X-Men Evolution: Rogue Evolution

A Day in the Life 3.6

After a week of non-stop 'new,' new school, new workout routine, new roommates, new life, existence felt like it had finally begun to more or less settle. Things still weren't great, but at least Anna had grown to know what to expect. For example, Kitty in the morning was a frigged bitch and in the afternoon was a non-stop chatterbox that could talk the paint off a wall. Evan was an equally frigged bitch except you couldn't bribe him with coffee to melt the ice off his hackles. King and queen Scott and Jean were ever absent, not that Anna was complaining, and Kurt was a gigantic doofus. A doofus who, Anna would never admit to his face, was a lovable kind-hearted little twerp who never seemed at loss for something nice to say about anyone or anything and few things seemed to ever phase him. Which is why it struck Anna as odd when she felt Kurt suddenly stop in his tracks on their way to their lunch table.

Anna turned and found herself standing several feet in front of the frozen line of her roommates as they started ahead in petrified horror. She looked at them, then in the direction where their eyes were fixed, and found the lunch table they had been sitting at for the past week occupied by two gross-looking dudes.

The pair were two different breeds of gross looking. One had longish hair that just reached past his ears. Even from where Anna stood she could see it was a tangled and greasy mess. Likely he was the type that didn't comb because 'it was gay' or something equally as asinine. He wore a brown vest, the buckle in the back that was meant to sinch the waist had long been broken off and now only frayed bits of fabric, and indigo blue jeans that were distressed around the knees like he never got the update that 90s' grunge was dead. The other boy was more typically disgusting. His sallow-looking skin was covered in pimples, and he wore a filthy-looking flat-rimmed cap with a logo of some team Anna had never heard of. He wore a shirt that was several times too big with a gigantic hole in one of the armpits, and a tank top underneath Anna was fairly sure was intended to be a white color originally. The two looked deeply involved in some conversation and hadn't yet noticed them.

Anna looked back at her statued companions and made to say something when Kurt cut her off at the pass.

"There are other tables outside the courtyard." He grimaced and made to turn.

"Who the hell are those guys and why do they have you guys sweating so damn much?"

"They're trouble." Evan nodded at Kurt and made to join him.

"We'll explain later, Anna. Just trust us, the table isn't worth it." With that Kurt and Evan both made strides past the exit of the cafeteria, towards a shady breezeway leading beyond the school walls. Anna watched Kitty and noticed her eyes dodging both Anna's and the boys. She spared another glance in the direction of their table intruders, ducked her head, then followed after Kurt and Evan.

Anna sifted her jaw back and forth as she followed after. She could feel the muscles in her shoulders and forearms tighten, but if that was from the stress of the situation or fatigue from Logan's sadistic workout routine, it was hard to say. She had just entered the shade of the darkened breezeway when she heard the drop of something light and tinny sounding. Loud voices then bounced off the walls too distorted to make out, but she thought they might be Evan's. She peered down the dark stretch of corridor, her eyes struggling to adjust to the low light. On the other side, she could see a square of daylight where the hall ended, then the square was obscured by something big and round. There was a loud snap and the sound of a shrill scream that sounded like it could have come from Kitty.

Anna dropped her food and raced down the long throat of the corridor till she spotted the figures of her roommates standing before the eclipsed silhouette of a giant standing right in front of Kurt. The goliath's hands balled into fists, he stepped up to Kurt, one of his feet crushing what Anna could now see was Kurt's lunch tray.