"Hey Rogue! Wait up! Kurt said he'll drive us home!"
Rogue turned around and waited for Eden to catch up.
"I don't think I want Kurt to drive anymore. He's scary."
"No he isnt."
"Awww you're defending him because you looooooooooove him."
"SHUT UP!"
Eden blushed furiously and swung her purse at Rogue's arm.
"I wonder what a certian white haired Acolyte would say if he found out...."
"Heh. Maybe he'd leave me alone."
"Doubt it."
Rogue and Eden began to make thier way through the school parking lot to the jeep Rogue's nickmaned the 'Death Trap'.
"What on earth is Pietro's problem? Can't he take a hint?"
Rogue looked at the jeep again and nudged Eden with her elbow. "Obviously not."
Eden scowled at Rogue for a moment and then looked in the direction Rogue was facing. Just as if he appeared out of thin air, Pietro Maximoff was now standing by the jeep, leaning back on the passenger door, his gaze fixed on Eden.
"Will this torment never END?" she yelled as she brought her math book up to her head, smacking it against her forehead.
"Torment? E.. baby, every moment with me is like a treasure."
"Fake treasure," Eden mumbled, still smacking herself in the head with her math book.
"Eden, if you keep doing that you're going to damage your brain more than it already is."
"Rogue, I'd apprciate it if you didn't talk to my girlfriend like that."
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Eden screamed, throwing her mathbook at Pietro. He easily dodged it and let the book bounce off the door of the jeep. "I'm not your girlfriend? How many times do I have to say it for it to sink into that thick skull of yours?" she ranted at him while poking him in the temple with her index finger.
Rogue supressed a laugh as Pietro tried to put his arm around Eden's shoulders. The sound of her shrieking filled the parking lot.
"Shut UP Eden! Someone's going to think you're being murdered out here!"
"GET OFF ME YOU JACKASS!"
"Oh my god. Could this get any worse?"
"Bonjour, Chere."
Rogue looked over her shoulder and saw Remy walking up to her. The sound of giggling behind him caught Rogue's attention. A few feet behind Remy was a group of about five senior girls. They were all staring at him with dreamy expressions on their faces.
"Well well well Swamp Rat. It seems YOU have a fan club," Rogue told him, pointing in the direction of the giggling teenagers.
Remy didn't even glance back. "Well, I'll jus' have t' tell dem dat Remy be in da' Rogue fan club, non?"
"Give me a break."
"Chere, ya' break my heart," Remy said, dropping his books to the ground and clamping his hands over his hear, a fake look of pain on his face.
Rogue tried to glare at him, but he looked so silly, she couldn't help the short laugh that came out of her mouth.
"I'm sure it would take you no time at all to find someone willing to heal your broken heart Cajun," she said to him, almost joking around.
Remy straightend up, still paying no attention to his 'fan club'. In a sweeping gesture, he grabbed Rogue's hand and clasped it to his heart.
"I must ask ya' Chere, will you be mine?"
Rogue snorted. Rolling her eyes at him she said in a low voice, "Well someone has a wish to go into a coma."
Undaunted, Remy got down on his knees and grabbed her other hand. "But Chere, ya' d' only one for me."
Rogue began to blush a bright red color in her face. SHe could feel her face getting warm and she knew her face must be a vibrant shade of red. Trying to pull her hands from Remy's grasp, she said quickly, "Get off your knees Remy! People are staring!"
"Let 'dem. Dey be jealous dat' I got such a pretty fille."
Rogue groaned and yanked him back up to his feet. She managed to release one of her hands from his grasp. As hard as she yanked, she couldn't get him to release her other hand. "Remy, seriously, let me go."
"Don't be like dat Chere," he said to her.
"You don't understand. I'm like poison to anyone who touches me. You'd be better off just.........forgetting all about me." Rogue managed to pull her hand free and quickly made her way into the passanger seat of the jeep. Once she buckled herself in, she brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her legs. She buried her face in her arms and just kept still.
Ignoring Pietro, Eden focused her attention on Rogue and Remy. Rolling her eyes, she shoved Pietro out of her way, accidentally knocking him into the car parked next to the jeep.
"Get out of my way loser," she said to him as she quickly walked over to Remy. "What happened?" she asked him in a low voice.
Still a little stunned, he said blankly, "I don' know petite. I don' know."
Miffed that Eden was ignoring him, Pietro butted in, stepping in front of Remy and taking Eden's hand.
"Let go of my hand Maximoff, or you're going to end up hurt."
"E... you couldn't hurt me if you tried."
"Wanna bet?" she growled, purple bolts of lightning starting to spark between her fingers.
Pietro glanced down at her hands where the sparks were starting to get brighter and bigger. Common sense won out over his arrogance. Quicky pressing her hand up to his lips, he kissed her hand quickly, saluted Remy and sped off, a trail of papers following behind him.
Once he was gone, Eden began to make a sound like an angry cat. She was so mad she couldn't even articulate words. Remy put a comforting arm around her shoulders and tried to calm her down.
"Petite, you're doin' what he wants ya' to."
"Eden's doing what who wants her to?"
Eden spun around and saw Kurt walking over to them with Amanda Sefton on his arm. Remy saw the quick look of hurt and anger in Eden's eyes before she quickly masked her true feelings again.
"Pietro. He's just being the jackass we all know and hate," Rogue muttered from the car.
Kurt gave Remy and Eden a confused look and jerked his thumb in Rogue's direction as if to ask, 'what's up with her?' Eden waved her hand at him and mouthed the words, 'I'll tell you later.'
"Well then, since Eden got to say good bye to her boyfriend, you guys mind if we drop Amanda off too?"
Eden's mouth fell open, before Kurt could notice, she snapped it shut again.
Amanda giggled and held on tighter to Kurt's arm. "He's such a gentleman."
"I'm going to throw up," Eden said under her breath with disgust.
"I'll join you," came Rogue's muffled response.
"I'll hold both of ya's hair back," Remy joked.
Kurt ignored the three of them and opened up the driver's side door.
"Hey Rogue?" he asked.
"Yes Kurt."
"Could you sit in the back? I'd kind of like Amanda to sit next to me."
"Whatever."
Avoiding Remy's gaze, she clambored over the back of the seat and sat in the seat right behind. Trying not to cry, Eden climbed into the jeep and situated herself next to Rogue. Remy followed her and slammed the door shut.
Amanda chattered to Kurt about the drama class earlier in the day while Eden fought the strong urge to leap up and throw Amanda from the car. Rogue sensed her feelings and gave her a reassuring pat on the hand with her own gloved hand. Their exchange didn't go unnoticed. Remy couldn't help putting his arm around Eden's shoulders again, giving her a reassuring pat. He glanced over the top of Eden's head, trying to catch Rogue's gaze. All he saw was concern for her friend.
"I'm going to drop you guys off first ok? Then I'll take Amanda home."
"Kurt, Amanda lives closeby. It would make more sense for us to drop her off first then all of us head home," Rogue pointed out to him.
"Well.... ah..... I'm still taking you guys home first."
"Whatever Kurt. Just do it fast," Eden snapped.
Suprised by the maliciousness in Eden's tone, Amanda turned around to look at Eden. She didn't know why, but she thought she saw anger in Eden's eyes.
"Are you ok, Eden?" she asked with concern.
"Yeah. I'm just peachy. Take me home Kurt."
Kurt snapped his head around and gave Eden an even look. She looked extremely pissed off about something.
Maybe I should lay off the Pietro teasing, he thought, thinking that was the problem.
In awkward silence, Kurt started up the jeep. Everyone remained silent during the short trip back to the Xavier Institute. Amanda kept nervously glancing at Kurt, then Eden in the rearview mirror.
Amanda leaned over and whispered to Kurt, "Is Eden ok? She's never been like this around me before."
Kurt gave her a reassuring smile. "Don't worry Amanda, I've been riding her pretty hard about the huge crush Pietro Maximoff has on her. She'll be fine."
Glancing back up at the rearview mirror, Amanda again noticed what was now looking like a glare of hate coming from Eden. Shivering a little, she said to Kurt doubtfully, "If you say so..."
As she was speaking, the gates of the Xavier Institute came into view. Not even waiting for the gates to open, Eden snatched up her backpack, stood up, and flied out of the jeep and over the gates towards the mansion.
Rogue gasped, giving Remy an nervous glance then quickly looking at Kurt.
"Don't worry, Roguey. Amanda knows about us."
Amanda nodded and turned in her seat to face Rogue and Remy. "You're secret's safe with me."
"It better be," Rogue said to her firmly, glaring daggers at Kurt's head.
Kurt ducked his head and revved the engine again as the gates swung all the way open. He pulled the jeep up to the front door and stopped the car so Rogue and Remy could get out.
"Is de petite really goin' t' be allright?" Remy asked Rogue as the two of them began walking towards the front doors of the institute. Spraying pavement hit them in the back of the calves, announcing Kurt peeling out and driving back down the long driveway to the main road.
"I don't know," she answered back. Quickening her pace, she left Remy behind and hurried up to the room she shared with Eden. Even just walking in the front door, she could hear the angry girl thrashing around their room.
I'm really not good at this.... she thought as she dragged her bookbag up the stairs and slowly made her way to the room Eden was in. Taking a deep breath, she threw her bookbag into the room first, just in case Eden was throwing her arms around as she ranted.
"I cant' believe it! AMANDA SEFTON! What the hell does he see in her?" Eden raged as she paced back and forth in the bedroom.
"Eden, it's not like you have sole claim on him," Rogue said to her.
"YES I DO! I 've liked him MORE and LONGER than that.... that....."
"Eden. You never told him. So you left him as open game for other girls."
"Yeah? Well we'll see how Miss Sefton likes him when she sees him all blue and furry."
"I think she already has. Kurt said she knows about us. Don't you think she'd know about him too?"
Eden glared at Rogue, and continued to pace. Rogue held her glare for a few moments. Suddenly, Eden's face began to crumple and tears began to stream down her face. Covering her face with her hands, she threw herself onto the bed and began to bawl. With some slight hesitation, Rogue sat down on Eden's bed and patted her back.
"It's ok Eden.... It'll be ok...." she tried to reassure her roommate.
"No it won't. He's in love with her. I can see it in his face."
Rogue started to speak again, but Rahne poking her head into the room distracted her.
"Hey Rogue, I'll take it from here," she said as she sat down next to her.
"Who else knows?" Rogue asked in a low voice, Eden's sobs practically drowning her out.
"Me, Amara, Kitty, and Jean. We've always known about her crush on Kurt. She wasn't to careful about hiding it. The only people who don't know are they boys, that's because if it's not in a Bikini and Blonde, they don't pay attention."
"Let me know if you need a break," Rogue told Rahne.
"It'll be fine. Amara's on her way up with mass amounts of comfort food. I just hope Logan dosn't schedule his revenge Danger Room Session tonight."
"Ugh. I totally forgot we skipped out on that last night. I wouldn't expect him not to," Rogue groaned.
Amara came through the doorway, weighted down with what looked like half the refridgerator.
"I've got cookies, ice cream, chocolate... you name it, I have it," she announced and dumped everything down on Eden's legs.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THAT'S COLD!" Eden shrieked, quickly bringing her legs up to her chest.
"I'll be right back. I'm going to go see if I can find out if Logan's going to kick all of our asses," Rogue said to the three other girls.
Ducking out into the hallway, she bumped into Bobby and Ray.
"Uh... Rogue, I don't know if we should ask you this... but...," said Bobby, with obvious discomfort.
"Is Eden ok? We heard her yellin' and she looked pretty pissed off when she came stormin' into the mansion," Ray finished.
"Um... yeah. Eden's ok. Girl stuff. You know?" Rogue told the two of them, not wanting the true nature of Eden's temper tantrum to become part of the Xavier School rumor mill.
"Is it also true that..." Bobby began again.
"Pietro Maximoff has a thing for her?" Ray finished for Bobby. Again. Glaring at Bobby, he waited for Rogue's answer.
"That, sadly, is true. He won't leave her alone. At first it was funny, now it's just getting annoying." Rogue told the two of them.
"Ok, my turn. Any word about the Danger Room session we all skipped out on yesterday?" she asked the two boys.
"Yeah. Before Dinner. Full battle uniforms. Logan's going to kill us all," Bobby groaned.
"Yippee," Rogue said sarcastically, twirling her finger in the air in a whoop-de-doo gesture.
"We'll see you later Rogue, Bobby and I are goin' to sneak out and meet up with Tabitha and a friend of hers. I swear if Bobby sets me up on one more blind date, I'm goin' to kill him," Ray muttered as he was dragged away by Bobby.
"Right Ray, like Tabitha dosn't have hot friends," Bobby said as the two of them turned the corner.
Pressing her fingers into her temples, she made her way back into the bedroom to tell the other girls about the new Danger Room session. As she walked up to the door, it flew open and Amara came running out.
"I forgot the chocolate syrup. I'll be right back guys!" she called over her shoulder as she dashed out of the room. "Whoops! Sorry Rogue!"
Rogue sidesteped Amara and tried not to be annoyed. Just as she was going to walk into the room, she heard Rahne talking to Eden.
"You know it would never work out between the two of you. You're just too different."
"Gee thanks Rahne. With friends like you how would I need enemies."
"Seriously Eden, you're better than that. You deserve better than that."
Frowning, she noticed an edge to Rahne's voice that she never heard before. Something wasn't right, but she couldn't put her finger on it. She pushed her doubts to the side and walked into the room.
"Danger Room session. Before dinner. Full battle uniforms. Just thought you two would like to know."
Eden and Rahne groaned from where they were sitting in the mess of food on Eden's bed. The sound of crunching gravel began to get louder and when they looked out the window, they saw Kurt returning in the jeep, a very happy look on his face.
"I think I'm going to vomit," Eden groaned, flopping back on her bed and yanking a pillow over her face.
I'm sooooo sorry it's taking me so long to update. I've actually figured out a plot! I know it's like 17 chapters and there's FINALLY a plot! Please bear with me, I'm going to try and update more often. But not like anyone's really reading this anyway.
sigh Oh well.
Luv to those who are!