Chapter 2

Wolverine woke up, not knowing what time it was. When he opened his eyes, he was laying next to the fire as if he had fallen asleep last night instead of being knocked out.

Pretty soon, Jean Grey walked out of her tent and rushed over to Logan.

"Logan? What's wrong?" she asked. "You're not drunk, are you?"

Getting up, Logan answered, "Jeanie, when was the last time you caught me drinking? When was the last time one of the students caught me drinking?"

He was right. Logan hadn't had anything alcoholic in the last two months or so.

"Well, I couldn't tell. And if you where, there's not telling what you might be like." Jean responded.

"I'm not drunk." Logan said. He sat up, pocking the fire with his index claw.

Soon after, Jean walked back into her tent and left Logan alone.

Near noon, everyone was finally awake. Bobby and Rogue where out on the lake, skating.

"They're skating?" one of the kids asked his friend, "In the summer?"
"Well duh!" another responded. "Bobby Drake's ability is to freeze water molecules."

A girl walked over to them and sat next to them.

"Hey Alicia!" one of them said. He scooted next to her and set his hand on top of hers.

"Did you hear about Bobby and Rogue?" she asked.

"I heard they where skating."

"Matt, I think we all know that!" Alicia laughed. "Do you know, Jake?"

"No. What is it?"

"Bobby Drake is going to propose to Rogue!" she told him.

The two boys stared at her wide-eyed.

Finally, Jake spoke up, "You're kidding right? Rogue is… Well…"

"Boy, it's a good thing you're not attracted to someone like Rogue." she said.

"Lucky for me, I have you." Matt laughed, setting his hand farther up Alicia's arm.

Alicia pushed him off of the double chair they where sitting on, and laughed.

"What was that for?" he shot, whipping dirt off of his t-shirt.

"What was that for?" Alicia shot back. "Saying you have me."

"You knew what I meant!" Matt said, sitting back next to her.

Alicia scooted farther away from him. "If that's the way you're going to act, I don't want to be around you anymore."

"Come on," Matt said, trying to comfort her. "I'm sorry!"

Alicia got up and walked off. "Sure." was all she said.

"Boy, you know how to sweet talk now, don't you!" Jake laughed.

"Be quiet!" Matt said as he zapped Jake with a small bolt of green lightning.

Meanwhile, Bobby and Rogue where skating all over the nearby lake. Or, at least what they could skate on without letting other people see them. Their plan was to skate around the lake until 12:00, which was lunchtime.

While sitting down to eat some food they had prepared back at the mansion, the cuddled up next to each other with their backs to a large bush.

"Rogue," Bobby said, reaching into his jacket pocket, "I need to ask you something."

Rogue's heart set on fire. She knew what he was going to ask. "Yeah?" she replied.

"Will you marry me?"