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Chapter Six: The Hardest Part of Breaking Up
"Rahne so lied about the ice cream," Tatyana found herself thinking as she sat next to an extremely pretty blond haired boy that reminded her of Kayvan and Cole at the same time. It was probably the wings and the blond hair but whatever it was it bothered her just a little.
Rahne had dragged her not to the kitchen where Tatyana knew there was a carton of Nutty Coconut Ice Cream stuck all the way in the back of the freezer with her (and Bobby's) name on it, but instead to the commons room where she was thrown onto the couch with whom she now knew was Warren Worthington the III. Sure she was glad to get the meeting out of the way but seeing Jubilee and Rahne give her "the look" while she awkwardly tried to talk to the boy was annoying and just a little creepy. Tatyana really wasn't good with meeting new people, maybe it was from being sheltered or something but did her friends get that? No.
"So…um…our parents know each other." Warren says wondering why the girl was glaring at her hands.
"I'm going to kill them." Tatyana squeaks when Warren gives her a strange and worried look, "Not our parents! My friends for doing this, I'm really sorry by the way. This is ridiculous."
"Doing what?"
Tatyana sighs, "They are trying to get us together because I stupidly let it slip that my mother wanted me to meet you."
"Ah. Yes, my father mentioned me meeting you as well. I'm guessing your talk went something like "Meeting an eligible young woman of our standards who happens to be like yourself' "Warren says smiling a little.
"Almost exactly like that though without the young woman part of course. I know they want to help us find happiness and all that jazz but can't they let us make our own mistakes and find out who is right for us by ourselves?" Tatyana grins at him, "No offense of course. I'm sure you're a great guy and all…"
"None taken plus I'm kind of with someone. She doesn't go to this school yet but I'm trying to get her to see that Xavier's isn't all that bad. But anyway I think we could be good friends, Tatyana if that is okay with you." Warren smiles at the girl and touches her shoulder lightly.
"That's perfectly fine, Warren," Tatyana smiles and stands, "Well I'm going to get out of here before the terrible two get back and continue to try matchmaker with us. Do tell them how horrible they are at it for me darling."
Warren laughs and bows a little in his seat, "Why of course I will, love. But hey Ty, come join us for movie night later this week, maybe we can pull the same thing they tried on us on Rahne and Sam."
"You are a bad angel. I like it. Don't worry I'll be there." Tatyana waves and walks off, sticking her hand in her pocket and pulling out her cell phone. She was amused to see she had three text messages, and that one was from Pyro inviting her to his room to watch movies. However the other two were from Kayvan and said the same thing.
"I miss you." Tatyana blushes slightly, her old feelings for her friend appearing once more. She had tried to chalk them up to him being the only boy she was around for many years including the time of puberty when she was just realizing that boys weren't icky and that Kayvan was a hottie but maybe it could have been more.
Deciding that she wanted to at least go say hi and ask if she could meet his new friend, she heads back upstairs to the boys side of Xavier's, texting Pyro that she would meet him in his room right after she spoke to Kayvan.
She had just reached the top of the stairs when she heard a very familiar laugh and she grins as she peeks around the corner only to see something that practically stopped her heart.
"I knew you liked me, Kay." The boy named Pietro was saying, pressing Kayvan against a wall and kissing his neck. To Tatyana surprise her friend just moans and pulls the other boy closer to him, fumbling behind him to open the door of his room.
"Shut up Pietro and come here." Kayvan growls softly, pulling the silver haired boy into a passionate kiss and Tatyana pulls her hood up hurrying down the other end of the hall to Pyro's room.
Pyro smirks when he hears the knock, knowing that it would be Tatyana outside the door blushing as she always did when she went to his room. But when he opened the door his face fell.
It was Tatyana all right but tears were in her eyes and the thing that shocked him the most was that the girl's skin wasn't purple or brown or even red like it usually was when he saw her, it was pure white, absent of all color. In fact the girl's whole body was white though the ends of her hair and the pupils of her eyes were gray.
"Violet? What?" Pyro stiffens slightly when the girl throws herself into his chest crying into his blue t-shirt. Pyro decides not to be the arrogant mutant he always was and decides to be John her friend and wraps his arms around her while shutting the door, not having anything else cocky to say for once.
"It's okay Tatyana. I'm here for you."
Tatyana only cried harder.
Hours, a few thousand tears, and a hot shower later Tatyana sat on Pyro's bed, clad in her pajamas, while waiting for the boy to come back from downstairs. The blond boy had told her to stay in his room while he went to go get a few of her things from downstairs and that she wasn't allowed to look at her cell phone and that she was staying in his room for the night cause he didn't want her to be alone. He then threw the pajamas he had gotten from her room at her and told her to go take a shower because she smelled like sweat and that the water would make her calm down, before leaving the room once more.
Tatyana pulls her legs up to her chest and hugs them. She had to admit the shower was nice and did help but she still couldn't help the numbness in her chest. She also couldn't believe that she had gone to Pyro of all people, but she was glad she did.
The door slams open and John walks back in carrying a carton of ice cream, a few spoons, a small bag. He throws off his jacket which Tatyana hadn't noticed he had taken and drops the stuff on the bed, reaching into the bag and pulling out a DVD which he opens quickly and pops into the Playstation 2 next to his small TV. He turns them both on and Tatyana is amused to see the first episode of her favorite television show Glee start playing.
"Glee? I thought you hated this show. And when did you get it?" She says quietly leaning her chin on her knees watching as he closes and locks the door and turns the lights back off before climbing onto the bed beside her.
"It grew on me since you and that weird Marcel guy from your art class liked talking about it so much and I picked it up today. Now shut up and eat your ice cream, Rahne said she had promised you some." John picks up the carton of ice cream and thrusts it towards her.
Tatyana takes it and is surprised to find that it is Nutty Coconut her favorite, knowing that she hadn't told John what type she liked.
John rolls his eyes, "What? Everyone knows that you have started putting a carton of Nutty Coconut in the freezer that you and the Popsicle share. Only you and he would like such a weird flavor."
"It's not weird." She mumbles, moving to watch the tv while opening the ice cream and grabbing a spoon. She smiles just a little when John picks up his own spoon and begins eating, realizing that he had obviously been sneaking some of their ice cream as well.
"Yeah, whatever. This show is still stupid and they sing too much." John says with his spoon in his mouth.
"I thought you said it grew on you plus it's about a school glee club, hence the name. They are going to sing a lot. What did you think it was about? Super happy people?"
"Shut up and watch the handicapped boy sing. Isn't he your favorite? I don't see why though…"
Tatyana just shakes her head, leaning on him just a little, "Thank you Firefly."
"Yeah yeah. " John glances at the girl leaning on his side then slowly wraps his left arm around her, ducking his head down to give her a quick kiss on the top of the head.
Tatyana blinks glancing up at him but he just raises his eyebrow and pushes her head back towards the TV with his spoon.
"The TV is that way darling unless of course you would rather watch me?" He chuckles when the girl pinches his side.
"Shut up…" Her voice trails off when her phone goes off with an extremely familiar ring tone, "Did you turn my phone off of silent…"
John nods, "I used it to call Marcel to make sure I got the right DVDs since I didn't have his number….what's the matter?"
"That's Kayvan's ringtone…" Tatyana wraps her arms around herself as she remembers how Kayvan looked while being pressed against a wall by Quicksilver.
"Got it." John grabs the phone and after fiddling with if for a few seconds, her phone was on fire then lying on the floor charred and melted.
"What the Hell dude! My phone!" Tatyana yells hitting the boy.
"I took the Sims card and the memory card out and I know you save all your numbers and things on it so you can just get a new one! Ow. Ow. I didn't think you wanted to hear that ringtone right now. Ow! STOP HITTING ME WOMAN!!!" He yells as the girl continues hitting him, her eyes going back to bright green while her teeth turned into fangs.
"But I love my phone and you killed it! You… you phone killer!" She growls and tackles him to the ground in her leopard form, her clothes ripping, and causing him to scream. Slowly she realizes that he was trying to help in his own way and she shifts back, sitting on his chest.
"I'm sorry! Oh and I must say the view is quite nice from her love," John grins wickedly staring up at the girl's naked form. Tatyana just grins and punches him in the stomach before wrapping herself in a blanket, "I knew you would be naked in my room some day."
Tatyana growls and John gulps; grabbing a pair of his boxers and a shirt and handing it to her, turning around so the girl could put them on.
"You can buy a new phone you know. And now you don't have to deal with him calling you for a while…"John says slowly once the girl was dressed. She snorts at him and he grins climbing into bed.
Tatyana was about to curse him out once more for good measure when the boy pulled her once more into a hug, laying her down on to his chest and turning up the television. She tries to pull away from him, still sort of angry, but he lightly swats her butt then runs his hands through her still white hair before she could react.
John smirks when the girl actually begins to purr, her attention now off her dead phone and other matters but focused instead on the television and the feeling of his hands in her hair, "Cute."
"Say that again and I will bite your balls off, firefly."
"…ow." John glances down at her and smiles just a little more when he sees that the girl's eyes were still bright green.