Hey guys! Loving those reviews! If I get 50, I'll thank everyone
individually. Still no help beyond truth or dare, but I really didn't want
them to play T or D since it's so cliché. I guess I could, though. Maybe at
the end. I'm not sure how old Tabby is... I'm gonna assume she's a freshmen
like Amara, though. Sorry if I'm wrong.
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I dedicate this chapter to Jason-LeBeau14 who sometimes annoys me but is always my friend! If you want a chappie dedicated to you and your kind, give me an imaginary gift in a review. Whoever gives the best one gets the chappie!
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Amanda's turn was next in their little game. "Okay, so my turn?" she asked. Everyone nodded so she went on. "Um... can I not ask a question?"
"No way! Just ask something! It can be stupid!" Tabby answered.
"Yeah, come one!" Amara agreed.
"Alright..." she sighed. "What's your favorite color?"
"Wow, I didn't think you'd take that literally..." Tabby muttered. Amara nudged her in the ribs. "Ow. Cut it out. She knows it was lame." Amara hit herself in the forehead and muttered something in her tongue.
Wanda was the first to answer. "Red."
"I like green because it goes with my hair and ruby because of Scott," Jean replied.
"I like yellow!" Jubilee said.
"Pink because I just do and blue. Take what you'd like to from that." Kitty winked. The other girls laughed, knowing she meant Kurt.
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The guys, too, were laughing, but they were laughing at a now purple Kurt.
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"Green and Purple." Rogue stated.
Then was X23. "Black."
"I LOVE red and orange and yellow..." Amara smiled widely and started laughing to herself. It was kinda creepy... Everyone scooted away from the fire girl.
Tabby was next. "Pink or yellow. Or blue... or green..." she kept listing colors until someone coughed. "Okay, okay, I'm done. Sheesh..."
"Green or brown." Rahne answered.
"Brown?!" Kitty asked, disgusted.
"Yeah. Brown." Rahne glared at her.
"I like blue, I guess." Amanda finished before Rahne and Kitty got into a fight about brown.
Rahne stopped glaring and patted Amanda on the back. The room fell into an awkward silence.
"Um... my turn." Kitty said. "What I wanna know is..." she thought for a moment. Then, all of the sudden, her face broke out into an impish grin. "What I wanna know is how many people has everyone slept with." She asked, laughing. "If you're a virgin just say so." Kitty added after a moment.
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"Oh my... they talk about that kinda stuff?" Sam asked, shocked.
"Hey, girls are people, too!" Bobby laughed.
"I guess..."
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Ironically enough, Rogue was first. "I think it's obvious that my answer is zero."
Kitty flinched. "Oh, sorry Rogue."
"It's okay."
X23 was next. "Zero. I haven't exactly developed much of a love life, yet." She smirked sadly.
"Wow, this is boring so far. What did all of the virgins sit on the same side of the room?" Amara asked. "I've never had sex either."
Tabby, fortunately for the game, was after her. "How many guys? Let me think..." The other girls laughed.
"That's a good enough answer, Tabitha." Kitty giggled.
Tabby blushed, realizing how that had sounded. "No, no, no! I just needed a moment to think. It's not THAT many... I think it's four..."
Rahne shook her head at the older girl. "Zero, so far. But me and Jamie have gotten pretty close before..." the other girls giggled.
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Poor Jamie was once again blushing the shade of his shirt. Was she ever gonna give him a break? Was it absolutely necessary for every answer to include him?
The guys laughed at his color and Bobby messed up the younger boy's hair.
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"Rahne!" Amara exclaimed, clearly scandalized. "You two aren't even fourteen!"
Rahne just grinned wolfishly and motioned for Amanda to answer.
"Just Kurt." She admitted. Poor Amanda was having to think about him a lot more than she had wanted to tonight.
Wanda went after her. She started out by blushing.
"Oooo..." Tabby laughed. "She's hiding something!"
"Shut up, Tabitha." Wanda snapped. Tabby just snickered and avoided another weak hex-bolt. "Okay..." Wanda started quietly. "There was this one time... at that party we had on the 4th of July, you remember, Tabby, everyone was drunk..." She wanted to stop there, but the other girls were staring at her so intently that she had to go on. "Well, I... kinda woke up... next to Todd..." She was bright red by that time. It looked like all the blood in her body was in her face.
"Oh my gosh! No way!" Tabby laughed loudly. "Was THAT why you two were arguing that morning? I thought it was awfully early to start trying to kill him!" This time, even the fear inspired by the Scarlet Witch couldn't keep the other girls from laughing.
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Or the guys for that matter...
Evan made motions as if to throw up.
"Ech! That's SO gross!" Alex chuckled.
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"Only one guy," Jean answered once they had gotten over their laughing fit.
"Oh, PLEASE tell me it was Scott and not Duncan Matthews," Kitty asked.
"Ew!" Jean gagged. "Of course it was Scott! Ew... Duncan..." she shuddered.
"Was he good?" Tabby asked.
"Tabby! That's SO rude!" Amara scolded her best friend. The room was quiet for a moment. "...so...was he?"
Boom-boom threw a pillow at Magma as the other girls laughed.
"Come on, Jean! Tell us!" Amanda giggled.
"Why am I the only one being asked this?" The telepath asked, blushing.
"Because, one, the only other person who was specific about who was Wanda and, well, we just don't wanna know what that was like, and two, he looks like he'd be good in bed," Tabby answered.
Jean mock-glared, "Hey! Hands off, ladies! He's mine! You guys think Alex is hot, remember?"
"Yeah...What is it with that family?" Amara giggled.
"You like Ray's hair," Jean reminded, trying to get the attention off her guy.
"Yeah..." Amara sighed dreamily.
"Hey, Red, you didn't answer the question," Rogue stated.
Jean stared at the brown-haired girl. "Not you, too, Rogue! Sheesh!" Jean reddened again.
"Well, answer the question and we wouldn't have to ask anymore!" Rahne replied.
"Fine!" Jean sighed, rubbing her temples. "Yes, Scott's amazing. Are you all happy now?"
Everyone pretty much nodded and giggled.
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Scott, too, was as red as his girlfriend's hair.
Some of the guys whistled and some of them glared at him for taking their girls' attention.
Remy patted the leader of the X-Men on the back and laughed at the silly girls. "Thatta boy."
Scott shrugged him off and glared at him.
"Hey, it's Jeannie that's talkin' 'bout your love life, not Gambit." The auburn-haired Cajun reminded.
Scott sighed and sat back on his bed.
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"You all are impossible." Jean stated. "Your turn, Jubilee."
Jubilee giggled one last time and shook her head no. "Zero."
It came back to Kitty. "Well, one time, me and Lance, you know... But that's it. Just once. Just him." Kitty blushed.
"Well, that's not so bad," Tabby stated. "Coulda been Freddy!" She laughed at her own joke.
"Has anyone ever told you, you talk a LOT, Tabby?" Kitty joked.
Tabby looked thoughtful for a moment. "No, actually... Wow, that's weird!" The blonde mutant laughed hard. "Is it my turn?"
"Yup." Jubilee anounced.
"Alright..." Tabby rubbed her hands together evilly. "I purpose a new game..."
"What new game?" Jean asked.
"How about we play 'Where was he?'" She suggested.
"What?"
"It's where one of us comes up with a situation or something that's happening and you figure out where your guy would be. We can each use the guys we picked in Rogue's question." Tabby answered.
"Yeah, let's try," Amara replied.
"Okay." Kitty smiled.
"Easy." Rogue said. Jean nodded in agreement.
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Ray laughed. "They think they can guess what we'd do in any situation?"
"Please." Sam poshed.
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"I'll think of a situation first since I started," Tabby began. "Okay... let's see... There's a fight between us and the X-Men, where's your guy?"
"Ray?" Amara thought. "He's back here at the mansion with me and the rest of us younger kids, in class with Storm or Beast."
"Umm..." X23 pushed her hair behind her ear. "I don't know where Alex is, but I know that where ever he is, he would rather be surfing." She half- laughed.
"Blowing things up. Preferably the enemy." Rogue answered. "Not offence, ya'll." She added to Tabby and Wanda. They nodded in acknowledgement.
Kitty's turn. "Kurt would be in the middle of the fight. Probably wrestling with Toad." Wanda smirked.
"Bobby'd be back here with us, but he'd be mad. He'd probably be moping about how he never gets to do anything exciting. I swear I almost hit him every time he says that!" Jubilee replied. "I just wanna whack him and say 'Hello? Am I THAT boring?'"
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"I never meant it like that..." Bobby said quietly.
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Jean smiled at Jubilee. "I'm sure he didn't mean it like that."
"Yeah, I know. That's the only reason I haven't hit him yet." The Japanese girl chuckled.
"I know exactly where Scott would be!" Jean declared. "He'd be leading our team into battle. In fact, he probably started it just to keep us on our toes." She laughed.
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~Oh ye of little faith...~ Scott thought, laughing.
The other boys looked at him, not understanding why he would laugh at a joke made about him. Hell, he didn't even know why he was laughing.
~What did you say?~
Scott's eyes widened. His and Jean's link had been wide open! Of course he was laughing; their bond was open and she was sending all of her cheerful feelings through it, unconsciously.
The guys all started at him, wondering why he had frozen like he had.
He bit his lip and mouthed 'Jean' to them. Slowly, a look of terror made its way around the room.
~Nothing, Jean~
~Yes, you said something into our link. I heard it loud and clear.~ she argued.
~No, I didn't~
~Don't lie to me, Scott Summers~ Jean "said" warningly.
~Well, I didn't mean to. We left our bond unblocked, that's all. I was in a conversation with Gambit and you interrupted.~ He lied.
~Whatever.~ She shut their link down.
He let out the breath he didn't know he was holding and fell back onto his bed again.
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"What happened?" Rogue asked after Jean paused.
"Nothing. Scott just shouted through our bond on accident," Jean flipped her hair.
"Oh."
"Like Kitty said. Fighting with Nightcrawler." Wanda answered.
"Um, I suppose Sam would be back here with you kids." Amanda said.
"Jamie'd be here with us, too." Rahne stated.
"Pietro! Let's see... He'd be running around in a circle around Spyke really fast," Tabby answered, spinning in circles to accent her point before falling onto a pile of pillows. "Whoa... not suggested..."
"Friday night. Where is he?" Amara asked.
Tabby snorted. "Where isn't he?" She laughed. "First, he finds time to fight with Wanda here," she motioned to Scarlet Witch with her thumb, "and then he spends like an hour in the bathroom, fusses at me about something, then he goes out with at least four girls, goes to at least one party, and then he sleeps."
Rahne was after her. "Jamie usually dedicates Fridays to me, so at the movies or something."
"I have no idea. I guess he's here. At least, he's always here when I come over." Amanda said.
"Following me around. It doesn't matter what day it is." Wanda answered. Some of the girls giggled.
Jean grinned before she started speaking.
"Oh! I know what THAT look means!" Tabby interrupted. "That's the you-just- reminded-me-of-a-time-when-me-and-my-boyfriend-had-sex look!" she laughed, falling back into her pillow pile.
Jean chuckled. "So what if it is?" She smiled.
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"Fridays, huh?" Roberto asked the blushing leader.
"That's funny," Bobby started. "You always struck me as the Sunday kind of guy..."
Gambit seemed to ponder that for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
Scott stuck one of his pillows in front of his face.
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"Scott and I spend our Fridays with each other." Jean said. "That's all you get to know."
A chorus of "aww"s echoed through the girls. (and the boys in the other room)
"Bobby is plotting a prank. Always." Jubilee smirked.
"Kurt's trying to convince me to help him get Bobby back for a prank on him," Kitty laughed.
"Kissing some bimbo or blowin' somethin' up. That's probably most answers with him," Rogue sighed.
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"Hey!" Remy cried, indignantly. "Dat's not true! Gambit does otha t'ings!"
"Ja, like stare longingly at Rogue when you think no one's looking!" Kurt added. The guys all laughed and agreed.
The older mutant blushed and glared at his peers.
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X23 next. "Dragging anyone he can to the beach." She answered. "Preferably at least one person old enough to drive. The last few times he got me to go and the only one we could get to drive was Logan. Amusing sight." She smiled.
Everyone laughed, trying to imagine it. They sat back for a moment, trying to catch their breaths.
Tabby gasped. "Oh my gosh! Wanda! You let us skip you!"
Wanda cocked her head to the side. "Really? I guess I wasn't thinking. Do you want me to go?"
"Duh!"
"Alright..."
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*laughs at self* That was because I actually DID forget her. She's too quiet and easy to forget. I hope I don't forget X23, too... Here's your chapter anyway. Hope you liked it! R/r! You know the drill!
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Amanda's turn was next in their little game. "Okay, so my turn?" she asked. Everyone nodded so she went on. "Um... can I not ask a question?"
"No way! Just ask something! It can be stupid!" Tabby answered.
"Yeah, come one!" Amara agreed.
"Alright..." she sighed. "What's your favorite color?"
"Wow, I didn't think you'd take that literally..." Tabby muttered. Amara nudged her in the ribs. "Ow. Cut it out. She knows it was lame." Amara hit herself in the forehead and muttered something in her tongue.
Wanda was the first to answer. "Red."
"I like green because it goes with my hair and ruby because of Scott," Jean replied.
"I like yellow!" Jubilee said.
"Pink because I just do and blue. Take what you'd like to from that." Kitty winked. The other girls laughed, knowing she meant Kurt.
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The guys, too, were laughing, but they were laughing at a now purple Kurt.
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"Green and Purple." Rogue stated.
Then was X23. "Black."
"I LOVE red and orange and yellow..." Amara smiled widely and started laughing to herself. It was kinda creepy... Everyone scooted away from the fire girl.
Tabby was next. "Pink or yellow. Or blue... or green..." she kept listing colors until someone coughed. "Okay, okay, I'm done. Sheesh..."
"Green or brown." Rahne answered.
"Brown?!" Kitty asked, disgusted.
"Yeah. Brown." Rahne glared at her.
"I like blue, I guess." Amanda finished before Rahne and Kitty got into a fight about brown.
Rahne stopped glaring and patted Amanda on the back. The room fell into an awkward silence.
"Um... my turn." Kitty said. "What I wanna know is..." she thought for a moment. Then, all of the sudden, her face broke out into an impish grin. "What I wanna know is how many people has everyone slept with." She asked, laughing. "If you're a virgin just say so." Kitty added after a moment.
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"Oh my... they talk about that kinda stuff?" Sam asked, shocked.
"Hey, girls are people, too!" Bobby laughed.
"I guess..."
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Ironically enough, Rogue was first. "I think it's obvious that my answer is zero."
Kitty flinched. "Oh, sorry Rogue."
"It's okay."
X23 was next. "Zero. I haven't exactly developed much of a love life, yet." She smirked sadly.
"Wow, this is boring so far. What did all of the virgins sit on the same side of the room?" Amara asked. "I've never had sex either."
Tabby, fortunately for the game, was after her. "How many guys? Let me think..." The other girls laughed.
"That's a good enough answer, Tabitha." Kitty giggled.
Tabby blushed, realizing how that had sounded. "No, no, no! I just needed a moment to think. It's not THAT many... I think it's four..."
Rahne shook her head at the older girl. "Zero, so far. But me and Jamie have gotten pretty close before..." the other girls giggled.
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Poor Jamie was once again blushing the shade of his shirt. Was she ever gonna give him a break? Was it absolutely necessary for every answer to include him?
The guys laughed at his color and Bobby messed up the younger boy's hair.
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"Rahne!" Amara exclaimed, clearly scandalized. "You two aren't even fourteen!"
Rahne just grinned wolfishly and motioned for Amanda to answer.
"Just Kurt." She admitted. Poor Amanda was having to think about him a lot more than she had wanted to tonight.
Wanda went after her. She started out by blushing.
"Oooo..." Tabby laughed. "She's hiding something!"
"Shut up, Tabitha." Wanda snapped. Tabby just snickered and avoided another weak hex-bolt. "Okay..." Wanda started quietly. "There was this one time... at that party we had on the 4th of July, you remember, Tabby, everyone was drunk..." She wanted to stop there, but the other girls were staring at her so intently that she had to go on. "Well, I... kinda woke up... next to Todd..." She was bright red by that time. It looked like all the blood in her body was in her face.
"Oh my gosh! No way!" Tabby laughed loudly. "Was THAT why you two were arguing that morning? I thought it was awfully early to start trying to kill him!" This time, even the fear inspired by the Scarlet Witch couldn't keep the other girls from laughing.
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Or the guys for that matter...
Evan made motions as if to throw up.
"Ech! That's SO gross!" Alex chuckled.
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"Only one guy," Jean answered once they had gotten over their laughing fit.
"Oh, PLEASE tell me it was Scott and not Duncan Matthews," Kitty asked.
"Ew!" Jean gagged. "Of course it was Scott! Ew... Duncan..." she shuddered.
"Was he good?" Tabby asked.
"Tabby! That's SO rude!" Amara scolded her best friend. The room was quiet for a moment. "...so...was he?"
Boom-boom threw a pillow at Magma as the other girls laughed.
"Come on, Jean! Tell us!" Amanda giggled.
"Why am I the only one being asked this?" The telepath asked, blushing.
"Because, one, the only other person who was specific about who was Wanda and, well, we just don't wanna know what that was like, and two, he looks like he'd be good in bed," Tabby answered.
Jean mock-glared, "Hey! Hands off, ladies! He's mine! You guys think Alex is hot, remember?"
"Yeah...What is it with that family?" Amara giggled.
"You like Ray's hair," Jean reminded, trying to get the attention off her guy.
"Yeah..." Amara sighed dreamily.
"Hey, Red, you didn't answer the question," Rogue stated.
Jean stared at the brown-haired girl. "Not you, too, Rogue! Sheesh!" Jean reddened again.
"Well, answer the question and we wouldn't have to ask anymore!" Rahne replied.
"Fine!" Jean sighed, rubbing her temples. "Yes, Scott's amazing. Are you all happy now?"
Everyone pretty much nodded and giggled.
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Scott, too, was as red as his girlfriend's hair.
Some of the guys whistled and some of them glared at him for taking their girls' attention.
Remy patted the leader of the X-Men on the back and laughed at the silly girls. "Thatta boy."
Scott shrugged him off and glared at him.
"Hey, it's Jeannie that's talkin' 'bout your love life, not Gambit." The auburn-haired Cajun reminded.
Scott sighed and sat back on his bed.
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"You all are impossible." Jean stated. "Your turn, Jubilee."
Jubilee giggled one last time and shook her head no. "Zero."
It came back to Kitty. "Well, one time, me and Lance, you know... But that's it. Just once. Just him." Kitty blushed.
"Well, that's not so bad," Tabby stated. "Coulda been Freddy!" She laughed at her own joke.
"Has anyone ever told you, you talk a LOT, Tabby?" Kitty joked.
Tabby looked thoughtful for a moment. "No, actually... Wow, that's weird!" The blonde mutant laughed hard. "Is it my turn?"
"Yup." Jubilee anounced.
"Alright..." Tabby rubbed her hands together evilly. "I purpose a new game..."
"What new game?" Jean asked.
"How about we play 'Where was he?'" She suggested.
"What?"
"It's where one of us comes up with a situation or something that's happening and you figure out where your guy would be. We can each use the guys we picked in Rogue's question." Tabby answered.
"Yeah, let's try," Amara replied.
"Okay." Kitty smiled.
"Easy." Rogue said. Jean nodded in agreement.
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Ray laughed. "They think they can guess what we'd do in any situation?"
"Please." Sam poshed.
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"I'll think of a situation first since I started," Tabby began. "Okay... let's see... There's a fight between us and the X-Men, where's your guy?"
"Ray?" Amara thought. "He's back here at the mansion with me and the rest of us younger kids, in class with Storm or Beast."
"Umm..." X23 pushed her hair behind her ear. "I don't know where Alex is, but I know that where ever he is, he would rather be surfing." She half- laughed.
"Blowing things up. Preferably the enemy." Rogue answered. "Not offence, ya'll." She added to Tabby and Wanda. They nodded in acknowledgement.
Kitty's turn. "Kurt would be in the middle of the fight. Probably wrestling with Toad." Wanda smirked.
"Bobby'd be back here with us, but he'd be mad. He'd probably be moping about how he never gets to do anything exciting. I swear I almost hit him every time he says that!" Jubilee replied. "I just wanna whack him and say 'Hello? Am I THAT boring?'"
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"I never meant it like that..." Bobby said quietly.
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Jean smiled at Jubilee. "I'm sure he didn't mean it like that."
"Yeah, I know. That's the only reason I haven't hit him yet." The Japanese girl chuckled.
"I know exactly where Scott would be!" Jean declared. "He'd be leading our team into battle. In fact, he probably started it just to keep us on our toes." She laughed.
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~Oh ye of little faith...~ Scott thought, laughing.
The other boys looked at him, not understanding why he would laugh at a joke made about him. Hell, he didn't even know why he was laughing.
~What did you say?~
Scott's eyes widened. His and Jean's link had been wide open! Of course he was laughing; their bond was open and she was sending all of her cheerful feelings through it, unconsciously.
The guys all started at him, wondering why he had frozen like he had.
He bit his lip and mouthed 'Jean' to them. Slowly, a look of terror made its way around the room.
~Nothing, Jean~
~Yes, you said something into our link. I heard it loud and clear.~ she argued.
~No, I didn't~
~Don't lie to me, Scott Summers~ Jean "said" warningly.
~Well, I didn't mean to. We left our bond unblocked, that's all. I was in a conversation with Gambit and you interrupted.~ He lied.
~Whatever.~ She shut their link down.
He let out the breath he didn't know he was holding and fell back onto his bed again.
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"What happened?" Rogue asked after Jean paused.
"Nothing. Scott just shouted through our bond on accident," Jean flipped her hair.
"Oh."
"Like Kitty said. Fighting with Nightcrawler." Wanda answered.
"Um, I suppose Sam would be back here with you kids." Amanda said.
"Jamie'd be here with us, too." Rahne stated.
"Pietro! Let's see... He'd be running around in a circle around Spyke really fast," Tabby answered, spinning in circles to accent her point before falling onto a pile of pillows. "Whoa... not suggested..."
"Friday night. Where is he?" Amara asked.
Tabby snorted. "Where isn't he?" She laughed. "First, he finds time to fight with Wanda here," she motioned to Scarlet Witch with her thumb, "and then he spends like an hour in the bathroom, fusses at me about something, then he goes out with at least four girls, goes to at least one party, and then he sleeps."
Rahne was after her. "Jamie usually dedicates Fridays to me, so at the movies or something."
"I have no idea. I guess he's here. At least, he's always here when I come over." Amanda said.
"Following me around. It doesn't matter what day it is." Wanda answered. Some of the girls giggled.
Jean grinned before she started speaking.
"Oh! I know what THAT look means!" Tabby interrupted. "That's the you-just- reminded-me-of-a-time-when-me-and-my-boyfriend-had-sex look!" she laughed, falling back into her pillow pile.
Jean chuckled. "So what if it is?" She smiled.
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"Fridays, huh?" Roberto asked the blushing leader.
"That's funny," Bobby started. "You always struck me as the Sunday kind of guy..."
Gambit seemed to ponder that for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
Scott stuck one of his pillows in front of his face.
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"Scott and I spend our Fridays with each other." Jean said. "That's all you get to know."
A chorus of "aww"s echoed through the girls. (and the boys in the other room)
"Bobby is plotting a prank. Always." Jubilee smirked.
"Kurt's trying to convince me to help him get Bobby back for a prank on him," Kitty laughed.
"Kissing some bimbo or blowin' somethin' up. That's probably most answers with him," Rogue sighed.
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"Hey!" Remy cried, indignantly. "Dat's not true! Gambit does otha t'ings!"
"Ja, like stare longingly at Rogue when you think no one's looking!" Kurt added. The guys all laughed and agreed.
The older mutant blushed and glared at his peers.
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X23 next. "Dragging anyone he can to the beach." She answered. "Preferably at least one person old enough to drive. The last few times he got me to go and the only one we could get to drive was Logan. Amusing sight." She smiled.
Everyone laughed, trying to imagine it. They sat back for a moment, trying to catch their breaths.
Tabby gasped. "Oh my gosh! Wanda! You let us skip you!"
Wanda cocked her head to the side. "Really? I guess I wasn't thinking. Do you want me to go?"
"Duh!"
"Alright..."
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*laughs at self* That was because I actually DID forget her. She's too quiet and easy to forget. I hope I don't forget X23, too... Here's your chapter anyway. Hope you liked it! R/r! You know the drill!