She's a Genius

"Welcome to Xavier institute." Jean opened the double doors at precisely 8:00 in the morning to greet the Brotherhood students. She was startled to find only one person at the door. "Where is everyone else?"

"They slept in." An olive skinned boy who looks to be around eighteen years old replied. "I'm all you need though. My name's Aiden by the way." He offered a cheesy grin.

The acting principle eyed his 'I Love Music' T-shirt and black and white full sized headphones. "We'll I'm sure you'll get along with our students just great."

She guided him into the main lobby and stood patiently as he looked around. "Nice pad."

"Thank you." Jean sighed, desperately searching around for a student to take him off her hands. She had paperwork to do for god's sake. "The children should be down shortly... Avalon!" Jean breathed out in relief as she waved down the younger girl. "The students, well… student is here from the brotherhood boarding housing. Please show him around for me."

"Sure Ms. Grey." Ava strode over, her outfit consisting of a tight amaranth strapless top and small black shorts suggested that either she'd not gotten fully dressed that morning, or she was more than aware of the rising temperature outside the air-conditioned walls of the Xavier Institute.

Jean thanked the girl with powers so similar to their own resident weather witch. "The others will be down shortly so you two can just, well, get to know each other."

"Sounds good to me." Aiden eyed her matching hair and top combination, intrigued.

"Follow me." Avalon turned and headed towards the large sitting room, Aiden on her heels.

"What do you like to do in your spare time, babe?" Aiden sat down on one of the coaches and patted the seat beside him invitingly.

"Not much." Avalon accepted his gesture and cracked her neck, taking the seat next to him. "But I'm damn sure it's more than you."

"Are you now?" He looked to her hair. "That's a nice color."

"It's Amaranth, not pink." She rubbed a strand of amaranth hair, framed by brown between thumb and index finger.

"I never said it was." He raised his hands defensively.

"Sorry, so many people have said that to me, it's hard to keep track." She leaned back.

"Does that put me in your good books then?" He laughed cockily, placing his arm around the back of the couch behind her head.

"We'll see…"

"Ava." Seth appears behind the couch, jumping over the back of the couch to land with his legs resting on the girls lap.

"Ow dude, get off." She laughs, ruffling his spiked black hair.

He swung his legs around and upon spotting the guy beside her and his expression turned into a scowl fast. "Who's this?"

Seth was aware of every kid at Xavier's, this guy didn't belong there.

Ava was aware of Seth's stubbornness with almost everyone but her. "No worries, he's from the boarding house."

"I heard some shitty things about the Brotherhood house, Ava." He spotted Aiden's arm, and sent him a look that said 'Keep your hands to yourself or I yank them off'.

Aiden moved his arm, realizing he'd overstepped his boundaries and Seth occupied the vacant space with his own.

"From who, Kitty?" Ava scoffed. "She's just pissy because her fiancé ditched her for some blonde chick."

"Lance?" Aiden asked, trying his best to escape Seth's continuous, intense glare.

"He's like your leader, right?" Ava asked. "Sounds like a total flake if you ask me."

"Nah, he's aight. Pietro's who you gotta worry 'bout though." Aiden laughed. "He trains us hard too."

"How often do you guys train?" Seth broke his former streak of silence.

"A lot," Aiden rubbed the back of his neck under his headphones. "Two hours three times a week."

"We train every night." Seth balls up his fist. "But I have enhanced strength so it's nothing."

"I see…"

Ava rolled her eyes at Seth's behaviour. It wasn't unusual for him; he wasn't much of a people person.

"Aiden?" Rahne Sinclair appeared at the entryway. "I'm supposed to take you to orientation."

"See ya around." He winked at Ava, before following Wolfsbane out.

"You know you can be a real jerk sometimes." Ava scowled at Seth, standing up. "You said you didn't like me. That you liked someone different and I wasn't a possibility for you. You ranted on about how you'd hurt my feelings to Kristen so you really don't get to play the role of 'protective boyfriend'."

"Well if you had of told me in person, and not through 'what's her name', maybe it would've played more into your hands."

"She didn't give me much of a choice." Ava gulped at his news. "But you said there was someone else."

He stood up and looked into her deep stormy eyes with his emerald ones. "Well I'm over that someone else."

"Loyalty is important to me Seth." She warned. "Swear to me, on your life that you're not lying?"

"I swear on my life that you are the only thing that gets my heart racing, the only girl that runs through my head all day and the only thing I want to fall asleep thinking about."

She felt like she could trust him, which was big for her. She had a hard time trusting people, especially guys.

"That's really cheesy." Ava laughed, as her honey skin turned a shade of soft pink. "But I guess it's also kind of the sweetest thing I've ever heard."

"Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

A boyfriend was the last thing Avalon anticipated upon arriving at Xavier's, especially after her last love interest, Aaron, tried to get her to sleep with him.

What Ava liked about Seth was she was one of the few people who could get him to smile. She was his soft spot and it made her feel really special. Not many people could see through his rough exterior, but she found compfort and protectiveness in him rather than hate.

"On one condition." She said, as he grabbed her around the waist.

"Anything in the world."

"I get to tell everyone first." She smirked, kissing him on the cheek.

And then, in that one moment of bliss, Ava and Seth found their place of ultimate content as temporary as it may turn out to be. They found it at Xavier's, with other people like them, they found it in each other.

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I don't know if that was good or bad. I'm not the best at writing fluff.

And this marks the end of storyline one. I'm going to put in some more Wolverine training stuff next since that got a good response. (:

She's A Genius is a song by Jett and "Nothing, but I'm damn sure it's more than you." is a quote from that song.

Avalon – Ember Ice

Seth – Wolverine15120

Aiden - SonOfHades96

Review would be nice. (: