The Marvel Academy For Gifted Students

Love

Jean
Time had passed so fast with Logan than she only made it to her last class on the day, still no one asked for any explanations, it's not like she kept things away from their friends...well at least she didn't use to. Besides everyone was too busy talking about the Maximoff girl shattering all the windows, she had no opinion about it, it's not like she could control all of her abilities either.

Since it was Saturday she had promised Logan to help him all afternoon. Jean was so determined and excited to be working with him that she had stayed up late the night before, reading most of the Professor's papers on how the mind works.

"What are you doing?" Ororo asked her

Jean was getting all of her books inside her backpack when her roommate and best friend entered.

"Nothing...just organizing stuff" she lied

Her friend raised an eyebrow "Are you okay Jean? You know there's no school today, right?"

Jean rolled her eyes "I'm fine, I only have to...finish  homework"

That seemed to convince her "Okay, well then we should get going"

The red head frowned "What?"

Ororo frowned "You forgot?!"

"About what?"

"Oh my God, Jean!"

"What? What is it?"

"It's Scott's birthday!!!"

Crap, she thought, damn it, she cursed. She had forgotten about her boyfriend's birthday
"Oh, I know that, it's just that I didn't know what you were talking about"

Her friend laughed "You are a terrible liar, now c'mon, he's waiting for us, Reed Richards lent him his car"

Double damn it, she thought
"Great! I...I have to change! You go ahead, I'll catch up with you guys!"

Before Ororo could say anything else, she had almost pushed her out of the room.
Jean quickly changed her shirt so she wouldn't actually lie about changing, she quickly put lipstick on, took her backpack and went out through the window; she then ran to the small cottage and opened the door.
Logan sat smoking some cigarettes she had secretly bought for him. He looked up a bit startled for the door slamming.

"Are you okay?" He asked

"Yeah" she muttered trying to catch up her breath, finally she said "Logan, I'm sorry but I can't be with you today. If it's okay with you I'll return at night, meanwhile..." She handed him the backpack "Here are some papers The Professor has written about how the mind works, there's a part about the memory in there, also there's food, lots of it"

He gave a quick look inside "Thank you" his tone was dry but she saw actual gratitude in his eyes

"I'll see you later then" she said

Logan nodded and she was off running, without looking she entered her bedroom again and took out from her drawer Scott's gift bag...it wasn't like she had completely forgotten about it.

To her surprise Scott was waiting for her outside. She jumped back a bit
"You scared me" she explained

"I'm sorry" he apologized quickly

Jean smiled and hugged him "Happy birthday"

Scott grinned and pointed at the gift she was holding "Is that for me?"

She laughed and handed it out "I hope you like it"

Without saying another word he kissed her, she began laughing "You are going to ruin it"

He smiled and began opening the gift, Scott finally took out of the bag a black leather jacket "Jean... you didn't have to..."

She interrupted him "Stop, right there" she placed her finger on his lips "it's your birthday"

He smiled "Thank you"
The two stared at each other like fools. Scott took off the old jacket he was wearing and put on Jean's gift, she put the bag and the old jacket on her bed and they both walked outside holding hands.

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Logan

He had no idea of how he had entered the god forsaken school, and less the reason he was still there, hiding in a cottage. Don't get him wrong, he had been in worse situations but at the moment he could easily leave, yet he was there following some girl's instructions. He couldn't actually explain why he trusted her but he did.
Logan was used to be treated as a threat but she had looked at him with kind eyes, even offered to help him without getting anything in exchange, something about her eyes made him feel....safe? A part of him kept saying why are you still here? Trust no one, keep moving, you are being weak; still he didn't listen and stayed.