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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

So what is the deal with parents weekend? I know it's a three day weekend from classes but is it going to be all like summer camp schmoopy shit for people who actually have parents? Which I'm guessing is most of them?

Basically. do I need to find somewhere to hide from the nauseating proud parent shtick or does Xavier's Home for Wayward Mutants have enough orphan mutants that it'll still be mostly normal around here? I wanna know what I'm in for before the possible flood of sentimental crap happens.

Layla

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Pretty much. It used to be a seriously big deal, back before most of the students left, a few years back. All, "look! your children are safe and we're not abusing them and there is no plane as comes out of the basketball court", etc.

These days, I think it's just Kurt, Meggan and Amanda mostly, and some of the grads, but Kurt will probably spend at least a day following his amnesia kid around like a lost puppy.

If I thought I could manage it without the professor going ape, I'd take off for the weekend. But since he calls the shots till I'm 18, I can't.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Hey, at least we get a free Monday off? If everyone else had parents it would sort of blow but since it's kinda mostly Yvette getting all girlie about family on the journals I can probably deal.

I've got plans with Sarah on I think Saturday to go into the city to help her find shit for her Halloween costume. You wanna take off from here with me Monday or Sunday or whatever day I'm not escorting her around the city so she doesn't get lost? Fuck around in Salem or hop a train to the city? They let us wander around on our own when the RA drives us to the city so I don't see why he won't let us take the train on our own if we just ask first. I'll even do the asking if you want. I mean, at least we could take off for the whole day or whatever. Or both days I'm not playing escort.

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

If it wasn't for the fact that you'd get your hand sliced open if you tried, you sometimes just want to punch Yvette, you know?

And yeah, that sounds good. They let me off to school on my own so there's no reason you can't be let out, too. We'll have to be back by curfew, though. Apparently, after that whole Jennie and Marius "oops! we bought a slave by mistakes" thing, they get upset about us staying out past then.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Uh, well...yeah. Kinda. I mean, she seems sweet or well-intentioned or just really enthusiastic or something. But Jesus fuck, how does she keep it up? Is she on something? I mean, whatever, I should be more accepting of really perky people or whatever but it's just...I don't do the girlie smooshy thing she seems into.

I don't actually know when curfew is. It's why I basically have been figuring if it's past 8 I should have my ass inside or visible from a window or something. I guess I should ask him about that when I break out the puppy dog eyes. (Don't laugh, they're way more effective than you'd think coming from me.) And maybe figure out what time we're allowed to bounce from here.

Lemme confirm with Sarah which day she and I are going and then I'll let you know what day(s) I'm hijacking your ass.

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

It just never ends, you know? She was about as bad back when she was a student.

Do you know, I actually don't know what time we're allowed to leave in the mornings. I imagine that anything after 7 is fine, though.

Oh yeah, Wade's invited us all to a movie at some point, too, and he's paying.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

For real? Is she overcompensating because if she tries to give a guy a handjob he'll be a eunuch? Sorta like how ass ugly girls try to be really nice so you think they have a redeeming value even though most teenage boys aren't gonna give a shit how nice they are? Or how fat chicks are fucking easy half the time because they think it's the only way to get someone interested? So, like, for her she can't be easy because hi, eunuch problem, so she's just like really fucking happy about shit?

Yeah that's what I figured, too.

Oh, I didn't know that. I wasn't invited. So lemme know what day that is so I can obviously not try to hijack you that day.

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

It's amazing how people don't notice you, when you don't talk. Half the graduates think she's just not trying hard enough, since there's plenty of things and people she could do that don't involve some poor guy crawing around, looking for his balls.

I don't Wade knows you don't have people. He's teaching me to fight. Nice guy, stark staring insane and kind of a flake, though. So, yeah, you're invited. Don't startle him, though, cos he carries knives.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

So then you have all the dirt on everyone? And aren't there like invulnerable people or some shit? I thought I heard that some chick around here was.

I don't invite myself places. It's a thing. And honestly? If people don't realize I'm little orphan Annie I'd rather not clue them in so I'd appreciate you not mentioning it to him. I mean, it's cool that he wants to give the orphans something to do to like distract them or have that undercover "someone cares about you" thing going on, but I don't know him, you know? And, really? Other than you and Sarah I'm not entirely sure how much I wanna hang with people around here yet. People are nice but I think we covered how I feel about generic nice and I just, dunno, don't know the rest of them enough yet to know if I wanna spend a day chilling with them. And ditto for this Wade dude. But thanks for the head's up about the knives and shit because I would really like to not get stabbed. Do you have any idea how quick dead shit would probably get up and walk/fly away if I got stabbed? Yeah, I don't wanna know either.

Also, what was that about Kurt having an amnesiac kid?

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

I don't know about all the dirt but I've got a lot of it. It's what happens when you're here since you were like 8 after the crazy lady from the sewers dumps you on the doorstep. There is an invulnerable lady but she's dating Kurt and I get the feeling that Yvette's as straight as a ruler.

That makes sense. You get used to the way things are around here eventually, even if it's like, for years, I was the only student my age and I didn't want much to do with everyone else. But there's only so much sulking you can do.

I startled Wade into pulling his knives out once. I try not to do that anymore. And since I don't really want zombies...

Kurt. Adopted John, back when he was called Nick. Then graduation happened, Nick vanished, and he shows up months later in a shelter with no memories and now he's a crazy recluse.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Dude, seriously? A crazy lady from the sewers? Was she your birth mom or did she just like find you or something? Not that you have to answer if you don't feel like it, obviously. But dude, that's kind of a fucked situation there. Wait, were you in the sewers with her before she left you on the doorstep?

Yvette could be in really really deep denial too. I hear denial can make you high strung and she seems like she could be disguising her high strungness. But yeah, otherwise, kinda seems super straight. Like loves rules and abides by them all kinda straight.

Dude, sulking takes effort. I don't do sulking. I do other shit instead. Sulking is like one of those positive feedback cycles where shit just gets worse and worse and worse and then someone snaps and goes on a homicide rampage and that shit is all bad. (Why do I always wanna write "homocidal"? Is that where you kill all gay guys or where you like binge on gay sex?)

Yeah...why don't we make sure I know who this Wade dude is just in case? So next time you're near me and you see him you should like point or something. Or just throw up a handy floaty head of him for me tomorrow if you can do a decent replica of him. And trust me, no one wants zombies. No one.

Oh, I actually know him! I watched Teen Wolf with him and Kyle last weekend. (I am so ashamed that I sorta liked it despite the melodrama.) He seems pretty chill for a dude with no memory of who he is. I always figured amnesia involved more freaking out, y'know?

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Yeah, crazy lady from the sewers in New York. Said she "found" me, or "rescued me", depending on the day, when I was a baby. And then one day someone killed most of us sewer people and a couple of years on, the rest of the survivors made her dump me here. She showed up agan a little while back and I help some of the old Morlocks out some now, with some money, food that isn't from a dumpster, that kind of thing.

Yvette - I kind of think that they don't do that kind of thing, where she's from. It's like, even if she wasn't, she'd be straight, because that's what people do in her country.

I'll give you a floaty head version of Wade next time. I mean, we really don't want zombies.

I think at some point, you just run out of freaked out. I bet John's at that point now.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Wow. So she possibly abducted you? That's kind of insane. Hey, you know, my social worker has this thing about helping people less fortunate. It started as a way to make me watch my language but that obviously failed so now like once every couple of weeks she gets me all this stuff to put together and hand out. You know, like I make sandwiches and throw in a pudding cup (Because everyone loves pudding okay?) but then there's also a toothbrush and tooth paste and generically sized socks and toilet paper and shit. Depending on the week would depend what she got me but I'd put it all together and go hand it out. Seems sorta lame but it makes people happy who don't have people being nice to them much. I'll deny this like a motherfucker if you repeat it, but she doesn't really twist my arm to get me to do it anymore and if I have cash I usually buy some of the stuff myself. Next time I do it I could take you and we could hand it out to the Morlocks. (I'm assuming those are the sewer people you were with, right?)

Like really rigid social conditioning? I bet there's a fuckton of really depressed, repressed homosexuals wherever she comes from.

I lost my last placement because of zombies, I really don't want them either.

Yeah, that could be it. But dude, if I was living with a bunch of people who had memories of me I didn't have? I'd probably be a recluse, too. Just sayin'...

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To: [Layla]
From: [Artie]
Subject: Parents weekend?

Yeah, well, Annalee was craycray. Ask the others about her sometime, what with the kidnapping and the brainwashing...

That's very... civic minded of you, giving stuff out like that. I'll take you down sometime, since hell, all I normally do is use my powers to extra change when I buy gum, because it's too risky using my powers to do things like run a bent three card monty (Annalee taught me that) or whatever and then pass the cash on.

They won't trust you, though. You're an upworlder and you're too pretty. Hell, *I'm* too pretty so they used to want to rearrange my face. But they'll put up with you if I'm there.

I'm always surprised that Nick/John/Wolfboy hasn't just up and left again. Still, there's the free food. Free noms is always good.

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To: [Artie]
From: [Layla]
Subject: Parents weekend?

She sounds pretty off her rocker.

Eh. If someone's got no one to look out for them it's easy to give a shit. For me anyway. Besides, it's kinda habit. Like I said, Sandy started it as a way to get me to stop swearing. That was like four years ago. Bent three card monty? I know nothing about cards.

We count as the pretty people? For real? Weird. Know anyone less pretty who'll do it for us?

Free food will keep almost anyone almost anywhere, I'd bet on it. Why else do the bums stick around the cold ass fucking city and possibly freeze to death? Soup kitchens.