You still think of him don't you" the voice rang out on the rooftops behind her, bobby.

"Yes and no, I thought I was over him but, But thinking of him with my SISTER, how could they do that, how could she, they think I'm dead and two days later their in bed together and ENGAGED?" gem stared up at the stars, she could hear and feel him sit down beside her,
"wanna talk about it?" he asked

"Might as well, You know I thought he dumped me because I was mutant but it's obviously more than that, I mean he didn't propose to ME after two days, I just wasn't good enough for his perfect little life. And its not just Mathew, It's like, how do I explain this, I've been hurt so many times before and this is the final straw, I don't believe in happy ever after anymore."

"Don't say that" bobby said almost pleadingly beside her.

"It's true I don't I find it hard to believe in anything any more and that disgusts me, it disgusts me that I'm so jaded"

"Your not that jaded compared to some of us Gem" bobby replied cutting her off, he looked at her, she turned her head away but lent back against his chest, closing her eyes as tears welled up on her cheeks, she continued as if he hadn't said that.

"It's like that song in Evita, another suitcase in another hall you know 'Time and time again, I've said that I don't care, I'm immune to the gloom, that I'm hard through and through But every time it matters all my words desert me, so anyone can hurt me and they do', oh bobby, bobby why does every guy I fall in love with have to hurt me?" she almost yelled the last words in desperation looking up at him.

He titled her chin very gently, and wiped the tears from her eyes carefully, their faces were barely an inch apart "I would never hurt you" he whispered softly. Gemma gazed into his beautiful blue eyes and whispered back, "I know" she didn't even think about it but instantly knew it was true. Their lips met.

The kiss wasn't wet and slobbery, it wasn't like he was trying to eat her alive from the inside, tongue first, it wasn't rough and hard, it was like no kiss she'd ever had before, it was soft tender, almost chaste it was…

Perfect.

In that one moment in time Gemma realized two things, 1) she had never loved Mathew, perhaps she had lusted after him but love had been nothing but an illusion and so many other times before her had been just the same thing and 2)

She believed in happy ever after again.