Rocking back and forth on her heels, she asked, "Can I go now, Professor?"
"Yes, Haley, get some rest," he instructed her wearily, forming a steeple with his fingers.
She quietly retreated to her room, embarrassed that once again she had found herself kissing Pietro and enjoying it. Only this time it was worse because only that morning had she confirmed that she had feelings for Kurt. She was stupid. She wanted to bang her head against the wall until she got some sense.
Knocking on his door, she called quietly, "Kurt?"
He flung the door open at the sound of Haley's voice, his tail thrashing madly. "Where on earth where you? Did he hurt you?" His eyes were wide with fear
She fell into his arms. "Can we just not talk about it?" she asked him softly. He nodded and kissed the top of her head. She felt like Kurt was too good for her.
As she sat on the bed with him, Haley began to wonder why she couldn't control her damn hormones around Pietro. She felt nothing for him! And yet he could get her to make out with him at the drop of the hat. It was sickening.
She felt terrible for not letting Kurt know about what happened. It wasn't right, but what happened wasn't either. She didn't want to hurt him. Haley cared so much for Kurt. She didn't want to ruin their relationship, yet she had gone and done something stupid that could have destroyed it.
"Kurt, I'm going to go to bed now," she gently said after a while. She kissed him on the lips.
"Sweet dreams," he told her, sad to see her go after having worried about her all night.
"'Night, Crawler," she said with a smile as she walked out of his room. He laughed lightly at her play on words.
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Pietro sat in the Brotherhood house. Once again, he was proud of himself. His little date with Haley had gone swimmingly. He especially liked the part where they started making out. He told her that he could change her mind. He was right. Well, that wasn't anything new to him. Pietro always considered himself right. Like gravity exsisting, it was just a fact.
The only sucky part was when that animal Badger barged in on them. That was so extremely rude! Didn't anyone at that little place for losers teach them manners? He then looked around the trashed room; it wasn't like the Brotherhood were any better though.
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"Ugh, I got no sleep last night," Kitty yawned as she sat down at the breakfast table with Haley.
"You got no sleep?" she asked in indignantly. She slipped her head into her hands with a groan.
Kitty rolled her eyes. "Evan is impossible to tutor. I spent an hour trying to get him to focus long enough on his homework to finish two problems. Tonight we're supposed to work on science. My brain's going to die." Haley giggled lightly at this.
"Hey, did you ever end up talking to Jean?" she asked, changing the subjects.
"Yeah, she just told me to try not to make Scott mad and not fight with him." Haley rolled her eyes, exasperated.
They both half-heartedly laughed. "Haley," Kitty lowered her voice. "What exactly happened last night?"
Haley slightly winced at the subject. Frowning, she replied, "I'll tell you later. This isn't exactly the best place?"
The other teen raised an eyebrow. "Why?" Just then, pretty much everyone walked in for breakfast. "Oh," she said, answering her own question.
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"Go away, Pietro," Haley growled, sensing he was behind her. Her nostrils flared in anger.Grinning cockily, he replied, "Hmm, looks like someone's upset about last night. It seemed like you were having fun until the badger came and broke it up."
She turned around and glared at him. "Do you know how much trouble you've caused me? I had to fight off the others to keep them from following me around all day." Pietro repositioned himself, so he could lean against the lockers. "It was bad! I didn't know Evan hated you that much. He wanted to use you for target practice."
"Oh, come on," he said, taking a step forward. She saw this coming and placed a small puddle right where his foot would land in a couple of strides. Sure enough, he slipped on it. "Well, that's not fair," he stated, looking up at her.
"It was fair last night when you kidnapped me!" Pietro started to get up. Haley backed away from him. "Stay away! You're a bad boy, Pietro."
He grinned devilishly. "That's what I like to hear."
She scoffed at his immaturity. "Bye, Pietro. Leave me alone." Haley quickly dashed off to class, fully aware that he could easily catch up with her. She just hoped he wouldn't.
During first period, Haley regretfully accounted to Kitty what had happened the previous night. It wasn't her proudest moment. It actually came nowhere even close to making the list. She had been totally disrespectful to her relationship with Kurt. However, Haley couldn't understand why, but she just couldn't help herself.
Kitty listened, totally torn between emotions. Should she be super pissed at Haley? It seemed that way. But listening to the way Haley told her the story made her think differently. She had seemed completely angry at herself when she had told Kitty the story. So, she chose to just let it sink in for a little while. The two were quiet for the remainder of the class.
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"Kurt…" Haley warned him steadily. It was lunch time, and he had been shooting glares at Pietro across the cafeteria for the longest time. Not that the others were helping. They all had been giving him dirty looks too. None of them listened to her. They continued glaring daggers at him and the rest of the Brotherhood.
She buried her head in frustration. A week ago her life had been much simpler. It was not exactly boring, but way simpler than it currently was.