"And I gulp the whole thing..."Pietro was saying.
He was already pretty drunk, despite the fact that he had only gone through half the bottle. He got up, and even though a little uncoordinated, he was still pretty quick.
"I thought you were going to go through the whole bottle."Lance said.
"I almost did."said Pietro, smiling.
"You can't take anymore, can you?"
Pietro sped past him.
"Can't I?"he asked.
"Where're you going?"
Pietro just sped out the door. Before, he grabbed a couple of cans of spray paint.
"Where could he be going, yo?"asked Toad, as he watched Pietro smack right into a tree. "Doesn't seem to know where he's going."
"Probably not."
No one stayed outside very long, and they looked at each other before going back inside. Pietro in the meantime, got to the X Men's mansion, and using the spray paint, wrote in several bright colors in every place he could reach, Magdalena I love you with the fire of a thousand suns will you go to the dance with me? After he had left that several messages around the house and the fence, fountain, and anything else he could reach, he went and did the same around the school. The effect did not last, and pretty soon he was slowly coming to himself.
"Oh, boy."he looked around.
He was almost halfway home. He ran all the way back.
"Where were you, yo?"asked Toad.
"Just walking."he said.
"Walking? You couldn't even walk straight. You smacked into the tree."said Blob.
"What are you talking about?"demanded Pietro.
Everyone shrugged.
"You just left."said Lance.
"I had something to do."
"In the condition you were?"
"I was fine."
They just stared at him, and he turned away, and walked upstairs. The next morning, everyone went to school, and they discovered the vandalism on the outside of the school walls?
"What happened here!"exclaimed a few teachers.
"Looks like vandalism."
Some people were snickering. The X Men walked up, and stared.
"Just like at the mansion."said Kurt.
"Obviously, probably someone from school did it!"exclaimed Rogue.
"Who?"asked Kitty.
"I think I know!"said Jean.
"Who was it, Jean?"
"Who else! Don't you see, it's here, it's at the mansion, and everyone was there, watching a movie, except for one person!"
"Rogue?"
Rogue glared at Kurt.
"No! Scott. That explains that inexplicable trip to the library yesterday! Apparently, no one saw him at the library, either! Now we know exactly what he was up to! And thanks to him, now everyone has extra danger room training sessions with Logan!"
"What!"exclaimed everyone.
"Exactly. And now, that we know, that probably means that we'll get detention here, also!"
Jean was not wrong. As soon as someone found out that the same vandalism was seen at the mansion, all the X Men were put to staying after school and serving detention.
"This just isn't fair!"exclaimed Kurt.
Jean just stared at th wall ahead. And no one would talk to Scott, although he said he didn't do it.
When Magdalena saw the vandalism, she almost fainted, and Pietro caught her before she fell.
"Just what is all this about!"she exclaimed. "No, NO! Just why do people do this, and you notice, the name? The name! Es Magdalena. Why must people debase her so! True, she was not always...but that's no good reason...people mustn't judge her! After all, Jesus forgave her, why must everyone else insist on making up false stories about her!"
Pietro stared at the writing.
"Well...you know people."he said.
"It's disgusting! That's why I always wanted to go to a Catholic school. I was offered the chance once, but my parents said they wouldn't pay the tuition! Imagine! Money was what stopped them! Filthy money!"
Pietro shook his head.
"Money shouldn't be important where these kinds of things are concerned."he said.
"Why, thank you, Pietro."said Magdalena. "You have no idea how much that means to me."
He nodded solemly.
"Well, at least he X Geeks got the blame and not me."he mumbled to himself.
