Peter sighed as he raided the kitchen for midnight snacks, too engrossed in his own thoughts to hear footsteps behind him.

"Hey" Jubilee said and she grabbed a chocolate bar from the cupboard next to Peter. The speedster turned to look at her, an eyebrow raised.

"Hey yourself." Then he hesitated. "What's up?"

"Nothing much." Jubilee shrugged. She hopped onto the counter, using it a chair.

"No, I mean like, 'what's wrong'. You don't normally get up for snacks, 'specially not this late."

Jubilee just looked at him. "I could ask you that yourself. You've been super mopey lately."

"Hey, don't try to turn this on me, JuJu, I asked first." The yellow clad girl just shrugged in reply, and kept staring at him. He sighed. "Fine. Crystal is way more into that Johnny dude than me. I'm not dumb, I can see it in her eyes." He scowled. "Yeah, laugh it up, I'm moping over a girl, ug."

"I'm not laughing." Jubilee said softly, studying her half eaten candy bar intently.

Peter didn't even seem to hear her, he kept venting. "And it's not even just Crystal, every girl I've ever been into falls for someone else after a while, if I'm even lucky enough for them to like me back in the first place. I saw Jean, super powerful, really smart, cute red head. But no, she's into Scott. I don't get it, if she likes losers, I'm a bigger one than him."

Jubilee wanted to tell peter he wasn't a loser, but she couldn't get a word in.

"Betty didn't like me, Amanda would rather be with Robby, Mara was fine dumping me for Kyle. And then there's Ororo, She's practically a goddess, she knows what it's like to be a thief, she is so amazing, but she's too busy trying to get Kurt to notice her to spare a thought for me. Again, I'm more of a freak than he is, so if that's what she like, I'm right here."

"Kurt's not a freak." Jubilee broke in, her quit voice stronger now. "And Ro is cool, but she's hardly a goddess." She added, becoming softer now.

"Yeah." Peter mumbled. "I know he's not a freak. I'm just, I don't know. A bad friend, I guess."

"Just jealous." The girl said wryly. "happens to the best of us."

"I know. I'm just… I guess I'm tired of being everyone's second choice." he admitted, looking at his hands, his foot tapping at a supersonic speed.

"At least you're on their list." Jubilee said a bit spitefully, before wincing. "I mean… I know how you feel." She finished lamely. "not good enough, not good looking enough, not strong enough…"

"Yep" Peter popped the 'p'. "I know you do. I can try setting you up with someone, if you want."

The girl smiled a bit, before looking back at her starting to melt candy bar. "Thanks, but I'm good." She looked back up. "I don't think you should give up on Crystal. She still likes you, and I think you can blow Johnny out of the water. She'll see that soon, I think."

"You talk to her?" Peter asked, taking a bite of his own chocolate.

"Oh, no. just call it a girls-"Jubilee realized she didn't have her snack anymore, and looked back at the one in peters hands. "Intuition." She pointed to the candy. "Give it back."

In a blink she had her chocolate, albeit a bit lighter than before.

"Give what back?" Peter asked, his cheeky mask back up.

Jubilee just smiled, a real one this time. She finished her chocolate silently, then got off the counter. "Just so you know," she said to peter as she threw away the wrapper. "I think your cool. Your good enough, and brave enough to be on the team, and if any girl can't see that she deserves whatever second rate guy she puts before you."

"Thanks Jujubean." Peter paused. "I think I know a guy you'll like, seriously though. Everett Thomas, he's pretty sick."

His friend shook her head. "I'm really good, thanks Pe-"

"And I'll talk to professor wheels about adding you to the team, at least on reserves."

"You really don't have to do that, but do you want me to talk to Crystal?"

"No!" Peter gasped. "I mean, no thanks, but please don't, I need to talk to her myself."

"And I need to get on the team myself." Jubilee shot back. "But thanks for the thought. I'm pretty sure Jeans already brought it up though, and the Professor still said no, so" she shrugged.

"Okay, fine. I won't bring it up to Baldy. But, what if me and Crystal and you and Everett went on a double date. I hear Footloose is supposed to be good, and Crystal would totally go if I bring up you two."

"That... sound fun, actually. Thanks" Jubilee said, moving to leave the kitchen.

"Hey, us cool-jacket-and-eye-wear-on-head-as-accessories people have to stick together, you know." Peter grinned, then quickly hugged her and zoomed off.

Jubilee laughed, then went to bed.

AN: I LIVEEEEE. yes, I am back, and soon I will be posting a full story for XMA, and maybe a colab with my sister.