Aprilangel413: Sorry for the delay people but I just came up with a new updating system that will allow me to update faster. And I've also been on vacation for the past week so I'm whipped out. Anyway I hope you enjoy this next chapter.
"I'm not take'n any damn tests!" Lilly yelled.
Lilly sat down at the end of her bed and Remy grabbed the chair from X-23's desk.
"Remy know you don like school, dat be fine, Remy don like it much eithah. Buh please jus take da test?" Remy asked sitting down in the chair.
"No," Lilly answered.
"Wha if we made a deal? Remy offered.
"I'm listen'n," Lilly glanced up at Remy.
"You take da test- waih a sec leh Remy finish," Remy said seeing Lilly about to object. "You take da test wit X an 'long as you don' fail you don' have ta go ta school."
Lilly put her head in her hand and thought for a minute.
"Do I have any odar choices?" Lilly asked.
"Non." Remy shook his head.
"Fine, I'll take da test," Lilly grumbled.
Lilly sat down at a desk next to X-23. Xavier spoke with Hank and Remy in the front of the room. Logan couldn't be there because he had a Danger Room session with the new recruits.
"Follow my lead," Lilly whispered to X.
Just as Xavier was leaving the room he gave Lilly a look that made her think that he was onto her plan. But then he left and Mr. McCoy handed out the tests. A thick booklet with multiple choice and short answer questions and a scan-tron to put the multiple-choice answers in. Beast sat down at the teacher's desk and opened up a very heavy looking book. X-23 looked to Lilly and saw that her demon-eyed friend was smiling. To no ones surprise Lilly hadn't even glanced at the book. She picked up her pencil and snapped the point off. Lilly turned to X-23, who then snapped her pencil in half. Lilly shot her hand up and waved it around so that she could not be ignored.
"Yes," Beast placed his book down and looked at Lilly suspiciously.
"My pencil broke, an X's is look'n a lil' on da dull side. Can we sharpen 'em?" Lilly asked trying to sound innocent.
"No, but seeing how much you want to get out of your seat, you may sharpen both yours and X-23's pencils." Beast replied calmly.
Lilly put on a disappointed face and trudged over to the pencil sharpener with the pencils. After sharpening the pencils she returned to her seat, gave X her pencil back and sat down. X-23 looked down and saw a piece of paper wrapped around her pencil. She quickly and quietly took the paper off the pencil. In Lilly's almost unrecognizable penmanship it read:
Do the short answer part and then stop and wait.
X-23 looked to Lilly slightly confused, but the black and red eyed mutant was actually working on her test.
X-23 placed her pencil down and closed the test booklet. She quickly glanced over at Lilly. The poor girl looked to be in a state of panic. She read over the questions franticly and kept rubbing her pencil against her temple. X-23 smelled the perspiration and nervousness that was rolling off her friend. X-23 didn't understand why Lilly was so worried. From what she knew about school it was just a building where older adults, such as Xavier and Beast, informed them, the young people or students, about things they didn't know about or understand. X-23 doubted that Lilly was worried about the social aspect of school. With her attitude and looks Lilly would, unlike herself, fit in perfectly.
X-23 came back to reality when she saw something bright out of the corner of her eye. Lilly had charged up one of her pencils, and then she tossed it across the room. Hank dropped his book and jumped out of his chair. While he was distracted Lilly used her thieving skills to quickly switch her and X23's tests. Beast slowly turned from the corner in which the pencil landed to Lilly.
"Whoops," Lilly shrugged, attempting to be innocent again.
Beast sighed and returned to his desk. X-23 opened Lilly's test and flipped to the short answer section. The first thing she noticed was Lilly's chicken scratch. Then once she was able to decode everything she checked Lilly's answers against her own. They weren't even close to what she'd put down. X was about to flip back to the multiple-choice section when a big furry blue hand landed on her desk. Beast picked up both booklets and looked at them. Lilly leaned back in her chair and sighed in defeat. Unfortunately their names had been printed on the front of the books before they'd even gotten the tests. Beast placed the booklets in front of the correct girl's desk.
"Follow me please," Beast spoke to Lilly in a grave tone.
Lilly got up and took her testing materials with her. She followed Beast down the hall to a room identical to the room she'd just been in.
"I'd hoped that it wouldn't come to this. But you and X-23 must separated," Beast continued in his grave tone as Storm entered, "Storm shall be your proctor while you begin again on a different test."
Beast left and Storm motioned for Lilly to take seat. Lilly sat down in a desk and Storm handed her a brand new booklet and scan-tron. Then she took Lilly's old booklet and scan-ton and sat down at the desk at the head of the room. Lilly sighed and opened the test to begin again.
X-23 and Lilly sat outside of Xavier's office. They were waiting to find out what their scores were. X-23 sat perfectly upright in the chair with her hands folded on her lap. Lilly, on the other hand, was stretched out across three chairs playing with some cards she'd found in one of her many coat pockets. She'd take a card and place it over her mouth and nose. Then she'd breathe out and see how long she could make the card hover over her face. Lilly watched as a card slowly floated down to the carpet-covered floor for the fifty-second time.
"Dat was my last card," Lilly sighed as she sat up.
The door opened and X-23 got up. Lilly followed her into the room. They sat down and Xavier cleared his throat
"First off I would like to say that despite your earlier actions I am very proud of both of you. Now for your scores," Xavier picked up two pieces of paper from his desk and then looked to X-23.
"Congratulations, 100 percent. You may begin attending the high school whenever you wish," X-23 stood up and took her test from Xavier.
The professor then sighed and turned to Lilly.
"I strongly suggest that you go the school with the other students. But with this score it is ultimately your choice, 65," Xavier handed Lilly her test and the Cajun mutants' face lit up.
"Does dis mean I passed?" Lilly asked excitedly.
"Yes, but only by a point," Xavier replied.
"Dis fantastic, I gots ta go tell Remy." Lilly got up and quickly left the room.
Rogue and Remy were curled up on the couch in the Rec Room. The T.V. was on so of course they were not alone. On the floor, staring at the television like a bunch of zombies were six or so Jamies. Kitty chatted with Kurt on another sofa and Logan took his usual perch in his recliner. Kurt and Kitty would glance at Rogue and Remy every few minutes but Logan watched them like a hawk.
"Chere," Remy whispered into Rogue's ear.
"Yes Remy," Rogue replied.
"How you like ta go oui wit Remy 'morrow night?" Remy asked.
Before Rogue could answer Remy continued in hopes of persuading her.
"Maybe we go see a movie and get somethin' ta eat. Remy know this beau lil' place in town-" Remy was cut off when Rouge placed a gloved finger over his mouth.
"Remy Ah'd love to go out with ya," Rogue smiled.
Then Lilly entered and sat down on the end of the couch that Rogue and Remy were on. Remy sat up and looked at Lilly.
"How'd your test go?" Remy asked.
"Test, wha test? Oh, do you mean da test I took taday dat if I passed I wouldn't have ta go ta school?" Lilly asked cheekily.
Remy nodded.
"Here it is," Lilly handed a folded piece of paper to Rogue who then gave it to Remy.
He stood up, letting Rouge down gently, and unfolded the piece of paper.
"A 65," Remy stated then fixed his glare on Lilly.
"Yep 65 an over is pass'n. An I passed so now I don have ta go ta school," Lilly put her feet up on the couch and laid back.
"By one point," Remy said taking a step closer to Lilly.
"Ah huh. You said dat I had ta pass, you nevah said dat I had ta get a good grade." Lilly smirked and stood up.
"Remy did say dat," Remy sighed and gave the paper back to Lilly, "you don have ta go."
"Tank you." Lilly smiled then did a one-eighty and walked out of the room.
Aprilangel413: I'm so glad that I finally got this chapter up. Again sorry for the delay. And I just want to say it now, this story is going somewhere.