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## Brotherhood Boarding House ##

The room was almost utterly black, thin curtains drawn against the noon sun and casting an eerie pale blue light on the two beds and the girls occupying them. The room could have belonged to a person with split personality disorder, the right half strewn with clothes and crumpled papers while the left had everything nearly perfect on every flat surface. Denise thrashed around in her bed on the right side, kicking at her sheets and flopping around before settling half hanging off the corner of her bed. Darcy tossed a pillow at her roommate and burrowed under her remaining one.

The door creaked open as Jason peeked in. "You guys alright?"

Denise sat up, half squinting, her voice crackly. "As well as can be expected. How are you?"

Jason shrugged and leaned against the inside wall. "I heal fast. Are you guys OK?"

Darcy puled the pillow from over her head and flattened it against the bed. "We're fine really although, I seem to be suffering from a case of dejavu." She gave him a pointed look.

Jason laughed and sat on the edge of Denise's bed. "I am being a bit repetitive, aren't I? Sorry, just checking. Don't want you guys to be seriously hurt."

Denise swung her legs over the side of the bed and leaned against the wall. "Don't worry about it. Besides, where are you going at this ungodly hour?"

Jason gave her a confused look. "What do you mean 'ungodly'? It's noon!"

Denise closed her eyes sleepily and muttered, "That's ungodly."

Darcy shook her head and laid down on the pillow, looking at Jason. "So where are you going all spiffed up?"

He chuckled. "Lunch with Riley. She's gonna go berserk if I miss it."

Darcy smiled. "Ahhh. The girlfriend. Well, enjoy your lunch."

Jason nodded. "Thanks." Several birds chattered outside the window, making high-pitched twittering noises.

Denise snapped open her eyes and yelled at the window, "Shut up, you stupid creme puffs! I'll mash you up for Easter!" Jason grimaced and hopped off the bed, pulling apart the curtains and opening the window. He reached a hand out the window in the direction of the tree and let out a blast of water. The birds got fully drenched and flapped off for a different singing venue. He pulled his hand back and closed the windows and curtains. Denise gave a little mock victory wave and fell over onto her bed.

Darcy laughed and Jason reached down to cup a side of her face. "You get better," he whispered. "Get some more sleep and feel better."

"Okay," she whispered back. He smiled again and made to exit the room.

Denise opened her eyes and muttered, "Hey Jase. Make sure Freddy doesn't eat all the food, OK? Next time, I'm going to wake up hungry." Jason nodded and shut the door, leaving them in the same eerie half darkness as before.

Denise stared at the door. "He is too sweet for words."

Darcy rolled over and faced the wall, wiping under her eyes. "Yeah, he is."

## The Xavier Mansion ##

"Ummm. False?"

Keyaira threw a jelly bean at Ryan, laughing. "Nope. It's true. Calico cats are only female. I thought you'd know that."

Ryan scowled and threw another jelly bean at her. "I'm not exactly Catwoman..."

Keyaira cut him off, munching thoughtfully. "It'd be scary if you were."

Ryan shook his head. "OK, my turn. Uhh... I can't think of anything." Keyaira rolled her eyes and popped several jelly beans into her mouth as Ryan fumbled to find something to continue in the game. The pair was hanging out in an abandoned corner of the Rec room. Several of the New Mutants were watching cartoons crowded onto a couch and Mike was studying for a test in Algebra.

Ryan swallowed a peach jelly bean and sat up. "I got it! Some black T- shirts can give you a rash."

Keyaira snorted and picked out a watermelon jelly bean, exclaiming, "False."

Ryan smiled smugly and shook his head. "Nope, that one's a true tale. They lave behind this black fabric goop that can cause a rash on some people."

Keyaira looked slightly horrified. "Fabric goop?"

Ryan burst out laughing. "Not sticky goop, just unpleasant rashie goop."

Keyaira shrugged. "Oh that makes me feel better."

Ryan looked around, giving looks of mock disdain to the New Mutants and Mike, who was so engrossed in his Algebra text that he was sleeping on top of it. "You want to do something, get out of here? Wanna movie?"

"What???"

Ryan laughed again. "Movie," he explained. "Cinema, silver screen. Movie used as a verb. We should movie."

Keyaira snorted, smiling. "That is terrible grammar."

It was Ryan's turn to roll his eyes. "Well, I'm not exactly Lynx the Grammar Kitty."

Keyaira's smile doubled in a dopey way. "It'd be funny if you were."

"Seriously," he admonished. "Let's get the group together and movie."

Keyaira considered it and nodded. "OK, we'll do it. But later on alright? I don't want Andrew mooching off my jelly beans."

Ryan snorted. "Aren't I mooching off your jelly beans?"

Keyaira nodded. "Yeah, but you're eating the nasty kinds I don't like."

Ryan sat up in mock horror. "How dare you insult peach jelly beans!!!"

Next will be some more fun stuff, I'm really liking fun short chapters I can update quickly for you guys. LOL, Review please and I'll get started on the next chapter...

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PS: Today, I realized as I was writing this chapter, that I was writing the character Ryan modeled after a guy I have a crush on with the same name. It just made me laugh as I was rereading the chapter in Quickedit.