"So, how'd the phone call go?" Rogue asked as Kurt stood in the kitchen looking for a snack.
"Good, I think."
"You think? You don't know?"
"Well I think it went well… but I don't always understand women, so it may have gone terrible and I wouldn't know it."
"I see… well don't worry, even women don't understand women, and I'm sure it went just fine. This girl seems very taken with you Kurt."
He turned around and had to fight back a smile. "Really? You think so?"
"Mm hmm, and if you don't mind me saying so, I think you seem quite taken with her too."
"What? Me? No! I mean…"
Rogue laughed. "Sure thing. Have you… told her yet?"
"Told her what?"
She sighed loudly. "That you're a mutant!"
"Oh that. No, it hasn't really come up."
"Well I think she's bound to notice sooner or later."
Kurt leaned against the wall and stared at the ceiling. "I know, but I don't want to lose what we have. And as long as we never meet in person then-"
"Wait a minute! You can't not meet just because you're afraid she isn't going to like you! Kurt, I don't think you understand what you have here. I can tell you care about her a lot, and unless I'm completely wrong she cares about you too. You have a chance that some people will never have, and if you don't take it… well then you aren't half as smart as I thought you were."
Kurt watched as Rogue's smile melted from her face, and he suddenly felt very bad for her.
"You have the opportunity to love someone, to hold them and touch them. I'll never have that Kurt. So what if you don't look human? If she really loves you then that won't matter. I mean, what's the use in looking human if you can't even touch the one you love?"
"I understand," he said softly.
"I really hope so. I don't want to see you throw something so perfect away."
Rogue said goodnight with a fake smile and went to her bedroom leaving Kurt alone in the kitchen. She was a smart girl. She was right about Kurt falling for Ami, and she was probably right about everything else too. But the thought of her laughing at him, or worse yet, running from him was too horrible to bear. Was it better to be friends in cyber space than risk losing it all to be lovers in the real world? And of course all this was completely pointless if she didn't feel the same way. Still, Rogue had been right about the other things she'd said, so he'd like to think she was right about Ami's feelings.
"This is all so confusing," he said to himself as he headed back towards his room.
