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A Lovers Feud
By: Alex Destine
Chapter 14
The young boy had completely forgotten why he was looking forward to lunch period today. It's not like they served anything good anyway… he was so tempted to run to the boys' bathroom and simply teleport back to the Institute and make himself something decent and edible. But of course, if he did that the others would make him go back for more and he'd be their personal fast food delivery boy.
~~ Besides, Scott would probably kill me if I did that anyway. ~~ thought Kurt as he looked around his table and laid his eyes on the before mentioned senior.
There was a reasonable part of him that acknowledged the fact that Scott was right. Using their powers in public on a whim could be dangerous… but surely the lack of healthy food supplies had to be a good enough reason for that risk.
The blue X-men kept looking around his friends watching as they did what was in their personalities to do.
Scott was eating his 'evil' lunch with a dissatisfied look on his face; sure he tried to hide it but it was just too obvious. Jean was calmly eating as if what she had before her could be considered 'normal' food. But then again, she was cheating… she could create a mental shield to save her taste buds from the agony of this lunch.
Evan was busy making a complicated sculpture with his smashed potatoes. That looked like fun, he should start one too. Then he saw Rogue… she had bought herself a bag of chips and was eating it gladly. Apparently she could survive with only that. Then he watched Kitty… by the look on her face he could only guess she was wondering if her meal was still alive.
Boy, he loved this crazy bunch! They were his friends and he was glad they each had their own, sometimes very different, personalities. Just then though he heard a loud racket coming from a few tables down. He turned to look just as Lance was reaching out to grab Pietro by his neck shouting about why couldn't the white haired boy ever shut up.
Kurt figured Pietro & Evan shared the sometimes-annoying characteristic of saying disgusting stuff just when others were eating.
~~ Must be a New York thing… ~~ Kurt smiled a bit wondering how those two could hate each other and still have such endearing similar traits.
Just then Kurt realized there was one Brotherhood member missing… where was Todd? The blue mutant looked around the cafeteria with curious eyes. Surely Todd could not be too far behind… a few seconds later Kurt's eyes landed on his target. The Brotherhood freshman was busy looking at his 'lunch' wondering whether it was still alive. Kurt noticed as Todd's steps took an automatic turn through the different tables without once looking up. The Brotherhood always sat in the same little corner… it wasn't really odd since he just noticed he and his friends usually also sat in the same general area. However, Todd's turns eventually made him pass next to the 'ever-enchanting' jock table and Kurt noticed when a long muscular arm got in the way between the small freshman and his destination. Kurt's eyes moved quickly to Lance, but the older mutant was too preoccupied with the annoying sophomore to notice Todd's predicament.
Surely Duncan would behave himself in such a public place… right?…right?!?
Ok, now Kurt was sure there was something wrong with his food if such delusional ideas were making their way up his head. He finally figured he'd give Todd a hand… after all, they haven't been fighting for a while, and the kid wasn't all that bad.
As he approached the jock table he could hear Duncan's threatening words.
"Thought I told you this area was off limits Toad."
Todd kept looking around feeling claustrophobic as the circle of jocks evolved him. He only hoped this would be over soon.
"Hey! How are we all doing?!" Kurt chimed in cheerfully as he placed himself between Todd and Duncan getting the football player's attention.
"What do you want?" was Duncan's only response.
"Why, to give you an important message." Ok, Kurt now had his attention… now what did he do? He looked over at Todd for some help but the freshman was just as lost for ideas. So it meant Kurt would have to improvise. "Umm… you see… Jean wanted me to tell you that she wants to meet you after school!"
~~ Jean, may you one day forgive me… ~~ apparently Jean Grey was Duncan's only known weakness.
"What?… are you sure about that?!" Duncan would be beating someone up pretty badly if this turned out to be a lie.
"Of course! Just look right at our table." Indeed, since the moment Kurt had gotten up both Jean and Scott had been keeping track of him. As Duncan looked at the redhead Kurt began signaling them to wave so Jean slowly waved back not really knowing what was going on. That seemed to satisfy Duncan's questions.
"Well, seems she can't get enough of Me." Said Duncan as he waved back in a smooth gesture. Both Kurt and Todd had to roll their eyes at that one.
"Ok, anyway… I guess we'll be going now." Kurt grabbed Todd by his arm and started to make his way out of the jock circle.
"Hey, wait! Where do you think you're going toad?" Duncan grabbed Todd's other arm.
"But Duncan… you wouldn't want Jean to see you bulling someone right now, do you?" and again Kurt's words seemed to magically stop Duncan.
"Fine, whatever… guess we'll talk later Toad." Was all the football player could come up with.
Todd sure was happy to be getting out of that circle of death he was trapped in. He looked over at Kurt as they made their way toward their different tables.
"Hey… thanks yo. Guess Dunc finally remembered I was alive." Todd tried to make a small laugh but it just didn't want to come out.
"Are you ok?" asked Kurt in a concerned voice as he noticed Todd's slight paler face.
"Of course I'm ok… hey, I'm used to Duncan, alright." Todd gave up all intention on laughing at his situation and simply looked ahead toward his table.
"Alright, alright." Kurt placed his hands up as a peace gesture. "I was just worried."
"Well, you don't have to be." Todd saw his friends now, it seemed they were having fun. Pietro was laughing uncontrollably again as he stood behind Freddy, while Freddy was trying to calm a very upset Lance.
"I'm gonna KILL you, you little brat!" was heard loud and clear as Lance tried, without much success, to pass beyond Freddy.
"I guess I'll see you later…" and with that Todd left the blue mutant to himself.
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"Like, what was that all about?" asked Kitty as she took her attention away from her 'lunch'.
"Nothing really… looks like Duncan is being a bully again." Kurt sat back down to try and finish his inedible meal.
"Someone ought to just teach that guy a lesson!" said Rogue as she took one of her gloves off.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" came Scott's worried voice. "You can't just go over there and touch him, you know!"
"And why not? No one will know it was me, he just 'fainted'." Rogue tried to smile sweetly at Scott, but the older mutant wasn't buying it. "You're so not fun Scott."
"I've been telling him that for a long time now." Added Kurt, as he laughed a bit.
"Besides, shouldn't we let the Brotherhood deal with this situation first?" Jean looked over at the boy's table and winced at their current situation.
Pietro was in one corner of the table holding his head in pain and whining about how Lance didn't have to hit him so hard while Todd tried to cheer him up. Lance was sitting on the other end of the table eating peacefully with a satisfied smile on his face while Freddy simply shook his head.
~~ CHILDREN! All of them! ~~ thought Freddy.
"I think Lance was a bit more occupied trying to kill Pietro." Said Scott after a while.
"Well, wouldn't you?! That guy is completely annoying and rude and… OW!" Evan rubbed his arm slightly as he looked at Kitty.
"Told you to like, stop saying stuff about him. He's very mature and responsible and reasonable." Kitty didn't understand how anyone could miss such obvious traits from her Pietro.
Suddenly though they all turned to the Brotherhood table as a loud "JERK!" was heard followed by the sound of 'SPLAT!!!'. Lance now had a gooey mountain of mash potatoes on top of his head as the older mutant simply sat there is semi-shock with his mouth slightly open. Todd and Freddy were also left in shock for a few moments when suddenly Todd turned to Pietro.
"You're so dead yo!" Now Todd thought this was funny.
"… yeah, I know…" and in order to make Pietro's situation a little worse they heard a loud round of laughter erupt from the jock table.
"Nice hat Alvers!" screamed Duncan causing everyone else who hadn't noticed what happened to look and laugh.
The ground started to shake softly at first but that soon changed to make way for a harder shake.
"Ok, Igottogo! Later!" and Pietro was gone from the cafeteria.
Meanwhile Freddy was trying to calm Lance down but the older mutant wouldn't have it and the shaking was starting to make a few kids panic.
Scott decided he had better get involved or else they'd all be trapped under the building. So he ran toward the Brotherhood table and taking a glass of water he immediately splashed it on Lance's face.
For a second time that day Lance was left in a mouth-opened state of shock.
"Snap out of it Alvers." Said Scott rather casually.
"Ok… so this is your way of NOT UPSETTING ME!?!?!?!?" Lance was still angry but the shaking had stopped.
"Well, it worked…" Scott had a sheepish smile, he had rather enjoyed doing that.
"I'm so going to kill that little brat!" screamed Lance as he removed some mash potatoes from his hair.
"That would work fine for me…" Scott wasn't going to stop him if he really felt like doing that.
Lance stopped cleaning himself and looked directly at the other senior. Both leaders kept staring at each other, if out of stubbornness or lack of anything else to do, they weren't sure.
"What are you still doing here?… Go away!" said Lance as he resumed his cleaning chore.
"Just remember, back of the building after school." And Scott turned and left the mash potato covered teen.
After a few moments of silence Freddy decided to voice his question.
"What are you doing at the back of the school?" Fred had been in ear shot for that little comment.
"Huh?…. Oh! Nothing… I just… well,… can you help me get this stuff off?" The evil food item seemed to like Lance's hair.
Lance eyed Freddy suspiciously as the bigger mutant was helping with his hair. His eyes then moved over to Todd who apparently hadn't heard Scott's untimely comment, so for now he was safe of unwanted questioning.
~~ Stupid Summers can't let me live my life in peace! As if I didn't have enough things to do! ~~ Lance started to grumble. Fred was starting to give out concerned looks and even Todd's attention was focused on the sullen behavior of the other mutant. Lance needed a vacation.
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The bell had finally rung and everyone reluctantly returned to their afternoon classes. Kitty didn't want to go though, she supposed no one ever really wanted to sit down for most of the day and have an adult recite important nonsense at them. Funny thing was, all those adults actually expected you to remember what they had been talking about the day before… very funny indeed.
But Kitty's reason for not wanting to go to class wasn't like everyone else's. Pietro was supposed to meet her. He was supposed to have a plan for getting rid of Darkholme on Friday. She still had no idea how that would be arranged. Now, if only the white-haired boy decided to make his presence known.
As Kitty walked down the hallway, thinking that perhaps Lance had carried out his threat to kill the sophomore boy, a hand came out of no where and pulled her into… the boys bathroom!
"Ah! Like, what's the big idea?!… oh, hi Pietro. I was getting worried you know." Said Kitty as she took in her surroundings.
"Yeah well… it's getting harder to hide from Lance lately. Had to run to the other end of town for a while." he said as he looked at himself in the mirror.
"I'm in the boys bathroom…."
"Yes, that's correct… don't ever say I don't take you places." He winked at her and continued to examine himself in the mirror.
"I'm in the boys bathroom…."
"Yes sweetie… we've established that. Now, we need only wait a couple of minutes until Darkholme begins her afternoon route around the school."
"Oh god Pietro! I'm in the boys bathroom!!"
"…….….." the white haired boy stopped meddling with his hair and simply stared at her.
"Ok, I get it! I get it! But like, what if someone needs to come in here?" she asked eyes wide with fear.
"I'll tell'em I'm here with a girl and make them go away." Pietro was now leaning against the wall as Kitty walked over to him.
"And I bet you'd do that too." Kitty began to walk around the place… not like she'd be coming back here again anytime soon, so she figured she'd get the 'mystery' out of it.
"This place is… well, not as well kept as our bathroom." She said after a while.
"Well what can I say… we're pigs." Pietro smiled devilishly. "I should've brought some flowers in to soften the blow."
Kitty simply rolled her eyes. "That's ok Pietro, I'll live. I've seen the boys bathroom at the Institute after they use it."
"Tsk, tsk… that Evan… he's such a messy person."
"You have no idea." She said as she leaned on the wall next to him.
"Oh I think I have a general idea on the guy…one too many sleepovers back in New York." he said as a small smile showed on his face.
"You guys must've been really good friends back there. Why you stop?" Kitty knew, of course, that this was dangerous territory to talk about to either Pietro or Evan. But she had to know.
Pietro thought on it for a while, not giving Kitty any sings that he was going to answer. She almost told him to forget it when he suddenly looked at her and shrugged.
"I have no idea…" was all he said… and yet she felt that was as honest an answer as he was able to give.
Pietro looked at his watch now and decided they had waited long enough.
"Well, time to go." Pietro looked out into the hall to make sure no one would see Kitty coming out of the boys' bathroom, that would not make their day.
As they approached the offices they noticed the huge number of people present; teachers on a break, secretaries, students who were brought up for something or other… Pietro sure hoped he wouldn't bump into anyone from the Brotherhood, they were up here often enough.
"Like, what's your great plan?" Kitty whispered in his ear.
"We need to get into Darkholme's office but she always locks it."
"Like, you know I can phase us through, but like what about all these people?"
"That's where I come in, my dear." He said as he began to spin in circles using his powerful speed to create a huge gust of wind.
Papers began flying about everywhere, the troublesome students who had been brought in were shouting and screaming for more while some people who were holding small paper cups soon found their hot coffee on their suits and some women who wore skirts let go of all the important papers they were holding when it became apparent that they had better be holding something else.
All in all, Pietro was having a blast.
Using this distraction Kitty moved closer to Mystique's office and once she had reached the door Pietro stopped his spinning and they both ran inside phasing through the wall. They both landed hard on the floor while trying to control a fit of giggles.
"That was so beyond cool!" sighed Pietro as he caught his breath.
"Yeah! It was!… but did you really have to make such a mess?" Kitty wasn't used to pulling these types of pranks yet, but she could still giggle about it.
"Oh come on!… you enjoyed it too!… Wasn't that you're History teacher in there?" said Pietro as he stood up.
"Well… yeah." Smiled Kitty "Ok, fine… but you can't go around pulling this off all the time, you know."
"Understood ma'am! Now… let's take a look at Mystique's little files." Pietro clasped his hands together in pure glee and enjoyment as an evil smile plastered itself on his lips.
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Being principal of a high school had to be the most annoying job in the world. You had to look after a bunch of evil creatures (called children) that did nothing but make a mess of things. Mystique didn't have the opportunity to raise her own kids, but now that she had to take care of the Brotherhood (and a whole High school) she was sometimes relieved she didn't have to suffer the full blast of motherhood.
~~ Of course, if I had raised them from the start those little delinquents wouldn't have grown up to be this bad. ~~ thought Mystique as she walked the halls of Bayville High in search of troublesome teenagers who thought he/she didn't have to go to class.
As luck would have it, she found one of her favorite students inside the boys' bathroom. She didn't waste any time and simply stormed in.
"Stupid little punk! I'm so gonna kick his ass! …" Lance stopped looking at the mirror and instead saw his favorite principal. "… Ok, don't you ever knock?" he said as he returned his gaze to the mirror trying to get the remains of the mashed potatoes out of his hair.
"You know Mr. Alvers… some students are now in their afternoon classes." She said as she looked over the dark haired senior.
"Well, good for them." Normally he would've kept quiet, but today he was ticked off.
"Care to explain why you aren't with them? And don't give me any smart-ass answers Mr. Alvers because if you were capable of that your grades wouldn't be so low."
"I'm being robbed of an education because of what your 'little precious' did to me!" he said as he pointed to his head.
"My little what? And why on Earth do you have mashed potatoes in your hair?" she was beginning to think young Alvers was stoned. She wasn't very surprised.
"Your little precious Pietro decided he was angry at me and threw his lunch at my hair!"
Mystique took in a deep breath as she prayed for patience,… yet another Maximoff catastrophe.
"Young Pietro is… special. And sometimes he will do things that will makes us want to strangle that precious little neck of his and cut his head off and bang him over and over again with a bat and… *ahem* but we must think twice about such things… yeah. Cause he's still just a child, after all. Uh huh…" evil thoughts lurked inside her head right now.
"Yeah… uh huh…. I,… I just wanted to smack him on the head. But that bat idea seemed good." Lance had to remind Pietro about keeping away from Mystique for a while.
"Well then, you make sure you do something about that when you're back home with the little brat. As for now however, return to your classroom." Darkholme turned around and left the boys' bathroom, but no sooner had she stepped outside that a certain play-god had spotted her. Claudia's face remained expressionless, but by her quirked eyebrow you could very well get the message of 'huh? What the…?' that was being played in her mind over and over again.
"Um… Ms. Darkholme, I needed to talk to you about this Friday… but it can wait if you're busy."
Just then Lance came out and at the sight of Claudia he simply opened the door to the boy's bathroom a little wider in a gentlemanly way motioning them to go right in.
"If you wished to talk to Ms. Darkholme, you may do so in her new office! She has been thinking about relocating since she enjoys spending so much time in here anyway!"
~~ Ok, Pietro's abnormalities are starting to rub off on me. Why didn't I stick with my 'stay quiet until this is all over' plan? ~~ thought Lance as he immediately let go of the door and tried to walk away toward his new class.
"Mr. Alvers!" Mystique was so not amused.
"Yeah?…" ~~ Maybe she'll let me go with a warning… maybe?….~~ Lance was hopeful.
"My office… now!" Darkholme turned and started to walk away.
~~ Damn it! Now, why exactly did I think I'd get off the hook? After all, I'm not Pietro.~~ he had accepted his fate.
"Wow, Alvers… you surprised me! Thanks, you know. You've lighted my whole day." Said Claudia as she walked beside him.
"Yeah well… that was the general idea. 'What should I do to make somber Claudia smile?' Perhaps getting myself into trouble should prove amusing?" Lance kept walking with his hands tucked in his pockets as Claudia gave him a 'look'. ~~ Geez, what I say now? ~~
"I am not somber!" she said as she crossed her arms.
"Please! If you were a guy you'd remind me of Summers."
~~ Now, why did I mention him?~~ he was not going to be talking about Summers on his way to Mystique's office.
"I'm sorry, but I think someone like Summers redefines the word 'somber'. And I happen to be a VERY cheerful person, damn it!"
"Of course! What was I thinking?" Lance winked at her and smiled so she understood he was only kidding. Claudia though turned a light shade of red.
"Um… are you ok?" he asked.
"I'm fine." She answered.
"Are you sure?" he asked again.
"Yes." She answered again.
"Ok…" just then they noticed Mystique had stopped. Now she was simply waiting for another victim to come to her.
~~ And who's the poor zap this time?~~ thought Lance as he looked ahead.
Duncan and some cheerleader were busy happily talking away their class time as Darkholme watched from a distance.
~~ What an idiot…. Then again, Mystique also busted me. ~~
"So baby, I was thinking we could go over to my car now and I could drive you somewhere a bit more romantic, you know." Said Duncan letting all his charm ooze from him.
"Heeheee… but Duncan, what about school?" asked the ditzy cheerleader as she tried to suppress the fit of giggles from being near the Great Duncan Matthews.
"School?… heh, listen baby, let me tell you a few things about school… IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU AND YOU SHOULD NOT MISS IT!!… Hello Principal Darkholme."
"And your excuse Mr. Matthews?" asked Mystique while giving the cocky football player the evil eye.
"I have a pass!" said the cheerleader quickly giving it over to her.
"Fine, you're excused Jenny. Now leave before I change my mind."
The cheerleader didn't need to be told twice, but just as she was walking past Lance she noticed her friend Claudia was part of the little detention group.
"Oh my God. You were caught doing something bad Claudia! Like, no way!" Jenny felt almost… proud of Claudia.
"No Jenny… I just need to talk to miss Darkholme about something." Pointed the play-god as a matter of fact.
"Oh…" Jenny sounded almost disappointed. "Should've known…"
"Oh God! You're such a great liar! Don't worry Claudia, I wont tell why you were caught." Lance had decided to butt in on this one. It seemed little Miss Somber needed a boost of some kind.
"Wow! Cool Claudia…. Later." And with that new bit of information Jenny was off toward her class.
"Hey! Wait…. Why did you do that Lance?" again with the arms crossed and the 'look'.
Lance simply shrugged… he felt rather good about himself right now.
"I swear I had my pass Ms. Darkholme! Maybe it fell off or something, I'm sure we can work something out…"
"To my office Mr. Matthews." And off she went followed by her little trio.
"You're such an idiot Duncan." Whispered Claudia since she just couldn't hold back.
"Shut up Claudia!" said the football player while trying to think of some good excuse.
Lance decided to smack Duncan on the head.
"When a lady states a fact you simply nod in agreement Dunc!"
"Shut up Alvers!"
"Is that all you know how to say?" asked Lance wondering who exactly was being robbed of an education.
"I think it's the too many blows to the head by the football…" suggested Claudia.
"Ms. Darkholme!" cried Duncan.
"Tattletale" whispered both Lance and Claudia.
"If you three are not quiet, I swear to God, you'll be suspended!" shouted Darkholme at her little bunch.
"Yes ma'am…"they all said in unison.
The three seniors were quiet for a few moments… but then…
"You're still an idiot Duncan."
"I thought I told you to be quiet Claudia!…. Ow!"
"The lady is still stating a FACT. So don't tell her to shut up."
"Shut up Alvers!"
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"Are you sure this will work Rogue?"
"Trust me Kurt, nothing says: 'Stop picking on the little guy' better then a stink bomb in your locker." Rogue was going to have her way with Duncan.
So maybe Scott didn't approve of using mutant powers against the annoying football player, he didn't say anything about alternative sources of punishment… besides, Duncan wasn't one of Scott's most favorite people, she was sure he wouldn't really mind.
"It's just that… shouldn't we be doing something more productive to help Todd then simply pulling pranks on Duncan?" Kurt wasn't sure this plan would work.
"This is just phase one sugah!… give me some time." Rogue was busy making the final adjustments to her master prank.
"I'm kind of afraid of phase two…" just then Kurt's ears picked something up, and it was coming from behind Rogue. "Hey, someone's coming."
"Well distract them. I'm almost done here!" She had finally finished when she suddenly noticed Kurt's eyes grow wide.
"Rogue, we're busted... SHE is behind you." Kurt had neatly placed himself inside the opened locker.
"Oh man… did she see you?" Her first real evil prank and already she wasn't going to be getting away with it.
"Um, I don't think so… she has only seen you."
Rouge sighed accepting her fate. "Well, guess you better go… I'll handle it."
"Are you sure?…" Kurt didn't like the idea of just leaving his friend there.
"Yeah. No sense us both getting busted… get outta here."
Kurt guessed she was right, after all he could always teleport Rogue out of detention, so in a gentle 'poof' of smoke he was gone.
Rouge immediately closed the locker and turned toward HER.
"And what are we doing here?" Mystique had conflicting emotions toward her once treasured mutant recruit that was now fighting for the other side, but her job as the Principal made her choices very slim.
"I was just getting to class Ms. Darkholme…" Rogue's voice was low and angry, her eyes were narrowed and her entire body language screamed the multiple things she'd really wish she could say to the woman who had betrayed her trust. Nevertheless, she knew that no matter what she said she'd always get sent to her office.
"Join the crew Rogue, one more troublesome student will just make my day."
"The crew?" Was there supposed to be other people with Mystique?
At that moment the shape shifter turned around only to notice her merry band of child delinquents were too busy arguing… again, to keep up with her.
"I told you to shut up Alvers!" she heard from the distance.
"Make me, Dunc!" answered her oldest recruit.
"You're still an idiot you know…" Now this was odd… Mystique didn't recall having busted Claudia for anything… although in her 'detention-happy' mood she might've found her transparent nail polish offensive and made the young girl join the detention crew.
"IF YOU THREE DON'T SHUT UP AND MOVE YOUR ASSES YOU'RE SUSPENDED!"
~~ How dare they just forget my existence!? ~~
"Is that a promise?" asked Lance as they moved toward her.
"Um, Ma'am… I haven't done anything…" All Claudia wanted was to talk to her Principal… was that so wrong?
As the three teens moved closer they noticed the latest addition to their detention group.
~~ Oh yeah… I'm in for a happy day… ~~ thought Rogue as she looked over the 'detention crew'.
The first person she saw was Lance, she wasn't too surprised to see him there. Then she saw Duncan… and was only glad she had finished the job on his locker before he had a chance to spot her. The last person she had expected to see though was Claudia. That girl was like the 'Jean Grey' of the seniors: responsible and serious; although she was only a bit more sarcastic and, to Rogue's opinion, a lot more fun then Jean. Still, to see the girl in the detention wagon was a bit alarming.
Rogue immediately walked besides Claudia since she wanted as much space between herself and Duncan as possible.
"Hey there Rogue… being naughty I see." Said Lance as he kept going.
"A bit… why you guys here?" she noticed Duncan was giving her dirty looks, apparently he wasn't over the whole 'stepping on his foot with the boot' thing from this morning.
"Darkholme can't take a joke… go figure." Lance answered. "And Claudia here was just being bad!" the dark haired senior smirked as he saw Claudia's cheeks redden.
"Shut up Lance!" the play-god smacked him playfully on his shoulder as her face burned.
Rogue couldn't help but notice the chumminess in which these two acted and for some reason she began to feel upset about something.
~~ Well, they are in the same class… they're supposed to know each other.~~ but Rogue's thoughts weren't cooling her temper… and neither was Duncan's presence.
"You know, you have a lot of nerve to show your face around here after what you did…" Duncan had finally lost his patience.
~~ Yep, definitely not over the whole 'stepping on his foot with the boot' thing… ~~ thought Rogue as both Lance and Claudia exchanged confused looks.