl's gym to change and all but we'll see each other on the field!"
"Sweet." Tabby said with a grin. Ray and Sam smiled as they saw a friend of theirs; Sally Blevins walk into the room. Sally was short being 5'1" and had short curly light brown hair and brown eyes. She walked over and sat with Ray and Sam as they introduced Tabby, and Tabby introduced St. John and Remy.
Rogue and Amara had planned on meeting up and walking to Geometry together as Rogue was waiting for Amara, who she thought forgot.
"Rogue!" Amara called out.
"Mara?"
"Right here, sorry took me so long, it's like a Rush Hour I swear." Rogue laughed at her joke as they headed to Geometry. "Bobby is in our Geometry class but he says he'll meet us in the room."
"So ya lahke Bobbah as a boyfrend?"
"I like him a lot just am unsure of how to tell him."
"Well it seems he lahkes ya a lot as well. So it shouldn't beh ta difficult."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Amara agreed as they walked into the classroom. Bobby was already sitting in a desk waiting for the girls as they walked in. Amara noted Bobby talking to Dani, and saw another boy with them as well as another girl. The boy was about Bobby's height and brown hair like Bobby but had dark black eyes. The girl with them had black hair and dark brown eyes. She was an inch shorter than Amara, who was a meek 5 foot 3 inches.
"Rogue, Amara!" Bobby said calling them over and waving. "I'd like you to meet some more of my friends." Bobby smiled and Amara blushed. Bobby pointed to the black haired girl, "This is Johanna Cargill or Jo, and this is Tyler Dayspring, or Ty." Bobby finished, however Rogue had no clue who Dani was.
"Ah'm Rogue." Rogue began, "Who's thaht?" she gestured to Dani.
"My bad Danielle or Dani Moonstar."
"I'm Amara Aquilla." Amara added.
"Yeah, I remember you!" Dani said with a genuine nice smile. Soon another boy walked up to Tyler and Bobby.
"Hey guys." The blonde blue-eyed boy said.
"Hey, Amara, Rogue this is Brian Braddock, Betsy's twin."
"Nahce, who's Betsah?" Rogue said confused.
"Another friend of Bob's, I'm Amara by the way." Amara said to Brian who smiled.
"Yeah, Betsy is nice and well you should meet her." Brian said to Rogue. When class started Rogue ended up next to Amara, who was next to Brian then came Jo who was next to Ty and last was Bobby, and that was the whole first row.
Jean had ran from her French class to her American Literature, which were not that close but she stopped at her locker to drop off her textbooks, Trigonometry and the new French. Soon she arrived into her class and spotted Scott sitting with a whole bunch of girl's. Jean felt a little left out, so she sat near the back to wait for the assigned seats. Jean wasn't entirely thrilled in this class as she looked back at Scott whom she thought she liked a tiny bit. She looked at the girl who sat next to him in class, Sharon Smith, that name sounded familiar other than Smith being Tabby's last name. She ignored it however and decided to try and concentrate on her American Literature. She did however glance at the clock once and saw that it was 11:00, she sighed there was still a great deal of class time..
However at the Middle School there was 35 minutes of D period left, they had switched classes again. Jubilee was with Roberto in social studies. Mickey from her A period was also there, with MA from all her classes, which she'll always be in and of course Sandy. She did however meet two new boys thanks to Roberto, Doug Ramsey, a boy of about Amara's height 5 foot 3 and with bright blonde hair like Tabby and black eyes. The other boy Troy Yalon, was tall for his age being 5 foot 6, and had Kurt's hair sort of, except very light blue. However, not fuzzy, but he did have blue eyes. He was very shy even though kids did make fun of his hair that he had claimed was platinum blonde but dyed blue, the truth was though he really had blue hair. After sitting through the rest of the class, those 35 minutes it was lunchtime.
So Roberto decided to meet Jubilee next to her locker and walk her to the lunchroom. Once in the lunchroom Roberto and Jubilation spotted Rahne, MA, and Faith waving to them. They quickly walked over to them and set their lunches down on the table. Soon enough Doug, Troy, Jamie, Sandy, and Mickey joined them as they chatted away about random topics, most of the revolving around Jubilee since she was new.
Lunch ended at 12:08 and they all got dismissed and went to their E period, which was specials, Jubilee was in home economic with Roberto, Rahne, MA, Doug and Faith. In home economics they got to pick tables of where and whom they wanted to sit with. They decided to split up having Jubilee, Rahne, and Faith, at one table while Roberto, MA, and Doug had gotten their own table. The tables were right next to each other though so they could easily chat the six of them. E was the hour period today and they had first lunch today, meaning they ate before the hour, having second lunch was splitting the hour period and third lunch was after the hour period.
Over in the high school it was 12:12, everyone had exited their classes 2 minutes ago and many were headed to lunch including all of the X-Men. Amara sat with Bobby and Rogue and some of Bobby's friends that she had met earlier, that included, Dani, Jesse, Betsy, from A period, and Brian, Jo and Ty from C period as well as Ice from B period. Rogue sat Semi-out of the group, at the end next to Chris A, from A period and two boys who introduced themselves as Chris's friends and they were in her C period, Jonothon or Jono Starsmore, he was in Tabby's A period but Rogue didn't know that. Also, Benjamin or Ben Russel, he had been in Kitty's Astrophysics class, and they were all Juniors.
Kurt was also sitting with Rogue. Jean had decided to sit with Tucker, Scott, and the jocks basically. Kitty had decided to sit with Lance, and Jess Drew from her Trigonometry class. Lance was also with some of his friends, Fred and Todd, Kitty tried to ignore the fact Todd stunk, and he resembled a toad to her. Tabby however was sitting with Remy, St. John, Pietro, Ray, Sam, Sally, and some other boys she met before but couldn't remember their names, one she thought was Devon but didn't want to open her mouth and say his name incase it was wrong.
At 12:45, lunch ended and all of the X-Men and some new friends of theirs were all headed to the gyms to get locker row assignments as well as lockers and information on sports. It was the last period of the day so mostly everyone headed to their lockers and got all their stuff. Jean had carried her books in her backpack and met up with Kitty who had a ton of books as well, Trigonometry, Astrophysics, and a Computer Science book, all of which are thick and heavy. Jean carried her Trigonometry, French that wasn't as thick, and American Literature book, which wasn't hardback, like the rest. Rogue had gotten to her locker and got out all her books, she didn't bring a backpack like Jean, Kitty, Amara, and Tabby. She grabbed the light Speech book as well as the French, and Geometry, which was probably the heaviest. She put her headphones on and turned Garbage up, as she looked around as of not sure where to go and spotted Amara and Bobby. Bobby was talking to her as she unloaded her books into her backpack. She noted Geometry, German, and Russian Studies as she zipped it up.
"Amahrah!" Rogue called out as Amara turned and saw Rogue walking towards her. Bobby quickly left to go to the boy's gym as Rogue caught up with Amara.
"I promised Tabz I'd wait for her, come on her locker is right there." Sure enough Rogue saw Tabby yanking out her backpack and shoving in Algebra 2, French, and a Chemistry book. She then grabbed her headphones and put them on and put the music on as well. Near her locker was St. John who saw Amara and Rogue. He left with Remy to gym when he saw them approaching Tabby.
"Amara!" Tabby called out as Amara and Rogue joined the blonde.
"Hey Tab, come on let's get to gym!" amara said as the three girls set off for gym. Once they got there they sat down with Kitty and Jean and began to chat a bit, until they were put into squads, according to what teacher they had, they all had the same teacher so had the same locker room row.
Over in the Middle School is was now 1:20, an hour later the high school would be letting out and then a half hour later the middle school's would let out. It was now F period, Jubilee had survived the hour period of home economics and now was in F period science, she knew she was going to die having the most boring teacher in the world who only knows how to talk very slow and with no emotion. She had to sit next to Jamie, which made it even worse, even though she thought he was cute, but annoying she reminded herself.
They had to sit at tables of two and Jamie was her partner. She glanced behind her and diagonal and saw Rahne yawning. Glancing ahead and diagonal the other direction she saw Roberto listening intensely as if he would miss something. Next to Roberto was MA who looked to be asleep and she smiled to herself. Right behind Rahne were Mickey and Sandy who were both passing notes from back and forth and eventually included Rahne. The teacher of theirs seemed not to notice or not to care.
Over at high school the bell had rang finally and they had gotten their bags and books and all headed towards their transportation. They had called the same rides as before so Amara and Tabby were walking towards her jeep as Rogue, Kitty, and Jean headed towards Scott's car. Tabby jumped in the jeep and threw her backpack down on the floor where Amara slid in.
"I could hold your backpack you know." Amara said nicely.
"Doesn't matter just text books that need to be covered are in there. Discman is on me."
"Oh okay then." Amara said as she waved to Bobby and Sam walking over to the jeep. Ray and Evan ran up behind them as well and everyone piled in, Bobby sat up front next to Amara, while the three others were in the back.
"Come on let's get this party started!" Tabby said turning on her jeep and fixing her rearview mirror. Tabby then pulled out of the school fast as her usual way.
"Uh, Tabby do you have a license?" Bobby asked.
"Nah can't wait till I get one though." Everyone other than Amara turned pale white.
"She' a good driver though." Amara said, as they stared in disbelief, "Well only when she wants to be." Amara added giggling. Tabby looked into her rearview mirror and saw Scott's car right behind them, Scott waved, as did everyone but Tabby, who was watching the traffic light turn green. Her jeep lurched forward as they began their journey home and arrived quickly as possible.
In Middle school it was 2:25, Jubilee was so excited to be in her last class, foreign language or reading, for the first half of the year she was in languages and the second half she got reading. They had German right now for 30 days then Spanish and then French. The German teacher was funny and had woken Jubilee up from the boring science teacher. The seating arrangement was unpredictable, it wasn't in alphabetical it was random, unlike her homeroom, but Jubilee liked her seat even if she was front and centered. To the right of her was Doug; the blonde who was also in her D and E and on her left was Rahne. Right behind her was even MA and behind her was Roberto. Faith sat next to MA right behind Rahne and Sandy was on the other side of Doug. Jubilee was happy when the bell rang and she got her backpack out of her locker and shoved her binder and math book in, the only book she received today. Rahne, Jamie, and Roberto met up and all walked to the bus dock together where Faith and MA were talking.
"Hey Faith, MA, I didn't know you rode our bus."
"Yeah, we do. We just didn't know you before when we were on the bus."
"Makes sense" Jubilee said with a grin.
"Doug and Sandy ride bus 80, and Troy and Mickey they walk home, they live diagonal, they're neighbors basically." MA had informed Jubilee.
"That's so cool."
"And we all live together as well." Rahne added with a smile.
"Yeah, you told me that before." Faith said with a smile.
"The Institute for Gifted Youngsters." MA added, "Something like that."
"Si." Roberto said as their bus pulled up and they boarded it.
At the mansion, Jean and Amara were hanging outside by the pool, Rogue was talking with Kitty in the family room and Tabby was up in her room blaring her music, Nine Inch Nails, "Closer". Logan growls hearing her music and hears Tabby singing along,
"I wanna fuck you like an animal!" Logan walks in and turns off her music.
"Blondie, I'd rather you not blare that music."
"Why not?"
"I wanna fuck you like an animal? What's wrong with that picture."
"Oh oops, sorry I won't blare that song, or any with the word-"
"Okay fine" Logan cut her off. As he wandered downstairs as Tabby changed the CD's in her 5-disc CD changer that was in the room when she came, it was on her Guns N Roses CD, "November Rain" was playing. Tabby laid back on her bed as she heard the lyrics start:
"When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain"
Tabby puts a magazine over her head and begins to think about the lyrics, and then to some of the guys she met today, Pietro, Remy, and St. John, but she met him yesterday. Soon she hears her door open and bolts straight up on her bed and sees its only Jubilee, which meant the rest of them were home.
"Tabby what are you doing with a magazine on your face and playing your music so loud as always." Jubilee said in a happy singsong voice turning the CD player down.
"Just been thinking of the lyrics to the song that's all."
"Oh" Jubilee said sitting down next to her and grabbing the magazine.
"Thinking about a guy?" She asked looking at the article of the magazine, "Ten Things Guys Hate."
"What?" said Tabby shocked and surprised and sees the article she wasn't even reading, but had read before.
"So how old is he, name, classes, appearance?" Jubi started to ask as Tabby laughed.
"If we could take the time
to lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain"
Jubilee heard the lyrics and pondered for a few moments then finally she spoke up.
"So ya gonna tell your favorite roommate anything about him?" Tabby laughed.
"You're my only roommate."
"That's why I'm your favorite."
"Okay well there are two that I like in particular and then there is this other one who seems to follow me around a lot."
"Oooo, a stalker!" Tabby laughed.
"Well the one I met yesterday at the school, St. John Allerdyce, however his first name is pronounced Sin Jin, but he tells me to call him John, but hey I try to call him Sin Jin." Jubi laughed,
"His name is funny."
"He's Australian."
"Ah going for a man with an accent." Tabby smiled at Jubi.
"Yeah, well he's outa my league, a Senior just like the 'stalker.' Both Seniors"
"Bummer."
"I know."
"And the third mystery man?"
"Pietro Maximoff, sweet guy a Junior, I might have a chance with him."
"Ooo do tell about him." Jubi said flipping through the magazine and glancing at Tabby.
"Well he has silvery hair with pale blue eyes, tall, very skinny. Very fast at everything, he talks fast and moves fast and always seems there." Jubilee smiled at the description and laughed at the last words.
"Well how many classes is he in."
"Well all of them, except in gym he goes to the Boy's Gym but then again we do meet outside when both gym classes come together."
"You're so lucky!" Jubilee squealed from delight. Just then Kitty phased through the door and into Tabby and Jubilee's room.
"Hey guys, like a party and no one like invited me?" Kitty said looking from the music, which had just ended, to Tabby and Jubilee on the bed with the magazine. A new song started up "Back off Bitch." The CD Tabby had put on Random order. Kitty walked over and sat on Jubilee's bed across from Tabby and Jubilee.
"Not really just chatting." Tabby answered.
"Okay like whatever but I was just passing by and like heard you talking about like boys. So spill who you like, like!" Tabby laughed as she told Kitty about Pietro and St. John.
"Like in gym you got to like point the guys out for me." Kitty said once Tabby had finished.
Outside Rogue had joined Amara and Jean because Kitty had left to go to the bathroom. Amara and Jean were talking about how their day went and all the people they met and how they liked it here much better than where they were.
"So Rogue meet any guys you like at this school?" Jean asked curious as to what the Goth of the group would say.
"Ah saw this one cute guy talkin' with Tabbah, and saw some othah guy who kept flirtin' wit' meh."
"Really?" Amara said.
"Yeah what about ya, Jean?" Rogue asked.
"Tucker Crawford, I just love him he's such a great guy."
"So fah." Rogue said with a snort, she didn't like Tucker from the first time they met.
"Your just jealous aren't you." Jean said stubbornly.
"Hey cut it out you two." Amara said as Rogue and Jean were beginning to feud over boys again. Amara had rolled her eyes and picked up her backpack that she never took to her room yet and headed inside away from the fight. Going inside she bumped into Logan who was headed out to swim it looked since he was in his bathing suit and had a towel in hand.
"Sorry, Mr. Logan." Amara said bending down to pick up her books, which had spilled out.
"It's okay, Mouse" Logan said bending down and helping her pick the books up. Amara noticed how he called her Mouse again and assumed it was a nickname like, Blondie, for Tabby. When she had collected her books Logan moved out of her way as she walked up to her room, and he headed outside.
Upstairs she walked past Tabby's room hearing music she never heard of playing and entered her room. She went to her night stand which had a bookshelf underneath and placed her backpack there, however first she dumped the contents out on her bed. She began separating the papers by class and grabbing an old binder from her closet from last year to put the papers in. Soon Kitty had phased into her room and was sitting beside her.
"Hey Mara! What's up?"
"Nothing, just using an old binder of mine for my papers."
"You know like the institute has a ton of binders?"
"Really?"
"Yeah, from like zipper 3 inch ones, to like non zipper 1 inch ones. They are in the office. I like grabbed one before, like a zipper one, let me like see your papers." So Amara handed over the papers as she stacked the books into a pile.
"What binder should I use?" Amara asked quietly as Kitty scanned over the papers quickly.
"Nothing exactly suggests one for like each class so I say like come with me and let's get you a binder, like notebook paper and dividers, oh and pretty colored folders!" Kitty said smiling as they phased through the door. And she led her to the office. Outside Jean and Rogue aren't speaking to each other from their argument as Logan skims the pool watching them. Eventually Rogue gets annoyed and walks inside to find Kitty, someone she could talk to, maybe the fuzzy elf, she thought.
"Now Red, what are you two arguing about?" Logan said making Jean's nickname Red, the color of her hair, similar to Tabby's nickname Blondie, her hair color.
"Umm we always fight, usually about guys."
"Oh and why?"
"Cause she never likes the guys that I like, I mean I don't want her to like them but to just like them, you know what I mean?" Jean asked nervously.
"I never heard 'like' so many times in one sentence."
"You obviously haven't talked to Kitty much then."
"Oh okay, now explain this to me again."
"I would wish Rogue would like the guy I like as just a friend, she always disapproves of the guys I like saying she doesn't like him."
"Okay, well she just needs time I guess." Logan said wishing he never got involved. Jean stood up and walked back inside the mansion deciding to get all her school papers out and organized before dinner, at 6:00, they were all eating dinner together again since the new plan didn't work. Walking inside she glanced at a clock, 4:00 she had two hours before dinner, plenty of time she thought as she walked to her room.
Dinner came and went fast as they all chatted watched television and fixed up their school stuff. They learned that tomorrow they were going to have a training session at 3:00 until 4:30 or 5:00, depending on how well they do, and Logan is running it, so it wouldn't be as easy with Beast as they had it. They also learned the policy that to have friends come over they had to ask in advance so everyone is prepared to not use their powers.
At midnight Tabby finally began to get her school stuff ready putting everything in a binder just throwing it in there, when you opened it you saw three notebooks, three folders and three dividers as well as her French book in it. She sighed cause she knew she wouldn't be asleep until late as usual, being the insomniac that she was. She soon wandered around the house looking around the building and everything until one when she went into her room and into her bed, and tried to sleep, forgetting yet again to set her alarm clock.