Behind the Mask

Author: Illusen

Chapter 4: The Kiss Suit

When she come home, Annabelle found the X-Men, excepting Scott, Jean and Rogue, in the rec room playing some sort of game. As she passed the others exchanged glances then asked her. "Hey, you wanna play with us?"

"What?" Anna asked.

"The Kiss Suit." Bobby, one of the new recruits, answered.

"How is that?" Anna asked.

"You write the name of all players on deck of cards and then you select a boy and a girl who have to kiss."

"No, thanks." she said.

"Afraid?" Kurt Wagner asked. Anna turned around.
"Me? No way."

"Then play." he added. Anna thought a little but she finally agreed.
"Fine, I'll play." She sat down between Kitty and Kurt. Bobby chose a card from the boys deck.

"Sam." he announced. He took a card from the girls deck. "and Mina." Now let's see the punishment. He chose another card from another deck. "A kiss on the cheek." he said almost disappointed. Then it was Kitty and Kurt with a french kiss for 1 minute. Next Amara with Bobby with Three Minutes In Hell (Kiss for three minutes non-stop), then Tabitha with Roberto with a simple kiss. The next card was Dean. Mina smiled at him, she probably wanted to be the chosen girl but surprise, surprise it was Anna. They both looked up when Bobby announced the girl. "Now let's see the punishment." Bobby chose another card. "And it is... French Kiss." Anna looked away, this was not happening to her. She turned around and said.

"I'm sorry, but I can't. He's my sister's boyfriend. And I don't think he wants to." Mina smiled.

"Hey, sis, I'm not possessive. We always shared things, and besides this is just a game." she assured.

"You sure?" Anna asked again.

"Pretty sure."

"Now, that all is okay, let's see the time. Two minutes." Annabelle turned to him.

"Is this okay with you?" she asked.

"Yes." he said but she felt that he was nervous.

"Fine." She got up and went over at him. She looked in his eyes, those beautiful blue eys and lowered her head. He raised his head a little and in few seconds they were kissing. The others applauded as Anna opened her eyes. He was watching her. Suddenly, he broke the kiss and got up, storming out of the room. Anna looked at Mina, she expected her to be upset but she was smiling.

"That's okay. I'll go after him." she said and got up.

"No." Annabelle said and stopped her. "It's my fault, I'll go." Mina nodded. Anna got up and went out to search for him. He saw him heading in the back of the Institute where the pool was. She followed him.

"What's up with you, boy?" he turned around, surprised, probably she wasn't the person he had expected.

"I thought I'll get Mina to come after me."

"Well, y'got me, so now, tell me, what's the problem?" He turned to her.

"What did you want with that kiss? Get revenge on Mina? Because your parents didn't accept you?" Anna looked at him.

"No. That's not the problem. It's somethin' else."

"Fine," he said. "You're the problem." she just looked confused. "First you beat me in front of the Institute, then you save my ass on Asteroid M, next you punch me, and now, you kiss me?"

"Hun, first, I was forced to come and beat y'in front of the Institute, second, it's because I'm not such a bad person to leave someone die in front of me, third, I heard that y're spyin' me and fourth, it's just a game."

"I don't kiss someone like that in a game."

"I do." she said.

"Don't tell me you did it to impress me..." he teased and watched her reaction. Anna looked at him.

"Why, y're so full of yourself!!!" she said and pushed him in the pool. Unfortunately he grabbed her hand and pulled her down too. When she got to the surface was ready to kill him but prepared herself to throw at him some nice vulgar words.

"Why you-"

"Now, don't insult me." he cut off. "You pushed me in."

"And you just had to pull me in too!!!" she replied.

"Of course."

"I suggest getting away from my sight until I don't change my mind and I kill you." she said and got out from the pool followed by Dean.

"What about another bath to calm you down?" he asked laughing.

"Shut up and get away from me." she replied and went back into the mansion.

Meanwhile, into the Mansion

Mina looked at her watch. Some time had passed and her sister and boyfriend didn't come back.

"Maybe I should go after them. If they get into a fight my sister is capable to throw him into a coma." she said and got up. In the same time the two appeared, wet, with water dripping from their clothes and hair. Bobby opened his mouth to say something but Anna interrupted.

"Don't ask." she said and went upstairs to her room." Bobby looked at Dean and opened his mouth to ask again.

"Don't ask." Dean said before Bobby could say a word and went to his room.

"I hate when I don't know what happened." Bobby muttered.

Illussen: Hey people, what do you think about this chapter? I should have putted this chapter up 5 days ago but when I was writing the final words, my mother came and said :"Come on, turn it off, we're going to your grandparents in fifteen minutes. And there is no Internet, not even computers. Boooooooooring!!! Oh, anyway, back to the story. One more chapter and I'll begin with the action and mystery again. But the next chapter will be something else. Well, bye and review, I want to know if I made this chapter good.

PS: Sorry for the late upload of the other two chapters but I thought I uploaded chapter 2 but I had a bad Internet connection when I was uploading it and the power went off. So I thought that I uploaded it but when I wanted to put chapter 3 I saw that I didn't. I'm sorry if I made you wait so much.