A/N: We all know everyone has that one place on speed dial. My friends and I do. XD I went over 1,000 words... I'm peeved. lol

Disclaimer: I neither own X-men: Evolution nor Lee's Chinese Noodle Emporium, although the latter is a figment of my imagination I do not doubt there is one out there.

That's it! It was time for Chinese take-out. Kitty whipped out her cell and began ordering to lift Kurt's spirits. "I'll take chicken fried rice, lo mein and a side of dumplings for Kurt, two spring rolls, and egg drop soup to split. Yup Mr. Lee, this is Kitty." She peeked over towards the cracked bathroom door to make sure the shower was still going and Kurt was still inside. Kurt, Jean, and Scott were the only mutants with bathrooms in their rooms because they were the first among the students to arrive. "Tonight's occasion? Oh, Kurt just going through a rough time right now." Sure Mr. Lee was a friend, but Kitty wasn't exactly going to run at the mouth and let everyone know Kurt's business. "Uh huh. Oh! That's nice of you! Thanks Mr. Lee!" She hung up with a small smile on her face. It appeared they'd be getting a surprise free side dish to cheer up Kurt. You could tell what was important to a person by the way their speed dials were listed. On Kurt and Kitty's phones they were both number 2, followed by number 3 Lee's Chinese Noodle Emporium, 4 belonged to their parents, 5 was professor Xavier, and then 6 was 911.

Shadowcat set to straightening Kurt's room. It looked like a hurricane had blown through and Kitty knew he wasn't going to come out the shower any time soon. Lickety split she folded the clothes on the floor and turned down his bed. Kurt and Kitty were close enough for her to know what to touch and what not to touch in his room. She then went to pick a feel good film out from his DVD collection. Kitty knew she would sit in his room and watch a weekend full of pirate movies with him if it would come an iota to cheering him up. That's what people did for the people they cared about. The shower went off and after a few minutes Kurt padded out with a towel hung over his head wearing a pair of boxers and a black tank top. "Here, lemme do that for you." Kitty took the towel and began wriggling it over his head to dry it out. When she lifted it up to see his long face her heart dipped a bit. Such sad eyes in what was normally a beaming face. She tossed the towel aside. "Kurt… I know you're still thinking about your gift-" He looked away at that word that had come to have the extra meaning of unique, freak, different, weird… He wasn't really hung up on the monster bit anymore since Kitty had spoken to him. "You need to see yourself like I do."

He touched her hand. "Nein, it's not that Kitty. I was just wondering why she got rid of me." Kitty had to wince. Rid was such a harsh word. "Why didn't she come back for me later?"

Kitty pulled Kurt onto the bed so that he was sitting beside her and she wrapped an arm around his waist since he was a bit too tall for her to comfortably loop an arm over his shoulders."You know Mystique was trying to keep you safe. She thought you were happy."

"Couldn't she have left a note or something?" He griped, his three-fingered hands clenching. "I was confused. I didn't know what I was and it would've been nice if someone had explained."

She gave him a squeeze with her arm around his waist. "I know, but time has to be lived forward. We can't go backwards Kurt."

He gave her a speculative look. "When did you get so wise Katzchen?"

"When my best friend needed me to." She hugged him real tight. "We better get downstairs before our food gets here."

Kitty phased them through the door. At the mention of food Kurt immediately bucked up. The way through Kurt's heart, or moods in this case, was through his stomach. "Mr. Lee's?"

"Yup! My treat. Said he'd put extra veggies on your lo mein like you liked." They both knew to a 't' what the other preferred.

His heart warmed and Kurt let go a little of his weariness. He reached out and tugged on her ponytail. "Did I tell you how much I love you Kitty?" He couldn't help admitting it, knowing that he was safe because she wouldn't know just how much he meant it.

"Nope, but I will take your fawning as you worship me from afar," she chuckled though a blush dusted the apples of her cheeks at his exclamation.

The duo had settled down into watching Treasure Planet. Kitty secretly adored this film for the cool graphics and she had a cartoon crush on the heartthrob loner, Jim Hawkins. Kurt was curious about seeing if someone at the institute could engineer one of those gliders Jim Hawkins was surfing on. If they could have a jet underneath their basketball court he was sure they could make a glider board.

Kitty spooned some rice onto the empty side of Kurt's open container and he hefted more soup into a plastic bowl he'd snagged from the kitchen for Kitty. He kept his wontons far away from her plate since it was filled with pork and she didn't exactly eat that due to her kosher diet. "That was nice of Mr. Lee to give us Chinese donuts." Little bread balls coated in mouthwatering sugar. Their cholesterol would be skyrocketing out the roof tonight but they didn't care, they were young and needed this food as a means to cope with teenage angst.

"I'd kill to be able to cook like this," nodded Kitty already stuffing her face with their dessert, eyes glued to the screen. Kurt's tail passed her a soda while he noisily slurped up noodles.

"You think villains ever watch cartoons?" Kurt asked. His mind was still on his mother, but Kitty couldn't blame him after finally finding out who she was.

"Yeah, they're normal people like us," she shrugged. "I mean, the Brotherhood are still obnoxious guys who sneak into dollar theaters… so yeah." She'd been invited to go to said sneak-ins, but had heartily declined. It wasn't the honor code thing though, more of the being stuck in a dark theater with deafening speakers and four of the X-men's enemies kind of thing.

"Are you still talking to Lance?" Kitty would've much preferred talking about his mother to this conversation. Despite her embarrassment, she couldn't lie to Kurt and they rarely kept secrets.

"Yeah, I helped him clean his house the other day. He isn't so bad." She eyed him knowing he thought what all the others thought. "There's something good in everyone y'know. I hate how everyone thinks we're a couple." She pointed her chop sticks at him and began waving them around in the air. "Can't a guy and a girl be friends without implications?" Kitty stabbed at her rice and Kurt ducked his head at her comment. He wished there were implications in his relationship with her. "Mystique may be our enemy, but there's got to be something good in her. She did have you after all. And she tried contacting you! That shows she still cares." He knew she was right. Kurt knew that Mystique had to have cared for him. She'd let him live with two loving parents and he doubted he would've been happier had he been living on the side of the Brotherhood. If he'd never been left with his gracious adopted parents than he might've never learned so much at the institute, might've feared being accepted by other mutants, might've been a jerk about his powers, and he might never have known Kitty. Things happened for a reason.

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