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saying, "Oh, I like your fic, write more, more!" Well guess what!? I'm
gonna throw my shoe at your head if don't review! How do I know you even
read this shit? Oh, Dark Angel, you review too! Or at least get your sister
to review. She was all, "Ok, I'll review. Do you want a long review or a
short one?" I went, "Long." She acts all like she's gonna do it, but I
haven't seen a review from you since what? The fourth chapter!?!
Then she tells me, "I'll have a one page typed, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font." Well guess what!?! Still no review!
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(Agent-G): Holy matrimony! Someone skated over your hand!?! *Winces and begins to twitch.* Ouch!
Van: Yes, that sounds very painful. By the way you took my line. "Holy matrimony" is my phrase.
ME (Agent-G): How could you not like skiing!?!
Jaeger: For the same reasons you do I guess.
ME: Huh?
Lonna: ...? I didn't get that either.
Jasper: *Dreamily, not paying attention.* I wonder what Regan's doing right now...
Van: *Stares at him.*
ME: Anyway... My computer's been having spasms lately so this may get in later than it should. The last chapter was just late because of my own foolish problems but this time I blame the computer! It took me 20 minutes to check three emails!!!
Van: You don't get a lot of emails then do you?
ME: ...I'm so not speaking to you now.
Van: Fine.
Ch. 9
Jasper
Are we really supposed to eat this? Is meat really supposed to be green?
"We don't really eat this," Jaeger clarified for me. "We let the trash can feast on it. We stick to apples. We figure even the lunch ladies can't screw those up."
I nodded. My first school day is still good for a school day, but I admit that I almost changed my mind when I saw the color of this Mystery Meat.
"Oh hey, Jasper," a familiar voice sent fissures (not shivers, fissures) up my spine and right back down again (even to the tip of my tail).
I spun and found myself facing the most beautiful face I've ever seen! Regan...
Jaeger elbowed me. "Introduce me."
"Oh, uhhh," I began shakily.
Jaeger rolled her eyes and held out her hand. "I'm Jaeger. Jasper's sister."
I nodded. "Uh, yeah. M-my s-s-sister." I laughed stupidly.
She smiled. "I'm Regan. Hey, can I sit with you guys? I'm trying to avoid getting too involved with certain... groups." She glanced over her shoulder at a group of guys. They didn't look too friendly. One guy resembled a frog and another guy could pass as a sumo wrestler.
"Oh them?" Jaeger nodded with understanding. "Please sit with us! I just hope you don't mind our own group. We sit over there," she pointed to where the other X-men were waiting for us. Evan just threw his pudding at Van who ducked and laughed uncontrollably as it hit the guy behind him. The guy made some threatening gestures and Van hit him with the sword. "We're a little immature," she said, gesturing to Van. "But we're better off then they are. Go ahead, we'll catch up."
As Regan walked toward the table Jaeger elbowed me again. "You've already got yourself a girlfriend?"
"Well, ya see, I, um," I started.
"Oh whatever, let's go sit."
So we did, first disposing of our... I'm still not sure if this is meat... but we got rid of it anyway!
I took a seat beside Regan, Jaeger wedged between Scott and Evan, and Van began beating Kurt with his chunk of plastic.
"Vould you cut zhat out?"
"I'm giving you a haircut."
"Vhat? Vith a plastic sword?
"Uh, yeah."
Regan looked uncomfortable. Who could blame her? She's sitting next to a gladiator who's beating someone to death with a plastic weapon! But she hasn't run away yet, bless her heart.
"Well, well, well," said a shadow that fell over our table. "We have two traitors today." Van stopped harassing Kurt so you know something's up.
"Hi Lance," Jaeger droned.
"You know this guy?" I asked her.
She stuck out her tongue at him.
I'll take that as a yes.
~*~
Jaeger
"Do that again," Pietro warned. "And I'll have to-rearrange-your-pretty- little-face." He spoke so fast I had trouble separating the words.
"Go ahead then," I dared him. "Punch me. But I'm warning you, I spit!"
Van stood up. "Avast!" he yelled and swung his sword around at them.
"Uh, Van," Scott corrected. "That's a pirate."
A new guy I hadn't seen before poked his head out from behind Fred. "Uh, Regan?" he asked nervously. "Let's go before there's any trouble, ok?"
He was Chinese (I think, though his eyes weren't shaped like almonds like most Chinese people) with hair that was long in the front, but short in the back and had blond highlights scattered in it, short, kinda skinny, had glasses, looked actually pretty cute, but he was with the biggest assholes ever known so I didn't take much liking to him.
"Whatever," Regan muttered, standing up.
"Wait," Jasper protested. "You don't have to listen to that jerk."
"He's kinda my stepbrother," she told him.
"Oh..." Poor Jasper.
"We still have to deal with another friend of ours," Tabitha hissed. "There's no avoiding trouble."
I stood up now. I curled my fingers into a fist and punched my other hand. "Bring it."
Scott stood up beside me. "If you have a problem with her you have a problem with us too."
Thanks for backing me up. The others nodded in agreement and though Jasper doesn't know what's going on he nodded harder than anyone else.
"Just name the time and place," Pietro smiled evilly.
~
The time. Now. The place. Right here. It was never officially agreed on, but Van took care of that when he hit the guy I didn't know with his sword.
The new kid flinched and waved his hands wildly in the air, knocking Scott's glasses off and hitting Tabitha in the jaw.
As Scott scrambled around for his shades, the other kids made a circle around us began chanting, "Fight, fight!"
Van picked up on it pretty quick. He was kicking ass with that sword, and blocking anything else with his shield. I was impressed.
Evan and Pietro went for each other.
Scott took on Lance (I think they have a history).
Kurt and Todd were about to kill each other.
Jasper tried to take on Fred, but there's a limited amount of Jasper and an unlimited supply of Fred, so things weren't exactly looking good.
I'm not sure what that other guy's doing. He's waving his arms like a maniac, standing in the middle of all this yelling, "Oh God, oh God!"
The rest of us girls watched. I really wanted to help Jasper out, but none of the other girls did anything but cheer for the guys, so I stuck to that.
Oh, hold up! Go Regan! Now I can help too! She just walked up the Fred and punched him in the face! He dropped Jasper, looking dazed and confused, while Jasper just cocked his head at her. She said something to him, I couldn't make it out over the other kids' screams, but judging by the way he blushed, it wasn't anything bad.
But, Fred just got beat up... now who can I help?
Evan seems to be taking a beating. And I also kinda owe Pietro a punch. I ran up the little bastard, but he saw me coming while he dodged one of Evan's fists so he grabbed my shirt collar when I got close enough. Evan gave me this What-are-you-doing-you're-just-a-defenseless-girl look. I realized though, as much as I despise that look, he's right.
Except...
As Pietro drew back his fist, I spat at him.
He dropped me right then and there, looking all sorts of surprised.
"Told you I spit!"
Tabitha appeared behind Pietro and gave me a weird look. "She spit on me!" Pietro wailed. "I cannot believe you just spit on me!"
Tabitha—to my surprise—started laughing hysterically. I was about to join her, but then she said, "I can't believe you had to resort to spitting!"
Pietro glared at me and Evan gasped, "Are you ok? I thought he'd kill you for sure!"
I shook my head. "I'm fine, but thanks for worrying."
Pietro stood up and growled, "I'm outa here."
He and Tabs left, then the rest of his posse left, that new guy and Regan included.
~*~
Regan
I hate these losers. That's why I gave Jasper a hand. Or fist.
I like Jasper. Very cute. Very, very cute. I just wish he was more comfortable around me. He always stutters but I can't figure out why. At first I thought he was just one of those people who stutters because it's how they talk, but Jasper doesn't do it around his friends or his sister.
"Dude," my stepbrother, Steven popped up beside me. "What was that about?"
"Don't ask me creep," he told him. We normally get along ok, but I'm in a bad mood right now. I had been enjoying myself, hanging out with non-mutant people like me. It's not that I'm anti-mutant, it's just that... I guess I just feel more comfortable with normal people. Steven's a mutant, but I'm not.
"Fine," he said, trying to sound angry. "I hate you too!"
He left and asked Tabitha. I zoned out after that. After about two minutes he came back and said, "They knew that girl. She's a traitor."
"She's Jasper's sister," I told him sharply.
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"No!" Or at least not yet anyway...
"You don't like me much, do you?"
I couldn't give an honest answer. Our parents only got together last month, and then his mom died in a car crash a week after. Dad went into this mental breakdown and he sent us away. Now somehow we ended up living in some boardinghouse with a group of losers. Steven and I hardly even know each other.
"I've got gym," he said glumly.
"Me too," I said.
He perked up. "Finally we have a class together!"
Yeah, whatever.
~*~
Steven
Regan clearly doesn't think much of me.
???
I can't figure out why. I haven't done a thing wrong. Sometimes I even turn into cats for her so she'll smile. She loves cats. I tease her about being half cat sometimes.
I try to pal around with her. I think it's because I already lost Mom, Walter can't take care of us because he broke down and sent us away. Regan's real sensitive about that. Just like I'm sensitive about Mom.
"Everyone in push-up position!" the coach yelled.
We all did. I spotted Regan's boyfriend on the other side of the gym. Regan and me don't have the same gym so this class doesn't count as one together.
"Down!"
"One!" we all chorused.
We got to nineteen then some guy thought it would be funny to shout out seventy-nine instead of twenty.
The coach stopped us. "Because of your friend Mr. Hoenstein here, you'll have to do another twenty push-ups."
I heard cries of, "Van you suck!" and "You're gonna get yours Hoenstein!"
Actually he looked pleased.
!!!
Whoa, that's the same guy as the gladiator! Nice! I owe him a punch! Well, now I owe him two...
"Today we will be playing basketball!" the coach continued to yell. "Get in groups of four or five!"
We all assembled our teams. Naturally I was with Toad and Tabitha, but there were a couple other people I didn't know.
Gladiator-boy teamed up with Regan's boyfriend and that German kid. Then two more people joined them.
"This should be interesting," Tabitha muttered. "Us against the X-Geeks."
???
"The who?"
"The X-Men," she said.
"I still dunno who they are."
"They're losers," Toad growled in that annoying New Jersey accent. "We can take em."
"Uh, ok."
~*~
Jasper
Those creeps keep giving us death glares. What's their problem?
"Ve might have anozher fight on our hands," Kurt said, motioning toward the evil people from lunch.
"Too bad I could bring my sword to gym class," Van said.
I nodded. "I'll get that short kid with classes."
"I'll get that cutie," Van said, pointing to Tabitha.
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Vhatever. I'll take Toad."
The kids (both girls) behind us were all like, "Do you guys not get along well or something?"
Van smiled as he said, "Are you kidding? We're like family!"
They nodded with a we-know-you're-lying-but-we'll-go-along-with-it look on their faces.
So we started playing. We did ok, but none of us are basketball experts here, so it's not like we were whooping them so bad they hadn't even scored yet. In fact, they were winning by two points until Van stole the ball from Tabitha by knocking her over. He passed it to Kurt and we were tied.
Tabitha growled at him as she sat there on the ground. "You'll pay for that," she swore.
Van licked the tip of his finger and touched it to his ass, making sizzling noises. "Too hot for you." He walked in this weird I'm-so-good way.
Kurt and me were laughing. The other girls looked embarrassed. Tabitha was still making feral noises. And everyone else on her team gave us you're- gonna-get-it looks.
Van started moonwalking now. "I didn't know you could do that."
He smiled. "I am a man of many talents. Don't forget it."
"Ve von't," Kurt said.
"You better watch your back, Lestat," Toad-boy growled. "No one messes with us and gets away with it."
"I think I just did." He's rubbing it in now.
"Van," I muttered. "You're taking this too far now."
"Ja man," Kurt said nervously. "Let's just play zhe game."
~*~
Steven
***(A/N: that's a sign of frustration or anger. Remember that.)
I could punch him now. I could punch three times. Once for assaulting me with a sword, again for making everyone do an extra set of push-ups, and lastly, for pushing Tabitha. He deserves it. He's a... "Bastard," I said out loud.
He looked insulted. "You're right. I have no father. Why must you bring up the past!?! WHY MUST YOU!?!"
"Well, I, uh..."
"Forget him," Toad said. "He's messing with your head."
He started mock crying. I knew it was all fake, but he's a good actor. I have to give him some credit.
The German started telling him to cut it out and play the game while my sister's boyfriend was flirting with the girls on their team. He's unfaithful. I don't like him.
When "Lestat" (I wonder where that comes from) finally pulled himself together we got back to our game. Tabitha got revenge by throwing the ball at his head and making him fall over. It was weird, his lip started to bleed and he went, "Thit, thit, thit!"
The others asked if was ok and then he said, "Thure, jutht a little cut. Nothing to worry about."
I swear his eyes turned red! Normally they're just kinda this grayish color, but now they're red! And his teeth... Is it just me or did those things transform into fangs or something?
Actually, one of the girls on their side asked him, "Van, are you ok? Your eyes are all red..."
He went, "Thure, I'm fine. It'th nothing."
She went, "Van, you're teeth..."
He went, "What'th wrong with em?"
"They're huge..."
"Tho?"
"Uh, ok." She walked away.
After that we got whooped. Mostly by Van, it's like everything—His speed, his strength, everything—got enhanced or something. It was kinda creepy.
"Who'th got mad thkills?" he shouted after they won. Then he slammed the basketball into the floor like football players do after they score a touchdown, and he put a crack in the floor!
!!!
I was like, Holy shit! That's not right!
Then he went, "Uh, oopth..."
I don't know what's wrong with him, but it sure isn't right...
_~*~_
ME: Ok, that's that. Cutting it short cuz I have something funny (and creepy at the same time) to tell ya'll, but first...
Next chapter I can either build on Kurt and Jaeger's relationship (Will romance blossom? Dun, dun, dun!), or I can introduce a new character. R&R to tell me what you think. Wait, since kinda already read, wouldn't it just be R? Just like a tootsie pop, the world may never know...
Now, here's that weird stuff. You don't have to read it, but if you have nothing else to do, or if you have a twisted sense of humor like me... read it. Otherwise, scroll down. Ok, I'm just telling ya'll about 2 dreams I had a few nights ago...
Dream 1:
I was just sorta... outside walking down this road that spit out at the end like a T. When I got to the split I went left. Why? I dunno. But I did. So anyway, when I got to the end of that, I found a big lake with this huge rose sticking out of the middle. It was on fire and I thought, Oh, that's so sad... So I went back and tried the right this time. I saw a small cabin with someone sitting on the porch in a rocking chair. There was an old man, so I went over to him. We had a nice little conversation and then this creepy lady comes up to me and says, "There a normal people in this world, and there are strange people. Be careful because you can never tell which is which." Then her face started to change from this to that and back again. I thought, I take it you're a weird one? Then the old man says, "I have a confession to make. I one of the strange people. But don't be afraid! We aren't bad, we're just different." I said, "Ok, that's fine." Then someone I know from karate class (a teacher) comes up to me and she says, "I'm one the strange people too." You would have to know her to find that as funny as I do.
That's the end of the first one, here's the next.
Dream 2:
I was sleeping in my bed and then I woke up. (hey, that's how it happened, I don't care how corny that sounds!) I looked at the clock and I realized, "Oh my God! I'm gonna be late for Japanese class!" So I jump out bed and start to get dressed. Then I remember, "Duh! We have a long weekend, there's no school today!" So then got back in bed when Rogue walks in. She says, "Wake up Jaeger! The Professor needs you, Bobby, and Jean to help him open his restaurant today!" (Apparently, I was Jaeger.) "Ok," I moaned and got outa bed. When I went downstairs Bobby and Jean were waiting for me. Jean went, "Come on! This place has to open by tonight." Bobby went, "Yeah!" I went, "Why?" They never did answer my question. Instead we went outside and found the Professor waiting for us. The restaurant was sorta odd looking. It was shaped like a square, but one side looked like came right out of a video game! I looked like Greek ruins, it had the huge columns coming up and everything! It had this odd bluish- green color to it. The other side looked like... well, concrete. This side didn't have a roof, just a platform. The whole thing was surrounded by a moat, but there was a bridge on one side that led to a field. It was really cool. Prof. X goes, "Jaeger, I want you and Bobby to spread these newspapers on the floor." He handed us stacks of newspapers. "Jean, keep the ghosts away." "Ghosts?" I asked. He goes, "Yes, we can't have them at our crawfish boil, can we?" "Oh." So me and Bobby went and spread newspapers on the floor. Jean scared ghosts away and everything was fine. So then the whole thing starts... It was fine at first. Little kids tried to teach me how play Yu-gi-oh, but it was too complicated. Then Bobby comes up to me and goes, "We got a problem!" So he rushes me to a pool table where there are two guys playing pool with bowling balls. They were I a huge fight and were getting ready to chunk the bowling balls at each other! Jean was trying to break it up, but they weren't listening. One guy threw a ball at his nemesis, so I blew it up. (Which is weird, Jaeger can't blow something of that size up.) Then they got pissed at me, Jean, and Bobby. "You're gonna get it!" they threatened. We didn't care. We went back to doing stuff. Then we hear a scream and we see the two men turning into giant robot/sentinel/gundum things! They had guns and everything! One of them shot a tranquilizer at Jean, so I blew it to pieces. Then they tried to step on Bobby and- I woke up.
Creepy huh?
Then she tells me, "I'll have a one page typed, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font." Well guess what!?! Still no review!
(BlackRoseApocolypse): I'm glad you read all this crap. It makes me feel special to see/hear/whatever other people read it. Now I know I don't put it up here for nothing.
(Agent-G): Holy matrimony! Someone skated over your hand!?! *Winces and begins to twitch.* Ouch!
Van: Yes, that sounds very painful. By the way you took my line. "Holy matrimony" is my phrase.
ME (Agent-G): How could you not like skiing!?!
Jaeger: For the same reasons you do I guess.
ME: Huh?
Lonna: ...? I didn't get that either.
Jasper: *Dreamily, not paying attention.* I wonder what Regan's doing right now...
Van: *Stares at him.*
ME: Anyway... My computer's been having spasms lately so this may get in later than it should. The last chapter was just late because of my own foolish problems but this time I blame the computer! It took me 20 minutes to check three emails!!!
Van: You don't get a lot of emails then do you?
ME: ...I'm so not speaking to you now.
Van: Fine.
Ch. 9
Jasper
Are we really supposed to eat this? Is meat really supposed to be green?
"We don't really eat this," Jaeger clarified for me. "We let the trash can feast on it. We stick to apples. We figure even the lunch ladies can't screw those up."
I nodded. My first school day is still good for a school day, but I admit that I almost changed my mind when I saw the color of this Mystery Meat.
"Oh hey, Jasper," a familiar voice sent fissures (not shivers, fissures) up my spine and right back down again (even to the tip of my tail).
I spun and found myself facing the most beautiful face I've ever seen! Regan...
Jaeger elbowed me. "Introduce me."
"Oh, uhhh," I began shakily.
Jaeger rolled her eyes and held out her hand. "I'm Jaeger. Jasper's sister."
I nodded. "Uh, yeah. M-my s-s-sister." I laughed stupidly.
She smiled. "I'm Regan. Hey, can I sit with you guys? I'm trying to avoid getting too involved with certain... groups." She glanced over her shoulder at a group of guys. They didn't look too friendly. One guy resembled a frog and another guy could pass as a sumo wrestler.
"Oh them?" Jaeger nodded with understanding. "Please sit with us! I just hope you don't mind our own group. We sit over there," she pointed to where the other X-men were waiting for us. Evan just threw his pudding at Van who ducked and laughed uncontrollably as it hit the guy behind him. The guy made some threatening gestures and Van hit him with the sword. "We're a little immature," she said, gesturing to Van. "But we're better off then they are. Go ahead, we'll catch up."
As Regan walked toward the table Jaeger elbowed me again. "You've already got yourself a girlfriend?"
"Well, ya see, I, um," I started.
"Oh whatever, let's go sit."
So we did, first disposing of our... I'm still not sure if this is meat... but we got rid of it anyway!
I took a seat beside Regan, Jaeger wedged between Scott and Evan, and Van began beating Kurt with his chunk of plastic.
"Vould you cut zhat out?"
"I'm giving you a haircut."
"Vhat? Vith a plastic sword?
"Uh, yeah."
Regan looked uncomfortable. Who could blame her? She's sitting next to a gladiator who's beating someone to death with a plastic weapon! But she hasn't run away yet, bless her heart.
"Well, well, well," said a shadow that fell over our table. "We have two traitors today." Van stopped harassing Kurt so you know something's up.
"Hi Lance," Jaeger droned.
"You know this guy?" I asked her.
She stuck out her tongue at him.
I'll take that as a yes.
~*~
Jaeger
"Do that again," Pietro warned. "And I'll have to-rearrange-your-pretty- little-face." He spoke so fast I had trouble separating the words.
"Go ahead then," I dared him. "Punch me. But I'm warning you, I spit!"
Van stood up. "Avast!" he yelled and swung his sword around at them.
"Uh, Van," Scott corrected. "That's a pirate."
A new guy I hadn't seen before poked his head out from behind Fred. "Uh, Regan?" he asked nervously. "Let's go before there's any trouble, ok?"
He was Chinese (I think, though his eyes weren't shaped like almonds like most Chinese people) with hair that was long in the front, but short in the back and had blond highlights scattered in it, short, kinda skinny, had glasses, looked actually pretty cute, but he was with the biggest assholes ever known so I didn't take much liking to him.
"Whatever," Regan muttered, standing up.
"Wait," Jasper protested. "You don't have to listen to that jerk."
"He's kinda my stepbrother," she told him.
"Oh..." Poor Jasper.
"We still have to deal with another friend of ours," Tabitha hissed. "There's no avoiding trouble."
I stood up now. I curled my fingers into a fist and punched my other hand. "Bring it."
Scott stood up beside me. "If you have a problem with her you have a problem with us too."
Thanks for backing me up. The others nodded in agreement and though Jasper doesn't know what's going on he nodded harder than anyone else.
"Just name the time and place," Pietro smiled evilly.
~
The time. Now. The place. Right here. It was never officially agreed on, but Van took care of that when he hit the guy I didn't know with his sword.
The new kid flinched and waved his hands wildly in the air, knocking Scott's glasses off and hitting Tabitha in the jaw.
As Scott scrambled around for his shades, the other kids made a circle around us began chanting, "Fight, fight!"
Van picked up on it pretty quick. He was kicking ass with that sword, and blocking anything else with his shield. I was impressed.
Evan and Pietro went for each other.
Scott took on Lance (I think they have a history).
Kurt and Todd were about to kill each other.
Jasper tried to take on Fred, but there's a limited amount of Jasper and an unlimited supply of Fred, so things weren't exactly looking good.
I'm not sure what that other guy's doing. He's waving his arms like a maniac, standing in the middle of all this yelling, "Oh God, oh God!"
The rest of us girls watched. I really wanted to help Jasper out, but none of the other girls did anything but cheer for the guys, so I stuck to that.
Oh, hold up! Go Regan! Now I can help too! She just walked up the Fred and punched him in the face! He dropped Jasper, looking dazed and confused, while Jasper just cocked his head at her. She said something to him, I couldn't make it out over the other kids' screams, but judging by the way he blushed, it wasn't anything bad.
But, Fred just got beat up... now who can I help?
Evan seems to be taking a beating. And I also kinda owe Pietro a punch. I ran up the little bastard, but he saw me coming while he dodged one of Evan's fists so he grabbed my shirt collar when I got close enough. Evan gave me this What-are-you-doing-you're-just-a-defenseless-girl look. I realized though, as much as I despise that look, he's right.
Except...
As Pietro drew back his fist, I spat at him.
He dropped me right then and there, looking all sorts of surprised.
"Told you I spit!"
Tabitha appeared behind Pietro and gave me a weird look. "She spit on me!" Pietro wailed. "I cannot believe you just spit on me!"
Tabitha—to my surprise—started laughing hysterically. I was about to join her, but then she said, "I can't believe you had to resort to spitting!"
Pietro glared at me and Evan gasped, "Are you ok? I thought he'd kill you for sure!"
I shook my head. "I'm fine, but thanks for worrying."
Pietro stood up and growled, "I'm outa here."
He and Tabs left, then the rest of his posse left, that new guy and Regan included.
~*~
Regan
I hate these losers. That's why I gave Jasper a hand. Or fist.
I like Jasper. Very cute. Very, very cute. I just wish he was more comfortable around me. He always stutters but I can't figure out why. At first I thought he was just one of those people who stutters because it's how they talk, but Jasper doesn't do it around his friends or his sister.
"Dude," my stepbrother, Steven popped up beside me. "What was that about?"
"Don't ask me creep," he told him. We normally get along ok, but I'm in a bad mood right now. I had been enjoying myself, hanging out with non-mutant people like me. It's not that I'm anti-mutant, it's just that... I guess I just feel more comfortable with normal people. Steven's a mutant, but I'm not.
"Fine," he said, trying to sound angry. "I hate you too!"
He left and asked Tabitha. I zoned out after that. After about two minutes he came back and said, "They knew that girl. She's a traitor."
"She's Jasper's sister," I told him sharply.
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"No!" Or at least not yet anyway...
"You don't like me much, do you?"
I couldn't give an honest answer. Our parents only got together last month, and then his mom died in a car crash a week after. Dad went into this mental breakdown and he sent us away. Now somehow we ended up living in some boardinghouse with a group of losers. Steven and I hardly even know each other.
"I've got gym," he said glumly.
"Me too," I said.
He perked up. "Finally we have a class together!"
Yeah, whatever.
~*~
Steven
Regan clearly doesn't think much of me.
???
I can't figure out why. I haven't done a thing wrong. Sometimes I even turn into cats for her so she'll smile. She loves cats. I tease her about being half cat sometimes.
I try to pal around with her. I think it's because I already lost Mom, Walter can't take care of us because he broke down and sent us away. Regan's real sensitive about that. Just like I'm sensitive about Mom.
"Everyone in push-up position!" the coach yelled.
We all did. I spotted Regan's boyfriend on the other side of the gym. Regan and me don't have the same gym so this class doesn't count as one together.
"Down!"
"One!" we all chorused.
We got to nineteen then some guy thought it would be funny to shout out seventy-nine instead of twenty.
The coach stopped us. "Because of your friend Mr. Hoenstein here, you'll have to do another twenty push-ups."
I heard cries of, "Van you suck!" and "You're gonna get yours Hoenstein!"
Actually he looked pleased.
!!!
Whoa, that's the same guy as the gladiator! Nice! I owe him a punch! Well, now I owe him two...
"Today we will be playing basketball!" the coach continued to yell. "Get in groups of four or five!"
We all assembled our teams. Naturally I was with Toad and Tabitha, but there were a couple other people I didn't know.
Gladiator-boy teamed up with Regan's boyfriend and that German kid. Then two more people joined them.
"This should be interesting," Tabitha muttered. "Us against the X-Geeks."
???
"The who?"
"The X-Men," she said.
"I still dunno who they are."
"They're losers," Toad growled in that annoying New Jersey accent. "We can take em."
"Uh, ok."
~*~
Jasper
Those creeps keep giving us death glares. What's their problem?
"Ve might have anozher fight on our hands," Kurt said, motioning toward the evil people from lunch.
"Too bad I could bring my sword to gym class," Van said.
I nodded. "I'll get that short kid with classes."
"I'll get that cutie," Van said, pointing to Tabitha.
Kurt rolled his eyes. "Vhatever. I'll take Toad."
The kids (both girls) behind us were all like, "Do you guys not get along well or something?"
Van smiled as he said, "Are you kidding? We're like family!"
They nodded with a we-know-you're-lying-but-we'll-go-along-with-it look on their faces.
So we started playing. We did ok, but none of us are basketball experts here, so it's not like we were whooping them so bad they hadn't even scored yet. In fact, they were winning by two points until Van stole the ball from Tabitha by knocking her over. He passed it to Kurt and we were tied.
Tabitha growled at him as she sat there on the ground. "You'll pay for that," she swore.
Van licked the tip of his finger and touched it to his ass, making sizzling noises. "Too hot for you." He walked in this weird I'm-so-good way.
Kurt and me were laughing. The other girls looked embarrassed. Tabitha was still making feral noises. And everyone else on her team gave us you're- gonna-get-it looks.
Van started moonwalking now. "I didn't know you could do that."
He smiled. "I am a man of many talents. Don't forget it."
"Ve von't," Kurt said.
"You better watch your back, Lestat," Toad-boy growled. "No one messes with us and gets away with it."
"I think I just did." He's rubbing it in now.
"Van," I muttered. "You're taking this too far now."
"Ja man," Kurt said nervously. "Let's just play zhe game."
~*~
Steven
***(A/N: that's a sign of frustration or anger. Remember that.)
I could punch him now. I could punch three times. Once for assaulting me with a sword, again for making everyone do an extra set of push-ups, and lastly, for pushing Tabitha. He deserves it. He's a... "Bastard," I said out loud.
He looked insulted. "You're right. I have no father. Why must you bring up the past!?! WHY MUST YOU!?!"
"Well, I, uh..."
"Forget him," Toad said. "He's messing with your head."
He started mock crying. I knew it was all fake, but he's a good actor. I have to give him some credit.
The German started telling him to cut it out and play the game while my sister's boyfriend was flirting with the girls on their team. He's unfaithful. I don't like him.
When "Lestat" (I wonder where that comes from) finally pulled himself together we got back to our game. Tabitha got revenge by throwing the ball at his head and making him fall over. It was weird, his lip started to bleed and he went, "Thit, thit, thit!"
The others asked if was ok and then he said, "Thure, jutht a little cut. Nothing to worry about."
I swear his eyes turned red! Normally they're just kinda this grayish color, but now they're red! And his teeth... Is it just me or did those things transform into fangs or something?
Actually, one of the girls on their side asked him, "Van, are you ok? Your eyes are all red..."
He went, "Thure, I'm fine. It'th nothing."
She went, "Van, you're teeth..."
He went, "What'th wrong with em?"
"They're huge..."
"Tho?"
"Uh, ok." She walked away.
After that we got whooped. Mostly by Van, it's like everything—His speed, his strength, everything—got enhanced or something. It was kinda creepy.
"Who'th got mad thkills?" he shouted after they won. Then he slammed the basketball into the floor like football players do after they score a touchdown, and he put a crack in the floor!
!!!
I was like, Holy shit! That's not right!
Then he went, "Uh, oopth..."
I don't know what's wrong with him, but it sure isn't right...
_~*~_
ME: Ok, that's that. Cutting it short cuz I have something funny (and creepy at the same time) to tell ya'll, but first...
Next chapter I can either build on Kurt and Jaeger's relationship (Will romance blossom? Dun, dun, dun!), or I can introduce a new character. R&R to tell me what you think. Wait, since kinda already read, wouldn't it just be R? Just like a tootsie pop, the world may never know...
Now, here's that weird stuff. You don't have to read it, but if you have nothing else to do, or if you have a twisted sense of humor like me... read it. Otherwise, scroll down. Ok, I'm just telling ya'll about 2 dreams I had a few nights ago...
Dream 1:
I was just sorta... outside walking down this road that spit out at the end like a T. When I got to the split I went left. Why? I dunno. But I did. So anyway, when I got to the end of that, I found a big lake with this huge rose sticking out of the middle. It was on fire and I thought, Oh, that's so sad... So I went back and tried the right this time. I saw a small cabin with someone sitting on the porch in a rocking chair. There was an old man, so I went over to him. We had a nice little conversation and then this creepy lady comes up to me and says, "There a normal people in this world, and there are strange people. Be careful because you can never tell which is which." Then her face started to change from this to that and back again. I thought, I take it you're a weird one? Then the old man says, "I have a confession to make. I one of the strange people. But don't be afraid! We aren't bad, we're just different." I said, "Ok, that's fine." Then someone I know from karate class (a teacher) comes up to me and she says, "I'm one the strange people too." You would have to know her to find that as funny as I do.
That's the end of the first one, here's the next.
Dream 2:
I was sleeping in my bed and then I woke up. (hey, that's how it happened, I don't care how corny that sounds!) I looked at the clock and I realized, "Oh my God! I'm gonna be late for Japanese class!" So I jump out bed and start to get dressed. Then I remember, "Duh! We have a long weekend, there's no school today!" So then got back in bed when Rogue walks in. She says, "Wake up Jaeger! The Professor needs you, Bobby, and Jean to help him open his restaurant today!" (Apparently, I was Jaeger.) "Ok," I moaned and got outa bed. When I went downstairs Bobby and Jean were waiting for me. Jean went, "Come on! This place has to open by tonight." Bobby went, "Yeah!" I went, "Why?" They never did answer my question. Instead we went outside and found the Professor waiting for us. The restaurant was sorta odd looking. It was shaped like a square, but one side looked like came right out of a video game! I looked like Greek ruins, it had the huge columns coming up and everything! It had this odd bluish- green color to it. The other side looked like... well, concrete. This side didn't have a roof, just a platform. The whole thing was surrounded by a moat, but there was a bridge on one side that led to a field. It was really cool. Prof. X goes, "Jaeger, I want you and Bobby to spread these newspapers on the floor." He handed us stacks of newspapers. "Jean, keep the ghosts away." "Ghosts?" I asked. He goes, "Yes, we can't have them at our crawfish boil, can we?" "Oh." So me and Bobby went and spread newspapers on the floor. Jean scared ghosts away and everything was fine. So then the whole thing starts... It was fine at first. Little kids tried to teach me how play Yu-gi-oh, but it was too complicated. Then Bobby comes up to me and goes, "We got a problem!" So he rushes me to a pool table where there are two guys playing pool with bowling balls. They were I a huge fight and were getting ready to chunk the bowling balls at each other! Jean was trying to break it up, but they weren't listening. One guy threw a ball at his nemesis, so I blew it up. (Which is weird, Jaeger can't blow something of that size up.) Then they got pissed at me, Jean, and Bobby. "You're gonna get it!" they threatened. We didn't care. We went back to doing stuff. Then we hear a scream and we see the two men turning into giant robot/sentinel/gundum things! They had guns and everything! One of them shot a tranquilizer at Jean, so I blew it to pieces. Then they tried to step on Bobby and- I woke up.
Creepy huh?