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Normal POV
Wanda glared at the clock. 6:12 AM
Things were not going as planed and she was not a happy camper.
Wanda looked over at Lance, Freddy, and Toad who'd fallen asleep hours ago.
This wasn't how things were supposed to go! Pietro was supposed to come home last night, they'd grab him, tie and duct tape him up and not let him go till he was normal again! But he didn't come home! Only god knows where he spent the night! He could be hurt, or sick, or worse!
Wanda got up and walked into the kitchen to start the coffee pot. She leaned against the counter staring into space consumed with worry for Pietro.
Her idiot brother should be home by now! It was morning!
Lance walked into the kitchen at the smell of coffee. "Coffee?"
"It'll be done in a second." Wanda told him as he leaned against the counter next to her.
Lance nodded and yawned rubbing his face. "So Tro didn't come home last night?"
"No. He didn't. It's after 6am and he still isn't home." Wanda said softly staring into space.
Lance looked uncomfortable. "Uh well I'm sure he's ok. He uh probably just went to one of his girlfriends or boyfriends places for the night."
Wanda frowned. "You think?"
"Yeah it wouldn't surprise me. He'll probably come home while we're at school." Lance said as he poured a cup of coffee.
"School?! Are you out of your mind?! We're not going to school we have to wait for Pietro so we can catch him!"
Lance sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Wanda we have to go to school. Mystique and your dad want us in school and we already have a ton of absent days we can't afford anymore! We'll get Pietro after school. Ok?"
"Lance...."
"Wanda first do we have any idea when he'll be home? Second how will us getting in trouble with your dad and Mystique help Pietro?" Lance reasoned with her.
Wanda sighed and gulped her coffee. "Fine. I'm going to shower and get dressed you wake the guys up." She walked out of the room leaving Lance alone.
"Great. It's hell getting them up normally now I gotta get them up when they're sleep deprived!" Lance moaned as he went to rouse the others.
Pietro's POV
I moan and shift my head under the blanket as a ray of sun hits my face. Waiteaminute?! Sun?! I'm fully a wake and out of bed in half a heartbeat staring in disbelief at the sun shining cheerily into the room.
"Howthehellisthesunup?! Iwenttobedat9! Itshouldbemidnightrightnow!" I say out loud.
My eyes move to the clock. 6:30 am. My mouth drops open. 91/2?! I was asleep Nine and a half hours?! I've never slept that long in my whole life!
Suddenly a clock on the wall caught my attention. The Second hand isn't moving! Wait! There it goes! It's moving super slow! No! I'm moving fast again! I'm back to normal!
A grin spreads over my face as I zip down stairs and into the kitchen to grab something to eat before I go home and find a way to convince Wanda and the guys that I'm fine.
I'm half inside the fridge grabbing whatever I can get my hands on when someone walks up behind me. "Pietro? What are you doing?"
"Yow!" I jump startled and whack my head on a shelf. I turn and glare at Evan. "What? I'm painting the Sistine Chapel! WhatdoesitlooklikeI'mdoing?! I'meatting!"
Evan rolls his eyes and pulls the food out of my hand then grabs the milk and pours a glass. "Breakfast is in half an hour Speedy."
How dare he take food away from Pietro Maximoff?! "WellI'mhungrynow! Half an hour is like hours and hours to me. And it doesn't help that I'm more hyper then normal since I slept from 9 1/2 hours last night! I'mgonnabebuzzingfordays!" I pull more stuff out of the fridge and keep eating.
"Oh great. Super Hyper Pietro. Just what the world needs. Well at least you're not acting all freaky like last night. And by the way why are you down here eating shirtless?"
I look down. Oops. I run up stairs and back so fast you can't even see me. "Idon'tknowwhatyou'retalkingaboutDaniels. Look. I'm wearing a shirt. Youmustbeseeingthings,man." I give him a cocky smirk and lean against the counter while I eat.
Evan rolls his eyes at me again. "It's on inside out moron." He turns and leaves the room while I turn red and quickly fix my shirt.
Still Pietro's POV
After the first big binge to shut up my stomach I switched to pretty much grazing and had been wandering around the mansion bored out of my mind and debating on staying for breakfast and watching the X-Geeks freak over me being here or just leaving.
In the end the fun of the chaos of X-Geeks freaking out over me being here is just too good to pass up. Plus more food!
I look at a clock and see the time 6:59am. I grin and super speed my way to the kitchen which is already filling with X-Men and New Recruits. "Morning!" I chirp in a sickeningly sweet perky voice.
I grin wider as I see everyone freeze and stare at me like I'm the psycho killer in a slasher movie. "What? Is there something on my shirt?" I ask innocently looking down.
"Pietro! Oh I'm so happy you're still here. Come find a seat make your self at home dear." Ms Monroe said from the stove where she was cooking.
I grin brightly at her and sit down just barely keeping from laughing out loud as everyone else finds seats far away from me.
"So did you have a good sleep dear?" Ms Monroe asks me.
"Yep. Just great. More sleep then I've gotten in my whole life actually."
She turns to me frowning slightly. "You don't sleep well normally?"
"It's my mutation. IonlyneedafewhoursanightifIsleepatall. Sometimes I go a couple weeks without sleeping. It's kinda fun you start seeing weird things it's like being on a weird high. OnceIsawpinkelaphantsdancinginpurpletutus." I tell them all happily. I'm lying of course. I read that you start seeing weird stuff after 5 days without sleep and you're also legally insane. But it's never happened to me no matter how long I don't sleep. But hey why would I tell the truth?
"Well- I- uh- that's very interesting Pietro. Here eat." Ms Monroe looks kinda freaked. Wow I've never seen her looked freaked before. Cool. I happily dig into the food making my self eat a human pace while I watch everyone else watch me.
"So uh- Pietro? Are you like going to be staying here at the mansion?" A I look over at the young boy asking me. I smirk. "Nope. I'm only here cause I didn't feel like arguing with Daniels last night. WellthatandI'mneveronetoturnupfreefood."
I nearly choke when everyone turns on Daniels with glares.
"Nice goin' Daniels." Someone mutters quietly.
I suppress a giggle by stuffing more food in my mouth.
"So you are only here to eat, ja?" The blue furry guy asks me.
"Prettymuchyeah. I was content to sleep on a park bench and wait for everyone to leave for school in the morning but Daniels practically dragged me back here and made me shower and eat then shoved me into a bedroom." I tell him.
"I did no such thing! You were looking like death warmed over and no one would leave you out there looking like that so yeah I made you come back here but I most certainly didn't force you to shower, eat or sleep!" Evan glares at me across the table looking like he'd like to shoot me with one of his spikes.
The other kids stared looking back and forth between us. "Uh so what happened to Pietro that he looked like death?" One girl asks.
I shrug and take a bite of my food. "Just over used my powers a little. I have a insanely fast metabolism and I ran a bit too fast for too long and burned too many calories. No big."
Evan snorts. "Yeah no big. Which is why you were all sweaty, when normally you practically never sweat, you looked like one of those starving kids they show on TV to get you too send money, and you were acting all weird. Yeah it was really nothing." Evan said with sarcasm.
I make a face at him. "Oh sure I'm the weird one! Youweretheonewhowasthreateningtothowmeoveryoursholderandcarrymebackherelikes omecaveman!"
The others are watching open mouthed like their watching a Soap.
"You were starving to death and weren't going home like a sane person! For gods sake if I left you you would have been dead by now!" Evan yelled.
"Iwouldnot! Iwouldhavebeenjustfine! YoustupidX- Geeksalwaysthinkingyouknowwhatsbestforeveryone! Wellyoudon't!" I yell forgetting to slow down to a speed others can understand so I doubt anyone understood a word of what I just said.
"Uh what?" Evan said wrinkling his nose cutely. WHAT?!? I Did NOT just think Evan wrinkling his nose was cute!
"I- uh- I'm out of here! See ya at school or whatever." I zip out of the room and house faster then the eye can see. For them it'd be like I magically disappeared.
Yes still Pietro's POV
Once again I'm running trying to out run my problems and thoughts. This time I make sure to stay safely under my max speed and keep a eye on the time.
God what was up with my thoughts about Evan?! He's my nemesis! My arch enemy! And I was thinking he's cute?!
I shake my head as I come to a stop outside The Brotherhood house. Lance's jeep is gone so everyone must be at school. To be safe I run around the house and run up the side to my room. The first thing I realize is that my rooms been trashed then attempted to be put back together.
Wanda. Must have been Wanda.
I forget that for now and press against my door listening for any sounds of anyone in the house. Nothing. I carefully creep out of my room then go to super speed and search the whole house.
Empty.
Thank God!
I go to the kitchen and start rooting around for a snack. Blech. I'm gonna have to go shopping. Almost nothing in the house.
I run back up to my room and dig around in my night table till I find my wallet and check to make sure the credit card dad gave me is still there. It is. I zip down the stairs out out of the house on my way to the food store.
Half way there I change my mind and run to the school, hot wire Lance's jeep then drive to the food store. It'll be easier to drive all the bags come then carry them.
Normal POV
Wanda almost pounced on Lance when she sees him walking down the hall. "Lance! Have you seen any sign of Pietro?!"
Lance shook his head. "Nope. But that doesn't surprise me much. He ditches all the time. Maybe he'll show up around lunch time."
"Like, hey. Are you talking about Pietro?" Kitty asked as she was walking by Lance and Wanda.
Wanda glared. "Yes not that it's any of your business!"
"Oh ok. Like, I was just wondering how he's doing after how weird he was acting at breakfast this morning." Kitty told them.
"WHAT?!?" Wanda shrieked. The other students had enough sense to ignore her and keep going or risk death.
"Wait, wait Kitty are you saying Pietro was at the mansion this morning?!" Lance asked keeping his voice low.
"Umm yeah you didn't know? He, like, slept over last night and stayed for breakfast at least until he and Evan started fighting like a married couple!" Kitty said giggling.
"What was my brother doing at your mansion?" Wanda hissed more then asked.
"Umm well from what I was able to pick out from what they were talking about Pietro, like, over used his powers or something and got really skinny and sweaty and Evan found him in the park and thought he was, like, dying and dragged him to The Institute to feed him and stuff. And I think there was something about cavemen and elephants in tutu's but I'm not sure it's hard to under stand Pietro when he talks really fast." Kitty said with a laugh.
"Where is he?" Wanda growled.
"Umm last I saw he was, like, running at Quicksilver speed out of the mansion so he could be, like, anywhere. I thought he'd gone home to you guys or whatever."
Wanda stalked off cursing and looking homicidal. Lance cringed. She was going to be even less fun to live with now! "Uh thanks for the info Kitty."
"Oh um sure! No prob! So uh what's going on? Why's Wanda more crazy then normal?"
"Uh well we think somethings wrong with Pietro. We noticed that lately he's been...well slow. You know walking not running, talking at a human speed when he talks at all, not dating, he's almost always locked in his room, and just been generally weird. We're worried about him. And when we tried to confront him last night well he told this whole story about breaking up with a girlfriend and well we thought it sounded pretty true and he was crying and everything but Wanda said he was lying. One of those twin things I guess. And when she told him she knew he was lying he freaked and jumped out his window and that;s the last we saw of him." Lance said in a rush to get it all out.
Kitty stared wide eyed. "Like, oh my god! I had no idea! Pietro's seemed totally normal this morning though. He was all speeding and annoying and everything. Huh though the guys who saw him last night said he did look tired. And he said he slept more last night then like ever before. Like 9 hours I think it was."
Lance's mouth dropped open. "You're kidding! Pietro doesn't sleep! I mean he's always up! If he ever sleeps it's only a few hours!"
Kitty shrugged. "That's just what I heard. Look I'm sorry but I gotta get to class. I hope everything works out ok with Pietro! Good luck!" Kitty stood on her toes and kissed him on the cheek before running off just as the bell rang.
Lance blinked as he held his hand to his cheek where she kissed him then grinned.
Pietro's POV
I run my hands though my hair sighing loudly as I have to stop yet again because of how crowded the food store was.
Who'd of thought that 8:30 in the morning would be a busy time?!?
I look down in the shopping cart I'm pushing and re-check all the things I have so far making sure I haven't missed anything really important.
Salad lots of salad, bananas, apples, carrots, celery, Cheerios, Capitan Crunch, Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, bread, crackers, tuna fish, Mt. Dew, Jolt, Coke, Sprite, chips, dip, canned soup, rice, mashed potato's, skinless boneless chicken, hot dogs, ground beef, ground Turkey, orange juice, yogurt, milk... Milk. Evan drinks milk. He was drinking milk this morning at breakfast and he had the cutest milk mustache that I just walked to lick off... Stop! No thinking weird thoughts about Evan Daniels! ARGH! Where was I? Ok milk, cookie dough, chocolate, vanilla, Espresso Chip, cookies and cream, Death By Chocolate, ok yeah I think I got enough ice cream. Toilet paper, tissues, paper towels, bleach, ammonia, dish washing liquid, antibacterial soap, furniture polish, Windex. Hmm looks like I got everything we need for now at least.
The lines moving. Finely! I push the cart though grabbing a Coke from the fridge thing next to the check out counter as I start putting my stuff up.
I drink my soda as the girl rings up my stuff flirting with me the whole time. "So wow you sure got a lot of stuff huh? Having a party or something?"
"No just doing the shopping for my...family." I say lamely.
"Oh wow that's really sweet of you! You're mom must totally love you doing this for her!" The girl looks like she'd like to jump over the counter and kiss me.
"Uh yeah I guess." What's wrong with me? There's nothing wrong with her! She's cute! I should have her phone number by now and be making plans to get her into bed! So why am I just standing here?!
"So um well I know this is really forward and I don't normally do this but...would you like to go out sometime?" Knew she wanted me.
"Sure. I'd uh love too." Oh wow don't I sound eager. Could I be any less enthusiastic?!
She gives me a thousand watt smile and grabs my hand and scribbles her number and name on it. "Call me. Ok and you're total is $305.30. How will you be paying??
I reach for my wallet and pull out my credit card. "Charge it."
"Eric Magnus Lensherr? Cute name." She says while she does her thing with the card. I don't bother to tell her it's my fathers name not mine. Not like I'm actually going to call her or anything.
"Here you go. Thanks for shopping Wal-mart! Have a nice day!" I take my card back and put it back in my wallet and paste on a flirting smile. it works. She giggles as I stuff the receipt in my pocket and push my almost over flowing cart out of the store.
I use my speed to load the bags in the jeep then take look at the name and number scribbled on my hand. /Mandy. 555-0310. Call me!/ Not likely. But why not likely?! Why the hell is Daniels stuck in my head and why am I turning down hot girls?!
I shake my head trying to shake lose the thoughts then speed out of the parking lot and back to the house.
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Normal POV
Wanda glared at the clock. 6:12 AM
Things were not going as planed and she was not a happy camper.
Wanda looked over at Lance, Freddy, and Toad who'd fallen asleep hours ago.
This wasn't how things were supposed to go! Pietro was supposed to come home last night, they'd grab him, tie and duct tape him up and not let him go till he was normal again! But he didn't come home! Only god knows where he spent the night! He could be hurt, or sick, or worse!
Wanda got up and walked into the kitchen to start the coffee pot. She leaned against the counter staring into space consumed with worry for Pietro.
Her idiot brother should be home by now! It was morning!
Lance walked into the kitchen at the smell of coffee. "Coffee?"
"It'll be done in a second." Wanda told him as he leaned against the counter next to her.
Lance nodded and yawned rubbing his face. "So Tro didn't come home last night?"
"No. He didn't. It's after 6am and he still isn't home." Wanda said softly staring into space.
Lance looked uncomfortable. "Uh well I'm sure he's ok. He uh probably just went to one of his girlfriends or boyfriends places for the night."
Wanda frowned. "You think?"
"Yeah it wouldn't surprise me. He'll probably come home while we're at school." Lance said as he poured a cup of coffee.
"School?! Are you out of your mind?! We're not going to school we have to wait for Pietro so we can catch him!"
Lance sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Wanda we have to go to school. Mystique and your dad want us in school and we already have a ton of absent days we can't afford anymore! We'll get Pietro after school. Ok?"
"Lance...."
"Wanda first do we have any idea when he'll be home? Second how will us getting in trouble with your dad and Mystique help Pietro?" Lance reasoned with her.
Wanda sighed and gulped her coffee. "Fine. I'm going to shower and get dressed you wake the guys up." She walked out of the room leaving Lance alone.
"Great. It's hell getting them up normally now I gotta get them up when they're sleep deprived!" Lance moaned as he went to rouse the others.
Pietro's POV
I moan and shift my head under the blanket as a ray of sun hits my face. Waiteaminute?! Sun?! I'm fully a wake and out of bed in half a heartbeat staring in disbelief at the sun shining cheerily into the room.
"Howthehellisthesunup?! Iwenttobedat9! Itshouldbemidnightrightnow!" I say out loud.
My eyes move to the clock. 6:30 am. My mouth drops open. 91/2?! I was asleep Nine and a half hours?! I've never slept that long in my whole life!
Suddenly a clock on the wall caught my attention. The Second hand isn't moving! Wait! There it goes! It's moving super slow! No! I'm moving fast again! I'm back to normal!
A grin spreads over my face as I zip down stairs and into the kitchen to grab something to eat before I go home and find a way to convince Wanda and the guys that I'm fine.
I'm half inside the fridge grabbing whatever I can get my hands on when someone walks up behind me. "Pietro? What are you doing?"
"Yow!" I jump startled and whack my head on a shelf. I turn and glare at Evan. "What? I'm painting the Sistine Chapel! WhatdoesitlooklikeI'mdoing?! I'meatting!"
Evan rolls his eyes and pulls the food out of my hand then grabs the milk and pours a glass. "Breakfast is in half an hour Speedy."
How dare he take food away from Pietro Maximoff?! "WellI'mhungrynow! Half an hour is like hours and hours to me. And it doesn't help that I'm more hyper then normal since I slept from 9 1/2 hours last night! I'mgonnabebuzzingfordays!" I pull more stuff out of the fridge and keep eating.
"Oh great. Super Hyper Pietro. Just what the world needs. Well at least you're not acting all freaky like last night. And by the way why are you down here eating shirtless?"
I look down. Oops. I run up stairs and back so fast you can't even see me. "Idon'tknowwhatyou'retalkingaboutDaniels. Look. I'm wearing a shirt. Youmustbeseeingthings,man." I give him a cocky smirk and lean against the counter while I eat.
Evan rolls his eyes at me again. "It's on inside out moron." He turns and leaves the room while I turn red and quickly fix my shirt.
Still Pietro's POV
After the first big binge to shut up my stomach I switched to pretty much grazing and had been wandering around the mansion bored out of my mind and debating on staying for breakfast and watching the X-Geeks freak over me being here or just leaving.
In the end the fun of the chaos of X-Geeks freaking out over me being here is just too good to pass up. Plus more food!
I look at a clock and see the time 6:59am. I grin and super speed my way to the kitchen which is already filling with X-Men and New Recruits. "Morning!" I chirp in a sickeningly sweet perky voice.
I grin wider as I see everyone freeze and stare at me like I'm the psycho killer in a slasher movie. "What? Is there something on my shirt?" I ask innocently looking down.
"Pietro! Oh I'm so happy you're still here. Come find a seat make your self at home dear." Ms Monroe said from the stove where she was cooking.
I grin brightly at her and sit down just barely keeping from laughing out loud as everyone else finds seats far away from me.
"So did you have a good sleep dear?" Ms Monroe asks me.
"Yep. Just great. More sleep then I've gotten in my whole life actually."
She turns to me frowning slightly. "You don't sleep well normally?"
"It's my mutation. IonlyneedafewhoursanightifIsleepatall. Sometimes I go a couple weeks without sleeping. It's kinda fun you start seeing weird things it's like being on a weird high. OnceIsawpinkelaphantsdancinginpurpletutus." I tell them all happily. I'm lying of course. I read that you start seeing weird stuff after 5 days without sleep and you're also legally insane. But it's never happened to me no matter how long I don't sleep. But hey why would I tell the truth?
"Well- I- uh- that's very interesting Pietro. Here eat." Ms Monroe looks kinda freaked. Wow I've never seen her looked freaked before. Cool. I happily dig into the food making my self eat a human pace while I watch everyone else watch me.
"So uh- Pietro? Are you like going to be staying here at the mansion?" A I look over at the young boy asking me. I smirk. "Nope. I'm only here cause I didn't feel like arguing with Daniels last night. WellthatandI'mneveronetoturnupfreefood."
I nearly choke when everyone turns on Daniels with glares.
"Nice goin' Daniels." Someone mutters quietly.
I suppress a giggle by stuffing more food in my mouth.
"So you are only here to eat, ja?" The blue furry guy asks me.
"Prettymuchyeah. I was content to sleep on a park bench and wait for everyone to leave for school in the morning but Daniels practically dragged me back here and made me shower and eat then shoved me into a bedroom." I tell him.
"I did no such thing! You were looking like death warmed over and no one would leave you out there looking like that so yeah I made you come back here but I most certainly didn't force you to shower, eat or sleep!" Evan glares at me across the table looking like he'd like to shoot me with one of his spikes.
The other kids stared looking back and forth between us. "Uh so what happened to Pietro that he looked like death?" One girl asks.
I shrug and take a bite of my food. "Just over used my powers a little. I have a insanely fast metabolism and I ran a bit too fast for too long and burned too many calories. No big."
Evan snorts. "Yeah no big. Which is why you were all sweaty, when normally you practically never sweat, you looked like one of those starving kids they show on TV to get you too send money, and you were acting all weird. Yeah it was really nothing." Evan said with sarcasm.
I make a face at him. "Oh sure I'm the weird one! Youweretheonewhowasthreateningtothowmeoveryoursholderandcarrymebackherelikes omecaveman!"
The others are watching open mouthed like their watching a Soap.
"You were starving to death and weren't going home like a sane person! For gods sake if I left you you would have been dead by now!" Evan yelled.
"Iwouldnot! Iwouldhavebeenjustfine! YoustupidX- Geeksalwaysthinkingyouknowwhatsbestforeveryone! Wellyoudon't!" I yell forgetting to slow down to a speed others can understand so I doubt anyone understood a word of what I just said.
"Uh what?" Evan said wrinkling his nose cutely. WHAT?!? I Did NOT just think Evan wrinkling his nose was cute!
"I- uh- I'm out of here! See ya at school or whatever." I zip out of the room and house faster then the eye can see. For them it'd be like I magically disappeared.
Yes still Pietro's POV
Once again I'm running trying to out run my problems and thoughts. This time I make sure to stay safely under my max speed and keep a eye on the time.
God what was up with my thoughts about Evan?! He's my nemesis! My arch enemy! And I was thinking he's cute?!
I shake my head as I come to a stop outside The Brotherhood house. Lance's jeep is gone so everyone must be at school. To be safe I run around the house and run up the side to my room. The first thing I realize is that my rooms been trashed then attempted to be put back together.
Wanda. Must have been Wanda.
I forget that for now and press against my door listening for any sounds of anyone in the house. Nothing. I carefully creep out of my room then go to super speed and search the whole house.
Empty.
Thank God!
I go to the kitchen and start rooting around for a snack. Blech. I'm gonna have to go shopping. Almost nothing in the house.
I run back up to my room and dig around in my night table till I find my wallet and check to make sure the credit card dad gave me is still there. It is. I zip down the stairs out out of the house on my way to the food store.
Half way there I change my mind and run to the school, hot wire Lance's jeep then drive to the food store. It'll be easier to drive all the bags come then carry them.
Normal POV
Wanda almost pounced on Lance when she sees him walking down the hall. "Lance! Have you seen any sign of Pietro?!"
Lance shook his head. "Nope. But that doesn't surprise me much. He ditches all the time. Maybe he'll show up around lunch time."
"Like, hey. Are you talking about Pietro?" Kitty asked as she was walking by Lance and Wanda.
Wanda glared. "Yes not that it's any of your business!"
"Oh ok. Like, I was just wondering how he's doing after how weird he was acting at breakfast this morning." Kitty told them.
"WHAT?!?" Wanda shrieked. The other students had enough sense to ignore her and keep going or risk death.
"Wait, wait Kitty are you saying Pietro was at the mansion this morning?!" Lance asked keeping his voice low.
"Umm yeah you didn't know? He, like, slept over last night and stayed for breakfast at least until he and Evan started fighting like a married couple!" Kitty said giggling.
"What was my brother doing at your mansion?" Wanda hissed more then asked.
"Umm well from what I was able to pick out from what they were talking about Pietro, like, over used his powers or something and got really skinny and sweaty and Evan found him in the park and thought he was, like, dying and dragged him to The Institute to feed him and stuff. And I think there was something about cavemen and elephants in tutu's but I'm not sure it's hard to under stand Pietro when he talks really fast." Kitty said with a laugh.
"Where is he?" Wanda growled.
"Umm last I saw he was, like, running at Quicksilver speed out of the mansion so he could be, like, anywhere. I thought he'd gone home to you guys or whatever."
Wanda stalked off cursing and looking homicidal. Lance cringed. She was going to be even less fun to live with now! "Uh thanks for the info Kitty."
"Oh um sure! No prob! So uh what's going on? Why's Wanda more crazy then normal?"
"Uh well we think somethings wrong with Pietro. We noticed that lately he's been...well slow. You know walking not running, talking at a human speed when he talks at all, not dating, he's almost always locked in his room, and just been generally weird. We're worried about him. And when we tried to confront him last night well he told this whole story about breaking up with a girlfriend and well we thought it sounded pretty true and he was crying and everything but Wanda said he was lying. One of those twin things I guess. And when she told him she knew he was lying he freaked and jumped out his window and that;s the last we saw of him." Lance said in a rush to get it all out.
Kitty stared wide eyed. "Like, oh my god! I had no idea! Pietro's seemed totally normal this morning though. He was all speeding and annoying and everything. Huh though the guys who saw him last night said he did look tired. And he said he slept more last night then like ever before. Like 9 hours I think it was."
Lance's mouth dropped open. "You're kidding! Pietro doesn't sleep! I mean he's always up! If he ever sleeps it's only a few hours!"
Kitty shrugged. "That's just what I heard. Look I'm sorry but I gotta get to class. I hope everything works out ok with Pietro! Good luck!" Kitty stood on her toes and kissed him on the cheek before running off just as the bell rang.
Lance blinked as he held his hand to his cheek where she kissed him then grinned.
Pietro's POV
I run my hands though my hair sighing loudly as I have to stop yet again because of how crowded the food store was.
Who'd of thought that 8:30 in the morning would be a busy time?!?
I look down in the shopping cart I'm pushing and re-check all the things I have so far making sure I haven't missed anything really important.
Salad lots of salad, bananas, apples, carrots, celery, Cheerios, Capitan Crunch, Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, bread, crackers, tuna fish, Mt. Dew, Jolt, Coke, Sprite, chips, dip, canned soup, rice, mashed potato's, skinless boneless chicken, hot dogs, ground beef, ground Turkey, orange juice, yogurt, milk... Milk. Evan drinks milk. He was drinking milk this morning at breakfast and he had the cutest milk mustache that I just walked to lick off... Stop! No thinking weird thoughts about Evan Daniels! ARGH! Where was I? Ok milk, cookie dough, chocolate, vanilla, Espresso Chip, cookies and cream, Death By Chocolate, ok yeah I think I got enough ice cream. Toilet paper, tissues, paper towels, bleach, ammonia, dish washing liquid, antibacterial soap, furniture polish, Windex. Hmm looks like I got everything we need for now at least.
The lines moving. Finely! I push the cart though grabbing a Coke from the fridge thing next to the check out counter as I start putting my stuff up.
I drink my soda as the girl rings up my stuff flirting with me the whole time. "So wow you sure got a lot of stuff huh? Having a party or something?"
"No just doing the shopping for my...family." I say lamely.
"Oh wow that's really sweet of you! You're mom must totally love you doing this for her!" The girl looks like she'd like to jump over the counter and kiss me.
"Uh yeah I guess." What's wrong with me? There's nothing wrong with her! She's cute! I should have her phone number by now and be making plans to get her into bed! So why am I just standing here?!
"So um well I know this is really forward and I don't normally do this but...would you like to go out sometime?" Knew she wanted me.
"Sure. I'd uh love too." Oh wow don't I sound eager. Could I be any less enthusiastic?!
She gives me a thousand watt smile and grabs my hand and scribbles her number and name on it. "Call me. Ok and you're total is $305.30. How will you be paying??
I reach for my wallet and pull out my credit card. "Charge it."
"Eric Magnus Lensherr? Cute name." She says while she does her thing with the card. I don't bother to tell her it's my fathers name not mine. Not like I'm actually going to call her or anything.
"Here you go. Thanks for shopping Wal-mart! Have a nice day!" I take my card back and put it back in my wallet and paste on a flirting smile. it works. She giggles as I stuff the receipt in my pocket and push my almost over flowing cart out of the store.
I use my speed to load the bags in the jeep then take look at the name and number scribbled on my hand. /Mandy. 555-0310. Call me!/ Not likely. But why not likely?! Why the hell is Daniels stuck in my head and why am I turning down hot girls?!
I shake my head trying to shake lose the thoughts then speed out of the parking lot and back to the house.