"I Tried"

Furor Paxx 33- A Calendar for all Mutants

The Brotherhood lay sprawled across the various bits of furniture in the living room, waiting for Scott to officially begin the meeting. It didn't HAVE to be official, but that's usually how it ended up. Scott sat on the coffee table, while Todd perched on the TV. Freddy had his own couch and the two couples had claimed the other couch. Lance sat at the piano and Jaysin had his legs up on the beat-up love seat. Everyone was there, so Scott finally decided to call the meeting to order.

"Hey, pipe down, guys. We've got business to discuss."

"It's a calendar, Scott, pull your head out your pants already." Pietro drawled.

"Time is money." Todd pronounced from the TV.

"We have to decide what kind of calendar it's going to be. It's got to be something we can all have access to."

"Cell phone." Pietro suggested. "It's fast, convenient, it has an alarm, and, if need be, we can call each other for last minute changes."

"Internet." Kaysin countered. "We all don't have phones, and it's not like we all check them. I mean, we can't even take them to school. Besides, the point is that we don't make last minute changes."

"I can't use either of them." Freddy objected. "The buttons are too small."

Everyone sighed. "So I guess we need a physical calendar." Scott shrugged. "We'll have to make one then. There's no way we'll be able to buy one big enough for everyone's stuff."

"How much space could we all possibly need?" Lance asked.

Wanda interrupted. "How would we organize it? By time or by person?"

"Time would work best. But should we do a weekly calendar or monthly?"

Scott moaned. "Stop, stop, stop. We're getting ahead of ourselves. How about we dedicate a wall in the basement to the calendar? We can paint over the whole thing, make it white and shiny like a dry erase board. They've got paint that does that, right?" He looked at Pietro for a confirmation.

"I guess you could use it that way."

"Alright. That's settled. Then we'll do it monthly. How many hours do you think we'll need every day?"

"We may as well put all twenty four on it for overnight things." Jaysin yawned.

"Hey!" Kaysin suddenly jumped up. "We can have each day divided by hours and each hour divided by people! That way we can easily tell who's doing what every day." He looked around proudly.

"Huh?" Scott stared at Kaysin.

Lance translated. "He means that we should break the calendar into hours and have a specific spot for each person to write what they're doing every hour."

"Hmmm. It makes sense I guess." Scott admitted. "All right. When will we start?"

"Well, I can't do it anytime this week."

"Soccer practice tomorrow and a game the day after, maybe on Saturday."

"You forgot about SATs on Saturday again. Kaysin, Jaysin and I all have to take it then."

"That's right. Oh well, I can't help until sometime during the week after next."

Scott sighed. He'd suspect them of making excuses just to get out of the work, except that even his schedule was packed. "Alright. Three weeks from now we're taking Saturday and Sunday to straighten this out. No excuses."

Lance grinned. "What time exactly are we talking about? Morning, noon, night?"

Scott glared at Lance. "We'll be working all forty-eight hours if you keep it up."

Lance ducked out of the room and retreated to the kitchen. Scott was likely to keep a promise like that and an entire weekend of work was not on Lance's list of things he wanted to do.