"Come on Rogue!" Kitty whined. "You have to go with me!"
Rogue looked up from her novel to glare at her friend.
"And why do I have to go with you?" she inquired.
"Be-cause! I like, need a wing-girl! I need your help with Lance!"
"And why do you need my help? Lance is obviously into you, you just push him away! You fight and bicker with him everytime he comes around."
Kitty looked almost... Worried. Was that even possible with Kitty?
"I don't want him to get bored with me. If I keep acting like this, flirting this way, maybe he'll get the hint."
Rogue sighed. "Who's party is this again?" she asked.
Kitty brightened visibly. "The Maximoffs," she said.
Rogue looked unconvinced. "Wanda and Pietro? They can't even get along long enough to have a normal conversation. How are they going to host a party together?"
"Well, it's really Wanda's party, she just agreed to let Pietro invite Bob and Todd. Oh!" she cried as if remembering something incredibally important. "She also invited two other boys. Like, new blood ya know? I think their names are... John... Allerdyce? Yeah I think that's it. and Remy Lebeau? Yeah. Well I think John worked for her dad for a bit a while ago, and Remy just moved in with him. Wanda's, like, totally into John, and I heard that Remy's gorgeous. You should look into that," Kitty added mischeviously.
Rogue just glared at her. "Fine. I'll go. But not because there's gonna be some new man candy there, I just have nothing better to do. Kurt's going too, but I think he already left."
"I'm gonna go pick out your clothes!" Kitty said excitedly and skipped to Rogue's closet.
XXX
"Ma!" Rogue called as she and Kitty rushed down the stairs a little while later. "Kitty and I are going to the Maximoff's! I'll see you later!"
"Like, by Ms. Darkholme!" Kitty yelled.
"Bye girls!" Raven called back.
XXX
When they arrived it seemed like all of Bayville High was there. There was Scott Summers and Jean Grey cuddling up underneath the shade tree. Scott's brother, Alex, was lounging by the pool with their adopted brother, David Xavier, and Tabitha Smith. Bob, Todd, and Pietro seemed to be planning something in the middle of the living room. And then there was their hostess, Wanda. She was standing and talking with two boys, one with flaming red hair, and the other with dark brown hair and a trench coat. They both had their backs to Rogue. She turned to Kitty to ask who they were, but she had already gone off to a corner and started bickering with Lance. Rogue sighed.
"Rogue!" she heard Wanda call. "Come over here! I'd like you to meet these two!"
Rogue sighed again. She really wasn't in the mood to meet anybody new, but she went over anyways. "Hey," she said, forcing a smile onto her face.
"Rogue," Wanda said, "this is John Allerdyce." she gestured to the red-headed boy.
"'Ello Sheila," John said good-naturedly, fidling with a lighter.
"And this is Remy LeBeau," she finished, gesturing at the boy in the trench coat.