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On Friday, the entire student body seemed impatient for the school day to finish and the party to start. At the end of the day, the X-Men all rushed home to get ready. The girls all crowded into Jean's room to do each other's makeup, including Rogue, though she did her own makeup and wouldn't let anyone mess with it.

"Hey, Kitty, who did you finally decide to go with the dance with?" Naddie asked as Kim helped her pick out eyeshadow.

"I'm going with Evan," Kitty sighed.

"Well, that's not so bad," Jean said.

"I'll make sure Lance saves a dance for you, Kitty," Kim said.

"And I'll make Kurt dance one with you too," Naddie said.

"Thanks, guys," Kitty replied.

Meanwhile in the living room, Evan was explaining to Kurt and Ron how Kitty had 'tricked' him into going to the dance with her.

"I was going to go with my skate buddies and then she comes and mentions the dance," he started. "I said, 'No, I'm not going with any girl yet' and then next thing I know, Kitty's my date!" Ron and Kurt laughed at this. Evan just groaned. "Maybe I can sneak away for awhile. Just because you go to a dance with a girl doesn't mean you have to spend the whole time with her, right?"

"That sounds right," Ron said.

"Especially if you just go as friends," Kurt added. He was actually hoping Evan wouldn't spend the whole time with Kitty. He wanted to get a dance in with her.

"Good," Evan said.

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Logan growled as he let Kurt, Naddie, Kitty, and Evan out of the car at the party. Kim had been picked up by Lance earlier, Rogue had borrowed one of the cars at the mansion to drive herself and Ron, and Jean had driven with Scott. The four younger X-Men looked back at Logan to see what was wrong.

"I don't like this. . . Duncan kid, ya know," he said. "Think he's a bad influence. You kids keep an eye on each other."

"We'll be fine, Mr. Logan," Kitty assured. He just growled again and watched to make sure the four kids got in safely.

"This better be a chaperoned party," he mumbled, and drove off back to the mansion.

Inside, the party was already up and running. Music was blaring and a few streamers and balloons hung from the ceiling and doors.

"You see the others yet?" Naddie shouted to Kurt and Ron over the noise. They shook their heads.

_You guys are here?_ They all heard Jean talking in their heads at once. _Scott and I are on the balcony outside. Kim is here somewhere too_

They made their way through the crowd to get to the others. They arrived at Jean and Scott just as Ron and Rogue were coming up from another direction. They all said hi to each other. A minute later, Naddie spotted Kim in the crowd, dancing with Lance.

"Kim, Kim!" she called once the song had ended. Kim looked and walked over when she saw where they were, Lance tagging along behind her.

"Hi, guys!" Kim said cheerfully. Lance politely added his greeting, to everyone's surprise.

"Well, the gang's all here!" Kurt said. "What should we do first?"

"Well, I'm going to go find Taryn. I need to talk to her," Jean said. "I still can't believe she agreed to go with Duncan! She knows Duncan and I always go to parties together." Scott looked hurt, but Jean was the only one who didn't notice. "I'll see you guys later."

Scott sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. Kurt noticed how disappointed he looked.

"Hey, man, don't worry about it! She'll come to her senses and she won't believe she didn't go with you in the first place." Kurt said.

"You mean like Kitty?" Scott asked harshly. Kurt frowned. "Sorry, Kurt. I'm just not in a very good mood now."

"Understandable," Kurt said. "Hey, don't let her spend all her time arguing with Taryn and Duncan. Go ask her to dance in a minute."

"I will. Thanks, Kurt," Scott replied.

"No problem. The fuzzy dude's here to help!" He turned to the rest of the group who were all talking together. "Want to dance, Naddie?"

"Sure!" she said, turning to him. They went out into the middle of the room, to where the furniture had been pushed away to form a make-shift dance floor.

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On the other side of the room, Todd was 'casually' making his way towards the food tables with a bottle hidden under his shirt.

"This should liven up the party a little!" he laughed to himself, and dumped the contents of the bottle into the punch bowl.

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After several songs, Naddie and Kurt agreed they needed a break and they made their way over to some chairs against a wall, where they found Kitty sitting by herself.

"Hey, guys," Kitty said gloomily as they walked up.

"Hi Kitty," Naddie greeted. She looked around. "Where's Evan?"

"He left to get me a drink, like, ten minutes ago, but ended up wandering off with his skating friends."

"Oh, sorry, Kitty," Naddie said. "We were just taking a break from the action. We'll hang out with you for awhile."

"Thanks, guys," Kitty said.

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In another part of the room, Scott was gulping down his fourth glass of punch, stalling to go talk to Jean. Finally he made up his mind and walked over to her.

"Jean," he started. She turned to him, still scowling from her argument with Taryn. "Don't worry about Duncan, Jean. He's lousy. Come dance with me." Jean's face lightened a little.

"I guess you're right, I'm worrying about this way too much. Sure, lets dance!" she said. They made their way on the dance floor and quickly blended into the crowd.

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Kim and Lance were still out on the balcony, enjoying the warm breeze and doing their best to ignore the couples making out on either side of them.

"Hey, Kim, I'm going to go get a drink. Want anything?" Lance asked.

"Hmm, I'll just take a coke. Thanks!" Kim replied smiling. He walked away through the crowd. Lance wasn't so bad after all. She looked out over the sprawling yard.

'Duncan's family must be rich,' she noticed. The yard was decorated with statues and flowers- obviously professional landscaping.

'Maybe Lance and I can walk out here later when the noise gets to be too much.' Kim thought. 'It would be romantic!'

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Inside, Kurt sprang out of his chair, his energy restored and ready to dance again.

"Oh, Kurt, I'm going to sit here another minute," Naddie said. "Take Kitty, I'm sure she wants to dance." They both looked at her.

"You sure you, like, don't mind if I steal your date, Naddie?" Kitty asked.

"Go right ahead," Naddie assured. She smiled to herself as Kurt led Kitty onto the dance floor. They danced for two songs and then a slow dance came on. Kurt turned and looked at Naddie. Naddie waved to him that he should keep dancing with Kitty. He looked surprised, but turned back to Kitty and they started to dance. Naddie watched for a minute, and then got up and began to wander around. She passed by the door to the balcony and happened to see Kim and Lance. They were both leaning against the railing, sipping their drinks and talking quietly. Naddie smiled.

'This is perfect,' she thought. 'Everyone's happy. Everything's as it should be.'

The slow song was over and a moment later, she heard her name being called. She turned to see Kurt and Kitty running towards her.

To be that good it must taxin' /
No such thing as satisfaction /
You're makin' things happen while I'm relaxin' / Like a Sunday afternoon/

My dad used to tell me I was lazy / I got these moves like Patrick Swayze / I'm the leftover turkey for the world's mayonnaisey / The star next to the moon

"Come on, Naddie!" Kitty yelled as a new song came on. A good dancing song, not some of the rap music Duncan's DJ had been playing earlier.

"Come dance with us!" Kurt said. Kurt and Kitty each grabbed one of Naddie's arms and dragged her onto the dance floor. The three of them began dancing and having the greatest time ever.

Now I know I'm just here to amuse you / And I don't mean to abuse you / But if I could just use you one time /

Tell me what it's like / To be the queen of it all / The Neeman Marcus of the mall /

And tell me what it's like to be the one and only / All American Girl

Naddie and Kitty began bopping their heads in rhythm to the music while Kurt jumped around playing air guitar.

'This is awesome!' Naddie thought to herself.

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Not far away, Jean and Scott were still dancing, but Scott was beginning to feel a little dizzy.

"Hey, Jean, I'm going to get another glass of punch and sit down for a minute," Scott said over the noise and music.

"Alright, I'll come find you after this song!" Jean shouted back, and continued dancing. Scott went and sat down in a chair where Kurt, Kitty, and Naddie had been before.

'What is wrong with me?' he thought to himself. 'I can handle hour-long Danger Room sessions, but not a five-minute dance?' He got up and began walking to the drink table. 'I'll feel better after I have another glass of punch'

And feel better he did. After at least his eighth glass Scott was feeling downright giddy. He wandered around the room, trying to remember what he had been doing, when Jean walked up.

"Hi, Scott, sorry I couldn't find you," she said.

"Oh, Jean!" Scott said. He hobbled over to Jean and leaned in real close to her face. "I have to tell you something!"

"What is it, Scott?" she asked curiously. He hiccupped.

"I love you, Jean!"

"Scott, are you alright?"

"I loved you since I met you Jean!" he babbled on.

"Scott!"

"Kiss me!" he said, reaching for her. He came within an inch of Jean's face and she realized what was going on.

"Scott, are you drunk?" she whispered, pulling him aside.

"Oh, no, ossifer, what makes you drink I'm thinkin'?" He stumbled and Jean barely caught him. She drug him over to a chair and sat him down.

"Scott, listen, ok?" she said, holding his chin as if he were three years old to make sure he looked at her. "What have you been drinking?" He handed her his cup, a small bit of punch still at the bottom. She smelled the cup.

"Oh, man, Scott! Someone must have spiked the punch!"

"What?" he said in a moment of clarity.

"Come on, we're going home now!" She tried to get him to stand, but ended up half-dragging him outside, her telekinesis doing much of the work.

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Lance was also starting to feel the effects of the tainted punch, but his reaction was rather different than Scott's.

"Kim!" he said suddenly. "You should come with me. Join the Brotherhood. Mystique has already said how great you are. She would welcome you!"

"Sorry, Lance, that's a very nice offer," Kim said, not knowing what else to do. "But I won't be here much longer, you know. Drakken and Forge are working on that machine, maybe even as we speak- "

"Don't go back, Kimmie, stay with me!" Lance grabbed her arm rather roughly.

"Lance," Kim said, starting to get frightened of how he was acting. "Please, let go!"

"Not unless you promise to come with me!" he cried.

"Lance, no!" Kim shouted. She tried again to pull away, but Lance held on tighter. Kim flung her drink in Lance's face and made a run for it, looking for Jean, Ron, anyone, just trying to get away from Lance. There was something wrong with him.

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"Hey, guys, does the punch, like, taste kind of funny to you?" Kitty asked, walking up to Ron and Rogue. She held out her glass of punch and Rogue took it. She smelled it and then tasted a tiny bit.

"Aw, great!" Rogue said sarcastically. "Kitty, someone added a 'special ingredient' to the punch." Kitty looked confused, but Ron understood.

"They spiked the punch?! No way! I drank some of that!" he cried.

"Don't worry, Freckles," Rogue said. "It's diluted enough that one glass won't kill ya, but I remember seeing Scott downing at least four cupfulls. We better go find 'im."

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Back out on the dance floor, another slow song was starting.

"I'll, like, let you have this one, Naddie," Kitty said, stepping away from Kurt.

"Thanks, Kitty. I'll see you later!"

"I'm going to go try and find Evan. I'll see you!" Kitty said. Kurt waved and then turned back to Naddie.

"May I have this dance, liebchen?" he asked, holding out his hand.

"Of course you may, Kurt," Naddie smiled and put her hand in his. She slid her arms over his shoulders and he gently held her waist. They swayed back and forth to the music. Naddie hummed lightly.

"I'll miss you when you're gone, liebchen," Kurt said suddenly. Naddie looked up at him.

"I'll miss you too, Kurt," she said. Kurt quickly leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. Naddie blushed and smiled.

"What was that for?" she asked playfully.

"To remember me by," he said quietly.

"Oh, Kurt, I'm not leaving yet!" Naddie said.

"I know," Kurt said.

_Kurt! Naddie!_ Jean's voice suddenly interrupted their thoughts.

_What is it, Jean?_

_Someone put something in the drinks and it's starting to get to Scott. We have to leave_

_We're coming_

_I'll find a phone and call Logan to pick us up. I'm assuming Scott's in no state to drive?_

_That's an understatement_

Naddie managed to find someone with a cell phone and called the mansion. Within a few minutes, Logan had arrived, looking distraught.

"What happened?!" he roared when he saw Scott's condition.

"Someone spiked the punch, Mr. Logan," Kurt said. "It wasn't Scott's fault."

"Hey, you look like a smurf!" Scott giggled.

"Here, just put him in the back," Logan said, taking charge. "Jeannie, you ride with me and keep an eye on Scott. Rogue, you drive Kitty, Ron, and Evan. Kurt. . . can I trust you with Scott's car?"

"Oh, yea! Naddie, we get the convertible!"

"Wrong answer, but we don't have much of a choice. Just get it home in one piece, ok?" Logan said. "Where's Kim? She ridin' with that Brotherhood punk?"

"No, I'm here," Kim said from the back of the group. "I'm riding with you guys."

"Alright, get in the car with Kurt and Naddie. That everyone? Let's go then!" Everyone got into the car they were supposed to ride in and made their way home.

"Hey, Kim, what happened to Lance?" Naddie asked on the way home.

"I think he was drunk!" Kim said quietly. "He got a temper again. It was. . . scary!"

"Don't be mad at him for it, Kim, someone spiked the punch!" Naddie said. "It's not his fault." Kim nodded.

When they got back to the mansion, Ororo fussed over Scott for an hour before he finally fell asleep on the sofa and started drooling.

"He's gunna feel that in the morning!" Logan said almost humorously as he covered Scott up with a blanket.

"This is no laughing matter!" Ororo scolded. "What if someone hadn't found him? What if he tried to drive?"

"The kid's fine, 'Roro, give him a break." She scowled but didn't say anything more. Everyone else made their way to their rooms, glad there was no school the next day.

))) Oh, I'm so sorry, all you Scott fans, this chapter was horribly embarrassing for him. I'm not a Scott-basher, really! He's cool!

Yes! I loved your ideas, sylvester and Crystalgreen. But you probably figured that out the moment Toad headed towards the punch bowl. Hehe.

That song is "All American Girl" by Train and it is an awesome dancing song. I can't help but move my head whenever I hear it. Plus, the part "I know I'm just here to amuse you / I don't mean to abuse you" reminds me of Kurt and Kitty's relationship for some reason. Actually, the whole song makes me think of it, maybe Kitty's an All American Girl, but I think that part because I had just finished LeDiz's story, I can't remember the title, but it's about how Kitty treats Kurt like a toy and he finally realizes it. It's really good (Go LeDiz!)

Can't believe how long this chapter is! And it didn't take me all that long, either! But is it easy enough to follow? I know I switched back and forth enough it was probably very confusing, but I had to show everyone.

Crysala, you're totally right. Kitty is a big flirt who takes advantage of the fact that she has several guys after her at once. I don't hate Kitty, but I did kind of teach her a lesson, no? do not fear, dear readers, all will be resolved before the story is over.

Ya know, originally, I was going to have Shego come to the dance with one of the Brotherhood members (which would lead to some nice Shego/Todd humor) but that just got lost among all the other things going on! I'll try to put more Shego in soon. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about her. But I did forget about poor Rufus again! Lets just assume the little rodent is sitting in Ron's room eating nachos while all this is happening. There's just too many characters to work with! Ahh! Brain overload!

Soon as I mop up my brain, I will get another chapter up. Till then! (((