Chapter 22
Bobby and I were playing go fish on my bed when there was a knock at the door.
"I swear if dis be someone wantin' t' talk.." I growled and got up to the door. Opening it my head skipped a beat as I saw Marie standing there. I leant against the door and cocked an eyebrow.
"Ah was wonderin' if ah could have a moment of Bobby's time." She said chewing on her bottom lip. I cast a look over my shoulder at Bobby who stood up and nodded.
"G'night smallpint." He said ruffling a hand through my hair. I just nodded and watched them retreat down the hallway. I couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy. Then my eyes narrowed into a glare and I shut the door going back to the cards that were left. Picking them up I began to shuffle, a nervous habit I had acquired over the years.
I glanced over at the clock. It was definitely too early to go to bed. So after putting the cards on the bedside table, I went down to the kitchen. Grabbing a cup from the cupboard I turned to the fridge where Logan was leaning. I sighed, of course.
"Am I not 'lowed t' have any juice mon amis?" I asked. Logan smirked and moved to the kitchen table to sit down. I poured myself some juice and grabbed him a beer before he had to ask for it. I sat and slid the cold beer across the table. HE caught it and nodded his thanks. We sat in awkward silence for a while before I looked up.
"You grew some balls while you were gone." He commented. I raised an eyebrow.
"Dat seem a li'l awkward mon amis." I said with a smile. HE chuckled, which sounded suspiciously like a growl. "So you must be happy non?"
"Why's that kid?" he asked, nursing his beer.
"Marie came back, I left, den brought Bobby back." I said. He just shrugged. I nodded. "den I guess I see you tomorrow." I stood and started back to my room.
"G'night kid." He said. I stopped. That was the first time that he'd ever said good night to me. I just nodded and kept on walking; maybe he didn't hate me that much.
I got back to my room and promptly feel asleep.
This bed was not comfortable. That was what floated through my mind the day everything began. This bed was most definitely not comfortable. How did people live here? How could I spend an entire year in such an uncomfortable bed? This really had to be investigated. Maybe if I weren't so prone to sleeping on my back this bed would be more comfortable. I rolled onto my side. Then again, maybe it wouldn't. Oh well, sleep is sleep, even if the bed is uncomfortable.
I glanced over at the clock just as Bobby came barging through the door. Groaning I pulled the pillow over my head.
"Get up! The students come today!" Bobby said jumping on the end of my bed, stopping when he fell off onto his ass. Karma.
"Don' care mon amis." I said rolling away from him with a pronounced growl.
"You're not excited?" Bobby asked disgusted at the mere suggestion. "Not excited! How can you not be excited! You get a new roommate!"
Shit.
"Don' wan' a roommate." I growled again, sitting up this time. There was no point in trying to sleep with Bobby still in my room. Bobby rolled his eyes at me in exasperation.
"That's half the fun of a dorm stupidhead!" Bobby said. I shook my head at him. And we were going to let HIM teach. That's so cruel of us. "So get dressed and then we can have breakfast and then you can come to the talkie thinger that the Professor does and then the kids start showing up and you can meet your roommate and stuff and yeah it'll be cool."
I groaned again. "Jus' go, I come down later okay?" Bobby rolled his eyes at me.
"Like you didn't try that everyday before work, now get up!" he said from the end of my bed. I swung my feet off the bed and stood up, grabbing a bunnyhug from my bag. I trudged down the stairs to the kitchen behind bobby, who was practically skipping the entire way.
"Good morning Kaley!" Bishop said as he grilled some bacon beside Scott who was flipping some pancakes. I grabbed a plate and took it to Scott who put some pancakes on my plate, then to Bishop who put some bacon down.
"We have no Captain Crunch!" Bobby said, quite loudly in fact. I laughed at him; this should be interesting. He slammed the cupboard door shut and glared at his friends. "Who is in charge of shopping?" he waited for an answer from the amused looks from his friends. "Who took over my job!" he yelled.
"Calm down Bobby, it's just cereal." Jean said sipping her cup of coffee. I sat down beside her and gave a low whistle.
"Big mistake." I forewarned. This prompted Bobby to go on his rant about how Captain Crunch holds the world together, which I pretty much knew by heart. "HEY!" I yelled getting him to stop. "We go get some for tomorrow." I stated, this satisfied him enough to shut him up and let me eat in peace.
I watched as he sighed dramatically and poured some Fruit Loops in his bowl and ate them, making a show of every bite.
I shook my head at him and glanced around the table. I caught Marie giving him the same look I was. I had forgotten that they were friends. Feeling the jealousy monster creeping up on me I shook it off and ate my bacon.
After breakfast we were herded into the Professors office, where he gave them a speech and ran over what they were all teaching. I had heard it before, so I looked around pretending to be interested. I smiled at Jubilee who was resting against Michael, their hands entwined carelessly and his other arm wrapped around her waist. They were too cute, if I played my cards right I might be the maid of honor.
(((Screw you I have dibs!))) Jean shot into my head, making me smile. Then she blushed. (((Sorry, stray thought.)))
(((It's okay, I missed you doing that.))) we shared a meaningful look before she went to pay attention to the professor again. I averted my gaze to rest on 'Ro and Bishop. They were sitting on one of the couches, Ororo was sitting perfectly straight as she usually did whereas Bishop was lounging, slouched, his arm resting on the back of the couch, drawing circles on 'Ro's shoulder with his dangling fingers. Bishop smiled at me as he caught my gaze and grinned mischievously before pinching Storms shoulder. She responded by smacking him in the stomach with the back of her hand, before putting it back precisely where she had it before. I giggled at the exchange, typical.
I didn't have to look over at Jean and Scott to tell you what they were doing, sitting beside each other, Scotts hand resting on Jeans knee, proclaiming that she was his to anyone who was wondering. I looked over to check if I was right and smiled to myself when I was.
Apparently not too much had changed around here. I looked to my right, expecting Papa to be sitting there looking bored as usual, but was surprised when Bobby was in his place, looking as restless as ever. I smiled at him and then looked across the room where Papa was looking bored beside Marie. I downcast my eyes right before the professor dismissed them, the kids had arrived.
"Kale." The professor called as everyone began filing out of the room. "If you could spare a moment?"
I stopped and turned on my heel to go back to him, ignoring when Papa and I bumped shoulders.
"Oui?" I asked. The professor looked at the non-existant exchange between Papa and I before motioning for me to sit down.
"I was going to ask you if anything had changed, but I see that it hasn't." He said in a disapproving tone that I was all too familiar with. "Now, I was wondering if you had any scheduling changes to make."
I thought for a minute, then shook my head. "Non, I t'ink I should be okay."
"Alright." Professor said and then looked at me for a minutes I felt his familiar presence in my mind. "At least you're doing better." I smiled at him and nodded, I could survive at least. "And about your roommate, I'm guaranteeing there will be some controversy, but I paired you two together for a reason. Just don't forget that."
I looked at him and wished for a moment that I was telepathic before nodding and leaving his office. Random students milled through the hallways, obviously lost, so I helped a couple of the younger ones and then went back up to my dorm room.
I opened the door and smiled at the stack of comic books sitting on my bed. Silently reminding myself to thank Bobby later I plopped down onto my bed and picked one off the top and opening it up. I read for a few seconds before there was a knock at the door.
I looked up over the top of my comic and waited for the door to swing open as it inevitably would. And it did, and to both of our great surprise a young boy stood in the doorway.
"I must have the wrong room sorry." He said running a hand through his shaggy hair and tossed me a smile.
"Don' think so mon amis, come on in. Room 7B oui?" I said putting my comic down. Controversy was putting it mildly I thought, remembering what the professor had said. I had a feeling that a few male members of the staff were not going to be happy about this pair up.
"Yeah.do you think they made a mistake?" he asked dragging a huge suitcase behind him. I shook my head and smiled.
"Non, the professor doesn't make mistakes." I said picking up my comic again. He walked in, shutting the door behind him and throwing his bag onto his bed. He began unpacking and I took the opportunity to give him a once- over.
He had shaggy sandy-blonde hair, dark green eyes, he was taller than me, but most people were. He had no obvious mutation, so I went back to my comic book. "First year here?" I asked.
"Yeah. You?" he asked looking over his shoulder to smile at me.
"Non mon amis, I've been here since I was six." I said putting my comic down again.
"Six? I didn't even know what I was until like last year." He said. I smiled at him.
"Neither did I, But my Papa be a teacher here." I said.
"Oh really?" he asked turning around and sitting on his bed. "Which one is he?"
"He be Monsieur LeBeau." I said with a quick smile. The kid just nodded and sat for a minute before extending his hand to me.
"Sean Brandon." He said with a smile. I reached out and took his hand.
"Kale LeBeau." I said matching his smile, I liked this kid. "So what do you do Sean?"
"I can fly basically." Sean said with a shy half-smile. "And y'know, screw with peoples emotions."
"And you jus' found out you can do dis den?" I asked smiling when he nodded.
"What about you?" he asked, relaxing slightly. Instead of answering I conjured a small fireball hand rolled it around in my hand.
"That's crazy." He said, staring at my hand for a moment before shaking it off and looking back up at me. "So..20 questions?"
"Go." I said with a smile. I definitely liked this kid.
"Movie?" he asked.
"Moulin Rouge." I said with a huge smile. He grimaced.
"Donnie Darko." He said. I shrugged it wasn't that bad, except I didn't understand anything!
"Band?" I asked. He thought for a minute.
"Linkin Park or Zwan." He answered finally, I rolled my eyes at him, everyone liked Linkin Park.
"David Bowie or Queen." I answered and he rolled his eyes at me. He opened his mouth for another question when Bobby burst through the door.
"DELIVERY!" he yelled at the top of his lungs and shoved a bunch of luggage into our room. He stopped when he saw that Sean was a boy.
"It be okay Bobby, de professor will explain later." I said laughing at the perplexed expression on his face. Bobby just nodded before stopped and pointing a finger at me. "That's Mr. Drake to you!" he said and I laughed at him.
"Perhaps in your dreams mon amis." I said and he stuck my tongue out at me.
"So what're we talking about?" he asked sitting on the edge of my bed.
"Don' you have t'ings to be doin'?" I asked him, Bobby thought for a minute before nodding and standing up.
"Hey Kaley, if you want, I could come with you to get the rest of your stuff from the house later." He said cautiosuluy, I dropped my gaze again and nodded. I missed my guitar but it was a fine price to pay for not seeing Papa. "Oh yeah! Once everyone is settled we're all supposed to go to the games room." He turned to leave one last time before swingin around and reaching into his pocket. "One last thing, put these on, no arguments."
I laughed at his attempt to be an authority and watched as Sean put the bracelets on. I however abstained from doing so and put them in my pocket.
"You aren't going to put them on?" he asked. I shook my head.
"Don' need 'em mon amis." I said with a smile. "So you wan' t' go down now?"
Sean shrugged and then nodded and we walked down to the games room quietly.
A/N: Okay I know it's been forever and I apologize but there's another chapter on the way, if anyone wants I would really appreciate some new characters, so if you have one send it to my e-mail and I'll find a spot for them. REVIEW or no new chapters. PEACE!
Bobby and I were playing go fish on my bed when there was a knock at the door.
"I swear if dis be someone wantin' t' talk.." I growled and got up to the door. Opening it my head skipped a beat as I saw Marie standing there. I leant against the door and cocked an eyebrow.
"Ah was wonderin' if ah could have a moment of Bobby's time." She said chewing on her bottom lip. I cast a look over my shoulder at Bobby who stood up and nodded.
"G'night smallpint." He said ruffling a hand through my hair. I just nodded and watched them retreat down the hallway. I couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy. Then my eyes narrowed into a glare and I shut the door going back to the cards that were left. Picking them up I began to shuffle, a nervous habit I had acquired over the years.
I glanced over at the clock. It was definitely too early to go to bed. So after putting the cards on the bedside table, I went down to the kitchen. Grabbing a cup from the cupboard I turned to the fridge where Logan was leaning. I sighed, of course.
"Am I not 'lowed t' have any juice mon amis?" I asked. Logan smirked and moved to the kitchen table to sit down. I poured myself some juice and grabbed him a beer before he had to ask for it. I sat and slid the cold beer across the table. HE caught it and nodded his thanks. We sat in awkward silence for a while before I looked up.
"You grew some balls while you were gone." He commented. I raised an eyebrow.
"Dat seem a li'l awkward mon amis." I said with a smile. HE chuckled, which sounded suspiciously like a growl. "So you must be happy non?"
"Why's that kid?" he asked, nursing his beer.
"Marie came back, I left, den brought Bobby back." I said. He just shrugged. I nodded. "den I guess I see you tomorrow." I stood and started back to my room.
"G'night kid." He said. I stopped. That was the first time that he'd ever said good night to me. I just nodded and kept on walking; maybe he didn't hate me that much.
I got back to my room and promptly feel asleep.
This bed was not comfortable. That was what floated through my mind the day everything began. This bed was most definitely not comfortable. How did people live here? How could I spend an entire year in such an uncomfortable bed? This really had to be investigated. Maybe if I weren't so prone to sleeping on my back this bed would be more comfortable. I rolled onto my side. Then again, maybe it wouldn't. Oh well, sleep is sleep, even if the bed is uncomfortable.
I glanced over at the clock just as Bobby came barging through the door. Groaning I pulled the pillow over my head.
"Get up! The students come today!" Bobby said jumping on the end of my bed, stopping when he fell off onto his ass. Karma.
"Don' care mon amis." I said rolling away from him with a pronounced growl.
"You're not excited?" Bobby asked disgusted at the mere suggestion. "Not excited! How can you not be excited! You get a new roommate!"
Shit.
"Don' wan' a roommate." I growled again, sitting up this time. There was no point in trying to sleep with Bobby still in my room. Bobby rolled his eyes at me in exasperation.
"That's half the fun of a dorm stupidhead!" Bobby said. I shook my head at him. And we were going to let HIM teach. That's so cruel of us. "So get dressed and then we can have breakfast and then you can come to the talkie thinger that the Professor does and then the kids start showing up and you can meet your roommate and stuff and yeah it'll be cool."
I groaned again. "Jus' go, I come down later okay?" Bobby rolled his eyes at me.
"Like you didn't try that everyday before work, now get up!" he said from the end of my bed. I swung my feet off the bed and stood up, grabbing a bunnyhug from my bag. I trudged down the stairs to the kitchen behind bobby, who was practically skipping the entire way.
"Good morning Kaley!" Bishop said as he grilled some bacon beside Scott who was flipping some pancakes. I grabbed a plate and took it to Scott who put some pancakes on my plate, then to Bishop who put some bacon down.
"We have no Captain Crunch!" Bobby said, quite loudly in fact. I laughed at him; this should be interesting. He slammed the cupboard door shut and glared at his friends. "Who is in charge of shopping?" he waited for an answer from the amused looks from his friends. "Who took over my job!" he yelled.
"Calm down Bobby, it's just cereal." Jean said sipping her cup of coffee. I sat down beside her and gave a low whistle.
"Big mistake." I forewarned. This prompted Bobby to go on his rant about how Captain Crunch holds the world together, which I pretty much knew by heart. "HEY!" I yelled getting him to stop. "We go get some for tomorrow." I stated, this satisfied him enough to shut him up and let me eat in peace.
I watched as he sighed dramatically and poured some Fruit Loops in his bowl and ate them, making a show of every bite.
I shook my head at him and glanced around the table. I caught Marie giving him the same look I was. I had forgotten that they were friends. Feeling the jealousy monster creeping up on me I shook it off and ate my bacon.
After breakfast we were herded into the Professors office, where he gave them a speech and ran over what they were all teaching. I had heard it before, so I looked around pretending to be interested. I smiled at Jubilee who was resting against Michael, their hands entwined carelessly and his other arm wrapped around her waist. They were too cute, if I played my cards right I might be the maid of honor.
(((Screw you I have dibs!))) Jean shot into my head, making me smile. Then she blushed. (((Sorry, stray thought.)))
(((It's okay, I missed you doing that.))) we shared a meaningful look before she went to pay attention to the professor again. I averted my gaze to rest on 'Ro and Bishop. They were sitting on one of the couches, Ororo was sitting perfectly straight as she usually did whereas Bishop was lounging, slouched, his arm resting on the back of the couch, drawing circles on 'Ro's shoulder with his dangling fingers. Bishop smiled at me as he caught my gaze and grinned mischievously before pinching Storms shoulder. She responded by smacking him in the stomach with the back of her hand, before putting it back precisely where she had it before. I giggled at the exchange, typical.
I didn't have to look over at Jean and Scott to tell you what they were doing, sitting beside each other, Scotts hand resting on Jeans knee, proclaiming that she was his to anyone who was wondering. I looked over to check if I was right and smiled to myself when I was.
Apparently not too much had changed around here. I looked to my right, expecting Papa to be sitting there looking bored as usual, but was surprised when Bobby was in his place, looking as restless as ever. I smiled at him and then looked across the room where Papa was looking bored beside Marie. I downcast my eyes right before the professor dismissed them, the kids had arrived.
"Kale." The professor called as everyone began filing out of the room. "If you could spare a moment?"
I stopped and turned on my heel to go back to him, ignoring when Papa and I bumped shoulders.
"Oui?" I asked. The professor looked at the non-existant exchange between Papa and I before motioning for me to sit down.
"I was going to ask you if anything had changed, but I see that it hasn't." He said in a disapproving tone that I was all too familiar with. "Now, I was wondering if you had any scheduling changes to make."
I thought for a minute, then shook my head. "Non, I t'ink I should be okay."
"Alright." Professor said and then looked at me for a minutes I felt his familiar presence in my mind. "At least you're doing better." I smiled at him and nodded, I could survive at least. "And about your roommate, I'm guaranteeing there will be some controversy, but I paired you two together for a reason. Just don't forget that."
I looked at him and wished for a moment that I was telepathic before nodding and leaving his office. Random students milled through the hallways, obviously lost, so I helped a couple of the younger ones and then went back up to my dorm room.
I opened the door and smiled at the stack of comic books sitting on my bed. Silently reminding myself to thank Bobby later I plopped down onto my bed and picked one off the top and opening it up. I read for a few seconds before there was a knock at the door.
I looked up over the top of my comic and waited for the door to swing open as it inevitably would. And it did, and to both of our great surprise a young boy stood in the doorway.
"I must have the wrong room sorry." He said running a hand through his shaggy hair and tossed me a smile.
"Don' think so mon amis, come on in. Room 7B oui?" I said putting my comic down. Controversy was putting it mildly I thought, remembering what the professor had said. I had a feeling that a few male members of the staff were not going to be happy about this pair up.
"Yeah.do you think they made a mistake?" he asked dragging a huge suitcase behind him. I shook my head and smiled.
"Non, the professor doesn't make mistakes." I said picking up my comic again. He walked in, shutting the door behind him and throwing his bag onto his bed. He began unpacking and I took the opportunity to give him a once- over.
He had shaggy sandy-blonde hair, dark green eyes, he was taller than me, but most people were. He had no obvious mutation, so I went back to my comic book. "First year here?" I asked.
"Yeah. You?" he asked looking over his shoulder to smile at me.
"Non mon amis, I've been here since I was six." I said putting my comic down again.
"Six? I didn't even know what I was until like last year." He said. I smiled at him.
"Neither did I, But my Papa be a teacher here." I said.
"Oh really?" he asked turning around and sitting on his bed. "Which one is he?"
"He be Monsieur LeBeau." I said with a quick smile. The kid just nodded and sat for a minute before extending his hand to me.
"Sean Brandon." He said with a smile. I reached out and took his hand.
"Kale LeBeau." I said matching his smile, I liked this kid. "So what do you do Sean?"
"I can fly basically." Sean said with a shy half-smile. "And y'know, screw with peoples emotions."
"And you jus' found out you can do dis den?" I asked smiling when he nodded.
"What about you?" he asked, relaxing slightly. Instead of answering I conjured a small fireball hand rolled it around in my hand.
"That's crazy." He said, staring at my hand for a moment before shaking it off and looking back up at me. "So..20 questions?"
"Go." I said with a smile. I definitely liked this kid.
"Movie?" he asked.
"Moulin Rouge." I said with a huge smile. He grimaced.
"Donnie Darko." He said. I shrugged it wasn't that bad, except I didn't understand anything!
"Band?" I asked. He thought for a minute.
"Linkin Park or Zwan." He answered finally, I rolled my eyes at him, everyone liked Linkin Park.
"David Bowie or Queen." I answered and he rolled his eyes at me. He opened his mouth for another question when Bobby burst through the door.
"DELIVERY!" he yelled at the top of his lungs and shoved a bunch of luggage into our room. He stopped when he saw that Sean was a boy.
"It be okay Bobby, de professor will explain later." I said laughing at the perplexed expression on his face. Bobby just nodded before stopped and pointing a finger at me. "That's Mr. Drake to you!" he said and I laughed at him.
"Perhaps in your dreams mon amis." I said and he stuck my tongue out at me.
"So what're we talking about?" he asked sitting on the edge of my bed.
"Don' you have t'ings to be doin'?" I asked him, Bobby thought for a minute before nodding and standing up.
"Hey Kaley, if you want, I could come with you to get the rest of your stuff from the house later." He said cautiosuluy, I dropped my gaze again and nodded. I missed my guitar but it was a fine price to pay for not seeing Papa. "Oh yeah! Once everyone is settled we're all supposed to go to the games room." He turned to leave one last time before swingin around and reaching into his pocket. "One last thing, put these on, no arguments."
I laughed at his attempt to be an authority and watched as Sean put the bracelets on. I however abstained from doing so and put them in my pocket.
"You aren't going to put them on?" he asked. I shook my head.
"Don' need 'em mon amis." I said with a smile. "So you wan' t' go down now?"
Sean shrugged and then nodded and we walked down to the games room quietly.
A/N: Okay I know it's been forever and I apologize but there's another chapter on the way, if anyone wants I would really appreciate some new characters, so if you have one send it to my e-mail and I'll find a spot for them. REVIEW or no new chapters. PEACE!