A/N Okay, sorry this chapter's kind of short, but I'm tired, driving school
really wipes a girl out. But I graduated! Okay, anyways, I forgot a
disclaimer yesterday, so, here it is:
I don't own it.
Okay, that should be good enough. Anyways, I don't know why Lance is here,
I didn't mean to put him in the story, he just kind of showed up, so don't
ask me. Khash is sort of a real person, with the name sort of changed, and
a little weirder, so, yes, there are actually teachers like that. Who knew?
So, on with the story!
Kitty Pryde slowly walked across the street to Burger Bomb, not really sure if she could eat anything, the more gory scenes in the movie probably killed any kind of eating for today. She watched as one of the cars swerved into the right turn lane, almost hitting another car.
'Gee,' she thought, 'what if I, like, drive like that?' She thought for a second, and decided, 'no I won't. I am Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat. I can do anything. And even if I can't, I can just use my powers.'
She smiled, thinking of what a great driver she was going to be, when she felt a hand slink around her waist.
"Lance, like, go away," she said, pushing him away.
"Ah, Kitty, come on, I'm sorry for the whole school meeting thing," Lance said, giving her the cutest face he could manage. Kitty stared at him for a second, trying to see if he was telling the truth. "How about I buy you lunch, and we'll talk, okay?"
"Please, you know that you don't have the money to feed yourself, let alone me," she scoffed, which brought a slight grin to his face.
"Actually, I do have some money," Lance said. "You see, Magneto's back, and, since we have to put up with his psychotic son, he gives us a nice allowance. I don't know if he thinks he can buy are trust or what, but he sure gives us a lot. So, how about it, Burger Bomb on me?"
"Okay," Kitty said, and they walked over to Burger Bomb together, just like old times.
"So," Lance said when they were seated, "what do you think of this Khash guy?"
Kitty played with her fries for a minute, before answering, "He's weird. And I totally don't like how he showed us that movie on the first day; we could have waited to see it." She paused, fingering her food, thinking of all the dead bodies she had seen on the tape. "I don't think I can eat right now, Lance, I'm just going to go back to class."
"Okay, Kitty, but I really need to talk to you," Lance said, and went back to eating his double cheese-burger, making Kitty gag.
'How can he eat after watching that movie?' she thought to herself. 'Wait, he lives with Toad, I guess anything that he can handle anything now.'
After about half an hour, Kitty quit walking around the block, and went back into the classroom. On the board, the words, "worry about you" was written. Kitty gave an odd glance to Khash before sitting down in her seat.
Once everyone was seated, Khash said, "Okay class, now, I bet you're wondering why I put this on the board. You see, you need to think about yourself before anything else. Like say..." he was stopped when a boy wearing headphones walked into the room. "Hey, headphones," Khash said, trying to get the boys attention, "class started 5 minutes ago, where were you?"
The boy looked at him for a second, and answered with an, "I don't know."
Khash nodded, accepting the answer, but when "Headphones" kept listening to his CD player, the teacher took it away, probably so he could listen to it later.
"Now, back to business, you need to think about yourself on the road. Let's say you're going down a hill, and there's a person behind you, and a person coming up next to you on your right. And you're driving along, bopping your head to the music," he demonstrated 'bopping' the head, "and a cute little squirrel walks into your path. What do you do?
"You can't slam on your brakes, you'd hit the car behind you, you can't swerve to the right, because there's a car there, and you can't go left because you're on a hill, there is no left. So, you don't have a choice. Run the damn squirrel down! I mean, it was his time to go. Don't you think you're putting him out of his misery? What if he was about to be eaten alive by some hawk? Don't you think he would just want a quick death? And think about this- some endangered bird could pick up his dead body and feed it to his kids, so they won't be on the endangered list anymore. Isn't that a good thing?"
He stared at the blank faces of his students, and decided now might be a good time to put in a movie.
"This movie isn't bad at all, it's just showing how to safely share the road," he explained, putting the tape in the VCR.
"Then why didn't you show it before lunch?" one girl asked.
"Where's the fun in that?" Khash said with a smile on his face.
He was right; the movie wasn't bad at all. Actually, the only part people really listened to was when a man on the TV asked that if they had a 20 bill, wouldn't they give it to someone who needed it, and Khash said, "hell no."
Besides that, Kitty spent most of her time staring at Lance, ignoring most of what Khash said, unless he got so off topic, she just listened to figure out what he was talking about, or why he was talking about it, or where he even thought about it.
She stopped thinking about Lance for a second to listen to Khash.
"What kind of noise did Dinosaurs make anyways? I mean, what if that huge T- rex sounded like a duck? Or a rabbit? What kind of noises to rabbits make? You know, I had a rabbit once, but he ate my dad's garden, so I gave him to the Chinese place down the street."
Kitty stopped listening when he got to talking about his pets during college, (two giant cockroaches) and started imaging herself on the road.
'I bet I'll be the best driver there is,' she thought, picturing herself on a freeway. 'Get out of my way, you stupid car,' she shouted in her odd little daydream. 'Fine, don't get out of my way,' she phased through his car, ignoring the very rude sign she was getting. 'Teach you to get in the Shadowcat's way,' she shouted at him, (through her closed window, but hey- this is her daydream, so she can do what she wants). 'And then, I'll drive everyone to school, and people will be lining up to ride with me, even though Scott has a cooler car, because I'll be the best driver.'
As Kitty thought about her future driving career, class was coming to a close.
"Okay, now, Megan," he pointed at a girl, "could you tell me what we've leaned today?"
"Um, my name's Cristina," the girl said.
"Well, it's Megan now, anyways; could you tell me what you've learned?" he asked, brushing off the fact that he didn't know her name.
"That you're smoking something?" someone in the back row said, and the class snickered.
"I don't smoke before class, but, I think that's enough for today," Khash, said. It made you wonder-when did he smoke?
Outside, Kitty and Lance stood together, Kitty waiting for Scott to pick her up, and Lance was waiting with her, because he didn't want to start walking home.
"Hey, Kitty," he said awkwardly, "um...are you feeling better?"
"About that movie earlier? No way, I so will never drink and drive," Kitty said.
"Uh...yeah, me neither," Lance said, ignoring the little voice in his head that reminded him that he was drunk almost every night. He hated his conscience.
"Well, okay, there's Scott," Kitty said, "I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yeah, sure," Lance said, "I'll be here all week."
As Kitty got into the car, she ignored Scott's questions of what Lance was doing there, and why she was talking to him.
When they got back, dinner was about to be served, (those classes run really late) and Kitty went into the dining room to see what they were having.
"Hey, Ororo, what's for dinner? I'm like, totally starved, I couldn't eat lunch," Kitty said, looking around Ororo to see what dinner was.
"A new recipe I just found, it's called stuffed bell peppers," Ororo said, showing Kitty her newest creation.
In case you've never had the pleasure of eating one of these, they are bell peppers, with the tops cut of, and stuffed with hamburger and rice and potatoes, or something like that, I cook like Kitty, and so I'm not entirely sure. The point is, after watching a movie like, "Red Asphalt," this ordinary bell pepper tends to look like a head chopped off, with brains coming off the top. Kitty ran into the bathroom, and threw up. Ah, the wonder's of television.
Kitty Pryde slowly walked across the street to Burger Bomb, not really sure if she could eat anything, the more gory scenes in the movie probably killed any kind of eating for today. She watched as one of the cars swerved into the right turn lane, almost hitting another car.
'Gee,' she thought, 'what if I, like, drive like that?' She thought for a second, and decided, 'no I won't. I am Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat. I can do anything. And even if I can't, I can just use my powers.'
She smiled, thinking of what a great driver she was going to be, when she felt a hand slink around her waist.
"Lance, like, go away," she said, pushing him away.
"Ah, Kitty, come on, I'm sorry for the whole school meeting thing," Lance said, giving her the cutest face he could manage. Kitty stared at him for a second, trying to see if he was telling the truth. "How about I buy you lunch, and we'll talk, okay?"
"Please, you know that you don't have the money to feed yourself, let alone me," she scoffed, which brought a slight grin to his face.
"Actually, I do have some money," Lance said. "You see, Magneto's back, and, since we have to put up with his psychotic son, he gives us a nice allowance. I don't know if he thinks he can buy are trust or what, but he sure gives us a lot. So, how about it, Burger Bomb on me?"
"Okay," Kitty said, and they walked over to Burger Bomb together, just like old times.
"So," Lance said when they were seated, "what do you think of this Khash guy?"
Kitty played with her fries for a minute, before answering, "He's weird. And I totally don't like how he showed us that movie on the first day; we could have waited to see it." She paused, fingering her food, thinking of all the dead bodies she had seen on the tape. "I don't think I can eat right now, Lance, I'm just going to go back to class."
"Okay, Kitty, but I really need to talk to you," Lance said, and went back to eating his double cheese-burger, making Kitty gag.
'How can he eat after watching that movie?' she thought to herself. 'Wait, he lives with Toad, I guess anything that he can handle anything now.'
After about half an hour, Kitty quit walking around the block, and went back into the classroom. On the board, the words, "worry about you" was written. Kitty gave an odd glance to Khash before sitting down in her seat.
Once everyone was seated, Khash said, "Okay class, now, I bet you're wondering why I put this on the board. You see, you need to think about yourself before anything else. Like say..." he was stopped when a boy wearing headphones walked into the room. "Hey, headphones," Khash said, trying to get the boys attention, "class started 5 minutes ago, where were you?"
The boy looked at him for a second, and answered with an, "I don't know."
Khash nodded, accepting the answer, but when "Headphones" kept listening to his CD player, the teacher took it away, probably so he could listen to it later.
"Now, back to business, you need to think about yourself on the road. Let's say you're going down a hill, and there's a person behind you, and a person coming up next to you on your right. And you're driving along, bopping your head to the music," he demonstrated 'bopping' the head, "and a cute little squirrel walks into your path. What do you do?
"You can't slam on your brakes, you'd hit the car behind you, you can't swerve to the right, because there's a car there, and you can't go left because you're on a hill, there is no left. So, you don't have a choice. Run the damn squirrel down! I mean, it was his time to go. Don't you think you're putting him out of his misery? What if he was about to be eaten alive by some hawk? Don't you think he would just want a quick death? And think about this- some endangered bird could pick up his dead body and feed it to his kids, so they won't be on the endangered list anymore. Isn't that a good thing?"
He stared at the blank faces of his students, and decided now might be a good time to put in a movie.
"This movie isn't bad at all, it's just showing how to safely share the road," he explained, putting the tape in the VCR.
"Then why didn't you show it before lunch?" one girl asked.
"Where's the fun in that?" Khash said with a smile on his face.
He was right; the movie wasn't bad at all. Actually, the only part people really listened to was when a man on the TV asked that if they had a 20 bill, wouldn't they give it to someone who needed it, and Khash said, "hell no."
Besides that, Kitty spent most of her time staring at Lance, ignoring most of what Khash said, unless he got so off topic, she just listened to figure out what he was talking about, or why he was talking about it, or where he even thought about it.
She stopped thinking about Lance for a second to listen to Khash.
"What kind of noise did Dinosaurs make anyways? I mean, what if that huge T- rex sounded like a duck? Or a rabbit? What kind of noises to rabbits make? You know, I had a rabbit once, but he ate my dad's garden, so I gave him to the Chinese place down the street."
Kitty stopped listening when he got to talking about his pets during college, (two giant cockroaches) and started imaging herself on the road.
'I bet I'll be the best driver there is,' she thought, picturing herself on a freeway. 'Get out of my way, you stupid car,' she shouted in her odd little daydream. 'Fine, don't get out of my way,' she phased through his car, ignoring the very rude sign she was getting. 'Teach you to get in the Shadowcat's way,' she shouted at him, (through her closed window, but hey- this is her daydream, so she can do what she wants). 'And then, I'll drive everyone to school, and people will be lining up to ride with me, even though Scott has a cooler car, because I'll be the best driver.'
As Kitty thought about her future driving career, class was coming to a close.
"Okay, now, Megan," he pointed at a girl, "could you tell me what we've leaned today?"
"Um, my name's Cristina," the girl said.
"Well, it's Megan now, anyways; could you tell me what you've learned?" he asked, brushing off the fact that he didn't know her name.
"That you're smoking something?" someone in the back row said, and the class snickered.
"I don't smoke before class, but, I think that's enough for today," Khash, said. It made you wonder-when did he smoke?
Outside, Kitty and Lance stood together, Kitty waiting for Scott to pick her up, and Lance was waiting with her, because he didn't want to start walking home.
"Hey, Kitty," he said awkwardly, "um...are you feeling better?"
"About that movie earlier? No way, I so will never drink and drive," Kitty said.
"Uh...yeah, me neither," Lance said, ignoring the little voice in his head that reminded him that he was drunk almost every night. He hated his conscience.
"Well, okay, there's Scott," Kitty said, "I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yeah, sure," Lance said, "I'll be here all week."
As Kitty got into the car, she ignored Scott's questions of what Lance was doing there, and why she was talking to him.
When they got back, dinner was about to be served, (those classes run really late) and Kitty went into the dining room to see what they were having.
"Hey, Ororo, what's for dinner? I'm like, totally starved, I couldn't eat lunch," Kitty said, looking around Ororo to see what dinner was.
"A new recipe I just found, it's called stuffed bell peppers," Ororo said, showing Kitty her newest creation.
In case you've never had the pleasure of eating one of these, they are bell peppers, with the tops cut of, and stuffed with hamburger and rice and potatoes, or something like that, I cook like Kitty, and so I'm not entirely sure. The point is, after watching a movie like, "Red Asphalt," this ordinary bell pepper tends to look like a head chopped off, with brains coming off the top. Kitty ran into the bathroom, and threw up. Ah, the wonder's of television.