Chapter 5

Next day in the school, Evan spent entire lunch break looking for Todd. He found him in the back of janitor's closet, smoking a cigarette.

"Hey."

"What's up, yo? You found something out?"

"Not really, but I think it might be interesting anyways. We, I mean Scott, Kurt and I, were on the movies yesterday. I don't know if it's true, but Kurt said that he saw Lance and Pietro sneaking out."

"And the didn't even try to kick your asses?"

"No."

"Ya' right. That is interesting. Considering that Lance said he had to do something in the city, yo. And then Wanda dragged us to the mall. And she didn't let us go back. Man, we had to stay there until the closing hours. Almost five fucking hours, yo! And then she dragged us around the city until midnight!"

"That sucks."

"Tellin' me? And today we found a note of the table, that we have to get to school ourselves because Lance already left. I got a week of detention for being an hour late."

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*flashback* About 4 a.m.

Lance woke up, as he felt cold air tingle his side. Apparently Pietro, who's previously been cuddled to him, sat up.

"Good morning," said rock-tumbler.

"Good morning my ass," said speedster grinning. "Thanks to you, I won't be able to sit for a week."

Lance laughed, quickly covering his mouth, not wanting to wake up Todd sleeping next door.

"You got problem with that Quicksilver?"

"Take a guess, Avalanche," with that albino lowered his face and kissed Lance passionately. Then he stood up and started dressing.

"What are you doing?"

"Getting dressed? We don't want the others to see us coming out of one room, right? Sometimes I wonder, if it's just the result my charm and intelligence or there actually is a plot for rent in your skull..."

Lance was about to smack the speedster, but then he just sighed and rolled to the other side of the bed. After all, he was right. No way, that he'll explain Fred or Todd what they were doing in one room for the whole night. Suddenly an idea came to him.

"You know what," rock-tumbler started. "I don't feel much like school. Let's make a trip."

"Where?"

"I don't know. New York, maybe. It's not that far. If we go now, we'll be there by the second period. So what do you say?"

"I'm taking back whatever I said about empty plot in your head."

Pietro kissed Lance again and left the room, obviously to get ready for the trip. The older boy could see how excited he was about going to the town he was raised in. He smilled and started to pull on his boxers. The day definitely had an interesting beginning.

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Lance watched Pietro dozing off at the passenger's seat. It was already getting dark and they were still closer to New York than home. The rock-tumbler sighed and tried, without much success, to keep his eyes on the road. Finally, after three hours of driving and about ten near-crash-experiences, he pulled over in front of the boarding house. He gently shook Pietro awake. The silver-haired boy mumbled something and opened his eyes.

"Are we there yet?"

Lance said nothing, just pointed at the house.

"What are we going to tell them?"

"We don't have to say anything. It's my damn car, I'll drive where I want with it!"

Pietro laughed and jumped out of the car. First thing they noticed as they stepped through the door was silence. The TV was on, alright, but there was not other sound associated with presence of anything alive except for the roaches in the walls (and even those were few. Todd said it's the best kind of snack).

"OK... where-the-hell-is-everybody?"

The older boy shrugged. As far as he was concerned the others might have been selling their souls to the devil at the very moment and he wouldn't care. He sat down at the shaky couch, flipping through the channels, Pietro cuddled to him, playing with few strands of his hair.

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If somebody would walk around the park around nine in the evening, he would notice three boys sitting at the benches, talking in hushed tones. One of them wore baggy clothes and played with a wheel of his skateboard, the other one had blue hair and spoke with an accent. The third one was crouching on the bench and one could have sworn, that he used his tongue to snatch an insect flying by.

"OK, so everybody knows what they have to do, right?" said Evan.

"Ja voll!"

"Yeah."

Todd grinned. If somebody told him that he'd be working with X-Geeks against his secretive team members, he would have laughed in their face. But today... Today was different.

What do you think? Is it good enough or should I drop it?