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"Dis is it," he said to Jubilee.
"Yeah, nice working with ya," said Jubilee.
"Y' t'," said Remy. He went over to the pile of 50 unopened card packs that he had left and started to charge a whole pack. He threw it in the air and it made a huge noise when it exploded. Jubilee made three times the amount of fireworks burst out of the cards.
Remy continued to send whole packs of cards up, increasing the number he sent, making the banging louder and louder, until it was over.
"Thank y' Trident!" Remy screamed at the end.
Chapter 29- Profits
The next day Kitty and Rogue were up bright and early in Xavier's Beach house, tallying all their profits. Each day of the fair, at closing time, everyone would give them their profits from the day, keeping 40 of the money they made. Then they would write down how much they made, and how much they kept on a slip of paper and they would give it to Rogue. After Kitty and Rouge got the money, they'd count up the total, write it down and put the money in Rogue's bank account for now.
That morning, in Xavier's office, Kitty was tallying all their profits, making sure their fellow mutants hadn't gotten more than they were supposed to (as was the case with Amara and Roberto). Rouge was making lists of how much money they needed to pay back to the Professor, Remy, Piotr, John and Wanda, and how much money they needed to pay Ororo, Logan, and Todd (who didn't have booths, so therefore didn't earn money).
All was quiet, until Kitty opened her mouth.
"Oh. My. God," she said.
Rogue looked up from the opposite side of the table they were sharing; she had just finished writing down who they owed money to and what they owed. She just was waiting for Kitty to tell her how much they had made so that she could split the money and see how much more they owed everyone.
"What's up Kit?" asked Rogue.
Kitty stared at the figure on the paper in front of her. "Come see how much we've made," she said.
Rogue came over to Kitty's side of the table and looked at Kitty's figure. Her eyes went wide.
"No way," she said. "Count tha numbahs again, there's no way that's tha amount we made."
"I counted it four times," said Kitty, her shock making her completely lose her valley accent. (1)
"Did ya remember tha amount that everyone else took with them home?" asked Rogue.
"Yeah," said Kitty. She pulled another sheet of paper closer to them. "This is the sum that we made if we include what they took home."
Rogue looked at the paper and she swayed with shock. "Woah," she said.
"Okay," said Kitty. "We'll sort this money out, figure how much we're going to pay everyone and then tell the group."
(-strawberrie-)
Kitty and Rogue walked gravely into the main living room. The others were playing poker.
"How much money did you make?" asked Wanda.
Kitty and Rogue looked at them sadly and the very air around them became solemn. Suddenly Kitty and Rogue grinned and screamed. They ran over to their boyfriends, hugged them, switched people, hugged them, ran over to John and Wanda, hugged them, and then switched people and hugged them again.
The rest of them looked on weirdly as if they had just grown two extra heads.
"We made enough money, not only to pay Xavier and all of you back, but we have enough so that we can give you guys half as much more as what you gave us!" exclaimed Kitty.
"And we still have a good portion left over!" said Rogue.
"Are you serious?" asked Piotr, incredulously.
Kitty nodded frantically and excitedly. "Dead serious!" she said.
"We've already written ya checks," said Rogue. She ran back into the study, and then ran back, handing each of them checks.
They all looked at their checks.
"Wow," said Wanda. "This is a lot more than half of what I gave you."
"Yeah, same here," said Remy.
"Well, we wanted ta give ya guys most of tha money, as a thank ya for lendin' us tha money, and puttin' up with us over the week," said Rogue.
"You're welcome," said John.
Remy put his arm around Rogue. "Let's celebrate," he said. "Dinner, movies, a little dancin', and whatever else comes our way."
"Our treat," said Kitty.
They shrugged. "Sure," said Wanda.
"Alright, let's go!" said Remy.
(-no more strawberries-)
(1) If you've noticed, I have really toned down Kitty's 'likes' and whatnot. It's annoying to type, and she's growing up. But at this point, Kitty totally lost the valley girl accent.
Yeah, really short chapter, but there's nothing more to say really. Anyway, the end of the story's coming up real soon. As in, the last chapter is going to be chapter 37 when they go back to Bayville. That is unless I divide a chapter into two, but the likeliness of that isn't strong. I know almost exactly what's going to happen from here on to the end. Don't worry, John's surprise is included. His surprise is chapter 32.
And PLEASE review. I checked my stats. There are a lot of people who have the story on Author alert, or their favorites yet have never reviewed. There are a lot of people who read the newest chapters and never review. As in the number of reviews I have for the chapter is HALF the number of hits the chapter has gotten, which makes me sad. This story is being posted for YOUR enjoyment and you don't take the time out to at least say, "nice chapter"? Well, anyway, I guess you're busy. I know I am, but please when you have time, review.