Disclaimer: I don't own the x-men evo characters. Also my original character was inspired by the parody "That's the spirit." Apparently there is a character in the comics called Belladonna. My character is not related to her in any way. I only used the name because it came from the play "That's the Spirit" (along with the sock).

Thoughts are italicized.

Chapter 3

The Monday morning that Bella was going to start at Bayville High found the X-men running late. It was one of those mornings where everything went wrong and everyone got on everyone else's nerves. Kitty's alarm clock failed to work because the morning before she phased through the wrong wires and shorted it out. She was in such a hurry she phased through Kurt messing up his holowatch. Kurt has to stay home until Professor X could fix it. Rouge was in a bad mood because they were low on milk and Evan swiped the carton from her right before she poured it on her cereal. So she had dry cereal while Evan drank his third glass of "moo juice." Scott was in a horrible mood because Jean has gone out with Duncan the night before. Scott and Rouge's attitudes put Jean and Evan in poor moods. "Bella are you coming?" Scott yelled as he warmed up his car.

Bella came down the stairs. In contrast to the grouches she was glowing. The makeup and clothes she was wearing made the most of figure. Not a single hair was out of place. Evan Chester was dressed in nice clothes with perfectly curled hair. Jean and Rouge felt the green-eyed monster, jealousy, enter their minds. Jean flipped her hair slid in next to Scott and asked him "Are we going," in a mock cheerful voice.

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Bella glanced at the schedule she had received that morning. . Her next class was lunch. Grinning she swung her book bag on her shoulder, adjusted Chester, and headed down the hall. "Yo what's that?" Todd asked hopping in front of her.

Bella crinkled her nose at his odor. "This is Chester."

"Check it out, the new girl's psycho." Todd's tongue came an inch from Chester before she got the puppet out of the way.

"You know what the say about psychopaths, don't you? " She asked in Chester's voice.

"There crazy, yo," he guessed.

"Their sexier than sane people," she whispered to him in a seductive voice. Todd just stared. Bella gave him a sweet smile and turned around to leave. When she was at the end of the hall she turned and told him in a fake sweet voice that made him wince, "You know, you should never ever piss off a crazy person. They could do anything."

Bella was almost to the cafeteria when she tripped over Tabitha. "Whoa, cool sock! Are you new?" Tabitha asked her perky voice. Bella nodded. "Why don't you come over to my house after school?" invited Tabitha.

"We'd love to!" Chester responded. The girls made plans to meet by Tabby's locker after school. Bella ignored to odd glances she received while she got her lunch. She joined the x-men and their usual table. All of the X-men were their accept Jean whom was eating with Duncan. Despite the lousy morning, Jean was once again looking and acting like Miss Perfect.

"So Bella how do you like Bayville High so far?" asked Scott as her momentarily tore his eyes off Jean and Duncan.

"It's boring, dumb, and the kids are jerks-yeah, I love it." Her even tone made the others wonder if she was being sarcastic or not. Bella told Scott that she was going over to someone's house after school and naturally everyone wanted to know whose. After she described Tabitha to them, Kitty let out an audible sigh knowing what was coming. For the rest of lunch Bella had to sit through a 'the brotherhood is bad news' talk and a 'why Tabitha is not a girl you should hang out with' talk. Finnaly the bell rang ending the torturous talks. She politely thanked Scott for caring. Then Chester informed them that she was going anyways and Scott couldn't stop her. "Besides," she added over her shoulder as she left, "Why don't give your talks to Kitty after all she kissed Lance."

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Kitty tried to work on her math homework during study hall but kept on getting distracted. She was so embarrassed that Bella had blurted out about her kiss. The "way to go" look that Evan had given her had turned her stomach. Worse Jean gave her a "what were you thinking" look. Kitty didn't admit it to anyone but she had enjoyed the kiss and she was starting to like Lance. The other thing that was bugging her was how Bella knew about the kiss. The only people who had seen it were Scott and the Professor. (Authors Note: I'm going to assume that the three joy riders did not witness the kiss because they walked off screen.) Kitty had made Scott promise not to tell. She had later told her roommate, making Rogue promise the same thing. The only way Bella could have found out is if one of them told it, or if Jean had read her mind. Kitty was doubtful on the last way because Jean had acted genuinely shocked and she wasn't a very good actress.

Kitty stopped thinking about the kiss long enough to do a few problems. It didn't take long for her mind to stop wondering again. Bella was something of a mystery to Kitty. There was something that struck Kitty as being wrong about the girl aside from the questionable insanity. It was just one of those things that she couldn't put her finger on. The freshman wondered if any of the other students noticed it. It was hard to tell if they were wary of the sock or something else was wrong. The Sock. Chester scared Kitty. There was also something "wrong" about it. The Professor had said that Bella had tied her powers to it. How could someone do that to an intimate object? Did this mean that the sock now had power of its own?   

Yay, finally finished this chapter. I've been working on it forever. Coming up Bella visits the brotherhood. Just what that house needs: another nutcase.