LUNCH
"Aw food~may I compare thee to a summer's dew?"
I sighed as I rubbed my cheek affectionately against the red apple in my hands.
"Nah." I took a giant, juicy, bite. The apple's juices ran down my chin and I wiped it away with the sleeve of my jacket.
"Whoa! Slow down, Red. You don't want to choke, right?"
Isabel asked me and I blinked, the apple still wedged between my teeth. Who was Red? Gasp, is Jean here?!
I thought I left her and the other mutants back at the institute!
No wait… I did, I definitely did. Okay, then who's she calling Red? No one here has red hair.
She poked my face, enticing a loud yelp of pain and I bit down onto the fruit harshly.
It jumped from me and back onto my tray as I waved at my face.
"LINZY! It burns, I want to rub it but I can't. Because if I do it'll just make it WORSE! And it ITCHES! Why does it ITCH so MUCH?! I thought it was supposed to itch AFTER the skin started to peel?!"
I cried, waving my arms in the air wildly as I did so.
My friend simply looked at me sympathetically and handed me a bottle of Aloe Vera.
I sighed in relief and turned to her, "What would I do without you?"
"Probably die." She shrugged causing me to look at her with wide eyes.
"What? I was joking."
I laughed, but the movement caused the skin on my face to burn.
"Ugh!" I squeezed the Aloe Vera onto my hands and began to lather it on my face in small circular motions.
"And why DON'T YOU have a sun burn?"
"Because unlike YOU I actually go outside once in a while instead of sitting in a dark room on the computer all day."
She quipped and I sniffed, turning my nose up in the air while still rubbing my face with the sweet sweet sunburn relief known as Aloe.
"The sun is bad, it is not my friend."
"Kass, it gives us Vitamin D."
"So does Orange Juice!"
"… You hate Orange Juice."
I attempted to make a comeback but my mind went black.
So I settled for looking at the brunet with a large frown, "You win this one."
"I win ALL the ones, and you nose it!"
"Remind me again, Alice, why we're letting them sit here?"
Duncan asked the blue girl munching on a frozen fish stick.
She turned to him with an emotionless look on her face.
The two looked at each other for a long time.
Finally after what seemed like HOURS of soul searching she said, "They make me laugh, and the red one gave me these fish sticks."
As if to punctuate the sentence she bit into one of the treats with her pointed teeth before turning back, "And they annoy you."
I watched as the small blush crept onto her cheeks, causing them to turn a slight shade of purple as she closed her eyes and continued to snack on the frozen fish.
I glanced at Duncan only to see him with a completely confused look on his face.
So… dense…
I should have made my baby more forward… what the heck is that climbing on my leg?
"Eeek!" I shrieked, jumping up and onto the table when I saw the swarm of Gamorradons surrounding both Linzy and I.
"It touched me! Oh Gosh, it was so weird! With the claws and the teeth and the-the weird looking eyes!"
I yanked Linzy onto the table with me.