Chapter 11: First Day Pt 3
Currently, I was standing in line waiting for the chance to get my hands on some food. I was holding my tray like some kind of simpleton.
God how I hated the fact I needed so much food...
You see, Nat had made me some food for school. But it just wasn't enough. And even then, that's when she tried to fill my bag with as much food as possible while still leaving space for books and whatnot.
So before I started eating the food already prepared for me, I told the others I had to get some food while hiding the fact I had a literal bag-full of food.
Anyway, I was now standing in front of an aged lady. I could tell she was once a pretty woman but those days were long gone. However, I could use this to my advantage...
The woman absentmindedly put two slices of pizza on my tray, followed by some fries. She didn't even look up at me until I called for her attention.
"Excuse me, miss?" which made her look up at me, letting her take in my pearly white smile. She smiled at me, letting me carry on, "You wouldn't happen to able to give me another 2 slices of pizza and some more fries, would you?" her face went hesitant for a second but seeing this, I took control of my Sage Force and sent it straight into her head.
I didn't use Mind Control her, that was reserved for real pieces of sh*t and if I used it on civilians it made me feel like I was assaulting them i.e. not too good about myself.
All I did was put a suggestion into her head. Something along the lines of "Give the boy the pizza and fries he wants~".
I found this trick out when I last went to a diner. I wanted more fries on my dish, but they said no and only covered a quarter of the plate in fries. So I used my telepathy to aim them toward giving me more fries.
And it worked like a charm.
Now, you must be wondering what the difference between this and Mind Control is, right? Well, all the difference, really. With Mind Control, the person I'm controlling has to do what I ask/tell them to do. While with this...what should I call it...Persuasion, yeah, while I use Persuasion, I can direct someone toward what I want but if they're truly against it, no matter how many Persuasion I use, they'll always deny what I ask.
So I can only really use it for specific things on specific people.
Luckily, asking for 2 extra slices and some more fries was overstepping the line.
"Sure you can, sweetie, here," she put some extra food on my plate before winking at me. Whoa, that's highly inappropriate for a staff member to do.
I quickly made my escape and over to a round table near the back of the cafeteria. I quickly saw the three people who were waiting for me.
Sadly, however, they were surrounded by another group of people. One of which was a fat bastard who was eating the food from my bag.
That big f*cking bastard, taking my food...
I had to control myself as I felt the metal tray in my hands begin to contort. I put a smile on my face and walked over to my table.
When near enough, I started to hear the voice of the silver-haired one who I recognized as the dickhead who tried to trip me over in Science class this morning.
"Rogue, come over and eat with us, you belong with us rather than these people...they don't understand you like we do," hearing the dude's shtick I couldn't help but get annoyed, my smile feeling a bit more strained than before.
I got up behind him and tapped on his shoulder. He spun around, piercing blue eyes staring holes into me.
But as soon as he saw it was me, he looked a little hesitant. He obviously remembered how I simply walked through his strongest body part - his legs.
Still, he puffed his chest out, "What do you want, new kid?"
I chuckled internally at his slight bravado, "I wanna get to my seat and stop that ball of fat you call a friend from eating what's in my backpack," I smiled at him, letting him feel my annoyance which was practically rolling off of me in waves of slightly pressuring intimidation.
Before he could answer me, I put a hand on the side of his shoulder before pushing him lightly to the side. But for him, however, it must have felt like getting pushed out the way by an unstoppable force.
Ignoring him from this point onward, I walked straight toward the obese person engorging themselves on some cake I was planning to enjoy.
"Oi, you fat blob, who said you could eat my stuff?" my voice was full of disbelief but I bet everyone in the near vicinity could hear my anger.
I looked down at the man because, despite his width, I was still taller than his 5'10" frame. He looked up at me with his beady little eyes which looked like they were constantly squinting because of the excess fat on his face.
He had Victoria Sponge cake crumbs scattered across his face and half a slice of cake was in his hand. The other half was in his mouth as I saw when he opened his mouth to speak to me.
"And who said I needed to ask anyone to eat your stuff? It was just laying here with no one to eat it, so I took up the job!" he beamed a smile at me which would have been disgusting even without the bits of chewed up cake between his teeth.
Hearing what he said, something snapped momentarily in my head and I turned to the table and put my tray down before turning back to the smug prick.
I placed my hand on his neck and before he could do anything, I squeezed my hand with enough force to take away his ability to breathe. No more and no less.
He instantly brought up his hands and scrapped at the hand choking him. In the process, he covered my hand and the sleeve of my leather jacket in Victoria Sponge.
I knew I couldn't blame him fully for this, but oh boy, was I gonna blame all of this on him.
I lifted him up into the air, to eye-level to be specific.
I used my Gravity Manipulation from the Strength Force to counteract his mutant power which allowed him to pretty much stay grounded no matter what. Although I was sure I could lift him without it, I didn't want to have to lift the chunk of ground he'd linked himself to.
The Blobs squinting eyes looked at me with both fear and shock. The best combination for a teen who's in a mutant cult.
"Now, listen here, you big bastard, you ever take my f*cking food ever again and I'll punch you so hard you won't be eating anything solid for a straight month, you hear?" my eyes practically bore holes into his own. The red in them glowing like an inferno, reflecting off of the brown in the opposites eyes.
The Blob rapidly nodded his head, well, he tried to. I got the message and let him go, causing him to fall on his ass, shaking the floor around us.
By this point, a lot of people were looking at us. Some were filming it, some were gasping while talking to their nearby friends.
Some, however, were looking at me with a curious look.
Obviously, the silver-haired dick and his group were looking at me with intense hate. The Blob quickly got up and scuttled over to his group.
I took one look at the group, "Pietro, was it? If Anna doesn't want any part in your weird cultist sh*t, leave her alone, okay? If you keep inconveniencing her like you are, I think I'll have to have a little word with you. Sounds fair, right?" I had a smile which wasn't quite a smile on my face currently and from what Pietro had seen, I could tell he was slightly scared of it.
Pietro huffed before turning away. I sat down only to hear Pietro mutter under his breath, "Traitorous b*tch..." he said it quietly enough that only Rogue could hear but he obviously didn't know I had incredibly keen senses.
I stood up and went to go after him but I felt a slender hand grabbed my arm, "It's okay, Michael, just leave it, please..." I looked down to find Anna's emerald eyes pleading me not to go and get myself in trouble. Seeing the cute little face looking up at me, placated me greatly and I realized I truly didn't want to make any trouble for her, so I sat down.
"Thank you, Michael..." Anna said gratefully as she smiled at me. She started messing with her hair before she looked over at me, "...Why'd you say that last part to Pietro? I get you being mad with Fred, but Pietro didn't say anything to you...so, why?" there was a faint blush on her face as she thought back to how I spoke up for her.
I chuckled at her question, much to her annoyance, but I carried on before I smiled and looked her dead in the eyes, "Well, you're my friend, right? So, why wouldn't I stick up for you?"
Anna seemed to be caught off guard by both the sudden eye contact and smile, while also me saying she was my friend.
"You...you see me as a friend?" her southern drawl only accentuated her confusion as she raised an eyebrow at me. Disbelief was prevalent in her eyes but also a sliver of hope.
"Sure I do, not like I have many other friends anyway. So, why not make a friend who's a cute girl when I can?" finishing my answer off with a wink gained me a very red Anna who lowered her head to hide the flushed look on her face.
"...Thank you..." Anna mumbled as she brought her head back up and looked at me, her eyes a little red.
When I went to answer her, a cough brought to my attention that we weren't sitting her alone like I was beginning to believe.
I took my jacket off and placed it behind me on my seat before looking over at Gwen and Miles who were looking at me.
"Oh, did I bring you two lovebirds out of your moment or something?" Miles smirked at me, his words making Anna blush once more while they made me laugh.
"Nonono, don't worry, I've gotta thank you, I almost forgot I had two other friends sitting with us~" I smirked back at him, my words making both him and Gwen laugh.
While they were laughing, I quickly started to devour the food on the tray in front of me. I've gotta say - I am starving.
Slowly the two stopped laughing when they saw me utterly devouring the food. Obviously with good table manners but it didn't make it any less shocking that I was a human hoover/bin.
Before I knew it, the food was gone and I began to eat whatever Blob hadn't gotten his grubby, fat hands on.
That was gone before I knew it as well. Damn, I need food that actually fills me...Oh well, this should do for now...
I looked back to see Gwen, Miles, and even Anna looking at me with slight disbelief.
"W-what?" I nervously asked, but I knew full well that I'd let what Nat called the Inner Dustbin out and devoured all my food at an inhuman speed.
Miles' eye twitched slightly, "What? Your seriously gonna ask 'What?' when you ate that food like a man that'd been starved for a month straight?" his voice was filled with curiosity and mirth as he saw my slightly flustered look.
"So, what? A man's gotta eat, you know, plus, I work out a lot so I need to ingest a lot of calories..." my voice faded off as I looked over at Anna who was smiling at me.
My attention was taken from her when I heard Gwen speak, "I don't doubt that you work out," she raised an eyebrow at my arm which was barely contained by the short-sleeved white top I was wearing, "It also explains how you lifted Fred like he was nothing...the dude weighs about 300lbs+...are you training to be an Olympian or something?" she giggled toward the end of her sentence which was slightly enthralling, I'll be honest.
But luckily, being around Nat for so long has given me immunity (resistance, would probably be more accurate) to the seductive charm of women.
"Nope, I just like working out," I smiled at her, before carrying on, "Are you guys gonna take forever eating? I thought you were gonna show us around the school, Gwen?" my words injected something into both Miles and Gwen who started to wolf down their pizza and fries.
I looked over at Anna and saw she still had a lot of food on her plate and she looked a bit...sad? So, I decided to ask her something.
"Are you gonna leave you food and then come with us? Or do you not want to come with us?" my question made Anna's head dart in my direction.
"Wait, you want me to come around with you as well?" her sad look turned into a hopeful one which made me once again sigh at how cute someone could be.
"Yeah, of course, did you think the invite only extended to lunch?" smirking, I saw Anna's face go a little red before she laughed.
"Kinda, yeah~" she then went back to eating but this time with fervor, like the two other people on our table.
Looking at the three of them, I couldn't help but laugh. School didn't seem so bad anymore.
{A/N - Pretty big chapter, huh? Well, the biggest one so far, at least.
Anyway, I've gotta say this before someone complains - Just because Anna is blushing and getting flustered around Michael, doesn't mean I'm making her fall in love with him instantly. At most she sees him as a boy she finds quite attractive, and someone she has positive feelings for because of what happened this chapter, so, please don't say I'm rushing romance~
Next chapter will skip to the special class which is held after school.}
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