Night Owls
(part 7 in the Songbird Saga)
by Jenni
Summary: Marie and Monet have insomnia, and Monet finally learns to
lighten up! Course, when Angelo and Everett find out they're behind
the tricks, will they get what they deserve?
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Generation X. I don't own any Marvel characters
mentioned. I do own Songbird though! Least that's one good thing :)
* = over phone { } = translated from a dif language
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I love the night hours. The stars. The moon. Just seems so mystical.
Plus it sometimes gives you a chance to be alone and think about the
day. Okay, thats long enough. Now what am I gonna do? Well, maybe
there's some good late night tv on. Might as well go back to my room.
I fly down from the roof to my window and I step back into my room.
I hear a knock and open it.
"Jenni, I had a feeling you would also be up this late. You usually
are. I fear that although I am perfect, I can still have occasional
case of insomnia."
"I do not have insomnia. I'm just a night owl and not a morning
person"
"Whatever. So what do you do when you're up this late?" She plops down
on the futon I have folded up in the room.
"C'mon." I lead her out into the hall. "Doing cartwheels and flips in
the hall'll make you sleepy. Sometimes works for me." I smile and look
at her, and she looks at me like I'm insane. Please. I mean, I've
done more insane things than this.
"Cartwheels?" She raises her eyebrow. "And what about the Angelo, Ev,
and Jono living below us. And Jubilee and Paige on this floor?"
I shrug. Hey, I've done this before when I'm bored, and they really
never noticed. "Please, like that matters. Besides, it's funny to see
the looks on their faces." She rolls her eyes at me again. Fine, she
can be that way, but I'm not gonna let her spoil my fun. "Suit
yourself." I start running, then cartwheel into a backflip.
Unfortunately I accidentally misjudge the distance and tumble backwards
against the wall. I start to giggle insanely, and even Monet is
laughing.
"Was that the result you intended?" Monet asks, trying to regain her
serious composure.
"Nope, but it still looked cool for the first part."
"What the $@#& are you doing?!? Marie! Are you cartwheeling again!? Its
past midnight and the normal people in this school might like ta
sleep! God." Jubilee Looks out into the hall and yells, then slams the
door behind her. And I thought she enjoyed wild pranks and stuff. And
why did she yell? I wasn't THAT loud.
"You have your cell-phone in your room?" I ask.
"Depends, what is it you are plotting?"
"A little fun. Jubilee had no reason to yell like that." I run into
her room and snatch her cell phone outta her purse. "What's Jubilee's
dorm room number?"
"765-0923."
I dial and hear her answer. I start speaking Serbian.
*What?*
"{Where is Drasha. Who is this? Where my Husband?}"
*God, Angelo, is that you? Quit kidding.*
"{You stealing my husband? How dare you! Evil woman! Put him on now!}"
*Click*
I look back at Monet and see her laughing. Monet is actually laughing,
I guess anything's possible.
"Try her again. C'mon, it'll be funnier."
*Hello*
"{How dare you hang up! Where is my husband!}"
*K, funny Ev, if this isn't Ange its gotta be you. STOP IT!*
*click*
*WOULD YOU STOP CALLING!*
"{Are you getting annoyed? Too bad you never learned a second language.
Course, You'd probably never choose Serbian as a second language.}"
*WHO IS THIS! I HEAR LAUGHING IN THE BACKGROUND! OKAY EV! THAT'S IT!
I'M GONNA COME AND...*
I start laughing hysterically and hang up on her. "Ooooooo! Angelo and
Ev are gonna be soo mad when they find out we did this!" I eventually
get out.
Monet tries to stop laughing and wipes a tear from her eye. "Oh, like
the two of them combined would ever be smart enough to figure out we
were behind this. Besides, all I did was provide the phone. It was
really all your fault."
"Your turn, dare ya to do that ta Paige!"
"No way!" She says, shaking her head while still giggling.
"C'mon! You have to know like 50 other languages!" I start to get up.
"Fine, where are you going?"
"I'm jus gonna get this one magazine from my room." I run down the
hall, until I know she can't read my thoughts and find out what I'm
doing. Then I quick run down to the guys floor and stop at the door to
Jonothon's basement. I hear a soft guitar rift from a Aerosmith song
coming up.
"Decent?"
The guitar stops, and I hear some rustling. ~Yeah, y'can come down.~
I make my way down the steps and plop down on the ratty armchair.
~So what brings you down to all this?~ He spreads out his arms and
motions around as he sits down on the couch.
"I plead the fifth, on the grounds that how I may answer may further
incriminate me." I grab an issue of Rolling Stone off the floor.
~What'd you do this time?~ He gives the mental equivalent of a sigh
and covers his eyes with one hand.
I flip through the pages casually, never looking up. "I might be
convinced to tell if you cover for me."
~Lucky fer you I'm curious. What'd you do, aside from the gymnastics
upstairs.~
"Oh please! You could not hear that from down here! I wasn't that
loud."
~Yer right, but I guessed that was part of it. Now spill it.~
I kinda shrug and put the magazine down on what once was a clean new
coffee table. "A few prank calls to Jubilee on Monet's phone. Course,
Lee thought it was Ev and Ange making the calls and she's going to
hunt them down now. I decided to hide when she finds them, kills them,
and they figure that I was probably the real culprit."
~So you decided to get me involved in this little thing. That way
you can take someone else down with you.~ He shakes his head, but I
can tell that he thinks its funny too. Its weird. Once you get to know
him, you can actually tell his different emotions. Course, helps if
you're a telepath like him too. I walk over and sit next to him on the
couch, snatching the remote from under a shirt.
"Nah, Monet's gonna take the fall, well, cept she doesn't know it yet.
She's upstairs makin a prank call to Paige. They'll find her while
she's doing that. How can I be doing the calls when I've been down
here..." I turn on the tv, "Watching tv with you since I finished my
hall gymnastics show."
He shakes his head and takes the remote away from me and starts racing
through the channels. ~Ah yes, the alibi. What would you do without
me.~
"Well, I probably would always be on the run after getting caught for
my little, hmm, lovable mischievous streak?" I hit his arm and steal
the controller back.
~So thats what yer callin it now?~ He grabs my hand and takes it back.
"You go through the channels too fast!"
~Whose room is this?~
"Yeah, well I'm your guest here."
~You want me to tell Ev and Ange that you started this whole thing?~
"Like you'd do that to the one person around here who'll still listen
when you're in the depressing moods. I'm the only one left who'll
actually still tolerate those radio stations and CDs you listen to
ya know."
~Gimme my remote back!~
"Stop going through the channels so fast!"
~Give it to me!~ the remote majestically flies through the air as he
pulls it out of my hands. Then it lands, and the batteries pop out.
"Now you broke it."
~Well if you hadn't been trying to steal it.~
"Fine, I'll fix it."
~Fine, but I can't promise I won't tell Angelo and Everett.~
I give him my patented puppy-dog/bambi eyes.
~Don't do that. Fine, I won't tell. Happy?~
"Yup. Hey Jono, thanx for bein my alibi."
~Yeah sure, whatever.~
