Chapter 6 Can't Stop Now

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Lin Waddell: well this chapter deals with after the date, next up confrontation...of sorts

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Todd was experiencing something new to him, which didn't happen too often. A new experience was something that became harder and harder to have with every year he spent as a mutant. He had seen it all, alien attacks, mutants with every power under the sun, and even heart burn on occassion. The current experience he was having wasn't one he could easily explain, but he would try. "Its kinda like I couldn't hear nothin' except her voice." The whole walk to the mansion had been like that. They had talked briefly about school and other meaningless subjects until they reached the gates of the mansion, but he never heard another sound except for her voice.

"Maybe you're goin' deaf Todd," Freddy said as he bit down on a sandwhich that could have doubled as a weapon in the average person's hands.

"Nah its not like that Freddy. I could hear the other things, but they were like turned down or somethin'. I knew things around me were makin' sound, but it didn't matter because all I wanted to hear was her voice."

"Ah isn't that sweet. Toad got to walk a girl home," Pietro said, his arrogant smile plastered across his face. "And to think you never would have had this experience if it weren't for me. You know you owe me right? I mean do you really think you could have gotten a date with Amara if it hadn't been for me? Please, it was all me!"

"Shut up Pietro! Amara has liked Toddles for the last couple of months, all you did was give them the money for the date, and the money came from your dad," Tabitha said from the staircase as she descended.

Pietro opened his mouth to retort, but then thought better of it and simply let it go. Todd meanwhile had left the room, after all, he did have a lot of thinking to do and couldn't be bothered with who owed what or did what. He and Amara were...together? Friends? A possibility? It wasn't as if the Brotherhood and the X-men were still fighting, though at times members of both groups acted like it. Still, he wasn't sure if he would be welcomed with open arms by the members of the X-men. What about Amara being welcomed here? Freddy, Lance, and Tabitha wouldn't mind. Wanda probably wouldn't like it too much, but then she never really seemed to like anybody, except for maybe that Pyro guy. Pietro would probably act like a jerk towards her and maybe even flirt with her, but Todd was somewhat sure that Amara would be above that... She was incredibly attractive, smart, and seemed to be a pretty cool person to hang out with, but he didn't think she'd just... Best not to think about it. What X-men should he worry about? Scott would probably be the worst. That Logan dude was pretty scary. Lance told him one time that when he first started dating Kitty, Logan had given him a speech. The speech had been so bad Lance had to come back here to change pants before his date with Kitty. Anybody that could throw that bad of a scare into Lance would probably terrify him. Still he had to take the chance...didn't he?

"So Amara where have you, like, been?"

Amara froze in midstep and turned to see Kittie walking through a nearby wall. "Kittie, how often have I told you not to do that to me?"

"Like fifty times or something. So where have you been at? You should have been back an hour ago. Doesn't work, like, end at 5:00?"

"I was on a date," she mumbled.

"Oh my gosh, you're coming with me!" Before Amara could react she was being dragged through walls, floors and ceilings as Kittie let it be known to all in the mansion that Amara had just gotten back from a date. Some congratulated, some were shocked that there would be someone whom Amara felt was worthy to date her, and a few of the males at the school cursed the person lucky enough to go on a date with her. One thing they all had in common was that they wondered exactly who she had been on the date with. Jubilee and Rahne were the first to ask Amara, Jean and Rogue were second, only Kittie had somehow forgotten to ask in all the excitement and as a result left for her own room. The responses were all the same in that department though. "What? Is that a joke? I mean, come on, you could do so much better than him," Jubilee stated, voicing many of the other girls' opinions. Amara could see it in the other girls' eyes. They were disgusted by him and this angered her. She told them to leave and curled up on her bed, watching the sun go down outside her window, not sure how to feel. A soft knock at her door five minutes later alerted her to Kittie's presence, the only one who hadn't been there when Jubilee had ridiculed Todd. "Come in," she said.

"Hey Amara, I forgot to like, ask you who your date was. So um who was it?"

"Todd Tolensky," she said into her pillow.

"Really? That's awesome!"

Amara's raised her head at her friend's enthusiasm. "What," she asked, shocked at her friend's reaction.

"Yeah, Todd's a sweetheart."

"What do you mean," Amara asked, curious as to Kittie's connection with Todd.

"Well like, he's Lance's roommate and one time he made dinner for us and got everybody else out of the house so we could enjoy the dinner alone. The dinner wasn't that great, but he, like, tried, at least. So I'm really happy for you. When's he coming over?"

"I don't know," Amara said, feeling better and better by the minute. She and Todd hadn't really set a time or even talked about it had they? He had hugged her goodbye and even gave her a kiss on her powdered cheek. "Maybe tomorrow."

"Cool, well, like, I'll spread the word so everybody knows he's coming. Oh, and, like, you might want to tell him to bring an extra pair of pants. Logan gets kinda scary when he meets boyfriends for the first time."