So, I decided not to run through her history, but there will be some talk of it later, don't worry. Ummm, I need to see how many questions I need to answer...Not much this time! That means I'm doin' better! Okay, about the whole Jubilee, yes and no. It is the same Jubilee, but...How do I explain this? Okay, if you've seen X-Men Evolution, think about that for a few seconds. The rest of the team is semi-properly aged except for the younger ones. I liked Jubilee and I decided I'd use her, but keep her as a teenager. I should have clarified this in the beginning. Sorry! Okay, and about all those new character (Plus two new ones in this chapter), they should be fairly easy to keep straight. Their personalities are all fairly distant from each other if not opposite. This will be more or less divulged later. Ah, I'm loving this story, to tell you the truth. I have so many ideas that are coming to my head! And for anyone who's read The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas, will more or less recognize some of the upcoming chapters as a weird alternation of the infamous tale. But anyways, hope ya like! I now present to you, The Count of...No, not really, here chapter five!
"And that's all I remember," Nira finished in a quiet voice. She looked up at Sean with a look full of hope, praying that he wouldn't detest her for her miserable times.

Sean looked at her with a gleam in his eyes. "That was…I'm sorry."

Nira smiled and jumped quickly to her feet. "What?! Sorry?! I don't want you to be sorry!" She smiled and pulled him up off the bed. "I just want you to get up here and I want you to kiss me," she demanded in a giggly tone.

Sean smiled steadfastly, leaned down, and kissed her softly, with haste. When eh withdrew his lips from hers, he found the shorter blond practically begging for more.

"Hm, what's wrong with you?" he asked, acting as though he was unfamiliar with the look in her eyes.

"Seany!" she cried.

At the use of the nickname Sean had permitted only Desiree to use, he shuddered. "Please, don't call me that," he whispered.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Sean….An old girlfriend call ya that?"

Sean nodded solemnly.

"I'm sorry, I guess this isn't a good time for me to ask you for another kiss?"

"What are you talking about?!" he laughed and kissed her once more, with a bit more feeling.

Nira stood there, entranced with the feel of someone's lips on her own. She wasn't an experienced kisser, to say the least.

"You weren't kidding, were you?" Sean asked interestedly.

"I wouldn't lie to you, Sean," she said with a bit of a beam.

"I just couldn't believe that a girl as pretty as yourself hadn't ever been kissed before."

"Well, thanks for making me feel bad," she muttered under her breath.

"I wasn't trying to make you feel bad, Nira, you know that. But anywho, I'm the guest, I'm hungry, and I want to take you out for breakfast with me," Sean said without a hint of joking.

"Oh, Seany, I've already had breakfast."

"Well, I'm sure you can live on two."

"Are you gonna be one of those overprotective boyfriends that I always hear people about?"

"Whoa, who said anything about boyfriend?"

"Seany!" Nira cried and slammed the bottom of her fist on his chest, playfully.

"What?" he laughed. "I've been here less than a day and I have claims lying one me?"

"Well, you're too cute to just…just ignore!" Nira exclaimed, crossing her arms over her chest.

"And you're far too stubborn to be near."

"Oh, no you didn't just say that!" she yelled and jumped at him.

The result of this action, however, was Sean grabbing Nira in midair and pulling her close to him.

"Sea-" she tried to cry out, but was muted by Sean's lips engulfing hers.

"Now," he started when they'd finished, "Are you done with this whole hitting me thing?"

"Do you have any idea how much Jade and Zaira are gonna hate me?" she said with a bit of a sigh.

"Now why would such beautiful girls hate another?" he asked naively.

"Duh, Seany! They were so goggling over you!"

"Really? I didn't notice," he yawned, stretching out his arms. "So, are we going to breakfast or what?"

"I dunno…I really don't want 'em to hate me…You know how hard it is for me to meet people and make friends."

"Please, you act I like I've known you longer than a few hours."

"Well, you know my entire history from when I was…"

"Nine, I know. And since then you've been ra---"

"Sean, please don't say it," she whispers, a tear rolling down her cheek.

"Don't cry," Sean cooed. "Come on, just…just come on, Nira," he whispered and took her into his arms.

"Thanks, Seany…"

"No problem…Now, get those tears out of your eyes, I'm taking everyone out to eat."

"Everyone?"

"Well, the one I just saw. I don't really remember all their names."

"Seany, can I ask you a question?"

"Shoot."

"Um…Why'd you choose me to bring you up here? I mean…there was Jade and Zaira…"

"You were the prettiest," Sean smiled.

"Were? Please, I am so much more cute than those two!"

"Yeah, yeah…Let's go, Nira." Sean turned Nira around so that she was walking side by side with him. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders, and as soon as he opened the door, there was a rustling noise of clothes.

"Hello again, Jade, Zaira. Do you often listen in on other people's conversations?"

"Oh, dang it, Zaira! Good job!" Jade shouted.

"What were you guys doing? Nira asked, looking truly astonished that they would listen in on her own conversation.

"Sean! We'd love to come to breakfast with you and Nira," Zaira smiled. "That is, if the invitation is still open," she said with an audible sigh.

"What, you think just because you were listening in on mine and Nira's private little chat means I won't bring you out to breakfast?! Bah, get ready, we're leavin' in…actually, we're leaving when I'm ready and I got all y'all rounded up."

"Okay!" Zaira beamed, and ran off with Jade to their shared room to get dressed and whatnot.

"So, Nira, where would everyone else be?"

"I dunno, Seany, we're not all exactly the closest bunch."

"They're not or you're not?"

"Can it be a little of both?"

"I suppose, if you believe there's gray in between black and white."

"Are you always gonna be so…um…Are you always gonna be so…sad looking?"

"I look sad?"

"You look like you just got shot, you're wife left you and you drink too much," she said matter-of-factly.

"Well, as much as I'd like to say that I think you're crazy, one of those is almost right."

"The first one?" Nira asked, dreading that he should say the second one.

"No."

"The, um, the third one? The one about the drinking?"

"No."

"Please tell me you don't have a wife, Seany!" she cried.

Sean burst out laughing. "A wife?! Me? You're kiddin' right?"

"Yeah, um, that's me, Seany! Always joking around!"

"But no, uh, I mean, I just sorta broke up with my first love…it was kind of a cruel break up."

"What'd you do?" Nira asked intently.

"Well, I just kinda left. I didn't think it'd be fair to her parents if I took her here with me…And I couldn't stay, my mom and dad wouldn't let me…So I left," he finished indifferently and shrugged.

"Where were you?" she asked curiously.

"South."

"Well, duh! Just about everywhere is south of New York!"

"Louisiana."

"Lemme guess, New Orleans?"

"Somethin' like that."

"Did you go to Mardi Gras down there?"

"Is there anything else you can do in New Orleans?"

"Well…" Nira trailed on, smiling. "Well I'm gonna go get ready, my room's just down there, I share one with Jade and Zaira."

"Alright, I should do the same. Obviously you know where my room is."

Nira nodded, still smiling, "See ya soon!"


"Mama," Desiree whispered in a hurt tone.

"Des', ya finally come out?"

Desiree nodded and opened the door, "Can ah still go up north?"

"What on earth for, sugah?"

"Mama, ya know what ah wanna go there for…"

"Ya not goin' ta see that boy," Remy chimed in, making his presence known.

"Why not, papa? Y'all said ah could," she whined.

"Des', look at what ya lettin' that boy do to ya…Sugah, ah can't let ya go," Rogue said softly, resting a hand on her shoulder.

"Mama, ah need ta see 'im!"

"Ah said no, chere," Remy stated.

"Papa, please…Ah need ta see 'im…Ah can't jus' let 'im go…"

"He's already gone, petite, what more do ya want? He left ya, that mean he's 'fraid to tell ya that he doesn't wanna be wit' ya."

"Remy!" Rogue glared and smacked his shoulder. "Don' talk lahke that! I's not true an' ya know it! He had to go today anehway, an' you basically told 'im ta leave earlier!"


"Eat whatever guys, it's on me," Sean grinned, looking at the cheerful expressions on the group's faces. Only there were a couple more people there. Damien had insisted that his would-be girlfriend, Kathryn, come. Kathryn had asked if her actual boyfriend, Bert could come.

Kathryn was a girl of eighteen or nineteen. She had long, flowing brown hair and olive green eyes. A smile was almost always apparent on her smooth complexion. Her lips were…tempting, to say the least, this "feature" added to her curves, accentuated by her leather pants and halter-top.

Bert, on the other hand, was more or less her opposite opposite. His long, black hair always seemed to be dirty and never combed. He held the same age as Kathryn, give or take a few months. He wore long, semi baggy, black shorts and a charcoal colored T-shirt.

The waitress approached their table with a pen and a pad of paper. "What can I get you to drink?" she asked to no one in particular.

Dominic started, "I'll take a strawberry daiquiri," he said.

The others laughed, "Dom, are you seriously drinking this early?" Garrison commented.

"Yeah, I am," he smiled.

"Can I see your ID?" the waitress asked, not sure of his age.

Dominic pulled his wallet out and showed her his ID, and she nodded.

"I'll have, uh…I dunno, I'll just take some coffee," Bert nodded.

"I'll take the same," Kathryn agreed.

"Oh, me? I'll just take a coke," Sean smiled lightly at the waitress and almost screamed out in pain. "Nira," he grumbled, "just because I look at another girl, doesn't mean you have to hit me," he whined.

Nira didn't deny that she had kicked Sean's shin for smiling at the waitress in his little flirtatious way. "I'll take a diet coke."

Damien grinned freely at the waitress, who seemed almost disgusted with him. "I'll just take some water," he nodded.

"I'll take a coke," Jade and Zaira laughed in unison.

"Ummmm," Jubilee sighed, not knowing what to get. "I think I'll just have a hot chocolate."

Garrison smiled, "I'll have what she's having."

The meal moved on with plenty of laughter, eating, drinking, refills, cheese fries and flirting. And by the end of the meal, at somewhere around noon, everyone knew, to Jade and Zaira's disappointment, that Sean and Nira were dating (This, by the way, officially happened somewhere between the second order of cheese fries and third round of drinks). Also, they knew that Jubilee's walls were starting to fall and Garrison was starting to get to her. Their knowing of Bert and Kathryn were heightened. Yet, even at seeing "his girl" so closely attached to another guy, Damien didn't, as he was busy somewhat successfully charming Jade. Dominic, too, was busy somewhat flirting with Zaira, who sort of took a liking to him. But as the same time…she seemed interested in someone else.