The look on my father's face confirmed any doubt I had in the back of my
mind. The woman standing across the room was indeed the woman who gave me
birth. However, I wasn't really in the mood to become the Brady Bunch.
"You must be mistaken, I don' have a mother." I said with ease. My father's grip on my shoulder tightened, telling me that I was on thin ice already, and I hadn't even started. " See I had a mother, but she left me an' Papa, derfore renouncin' any privledges dat she had. In fact," I said and walked a few paces towards her. "My mother would in fact be dead t' me."
"Kaley stop it right now!" Jean said. But I didn't hear her. This was the woman who had caused my family so much pain. And I wanted to inflict it back upon her.
"Jean, do me a favor, stay de fuck outta dis." I snarled over my shoulder. " You say you my maman Madame? Den I say dats too bad, an' I suggest you move on, 'cause we don' need you anymo'."
And with that I left the room and headed straight for my house. I could feel the heat building up in my body and steered myself towards the pool deck. Jumping straight into the pool again I let my anger go. Flames burst our of my hands only to be extinguished by the water, after I was done my little tantrum I walked out of the pool, leaving it quite a bit warmer than it was when I first got in.
I went back to the house, sensing that Papa was following me, but I didn't care I walked into the house and walked into my room, slamming the door behind me. I fell onto my bed, counted to ten and smiled as the door swung open right on cue.
"Dat was unacceptable." Papa said looming over me. I rolled my eyes at him dramatically. "Don' start wit me Kale..Papa's warnin' you."
"Papa, I'm not in de mood fo' dis okay?" I said rolling over and facing the opposite wall.
"I don' care! Fuck chil'! What gives you de right t' speak t' her dat way huh?" Papa screamed sitting on the edge of my bed. I didn't like it when Papa swore at me. I turned over and glared into his fiery red eyes with my own.
"De fact dat she left me." I said in an icy tone that took Papa by surprise. " Now get de fuck outta dis room."
"Watch how you speak t' Papa Kale." Papa said matching my tone. My eyes flashed a dangerous color and he got up to leave. I locked the door behind him and turned on my music full blast. I sat down on my hardwood floor and felt it rumbling beneath me. I sat perfectly still and began to meditate like my godmother had taught me.
"You look sexy like that." A voice said breaking my concentration. I sat still and let the smile creep onto my face with the recognition of the voice.
"What you doin' here? Papa's downstairs y'know." I said opening my eyes and smiling when I saw Luke sitting across from me.
"Yea I know but I figured you two wouldn't be talking, since the whole thing." He said. I winced as he mentioned the nice little incident that had recently took place. "Weird news travels fast in this place, you okay?"
"Non." I stated quite honestly. "But I will be."
Luke reached out his arms and I crawled over and hugged him. Somehow he knew what I needed. He always knew what I needed. After a while of sitting on the floor we migrated to the window seat that he loved so much.
"Is she really your mom?" Luke asked after a while of not talking. I would say silence but there's really loud music playing. I nodded slowly and he kissed my forehead.
"Luke will you take me away from here?" I asked quietly, I'm sure he could barely hear me, but he responded all the same.
"I would if I could baby." Luke said running his fingers through my hair. I sighed, knowing that he couldn't. Well he could but we would be tracked down within the day, since we have no money and no mode of transportation. And I wouldn't really enjoy seeing the look on Wolverines face once he did find us.
"What are you thinkin' about?" Luke asked after another extended period of silence.
"Runnin' away wit you." I answered honestly. "I don' t'ink it'would go over too well."
Luke let out a laugh, shaking me in the process. I laughed with him; it felt good to laugh. It was then that I missed Papa. Well the old Papa, before my 'mother' came back into our lives. We used to laugh more than anyone does.
Luke and I sat in that window seat all day, despite Papa pounding on my bedroom door. Eventually though, I unlocked the door, part of me wanted him to find Luke and I together. Maybe I just wanted to hurt him, I'm not sure.
So I rejoined Luke on the window seat and we waited in silence. Finally the door opened, only to reveal Jubilee. She gave me a concerned look and shut the door behind her.
"Kaley! We're all so worried about you!" Jubilee said sitting on the corner of my bed closest to the window seat. "Hey Luke what's up?"
"Nothing much." Luke said tightening his grip around my waist.
"I be fine." I said forcefully, looking away from her and out the window where everyone was gathered on my front lawn.
"You're not fine Kaley! How could you possibly be fine?" Jubilee asked as if the entire idea was foreign to her. I smiled her way, as genuine a smile as I could muster under the conditions.
"Look Jub'lee, I be fine. An' tell dem dat der ain' no point in comin' up here." I said nodding down to the group of uncomfortable looking people on my lawn. She nodded and left my room, knowing that I wouldn't give in.
"Does everyone know about you and me except our dads?" Luke asked me, making me giggle.
"I don t'ink Bishop knows yet." I said racking my brain to find out who didn't know.
"I beg to differ." Luke said pointing to the doorway where the massive man stood with his hands clenched into tight balls.
"Get your hands off of my god daughter before I remove them boy." Bishop said to Luke. Luke slowly began to pull his hands away but I caught them and set them back on my hips.
"Calm down Bishop it be okay." I said giving him a half smile before turning to look out the window, thankfully Papa was out on the lawn with everyone else.
"Does your father know there is a boy in your room?" Bishop asked, his glare never leaving Luke. I shook my head.
"An' if you don' mind I'd like t' be 'lone wit him." I said shifting my gaze to the skies outside. Reluctantly Bishop turned on his heel and left the room, letting Jean by as he left. "Jean, you can read minds but you can' figure out when I wan' t' be 'lone?"
"Technically you're not alone baby." Luke reminded me and I responded by jabbing him in the ribs with my elbow. He chuckled and I smiled.
"We just want to know that you're okay Kaley, everyone is really worried." Jean said approaching the two of us.
"Den go into my mind, you'll know dat I ain' fine. But I'd be a lot better if everyone would leave me lone." I said scowling out the window as I saw Bishop talking to Storm.
"I'm not going to invade your thoughts unless you want me to Kaley, you know that." Jean said, sounding almost as if she had taken offense to my comment.
"I know dat. Could you do me a favor? Tell all dem I don' wanna see no one." I turned to where she was standing and pleaded with her with my eyes. She sighed and nodded. Walking outside I saw her start to shoo everyone away from my door. My father went back to the mansion with them since he did know that I wouldn't talk to him.
Eventually I went and closed the door again.
"Are you sure you're okay baby?" Luke asked as I rejoined him on the window seat.
I looked into his eyes and fell apart. Luke sat there stroking my hair and telling me that it would be all right as I cried on his shoulder.
I didn't want a mother, I had a father who loved me more than life itself and a family that most people would kill for. But then she shows up and screws us over again. I hated her, I absolutely hated her.
"Baby, it's almost supper and I really have to get home." Luke said after a while. I understood, his dad would freak if he was late again. "I'll be around later if you want."
I nodded and watched him jump from my second story window, land on the ground and break into a run. I sighed and walked downstairs into the kitchen, expecting it to be empty.
"What's she doin' here?" I asked Papa as I saw the woman who gave me birth sitting at my kitchen table.
"Now Kaley don' be like dat!" Papa pleaded with me. "Yo' mama deserve a chance."
"Non." I replied in the bitchiest tone I could muster. "She ain' my mama. I don' got a mama."
"Kale if yuh'd jus' give me a chance t'explain!" She said in the thick southern accent. I glared at her and shook my head.
"You don' deserve it." I growled in her direction.
"Kaley!" Papa yelled at me, his eyes glowing a dangerous red. " Don' take dat tone wit her. You will sit and listen' t'what she got to say."
"I won' sit, or listen t'her." I said to my father. "But if you wan' t'defend her dats fine."
"It's not defending!" Papa said matching the evil glare I had on my face with his own.
"Well den kick her out." I stated simply. " No in fact, I make it simple for you. She leaves or I do."
"Yuh can't just give him a ultimatum." The lady said and I glared at her with my eyes glowing a fiery orange.
"Dis don' concern you." I said in the lowest imaginable tone.
"Papa can't decide dat!" Papa said. "You my daughter cherie, but Rouge.Rogue is Papa's heart."
"Den you've already made yo' decision and I'll be on my way." I said and walked out the front door. The sun was setting and it was getting colder out, where could I go?
I ran up to the mansion, standing in the lobby I looked around. Who could I go to that wouldn't turn me in and make me go back home. I looked around in a panic.
I had just left my father, the only person who had ever taken car of me and then I realized that I didn't know what to do. I felt the tears welling in my eyes and I finally realized and took off in a sprint.
"You must be mistaken, I don' have a mother." I said with ease. My father's grip on my shoulder tightened, telling me that I was on thin ice already, and I hadn't even started. " See I had a mother, but she left me an' Papa, derfore renouncin' any privledges dat she had. In fact," I said and walked a few paces towards her. "My mother would in fact be dead t' me."
"Kaley stop it right now!" Jean said. But I didn't hear her. This was the woman who had caused my family so much pain. And I wanted to inflict it back upon her.
"Jean, do me a favor, stay de fuck outta dis." I snarled over my shoulder. " You say you my maman Madame? Den I say dats too bad, an' I suggest you move on, 'cause we don' need you anymo'."
And with that I left the room and headed straight for my house. I could feel the heat building up in my body and steered myself towards the pool deck. Jumping straight into the pool again I let my anger go. Flames burst our of my hands only to be extinguished by the water, after I was done my little tantrum I walked out of the pool, leaving it quite a bit warmer than it was when I first got in.
I went back to the house, sensing that Papa was following me, but I didn't care I walked into the house and walked into my room, slamming the door behind me. I fell onto my bed, counted to ten and smiled as the door swung open right on cue.
"Dat was unacceptable." Papa said looming over me. I rolled my eyes at him dramatically. "Don' start wit me Kale..Papa's warnin' you."
"Papa, I'm not in de mood fo' dis okay?" I said rolling over and facing the opposite wall.
"I don' care! Fuck chil'! What gives you de right t' speak t' her dat way huh?" Papa screamed sitting on the edge of my bed. I didn't like it when Papa swore at me. I turned over and glared into his fiery red eyes with my own.
"De fact dat she left me." I said in an icy tone that took Papa by surprise. " Now get de fuck outta dis room."
"Watch how you speak t' Papa Kale." Papa said matching my tone. My eyes flashed a dangerous color and he got up to leave. I locked the door behind him and turned on my music full blast. I sat down on my hardwood floor and felt it rumbling beneath me. I sat perfectly still and began to meditate like my godmother had taught me.
"You look sexy like that." A voice said breaking my concentration. I sat still and let the smile creep onto my face with the recognition of the voice.
"What you doin' here? Papa's downstairs y'know." I said opening my eyes and smiling when I saw Luke sitting across from me.
"Yea I know but I figured you two wouldn't be talking, since the whole thing." He said. I winced as he mentioned the nice little incident that had recently took place. "Weird news travels fast in this place, you okay?"
"Non." I stated quite honestly. "But I will be."
Luke reached out his arms and I crawled over and hugged him. Somehow he knew what I needed. He always knew what I needed. After a while of sitting on the floor we migrated to the window seat that he loved so much.
"Is she really your mom?" Luke asked after a while of not talking. I would say silence but there's really loud music playing. I nodded slowly and he kissed my forehead.
"Luke will you take me away from here?" I asked quietly, I'm sure he could barely hear me, but he responded all the same.
"I would if I could baby." Luke said running his fingers through my hair. I sighed, knowing that he couldn't. Well he could but we would be tracked down within the day, since we have no money and no mode of transportation. And I wouldn't really enjoy seeing the look on Wolverines face once he did find us.
"What are you thinkin' about?" Luke asked after another extended period of silence.
"Runnin' away wit you." I answered honestly. "I don' t'ink it'would go over too well."
Luke let out a laugh, shaking me in the process. I laughed with him; it felt good to laugh. It was then that I missed Papa. Well the old Papa, before my 'mother' came back into our lives. We used to laugh more than anyone does.
Luke and I sat in that window seat all day, despite Papa pounding on my bedroom door. Eventually though, I unlocked the door, part of me wanted him to find Luke and I together. Maybe I just wanted to hurt him, I'm not sure.
So I rejoined Luke on the window seat and we waited in silence. Finally the door opened, only to reveal Jubilee. She gave me a concerned look and shut the door behind her.
"Kaley! We're all so worried about you!" Jubilee said sitting on the corner of my bed closest to the window seat. "Hey Luke what's up?"
"Nothing much." Luke said tightening his grip around my waist.
"I be fine." I said forcefully, looking away from her and out the window where everyone was gathered on my front lawn.
"You're not fine Kaley! How could you possibly be fine?" Jubilee asked as if the entire idea was foreign to her. I smiled her way, as genuine a smile as I could muster under the conditions.
"Look Jub'lee, I be fine. An' tell dem dat der ain' no point in comin' up here." I said nodding down to the group of uncomfortable looking people on my lawn. She nodded and left my room, knowing that I wouldn't give in.
"Does everyone know about you and me except our dads?" Luke asked me, making me giggle.
"I don t'ink Bishop knows yet." I said racking my brain to find out who didn't know.
"I beg to differ." Luke said pointing to the doorway where the massive man stood with his hands clenched into tight balls.
"Get your hands off of my god daughter before I remove them boy." Bishop said to Luke. Luke slowly began to pull his hands away but I caught them and set them back on my hips.
"Calm down Bishop it be okay." I said giving him a half smile before turning to look out the window, thankfully Papa was out on the lawn with everyone else.
"Does your father know there is a boy in your room?" Bishop asked, his glare never leaving Luke. I shook my head.
"An' if you don' mind I'd like t' be 'lone wit him." I said shifting my gaze to the skies outside. Reluctantly Bishop turned on his heel and left the room, letting Jean by as he left. "Jean, you can read minds but you can' figure out when I wan' t' be 'lone?"
"Technically you're not alone baby." Luke reminded me and I responded by jabbing him in the ribs with my elbow. He chuckled and I smiled.
"We just want to know that you're okay Kaley, everyone is really worried." Jean said approaching the two of us.
"Den go into my mind, you'll know dat I ain' fine. But I'd be a lot better if everyone would leave me lone." I said scowling out the window as I saw Bishop talking to Storm.
"I'm not going to invade your thoughts unless you want me to Kaley, you know that." Jean said, sounding almost as if she had taken offense to my comment.
"I know dat. Could you do me a favor? Tell all dem I don' wanna see no one." I turned to where she was standing and pleaded with her with my eyes. She sighed and nodded. Walking outside I saw her start to shoo everyone away from my door. My father went back to the mansion with them since he did know that I wouldn't talk to him.
Eventually I went and closed the door again.
"Are you sure you're okay baby?" Luke asked as I rejoined him on the window seat.
I looked into his eyes and fell apart. Luke sat there stroking my hair and telling me that it would be all right as I cried on his shoulder.
I didn't want a mother, I had a father who loved me more than life itself and a family that most people would kill for. But then she shows up and screws us over again. I hated her, I absolutely hated her.
"Baby, it's almost supper and I really have to get home." Luke said after a while. I understood, his dad would freak if he was late again. "I'll be around later if you want."
I nodded and watched him jump from my second story window, land on the ground and break into a run. I sighed and walked downstairs into the kitchen, expecting it to be empty.
"What's she doin' here?" I asked Papa as I saw the woman who gave me birth sitting at my kitchen table.
"Now Kaley don' be like dat!" Papa pleaded with me. "Yo' mama deserve a chance."
"Non." I replied in the bitchiest tone I could muster. "She ain' my mama. I don' got a mama."
"Kale if yuh'd jus' give me a chance t'explain!" She said in the thick southern accent. I glared at her and shook my head.
"You don' deserve it." I growled in her direction.
"Kaley!" Papa yelled at me, his eyes glowing a dangerous red. " Don' take dat tone wit her. You will sit and listen' t'what she got to say."
"I won' sit, or listen t'her." I said to my father. "But if you wan' t'defend her dats fine."
"It's not defending!" Papa said matching the evil glare I had on my face with his own.
"Well den kick her out." I stated simply. " No in fact, I make it simple for you. She leaves or I do."
"Yuh can't just give him a ultimatum." The lady said and I glared at her with my eyes glowing a fiery orange.
"Dis don' concern you." I said in the lowest imaginable tone.
"Papa can't decide dat!" Papa said. "You my daughter cherie, but Rouge.Rogue is Papa's heart."
"Den you've already made yo' decision and I'll be on my way." I said and walked out the front door. The sun was setting and it was getting colder out, where could I go?
I ran up to the mansion, standing in the lobby I looked around. Who could I go to that wouldn't turn me in and make me go back home. I looked around in a panic.
I had just left my father, the only person who had ever taken car of me and then I realized that I didn't know what to do. I felt the tears welling in my eyes and I finally realized and took off in a sprint.