The youngest member (X-Men Evolution)

Spyke Cam

-Bayville Middle School-

"So there I am minding my own business when my stupid older brother walks in and changes the channel! Right as they were announcing the winner! I can't stand him sometimes I swear-" Marigold was relaxing on one of the many swings that were behind the middle school. Recess was one of the few things that Marigold actually liked about middle school, the high school students would tell her how lucky she was to still have it.

Sandy was going off about another on of her siblings again and the whole group was listening. Sandy, Marigold had found out, had a way with her words. She was good at telling stories. Which Marigold envied very much, considering that she was barely brave enough to say the correct answer in class when the teacher called on her. 'to think that I go on dangerous missions with the X-men and take down bad guys on the regular and such trivial things in school fill me with fear' she thought to herself as she gently swung back and forth.

"Yo! Earth to Marigold!" She snapped out of her thoughts when Sandy snapped her fingers in front of her face. "Oh, sorry - I got lost in my head." Marigold said, blushing as the rest of the group was looking at her. She knew all their names, and they were all nice from the moment that Sandy introduced her to them. But after a few days she had figured out that she had become friends with the misfits of their grade. She didn't mind it, but that didn't stop some of the popular people from picking on her along with everyone else in her friend group from time to time. But it was worth it to have a good group of friends, Sandy the most. The two really had hit it off, and Marigold was thankful that she was kind enough to be friends with the 'new girl'.

"I can tell, did you even hear my question?" Sandy asked putting her hands on her hips. Marigold could feel her cheeks turning red as she shook her head back and forth. "Sandy asked about the people you go to that institute with! My older sister has a crush on Scott Summers." Ginger said with a smirk. "Yea, it must be annoying being the youngest at times." Sandy said. " I know I would get so annoyed if I had like 1,000 older siblings pushing me around all the time." Marigold shrugged her shoulders, while it was annoying that she had a few more rules than the older students. She wouldn't say that she disliked it. "I-I don't know really. They are nice to me."

And she had never considered them to be her siblings in any form or fashion. Once again the reality of her being alone made her frown as the conversation continued on without her. She loved everyone at the Xavier Institute, but she didn't think that anyone would see her as a little sister. They all had families of their own, just because she didn't have one, didn't mean that the other students had to adopt her in any form or fashion.

"Hey! Check out my new beads I braided in." Sandy said, pulling Marigold out of her head again. Marigold smiled as Sandy turned to show her the braids in her hair. That was one thing that the people in her class liked to make fun of Sandy for. The girls hair was braided differently everyday, and it always had either some beads, ribbons, or other decoration in them. Mike was usually the one claiming that Sandy's hair was already strange enough without all that 'junk' in it, but Marigold always thought Sandy's hair looked really cool, along with her bright colored clothing and jewelry.

Marigold was more plain when it came to her clothing, but she enjoyed her own sense of fashion kitty and Jean were helping her find, and Sandy's fun and unique fashion. The bell rang a few minutes later signaling the end of their recess and everyone started going inside. As Marigold walked along a few friends she looked over her shoulder to the High-school building that was across the street. Her mind went back to the other students at the institute, and she wondered how they viewed her.

She felt really close with Scott, Jean, Kurt, and the adults. But the other students, it was harder to tell if they actually liked her, or just put up with her and saw her as nothing but an annoying younger sibling that wasn't even related to them.