"...so this guy walks into a bar with a monkey on his head right?So the bartenders like..."

Very slowly, Tabitha headed back to school. If it were up to her, she'd still be threatening Pyro with her very cold banana split, but alas, that wasn't the case, and she still had to trudge all the way back to before anyone noticed that she had been gone. She entered the building just as the bell signaling the end of fourth hour rang, and teenagers of various grades flooded into the hallways. Tabitha threaded her way through the crowd to her locker to collect her binders for Geometry next hour. She was going to stop by the bathroom to make sure all the chocolate syrup was off her face, but the bell had already started to ring, so she dashed into her class just seconds away from being tardy. Not that she'd care anyway, but she didn't feel like an added detention. Tabitha took her seat in the back of the room, as far from the teacher as she could get. Her desk was positioned next to the window that stretched the length of the room's eastern wall. "Pssst!" A voice whispered from the person in the desk next to hers. Tabitha turned to see Amara, who hurriedly glanced to see if the teacher was looking at her. Seeing that the teacher was totally absorbed in explaining scientific notation to Blob, which everyone knows will take a while she turned towards Tabitha. "Hey,"

"What?"

"Like, where were you? You totally missed fourth hour and I had to have Toad as a science partner!"

"Aw, man. Sorry about that. I forgot that we had a lab today."

"So where were you? Kitty said she saw you with like, some guy during lunch, and no one has seen you since."

"Oh…"

"So, who's this mysterious guy she was talking about?"

"Yah mean St. John?"

"John is it? Is that why you were gone fourth hour?"

"Yeah. We went to Heindlgan's."

"The ice cream shop? aka the like, number one place for first dates?"

"Maybe."

"That explains the chocolate on your face, but Tabby, I need details! So where did you meet this "John"?"

"I saw him staring at me, in some kind of trance or something, so I kinda blew up his coat pocket to wake him up."

"Sounds like true love."

"Hey, he deserved it!"

"So what did you like, talk about?"

"Oh, some stuff. He's a mutie yah know, but he's not an X-men or in the Brotherhood, he said he's something else."

"John? Now where have I heard that name before………."

"I don't know, he said he was an Ack-something" said Tabitha, trying to remember.

"Acolyte?"

"Yeah! How did you know?"

"They're the people that Kitty says she like, always has to fight, Magneto's new group. I think Rouge likes one of them, Remy or something. I'll ask Kitty."

"Could you do that for me? I know she's in your English class next hour. You sit by her don't you?"

"Not anymore. Now I have to sit by Pietro. If he's there that is."

"Bummer." Said Tabitha, not really meaning it.

"Oh shut up! You get to sit next to Lance for three classes! That is sooo like, not fair!"

"You forget that he's mad at me for killing his Jeep. Twice. That can be painful. All he does is glare at me. It pains my heart ever so." Said Tabitha with a fake sorrow.

"So, is he cute?"

"Who? Lance?"

"No! John!" said Amara, rolling her eyes,

"Oh, ha ha, me is smart. Oh yeah, but he has this ever-so-shexy aussie accent that totally makes you forget that he's gorgeous."

"Hold on. Orlando Bloom gorgeous or Lance gorgeous?"

" Orlando Bloom gorgeous defiantly, but with a shexier accent"

"You are sooo lucky!"

"Oh, I know. Jealous?"

"Um, YES!!!! That is so, like, not fair. Orlando Bloom gorgeous with an aussie accent? You are the luckiest girl in Bayville!"

"Do tell…"

"Wait, I forgot about Remy…"

Oh yeah! I saw Rougie with this totally drool-worthy guy who I assume was him. Cajun accent, tall, dark, handsome, and with a goatee. Oh yeah, totally drool-worthy."

"Sounds like Remy alright, not that I've actually seen him, but I herd the view was nice." said Amara with a wry grin. "Anyway, you said John's a mutant. What does he do?"

"He controls fire! It's sooo cool! er, hot." said Tabitha with a smile. "you should see him! He can make all sorts of stuff out of fire! Like birds and horses and tigers and butterflies and fish and wolves….."

"Tabby dear, you're babbling." Said Amara after Tabitha began repeating herself.

"Yah, so you guys would make the perfect team, but-"

"Why? Not that Im like, objecting mind you -"

"Well, he can't actually create the fire but-"

"Really? Kool! Can I like, steal him from you? Please?"

"But, you're so sane and he's so not, besides, he's mine, so back off sister."

"FRED! TEN DIVIDED BY TWO IS FIVE! NOT THREE! AND YOU USED YOUR CALCULATOR!" came the exasperated yell of the teacher, who was still trying to explain scientific notation to Fred.

"She pops more blood vessels that way….." drawled Tabitha.

"To true, to true." Said Amara, in an equally sympathetic tone. The two girls looked at each other and had to use all their willpower to stop themselves from laughing.