Hey guys, I know it's been a while since I updated, but I've been
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Denise smiled sheepishly, something she did not do often, and spoke. "He did, did he?"
Kurt nodded, wondering what was going on. Denise had never acted this way. It was kind of weird, now that he thought about it. Maybe Lance was just joking with him when he had called.
"Well, um, you see, uh, man I hate heights," she rambled, looking towards the edge of the building.
"Dee, are you okay?"
"Totally fine!" She put on her best grin, wondering if she looked as goofy as she felt.
"So, vhat did you vant to ask me?"
"Um, well.. Man, I'm gonna kill Lance."
Kurt raised an eyebrow at that, but kept silent. Denise took a deep breath and released it before speaking again.
"Lance has this idea in his head that I need a date type thing to the party. I don't know why, he's just weird like that. Call him old fashion, I guess." She laughed nervously and Kurt suspected more than what she was saying, but he shook it off.
"Oh, vell, I guess I could accompany you. If zat's okay."
"It's fine. I'm sure Lance won't worry about me too much then. Can we get down now?"
Kurt nodded, placing a hand on her shoulder and teleporting them to the ground after making sure no one was looking. Denise let out a breath of relief, then glared across the parking lot to where her cousin was talking with Kitty beside his jeep.
"See you later, Kurt," she said as she began to march towards her cousin.
Kurt blinked at the unexpected use of his name before heading towards Scott's car, thoughts racing through his mind. Denise was halfway to Lance's jeep when she realized what she had said moments earlier. Her eyes widened as she felt herself turn really red. She had avoided addressing him for fear of saying his name instead of the ever usual 'Fuzzy', but in her haste to kill her cousin, she'd let it slip. She groaned, but continued towards her cousin all the same.
"Lance! I hope you're happy!! That was the most humiliating experience of my life!! Right up there with what's gonna happen when everyone sees me in the costume Rogue so graciously picked out for me!!"
"What did I do?" he asked her, snickering. Kitty looked between the two, confusion written on her face.
"You know damn well what you did! Me, Kurt, the roof!! I can't believe you!!"
"Wait! What's, like, so bad about that?" Kitty interjected.
"She likes him."
"Lance!!"
"Oh!! That's, like, awesome!!"
Denise groaned. "I'm leavin'. Hurry up, Lance. You're orderin' pizza tonight."
"Why don't you order it?"
"I have to go job huntin'. Besides, I need to pick somethin' up from the mall first." With that said, Denise turned her back towards the couple, heading over to her car.
"That was, like, weird."
"Yeah, she didn't kill me."
"No, I mean, she, like, said Kurt. She usually, like, calls him Fuzzy."
Lance grinned. "I wonder if she let that slip while talking to him."
"What do you, like, mean?"
"Knowing my cousin, whenever she gives someone a nickname, she only says their real name when something's important, she's being serious, or she's really nervous."
"Oh. I could, like, ask him, like, when I get home."
"That's okay. We'll just wait until the party. See you later, Pretty Kitty."
Kitty giggled as she started towards Scott's car. "Like, bye Lance." She waved to him, ignoring Scott as he honked his horn for her to hurry up.
As she hopped in the car, she saw Denise's car drive by, Ryka, Darcy, and Wanda riding with her. Wanda said something Kitty couldn't make out, but she did see Denise giggle slightly while Darcy said something in response, causing Denise's giggles to increase and Wanda to glare. Third Eye Blind's 'Semi-charmed Kind of Life' started blasting through the speakers and Denise turned it up, singing along.
Kitty shook her head, giggling slightly as Denise's car vanished from sight. Kurt was sitting beside her, and on the other side was Evan, grinning like a kid who had just stole from the cookie jar and gotten away with it. Amber sat in the passenger seat. As Scott started the car, Kitty looked over at Evan.
"So, like, did you ask her?"
Evan blushed, knowing exactly who she was referring to. "Uh, yeah. She said yes."
"Really!! That's, like, so totally cool!"
"Yeah, man. Lance ask you yet?"
"Yep!" she squealed, her eyes shimmering slightly. "He, like, wrote a song to, like, ask me! It was, like, so romantic!!"
Scott rolled his eyes as he headed for the mansion. Kitty sighed dreamily as she waited for Scott to pull up to the mansion so that she could go write today's events down in her diary. Kurt and Amber simply grinned at Kitty's overly happy reply.
At the Brotherhood house, Denise had just dropped the other girls off and was heading for the mall when Lance came outside.
"Denny-girl, I really am sorry for putting you in such a tight spot."
"It's okay, Lancey-boy. We both know I wouldn't have done anything like that if you hadn't. Despite my outgoing personality, I'm really shy around guys I like. But that's our little secret."
Lance grinned as he winked at her. "Alright. Hurry up and get back here, I'll order your favorite."
Denise beamed as she gave a thumbs up and then sped off. When she reached the mall, she noticed that there was a job opening in a store that sold music equipment. She quickly went in and filled out an application before heading for the computer store. Thankfully, her mom had left her enough money to buy a new laptop. She really needed to write Drew an e- mail, asking him if he would like to come to the Halloween party.
Yesima waited until she heard St. John scream before she came out of her hiding place, snickering. She had pulled about four pranks on the guys since she had gotten here. St. John glared at her as Remy came in to see what was going on.
"That was NOT funny, sheila!"
"Of course it was!"
Remy couldn't help but chuckle slightly upon seeing the Aussie covered in pink paint, with purple feathers sticking to him.
"De chere is right."
St. John glared at Remy before stomping off towards the showers, passing Jennifer on his way. Jennifer blinked as she watched him, before turning towards the other two Acolytes. She shook her head as she headed for Piotr's room. She was intent on talking him into going to the party with them.
"So, did de chere pick out a costume?"
Yesima nodded. "I'm going as Malik no hikari."
Remy raised an eyebrow, but he didn't say anything. "Well, chere, Remy don' have a date." He smiled that charming smile of his.
Yesima raised an eyebrow. "Well, seeing that I have so many admirers," she began sarcastically. "I'll have to get back to you. I think I might be open, though."
As she walked off towards her room, Remy chuckled lightly. This party was going to be quite an interesting event.
"So, like, I heard Evan asked you, like, to be his date," Kitty squealed when Rogue entered their shared room.
Rogue sighed as she shook her head. She knew her roommate would bombard her with questions the moment she saw her. That's why Rogue had stalled before confronting Kitty.
"He did. And Ah said yes."
"I know! He, like, told me you did, like, on the ride home. So, what, like, happened?"
"He came up to me an' Dee when Ah was at mah locker. He asked me, Ah answered, we went our separate ways."
"Aww, your no fun!!" Kitty seemed to pout for a minute before her usual cheery smile came back to her. "Well, like, I guess I'll just go ask Evan."
Rogue groaned as she plopped down on her bed and began telling Kitty what happened between her and Evan, although it wasn't all that much, Kitty soaked up every little detail.
Mystique was in a human form, walking through the mall, looking into shop windows, when she spotted one of the Brotherhood members. Denise, she believed the girl's name was. She remembered the girl being quite cheerful the last time they had been face to face, but now, she was staring forlornly at a television screen showing people protesting in L.A. Mystique made her way over to the girl.
"Are you okay?"
Denise blinked as she turned towards the brunette woman who had come to stand beside her. "Yeah, I'll be fine."
"You know, a lot of people, your cousin included, wouldn't believe me to be a nice person."
"You know my cousin?" Denise asked, disbelieving.
"Lance Alvers, also known as Avalanche."
"How do you know him?"
"I'm a shape-shifter, Denise, but Lance and the others like to call me boss lady."
"Mystique, wasn't it?" At the woman's nod, she continued. "Why aren't you all that nice?"
Mystique sighed. "I'm a bad mother. Worse than that, actually. That's not important, though. It's too personal. I don't like to talk about it much."
"You can't be any worse of a mother than mine is."
Mystique glanced at Denise out of the corner of her eye, but kept quiet. She didn't want to press Denise about it, but Denise seemed to want to talk about it, so she continued on.
"Remember when the Brotherhood was fighting the X-Men and Logan called off the attack?" Mystique nodded, but Denise didn't continue. She looked around before turning towards Mystique. "I'd rather not talk about it here. We should go somewhere else. I have a car."
Mystique nodded and Denise headed for the exit. "I know somewhere we could go, if you'll allow me to drive."
Denise handed her the keys as they reached the black Cavalier and climbed into the passenger seat. Mystique climbed into the driver's seat and headed for the construction site she had told Kurt to meet her at when she was to reveal herself as his mother. Both climbed out of the car, Mystique changing into her true form, and headed for a secluded part of the site.
"My parents had been watching the news when they saw the fight," Denise stated as she sat down. "My dad told me it was either being a mutant or getting out of his house. My mother didn't even stand up to him. She just stood there and watched. My parents disowned me without a second thought. Surely you can't beat that."
"Kurt's my son. Rogue's my daughter. I didn't mean to let them go. I wanted to keep them with every fiber of my being, but I just couldn't. I lost Kurt after Magneto.... After what he'd done, I ran. But he sent wolves after me, and when I got to the bridge, I dropped him. I dropped my baby into the rapids. When I saw him being taken in by those humans, I knew he'd be better off with them. I guess I was slightly happy when I found out he was at Xavier's. At least he wasn't being used by Magneto. And I used Rogue. My own daughter and I used her. I'm a terrible mother. I don't deserve a second chance."
Denise shook her head. "Everybody deserves a second chance. Not matter what, you always deserve a second chance. As a mother or a daughter." She looked down after saying this last part. Shortly after, though, her head shot up. "Do you believe in destiny?"
Mystique blinked. "I've never really thought about it."
"I do. I believe everything happens for a reason, even if it sucks. Maybe, just maybe, this is our second chance."
Mystique seemed the think about this before she smiled ever so slightly and nodded. "It just may be. Well, we'd better get home before the imbeciles destroy the house."
"No kidding! Man, I swear the next time Wanda blasts someone into the wall, we should stick Freddy between that person and the wall!"
Mystique couldn't help what she did next. She laughed. Mystique actually laughed a whole hearted, full blown laugh. She stood up, waiting for Denise to do the same, then made her way towards the car. She tossed Denise the keys and they climbed in, heading back to the Boarding House. When they arrived, Lance was outside, trying to fix something on his jeep.
"Having problems Lancey-boy?"
"Shut up, Denise!"
Denise giggled. Lance hadn't looked up to see Mystique climb out of the same car as his cousin, but Pietro had seen from the living room window. He rushed outside to greet the blue skinned woman.
"Mystique. What are you doing back so early? I mean, not that we don't mind having you around," he stated in his usual fast tone.
Lance finally realized Mystique had come back with Denise and looked at his cousin curiously.
Mystique glared at Pietro before turning towards Denise. "Thanks for the talk."
Denise nodded before heading up towards her room. She had a lot of thinking to do.
"Well, what are you two staring at?!"
"Nothing," Pietro said before rushing off to do whatever.
Lance simply shrugged and went back to working on his jeep. Mystique growled, heading for her own room, trying to at least act angry. A small smile, barely visible, remained on her lips, though. Maybe, just maybe, she had one other true friend besides Irene in this world.
By the time Friday afternoon rolled around, everyone invited to the party at the Institute had their costumes ready and waiting, although they could barely contain themselves. Well, most of them anyway. Wanda wasn't exactly happy to be going to the party, but considering that Todd was not her date, she didn't mind as much. Adolf had expressed that he'd rather stay home and train, but he gave in after seeing Wanda blast Todd into the wall with a hex bolt for the fiftieth time in one day. Darcy was sitting on her bed, writing a song, when Denise stormed in, arms crossed and eyes glaring. When the ground began to rumble, Darcy took that as her queue to say something.
"Earthquakes may have been a normal occurrence in California, but here it may seem a little suspicious. Especially if a volcano follows shortly afterwards."
Denise blinked as her anger slowly dissipated. She looked at her roommate before sighing.
"Yeah, I know. He just gets on my nerves sometimes."
"Lance?" she asked, looking up from her song.
"Pietro. He's so full of himself! I mean, he really needs to get a grip on reality and learn the nothing revolves around him."
"He is quite the self-centered asshole."
Denise nodded as she fell onto her bed. "Man, I can't wait until tomorrow."
"Yeah, the fireworks are sure to blow everyone's mind."
Denise blinked as she studied her roommate. Darcy had gone back to writing her song, acting as if what she had just said made perfect sense, even though no one had said anything about fireworks.
"Sometimes, you scare me."
"Likewise, my short tempered friend."
Denise shook her head as she got up. "Whatever you say mein freund."
Darcy cocked an eyebrow. "You know German?"
"Enough to get by."
"Does that guy know?"
"Fuzzy?" At Darcy's nod, Denise shook her head. "I doubt it. I don't talk German much. I'll catch ya later. I need to talk to Lance 'bout somethin'."
Darcy nodded as she watched Denise leave, her eyes never leaving her songbook.
Alright, there's the eleventh chappie! I hope to write more soon!! Laterz!!
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DoctorWhat – Thanks a bunch! The party is coming up! I hope it will be good.
AidanKeketIsis – Thanks! I'm trying! The next chapter should be up a.s.a.p.
Disclaimer: I do not own, although I wish I did.
Denise smiled sheepishly, something she did not do often, and spoke. "He did, did he?"
Kurt nodded, wondering what was going on. Denise had never acted this way. It was kind of weird, now that he thought about it. Maybe Lance was just joking with him when he had called.
"Well, um, you see, uh, man I hate heights," she rambled, looking towards the edge of the building.
"Dee, are you okay?"
"Totally fine!" She put on her best grin, wondering if she looked as goofy as she felt.
"So, vhat did you vant to ask me?"
"Um, well.. Man, I'm gonna kill Lance."
Kurt raised an eyebrow at that, but kept silent. Denise took a deep breath and released it before speaking again.
"Lance has this idea in his head that I need a date type thing to the party. I don't know why, he's just weird like that. Call him old fashion, I guess." She laughed nervously and Kurt suspected more than what she was saying, but he shook it off.
"Oh, vell, I guess I could accompany you. If zat's okay."
"It's fine. I'm sure Lance won't worry about me too much then. Can we get down now?"
Kurt nodded, placing a hand on her shoulder and teleporting them to the ground after making sure no one was looking. Denise let out a breath of relief, then glared across the parking lot to where her cousin was talking with Kitty beside his jeep.
"See you later, Kurt," she said as she began to march towards her cousin.
Kurt blinked at the unexpected use of his name before heading towards Scott's car, thoughts racing through his mind. Denise was halfway to Lance's jeep when she realized what she had said moments earlier. Her eyes widened as she felt herself turn really red. She had avoided addressing him for fear of saying his name instead of the ever usual 'Fuzzy', but in her haste to kill her cousin, she'd let it slip. She groaned, but continued towards her cousin all the same.
"Lance! I hope you're happy!! That was the most humiliating experience of my life!! Right up there with what's gonna happen when everyone sees me in the costume Rogue so graciously picked out for me!!"
"What did I do?" he asked her, snickering. Kitty looked between the two, confusion written on her face.
"You know damn well what you did! Me, Kurt, the roof!! I can't believe you!!"
"Wait! What's, like, so bad about that?" Kitty interjected.
"She likes him."
"Lance!!"
"Oh!! That's, like, awesome!!"
Denise groaned. "I'm leavin'. Hurry up, Lance. You're orderin' pizza tonight."
"Why don't you order it?"
"I have to go job huntin'. Besides, I need to pick somethin' up from the mall first." With that said, Denise turned her back towards the couple, heading over to her car.
"That was, like, weird."
"Yeah, she didn't kill me."
"No, I mean, she, like, said Kurt. She usually, like, calls him Fuzzy."
Lance grinned. "I wonder if she let that slip while talking to him."
"What do you, like, mean?"
"Knowing my cousin, whenever she gives someone a nickname, she only says their real name when something's important, she's being serious, or she's really nervous."
"Oh. I could, like, ask him, like, when I get home."
"That's okay. We'll just wait until the party. See you later, Pretty Kitty."
Kitty giggled as she started towards Scott's car. "Like, bye Lance." She waved to him, ignoring Scott as he honked his horn for her to hurry up.
As she hopped in the car, she saw Denise's car drive by, Ryka, Darcy, and Wanda riding with her. Wanda said something Kitty couldn't make out, but she did see Denise giggle slightly while Darcy said something in response, causing Denise's giggles to increase and Wanda to glare. Third Eye Blind's 'Semi-charmed Kind of Life' started blasting through the speakers and Denise turned it up, singing along.
Kitty shook her head, giggling slightly as Denise's car vanished from sight. Kurt was sitting beside her, and on the other side was Evan, grinning like a kid who had just stole from the cookie jar and gotten away with it. Amber sat in the passenger seat. As Scott started the car, Kitty looked over at Evan.
"So, like, did you ask her?"
Evan blushed, knowing exactly who she was referring to. "Uh, yeah. She said yes."
"Really!! That's, like, so totally cool!"
"Yeah, man. Lance ask you yet?"
"Yep!" she squealed, her eyes shimmering slightly. "He, like, wrote a song to, like, ask me! It was, like, so romantic!!"
Scott rolled his eyes as he headed for the mansion. Kitty sighed dreamily as she waited for Scott to pull up to the mansion so that she could go write today's events down in her diary. Kurt and Amber simply grinned at Kitty's overly happy reply.
At the Brotherhood house, Denise had just dropped the other girls off and was heading for the mall when Lance came outside.
"Denny-girl, I really am sorry for putting you in such a tight spot."
"It's okay, Lancey-boy. We both know I wouldn't have done anything like that if you hadn't. Despite my outgoing personality, I'm really shy around guys I like. But that's our little secret."
Lance grinned as he winked at her. "Alright. Hurry up and get back here, I'll order your favorite."
Denise beamed as she gave a thumbs up and then sped off. When she reached the mall, she noticed that there was a job opening in a store that sold music equipment. She quickly went in and filled out an application before heading for the computer store. Thankfully, her mom had left her enough money to buy a new laptop. She really needed to write Drew an e- mail, asking him if he would like to come to the Halloween party.
Yesima waited until she heard St. John scream before she came out of her hiding place, snickering. She had pulled about four pranks on the guys since she had gotten here. St. John glared at her as Remy came in to see what was going on.
"That was NOT funny, sheila!"
"Of course it was!"
Remy couldn't help but chuckle slightly upon seeing the Aussie covered in pink paint, with purple feathers sticking to him.
"De chere is right."
St. John glared at Remy before stomping off towards the showers, passing Jennifer on his way. Jennifer blinked as she watched him, before turning towards the other two Acolytes. She shook her head as she headed for Piotr's room. She was intent on talking him into going to the party with them.
"So, did de chere pick out a costume?"
Yesima nodded. "I'm going as Malik no hikari."
Remy raised an eyebrow, but he didn't say anything. "Well, chere, Remy don' have a date." He smiled that charming smile of his.
Yesima raised an eyebrow. "Well, seeing that I have so many admirers," she began sarcastically. "I'll have to get back to you. I think I might be open, though."
As she walked off towards her room, Remy chuckled lightly. This party was going to be quite an interesting event.
"So, like, I heard Evan asked you, like, to be his date," Kitty squealed when Rogue entered their shared room.
Rogue sighed as she shook her head. She knew her roommate would bombard her with questions the moment she saw her. That's why Rogue had stalled before confronting Kitty.
"He did. And Ah said yes."
"I know! He, like, told me you did, like, on the ride home. So, what, like, happened?"
"He came up to me an' Dee when Ah was at mah locker. He asked me, Ah answered, we went our separate ways."
"Aww, your no fun!!" Kitty seemed to pout for a minute before her usual cheery smile came back to her. "Well, like, I guess I'll just go ask Evan."
Rogue groaned as she plopped down on her bed and began telling Kitty what happened between her and Evan, although it wasn't all that much, Kitty soaked up every little detail.
Mystique was in a human form, walking through the mall, looking into shop windows, when she spotted one of the Brotherhood members. Denise, she believed the girl's name was. She remembered the girl being quite cheerful the last time they had been face to face, but now, she was staring forlornly at a television screen showing people protesting in L.A. Mystique made her way over to the girl.
"Are you okay?"
Denise blinked as she turned towards the brunette woman who had come to stand beside her. "Yeah, I'll be fine."
"You know, a lot of people, your cousin included, wouldn't believe me to be a nice person."
"You know my cousin?" Denise asked, disbelieving.
"Lance Alvers, also known as Avalanche."
"How do you know him?"
"I'm a shape-shifter, Denise, but Lance and the others like to call me boss lady."
"Mystique, wasn't it?" At the woman's nod, she continued. "Why aren't you all that nice?"
Mystique sighed. "I'm a bad mother. Worse than that, actually. That's not important, though. It's too personal. I don't like to talk about it much."
"You can't be any worse of a mother than mine is."
Mystique glanced at Denise out of the corner of her eye, but kept quiet. She didn't want to press Denise about it, but Denise seemed to want to talk about it, so she continued on.
"Remember when the Brotherhood was fighting the X-Men and Logan called off the attack?" Mystique nodded, but Denise didn't continue. She looked around before turning towards Mystique. "I'd rather not talk about it here. We should go somewhere else. I have a car."
Mystique nodded and Denise headed for the exit. "I know somewhere we could go, if you'll allow me to drive."
Denise handed her the keys as they reached the black Cavalier and climbed into the passenger seat. Mystique climbed into the driver's seat and headed for the construction site she had told Kurt to meet her at when she was to reveal herself as his mother. Both climbed out of the car, Mystique changing into her true form, and headed for a secluded part of the site.
"My parents had been watching the news when they saw the fight," Denise stated as she sat down. "My dad told me it was either being a mutant or getting out of his house. My mother didn't even stand up to him. She just stood there and watched. My parents disowned me without a second thought. Surely you can't beat that."
"Kurt's my son. Rogue's my daughter. I didn't mean to let them go. I wanted to keep them with every fiber of my being, but I just couldn't. I lost Kurt after Magneto.... After what he'd done, I ran. But he sent wolves after me, and when I got to the bridge, I dropped him. I dropped my baby into the rapids. When I saw him being taken in by those humans, I knew he'd be better off with them. I guess I was slightly happy when I found out he was at Xavier's. At least he wasn't being used by Magneto. And I used Rogue. My own daughter and I used her. I'm a terrible mother. I don't deserve a second chance."
Denise shook her head. "Everybody deserves a second chance. Not matter what, you always deserve a second chance. As a mother or a daughter." She looked down after saying this last part. Shortly after, though, her head shot up. "Do you believe in destiny?"
Mystique blinked. "I've never really thought about it."
"I do. I believe everything happens for a reason, even if it sucks. Maybe, just maybe, this is our second chance."
Mystique seemed the think about this before she smiled ever so slightly and nodded. "It just may be. Well, we'd better get home before the imbeciles destroy the house."
"No kidding! Man, I swear the next time Wanda blasts someone into the wall, we should stick Freddy between that person and the wall!"
Mystique couldn't help what she did next. She laughed. Mystique actually laughed a whole hearted, full blown laugh. She stood up, waiting for Denise to do the same, then made her way towards the car. She tossed Denise the keys and they climbed in, heading back to the Boarding House. When they arrived, Lance was outside, trying to fix something on his jeep.
"Having problems Lancey-boy?"
"Shut up, Denise!"
Denise giggled. Lance hadn't looked up to see Mystique climb out of the same car as his cousin, but Pietro had seen from the living room window. He rushed outside to greet the blue skinned woman.
"Mystique. What are you doing back so early? I mean, not that we don't mind having you around," he stated in his usual fast tone.
Lance finally realized Mystique had come back with Denise and looked at his cousin curiously.
Mystique glared at Pietro before turning towards Denise. "Thanks for the talk."
Denise nodded before heading up towards her room. She had a lot of thinking to do.
"Well, what are you two staring at?!"
"Nothing," Pietro said before rushing off to do whatever.
Lance simply shrugged and went back to working on his jeep. Mystique growled, heading for her own room, trying to at least act angry. A small smile, barely visible, remained on her lips, though. Maybe, just maybe, she had one other true friend besides Irene in this world.
By the time Friday afternoon rolled around, everyone invited to the party at the Institute had their costumes ready and waiting, although they could barely contain themselves. Well, most of them anyway. Wanda wasn't exactly happy to be going to the party, but considering that Todd was not her date, she didn't mind as much. Adolf had expressed that he'd rather stay home and train, but he gave in after seeing Wanda blast Todd into the wall with a hex bolt for the fiftieth time in one day. Darcy was sitting on her bed, writing a song, when Denise stormed in, arms crossed and eyes glaring. When the ground began to rumble, Darcy took that as her queue to say something.
"Earthquakes may have been a normal occurrence in California, but here it may seem a little suspicious. Especially if a volcano follows shortly afterwards."
Denise blinked as her anger slowly dissipated. She looked at her roommate before sighing.
"Yeah, I know. He just gets on my nerves sometimes."
"Lance?" she asked, looking up from her song.
"Pietro. He's so full of himself! I mean, he really needs to get a grip on reality and learn the nothing revolves around him."
"He is quite the self-centered asshole."
Denise nodded as she fell onto her bed. "Man, I can't wait until tomorrow."
"Yeah, the fireworks are sure to blow everyone's mind."
Denise blinked as she studied her roommate. Darcy had gone back to writing her song, acting as if what she had just said made perfect sense, even though no one had said anything about fireworks.
"Sometimes, you scare me."
"Likewise, my short tempered friend."
Denise shook her head as she got up. "Whatever you say mein freund."
Darcy cocked an eyebrow. "You know German?"
"Enough to get by."
"Does that guy know?"
"Fuzzy?" At Darcy's nod, Denise shook her head. "I doubt it. I don't talk German much. I'll catch ya later. I need to talk to Lance 'bout somethin'."
Darcy nodded as she watched Denise leave, her eyes never leaving her songbook.
Alright, there's the eleventh chappie! I hope to write more soon!! Laterz!!
BaronOBeefDip – Thanks. Well, the party should be during the next few chapters. Enjoy!
DoctorWhat – Thanks a bunch! The party is coming up! I hope it will be good.
AidanKeketIsis – Thanks! I'm trying! The next chapter should be up a.s.a.p.