Jaded

A/N: The beginning is a little slow going but once I get the ball rolling things will heat up!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own X-men Evolution or any of its characters (except for the ones you don't recognize oviously!)

CHAPTER 1

Jade Frost was the new mutant at Xavier's institute. She was a short blonde with black streaks in her hair and green eyes. She was brought here by a friend she met just after her sixteenth birthday. Jade was now seventeen and was enjoying the institute. She did miss her home back in Missouri but she liked it here too.

When Jade arrived at the institute she immediately made friends with the auburn Goth girl, Rogue. Rogue was a little distant both mentally and physically from everyone. Jade figured it was mainly to do with her powers and trust issues she had found out about from the valley girl, Kitty. Jade knew as soon as she met those two that they'd be her main friends. Jade didn't much care for the redhead, Jean. Jean was popular and too preppy for her.

"Jade! We're going to have a training session in fifteen minutes in the Danger Room!" Scott shouted from across the lawn.

Jade headed up to her room across from Rogue and Kitty's. She was lucky to not have to share with anyone yet. Jade liked having her privacy. Plus it left her free to write or attempt to write songs. She put on her suit and headed down to the Danger Room. Jade's thoughts wandered to their team leader, Scott. Jean and Scott were dating.

Jade pulled up her hair into a ponytail to keep it out of her face in the training session. She walked into the large steel room where other team members were waiting for the session to start.

"So what's up with this surprise session?" Jade asked Rogue.

"Ah don't know. Scott probably made it up for tha heck of it." Rogue replied to Jade crossing her arms.

Scott walked in and began to babble about the session before it started. It was training for teamwork. The session only lasted an hour which was pretty short for a random session in the Danger Room. Everyone went upstairs and backed up the bathroom with showers and getting ready to go out seeing as how it was a Friday. Very few of the teens actually stayed home on a Friday night. Jade just went up to her room for solitude. She could hear Kitty babbling to Jean walking outside her room.

"So, Jean, do you, like, have a dress for Junior Senior Prom yet?" Kitty asked the redhead.

"Uh, not yet. I'm going to the mall to go pick one out." Jean replied.

"Oh. Well, do you, like, mind if I come with you? I need to get one too. I told Lance that we should, like, coordinate colors for the, like, dance."

"Good luck with that one. Is he actually going to get a tux and everything?"

"That's what he, like, said."

"Well since you and me are going, why don't you go see if Rogue wants to come with us and I'll ask Jade." Jean said to Kitty.

"Like, okay." Kitty said phasing through the door to ask Rogue.

Jean turned to Jade's door and knocked.

"It's open." Jade said.

Jean opened the door and walked in a few feet. Jade was sitting on her bed with her notebook in front of her and papers surrounding her with her lyrics on them.

"Hey Jade, Kitty and I are going to the mall to pick out our dresses for Junior/Senior Prom. Do you wanna come with us?" Jean inquired.

"Um, no thanks. I have to be at work in an hour."

"Oh, that stinks. Well see you later." Jean said walking away.

"Yeah, bye." Jade said as Jean closed the door. Jade sat there a few more minutes before getting ready for work. She worked at the local Super Mart, a well known retail store. She had been working there since the beginning of her junior year of high school which was nearing an end. Jade walked downstairs in her khaki pants, a green baby t-shirt, and her blue work vest. She already had after work plans as well. She had already told the Professor that she was staying the night with a work friend, Jessica. Instead they were going to their supervisor's party. Jade had been doing this for awhile now. She knew that her teachers at the institute wouldn't agree with her going out with someone that was four years older than her. They had been dating for a few months but they had yet to consummate the relationship physically.

Rogue wasn't sure why she had decided to go dress shopping with Jean and Kitty. It's not like she had a date to Prom anyway, so why should she go? Kitty had picked out a few dresses for Rogue and shoved her into the dressing room.

Yuck, Rogue thought, leave it to Kitty to pick out a few pink dresses.

"Like, how's it going in there Rogue?" Kitty asked from her dressing room that was next to Rogue's.

"Fahne Kit, but I don't think the pink ones are me." Rogue replied.

"You'd better try them on at least!" Kitty urged. "Jean, are any of yours fitting you?"

"Yeah, but I don't like any of them really." Jean replied with a sigh. "I have to find one that I really love since this is my last high school dance."

"I'm sure anything you pick out Scott will love." Kitty replied putting on another pink dress.

"Who said anything about Scott?" Jean asked with slight irritation in her voice.

Rogue rolled her eyes trying on a green dress. Jean and Scott had started going out at the beginning of senior year. Scott was obviously head over heels for Jean but Jean didn't seem too thrilled now. At first they were so happy together, but lately it seemed as if she was tired of Scott. She was short with him but he was either totally oblivious to it or was trying ever harder to keep her satisfied. Rogue looked at herself in the mirror. The dress looked good on her as far as color but it was too fluffy. Rogue removed the dress and put her clothes back on.

"Kit, none of these worked." Rogue informed the valley girl.

"Oh." Kitty pouted.

Jade had just gotten off work and was heading to her boyfriend, Jacob's, apartment with her brunette friend Jessica. Jade hated the fact that she had to work tomorrow at 11 am, but she was still going to drink and have fun. She couldn't wait for Spring Break. It was only a week away.

The two girls walked up to the second story and knocked before hearing everyone yell at them to come in. Four of the boys including Jacob were playing Halo in front of the television. The futon was in the middle of the room instead up against the wall so no one would walk in front of them.

"Hey, me and Jess wanna play when you're done with that round." Jade said walking to the fridge grabbing a smirnoff apple.

The boys played for awhile longer before letting the two girls play.

"Lets do rockets. I'm actually not that bad at it." Jade said smiling.

"That's because you cheat." Terry, Jake's roommate replied.

"I do not! Just because I'm smart enough to hide in a corner and wait for you guys to walk by to blast you does not mean that's cheating." Jade retorted taking another sip of her drink.

"Hey shut up it's loaded." Jessica said to them.

Jade smiled as she played the game. She and Jessica drank with the guys for the rest of the night and fell asleep in the early morning.

Jade came home around 8:30 pm. She headed straight for her room and crashed on her bed. Naturally not too long after she laid down someone knocked on her door.

"Who is it?" Jade asked.

"It's just meh." Came the reply of Rogue.

"It's open." Jade called turning from her stomach to her back.

"Have a rough night?" Rogue asked seeing the dark circles around Jade's eyes.

"Of course. Maybe you should come over there with me on spring break." Jade told her friend.

"Yeah rahght. That's not really my thing." Rogue replied.

Jade gave her a look and said, "I know you sneak drinks from Logan's stash."

"No, not the drinking, the boys." Rogue answered.

"Oh, well I can change that." Jade said smirking thinking of how she got Rogue to wear jeans and a baby t-shirt and to soften her make-up so it wasn't quite so dramatic. "So how was dress shopping with Kit and Jean?"

"Exactly what you think it would be. And before ya ask, no Ah didn't get a dress." Rogue answered.

Jade laughed. "I'm glad I was working."

Rogue gave her a dirty look.

A/N: Oh, I forgot to mention this, though Jade is the main center of my story I'm trying something new where I have side stories on the other characters. So if some seem out of character forgive me. I find it easier to write with OC's. Reviews much appreciated no flames please. If you have a problem with my fic don't just say how it sucks and that it's bad. Give specifics! Thanks!