It didn't take Kitty long to find Rogue. She was sitting in the Library, her head burried into a French book with a pile of Physics and Math books in the corned of the table. Rogue was always very studious compaired to the rest of them and orgainized to boot. Kitty noticed several multi-colored post-its sticking out ever which way from all the books Rogue had. Kitty pulled out the chair across from Rogue and sat down.
"What's up?" She said in a hushed voice. Rogue looked up from the book for a second, smiled and went right back to reading.
"Not much, I wanna get all my homework done so I can enjoy vacation for once." Rogue said with a light laugh.
"That why you don't wanna go to the party tonight?" Kitty said, prying at information already.
"No, I'm going. Who told you I wasn't?" Rogue was apparently great at multi tasking because she seemed to be having no problem haveing a conversation in English while taking notes on a conversation she was reading in French.
"Bobby." Kitty said matter of factly. "He came up to me in the hallway all nervous, he was upset that you only agreed to go after Remy asked you." Rogue sighed and looked up at Kitty.
"He's too much. That's not what happened. I told Bobby I wanted to go homework. All Remy told me was that Scott canceled Danger Room today, that's what made me change my mind because I figured I could do my homework now, before the party." Rogue told her side of the story a lot slower and more calmly then Bobby had.
"That makes more sense." Kitty said aloud even though that probably should have been something she kept in her head.
"Yeah," Rogue said as she looked back to her book, "Bobby has a habit of blowing things out of proportion."
"Yeah I guess he does." Kitty laughed, "Well I'll let you get back to your work, See ya later." Rogue nodded at Kitty and with that she stood up again and headed back toward her room to get ready.
As Kitty reached the staircase leading up to the dorms she head giggling coming from the top of the stairs. She listened trying to pin point the laughs but she didn't know who it was coming from until the two boys almost ran her over running down the stairs. It was John and Bobby and Kitty would have never of guessed because the way they giggled made them sound like a pair of twelve year old girls.
"Hey Kitten" John said cheerfully but all of a sudden Bobby looked nervous again. Kitty ignored John and spoke to Bobby.
"I talked to Rogue, don't worry about it Bobby. Only thing Remy said to make her change her mind was that Scott canceled practice." She tried to simplify it because she didn't feel like going into too much detail.
"O-o-o kay" Bobby said but his voice was still a bit shakey. Kitty looked to John and his expression changed too.
"What's going on..." Kitty was suspecious and looked the two up and down and noticed that John was holding a bulky black back pack behind him.
"Don't worry about it Kitten." John said with a wink and began walking down the stairs again signaling Bobby to follow. Bobby lingered for a minute looking and Kitty who's mind was rading of what could be in that bag but she hadn't the slighest clue in the world. She just rolled her eyes and continued to her room.
Kitty opened the door to the room she shared with Rogue and noticed and folded up piece of paper on the ground which seemed to have gotten there by being slipped under the door. She picked it up and flipped it over, her name was written in big letters on the other side. She opened it and immedietly recognized John's hand writing from the note he passed her earlier.
Kitten,
Jubes is being weird and making all the guys coming to her party bring a girl (probably so she can play one of her kinky games). Since Bobby has Rogue I figured you'll be my girl tonight. See ya later.
John
"What?" Kitty said aloud eventhough no one was in the room to hear her. Her breath caught in her throat. She understood that Jubilee would do something like that and that it was natural for Kitty and John to do things together because their best friends were dating but the fact that he called Kitty 'my girl' threw her for a loop but couldn't dwell on it for long she had to get ready.
She tossed the note on to her bed and looked at the clock. It was 3:18. Kitty figured in her head that the party could be starting anywhere from 5 o'clock to 7 and then the after party would follow after that around 10. At best that left her close to two hours and at the pace it took Kitty to get ready for a party that wasn't nearly enough time.
Kitty threw open the closet doors and began looking for something to wear. Hangers, sweaters and jeans flew in every direction the majority of them landing on her bed but the occasional tee shirt would end up on the floor. A pair of cut off jeans held her attention for a few seconds but that was quickly dismissed and took flight to the bed like so many before it.
After the twenty minute down pour of clothes she settled on a long purple stripped sweater and a pair of black leggings with Ed Hardy designs on the leg. She then took almost a half an hour putting all the clothes back where they belonged and then ran into the shower.
By the time she emerged from the bathroom, wearing her black and white polka dotted bath robe, Rogue was back in the room and getting ready herself.
"You wearing those leggings?" Rogue said as she gestured to Kitty's outfit which was laying across the end of her bed.
"Yeah" Kitty said as she began drying her hair.
"Ok," Rogue laughed. "I was gonna ask to borrow them." Kitty giggled.
"Next party they're all yours" She said and glanced over toward her bed and saw the note once again. "Oh Rogue read this." Kitty grabbed the note and handed it to Rogue who read it and began laughing. "What's so funny?" Kitty said beginning to giggle herself.
"John has to get over himself." Rogue said. "Jubes told me about the guy girl thing but it seems like he's taking it a bit too serious."
"Yeah I guess but why me?"
"'Cause you're hot." Rogue said with a laugh. "Now get dressed so you can help me with my hair." Kitty rolled her eyes grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom to get dressed. She came out a minute later and looked at the clock, it was now 5:10.
"When does the party start?" Kitty said but Rogue just shrugged. A second later there was a knock on the door. Rogue answered it and in came John and Bobby, still with their black bag. John dropped the bag at the door and sprawled himself across Kitty's bed in one big dramatic movement, Bobby on the other hand closed the door behind them and leaned against it.
"Less than an hour ladies. Ya gonna be neat and pretty?" John said, leaning against the head board of Kitty's bed. Kitty finally got her answer, the party was starting at 6. She began formulating a list in her head of everything she had left to do in great detail. If only she put that much effort into her school work.
"Should be, just have to do my hair." Rogue said and Kitty nodded. "Care to help?" Rogue laughed but tossed a glace at Bobby who looked a little uneasy. "You okay Bobby?" Bobby perked up and looked around the room, almost as if he was trying to find and answer written on the walls.
"Fine. Anxious. Like parties." Bobby was having trouble making complete sentences and that automatically sent the girls into suspecion mode, more specifially, suspecious of John. Both of them turned their head to see him with his arms behind his head, totally relaxed, the opposite of Bobby at the moment. Kitty turned her head back to Bobby and then to the black bag on the floor. John noticed Kitty looking at the bag and could predict what she was going to do next and Kitty knew it too.
In a split second Kitty made a lunge to grab the bag but John sat up just as fast and threw his arm around Kitty's waist, pulling her down on to his lap.
"And what do you think you're doing, Missy? That's for the party." John said with a smirk but could feel his cheeks getting warm, amoung other things, due to their current proximity.
Kitty didn't automatically struggle to get free of John's grasp, at first she accepted it, allowing herself to fall onto him and remained there as he spoke but she knew she couldn't stay there. He didn't fight to keep her there either but he wanted to. She stood up slowly, shaking her head at the same time.
"I can't believe you John." She mumbled under her breath and went directly into the bathroom closing the door behind her.
"You're an asshole." Rogue said to John whos eyes were trans fixed on the bathroom door.
"I know"