xp_logs | Crystal and Tommy - another thank-you note delivery

After classes end for the day, Crystal continues delivering thank-you notes. She stops to have a talk with Tommy and is pleased to discover that he intends to leave school grounds.

Crystal slipped yet another thank you note under yet another door. These notes should have been delivered weeks ago, but the originals had become dog toys, and everything had been so crazy that it had taken her a while to rewrite them and make the effort to deliver them in person. Crystal stopped at the next door, looking at the name on the envelope. Tommy Jones. Even before Kyle's journal fiasco, she had made the decision to hand deliver this one. Now, she was definitely going to speak to him in person. At worst, he'd be nasty again, but hopefully being rude was no longer the way he chose to be. It certainly seemed that he was being a lot nicer these days. She was prepared, and so it was with confidence that Crystal knocked on the door to Tommy's suite.

Tommy got up from where he was reading 'Now We are Six' on his bed, still holding the book in his hand as he continued to read as he moved around the room towards the door. He found that he couldn't just ignore people anymore so he might as well just play nice. It was easier then distancing anymore.

When looked up from his book when he finally opened the door. He remembered Crystal, he'd been rude to her at the gym and he'd made her a birthday present...which she was wearing. "Oh...hi." Tommy said softly, wondering what she wanted.

"This is for you," Crystal told Tommy, handing him the envelope. So far so good, he hadn't slammed the door in her face or yelled at her. "I am delivering thank-you notes to the people who attended my party or gave me a present."

His free hand went to rub the back of his neck before he took the envelope from her. "Uh...thanks."

Suddenly, this didn't seem like a great idea anymore. Thanks to Kyle, he must have gone through a lot of turmoil in the past day. Crystal didn't want to make it any worse, and a lot of people had jumped in to defend him so he probably already knew that most people did not have the same feelings Kyle had expressed. "I.. I hope that you do not let what Kyle said have an effect on you. I do not know why he was so upset, but this is the place where a lot of people have done something wrong and later regretted it, and I am fairly certain that if the school felt that you were a danger to the students, you would not be here. You should be here. But not always. You should leave the campus sometimes. Surely there is a way to ensure your safety."

"He had every right to be upset." Tommy said frankly, though he bit hid lip as he didn't want to upset her. "And I can't leave. The FoH want to finish what they started a year ago." He sighed and leaned against the door. "But...thanks. I'm a little rusty in the people department." He paused again before adding. "Terry's convinced me to go into the city to see her perform on Friday. So...yeah."

Crystal was quite puzzled, but did not let it show. "So you are going to be leaving the campus and going into the city. I am glad that you will be going to see Terrry's performance." Why had he just contradicted himself? Why say with one breath that he couldn't leave and use the next to tell her that he was going to leave.

Because he had no idea what he was doing.

"Yeah, she wouldn't let me say no." He paused a moment before asking in a voice that clearly showed how clueless he was at the moment, a rare thing for him, but then a lot was happening in the last few days he wasn't used too. "Is there anything else you wanted?"

Crystal was glad that Terry had insisted on making Tommy go into the city. One of her original intentions about speaking to Tommy in person was to try to convince him to leave the campus. Clearly, Terry had already done the job for her, and hopefully his experience would lead him to other ventures away from the school. "Perhaps sometime I could join you and Yvette for your poetry readings?"

Tommy highly doubted he'd leave much after Friday but then, he'd been surprised in alot of ways in the past 24 hours. He nodded. "Yvette would like someone else to read with her." Clearly implying he didn't have to be there if the girls didn't want. While he liked reading with poetry with Yvette...he didn't have to be the one that did it.

"No," Crystal told Tommy, shaking her head, "I am fairly certain that Yvette wants you to read with her. I am merely asking if I may join the two of you when you read together." Crystal was aware that study groups had been formed, and while this was not a study group, watching Tommy, who had been taught to hate mutants, reading with Yvette, a clearly visible mutant, would be something to see. It was proof that anyone was capable of change if given the chance... and, of course, only if that person truly desired to change.

Tommy just blinked at her, before shrugging and shaking his head. He might as well just give up on figuring out what the hell was going on anymore. "Okay, I guess. If you want to."

"I will be away this weekend, but I will ask Yvette if I may join the two of you next week. Have fun at Terry's performance."

Tommy nodded. "Yeah okay, Thanks."

Crystal smiled at Tommy, then hurried on to continue with the task of delivering the thank-you notes. The pilot would wait for her, but she didn't want to keep Medusa waiting, and she was more than ready to get away from the confines of the school, even for just two days.