Disclaimer: Stan Lee, thanks for the use of your characters! And thanks to Fox for making the movies, too. Obviously, neither of them are me, so on with the fanfiction.

Triple Scoop

Kitty, Rogue, and Jubilee had finally worked out a rhythm to move around eachother as they got ready. It had taken some bumping into eachother and fighting for the mirror before the three girls had stopped and started over. While Jubilee applied her makeup with her little compact mirror, Kitty used the vanity mirror to pull her hair into a sleek ponytail and Rogue looked through her closet for something comfortably casual to wear. When Kitty finished her hair, she dressed quickly in her favorite pair of white capris and a purple tanktop that showed off her Danger Room-toned arms. Rogue, she noticed, was also wearing a tanktop with a knee-length jean skirt.

"Marie, makeup?" Jubilee asked, tossing the compact to Rogue.

Jubilee was more than a little excited for this triple date. Jimmy had finally asked her out on an official date after at least a month of flirting back and forth. Before that time, Jimmy's sole focus had been on Kitty, so Jubilee's crush on him had gone largely unnoticed by the young mutant. Luckily he, like Kitty, had realized his mistake and now that everyone had figured out their relationships, the six teens were going out together to celebrate the end of the confusion and the beginning of something undoubtedly better.

It sort of amused Kitty that these two girls, who had eagerly helped her pick out her outfit, had both once hated her for stealing their guys' affections. Kitty blushed now as she thought about what a fool she'd been. Looking back on it she had been completely unrealistic in her hopes for Bobby. He was very much with Rogue, no matter what slight weakness had led him to Kitty. And Jimmy. Well Kitty really couldn't believe that she hadn't noticed Jimmy fawning over her. It was obvious in retrospect, but then things like that usually are.

"You done yet Kitty?" Jubilee asked politely, but slightly impatiently.

Kitty looked away from her reflection and nodded. "Yeah, I'm done. I'm gonna go see how the guys are doing."

She really just wanted to see Pete for a second alone before they left, so she left Rogue's room and headed to the male dorms on the other side of the mansion. She knocked softly on Piotr's door and heard him shuffling around inside. He opened the door a minute later and a smile lit his face when he saw her.

"Hi," Kitty whispered, her face turning red like it never had with Bobby.

Piotr moved aside to let her in and closed the door softly behind her. "Am I running late?"

Kitty shook her head and spun slowly to look at him. He was dressed in a clean black polo shirt and dark blue jeans. A white wife beater with fresh paint stains peeked out from under his bed in an obviously hurried attempt to hide it. Kitty raised an eyebrow at her new boyfriend and without her having to say a word, he caved.

"I'm painting something."

"Can I see?"

Pete shifted uncomfortably and muttered something about it not being finished, but Kitty stuck out her bottom lip in a pout and looked up at him with shamelessly begging eyes. The big artist sighed and steered her to the corner of his room. Turned toward the wall was a large easel with a canvas stretched over it. Kitty closed her eyes and breathed in. It smelled like wet paint. When she opened her eyes she was staring into a painting of a statue.

"It's a bird," Kitty said stupidly.

"It's a phoenix."

"Ohhh," Kitty breathed. Her hand instinctively went to her mouth and she was glad to be able to lean back against Piotr.

He rested his hands on her shoulders and explained, "It's going to be a memorial statue. Storm wants to put it in the middle of the main courtyard, but she wanted to keep it a secret until she talked it over with Logan and the team."

"Then it's a secret."

Piotr slid his hands down around her waist and whispered in her ear, "Thank you Kitty."

She turned her head to kiss him, then turned around in his grasp and looked up at him. Before she could say anything, there was another knock at his door. Then Kitty remembered that she was in a boy's room with the door closed, something that was not encouraged in the Xavier School. She had just managed to slip into the closet before the door burst open and Bobby and Jimmy strolled in.

"Hey Pete, ready to go?" Bobby asked.

"Yeah, we're supposed to be at the bottom of the stairs before the girls are finished getting ready so we can ooh and ahh at them when they come down," Jimmy said. He'd never been on a date before, so his courtship knowledge came mostly from tv and the sometimes stranger practices of mutant dating that he'd seen since he moved in.

Bobby ruffled Jimmy's well-combed hair. "It's just ice cream Jimmy, relax. But we still can't let them think we take longer to get ready than they do, so let's go big guy." And Bobby practically pushed Pete out of his room. Kitty let out a thankful sigh when they were gone and phased downstairs. The guys were coming down the stairs when she walked out of the living room. Pete looked slightly surprised, thinking he'd left her upstairs in his closet, but recovered himself quickly.

"You look nice," he complimented her, like it was his first time seeing her.

She beamed at him and returned the compliment. Bobby and Jimmy were trying not to laugh at the polite newness of Kitty and Piotr's relationship when someone cleared their throat on the stairs behind them. Bobby and Jimmy turned to see their dates descending and even though Jimmy had planned on oohing and ahhing and saying something smooth, he ended up being speechless.

Jubilation Lee, better known as Jubliee, had done a lot since Kitty left. She wore a yellow sundress and her straight black hair was pulled back into a curled ponytail with a few curled strands of hair hanging down the sides of her face. Big gold hoop earrings matched her gold choker necklace and assortment of gold rings. "I know it's just ice cream..." she said nervously.

Bobby nudged Jimmy, who stumbled up a step and managed to sputter, "Y-you look amazing."

Rogue laughed openly at this and stuck her arm through Jubilee's to drag her down the stairs. When they reached Jimmy, Rogue left her in front of him and continued on down the stairs to latch onto Bobby's arm instead. When they had waited a good three minutes without the younger couple having moved an inch, Rogue cleared her throat again and joked, "Hey, you know what'll be even more fun than this? Actually going out."

Both Jimmy and Jubilee blushed and followed the other four out the front door.

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A/N: Still working on chapter 4. I'm hoping it'll be done in two days. Feel free to yell at me if it's not!

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