As Katie entered the room, Xavier ceased in his explanation of the periodic table and who had invented it, turning his wheelchair to face her. She stood in the doorway, momentarily paralyzed with embarrassment, and then quickly took her seat next to Nicole with an uttered "Sorry Professor."
As Xavier began his lecture once more so Katie wouldn't miss anything, turned to Katie with a questioning look. Katie determinedly ignored her friend, not really feeling like answering her questions; she took out a notebook and began to take notes. She vaguely heard Nicole's grumbling sigh before she heard the scratching of her pen on her own note book, the pen suspended in thin air above the paper and appearing to be writing on its own.
The class continued as usual, no one (not even Pyro) being brave enough to cause some sort of commotion in Xavier's class. It wasn't boring, per se, just rather unexciting. The motion of waves and different atoms simply being not much cause for joy. But the period did pass rather quickly, and most everyone was surprised to here the bell ring.
"Already? Wow." Someone stage-whispered to the kid next to them.
Katie tried to gather her things as quickly as possible, not really wanting Nicole to start re-asking her all those questions, but was interrupted by Xavier. "Would you mind waiting a moment?" He asked them, making kind but piercing eye contact.
Katie flinched, pausing in her gathering of her personal belongings. Nicole who already had her bag slung over her shoulder muttered, "I'll wait for you outside K?" looking uncertainly from Katie to Xavier, wondering what he could possibly want with Katie. If anything, Katie was her better at resisting the temptation to do bad things.
Xavier looked from Katie to Nicole and smiled, "I meant the both of you. If you don't mind, Nicole?" he inquired softly, raising his brows as if daring her to contradict him.
"No, sir. I don't mind." She mumbled meekly, letting her bag slide off of her arm and onto the floor, standing next to Katie. Waiting for the worst.
He looked up at them, though they rather felt like they were looking up at him, eyes as kind as ever, but knowing. "You've both seemed rather disturbed lately. Is there anything you would like to tell me about?" He asked gently, almost expectantly. He knew a great deal more than anyone else ever noticed.
Both girls' eyes widened in shock, turning in unison to exchange a look of utmost horror. "No, Professor. There's nothing..." Katie said softly, not exactly meeting his eyes, while clasping her hands together tightly to keep them from trembling and thinking determinedly about anything other than Scott. Nicole shook her head in earnest, all the while trying to block out the memories of Logan's knack at annoying, confusing, and arousing her.
Xavier looked at them both in turn, blue eyes sparkling with knowing, but did not ask anything more. If they were to tell him anything, even though he might already know what it is, they would do it on their own.
"Nothing's on our minds... just... lots of tests and things, Professor. Nothing major." Nicole said, smiling and trying to fluff it off.
He nodded at them, still smiling. "Well, if there is anything, I want you to know that you can tell me." He let a brief, guilt-laden (on their parts) silence elapse. "That was all; you can go to class now."
Katie nodded at him, thoughts undeniably and unbreakably centered on what she couldn't think about in front of the telepath. With both of their hearts pounding, they left the room. The minute that they though they were out of "thought shot" (as was the case), the duo immediately burst into speech.
"Agh... he must know something's up." Nicole moaned, covering her face and nearly walking into a few other students that were headed in the opposite direction.
Katie snorted, "Yeah, you think? Then again, we haven't really done anything. Well, I haven't anyway." Katie replied, smirking at Nicole, who peeked through her fingers at her reproachfully.
"Oh, ha very funny. It's not like I had a choice."
"Well, you're the one who can phase through solid objects, not me. Don't you think you could have taken advantage in said situation?"
Nicole froze, suddenly realizing that yes, she could simply have phased right through the wall and out of Logan's reach. "Well... its not like I had time to really think about what was going on..." She trailed off, giving Katie a look. "I'd like to see you form a coherent thought if he randomly pinned you against a wall and kissed you," She muttered, trying to (sort of) defend herself. It was alright for Katie, being all high and mighty; she hadn't actually had anything happen. Well, not when she was conscious anyway. One couldn't exactly prevent someone from kissing you while asleep. Then again, when she really thought about it, if she had really not wanted to be kissed by Logan, she would have phased through the wall and into the hallway beyond.
Katie laughed, "Well, I would be able to seeing as I don't go for men with a large amount of facial or chest hair." she commented laughingly.
Nicole blushed, "His sideburns aren't that bad...they sort of... tickle." She began, but before she could finish any other statement, Katie burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"They tickle! Oh, that's priceless!"
Nicole looked at her friend a bit confused, wondering why her comment had been so very funny. "Well, they do-" She tried to continue, but was cut off by Katie's uncontrollable, nearly hysteric laughter.
Other students gave them a few odd looks (well, as odd as you can look at someone when you're hardly normal yourself). Katie kept laughing all the way to English, though by the time she'd sat down and faced Storm, the laughing had died to hiccups. "Oh Nicole..." she murmured to herself and her friend sitting next to her as usual. (Their geography teacher McCoy had once made a comment about declaring them "NicoleandKatie", all one word, because they were always together). "They tickle... ha ha..."
Nicole folded her arms grumpily, glaring at Katie from the corner of her eye. "Well they do, and I wouldn't be surprised if Scott had chest hair as well. Because its just unrealistic to think that all men look like the guys on the front of romance novels, their chests all gleaming and bald..." she snapped, expressing her dislike of the unrealistic-ness of romance novel covers.
Katie tried not to snort as Storm continued to pass out reading books. They were going to read a romance novel, she had explained, just to mix it up a bit. Katie turned to look at Nicole, "I hope you're not disappointed with the cover of our book... you could always cover it with blank paper and put a sketch of Logan on the front..." she teased, waggling her eyebrows teasingly.
Katie accepted the book with a smile, more at the indignantly muttering Nicole than anything. The cover depicted a darkened, spiky, gothic-esque castle, with the usual dirtily embracing couple at the foreground. The woman was a redhead, pale and clad in a very, very revealing green corset-ed dress, and the man (wearing black, obviously), was grinning scarily and eyeing her neck with shiny silver teeth. "Oooh! A Vampire one... 'Midnight Lover'" Katie murmured to Nicole.
There were several loud retching sounds from the boys at the back of the room as they were passed their books, and the furious clicking of Pyro's lighter.
"Why are we reading a vampire romance novel?" Nicole mumbled questioningly, her eyes were glazed as she stared down at the cover.
Storm answered her question. "We're going to be reading this book to examine the idea that vampires are a sort of mutant as well, though the typical romantic version of a vampire is made, not born. But there are mutants that appear to have a sort of, Vampire Complex, possessing incredible regenerative abilities and an unusual lust for blood." She spoke loudly so everyone could hear her over the clicking of that god damned lighter. "John! Please, I'm speaking." she scolded, giving Pyro 'the disappointed teacher look'.
"Yeah," Nicole snapped, turning around to face the grinning Pyro. "It's annoying. Like you." John just laughed, blowing Nicole a kiss and winking.
Pyro, ignoring the homework written on the board (he'd just smile at someone later and she'd tell him), went flipping through the book. "Hm... Wonder if there are any good scenes..." he murmured to himself, grinning. There were a good amount, most rather descriptive (not the usual school-appropriate fare, but this wasn't a normal school), but what he came to first was one of the very many, heavy-heavy flirting moments that made you want to rip their clothes off for them.
Pyro laughed, and it echoed throughout the room. Storm had given them a few minutes to begin reading the first chapter. Clearing his throat and standing up, he figured that he was doing his fellow male students a favor by reciting one of the good parts. "'Vincent, doesn't it ever get lonely? Living forever, and never having someone by your side to tend to your needs?' Anna murmured breathily, tracing her fingers over a smooth, un-aged cheek, staring up into deep, fathomless black eyes. Grinning, Vincent pulled Anna close, pressing her alluring length against his yearning body. "No. Not now that I have you here with me, my pet." his voice was a heavy, breathy purr . His breath bathed Anna's bared neck with delicious warmth. Sighing, she clutched at his shirt, giving in to his will. Lips whispered lovingly across her trembling flesh, a hot tongue sliding luxuriously over her skin to ease the sting of his fangs as they sank into her. With a guttural moan, he drew at her very heartstrings as he drew her blood, bubbling hot and delicious into his mouth. She was his forever, and he would show her just how much he appreciated that he had something deliciously warm in his bed after so many years of solitude...'" he recited dramatically, looking at each girl in the room in turn. Everyone had turned to look at him, shocked. All of the girls sighed, and grinned dreamily, and the male population of the room was frantically flipping through the pages, desperately trying to find where Pyro was reading from.
"Well, that was fairly interesting," Katie commented, picking up her things, as the bell had rung some ten seconds after Pyro had finished his performance. "I think we're going to enjoy reading this particular book..."
Nicole rolled her eyes at her friend. "I'm just hoping we don't have to read any of the sex scenes out loud. That would be interesting."
Katie giggled a bit. "You're just sad Logan's not a vampire... kind of kills your in-class daydreaming, doesn't it?"
Nicole frowned, glaring at Katie in a miffed fashion. "No, I'm not sad in the slightest. If he were, then he would have sucked me dry rather than kiss-" "Shhh!!" Katie cut Nicole's sentence off, motioning for her to stop talking. Silently she ushered a flustered Nicole from the room and into the hallway. "You shouldn't go shouting things like that out loud in a class room. Especially in front of other faculty! They could tell Xavier..." Katie hissed, giving Nicole an exasperated look.
Sighing, Nicole shrugged nonchalantly. "Whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if he went around shouting about what he did on the roof tops so everyone in Westchester could hear." she grumbled.
Katie rolled her eyes at Nicole. "I don't think even Logan would be that stupid."