Tailfeather: It's been long hasn't it?
Aqueous: chicken. Eeewww! Onions. Eeewww! A wok. EEEWWW!
Tailfeather: K.
Aqueous: Maple tree! Luv from A.F.S.E.W.D.O.D.
Tailfeather: takes Aq's ice cream No more for you.
Chapter 19
On the phone to Ruth
Angharad woke up on sunday very trierd and hungry.
"Hey, Angharad. Wanna go see Sinbad that new movie?" Ruth asked hurrying
"What, Can I have brekkie first?" Angharad yawned
"Nope now get dressed, I'll be in my room." Ruth said as she rushed off. Angharad looked around. She put on a blue skirt and white top and went down to Ruth's room.
"Ready" she called "Ok, let's go!" Ruth said as she pushed Angharad down the stairs and outside. Angharad saw Jean and Scott put their hands behind their backs and smile as Angharad passed.
"La di la di da!" Kurt hummed as he teleported putting up ribbon and a bannner. Jean was telepathically lifting presents and Scott and the new recruits where baking a cake. Meanwhile Ruth kept pushing Angharad to the cinema.
"Come on we'll miss it!!" Ruth cried , do you know what day it is?" "Yeah, it's sunday!"
"Yeah,but what day" "
14th of July"
"Uh.......nevermind" Angharad sighed. Another year and she was being pushed into darkness.
"Come on we're going in" Ruth shouted. At the institute, many people had gone to buy late present. Kurt was watching Bobby wrap a presents for Angharad.
"Vhat is it?" Kurt asked "Surprise" Bobby said smiling Angharad walked back to the institute. Everyone has once again forgotten my birthday, not that I care- she thought. Ruth walked Angharad in the institute until
"SURPRISE!" the mutants cried
"Oh..............my" Angharad gasped. The whole institute was decorated with banners and tassels and balloons.
"Wow"
"It vas all Ruth's idea" Kurt said
"Oh my God, thank you so much" she said hugging her friend
"Hey we still have presents for you" Ruth said
"Presents for me, Oh you guys" Angharad beamed as she run over to a pile of presents. Two hours later, Angharad had got many jumpers and long sleeve tops, at least five skirts (mostly black) and lots more things. Ruth walked over to Angharad and handed her a presents.
"It's from me" Ruth said passing her the presents. It was a huge photo frame with an enlarged photo of her and Ruth when they looked like sisters. Memories of that brilliant day flowed into Angharad's mind.
"Remember that day?" Ruth asked interrupting Anthrax's thoughts.
"Of course I do! Thanks Ruth. Anyway, come on, I don't have all day to open presents you know!" Everyone laughed except for Rogue who was slumped in an armchair in the corner. Jean gave Angharad a top saying 'Don't mess with me, I'm a teen' which she loved. Kitty had got her a ring, it wasn't very nice, but her best friend hated Angharad. She looked to Rogue who was glad Angharad didn't like the present, she could tell. Storm had bought Angharad a skirt with squiggly lines down the side. The boys didn't get her any presents, boys never do. Except Bobby.
"Oooooh! Bobby got her a present!" The other boys mocked. He gave Angharad a silver necklace with a tiny heart with a jewel in it.
"Oh! Thank you Bobby!" Angharad said giving him a hug.
"We've forgotten someone, Rogue, what did you get for Angharad?" Xavier interrupted. Rogue threw a small, badly wrapped present into Angharad's lap (she had missed her head) and stormed out.
"What's wrong with her?" Ruth ended the silence. "Oh, yeah. Rogue hates you. I forgot, I just got hating Kitty in my head."
"Ruth!"
"Sorry Professor."
Angharad opened the presents. "A pair of socks......how......nice" Angharad said sarcastically. Ruth smiled and winked at Angharad who laughed.
"Hey, I know what we should do!" Jean said interrupting the laughter.
"What?" Angharad and Ruth chorused smiling
"Let's go out for a meal or something!" Jean smiled The girls looked at each other and smiled
"That'll be great"
"I'll go get changed" Angharad said running up stairs Ruth following
"You know I really hate them speaking at the same time,It's like so freaky" Kitty said after a long silence.
Ruth had just finished getting ready she walked down the corridor to hear a lot of shouting coming from Rogue and Angharad's room. Ruth listened outside the bedroom until the door flung open and Angharad run down the stairs, tears going down her cheeks. Ruth followed her. Angharad ran through the hall, watched by startled mutants, and down into basement. There Angharad was attempting to freeze herself.
"Angharad, whats wrong?" Ruth asked
"She-she called me a.......a slut and a loner and she said I had no friends" Angharad cried
"Ignore her. She's the one with no friends" Ruth comforted "Now come on" Angharad followed Ruth into the hall where everyone was looking at them.
"Ok, So thats me, Scott, Ruth, Angharad, Bobby and Kurt. Prof, will you kitty and Rogue be joining us?" Asked Jean
"I don't think so" The prof said quietly looking from Angharad to Ruth. Ruth run over to Kurt and took his arm. They all piled into the car, Ruth and Kurt glanced across to each other. They hadn't said much to each other since they 'accidentally' kissed. Kitty ran into Rogues room smiling.
"Did you do it?" Kitty asked
"Yeah, And you?" Rouge answered holding up a small blue book with the words "Angharad's Diary" scored across it. Kitty grinned. She pulled out an address book and started dialing one of the numbers.
"Hi lance!......Yeah........Fine..........He's being rotten to me, Lance...........Yeah" Kitty said dramatically
" Come over in an hour. Bye Lance" Kitty put down the phone.
"So?"Rogue asked
"He's coming to 'comfort' me in an hour" Kitty laughed.
Ruth had just walked into an Italian restaurant with her friends. She leaned across to Angharad and whispered something which made them giggle very loudly.
"Vhat's so funny?" Kurt asked as watched the girls whisper and point at a waiter. Angharad whispered something and Ruth blushed red.
"We where just talking about the cute waiter" Ruth laughed
"Yeah, vhatever" Kurt sighed under his breath. He was glad that his inducer had been fixed so he could get out and get closer to Ruth. "There is something about that girl that makes my fur stand on end" Kurt whispered to Bobby.
"You are so love-sick fuzzy one, three girls on the go!"Bobby mocked
"Vhat are you on about?" Kurt quizzed
"Well there was Tabby,before she joined the brotherhood. Then came Kitty, who you've just forgotten and Now Ruth who you keep drooling over." Bobby mocked As Kurt frowned at Bobby, two boys from school walked past and spotted him. They stared at him as though trying to figure something out.
"Uh.... Can I help you?" Kurt asked.
"Aren't you, like, that thing that burned down the school last week?"
"That was gnarly man!"
"Yeah, so, do you like talk with Satan and stuff?"
"Yeah, like take a trip to hell to see him and kill some Catholics!"
"Cool man!" The two dopes from school high-fived each other and slumped off. The X-men looked at each other and then at Kurt.
"Don't listen to them Kurt." Ruth said.
"Six spaghetti bolognaise for table 12, yes?" The cute waiter was balancing six plates in his arms.
"Yes!" They all chorused.
"Finally! I'm starving!" Bobby licked his lips as a dish of spaghetti bolognaise landed in front of him.
"Tuck in!" Kurt shouted now that he was cheered up by food. Half an hour later Jean finally finished neatly eating her spaghetti bolognaise. All six were sitting back in their seats too full to move.
"burp That was nice." Angharad said with a deep breath. The cute waiter brought the bill and winked at her.
"Uh oh. This is quite pricey." Kurt moaned, using all his strength to pick up the bill.
"How much is it?" Scott said trying to sit up.
"Um ... fifty three dollars."
"That's, what? Eight dollars and ... "
"Just put in nine each and the rest can be tip for being so cute!" Angharad giggled. Jean and Ruth joined in and all the boys looked jealous.
"Talking about having more zhan vone girl on zhe go, you and Angharad get along vell, ja?" Kurt whispered to Bobby.
"Well, y'know. It's just a friendly relationship. Nothing big, she's just a friend. I go out with Angharad-ROGUE! I go out with Rogue." Kurt laughed his head off and fell out of his chair.
"Yeah, right! You love Angharad!" Kurt laughed it out a bit too loud. Angharad looked at Bobby.
"Wha-?... You love me?" She stuttered.
Bobby looked at Angharad and blushed deeply.
"Uh.. Well... What Kurt was saying... Ummm..." Bobby muttered scratching the back of his neck. "Nice going Kurt! Um, well... I do kinda like you, Angharad." He blushed even more and thwacked Kurt over the head with his menu.
"Dude, I thought she vould have guessed by now!" Kurt moaned rubbing the spot where he had been hit with Bobby's menu. "I'm going to have a huge lump here tomorrow."
"Maybe we should go home." Scott, taking role as leader as usual, advised.
"Yeah, people are starting to look at us." Jean added. They all went back to the institute after waddling into the X-van. Bobby went straight to his room, avoiding Angharad completely and everyone else. He wouldn't let anyone in. Angharad didn't even try. She avoided him as much.
She and Ruth were talking the next day. Ruth was trying to convince her to talk to Bobby.
"You know you fancy him, you have for ages!" Ruth was saying.
"No! I don't fancy him, since when have you thought that? That's crazy! I'd never want to go out with someone like Bobby."
"That's a lie and you know it!"
"I don't lie, I just don't like him that much."
"You do like him, you're just afraid to see him."
"Why would I be afraid to talk to Bobby?"
"Because if you ask him out, he might say no out of fear of commitment. He might not be ready and you'll make a fool of yourself and never live it down. But I say let true love prevail, Angharad. Just ask him out."
"How do you come up with this stuff? It's completely off track, I'm not afraid to ask him out." Instead of answering, Ruth turned into a-
"I'm not a chicken, Ruth!" Cluck, cluck, cluck! "Shut up! If you're going to be like this, I'll see him. Just to prove you wrong, though! But, before I go to see him, I'll teach you to imply I'm a chicken!" She took out a piece of chalk from her pocket. A piece of chalk? Where is she going with this? Ruth thought. Ruth watched the chalk, just what Angharad wanted. Ruth was still eyeing the chalk as Angharad slowly drew a line on the floor infront of her. She was stuck. Angharad was laughing her head off when Kurt came in.
"Vhat's vith zhe chicken? Is it even alive?" He asked.
"I can hypnotise chickens, Kurt. But right now that's Ruth!" She laughed some more, Kurt joining in. Ruth was just standing there, staring at the line of chalk on the floor, completely hypnotised.
Angharad knocked lightly on Bobby's door. "Go away!" She heard from inside.
"Bobby! What were you going to do? Avoid me until we leave the institute? That's years away! Let me in!" Angharad banged on the door and attempted to open it. "Unlock the door Bob! You can't stay in there forever!" Silence. "Look Bobert, I don't want to do this as much as you, but Ruth made me and I kinda figured she's right, we have to talk about this. Bobby?" He finally opened the door and let her in. She looked around and noticed a thin lair of ice on everything in his room, except his bed.
"Look-" They both started. They both blushed.
"You go, Bob." Angharad let him go first.
"OK, look Angharad, I-Kurt-Kurt was kinda right, I do have feelings for you, but, y'know." Bobby couldn't continue.
"Yeah, I know. I must admit though, I like you too, Bobby. I have for ages. I first knew it when we went on an ice-cream hunt together, that was brilliant. And when you got ice-cream all over your nose." She started laughing.
"Yeah, and then you had an ice-cream moustache!" Bobby added. They got into fits of laughter and ended up with their arms around each other.
"You know, you're a lot easier to get close to than Rogue. Rogue! I forgot about her completely. I haven't even split up with her yet!" They looked at each other for a moment and laughed even more. Unknown to them, Kurt had followed.. with a chicken under his arm... He wanted to get Angharad to wake up Ruth or get her out of this weird trance thingy. He heard them laughing. Awe, they're together, how sveet, right. Time to ruin their moment and get Ruth to live again. Kurt thought. He opened the door a bit.
"Is it OK to come in?" He said through the crack.
"Come on in Kurt." Bobby announced. Kurt came in ... with a chicken under his arm ... and fell right over on the iced floor, not much grip on fuzzy feet.
"Vhat have you been doing in here, Bobby? Or did you do it, Angharad?" Kurt said, trying to regain his balance with his tail hanging on to the door handle.
"What's wrong, Kurt?" Bobby sniggered, watching Kurt falling over again.
"Zhis!" Kurt said, pointing to Ruth the chicken, which ended up with him falling yet again. Ruth was still in the position of standing there staring at the chalk line, even though there wasn't anything to stand on and the chalk line was downstairs.
"Vhat do you do to vake her up?" Asked Kurt.
"Have you even tried anything?" Angharad raised an eyebrow, though very poorly.
"Uh, no." He admitted. Angharad clicked her fingers in front of Ruth the chicken's face and she moved as she did before. Cluck cluck cluck. You will pay for this! She thought glaring at Angharad. She transformed back to her human form and fell to the floor with Kurt, caught unawares by the ice.
"Where are we? Winter wonderland?" She said looking around. She spotted Bobby and Angharad together sitting on the bed.
"Does this mean what I think it means?"
"Yes!" Ruth and Angharad went into a girlie hug.
"Congratulations!" Ruth squealed.
"Hey.......did we just get engaged or something?" Bobby asked
"Wait, you're old enough, wait a couple of years.....Hey can I be your maid of-" Ruth started
"Ruth" Angharad laughed "Hey come here for a sec" Angharad whispered something to Ruth and she suddenly skated across the room. Five minutes later Ruth starts filming a very slidey Kurt. After 5 minutes of laughing. Ruth suggests Kurt ports on the bed.
"Vhy didn't I zink of zat before" Kurt muttered "I'm going to my room. Coming Angha?" Ruth asked "Yeah, but I'm going to my room first." Angharad answered.
Tail: Welcome to the Rogue77 and the tiny one fight! Part 8!
Aq: Remember people who ever wins gets Pryo
Tail: round eight!! rings a little bell
Aq: OMG! Rogue77's got a blender out! Don't plug it in!
Tail: Quick Tiny one! Save yourself! OOooooh! Fast thinking by distracting Rogue77with Evan!
Evan:???????????????EEEP!
Aq: And The tiny one has got .......the cast of Cats?!?!?
Tail: And there's fur flying everywhere!
Aq: That's disgusting!
Tailfeather: You waited so long and here it is!
Aqueous: Ta da!
Tailfeather: Sometimes I wonder which of us is the sane one.
Aqueous: Maple tree!
Peter: Doo doo doo doo doo-
Aqueous: Come on and do the conga!
Peter: Now that's insania.
Tailfeather: Yeah, ignore her, come and lie with me love!