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We woke up this morning to a bright, hot day (and no memory of what had happened the night before, thanks to my mind meddling). When we went down for breakfast, the guys were already there in their swimming trunks, having already decided that since it was a Saturday and so hot out, we should all go swimming.
"Um, I don't have a swim suit. But I'll still come watch you guys." I said as Peter took a seat beside me.
"No way! You'll just be dying sitting there! I'll lend you something." Jubilee promised.
"Oh, I don't know…" I said. Jubilee's style was…too much. She always had on some crazy outfit, hoping to set a new trend, and she was always showing more skin than necessary.
"Don't be selfish, Shad!" Jubilee had this nickname picked out for me and stuck to it. Apparently the "ow" part of my name was too much. "It won't be fun with you mopping beside the pool. And Peter must be dying to see you in a bathing suit!"
Everyone at the table snickered. Peter's face went bright red and avoided my eyes. I've been suppressing the urge to kill Jubilee for quite sometime, but now I was seriously considering giving into those urges.
With a whole lot of peer pressuring, my friends got me into Jubilee's scandalous yellow bikini and down to the pool.
As I walked by, the school's known pervert Arez, whistled at me.
"Hey new girl, why don't I show you around?" Arez called to me. "Just you, me, and that bikini. And if you think three's a crowd, don't bother with the bikini!"
I quickly wrapped my towel around me. I was about to use my powers to make the perv think he was dog for the rest of his life when Peter came to my rescue.
"Shut up, Arez." Peter said, his voice dangerously quiet. He looked down at the much smaller boy threateningly.
"Or what, tin man? You'll squash me?" Arez snickered pushing past Peter and coming closer to me. I threw up a psychic shield, keeping him at bay.
"Oh, what? Playing hard to get now?" Arez tested the shield between us, looking for an opening. Again he whistled. "Nice shield. Very sturdy. So I'm guessing we won't need condoms then?"
Suddenly Peter was behind him in his Colossus form. He picked up the sleaze and threw him high over the school and out of sight.
We all stared open mouthed at the usually quiet, gently giant. He just shrugged. "He's a teleporter, he'll live. Are you okay, Shadow?"
I nodded. Peter gave me a smile than followed his friends to the poolside. On lookers clapped and cheered on my hero, glad to have the pervert removed.
"It so cute how he has a crush on you." Kitty said, placing her pool bag by a lawn chair.
"What?" I asked, trying to sound like I had no idea what she was talking about.
"Its sooooooo obvious." Jubilee contributed.
"Yeah, Ah mean, he never came in a girl's room before. But you got him to." Rogue said. Seeing my confused look, she explained. "Sometimes we invite the guys into our room, yah know, to hang out if the rec room on our floor is full. The other guys had no problem with it but Pete refused to come in. We had to leave the door open so we could talk to 'im
While he sat in the hallway. Ah dunno, maybe he just decided it was worth it."
The other girls smiled at me goofily.
"Whatever, I'm sure he was just tired of always waiting in the hall." I mumbled, pulling my towel closer around me.
"And what about just now? He threw a guy over the school to protect you!" Paige exclaimed. "Petey hates attention, and tries to avoid fights."
I shrugged. "I hardly know him."
"And what were the two of you doing last night? Walking around together. Alone." Kitty grinned mischievously at me. I gave her look, willing her to shut up.
"What's this about?" We turned around to see Logan coming up to us.
"Oh, nothing Logan." Rogue told him. She was probably the most comfortable out of all of us with the surely teacher. Something about him saving her a few times. "We were just talking abou' teenager girls' love lives."
Hearing that, Logan grunted and walked away. We giggled and thanked Rogue.
"So are we going swimming or not?" Rahne said, changing the subject. I smiled gratefully at her. The wolf girl gave me a wink before running and diving into the Olympic sized swimming pool.
"Just don't go wolf on us! Its gross swimming in a pool with dog hair." Paige called before following her.
The other girls followed. Kitty dived into the pool. Once she resurfaced, she called. "Hey Shadow! Arnt you coming?"
"Um," I looked around. After the incident with Arez, I really didn't want any more attention because of Jubilee's stupid bikini.
Before I had a chance to answer, John and Sam came up from behind me and threw me into the pool. I quickly sank to the bottom. From above I could hear laughter. Hurriedly, I swam to the surface for air.
"Very bad idea, boys." I said, an evil grin on my face. Using my telekonesis, I picked up both boys and held them high above the pool. Ignoring their pleas, I dropped them. The entered the pool with a painful splash. After that, it became a game. Boys tried to dump the girls, girls tried to dump the guys.
I giggled hysterically, hovering out of the reach of John who wished to seek revenge. Us girls were ahead. Kitty phased just as Bobby tried to tackle her into the pool, the result him falling in. Rahn was in wolf form, working with Paige to trip Robert in. Jubilee was just about to be thrown in by Sam, but I used my telekinesis to float her out of harms way.
The only one who wasn't taking part was Rogue. She sat by the poolside sadly, dipping her feet in.
Using my powers to create a wave that knocked John away, I flew over to her.
"Hi Rogue." I greeted my roommate.
"Huh? Oh, hi." She fake a smile for a moment, then gave up. I knew what was bothering her. She couldn't play the game, it involved too much physical contact. I knew how scared she was to even have this much skin showing.
Besides that, Gambit was laying in one of the deck chairs, dozing while he got a tan. I sensed that her breath was short because he was so close and that she wanted more than anything for him to notice her.
Well, I thought grimly, if she can take part in the game, maybe she'll forget about him.
Concentrating on her bare skin, I drew up the shield I used the other day. It was a little thicker than before, and it didn't feel like skin, but it covered her entire body and stayed in place.
Smiling, I touched her shoulder. She looked up at me in surprise.
"Is-is it work-can Ah- really?" Rogue stuttered.
I smiled at nodded at her. "Its not as good as the one yesterday, because I'm covering all of you and we didn't get a chance to experiment, but it works. Now go."
I shoved her into the pool playfully. When she resurfaced, she smiled gratefully at me. "Ah'm gonna get yah back for that." With that she swam off to assist Jubilee in dragging John into the pool. I laughed as I walked from the poolside and sat on a deckchair.
"That was very kind of you." I looked around and saw Peter standing behind me. I had to shade my eyes to look all the way up at him.
"Well, I'm just glad its working. Rogue deserves to be able to have a good time with us. Mutation or no mutation. Thanks for before, with Arez." I thanked him.
"It was no trouble, you didn't deserve to have that boy bothering you." Peter gave me a bashful smile. "Though I can see why he would try, you do look quite nice in that bathing suit."
I had completely forgotten about the darn suit after I'd been thrown in. I blushed and grabbed a towel from close by. Peter took a seat beside me.
"I am going to burn this suit than kill Jubilee." I muttered. Peter laughed.
We continued to watch the others play war pool. Kitty was on Robert's shoulders and Rahn on Sam's and both were trying to wrestle the other team into the water. Jubilee was shooting fireworks at John, who had pulled her into the pool while she was trying to tan.
Bobby was throwing a reluctant Rogue into the pool.
Suddenly all eyes were on the two of them. Bobby had thrown her in, but it appeared that Rogue hit the poolside when thrown in, from everyone's reaction and her scream. Everyone but Peter and me gathered around, worried.
"Geez Bobby, you can be such a moron! What did she hit?" John smacked his friend over the head.
That's odd, I thought, I didn't she her hit anything and I don't sense any pain from her…
"I think I saw her hit her ankle." Paige supplied.
"While y'll just standing around, yah friend seems to be drowning." The Cajun drawled. "Stupid move, ice boy."
With that he dove into the pull and pulled Rogue out. Swimming over to the poolside, he helped her out and got out himself. Once both on dry land, Gambit picked Rogue up into his arms.
"Yah alrigh' petite?" Gambit asked the teenage girl in his arms.
I sensed excitement, nervousness, and attraction from Rogue, but still no pain.
"Ah, Ah dunno." She said weakly. "Ah think Ah hurt my ankle while being tossed in."
Gambit glared at Bobby who had come over.
"I'm so sorry Rogue! I thought I threw you far enough awa-" Gambit interrupted Bobby's apology.
"Sorry don' make this better." He said coldly. To Rogue he said. "I'll take yah to the Med Bay, do yah think yah can walk."
"Ah don't think so." Rogue said.
"I'll take her! I'm her boyfr-" Again Bobby was interrupted, but this time by Rogue.
"Stay away from meh, Drake! Yah caused enough trouble." With that Gambit carried her away.
As they past us, I heard Gambit say, "Ah'm Remy, by the way. Remy LeBeau."
I shook my head at my roommate's silliness. She wasn't hurt, but she took the opportunity to play damsel in distress to end up in the Cajun's arms.
Slowly, everyone started playing again. Though Bobby wasn't as into it as before.
After a few moments of thinking what Rogue did I had to say something. "But you didn't have to do that though."
Peter looked away from the pool war and gave me a confused look. "Do what?"
" 'Rescue" me from that prick. I can look after myself." I told him. I was never one to be a damsel in distress. At my old school, it was my reputation to be the tough little fighter. While on the run, the other kids expected me to fight and protect them. I've still yet earn my reputation at this school, and perhaps me throwing the pervert over the school would have earned it back.
"I was just trying to help." Peter said, a down hearted look on his face. Suddenly, it changed to a devilish grin. "So you can look after yourself, huh?"
I gave him a mistrustfullook.
"Yeah…" I said slowly.
"Don't need anyone to protect you?" Peter's smile grew.
"Yup."
"You're a tough girl and a fighter?"
"Yup yup."
" Alright then, prove it." The lummox grabbed me and easily swung me over his shoulder. I shrieked and kicked at his muscled chest.
"What?" I said shrilly. Seeing we were walking towards the poolside, I beat on his back. "Uh-uh! No way! Don't you dare Peter! I swear, I'll-"
"Come on Shadow." Peter said, twirling around to make me dizy. "I thought you could look after yourself? Besides, the guy's team is down and I think you count for at least five points."
He laughed good naturedly and I struggled to escape his grasp. Now the boys were laughing at me to, while the girls yelled encouragingly at me. This was so undignified!
"One," Peter said in a sing song voice.
"Don't you dar-" I warned.
"Two," Now the other boys were counting with Peter.
"I'm warning you-"
"Three!" Peter chucked me towards the water. But I never broke the surface.
I flew up high into the air and came up to Peter from behind. He swung around, shocked.
I gave him an evil grin.
"I told you." I said sweetly. I kissed his nose before using my telekinesis to shove the giant into the pool.
The boys moaned at their comrade's misfortune while the girls cheered me on. I flew high above the pool, giggling as I bowed. I let out an Amazonian warrior cry before cannonballing into the pool. Resurfacing, I saw Peter treading water beside me, smiling at me with respect.
"All right, that's enough of your childish games." Ororo, Storm, called from the safety of the deck. "Come in for lunch. Or would you rather do your Danger Room session on empty stomachs?"
Everyone groaned and climbed out of the pool.
"And I don't want you playing so roughly any more. Thankfully Rogue wasn't hurt but next time something serious could happen." Ororo said sternly.
Everyone mumbled an apology and promised not to do it again as they filed past the weather witch. I was the last one.
As I past her, I heard her ask. "So who won?"
Surprised, I answered. "Girls did."
She smiled and gave me a high five before we both went inside for lunch.
Storm is a pretty cool teacher.