All in a Day's Fun

Serena slowly opened her eyes. Wondering where she was. She saw Todd's sleeping face inches from hers and it all came back to her in a rush. She stretched out on the soft sand then sat up. According to the position of the sun just hovering over the glassy blanket of water it was still quite early. Next to her Todd stirred before stretching up and yawning.

"Morning sleepy head." She said to him.

"Morning my little water bug."

Serena couldn't help but laugh. "So how do you feel?"

"Great." He replied blissfully. "Last night… it was… weird. I had never felt anything like it before. I felt like… I felt alive."

"We can't let anybody know."

"Are you ashamed?"

She shook her head. "I have no regrets. Last night was the best thing that's happened to me in weeks, months, maybe years. I want things to stay the way they are now between us."

"So do I."

"Then we can't let anybody find out." She said seriously. "Not even our closest friends. It has to be a secret, for now. We have to act like nothing has happened between us."

"But how?" Todd asked her. "How can I pretend nothing has happened, when so much…"

"I know." She said in an understanding voice. "But we can pretend around our friends, then later we can meet in secret."

He smiled at her and nodded. She got up to leave. "When will I see you again?" he asked eagerly.

"Tell you what?" She said. "Let's check in with our teams so they don't suspect anything. They might not even know we were ever gone."

"Where do you wanna meet?"

"How about the park?"

"Okay. Around noon maybe?"

"Oh gaud, I couldn't wait that long."

"Yeah you're right. How about ten?"

"Sounds good."

"Serena?"

She turned back. "Yeah?"

"I'll be waiting."

She smiled. "So will I."

Not wanting to watch her go, he turned over and buried his face in his arms and listened to the sound of her footfalls and she scampered across the sand growing fainter and fainter and finally fading all together in silence.

As Serena walked back up to the X-Mansion she couldn't think about anything other than what had happened last night. She wasn't exactly sure what she was feeling. A little bit of everything she supposed. One thing was for sure though, she was riding down the road of seventh heaven. She felt almost as if she could jump off the ground and just fly back to the mansion. It was a miracle she made it back at all as she was in a world of her own. She hurried into the mansion and headed straight to the shower. She was sure to wash thoroughly to get Todd's scent off of her, which she was probably reeked with, so that she wouldn't raise Logan's suspicion. She spent about forty-five minutes in the shower before someone started banging on the bathroom door.

"Hey hurry up! There are other people that need to use the bathroom you know!"

She rinsed off and climbed out of the shower and dried off. She wrapped her hair in a towel and slipped into her robe. She opened the bathroom door to see Ray and some of the other students standing in the hallway waiting for their turn.

"Hurry it up next time will ya?" But Serena, who was feeling too exultant to even notice or care about what the others thought of her, just smiled broadly.

"Sorry about that. Bathroom's all yours." She said cheerfully and skipped off to her room. The students stared after her completely dumbfounded.

Serena got dressed, pulling on a light blue V-cut and dark blue capris, and brushed her hair. After she was finished she went down to the kitchen for breakfast where some of the other X-Men were. She hummed to herself as she poured herself some cereal.

"You seem cheerful." Kitty said smirking.

"You can say I had a good start."

Scott walked up to her looking guilty. "Hey, I'm sorry about yesterday. If you say you didn't do it, then you didn't do it."

"It's okay." she said happily. She had some breakfast and watched a little T.V. When it was finally ten she headed out the door.

"Well I'm heading out." She called.

"Heading out where?" Scott asked in that older brother type attitude.

"Just for some fresh air, get out of the house for a little bit you know?"

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" He asked a little worried.

"I promise I won't destroy anything while I'm out." She said jokingly. They all couldn't help but laugh.

"Have fun Serena." Rogue said with a sly smile playing across her lips.

"Oh I will." Serena said smugly.

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Todd had snuck into the Brotherhood house through his window making it look like he had been there all night. He went down and grabbed himself something to eat. The rest of the Brotherhood didn't say a word despite his unusually cheerful mood. When he went back upstairs to get changed he ran into Lance standing outside his bedroom.

"Hey Lance."

"I see you took my advice."

"What? What do you mean?" Todd said trying not to look guilty.

"Come on man. You were gone all last night, and you look like you… how can I put this? Hit home run."

"We didn't go that far." Todd said going red.

"Must've been some serious making out."

"Look Lance…" Todd began.

"I'm not gonna tell anybody. It's your business."

"Thanks yo. I was wondering can I borrow that green shirt again?"

"Sure." They walked over to his room. "So what are you guys planning?"

"We're just gonna spend some time together." Todd shrugged. Lance handed him the green shirt.

"Here."

"Thanks."

"No problem."

"It's just too bad that all those pictures were burned."

"Not quite." Lance smiled pulling out a photo album and handing it to Todd.

"You mean?" Todd disbelievingly as he opened up the album to see his full collection of pictures.

"Yep. I got the pictures in double print. I wanted to tell you yesterday but…"

"Lance! You rock!" Todd cried and leapt on him.

"Oh get off me you little runt." Lance told him though he was smiling. "Just remember, even if you can't remember, you can always make some new memories."

"Thanks man."

Later at the park…

"Hey." Todd said to a waiting Serena.

"Hey." She said standing up. "So what do you want to do?"

"I dunno, what do you want to do?"

"There's a lot of stuff we could do."

"You didn't have anything planned?"

"I never plan things. I just wait and see what happens."

"Well why don't we grab something to eat?" Todd suggested.

Serena shrugged. "Sounds good to me."

They found a small diner which was quite empty and there were only a couple workers. A waiter had gotten them two sodas. Serena checked to make sure no one was watching before she levitated some of her soda out of her cup. Then she made it twist and spiral a path into Todd's mouth. He opened his mouth to drink it. Some of it made it into his mouth but Serena changed its course at the last second and it ended up all over his face.

"Hey!"

"Whoops." She said smiling. "I guess my aim was a little of."

"Well, two can play at that game." He said tearing open some sugar and throwing it at her.

"Oh yeah?" she said grabbing some sugar packets and dumping them all over his head.

"Yeah!" He grabbed the salt and the pepper and started sprinkling them all over her. She grabbed the big cheese and sugar shakers. "You wouldn't dare."

She smiled evilly. "Wanna bet?"

The screams of laughter were probably heard for miles as they chased each other around the small diner seasoning each other. They leapt over chairs, ducked under the tables, it was like a war zone. It turned really hectic when they found the whipped cream. Though neither of them managed to squirt each other with it since they were both fast and agile. Todd didn't really expect this to happen on his first date, but he was having lots of fun. Eventually the two of them ran out of stuff to throw at each other.

"Aw man. I'm out of ammo."

"I'm out too."

"WHAT DO YOU TWO THINK YOU'RE DOING!" They both turned to see the manager red-faced and furious. With Todd and Serena standing there with whipped cream cans in their hands in the middle of a salt, pepper, sugar, cheese, and whipped cream decorated diner, it wasn't hard to figure out what had happened.

"Um, you wouldn't believe what just happened." Todd told him.

"We were quietly sitting here minding our own business right?" Serena said quickly.

"When suddenly a bunch of aliens came in!" Todd said dramatically.

"Must've been a dozen of them." Serena said.

"Hundreds!" Todd piped up.

"They tried to steal all the salt and the sugar!" Serena continued.

Todd nodded enthusiastically."And the pepper and the cheese."

"But luckily we fought them off with whipped cream!" Serena continued.

"Yeah, but then this huge tornado came out of nowhere! Whoosh!" Todd said makingsound effects.

"Blew straight through here!" Serena exclaimed.

"So we weren't able to save the seasonings or sweeteners." Toddfinished.Some of the whipped cream on the ceiling fell onto the manager's head. He looked like he was going to explode.

"He's not buying it is he?" Todd whispered to her.

"I don't think he is." Serena sighed.

"GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! IF I EVER SEE YOU TWO HEATHENS AROUND HERE AGAIN I'LL HAVE YOU ARRESTED!" Todd and Serena couldn't get out of there fast enough.

"Well I don't think we'll be welcome back anytime soon." Serena said shaking the stuff out of her hair.

"That's alright. It's wasn't one of my most favorite places to eat anyway."

"So where do you wanna go now?" she asked.

"Why don't we go get some ice cream?"

"Cool!"

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"So which one do you want?" Todd asked her as they looked at the selections of ice cream.

"None of these really look interesting." Serena told him.

"Yeah, you'd think that with all those flavor and toppings they would have more selections."

"Somebody needs to teach these people a thing or two about ice cream and I'm gonna do it."

Todd chuckled. "This outta be good."

Serena walked up to one of the teen workers, who looked totally stoned, with a smile on her face. "Hi, how's it going? Look I don't mean to sound rude or anything but you guys really need to find better combos I mean, look at all the selections, do you know how many options there are?"

"Yeah I mean come on yo, quite being stingy. I mean no offence but your combos are just whacked."

"Oh and as suppose you could do better?" The stoned guy said sneered.

Serena looked at Todd playfully. "What do you think?"

Todd smiled. "Sounds like an invitation to me."

Serena and Todd jumped behind the counter shoving the worker out of the way and started working on their ice cream. Some people looked up to watch them pile on the toppings on their ice cream. When they were done there were drops of ice cream and crumbs littering the table. They held up their projects proudly.

"I call it Crazy Cookie Craving." Serena said triumphantly. "It has every type of cookie such as oreo, twix, butterfinger, and more on top of cookie doe ice cream!"

"Well I call mine Over the Rainbow yo." Todd announced. "It's got rainbow sherbet ice cream covered in nerds, M&Ms, skittles, and every other candy with different colors."

"Hey I want what those kids are having." Someone piped up.

"So do I!"

"And me!"

Todd felt something tug on his jeans. He looked down to see a little girl looking up at him with a wanting look on her face. "Please mister, let me taste the rainbow!"

"Uh, sure kid, why not?" He gave her a spoon and she took a bite.

"Yummy!"

Several customers were now complaining about not getting ice cream as good as Todd's and Serena's. The stoned worker could do nothing but endure the insults and half eaten ice cream being thrown at him.

Meanwhile Todd and Serena sat down and enjoyed their delicious sugar packed treats. Unfortunately what they didn't know was that too much sugar can lead to a major sugar high, especially for two teenaged mutants. Half way through their ice cream they started to get restless and abandoned their spoons to practically bury their faces in their ice cream. By the time they were done their faces were sticky with ice cream.

"That was good huh?" Todd asked her enthusiastically.

She nodded energetically. "Yeah, that was really really good!"

"Maybe we should go back for seconds!" he suggested clearly itching to leap back behind the counter and make another batch of icecream.

Unfortunately the ice cream riot had attracted attention and the police walked in. They managed to quiet down everybody. The stoned teen worker was covered head to foot in ice cream. He was wide eyed and positively freaked out.

"Could you tell us how the riot started sir?" One of the police men asked him.

"It was them!" He pointed to Todd and Serena. "They started it!"

Todd looked at Serena looking confused. "How'd we do that?"

Serena shrugged. "I dunno."

One of the police officers walked up to them. "I'm going to need you two kids to come with us so we can notify your parents."

Todd sat up straight in what he thought was a serious position. "Well for your information I don't gots no parents, so ha ha ha!"

"I only have a mom." Serena said in a sad, baby-like voice. "My dad left me when I was very little because he didn't want me."

"Look kids we can do this the easy way or the hard way."

"The semi-moderately hard way or the perplexingly challengingly hard way?" Todd asked.

"Uh…"

"Ooh, can I see your pepper spray?" Serena asked reaching for the canister.

"No!" He said backing away from her reach. "Come with us or I will be force to take serious action."

Todd picked up his spoon unnoticed and spit some slime into it and bent it back. "Here's some action for ya!" He let go and the slime shot straight into the cop's eye.

"Augh! My eye!"

"Now's our chance!" Todd said to Serena. They both jumped up and bounded for the exit.

"Hey where do you kids think you're going?" The cop yelled after them.

Serena looked back smiling. "You want us? You gotta catch us!"

The two police men got into their car turning on the siren and chased after them. The two ran down the streets, absolutely thrilled. Neither of them were afraid of the fact that they were being chase by the police. They thought of it to be a little game of tag. They heard the siren and turned their heads to see the police car chasing after them.

"Aw now that's no fair!"

"Yeah, they got transportation yo!" They were coming up to a busy four way intersection.

Serena looked at him smiling mischievously. "I say we even the playing field a bit. What do you say?"

Todd got her message perfectly. "I'm right behind you!" When they got to the edge of the side walk Todd picked Serena up and jumped on top of a semi truck. The light turned green and they were off. The cops sat there looking like they had just swallowed a box of doughnuts whole.

"Did you see that?" he asked his partner in disbelief.

The other cop looked at him dazed. "See what?"

The cop looked at his half empty box of doughnuts. "That's it, I'm off sugar." He said and tossed them out the window.

Meanwhile on top of a speeding truck…

"I don't think this guy's gonna stop!" Serena said shouting because of the loud rushing of air.

"I'll get him to stop!" He jumped onto the hood of the semi and shouted at the driver to stop.

Of course Todd didn't realize that the driver might be just a tiny bit surprised that a teenager was riding a top of his truck. It all happened in a blink of an eye. He slammed onto the breaks making the semi truck turn dangerously. Serena lost her foothold and went flying. Todd managed to act fast and grab onto her with his tongue. Unfortunately she was propelled so hard from the moving vehicle that they both went flying. They were fortunate enough however, to land in someone's backyard pool. After a huge splash Serena surfaced spitting out water.

She looked around her. "Todd?" She gasped when she saw him floating face down in the water. "Todd!" She screamed. She grabbed him and swam him to the edge of the pool. She pulled him out of them pool and laid him flat on the concrete. "Oh gaud! Please don't Todd! Oh please don't die! Wake up!" He didn't move. "Okay Serena, calm down." She told herself placing her hand over his mouth and she drew the water up out of his lungs. He coughed and moaned. "Todd, are you okay? Say something."

"Wow…" He sat up. "Let's do that again!"

"You idiot!" She said smacking him. "Don't ever scare me like that again!"

"Ow! Hey that hurts!" He said jumping up trying to defend himself. "You didn't even try to revive me the old fashioned way."

"You dork!" She said and shoved him back into the pool.

"What are you kids doing in my pool?"

They looked up to see a middle aged man standing there looking both perplexed and angry.

"The backstroke." Todd said casually.

"We're running from the law." Serena said in an overly enthusiastic voice that no one would take seriously.

"Well, you can just keep on running. I'm calling the police."

"Alright fine, we'll go! Come on Todd." She said and helped him out of the pool. "The pool is too shallow anyway."

"What do you mean?" Todd said not getting the hidden meaning. "It's twelve feet deep."

Serena rolled her eyes. "Just come on!"

"I'm coming I'm coming!" He said and followed her out of the backyard.

The man shook his head grumbling. "Kids, I swear." He noticed the water in his pool churning and screamed as it rose up into a huge tidal wave.

For the rest of the afternoon Todd and Serena did many things. They played on the same playground they met at. They played on the swings and the monkey bars. They sat next to a pond and listening to the singing of the frogs. Todd manage to make Serena laugh a little when he mimicked the frogs and even harder when one of them leapt onto his face and he fell into the pond. They walked through a grassy field admiring the flowers. Todd had even made of crown of flowers for Serena and had placed it delicately on her head before kissing her. They played a game of hide and seek. Todd was looking for Serena who was hiding in a tree. But she got too impatient and dove from the tree tackling him. She didn't mind the fact that she was now it. Soon the evening came and their day happiness was slowly coming to an end.

They sat on the hillside in the back of the mansion looking up at the starry sky. Serena was sitting below Todd laid back against him. Todd kept pulling his fingers through her hair, while she sang a soft soothing melody. As Todd listened to her sing he was entranced. She had a beautiful voice. It was the type of voice that could make anyone reflect its mood. 'It's official.' Todd thought to himself. 'She's an angel.' Serena suddenly stopped singing.

"Todd…"

"Yeah?"

Her voice sounded a little unsteady. "You're not… going to leave me… are you?"

"No way!" Todd was shocked at this question. "Why would I?"

"I'm just… afraid."

"Afraid of what? As long as I'm here I won't let anything happen to you."

"That's just the thing." She said sadly. "When you're here I'm safe. But what if you're not?"

Todd struggled to say something. "Serena… I…"

She rotated her body around and held him close to her as if afraid he would disappear any second. "I don't want to lose you again. I don't want to go through that kind of pain again."

He stroked her head tenderly. "That's not gonna happen. Nothing bad is going to happen."

"That's what you said last time." She said feebly.

"That was different. We know better know." He held her up so that he was looking at her straight in the face. "I'm not planning on letting the same thing happen twice."

"I don't want to go back there. I don't want to be alone again."

He held her tightly. "You'll never be alone. I'll always be there for you."

"Really?" She asked in a hopeful voice.

"Really yo. So promise me you won't worry about it."

She nodded. "Okay."

He stood up. "Now come on. I think it's time we both went home." He helped her up and carried her to her balcony. She slid of his back and made to go inside.

"Don't I get a kiss before I go?" Todd asked in almost a whimper.

She turned around smiling. "All you had to do was ask." They shared a brief but magical kiss.

"Night Serena." Todd said happy and sad at the same time now that the day was over.

"Goodnight Todd." Serena said feeling the same way. "See you tomorrow?"

He gave her a little nod. "Same time same place?"

"I'll be there."

"And I'll be waiting." He said before he jumped off the balcony and headed home.

With a little feeling of aching overshadowed by the joy swelling up inside her heart she went inside. She slowly got changed as she thought about everything that had happened that day and even what adventures might happen in the future. Serena crawled into bed and closed her eyes. Finally, things were starting to go right.

Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. But now that it's summer I'll have plenty of time!The next one will be coming soon!