That Monday everything was back to normal, Vixen and Jade always chatting together during class, laughing about incomprehensible jokes and actions, trying to explain them to Kitty and just making her confused… the usual.
That afternoon they had gym together along with Kurt. The three of them made their way to the gymnasium, chatting and laughing as usual, when Pietro came up to them.
'Vixen, can I talk to you, please?' he asked sounding pissed off, with his hands on his hips. She made a nervous face at her two friends and then followed him to a nearby tree.
'So what's up, Sweety?' she asked stroking his chest and looking at him sexily, he looked at her dreamily for a moment before regaining his strict face.
'Listen, I'm gonna get straight to the point.' he said moving his hands to prevent them from shaking, the girl watched them in mild curiosity. 'Why did you leave me without even telling me it was over?' She laughed uncomfortably.
'What?' she asked slowly, 'What… why did I leave the Brotherhood?' she enquired a little confused.
'You know what I mean.' replied Quicksilver frowning at her. 'Even after what I told you the other day.' there was a long pause in which they just gazed at each other. 'I really love you Vixen. I've never felt this for anyone else.'
'I know.' she answered putting her arms around his waist and pressing herself against him. 'And I'm really sorry I didn't tell you I was going back to the x-men… and that I was taking your best pair of boxer shorts.'
'You took those?' asked the young man in front of her. 'Anyway… what are all these mixed signs? Come on, I thought we were over, and now you're acting as though we're not.'
'We're over?!?!' exclaimed the girl stepping back and letting go of him, with an perplexed look on her dazzling face.
'What we're not?' asked Pietro with the same look on his features.
'Pietro, Baby,' replied the girl pityingly, 'just cos I'm not living with you any more doesn't mean we're finished.' he smiled and took her by the waist, 'I prefer to dump people right after making out.' she finished, shrugging.
'Remind me not to make out with you any more.' said Quicksilver smiling down at her. She frowned indignantly up at him. 'That doesn't mean you can't make out with me!' he exclaimed.
She smiled relieved and put her hand behind his head, gently pulled his face down towards her and placed her lips on his. As they broke apart, smiling adoringly at each other, they heard Jade calling Vixen.
'Vixen! Get your ass over here!' she yelled from the gym door as the other students filed inside, Kurt standing beside her.
'I gotta go.' Vixen said turning back to her boyfriend, and kissing him again, 'Call me, won't you? You've got my mobile number, right?'
'Yeah, I got your number.' replied Pietro watching her start jogging gracefully towards the gym. 'Maybe we can meet up?'
'I'd like that.' she replied over her shoulder, getting to the entrance and waving. He waved back and she blew a kiss to him.
'You've got my number, right?' said Jade mockingly to Kurt who laughed.
'Ja, maybe we can meet up?' he replied, also mocking her. The two teens giggled as Vixen gave them a grow-up look.
'You guys suck.' she said shaking her head. 'Come on Silencia, let's get changed.' she said pulling on Jade's sleeve.
'Farewell Kurtio!' she cried, still mocking Vixen and Pietro, and holding out her hand as though she was being forced to leave him.
'I shall never forget you Jadiette!' replied the German boy holding out his own hand in the same fashion.
'Shut up you guys,' said Vixen getting a little annoyed at them, 'just cos' you can't get dates.' She started down the corridor to the girls locker rooms.
'Kurt's got Amanda, doesn't he?' said Jade following the blond girl down the corridor, Vixen looked sideways at her.
'Not since she moved away.' she replied snidely, 'Besides, her parents don't want her to see him.' she finished opening the door to the locker room.
'That never stopped you, right?' alleged the raven haired girl following Vixen into the room and dropping her bag into an empty space on the bench.
'I guess,' admitted Vixen, taking a pair of baggy black shorts and a kaki top out of her bag, 'but I am not Amanda, am I?' she continued turning to look at her friend and waving her shorts at her.
'Vixen, put the shorts down and take two steps back.' said Jade in mock uneasiness as though the shorts were some deadly weapon. The two girls giggled and Vixen threw the shorts in Jade's face, which she then returned.
Once they had changed, they went out into the hall where the teacher had set up a certain amount of horizontal bars. Some higher than others, some to walk on, some to swing on.
'All right!' exclaimed Kurt coming out of the opposite corridor. 'I'm brilliant on these!'
'Awesome, so am I!' cried Vixen also looking up in delight at the bars. 'We can have a contest.' she looked provocatively at him sideways.
'You're on.' he answered puffing out his chest in pride, trying to look bigger, but Jade groaned.
'I suck at these.' she said grimacing up at the high bars. The three friends looked around at the other students and saw that most of them looked apprehensive at the thought of having to get up on the high bars.
'Right Class.' said the teacher happily, clapping her hands together and looking around at the uneasy teenagers. 'I know some of you will be nervous and down right scared at first, but I promise you that the cushions on the floor will protect you if, and I said if, you fall.' many of the faces turned a pale shade of green. 'Now,' she continued, oblivious to the fact that the kids were even less enthusiastic than earlier, 'who here has done this before?'
Kurt and Vixen's hands flew into the air immediately as one or two others slowly inched up timidly. The blond girl looked challengingly at her German friend who returned the look.
'Miss Davies and Master Wagner.' said the teacher delightedly, 'How long did you both do it for?'
'I trained as an acrobat in the circus.' declared Kurt proudly, brushing his hair out of his smug face.
'Pfft.' said Vixen loudly rolling her eyes to the ceiling, 'I've been good at it my whole life, and I've trained as an gymnast since I was… about eight.' she finished looking at Kurt with a provocative eyebrow up.
'Well,' continued Kurt looking offhandedly at his finger nails, 'I trained all my life.' he smiled smugly at her.
'Very good, both of you!' cried the teacher excitedly, 'would you like to give us a demonstration?'
'Sure.' replied the girl haughtily, 'Which bar? The high one? Horizontal? I'm good with any.'
'So am I.' added the young man beside her.
'What would you all like to see, class?' asked the teacher, looking at the other pupils.
'The high one.' came one voice from the back. Vixen turned her head towards Kurt and nodded, he nodded back and they both ran towards the bars.
Kurt jumped up from the lower bars to the higher ones and then finally the highest where he crouched, while Vixen followed and came to rest beside him.
'Ladies first.' said Kurt moving over to the side of the bar to give Vixen enough place to move about freely.
'Ooh!' answered the girl smiling at him, ' a gentleman as well? Where's the catch?' then she grabbed the bar and let herself fall forwards.
There was a collective intake of breath from the class as she did a summersault in mid air, managing to seize the rail before plummeting to the ground. She then reached her legs up and wrapped them around the pole and let go with her hands, swinging back and forth upside down.
She swung harder and harder until she was nearly level with the bar, and then she swung as hard as she could making her go all the way around, still clinging on with her legs.
The class gasped again as she continued to go round and round the bar, before letting go with her legs and somehow ending up standing on the bar, arms outstretched for balance and a flirty look on her face.
The class broke into eager applause, and she took a small bow but then she bent her knees again and sprung off backwards. Yet again everyone gasped in horror and someone even screamed slightly, but Vixen landed lightly on the horizontal beam behind the high bar.
'Okay, my turn.' said Kurt standing up on the bar and smiling down at Vixen below and behind him. He bent his knees and jumped high into the air making the class take yet another sharp intake of breath, then he did a double summersault in the air before landing gracefully back on the bar.
He then sprung back up and did a triple sideways spin before he even started falling. When he did start falling, he missed the bar (someone in the class screamed again), and grabbed hold of it with his legs as Vixen had before him.
Then he started swinging as well, higher and higher before letting his legs release it, doing another summersault and grabbing it with his hands. He continued swinging and swung himself level with it then, doing a back-flip, landed in a crouching position back on the bar.
Vixen quickly closed her mouth and discarded the dreamy look on her face, she then looked back at the class and saw Jade watching her with a raised eyebrow.
Vixen shrugged at her with an apologetic look and Jade nodded as though she understood what Vixen had been watching.
'Well…' said the teacher, clapping fanatically along with the rest of the class, 'that was… spectacular! Wasn't it class?' the class cheered their agreement.
Vixen did a back-flip off of the beam and made her way back to the crowd where she met up with Jade.
'I saw you watching him.' she whispered, making sure noone could hear her (with her powers, since she controls sound!), 'Or should I say… his ass?'
'Jade!' replied Vixen affronted, looking at her in astonishment. 'He's my best friend!' there was a pause, 'I was looking at… the way he… NO! His talents.' Jade laughed disbelievingly as Kurt joined them.
'Wow, Vixen!' he cried as he got to them with a huge grin on his face, 'You were… incredible!' she smiled broadly, 'You so beat me!!!'
'Oh, I don't think so,' she answered blushing, 'I mean, I could never have jumped as high as you, or, or done that… thing you did…'
'No, you soo beat me!' he interrupted, shaking his head. He then took her by the shoulders and continued. 'I'm proud to be outdone by you.'
The girl suddenly got the strange feeling in the pit of her stomach again and, hoping it wouldn't show, she hugged him trying to make it go away.
When she pulled away, he smiled at her for a moment longer then moved away to do the exercise the teacher had been explaining in the background.
'Just so you know,' added Jade leaning in towards her from the side to speak in her ear, 'he was watching you as well.'
'We weren't watching each other, Jade.' snapped the blond girl, 'we were… err… defining the limit of each others… err… capacities.' when she had finished speaking, she nodded as though convincing herself as well as her best friend.
'Well, you might have been,' continued Jade shrugging uninterestedly, 'but he sure wasn't. He was staring at you… and your ass.' whereupon she wandered off, Vixen glowered at her as she went, but then her gaze fell on Kurt who was helping someone onto the beam.
Vixen's face slowly altered into a look of intense longing, even though she didn't quite understand what she was longing for.
She smiled as he shoved the person onto the plank, he then looked over at her and smiled. She waved vaguely at him, still with her smile, then he made a face at her making her laugh out loud and come back to her senses.