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Chapter 2

Logan stumbled from the bedroom and into the hall after groping blindly for the door handle and closing it firmly behind him. He breathed deeply and leaned against the wall.

Damn. Damn. Damn.

He had heard her shriek from down the corridor when he had been on his way to see her and he had panicked, not even thinking when he burst through the door ready for anything. Well...anything other than the actual situation. Seeing Marie sprawled out on the floor with only a towel covering her body – and not very well as it had ridden up to her thighs – was not exactly what he had expected to see.

"Damn it," he growled viciously, thumping the wall with a balled up fist he stalked down the hall intending on having a very long danger room session.

When Marie had told herself that her day could get no worse she did not realise how wrong she could be. Oh it wasn't big things to begin with. It was lots of little things that added together.

First a pen burst on her bed covering her light blue duvet with sticky black ink, then, while putting on her gloves she ripped a finger and she had to dig around looking for another pair – it wasn't that she had a lack of gloves but she had had everything laid out nicely for her just to put on and gradually her overall plan for the morning was deteriorating - , her hair dryer blue a fuse half way through drying her hair so she had to resort to pulling it into a bun at the back of her head and last but not least just as she was pulling in her sweater Jubilee came bursting into the room screeching at the top of her lung about something. Just as she turned to face the noise her foot caught on the cable of her broken hairdryer and sent her flying towards the ink filled bed covering her top in ink.

Marie had had enough. She moaned in annoyance as she straightened herself form the undignified heap she had landed in and glared at her friend.

"Roguey you will never guess in a million years what is happening," Jubilee continued undisturbed and unaware of the havoc that she had just caused - paying no attention to her fuming friend on the bed.

Marie really did love her friend to bits but she really was clueless sometimes and this was one of them times.

"Try, try and guess," Jubilee yelled in excitement jumping about the room like a crazy banana.

"No you never will so I'll tell you," she burst before Marie could even gather breath. All of the anger and frustration Marie had felt building inside her faded quickly and she couldn't fight the smile that came to her lips. Jubilee was hilarious in this kind of mood.

"All classes are cancelled," she announced.

What!

That got Marie's attention and her eyes darted from her study of her ruined shirt to Jubilee who was jumping up and down and clapping her hands.

"Why?" she asked. Classes were never cancelled. In all the time she had been at the mansion she never once remembered classes being cancelled – it just wasn't done. With people like Scott and the professor in the building it was a miracle that they even got any holidays.

Jubilee let out a high pitched squeal.

"We're practising instead,"

"What do you mean 'practising'?" Marie asked, her attention well and truly got. Just what had been happening in the school while she had been having a shower?

"For the auditions tomorrow,"

"What auditions?" Marie was getting more confused by the second.

"The school is putting on a show chica. Can you believe it? This is the most exciting thing ever. I can't believe it," she continued, shrieking in excitement.

Marie couldn't help the feeling of excitement that began to grow inside her. A show. And the school was going to perform it. Forgetting all about the ink stain down her shirt and all over her bed she gave her friend her undivided attention.

"What are we doing?" she asked, a grin coming to her face.

"Beauty and the Beast,"

Beauty and the Beast!

Her most favourite story ever and the school were going to perform it.

Marie smiled inwardly, remembering the night that she and Logan had sat in the abandoned rec room one night watching the cartoon. The film never failed to make her feel good. It was such a nice ending – the only thing that was wrong was that he had to turn make into a person at the end. In her eyes the beast was a lot more attractive.

Yes, she could just imagine herself now sitting quite happily in the audience...

"And you and me..."

...lost in her favourite story...

"...are going to knock their socks off at the auditions,"

...as it unfolded before her ey –

"What?"

"You and me Roguey, takin' down the house," Jubilee waved her hands in the air grinning madly.

What! I don't perform...and I only sing in the shower.

"No way uh uh," Marie shook her head in determination.

Jubilee lowered her arms and the smile faded slowly from her lips and was replaced with first a frown and then a childish frown as her eyes became watery.

Marie only laughed at her friends reaction.

"Oh no you don't Jube," she told her firmly standing up quickly and spinning about, stripping her bed of the ink stained sheets and glad to see that the ink hadn't gone all the way through to her quilt.

"Pleeeeeease. Pleeeeeeeease, pleeeeeeeease, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease," Jubilee begged unashamedly, dancing around Marie as she dumped her bedding near the door to take to the laundry room when she left the room.

"You have such a great voice,"

Marie shook her head trying her best to remain un-touched by her friends begging and flattery.

"Come on girl we are going to make Bobby regret the day he chose Kitty," Jubilee planted herself in front of her with hands on her hips a firm look of determination on her face.

"How?" Mari chocked out having no idea just where her friends crazy thought process had taken her. How was an audition supposed to make Bobby jealous? She didn't even care about making him jealous anyway the lying, cheating weasel. Kitty was welcome to him.

"It is a window of opportunity all we need to do it find you the right song,"

Marie rolled her eyes smiling slightly as she scooped the bedding from the floor and opened the door only to stop as she bumped into a chest as hard as a brick wall.

"Pete, what are you doing?" she gasped, regaining her balance and looking up into the smiling face of Colossus.

"Sorry Rogue, Jubilee told me to come," he smiled picking up the washing she had dropped and handing the pile to her.

"Thanks. Well she's in there," Marie stepped out the door and gestured with her head towards her fuming friend who had obviously not finished the conversation.

"Well...actually she had told me to come and see you," he said rubbing the back of his neck and looking sheepish.

"Why?" Marie raised an eye brow in his direction. She had been hoping for a quick get away from Jubilee but it was not working at all to plan.

"Well...she said...um...that you would do a duet with me,"

Marie fought the urge to scream. This was Jubilee all over - using everyone in her little game.

"Listen Pete, I'm not auditioning OK. I'm sorry," she smiled weakly at him and bolted down the corridor towards the laundry room before guilt made her change her mind.

She opened the door and went straight for the machine and dumped the pile of bedding on the top of it to bend down and get the powder when something caught her eye.

There, mashed up together against the wall was Kitty and Bobby their mouths fused together in what could be classed as a passionate embrace.

I can't believe this.

She dropped the powder and it landed with a dull thud in the floor and they both stopped, turning to where the noise had came from.

Bobby's face was almost comical in its surprise and embarrassment while Kitty's eyes flashed with victory and spite.

She knew I was here all along.

Marie ran from the room and back down the corridor. It was bad enough that he had left her for Kitty and even though she had gotten over it she still felt pain when she saw them being able to do things that she never could. Holding hands...kissing – and not even the full out kissing that she had just caught them doing but the small pecks on the cheek or forehead...

She pushed open the door of her bedroom and slammed it behind her. Pete was still there and Jubilee seemed to have stopped mid-rant about something.

She looked at them both before she spoke.

"I'm in,"

Logan walked slowly from his room, heading for Marie's. It was early evening and had been a good eight or nine hours since the incident with Marie that morning.

Music was blasting from nearly every room in the building and his heightened senses were screaming with the strain. Stupid idea.

He stood in front of Marie's door and heard some conversation and was surprised to hear no music coming from inside.

"...not sure Jubilee," Marie's voice drifted to him soft and warm and unsure.

What were they doing?

"You'll be fine Pete showed us didn't he, you'll do great,"

Colossus?

Logan took a deep breath the scent of metal stinging his nose. The boy was in the room with them.

"But-"

"No buts,"

"The-"

"No,"

"Jubilee-"

"No,"

An exasperated sigh came from behind the door.

"Rogue you look fine, everything will be fine. Pete tell her," he heard Jubilee order.

"She's right Rogue. Besides there will only be me and you close enough to worry about the outfit and you don't need to worry about me – I can just metal over,"

What were they planning?

Whatever it was Marie was worried about her skin.

"And you look gorgeous,"

Hang on a second.

"I feel stupid,"

Another loud sigh came from the room.

"Only because you are used to the layers and baggy factor you look great,"

Logan decided that he wanted to see what was going on in the room and knocked loudly on the door.

Silence fell in the room.

"I'll get it,"

He heard Jubilee move towards the door and it opened a fraction until only her head was peeking out of the side.

She frowned at him in annoyance.

"Busy sorry," her head disappeared and he just slammed his foot in the gap before the door closed.

"I wanted to talk to Ma-Rogue," he told her as her head once again appeared.

"Umm..." her head disappeared again before re-appearing a second later.

"Sorry Wolvey will have to be tomorrow – top secret planning going on in here. In fact come to the auditions and you can see her then we'll be busy until then. Night,"

Logan just stared in shock at the closed door.

What was that about?

Hi guys.

Poor Marie having a bad morning - I have them all the time ;).

OK so let me know if you would like to know what the song that she is going to sing is before the next chapter is put up and I'll post it or you can live in suspense :)

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