Be Careful What You Wish For

Chapter 8: Exploration and Shopping


Since I went to sleep after dinner last night at 9:00 I woke up this morning at 2:30. Then after putting on my cloak over my pajamas that Storm had lent me for the night I went to explore the mansion.

The mansion was huge; it was even bigger than I thought. It was four stories tall, not counting the two underground levels and the attic. The first floor consisted of the lounge, the kitchens, the recroom, nurse's office, the professor's office, and dining room. The next two floors were made up of classrooms and the teachers' bedrooms. The top floor was all bedrooms; most of the younger students had to share a room, with up to as many as five kids in the larger rooms, but the older kids got their own smaller rooms. Then the attic was used for storage space, but it could be converted into another bedroom or two if the need ever arose. The two underground floors could only be accessed by authorized personnel, which I assumed were the X-men and I guessed that those two floors were for training purposes and where the professor kept cerebro, the jet, and the med bay. Also attached to the first floor was a garage, where at least twenty different types of motor vehicles were kept. Behind the mansion was a small stable, which was occupied by three horses and next to it was a beautiful garden full of flowers and a few small fountains. There was also a basketball court, baseball field, swimming pool, and a tennis court in the field surrounding the mansion. This was definitely going to be a nice place to live.

In the whole time I spent exploring the mansion I only saw two other people. One was a little blonde haired boy in the recroom who was watching TV. He told me that his name was Blink, because the TV channels would change when he blinked, and that he didn't sleep. The other person was the boy, Bobby, which I had met at dinner. He was in the kitchen eating ice cream.

"Hi," he said as I walked in.

"Hello." I replied. "Couldn't sleep?" I asked him

"Yeah, whenever I can't sleep I come down here and eat ice cream. What about you, why are you awake?"

"Me, oh, I only need to sleep for about five hours a night." I told him as I looked in the refrigerator for something to eat.

"That's cool, I…" he started, but than his eyes widened in shock as he saw my green skinned arms as I set a leftover piece of pizza on the table in front to me. I had only put on my cloak before I left the room to explore the mansion. I didn't think that anyone else would be awake at this time of night.

"Oops," I muttered as I pulled my arms back under my cloak.

"What was your mutation, again?" Bobby asked suspiciously.

"Well, my last name is Green for a reason." I told him.

For the next half an hour I explained to Bobby the full extent of my mutation. I told him that I could heal quickly, my senses were enhanced and I could fly, because of my wings. He then admitted that he had never seen a mutant with a noticeable physical mutation before. We talked for a while longer before I left to go wash mine and Sparrow's clothes and Bobby went back to his room to sleep.

When I got back to the room it was almost 6:00. I gathered up all of our clothes and carried them to the laundry room that was down the hall. Since we didn't have that many clothes I put everything into the washer. While the clothes were washing I went back to the room and made a list of everything that Sparrow and I would need from the store.

We both needed new clothes, a toothbrush, shoes, a hairbrush, a few books, and Sparrow needed some school supplies. Once I was done with the list I went back to the laundry room and moved the clean clothes into the dryer. I then sat on top of the dryer to wait for the clothes to dry.

I must have fallen asleep on top of the dryer, because the next thing I knew someone was shaking me awake.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Umm, well, I need to dry my clothes and you are sitting on the dryer." The dark haired girl said.

"Oh, sorry. Hey what time is it?" I asked her.

"No problem. It is 7:30. Oh, and by the way, my name is Jubilee." She replied.

"Thanks, well I better be going." I said as I pulled the clothes out of the dryer and walked back to the room.

I got dressed in a clean pair of clothes, folded the rest and woke up Sparrow.

We both got all ready to go and then we went downstairs to eat breakfast. There were only a few other people in the kitchen, because it was the weekend and most kids were sleeping in. While we were eating I told Sparrow that we were going to got shopping with some of the girls from school today. I also told her that she had to be on her best behavior. She just grinned back at me.

When we had finished eating breakfast we went to meet Kitty and the others in the lounge.

After everyone who was coming had met in the lounge we all piled into one of the vans in the garage and we were then driven to the mall by Storm.

Once Storm dropped us off at the mall, Kitty practically dragged the rest of us through all of the shops. The other girls that came were Rogue, Kitty, and Jubilee, who I had met that morning in the laundry room. Also another girl, whom I hadn't met yet, named Siryn came.

We had only been shopping for three hours before Sparrow and I had just about everything we needed, but the other girls insisted that we didn't have enough.

Jubilee soon decided that we all need to stop and take a break for lunch and everyone else agreed.

We stopped at a McDonalds in the mall for lunch and after we all ordered our food we sat down at a table to talk and eat.

After talking for a while I learned that Jubilee could shoot sparks from her hands and that Siryn could scream loud enough to destroy things.

"So…Skye." Rogue asked me. "What else do you need to buy?"

"Well…" I started before I was interrupted by Sparrow.

"I need to but some school supplies." Sparrow said.

"Oh, that right. So what grade are you guys going to be in?" Kitty questioned me.

"Sparrow is going to be in the class with all of the youngest students and I am going to be a teacher's assistant for all of the teachers." I replied as I continued to eat my lunch.

"You're not going to be going to any classes?" Jubilee asked.

"Yeah. The last time I went to school I was in seventh grade and I am going to be eighteen in a few months so the professor agreed that I could be a teacher assistant." I told them.

"Oh." They replied.

It was silent for a while until Siryn jokingly said, "So, are we going to have to call you Ms. Green from now on then?"

Everyone just laughed as we finished eating our lunches.

That night, after we had spent all day shopping, Sparrow and I were putting away all of our new clothes. Sparrow was cutting off all of the tags on the clothes while I hung them up in the closet or folded them into a drawer.

We had bought a lot of clothes. We both had bought some pants, some shirts and some underclothes. I had even bought a couple pairs of shorts and some skirts. Also, I had found a new cloak and some long gloves. We had bought Sparrow some school supplies and we both got a new pair of shoes.

It had been such a long time since I had bought anything new. I was so happy to have finally found a place to live. Sparrow was also excited, because tomorrow was going to be her first day of school.


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