I dont own anything. The Song is sung by Taylor Swift and I'm not sure who wrote it. This chapter isnt a happy one but it should get better.
"Hey Marie," Logan says as he got in line behind her. It still amazed her that he was here, 3 years after he'd come back from looking for his past. He was her best friend now, but she still hoped that one day he'd see her as more.
"Hey Logan, how were your classes this morning?" she asked as she started putting food on her plate.
"Good, some of the older kids thought they'd give me lip so I made them run an extra mile. I wanted to ask you about the Rangers game on Friday, are you going?" he asked fallowing her down the line.
"I was thinking about it, why?" she answered her heart speeding up in hopes that he was asking her to go with him.
"Well, I met this girl last week, she's great and I wanted to take her to the game but we share the tickets so if you're using yours we'll go do something else."
"No, you can use the tickets I'll catch the game with Scott in the Rec. room." She said adding a bottle of orange soda to her tray and picking it up.
"Thanks Marie. I'll tell you all about her dinner tonight. She's amazing." He said taking his tray and walking away. Marie looked down at her tray and then back at the doors swinging closes after him, she walked over to the trash can and threw her plate in, she took the soda and headed out the door after him.
"He's got a girlfriend. I bet she's a long legged Redhead like Jean and she's probably beautiful. God, Jubes, why is it every time I think we're going somewhere he gets a girlfriend. I can't do this anymore, I think I'm gunna ask for a transfer to the California school." Marie answered putting her head in her hands.
"You can't do that, who would I talk to and you know he'd just fallow you and then you'd be miserable there. I think what you need to do is go out and date. Stop letting him control your life, it's like you can't control your skin all over again." Jubilee said putting her hand on Marie's shoulder.
"I tried dating. Logan scared everyone away except Bobby and he cheated on me. I might as well stop controlling it." Marie said leaning back in her chair and turning it to stand up.
"Well, summer is in a month, we, as in you and I, are going on vacation in that case. Hawaii is calling our names and The Professor already gave me permission I'm sure he'll let you go too. We do get one paid for vacation every 2 years and you didn't go anywhere for graduation last year so you have twice the amount of vacation pay on your book. Five thousand from you plus my two thousand five hundred should be enough. He has a condo there so we don't have to rent and air fair is paid for because of the jet. Think a month in Hawaii, Hawaiian men!"
"Yeah that sounds good. We can do that, no we WILL do that. I'll talk to the Professor." She hugged Jubilee and then turned to the white board and started erasing what was written.
"Talk to Chuck about what?" Logan asked walking into the room.
"Um stuff, what's up? Do you need something?" Marie answered turning to face him
"I'm gunna go find Kitty and see if she wants to go shopping." Jubilee said standing up and moving past Logan to the door. Before she walked out she mouthed to Marie 'don't tell him anything'.
"I wanted to see if you wanted to go down to the danger room and run a simulation with me before dinner." He said picking up the bottle sitting on her desk that had 'ashes of a problem student' written across the front of it.
"I have a few papers to grade otherwise I would. I'll bring you the ticket for Friday at dinner." She said sitting down at the desk again.
"I'll help you with the papers. You got a key right?" he said setting the bottle back down. He pulled a chair from the computer table and sat on the other side of her desk. She handed him some papers and he key then went back to the essay she was reading.
"Its Shakespeare so if you have trouble let me know. Mostly if it doesn't look remotely like anything on the key mark it wrong."
"Romeo and Juliet, I remember reading this. I subbed for the other English teacher once and her class was reading it. Two families fighting and the kids knockin' it out. It a shame they both died, it'd been great to hear what they said when she was knocked up by Romeo and Paris was her husband. The Prince mighta had somethin' to say then." Marie laughed and shook her head, "you know this shit aint so bad 'cept the people are complete morons. I mean I would have beat the fuck out of the crazy guy that her cousin kills." Marie had to put her pen down she was laughing so hard.
"Logan, it's about them falling in love. The whole point is for them to die and the families stop fighting."
"I know that but why did they have to be so stupid. Like this listen to this, 'Thou art like one of these fellows that, when he enters the
confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table, and says
'God send me no need of thee!' and by the operation of the second
cup draws him on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.' Act 3 Scene 1. He's talking about them getting drunk and fighting and about thirty lines later he dies because he's a big mouth while he's sober." Marie's head fell forward and made a thump on the desk as she bent over laughing at him.
"Logan I can't work and laugh at you reading Shakespeare at the same time. Please I need to get these done." Marie said when she finally could breathe again.
Logan laughed too and nodded, "Okay, I'll work." They worked for the next hour in almost complete silence until Logan's cell rang, "Hello?... Yeah, tonight's fine… I'll meet you there… 'kay bye."
"Who was that?" Marie asked as he put the phone back in his pocket.
"Her names Maggie, I met her at the bike shop. God Marie she's great, she loves hockey, bikes and she's Amazing in bed. She's a mutant too so it doesn't freak her out, I just… I can't believe it." He said leaning back in his chair.
"So she'll be coming around here?"
"Yeah I think Saturday I'll invite her over for the game. Are you gonna be home? I really want you to meet her."
Marie shock her head and looked down at the papers she was grading, she could never look at him and lie at the same time, "No, I'm going out with Jubes. She found a club that she really likes, men ripe for the picking you know and she wants me to go with her."
"Oh okay, I guess you'll have to meet her next time. Well my stacks done, I'm meeting her for dinner tonight at Joe's so I better go shower and change. I'll check in later." He stood up and walked around the desk to kiss her forehead before walking out of the room. Marie crossed her arms on the desk and put her head down. Finally she shed the tears that'd been building since he'd told her he'd met someone at lunch.
Hawaii and Jubilee about Saturday. She spent the rest of the night playing the guitar she kept hidden under her bed. It was bad that every time she played it she cried because Logan was the only one who knew about it. She played a little Cash and then put it back under the bed and curled up to cry herself to sleep.
Logan pulling in on his bike. Marie let out the breath she didn't know she'd been holding and continued down the road. An hour and a half later, after eating and dropping Kitty and Jubilee off at the club she pulled into the driveway. She parked her car in its normal spot and walked into the mansion. She knew that Logan and Maggie would be in the rec room, Scott knew she'd be coming home and they agreed that she'd TXT him and they'd watch the game in her room. Five minutes later there was a knock on her door and Scott opened it to peak in, "Are you dressed?"
"Yeah, did you bring the popcorn?" Marie asked walking out of her bathroom wiping her now make up free face.
"Got it, so I'll tell you now I don't see this one going anywhere she seems demanding to me. The score was 2-1 when I left Rangers were losing."
"I really don't care what she is, I hate this and you know they'll bring it back, they did last night and it was the same team." She said grabbing a handful of popcorn. They sat on the bed and watched the last five minutes of the period when it was done Marie turned to Scott and looked at him seriously, "If I show you something would you swear not to tell anyone?"
"As long as its not something I don't want to see like sex toys or you naked, sure." He said sitting up. Marie throw herself onto her stomach and reached under her bed to pull out her guitar case, "You play guitar?"
"Not very well but I know a few Johnny Cash songs. Logan's the only one I've ever shown and well, you're starting to become one of my best friends and I wanted to show you." She opened the case and pulled out the guitar. She put the strap over her shoulder and strummed the strings.
"Thank you, for sharing this with me. You don't know how much it means to me that you think that," He hugged her trying not to smash the guitar, "Play me something."
"What do you want to hear?"
"Have you written anything?"
"Well, I got a chorus but that's it." Marie answered looking down at the guitar.
"Sing it for me."
"It's not very good."
"I don't care."
Marie looked down at the guitar and then at Scott and nodded, "Okay but you can't laugh." Scott nodded and Marie began to play and sing " 'He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star, He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do' I haven't got anymore." She said after she finished.
"It's about Logan, huh." Marie could only nod, "It's good. Rogue, I'm sorry he's such a jack ass. I know it's hard when you love someone and they can't or won't love you back. Hell, I was engaged to Jean for three years and I didn't even know that she wasn't in love with me. It'll stop hurting at one point I promise."
"I know that he'll never love me back it just seems like every time I get close to having my five minute relationship with him he gets someone else. I just wish that I could have my chance so I could move on. I'm going to tell you something else you can't tell anyone, because Logan and I will never have a chance. Jubilee and I are going to Hawaii the day after school ends and we'll be there for a month. I'm going to use that time to get over him but he can't know where we're going, he'll fallow us." She said putting the guitar back in its case and back under the bed.
"I won't tell him, you know I'll be the one flying you there. You're going to use the Professor's condo right? I stayed there with Jean once it was nice. I tell you there's NO place like it." Scott stretched out again and looked at the T.V., "Its starting again." Marie was already laying on her stomach so she crossed her arms and laid her chin on them. Scott looked down at the young girl watching the game, she was like the little sister he'd always wanted but never got. He uncrossed his arms and patted her leg, "Thing's will get better Rogue." Marie only nodded and wiped the tear from her cheek. They watched the rest of the game quietly, Scott going downstairs during the second break to get more popcorn. The Rangers lost 3-1."
Logan spent less and less time with her and more time with Maggie. It was the last day before summer and Marie was already packed for her trip. Maggie was at the mansion almost everyday and Marie hadn't talked to Logan since Monday. She walked down the hall and saw Logan walking toward her, he was looking at her, so she smiled. They were almost standing in front of each other and Marie opened her mouth to say hello when he turned his body to walk around her. She turned and watched him walk toward Maggie, he put his hands on her shoulder and then leaned down to kiss her. Marie turned around and walked to her class room. She looked at her watch and counted it in her head ten hours till she left for Hawaii, "Ten more hours, Ten more hours and nothing but beautiful beaches." She repeated it to herself over and over.
Five hours later classes we're over and Marie was walking back to her room, "Hey, what are you doing tomorrow?" Logan asked running to catch up to her. She hadn't told him about her vacation and she didn't want him to know about it till she was gone, so she lied.
"Sleeping, why?"
"Well, Maggie and I are going on a trip. We leave Saturday and I wanted to hang out before I leave. Why don't we go for a ride like we did last year, we haven't really done anything together since the last game of the season two weeks ago."
"I would love to Logan but I promised Jubes that if I'm not sleeping I'd go bathing suit shopping with her and you know how she is with shopping. I really wish you'd said something before." She said looking at her feet.
"That's okay, Marie, we'll go camping when I get back okay." Logan said
Marie nodded and smiled, "Sounds great, Logan. When are you going to be back?"
"Two weeks, we're going up to Canada." Marie knew that she wouldn't be back by then but if Logan was going to be gone for two weeks that meant that she didn't have to worry about him looking for her for that long.
She looked him in the face and grinned, "Sounds great Logan, I probably wont see you before you leave so have a great trip." They'd reached her door so she unlocked it and went inside.
Song sung by Taylor Swift
Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see
That I want and I'm needing everything that we should be
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about
And she's got everything that I have to live without
Drew talks to me, I laugh cause it's so damn funny
That I can't even see anyone when he's with me
He says he's so in love, he's finally got it right,
I wonder if he knows he's all I think about at night
[Chorus:
He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do
Drew walks by me, can he tell that I can't breathe?
And there he goes, so perfectly,
The kind of flawless I wish I could be
She'd better hold him tight, give him all her love
Look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky cause
[Repeat Chorus
So I drive home alone, as I turn out the light
I'll put his picture down and maybe
Get some sleep tonight
He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do
He's the time taken up, but there's never enough
And he's all that I need to fall into..
Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see.