Thank you so much for all the reviews! And here is chapter 4 for you.

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Chapter 4- Be beautiful

Rogue was dreading this day. It was Monday.

"Rogue, we are here!" Wanda yelled from downstairs.

Rogue, still in bed, pulled the covers over her and groaned. She heard them coming up the stairs. She threw the bed covers of her and opened the window. Hurriedly, she climbed out and balanced herself on the windowsill. She then climbed up to the roof. She shivered for it was a cold morning but she didn't want to see the girls today. She didn't want to see anybody today.

Just then, she heard the door slam open in her room.

"Rogue! We gotta… Rogue? Where is she?" Lexa muttered. Wanda shrugged and looked under her bed.

"Not here. Check her bathroom."

"No. Not in here too." Lexa said and shut the bathroom door. She opened Rogue's cupboard. "Where is she?"

Rogue gave a sigh. Maybe they'll leave soon.

"We'll wait until she comes back." Lexa said and sat on her bed.

Raven opened the door. "Breakfast anyone? Girls?"

"Um…"

"Where's Rogue?"

"She's not here. We didn't see her just now."

"That's funny. I came up half an hour ago, she was still sleeping." Raven walked into the room. "Now why is her window open? She never opens her window in the morning. She hates the cold." She closed the window and drew the curtains across. Rogue's room became substantially darker but Raven turned on the light. "I expect she has gone for a run or something. She'll be back soon."

Wanda looked at Lexa who looked back at her. "I think I have an idea where she is." Wanda said.

Lexa nodded. They opened the window again and stuck their heads out. "She's on the roof again."

Rogue heard them talking. She got up from her spot and made her way quickly to the edge of the roof. Her footsteps were quick and light. She took a deep breath and jumped. She landed on the neighbour's roof. She wobbled but didn't fall. She climbed down and reached a window. She knocked on the window and it opened.

"Let me in." Rogue said. A hand reached out to help her and she went in quickly.

Lexa made her way to the roof but didn't see Rogue anywhere. "She's not here, Wanda."

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Rogue grinned at the person in front of her. Lance shook his head. "What now, Rogue?"

"Well, yah heard about that bet with Belladonna. Lexa and Wanda want to get meh ready for mah new and improved look."

"Oh. They're gonna do a makeover."

"Yeah. Let meh hide for awhile?"

"Sure. So, what are you gonna do with the money if you win?"

"Ah want tah buy a car. There's money in mah back account, but ah still need about thirty thousand before ah can buy it. Ah'm sick of hitching a ride with Wanda, yah know. A car would be nice."

"I see. But now that you are here, help me."

"About?"

"Kitty."

Rogue groaned at her friend.

"It's that or I'll give you out."

Rogue sighed. "Fahne."

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A tap on the window startled Rogue who looked frantically at Lance. Lance shrugged and opened it.

"She's here, right?"

"Er…"

Lexa stuck her foot in and jumped onto the carpet. She spotted Rogue's feet under Lance's bed. She kneeled down and tickled them. Rogue jumped up and banged her head hard.

"Ouch! Ok, yah got meh." She said and crawled out, rubbing her forehead.

Lexa grinned and pulled Rogue out of Lance's room. "See you later, Lance." They opened the door to see his mom. "Hello, Mrs. Alvers. Just passing through."

Back in Rogue's room, they sat her down on a chair while they bustled around.

"Normally I would say this looks horrible but for one hundred thousand I'd say it looks ravishing." Wanda held up some maroon nail polish which looked glittery.

Rogue rolled her eyes but grinned.

"So would I." Lexa confessed.

Wanda put some blusher on Rogue's cheeks while Lexa applied some red lipstick on her lips. The lipstick looked surprisingly wonderful, Rogue thought. Before this, she had always worn black lipstick. After that, they manicured her fingers and painted them with the glittery nail polish. Then, she put on some mascara on.

Rogue looked at the mirror. She managed to persuade Lexa and Wanda to not dye her hair or cut it. Her face had been operated on, she felt. She didn't recognize the girl wearing the red lipstick and the purple eye shadow. Somehow, it wasn't her. The blusher made her cheeks look pinkish, which she didn't like and the perfume Wanda had sprayed on her made her smell… flowery.

"You look… fine." Lexa said. Wanda and Lexa stood in a corner and observed their work.

"Let's go down and see what your mom thinks."

Rogue crept downstairs, hoping her mother wouldn't see her but…

"Rogue, eat your breakfast." Her mother said while reading the paper. She looked up. "Rogue? What did you do… honey, you look different." Raven paused to observe her daughter. Kurt, who had been eating a handful of Coco Pops, dropped his jaw and let several Coco Pops drop onto the table.

"Wow." He said and stared.

"First mission, accomplished." Lexa said and Wanda nodded. Their work in this area was done. Beautiful according to his taste, check. Next in the list… sexy.

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When they reached school, Rogue got out of Wanda's car and everyone gasped.

"A new girl in school!" Someone said.

"She's pretty!" Another said.

"No, wait, she looks familiar."

"She's so gorgeous."

"Doesn't she look like that Goth?"

"Goth? No, you must be wrong… But then again…"

"Yeah. That's her… That's… What was her name? Rogue? Yeah. Rogue."

"Wow! She looks stunning. What happened to her?"

"Don't know. But I like it."

Rogue ignored the buzz going on round her and waited for Lexa and Wanda to get out of the car. They took their time, letting people see the transformation of Rogue Darkholme

"Hurry up! People are staring!" Rogue hissed. She pulled them out and they went to class.

Rogue and Wanda had English with Bella. When Bella saw Rogue, her jaw dropped.

"Hello." Rogue said to her.

Bella was speechless. Rogue and Wanda sat in front of her and started to copy notes from the whiteboard.

During class, Bella passed Rogue a note.

Do you think you can win him looking like that? There was a drawing of a stick girl strangling another stick girl. Underneath that drawing, it said, You are so dead.

Rogue crumpled up the note and threw it out of the window. Wanda said nothing but turned around to smirk at Bella. A smirk which clearly interpreted as 'You are gonna die. We'll make sure of that.'

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During recess, Rogue spotted Remy going in the gym. She finished her Jambalaya and went in. He was playing some basketball alone. He turned around and saw Rogue standing behind him.

"Hey, Remy."

"Oui? Does Remy know y'?" Remy asked politely.

Rogue forced a smile. "Don't recognize meh anymore?"

Remy remembered her accent. "Oh. Rogue. Y' look different…"

"Well, mah friends made meh wear this awful set of clothes and mah face is messed up with makeup…"

Remy smiled and hoped Rogue hadn't turned into one of those girls who were always fawning over him.

"Oh, Remy sees. Anyway, Remy want t' apologize about de other day, when Bella came up and kissed Remy."

"Don't bother." Rogue faked a smile. "Ah guess she really lahkes yah."

"Likes Remy? More like Remy's money, Rogue. Or worse… Remy's ring." Remy gave a small laugh and tapped at a ring on his finger.

"Ring?" Maybe Bella meant this ring.

"Remy was adopted, did y' know? Remy is not Jean-Luc's real son. Henri is. Y' know dat Jean-Luc is extremely rich, right?"

Rogue nodded.

"Well, de moment Bella talked to Remy for de first time, Remy knew she was after Remy's money. Of course she was. How many people would ask a new acquaintance how much his pere made in a year? Not many."

Nope, only Bella, thought Rogue and smiled to herself.

"Remy always had dis ring. Even before Remy was adopted by Remy's pere. Remy knew a woman once. She took care of Remy for awhile before Jean-Luc came. She said she knew Remy's real mere. Right before Remy left for Bayville wit Jean-Luc, she gave me dis ring. Said it belonged t' Remy's mere. And she also said dat Remy's mere wanted Remy t' give dis ring t' de woman Remy loves de most."

Rogue nodded. No wonder he treasured it so much. And Bella wanted to have this ring? Rogue felt guilty for tricking him. If he gave her this ring, he'd kill her if he found out the truth. She couldn't play with his feelings. It wasn't right.

"Remy, look. Ah have tah tell yah something…"

But then again, she would have to wait on Bella if she lost. Telling him the truth would most probably fall into the losing category. No, Rogue wasn't going to wave a white flag.

"Oui?"

"Nothing." Rogue smiled. "So, don't yah have class or something?"

"Oui." Remy said solemnly. "So do y'." He said when the bell rang at that moment. "Go on."

Rogue nodded. "Right. See yah another time."

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"I saw you walking out of the gym. You never go to the gym." Tabby asked.

"Who says ah can't go? Is it a crime?" Rogue didn't look away from her book.

"No. It's just that…"

"There yah go. Don't bug meh anymore." Rogue shuffled in her seat and went on reading.

"Rogue!" Wanda called.

Rogue looked outside the window to see Wanda and Lexa standing downstairs.

"What?"

"Let's go!

Rogue made a whining sound in her throat but put her book in her bag. She slung her bag over her shoulders and said bye to Tabby before going down.

"Remy loves your new outfit, I expect. I heard guys on the football and basketball teams talking about you. You are a hit, Rogue!"

"But Remy isn't lahke that. At least ah don't think he is."

"How do you know?" Wanda asked.

"A feeling. Ah really don't think he'll lahke meh for mah makeup or clothes. He sees through that."

"Tch!" Lexa rolled her eyes. "Boys like Remy and Pietro love girls like Bella and Crystal. Trust me. I know."

Rogue listened on as Lexa went on to talk about how guys are blind and clueless when it comes to picking girls.

"Guys should pick girls who have big brains, not boobs or ass. And are they blind? Bella and Crystal are so not smart. I bet they don't even know what one plus one is. They should pick girls like…"

"You?" Wanda asked.

"Me? No. I wasn't talking about myself, idiot."

"I just assumed you were jealous that Pietro likes Crystal and hates you." Wanda teased.

"I am not! Gosh Wanda." Lexa rolled her eyes. Wanda looked in the rear view mirror to see Rogue smirking at Lexa. "And don't even think that, Rogue! I know what you're thinking. You'd better banish that thought. I do not like Pietro. You like I would like the guy who ruined my hair and my hair?"

"Good point. But Lexa, opposites attract."

"Two negatives don't make one positive, Wanda."

Rogue raised her eyebrow. "But two negatives do make one positive." She pointed out.

"Wait, they do?" Lexa asked.

Wanda whispered to Rogue. "Math was never her strong point."

She nodded in agreement.

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"So I wrote him a note and told him I won't bother him until his game."

"I see. You know you just wrote your own death wish?"

"What?"

"You told him you won't bother him until his game. That's three months later. Did you think about how that could affect you? She will have him all to herself for three months."

"What was I to do? I had to. He said I was persona non grata, Crystal. Do you know what that means?"

"Yes." Crystal said.

"Well anyway, did you see that slut today? She looked…"

"She looked decent, Bella. You have to work harder to get him back. This is war!"

"I've tried, Crystal. He just won't talk to me. Even after I sent him that ring."

"You can't be all clingy with him anymore. You have to change the way you look. Like that girl."

"You can't be serious. Follow… her?"

"If you want to win, yes!" Crystal snapped. She flicked her long blonde hair and smiled as Pietro came walking towards them. "Now hush."

"Hey." Pietro said and Crystal smiled.

"Hi, Pie pie."

Pietro winced at the nickname. "Crystal… don't call me that again. Please."

"Oh alright. Let's go." Crystal said and Pietro slung his arm around her neck and they went off.

"Fine." Bella said to herself. "I'll dress up. Anything to make him like me again."

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Two days later, Rogue had already received a total of four invitations to parties, including a party on a cruise ship, a ticket to the Coldplay concert, two more tickets to a football game, and twenty phone numbers. All of them belong to guys.

You'd think a girl would be thrilled to pieces to be so popular but Rogue hated it. Whenever she saw a guy approaching her she ran away. Rogue went to find Remy at the gym but he wasn't there.

She walked out to see him coming towards her. "Oh hey, Remy."

"Rogue." Remy said quietly. "Y'r fiends still messing wit y'r face?"

"Oh yeah. It'll be going on after awhile."

"Remy sees."

"Why do yah speak that way, anyway?"

"What way does Remy speak in?"

"The third person thing." Rogue said and smiled.

"Oh. Remy doesn't know. Remy has been talking this way since Remy was a child."

Rogue laughed. "Really? Ah find it kind of annoying."

Remy looked at her, surprised. He had never been called annoying before. His third person thing, many girls had said it was cute or charming. Never annoying. He chuckled at her.

"Thank y'."

"Fohr?"

"Being so honest wit Remy. It's very fresh after all de lies so many fillies tell Remy."

"Yahr welcome." Rogue smiled and grabbed the basketball from him. "Now, can yah beat meh in basketball?"

"Chere… dat's not nice, y' know." Remy said and advanced on her.

Maybe she had changed her appearance. Maybe she was wearing a different style of clothes, but her personality still shined. There was no doubt of that. The outer appearance didn't matter, it's what's inside that counts. Remy t'inks he likes this femme.

Rogue ran around the court as Remy tried to snatch the ball back. Rogue didn't tell Remy that she actually knew how to play basketball. She had been pretending that day, a ploy to bring them closer. Back in Mississippi, while living with Irene, there was a neighbour who taught Rogue how to play. Rogue was a fast learner and a good pupil.

"Y' not bad, chere. Y' have been practicing?"

"Sorta."

"Mais y' still not good enough." Remy said as he lunged at her. Rogue jumped up and threw the basketball into the basket. It went in.

"Not good enough, yah say?"

Remy raised his hands. "Ok, y' win this time."

Rogue grinned and threw the ball back to him. "Ah gotta go. See yah another time." She picket up her bag and went out of the gym.

"Practice some more and we'll play a match."

Rogue laughed. "Nah. Ah'll leave the sports tah yah."

When Rogue was outside, she saw three girls standing nearby. They approached her. "Idiot! What were you thinking?"

"What?" Rogue looked offended as Lexa, Wanda and Tabby surrounded her.

"I'm in this too." Tabby said.

"Call meh idiot again and yah'll never see the daylight anymore." Rogue snarled.

"That is what she is talking about. Your language. He'll be frightened off! You have to be sweet like Crystal and Bella is to their guys."

"What? Yah want meh tah go, 'Remykins! Rem rem!' is that it?"

"Precisely."

"Yah think Remy likes that kind of talk? Please!" Rogue rolled her eyes. "That's the reason he left Bella, ok?"

"Really? Or is it because she didn't do it enough?" Lexa asked.

"Woman, then yah go talk to 'pie pie' if yahr so smart. Everything has its limit. This is mahne."

"Fine. Lose. Be her servant for a week."

"Gawd Lexa. Admit it, yah want the money fohr yahrself! That's why yahr so crazy over this thing. Yah want tah money!"

Lexa scowled. "Yes. Yes I do. Is that wrong? But that's beside the point. You are my friend, Rogue. You know I'd help you in your troubles."

"Yes, so would ah, but don't yah think this is too much. Turning meh to something ah'm not won't work. And in the end he'll get hurt. Not us. Him. Just let meh be mahself."

"Rogue, you can't possibly think that!" Tabby said, shocked.

"Yah shut up! Ah know what ah'm doing." Rogue turned on her and glared.

"Rogue…" Tabby started.

"Shut it, Tabby. This is mah business, ok? Yah'll just leave meh alone!" Rogue said and stalked off.

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Hope you liked it! And I hope you review! Otherwise I threaten to go on strike! Haha! But that wouldn't work, would it? … Just kidding. I would never stop writing.

And the holidays are here! Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Don't you just love the holidays? Hmm… the sleeping in late… just watching the tele all day long… or surfing the net all day long… or just doing nothing… But no. I have to help mommy and daddy dearest at the restaurant… /sigh/ Well, that's just life, Jessie dear girl. Just life.

Hey, if you happen to come to M'sia for the hols, stop by at my parents' restaurant. Awesome food! And I'm not just saying this because my pocket money depends on the profits of the restaurant. It's the real truth. It really is. XD