Chapter 9: Secrets?
Shayna looked to see a man with white hair standing in front of her.
"Would either of you happen to know where Charles is?" The man asked.
"Yeah, he's in his office I think." Shayna said.
"All right. Thank you very much, ladies." The man said heading towards the mansion.
"Was that real?" Shayna asked.
"I think so." Misty said.
"If that was, he was possibly the hottest old guy I've ever seen." Shayna said.
"I would have to agree with you there." Misty replied.
"Wonder what he needs the Professor for?" Shayna asked.
Misty just shrugged.
"Hey girls." Bryan said coming up behind Misty.
"Hey." Shayna said.
"What is going on?" Piotr asked.
"Oh not too much. Shayna and I were about to do something." Misty said.
"I think we were gonna go inside and watch some t.v." Shayna said.
"Yeah." Misty said walking towards the main foyer with Shayna. The boys followed.
The white haired man came upon Charles Xavier's office doors.
"Come in Magnus." The Professor said.
Magnus opened the door and stepped inside. He closed the door behind him and walked to a chair and sat down.
"What brings you hear, my old friend?" Charles asked from behind his desk.
"Charles, someone is coming back to the Institute." Magnus started.
"Who?" Charles asked, intrigued.
"An old, friend, you could say." Magnus said.
"An old friend?" Charles said to himself.
Shayna, Misty, Piotr, and Bryan entered the foyer. Misty looked around and saw a cake sitting on a table in there. She smirked.
"Hey what's that?" Bryan asked pointing to the table with the cake on it.
Misty smirked even more.
"I dunno." Shayna said.
"Me either." Piotr said.
"Why don't you go and see Bryan?" Misty said.
"All right but you all are coming with me." Bryan said.
They all walked over to the table where the cake was.
"Oh look! Ca…" Bryan said as Misty shoved his head into the cake.
Shayna immediately busted out laughing. Piotr held it in until Bryan lifted his head and Piotr saw a nose, eye sockets, and a mouth. The rest was covered in cake.
"Shut up!" Bryan said kind of muffled.
"I did not say anything," Piotr said chuckling.
"You were going to, and you were thinking it." Bryan said still a little muffled.
"Whatever you say, comrade." Piotr said.
"Hey guys." Ryan said coming down the stairs.
"Hey." Shayna and Misty said.
"How's everyo-" Ryan said stopping in mid-sentence.
Shayna looked at him a bit perplexed. Then followed his stare over to the once there cake.
"Oh shit," She thought, "That is not good, not good at all, but probably going to be funny."
"My, cake." Ryan said walking over to it.
Bryan started tip-toeing away as Ryan turned around.
"What happened to it?" Ryan asked.
Misty looked at Shayna, who looked at Piotr, who stopped Bryan. Bryan turned around. He still had cake on his face, but now some was on his hands from him trying to wipe it off.
"Why?" Ryan asked, looking like a puppy.
"Awww." Shayna and Misty said together.
"I, I mean, I didn't, it's all Misty's fault!" Bryan yelled pointing to Misty.
Ryan looked over at Misty. She smirked and then hid behind Piotr.
Piotr looked behind him and shrugged.
"Aww, I thought I could see you in action Misty." A woman said.
Misty looked around Piotr and saw an old friend.
"BETSY!" She yelled and ran over to the woman.
Everyone turned and saw a relatively tall woman with purple hair, and a red mark over her left eye.
"Misty, my lady." She said.
"Betsy, I've missed you, where've you been?" Misty asked.
"Oh, I've been working things out with some people. So, what have you been up to these last four years?" Betsy asked.
"Oh, nothing much really, just went on some missions, got some new friends, got a boyfriend…" Misty said.
"A what? A boyfriend huh? Where is he? I wanna meet him and your friends." Betsy said.
"Oh well he's," Misty turned around not to see Bryan, "Not here at the moment but, this is Shayna Tanner and her boyfriend Piotr Rasputin."
"Hello." Shayna said.
"Hello." Piotr said standing beside Shayna.
"Hello there you two, and who's that? Is he drooling?" Betsy asked.
"Oh that's Ryan Marceaux, the resident chef, if you will." Misty said.
"Well, hello Ryan." Betsy said walking over to him and extending her hand.
Ryan looked at her a little googly eyed and shook her hand. He was fumbling for words and finally spat out, "Hi."
Bryan came back in with some icing still on his nose. Misty went over and licked it off.
"Yum, tasty." Misty said.
"WHOA! NONE OF THAT!" Ryan shouted snapping back to reality land.
"Pfft, look who's talking, man whore of the century." Jesse said walking through the foyer.
"Shut up." Ryan said punching Jesse as he walked by.
"Hey, I liked that." Bryan said.
"Don't start that, it usually leads to nasty things." Ryan said cleaning up his not-a-cake.
"You should know." Jesse voiced from the kitchen.
"Like I said before, shut up!" Ryan yelled.
"Oh, that sounds like a good story." Misty said.
"Yes, do tell." Shayna said.
Jesse came back into the foyer with a six-layered sandwich and a coke.
"Well, our little Ryan got around." Jesse said taking a bite of his masterpiece.
"What is that?" Bryan asked looking at the 'thing' Jesse was holding.
"It's a sandwich that is constructed of peach jelly, grape jelly, strawberry jelly, and peanut butter all convienitenly located on one sandwich." Jesse said taking a bite out of it.
"Yes, and if it comes from the Austyn family, it's going to be disgustingly good." Ryan said taking his cake into the kitchen and then heading up the stairs once he was done.
"So, who is that?" Betsy asked pointing to Jesse.
"Oh, that's Jesse Austyn." Misty said.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Betsy Braddock. Your friend seems a bit tetchy doesn't he?" Betsy said.
"Yeah, at sometimes." Jesse said.
"I hear you talking about me, stop it!" Ryan shouted from upstairs.
"See Ryan has this little sense of knowing when people are talking about him and…" Jesse said but was interrupted.
"I said stop it!" Ryan shouted.
"See what I mean?" Jesse said.
"STOP!" Ryan screamed.
They all shared a chuckle.
"Misty, do you know where the Professor is?" Betsy asked.
"In his office I think." Misty said.
"Thank you. I'll be back soon then we can catch up and I can get to know your friends more." Betsy said going up the stairs.
"Maybe you should tell her that someone's already in there and to wait." Shayna said.
"Betsy I'd..." but Misty stopped noticing that Betsy was most likely no longer in earshot.
Betsy walked through the hallway to the Professor's office. She stood outside the door and put her ear up to the door trying to see if he was busy. She heard two voices and realized right away who's they were. A little smirk played on her lips. She turned the doorknob and stood in the doorway.
The two men looked at her, Charles with a look of surprise.
"So surprised to see me Charles? I thought Magnus would've warned you by now." Betsy said emphasizing Magneto's name.
She walked over and sat in the empty chair and faced the two men.
End of chappie…
A/N: Yeah I know it took me a while to post this. But next time it won't be as long. Sorry it took so long. I hope this made up for it. If it didn't, the next chapter certainly will. evil grin