Hey, this is basically a work in progress, I'm not totally sure where I'm going with it yet so any ideas in the comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Enjoy ;)


.:Chain Me Free:.

The room was dark and quite. The only source of light or sound was the large TV at the front of the class room. They were supposed to be watching a film about the ancient egyptians but no one was paying attention not even Storm. Normally Storm would have been making sure that the students were taking notes or something that implyed that they were watching the movie but it was the last day of classes before Winter Break and she decided to give them a day off of sorts. Many students fell asleep while others showed no interest in they movie.

Kitty absent-mindedly doodled in her note book. She created a series of swirls and odd looking animals all across the page. She too had almost succumbed to sleep but was kept awake by being hit in the back with a ball of paper which landed at her feet. She turned around to see who threw it and who was looking right at her but the smug flame boy, Pyro.

"Read it." He whispered to her. Kitty bent down and picked up the paper. After smoothing it out a bit she was able to read the note.

'You going home for vacation?' It read.

'No. You?' Kitty wrote and threw it back to him. A few minutes later the paper landed in her lap.

'Nope. Did you hear about the party?' Kitty noticed how nice John's handwriting looked. Normally a guy's hand writing was illegible but John's was perfectly clear without looking like a girl's handwriting. Kitty hated her own writing so she often noticed others.

'No.' Kitty replied and threw back to him. About a minute later the bell rang.

The sleeping students awoke reluctantly while the others made a b-line to the door. Among them were John and Kitty who were out in the hallway before many others had even closed their notebooks.

"What party?" Kitty said to John as the two of them walked down the hallway.

"I heard Bobby talking about a party this morning. It's either tonight or tomorrow night." John said. Bobby was telling him about it as they were getting ready for class and John was still very tired at that point so he didn't recall much.

"Do you know who's throwing it?" Kitty asked. Parties here were very few and so Kitty was curious as to who had the will and the resources to throw a party.

"Not sure. Are you gonna go?" John asked rather quickly.

"Maybe. If I have nothing better to do." The end of Kitty's sentence was cut off by the ringing of the class bells. There was still one more period of classes for the day but Kitty didn't have a class. Occasionally she had a danger room session along with the other "X-Men in Training" but Scott gave them the day off today.

"I'm thinking about going but I'm not sure yet." John said. He too was one of those "X-Men in Training" so he had nothing to do now either. "So why aren't you going home this year?"

"My parents are going to South Africa." Kitty rolled her eyes.

"Seriously? Why?" John laughed.

"Only God knows why. They're pretty odd." Kitty remembered when she was younger, they would always find a new place to go every weekend. It could be as minor as going to a new restaurant or as major as planning a trip to Paris on a two day notice. Where her parents got the money to fund these random trips, Kitty would never know but they did it somehow and now they were using it to go on a two week safari in South Africa.

"I see."John said with a smirk. "So what are you doing now?"

"I'll probably go find Rogue and hang out with her. You?" Kitty slowed her walking to a stop and turned to face John.

"I'm gonna go find Bobby and ask about this party." John looked down at Kitty who was almost a whole foot shorter than him.

"Let me know what you find out about it." She said.

"Alright Kitten." He smirked and began walking down the hall in the opposite direction.

Kitty rolled her eyes. She hated that nickname but he insisted on calling her it just to get on her nerves. At least thats what she thought he was doing. Lately Kitty didn't know what to make of John. He'd always been a smart ass and for the most part a jerk but he seemed to be a little nicer recently. She didn't know why he'd changed but he definitely did. She didn't think it was a bad thing but she still was curious as to why he was acting differently.

Without thinking Kitty turned to corner and almost walked right into somebody. She looked up to see that it was Bobby.

"Hey, John's looking for you." She said

"Oh okay." Bobby said and looked down at his watch. "Jubilee is throwing a party tonight, wanna go?"

"Yeah John was telling me about that. Is it gonna be good?" Kitty asked.

"I would think so. It's gonna be in the rec room and then after she's having a few people come back to her room for an after-party of sorts. Are you in?" Bobby talked quickly, he seemed really excited about this party.

"Uh. Sure." Kitty said. She wouldn't mind going to the party but she didn't always have fun at partys. She loved listening to the music and everything but it was hard to have partys here where there wasn't some type of drama.

"You don't have to go if you don't want to." Bobby must have sense the hesitance in her voice.

"No, I want to. I was just thinking if I had anything to do tonight." She replied as she looked Bobby up and down. As she looked closer she realized he didn't look excited, he looked nervous. "Are you okay?" She asked.

"Yeah fine, just looking for Rogue. She's mad at me." He was still talking very fast. Kitty rolled her eyes in her mind, the drama is starting already.

"What happened?"

"She doesn't wanna go to the party but I really wanna go so I tried to talk her into it but then she got mad and told me I should just go on my own and then she was talking to Remy and he talked her into going somehow so I asked her why he was able to talk her into it but I wasn't seeing as I'm her boyfriend and everything and she just got pissed and stormed off." Bobby's words shot out at light speed but Kitty was able to understand them all, after all she was a girl who was used to following these complex sivs of emotion.

"Calm down Bobby, I'll talk to her, You get ready for the party and chill." Kitty knew how to talk to Rogue and she'd be able to help patch things over between the X-Men It Couple.

"Thanks Kitty." Bobby said after taking a breath. He hugged her quick and went off down the hallway toward his room. Kitty went the opposite way to look for Rogue.