"So are you gonna fall in love with him?"
"Huh?"
"John. I'm sure you had a lil heart to heart with de kid. I know he has a t'ing for you chere. I'm sure he told you tonight."
"Why would you think I'd fall for him? Arent' I layin here in bed with you?"
"He is a good guy."
"Not really." Is this getting awkward? Am I really that pathetic? That I fall in love with whoever loves me first. Not that John loves me. "Just 'cause John said he had a crush on me doesn't mean anythang on my part."
"Isn't that what happened with Bobby?"
"You're bein ridiculous." Is it?
"Just tryin to figure you out."
"Oh and I thought you knew me so well already." I smiled, "Bobby was a mistake. I was tryin to get over you. But I don't have to do that anymore right? Cuz you're never gonna leave."
"I'll be here. Just like this for as long as you'll have me."
"Good."
"Its weird that I can touch you hair," he said to fill in the silence as he played with my strands.
"I'm glad. It feels good. I can almost fall asleep..."
"Good."
"John did tell me something about a tattoo. Since when do you have a tattoo of my name written across your chest?"
"Didn't know he was checkin me out in de showers."
"Thats..."
"I'm kiddin... Yeah I guess thats how I figured he liked you. He noticed it one day during practice and didn't know it was the Rogue he knew. I got it on my way over to New York. Because I knew you were gonna say no the second you saw me at de door. But I could look at it and it would remind me to-"
"Keep bein the stubborn Cajun Ah know an' love?" One thing I loved was how my accent came back when Remy got here. Its slowly startin to fade away with the time spent in New York.
"Exactly mon amour."
"Well? Lemme see it!"
He unbuttoned his flannel shirt to reveal his ridiculously chiseled chest. Remy should belong in a movie. He missed that awkward phase of adolescence and became this Greek god whereas I am still struggling with letting go of my goth phase. How did we ever end up together?
My gloved hand traced the cursive letters of my name making it so real. Remy's skin responded with goosebumps. I covered his chest with his shirt and kissed the spot.
"Its beautiful."
"You're beautiful chere."
xxxx
Storm caught me hanging out in Remy's room after curfew hours. Had we really been talking that long? It must have been two in the morning so I slothed back to my own room to hopefully get to sleep without lying on my bed and staring at the ceiling for an hour. The one night Ororo decides to do bed checks? She is the chillest adult here and the nicest considering she spends most of her time in the green house near the outskirts of the compound.
Its like a punishment sleeping in my own bed, away from Remy. But I need the reminder that I don't get to kiss my boyfriend. Lying together loses its romanticism with me around. Or maybe I'm punishing myself a little too much I declare as soon as I enter my room. Wait this is my room isn't it?
"Kitty? Get out."
Oh crap. She responeded with tears, "I can't go to my room because your stupid brother tore down the whole ceiling hanging from the chandelier!"
"Thats hilarious." Wait not that funny considering that Kitty Pryde is still in my room. "Well you aren't staying here!"
"I don't have anywhere else to go!"
"Why don't you bunk with your best friend Jean? You guys seem to really bond planting traps on me. So don't think these crocodile tears are gonna do you any good! But actually I should be thankin yah for bringin me and Remy back together."
"I'm sorry that I did that. It didn't exactly work out for me either! Bobby and I... broke up!" More sobs. No, Anna don't. Rogue. You are not gonna let her break you.
"I don't care."
"I know you don't. You're probably happy it didn't work out."
"Nope. I'm not happy or sad or jealous. What goes on in that lil head of yours? Why would I be?" Honestly not even Kitty's melodrama can bring me down tonight. I'm back with my boy and everything seems right in the world. Maybe thats why Kitty is crying, that little brat finally got whats comin to her. The world is finally leaning on my side.
"Bobby is an immature ASS! I can't believe I ever dated him! He just used me! I thought after you two broke up that maybe we could fix what we had. But I don't think we had anything in the first place. Not on his end."
"Once again I DON'T CARE! You have been nothing but mean to me since I got here months ago! Your attitude has never changed and mine won't either. This isn't the movies. You're not going to eventually grow on me and we become best friends. I'm never going to forgive you for being a bit-"
"OKAY I GET IT! WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN? DO YOU THINK I ASKED TO BE YOUR ROOMMATE? WHY WOULD I DO THAT?"
"Better question is why haven't you left for the couch already."
"Logan already brought in this crappy cot! SO I'M STAYING! I was stupid to think we could have been friends."
"Don't think I will forget about your gossipy mouth and how I've been treated by you or any of your friends. Oh! And lets not forget about you traying to steal Remy before his foot even touched the porch! That little half baked apology didn't mean anything. If you really care you'd do something a lot more sincere. I can't even stand to be in here with you."
"I..."
"Exactly." I left my own room and went into the hallway thinking that someone might be listening to our screaming. Everyone in this house is so nosy. Suprisingly the hall is empty except for one lone red head bobbing into the bathroom and because I was on a roll, "JEAN!"
"Kinda BUSY right now! If you don't mind..."
"Actually I do mind!" I banged on the bathroom door.
"Can you leave me alone?"
"I just wanted to let you know that I am feeling amazing! And its not thanks to you or your lil partner in crime who is crying her eyes out in my room! You are not going to ruin me! Do you hear me?" I banged on the door again and fell right through. Like... I literally broke the door down. It crashed into the tile and I fell along with it.
I looked up to see a horrified Jean teetering on the toilet seat. Her pee stopped mid stream as she screamed, "WHAT THE HELL! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU."
"Oh come on this is kinda funny... I mean... I broke the door. Oh... classic. How is that even possible?" I was literally crying from laughter.
"GET OUT!"
"Right... I'm just gonna put this back." I get up to see Jean in a more compromising position than orginally depicted. "What are you doing..."
"I... uh... What does it look like I'm doing."
I nodded to the box on the counter, "It looks like your taking a pregnancy test."
"Crap."
"What do you need a pregnancy test if your psychic?"
"Thats a stupid question! And I'm not psychic!"
"Just trying to lighten the mood..." Its kinda weird thinking I am never going to have to worry about ever having a baby. Is it a good thing?
"If you're going to be in here can you at least put that door back up! How did you break that anyway!"
"I don't know. This house is like a hundred years old. Couldn't you sense what was going to happen? You could have kept the door up."
"As you can see I'm a little busy peeing on a stick! CLOSE THAT DAMN DOOR!" Jean finished peeing and placed the stick on the box.
"Woah, no need to be fiesty sugah." I propped the door back open and fit it back into its slot. But then I couldn't open it. "Damn door is wedged shut."
"Are you serious..." she said as she washed her hands.
"The world is starting to tip in a different direction..."
"Can you stop playing with the door and just be here for a sec?"
"I am here. Thats the point. I'm trying to get out."
"No, I mean here. I'm kinda glad someone knows. This has been bugging me for a month now."
"Do I have to tell you the same thing I told Kitty? This is not a bonding moment. We aren't magically becoming friends again."
"I know... I'm really sorry about what happened at the auction. But it looks like you and Remy ended up together in the end. How it should have been."
"Yeah, you don't need to tell me that."
"I'm really sorry. I was trying to distract from my own drama I guess."
"So for a month you've thought you might be...?"
"I haven't had my period for two months I think. I don't know I can't even remember. Senior year is flying by and I can't stop it. Cheer and soccer and student government... Danger Room sessions... its all too much."
"You don't have to do all that stuff you know. If you don't want to."
"I'm trying to get into Harvard. I'm already at a disadvantage going to a regular public school. I have to go above and beyond everyone else. I have been groomed for this since I was eleven. I'm not just going to stop."
"Do you want to go to Harvard?"
"Yeah, I do."
"Well, then there you go. Why are you complaining? You know... with this baby Harvard might have to go on hold."
"Crap. For one second I forgot about why we are in here."
"Whose is it?"
"What?"
"Is it Scott's?"
"Why wouldn't it be?" A certain tension filled the air. I was the only one that knew about Jean's indiscretion.
I told her I would never bring it up again but here I am asking, "Well two months ago you were still sleeping with Logan so..."
"Oh my god. I..."
"Was it really that easy to forget?"
"I love Scott. So yeah something so awful is easy to forget because... this isn't happening." I don't get that. Why would you do something to hurt someone you loved? Because it will hurt. There is not sugar coating that kinda thing. Even if Jean and Scott got into a fight and broke up for five minutes it still doesn't make it right. Forgiveness shouldn't come that easy.
"Scott doesn't seem like the 'forget the condom' kind of guy. You were on the pill right?"
"I didn't take it every day at the same time like I should have. I... I would forget."
"Then you are an idiot."
"I don't really need you to say that right now."
"I think its been three minutes. Isn't that how it goes in the movies?"
"Yeah..." She tentatively grapped the stick. The stick with her future on it.
"So, what does it say?"
...
"Psst... Rem... you up?"
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep."
"Me neither."
"Mostly 'cause I could hear you yellin about an hour ago."
"Yeah... can I come in?"
"You don't have to ask chere."
"I want to cuddle."
"Then you've come to just the right guy."
I jumped into bed with him and we squished together on his twin size matress. "Remy, we're never going to have sex. You know that right?"
"I try not to think about it," he laughed.
"Its hard for me not to kiss you. Is it hard for you?"
"Where is this coming from?"
"I'm just letting you know the situation."
"I know de situation."
"We just are never gonna talk about it?"
"I don't really like to. Why would we? Whats the point?" I have never heard Remy so serious before. I could feel his body tightening up.
"The point is... we aren't going to have sex. And you're a guy and I'm a girl. And years from now, if we ever get married, we are never going to have kids, you get that don't you?"
"Anna, I'm perfectly happy wit you. Only you."
"Remy, I love you."
"I love you too."
"I don't want to lose you."
"You ain't."
Mysteryrogue: DANG sorry it took me so long to update! I'm really sorry. THe end of 2011 for me was just crazzzzzzy drama. Nonstop. But anyway! Was it good? alot of dramadrama not the same drama I dealt with but Jean and Kitty drama is good for Rogue and not me haha.
Thanks to XxXRogueXxX, Asilanna Dark-witch and whitechocolate for reviewing the last chap.