Pietro kissed her back for a moment and grinned. Moments later he was gone in a flash and exactly 4 minutes and 57 seconds after that, he returned. Offering Ciara his hand he gave her a devilish grin, "Ready?"

"You bet!" She wrapped her arm around his. She had been a tad bit worried tho. Usually when she waited for people, or said she would wait for them Horatio or something else would show up and cause her to leave. But not this time, this time everything was going just right.

Her eyes were closed as she was led one by the Silver haired man. "Now?" She asked every now and then, giggling along the way. This whole situation was making her gitty as a goat.

Pietro lead her into the house with his hands over her eyes, "Alright.... OPEN!" he declared, releasing her into the hypnotic space that was her bedroom. She now had a four-poster bed (likely provided by Eric) decorated in draping blue and green fabric that was light and transparent. There was a strange effect between the pattern of fuzzy blue carpet and the light blue color on the walls that blended into the ceiling. It looked like the effect of light shining through water, creating a shifting design across the room. It came from the window which was draped in more of the sheer blue-green fabric, creating the effect across the room as the sun shone through the wind made the curtains shift.
The entire room smelled like the ocean somehow and with the fabric dancing around the bed in the wind like waves, it felt like it to.

Ciara was speechless for a few moments. She looked around in awe, taking in the room. From the soft feeling of the rug under her toes to the smell of the ocean. It was like a mermaid paradise. She walked over to the railing, her shoulders relaxed. "It's perfect...I love it." She wrapped her arms around him, "Thank you, I-" Ciara paused realizing something and turning red.

Oh crap. She'd said the L word to him yesterday when they kissed. They weren't even dating yet and she said it. God he must be freaking out about it. Oh. Maybe he didn't remember.

Pietro just smiled and wrapped his arms around her in turn, kissing her lips softly, "I feel like I should be thanking you" he replied, "I haven't made anything worth while since I returned. I'm finally starting to get my inspiration back."

She felt her ears warm up, "I'm your inspiration?!" She got a bit excited, cupping her cheeks, "I'm just like one of those mules from Greek myths. Running around inspiriting young... handsome artists to make wonderful works of art." She wrapped her arms around his neck.

"So... I ummm... Do remember me saying anything when we ummm.. kissed yesterday, by any chance"

((And this is where Pietro turns into smug pietro. Pietro: Thhhhhhhhhat, you love me. Thhhhaaaaaaat your world is not complete without me. :p))

Pietro grinned, "Something? What sort of something? I recall several somethings going on at the time, not sure which were in my head and which were you saying you looooooooooooooove me"

Ciara paused, staring at him and her instincts to flee kicked in as her face became a volcano of colour. She covered her face in her hands and attempted to wiggle out of his arms. How EMBARRASSING!

Pietro laughed and began tickling her, "What? You don't remember? Well it went something like this-Smoochy Smoochy, Pietro you're so awesome and sexy, I looovvve yoooouuu" he imitated her voice, badly.

"Nooooo!" She whined, trying to get away which epicly failed when he started to tickle her. They both toppled over onto the plush carpet. She tried to hide her face, "I was hoping *burst of laughter* that you didn't hear that *burst of laughter* How embarrassing!!!"

"You loooove me, you wanna kiiiiiiiss me, you wanna hooooold me" Pietro teased in a sing song voice as he tickled her mercilessly.

She grabbed a hold of the hands that tickled her and took a few deep breaths, recovering from all the tickling. "It's... True." She looked up at him. "You make my heart go pitter patter with every word. With every breath." She pulled him toward her, "I want to be yours." She whispered in his ear, before kissing his lips softly.

"I just... I said the L word and studies show when you say it and the other person doesn't... Not to mention I said it even BEFOre we were official." She rambled on.

Pietro just smiled and pressed a finger to her lips to make her stop rambling, "Well, then you got nothing to worry about. I've been waiting for you to say it since high-school."

She stopped the moment his finger was on her lips. She slowly moved his hand away from her lips, "Really?" She asked.

Pietro shrugged and nodded, "I've always kinda liked you, but then everything got screwed up so I thought it'd be better if I just left it alone. I mean seriously, everything between Lance and Kitty was constantly getting royally fucked up, I didn't want to make you go through all that crap. Then you started showing up at the brotherhood and did it to yourself anyway, nothing I did seemed to be enough to make you leave. I know the x-men gave you a hard time about us, I didn't want you to have to choose between your friends, no one should ever have to do that-but you stuck around anyway."

Ciara smiled warmly, "Well someone had to turn you all into responsible adults." She stuck her tongue out at him and then snuggled into him and sighed, "It was pretty hard back in high school. Being a fresh man and already in some higher grade classes, it really made me a target for bullies. Cindy Everwood and Mizett Thomas... They were the worst. I guess they didn't like a fresh man in their classes... Or a know it all. Scott was really protective. I guess since I didn't have powers then, he wanted to make sure nothing bad happened to me. He was really against me tutoring you but Charles got him to back off a little bit...

But yeah, I remember the first day of school, everyone else was in a grade or 2 above me and here I was... fresh meat. Scott drove me that day..." She chuckled. "I dropped my text books when I saw you in the hall. I was so clumsy back then."

Pietro chuckled as well, "Do you remember a gust of wind when you dropped it?"

She thought about it, "Yes, I do... That was you?"

"Heh, I couldn't resist" Pietro laughed, "Scott being all protective over another pretty girl at school. I had to do something. It just kind of... escalated from there"

"Escalated is right... Well, I guess I won't have become friends with all of you if it hadn't been for Wanda... She altered the timeline-... I haven't told you this have I?" She asked after a moment.

Pietro gave her a strange look, "What? Uh... no, you haven't? What did Wanda do?"

Ciara explained what had happened. How she'd crossed Wanda's path and she made Ciara never exist...mostly. That no one close to her remembered her nor did she. How they chased her through the carnival and Mystic invited her to stay with the brotherhood. She told him how she'd slept in his room, Wal-mart shopping with Light saber fights, Wanda piecing her ears... Toad and the Lightening etc.

"That's why I kept showing up 'randomly' but to me, none of it was random because... I had already done it with you all once before. Mind you things didn't always work out the same way. You yelling at me in the Zoo parking lot of one. But I still got to be one of you guys. And that was worth the effort of being yelled at for sneaking out of the house and then getting grounded for it."

Pietro blinked, "wow.... hot damn. No wonder you always seemed to know what to do"

"Just for those couple of months. After that, everything was back to normal. Well... as normal as it could get with being a mutant and all that. But didn't realize how much I cared for you still till you were angry at me and left Genosha. It was then that I truly knew how much you meant to me." She rested her head against his shoulder blade.