Hallway Unfolding

[Splice]

Leaving class was always a favorite time for Jocelyn only cause it was always when the hallways were full of people. Plus it was her time to catch up with anyone that she may want to catch up with during class. Right now though, she gave Jax a good push in the shoulder. "You better go apologize to her, and the sooner the better is how I see it. I can't believe you made fun of her weight!" she hissed and put her hands on her hips as she stared up at him with a glare.

"You better pray that the Love Gods are in your favor now, cause you need it! Look!" She nudged his shoulder to see Ana's blonde friend separate herself from the raven haired beauty and looked to be waiting for someone. "She's walking all alone, you have the perfect chance to redeem yourself. And honey, you're gonna need all the luck there is," Joce said nudging him and giving him a pointed look. Even if Ana didn't accept his apology, he better at least do it, since she knew first hand how those kind of comments can hurt.

To make herself scarce in the little situation, Jocelyn turned and literally jumped on Gavin's back as he passed with Ricki, jumping just the right way so it wouldn't hurt his wings since she used to do it all the time with Warren when he was at the school. "Hey there Rockstar, you can rock me all night." She had a smirk on her face and a giggle escaped her. "Unless you got dibs on my roommate already. All I ask is that you guys put a sock on the doorknob to lemme know," Joce teased and winked at Ricki from Gavin's back.

[Aqua]

Heather waited patiently for Johnny and Romon to get out of class, mainly since she thought the two were able to create the base of a friendship. She wanted to really introduce herself to the Acolyte and have him aware that she would be his tutor, away from everyone else hearing it. She told Ana that she would catch up with her later and see her during lunch before they went to French class. Heather was very interested in other languages and since she learned most of her intermediate level street Spanish from her fellow Brooklynites, French seemed to be more appealing.

Her technology assignment seemed to be fairly easy and she planned to work on it later on with Johnny since she assumed he needed help with essay writing and writing in general. Heather had a feelings that working with Johnny was going to be a bit of a challenge, but she was looking forward to helping the kid out and hopefully making him adjust to everything in a smooth and easy manner.

She looked at the blue girl jumping on Gavin's back. It was kind of hard to not notice since her voice was echoing in the hallway. Heather sighed deeply and played with the ends of her curls, so not to mess up the side ponytail. It was some kind of distraction, and she needed it since Ana wasn't around at the moment. Time heals all wounds, she thought to herself. And that sucks.

When Heather finally saw Johnny, she smiled and said "Hey Johnny, can I ask you something real quick?" She wanted to make it as casual as possible so anyone that was nearby wasn't aware of their arrangement.

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Jax sighed, hands in pockets and started after Ana, catching up with her with a few long strides. Okay, so how the hell was he supposed to do this? Jax didn't think he'd ever apologized to anyone, especially a girl even once, let alone twice. Contrary to Joce's belief, he didn't actually think he needed the Love Gods on his side, he didn't think. The only reason he cared about Ana's feelings was because... well, he found her... different from most girls. She didn't come across as one of those preppy cheerleaders who were great to look at but tended to lack intellect and neither was she one of those type of girls who were pretty but complete nerds.

She was... perfect, in that sense. She was certainly easy on the eyes and had an intense personality. She had this aura of mystery around her, which just kept Jax engaged. "Hey, Re- uh, Ana, wait up for a sec." he called out, walking past her and turning on his heel so he was face to face with her and was blocking her way. "Listen, I uh... just wanted to, uh, apologize about makin' fun of your weight. I meant it as a joke chicka, honestly." he coked his head to one side, his deep brown eyes holding up her light eyes, purely for the purpose that she could understand that he wasn't just apologizing for the hell of it. "Joce just told me that you girls are kinda... uh, sensitive about your weight. Really Ana, I'm... uh, I'm sorry. I swear I didn't mean to upset you or anything."

Jax ran his hand over the back of his neck, seriously hoping that Ana'd forgive him. Now that they were out of the buisiness of the classroom and Jax had more time to think over what Joce'd said to him, he remembered Riker warning him that he thought Jax'd hurt Ana's feelings the first time 'round, but Jax'd chosen it to ignore it at that time, not really thinking Riker was being all that serious about whatever he said. Now that Jax thought over it, he just felt like kicking himself for not listening to Riker. Mind you, he wouldn't actually kick himself. "Forgive me?" he asked, his lips pressed into a thin, uncertain line, his naturally lazy and cocky grin being no where to be found.

[Clutch]

Ana's immediate reaction was to roll her eyes and act like she didn't give a damn about the whole thing. "Yes you apologize yesterday, thank you for thinking that I not that unhealthy," she said with a scoff, hugging her books to her chest. Ana really didn't want to have this conversation, and especially not with him. She had just come to terms with the whole thing, and frankly she was far too smart to not know the motivations behind it all.

"Look, I tell Riker you apologize so he not throw you off team, but do not stand there and give me a sincere apology when you proved several time you not care about my feelings. It insulting to me, as I not that stupid," Ana said biting her lip and looking at him defiantly, not wanting him to know that she was affected in any way by his comments.It made it worse that she was full on confronted with it now, but she still managed to look him in the eyes for several seconds.

A sigh escaped her and she bit her lip again, looking to the floor on the side of Jax and trying to hide her uneasiness. "You entitled to have your opinion of me, and it not fair for me to be anger with you for it," she said in a monotone voice repeating pretty much what Riker had told her when she spoke to him last night. "No need to worry about relations with team cause of me, alright? I stay out of your way, you can stay out of mine." With that, she stepped to the side and made to walk past him. That was a situation she really didn't want to be in, any situation where she couldn't be on the defensive and didn't warrant anger was extremely uncomfortable for her, especially with that stab of hurt that went through her as her insecurities rose again.

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"Woah, woah- hold it right there!" he exclaimed taking a huge step back and sticking an arm out in front of Ana in order to block her once more. Relation with team? How freaking selfish did she think he was? Sure, he was slightly full of himself and had a ego that inflated thrice as much as it deflated, but he didn't know how that made him come across as someone who only thought about his own neck or how that made him selfish at all. He raised his eyebrows at her, staring straight in her eyes with such intensity that he doubted she'd be able to look away even if she wanted to. "I don't see where my position in the team comes into any of this." he said, his voice now a soft growl, his lips no longer lingering in an uncertain smile, but now frowning out of frustration.

He didn't know why, but he had to get this thing cleared up with her here and now. If she thought he was apologizing to her because he was scared of Riker or some sh*t, she sure as hell had another think coming. Sure, Jax didn't want to be kicked off the team, but he wouldn't apologize to anyone, simply to stay with a group of strangers who he didn't really know or as a matter of fact care about. Sure, Riker was a cool guy, and Heather seemed like a helpful person to have on his team, but he was sure he'd fit in just fine with any other team too. "I'm not apologizing to you just to keep my butt on the New Mutants." he stated bluntly, his eyes actually showing a slight hint of what may have been him hurting. "Despite what you think, I'm not some selfish guy who'd just say any sh*t to save his neck."

He sighed, dropping his arm subconsciously and rubbing the back of his neck- something he tended to do when frustrated. "I apologized to you, 'cause I actually felt bad about upsetting you, okay?" his voice was more of a whisper now. "Now that we have that cleared, I think you can continue on your merry way to wherever you were going, without having me to worry you." he shot her a bit of a sarcastic smile, rolling his eyes before he brushed briskly past Ana, heading in the opposite direction to catch up with Joce, her room-mate and the red-head guy with Wings whose name Jax hadn't got yet.

[Legacy]

With the request from the pretty blonde and the fact that Johnny was raised to be polite, he excused himself from Romon and walked over to Heather, mustering up a small smile. "Hi, sorry I didn't um, introduce myself earlier," he said quietly as he started walking with her. "I uh, didn't know if I'd get in trouble for talking during class." It had been so long since he'd been in school and he didn't know exactly how to act in a class.

"Um, are you the same Heather that Ms. Frost told me about?" Johnny asked looking down at her with a curious look. It felt so weird for him to talk to girls again, but it wasn't so bad now. She seemed really nice, and had a really nice smile. Plus he remembered Ms. Frost's words that he'd be comfortable with her, and he had found himself looking forward to trying to get back with school.

[Clutch]

"So let me understand this," Ana said reaching out to grab the sleeve of his shirt and tugged on it. Her eyes were narrowed in confusion and her mouth was set in a frown. "You called me in short malnourished and ugly, and now you apologize only cause you think you upset me?" She didn't know if this made her more confused, or more hurt, and she had to bite her lip to keep the confusion from coming out full time. It was like the hurt from the comments still cut her deep, but she didn't understand why he'd care. Why would any guy care about upsetting some girl he didn't even like?

"Look I not ask you to apologize for your feelings, I no do that, why should you?" Ana said taking a deep breath and lightly biting her lip and keeping her air of defiance and the strong voice to hold on to at least some handle of the situation. <Heather, you just HAD to leave me alone now,> she thought bitterly as she stared up at Jax and tried to set a bit of her pride aside since the guy did actually feel bad about upsetting her and she knew it took guts for him to apologize.

"So I suppose I say thank you for apology on upsetting me," she said looking right up at him and pushing her shoulders back as she hugged the books to her chest. "BUT it no fair for me to expect you to apologize for your feelings, so there be no need for one." Ana was really trying to implement Riker and Kris's advice to not hold people's opinion against them. If he thought that she was unhealthy and all that, it was his business and she shouldn't care, but wow did her pride take a blow saying that.

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Jax sighed. What was wrong with this girl?

"Ana," he said, his voice having lost all its patience, and his body language indicating that had it not been for the fact that he was trying so hard to prove a point to her, he would've bashed his own head against a wall right there. "How hard is it for you to understand the concept of a joke?" he said, his voice exaggeratedly slow, his eyes glaring at her face. She had this block in her head that he genuinely thought she was unhealthy and ugly, and that he was apologizing simply out of... politeness or some crap. If there was one thing to know about Jax, was that he never did do anything simply for the hell of being polite.

He held back a growl, taking in a deep breath before his arms appeared out of nowhere and grabbed her shoulders. "I - am - not - of - the - opinion - that - you - are - ugly - nor - malnourished!" he couldn't keep the growl and frustration out of his voice as his eyes bore into hers, and he pulled her closer causing her books to drop out due to the force with which he'd pulled her forwards. Alright, so maybe Joce was right... a little. Maybe he did need the blessings of the Love Gods right this moment, because what he did next was enough to get him a wack across the face from any girl.

One moment, it'd just been Jax staring down at Ana, his eyes glaring at her as he begged her to understand his point- and the next, he'd almost lifted her off her feet as he swooped down to kiss her full on the mouth. He didn't hold the kiss for too long- he didn't really have that much of a death wish just yet. "Tell me, why would I kiss you if I thought you were ugly or malnourished?!" he demanded, still holding her considerably close to him, with his arms still holding onto her petite shoulders.

[StormHawk]

"Christ Joce, what do you pack into those curves of yours," Gavin said with a grunt when he felt the weight of the the hot blue sexpot on his back. He was impressed that she didn't get tangled up in his wings like most girls that tried it before did, so despite that she had to have weighed more than him, which wasn't saying much since he had hollow bones and weighed way less than he looked, it was pretty easy to carry her. "See look at that Ricki, we made the blue babe jealous. See she secretly wants me all along, cause you know I'm hot enough to turn the lady lovers around," he said with a laugh and grabbed the back of Jocelyn's knee's to hold her up better.

"You know Joce, I wouldn't be opposed to you being in the room with us while we do the dirty. It will be kinky to the extreme though, I warn you." He kept a straight face while he watched the look on Jocelyn's and Ricki's face for a whole minute before he burst out laughing. "I was talking about watching a Chad Michael Murray movie, what were you guys thinking of? Oh you naughty, naughty girls, get your minds out of the gutter! I'm not that kind of guy you know." Gavin feigned that he was offended and turned his head up as he marched down the hallway, trying to look dignified while he carried Jocelyn.

"I'm not that easy you know, I have- Holy crap." He stopped dead in his tracks and his mouth fell open when he saw that new New Mutant grab Ana and just kiss her, right there in the middle of the hallway. He blinked several times, first because Heather told him last night how much Ana can't stand the kid, and second because that took some major balls. That was like, close to messing with Wolverine in any way type of balls. Ana was strikingly hot, but she had a serious attitude that even made Gavin throw his hands up in surrender when she got going. For anyone to just grab her and kiss her was like.... "What the hell? Is it like the Apocalypse?"

[Clutch]

To say that Ana was in shock would be a severely understated way to describe her feelings. Her face slowly turned bright red and she tried to get a hold of her mind and thoughts, aware that people were staring at them "You... you... ASS!" She yelled the last part out and punched him in his stomach with her small fist, to angry to notice that she probably did more damage to her fist than his stomach, but it was enough to make him let go of her shoulders. "You were joking the whole time? JOKING?" Ana poked him hard in the chest as her face screwed up with anger and embarrassment. "You need to learn new jokes! What person attacks someone appearance like that, and then have big enough head to do... do.. OH YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID!"

Her obvious frustration and the fact that her face was pink in embarrassment was not ideal with the telekinetic. She was so stuck between embarrassment and frustration that she advanced on Jax, shoving him once in awhile to get her point across until his back hit the wall. "I not like you at all when I first met you, but that cause you dress like a bum and you act like pig. Not once I make fun of how you look." Ana pushed him again and got right up in his face just like she did at the pool on their first meeting. "You know what, Riker wrong I have every right to be mad at you because in this case I am most considerate. Not ONCE did I poke fun at your physical appearance, since maybe you take enough pride in it since you just looove to show it off all the time. But you! ARGH that is first thing you attack on me, and it supposed to be funny?!"

She had her hands balled up into small clenched fists on her sides and she glared up at him. "Your joke STINK! You can not just go round and make jokes like that, and then to make up for it you have me drop all my things all over the hallway and... and KISS me? I supposed to feel better now to know that you were laughing at me whole time? You are just so... so... I do not know but not something pleasant!" Ana was so rattled that she couldn't even think straight to come up with an insult. The storm of feelings that welled up inside her really wasn't helping, especially since she now knew why there was so much tension between them from the start.

[-RAM-]

Jax's lips pressed down into a thin line as he stared at Ana, the tension radiating from both of them really filling up the moment, before- "ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" He just really couldn't hold it in any longer. She looked so cute while she stood there yelling at him. What she said made no difference to him right now: she hadn't sent him flying towards the first solid object she could set her sight on, and the fact that she'd reacted this way obviously meant that she cared about him somewhat, even if she wouldn't admit it to his face. His grin was bright and radiant on his face, as he forced his laughters down to chuckles.

"Oh shit, Ana..." Jax chuckled, unable to help himself. That punch to his stomach barely felt like someone had thrown a cola can at him. "... breathe, chicka." He pushed the dark hair that fell over his eyes, out of his face and caught Ana's eye again and stared right at her, with a look of complete and utter amusement and perhaps traces of adoration. "I didn't mean I was making a joke out of you," he said easily, rolling his eyes in a lazy banner, all his previous tension flying out the window. "I simply mean I was teasing you. I wasn't trying to laugh at you, but with you." He couldn't help but keep his stupid grin stuck to his face.

"I know that was stupid, 'cause Joce told me how you girls are real serious about your weight and hair and stuff now- mind you, you have real pretty hair-" he couldn't help but wink at her when he said that, chuckles following after his words, "so like I said, I'm sorry about that chicka." he put his hands back in his pocket and looked down at her adorable face with his grin lowering down to a forced innocent - well, as innocent as Jax could manage anyway- smile. "*Ehem*, well... I'm currently not lying on the floor somewhere with broken glass all over me and bleeding... so I'm guessing you probably didn't mind me kissing you?" he mused as casually as he could muster, giving her a once over before his eyes finally rested on her face.

He'd already pushed his luck pretty far today. Pushing it a little further wouldn't hurt, right? He didn't know about Ana... but after that first kiss, he certainly wouldn't mind going in for take two. Completely oblivious of the company around him, considering his eyes were stuck only to the one girl in front of him right now, he leaned down, a lot slower this time, his lips lingering inches away from hers. "I don't think you'll mind if I kiss you again." he whispered, a small smile lingering on his lips before he swooped back down and pressed his lips softly against hers once more. After all, who could blame him? She'd pretty much called him downright attractive and he hadn't gone flying through the window.

[Onyx]

Walking out of the classroom, grumbling to himself about stupid new kids and how they always messed things up, Jasper made short work of catching up with Riker and K'8 in the hallway. He was still half asleep but much more awake now than he was earlier in class. Plus now that lunch was right around the corner, he could look forward to hopefully seeing his lady again, and perhaps take her aside politely and explain everything to her.

Despite it all, he did feel bad for upsetting Kitty and made himself promise to get more cups of coffee in the morning before her class. Truth was that Jasper really liked Kitty's class, it was a pleasant break from all the other crap classes he had to take that piled on the homework and work. He would try his best not to disappoint Kitty again, at least not with disrespecting her by not paying attention in her class.

"Zhat could have gone better," Jasper said to Riker as he walked beside him, the hallways filled with yelling and one a very distinct Finnish accent that he'd recognize anywhere. "Have jou spoken to zhe new kids yet und told them how the pack works?" He asked as they rounded the corner, where Jasper was met with a sight that he certainly didn't expect. "Uh.... doesn't she hate him?" He had a confused look on his face as he stared at the couple before his eyes snapped to Riker. "Riker don't. She iz a big girl, she can take care of herself," Jasper said getting ready to hold their overprotective leader back if necessary.

[Aqua]

"Uhh...." she said. Did that really just happen!??. So many things were happening at the same time, that the water manipulator really wasn't able to focus. She wanted to answer Johnny, but she just saw her best friend get kissed by the guy she apparently hated. "Umm... uh.. oh man." Heather was really confused on what to do. On one hand she could have grabbed Ana before she really hurt Jax, but the romantic side of her was telling her to leave it be since Ana was able to fight her own battles.

Heather was really torn but she felt like she could at least answer Johnny first and not let him feel more socially awkward that he already seemed to be. "Umm yeah that's me," she finally said with a small giggle. "Heh, welcome to Mutant High." The new guy would find out sooner or later; the school was full of drama, drama and drama. Plus add a bunch of hormonal teenagers to the equation and BOOM: drama + teenagers = High School.

Heather stood by warily, ready to jump in if it really was necessary. But for now she would do as she promised and make Johnny aware that he was in good hands. "Sooooo yes I'll be helping you out with everything you don't need to worry. Ask me anything and everyone thing you want to know." She smiled wide this time, just to try and distract him from the two New Mutants down the hall. "Hey, why don't you and Romon come sit with me at lunch? I can introduce you to everyone and show you around a bit? If you want of course." She waited patiently for his answer, making sure to look over at Ana every couple of seconds to see exactly what the heck was going on. You think people would just try to avoid scenes.

[Clutch]

Her whole body went rigid when Ana felt his lips on hers, again. There was one serious conflict going on inside her head, one being that just fifteen minutes ago she wanted to ring his neck and make him wear his behind as a hat. As much as she hated to say it, when he kissed her the first time it made her force to admit the attraction she had toward him and acknowledge that it had to be something mutual with the thick tension between the two of them.

It was probably that sordid and rather shocking realization that made Ana's eyes flutter close and her lips respond to his. Her hands came up to his face, pulling him closer as she relaxed for a moment, not fighting it as her body was pulled toward him. She hated that he had gotten a small smile out of her a minute ago, and she hated even more that she really really wanted to stay mad at him. Her current situation made it very hard to do so.

"This not mean that I like you," Ana said breaking the kiss for a moment to look up at him with a glare before pulling his lips back to her own. One can never say that she let a situation pass without having the last word, or at least making herself clear even when it was not an ideal situation for it.

"Or forgive you," she added moving a hand to the back of his head and sighing back into his mouth. "And you still egotistical jackass." Ana was quick to bring her chin right back up, tugging on his hair a bit. "And you still infuriating pain in the..." The words were sort of lost for her then, since she even had to admit that he was a good kisser. She'd deal with the consequences of this, and would eventually remember exactly where this was all happening. <Why are all the jerks good kissers?>

[Splice]

It was probably a comical sight for many as Jocelyn's jaw dropped open as she still was draped across the handsome winged rockstar's back. She had expected a slap, him being thrown through a wall or getting vases and paintings thrown at him. The last thing she expected was to see that feisty compelling striking model with impossibly long legs practically pin the guy against the wall and share one hell of a kiss. "Damn! That must have been one HELL of an apology," she said staring at them as they passed them in the hallway. It was impossible for her not to laugh when she heard all the things Ana was saying to him between kisses. "Woooow she's feisty to the very end. I knew I liked her," Joce added while dropping her head to giggle into Gavin's neck.

"Watch it Rockstar, don't step on her stuff." Her eyes left the couple briefly to see the books and pens scattered on the floor, a smirk coming on her face as she remembered the small jealous fit that he threw in class over Ana borrowing a pen from Romon. That was just too adorable to Jocelyn. She looked over at Ricki with a big smile on her face. "I owe him something for that move. You heard the practically poisonous voice she used when talking to him earlier? To go from that to this in only a couple of hours takes some serious skills, or one hell of an apology," she said in an impressed tone of voice.

"OOoooooh man, just WAIT till I tell Liv! Her mouth is gonna drop to the ground! Hey Wingman, Ricki, you guys met her yet? She's totally awesome! If you two can quit planning on making babies you should hang out with us," Jocelyn teased and nudged Ricki with her foot. She looked back at the kissing couple and shook her head. "Son of a bitch man."