Ashiko: ok we got another one! whoot! sorry that it's so late, i had some trouble wording it the way i wanted until i started listening to tangled up in me...it's weird that i got insperation from that, so any ways before we begin i thought I'd answer to a part of a critique someone made, not to be mean but this person brought something up and i thought it was a very good point because it made me realize i hadn't explained it well enough.

when Duncan was freaked out by Jamie even though he wasn't scared of Scott when he found out about his powers, it wasn't truly because he was scared; it was more of a shock. the way i see it, the reason he wasn't scared of Scott was because he had a while to think about it before he had to see him again, so he was able to relax and just get angry and mean. So in the case of Jamie seeing as this is before everyone found out, he had no logical explanation for what had just happened and since it was on the spot coping he got a little freaked. This is not saying he is going to be scared of her forever, it'll work just like my idea of the Scott thing, he'll have time to think about it and end up getting angry. so really I'm not wandering him out of character at all.

any ways, enjoy!

----------chapter four (bad day)

As morning came Jamie found herself waking up late, when she took a look at her clock she found it was 6:50 already. The teenage girl groaned and leapt out of bed quickly grabbing a pair of baggy black pants with purple ties in the side, and a white half sleeved shirt with a picture of a spray paint can spraying the word love inside a large heart; next she grabbed a mens watch from her jewelry box it had a leather strap with small studs and pink stars. She pulled socks on quickly pulling on her shoes soon after, before grabbing a hair clip and twisting her hair slightly she clipped it tightly allowing a few strands to hang in front, she would have combed her hair...but really she just didn't have the time.

Jamie grabbed her homework from her desk and shoved it into her bag before throwing it over her shoulder and quickly running from her room, she darted through the living room, noting her brother in the kitchen drinking coffee. "Bye Eric, remember to check the injuries like i said...oh and try not to get into anymore fights with gangs eh?" she shouted back to him, hearing an "Ok." from him as she bolted out the front door, slamming it behind her as she quickly headed down the stairs.

Just as soon as her feet touched down on the cement of the sidewalk she took off running, rushing down the street as fast as she could, darting around corners and nearly slamming into a few pedestrians. She managed to find a short cut or two, which involved hopping a few walls into the backyards of people she couldn't claim to know. Sure it might be illegal, but hey what they didn't know wouldn't kill them...at least that's how she rationalized it.

By some miracle she made it to school just as the late bell rang, darting down the hallway to her first class she only hoped she remembered the way, getting lost probably wouldn't have been the best thing. Dashing down a familiar corner she grimaced, "all these hallways look the same!" complaining to herself sidetracked her attention and she ended up slamming right into someone, causing the both of them to tumble to the floor. Without looking up she grabbed her bag and pulled it over her shoulder again, "S-sorry." she mumbled out quickly before pushing herself up to her feet and taking off down the hall once more, "I'm going to be so late!" she exclaimed to no one.

Lance grumbled lightly, rubbing his sore shoulder in irritation, "what could she possibly be late for that excuses running into me...school's not that important." he spoke aloud to himself as he glared in the direction she had gone. Getting to his feet he collected his things quickly and started walking in the direction he had been before.

Jamie skid into her classroom, tripping and tumbling to the ground, "ow." she muttered as she sat up rubbing her back with a slight scowl on her face as she stared at the ground. The classroom burst into laughter which made a blush creep across her face, "Why can't people just pretend they didn't see that." she questioned herself not moving from her place on the ground as the teacher tried to calm the class down. Noting a pair of feet beside her Jamie looked up, only to see toad standing beside her; "That was one heck of an entrance, James." he spoke as he extended his hand to her. The embarrassed teen took his hand pulling herself to her feet, before giving an off laugh. "Yeah well it's good to stand out sometimes..." she stated with a smile, though her blush was still quite evident.

Toad snickered as he grabbed Jamie's bag off the floor and handed it to her, walking with her back toward their seats; "That seemed like a little too much." Tod joked making Jamie nod in agreement as she rubbed her lower back once more. The two sat in their chairs and the class continued laughing at Jamie's expense for at least another five minutes, greatly annoying the teacher who seemed ready to throw pens at people. As the class settled down, everything got back on track and the teacher managed to collect Jamie's homework seeing as she was the last one to turn it in...for obvious reasons. The class went on with the lecture as usual and of course Jamie and Toad were ignoring it; finding themselves wrapped in a conversation about weird and gross things they had seen or done.

But none the less the class rolled on and the day seemed normal enough, despite Jamie and Toad's need to interrupt by laughing loudly. Eventually though the teacher stopped the class to pass back homework and when Toad got his he groaned in irritation at the sight of a large "D" on his paper. Thinking Jamie would be in the same boat he leaned over to her, "What'd you get?" he questioned raising his eyebrows. Jamie didn't say anything she just flipped over her paper showing off the large "A-" that she had; this sight only discouraged tod. "Oh that's not fair; how'd you get an A- you were talking all class with me." The toad-like mutant asked in frustration, receiving a shrug from Jamie before she spoke. "I've learned this all before, I'm at least three chapters ahead of this class; so i don't need to really pay attention for a while...but if you're not getting it i could always help you." She explained simply as she flipped her paper back over.

"Can you come help today? i don't get a word this guy is sayin'..." Tod asked in an almost begging tone, as he did his best to make a puppy face. Jamie laughed quietly, "All right all right, I'll come help today." she spoke with a grin, patting his head lightly "when you do that you remind me of my friend's dog." she added in with another laugh. "SCORE!" Toad shouted making the entire class look at him, he laughed nervously looking away from everyone. "Dude, i did that yesterday..." Jamie stated laughing again.

After that the day was rather boring nothing really interesting happened, Jamie was tempted so many times to ditch...except P.E. she liked P.E. but she liked running so it made sense. Either way she found except for first period and her P.E. class this school was boring, nothing exciting ever seemed to happen...and maybe that was because at her old school fights happened constantly and every third period one of her friends would; for a reason nobody could explain; dance on his desk. No one knew why and nobody wanted to know why, but it was funny.

For her there weren't enough dorky people in the school, which made her oh so happy that toad went here, she might have been the first person ever to die of boredom if he wasn't around. After school They met up in the front of the building, "Ready?" Tod questioned with a grin. "You know it..." was the reply he received before the two headed out. Leaning against his car waiting for Jean, Scott watched the two walk together, finding something odd about Toad's new friend.

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Ashiko: There you go it's finally done, once again sorry it's late...and sorry it's shorter then usual i didn't truly know what to do for this chapter, i know what i want to happen and where i want the story to go but i just couldn't figure what to do here...it's weird like that. Oh and since school is coming up my updates will take longer, I'll try to update as fast as i can, but it might be hard sometimes.