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Chapter 3


Kitty exited the main doors of Bayville High School, having mixed feeling about her sixth period. After lunch, she found that she and the red-headed Jean Grey had the same class. As they entered the chemistry class, Kitty also noticed that her P.E. teacher, Mr. McCoy, was also her teacher there. He smiled at her as she walked in.

Jean suggested that she sit with her, and Kitty felt relieved. They chit-chatted for a moment, but not before Kitty felt someone brush the back of her neck. She froze, feeling a terrible dread in the center of her chest.

"Well look, we have a class with the Kitty Kat," Duncan said in a half-whispered voice near Kitty's ear. Her skin began to crawl...

He sat, flirting with Jean, but every time Jean looked away to get a test tube or to ask Mr. McCoy a question, she felt his eyes upon her. She knew he was looking, regardless of whether or not she was. But it wasn't the fact that he was looking at her that creeped her out. Boys had done that before and she thoroughly enjoyed it. It was that he was looking at her in the same way a cat looks at a mouse before it kills it. She felt sick all period, and feigned innocence when Jean kept asking her if she was okay. It was wierd, like somehow she knew something was up.

As soon as the bell rang, she stood up and left the class room, looking back only to see Duncan smiling at her, satisfaction on his face.

Why did I do that? I should have kept my mouth shut! Instead I have to suffer because I tried to save...

"Toad!" Kitty cried a little suprised, broken away from her thoughts. She had failed to notice that he was right in front of her.

"Oh hey Kitty," he replied, giving her a smile.

'Does this girl get cuter everytime I see her?' He wondered hopping up onto the railing of the stairs that led away from the main entrance.

"I was, like, worried when that crazy woman shoved you in the office," Kitty said, and then asked, "Who was that?"

"Oh her, you'll be happy to know that's our principal."

"That's Ms. Darkholme?!" Kitty exclaimed. The day she came to enroll at Bayville, the principal was out of town on personal business.

Glad she was...

"Yah, and I'll just tell you now NOT to make that woman mad," He warned, half-joking, half serious.

"What did you do to make her mad?" Kitty asked walking down the steps, Toad going along beside her.

'Nothing, she just wanted to announce a new recuit to her 'Brotherhood' ...' He thought

"I think she just doesn't like me," he replied. Kitty laughed,

"That's horrible!"

"Yah well, I gotta live with it."

"Live with it?" Kitty questioned him.

"Well...she kind of adopted me," he replied. She almost fell over.

"Why?" She asked, regaining her lost composture.

"Well, let's just say cause I'm gifted," he said grinning. Kitty smiled and cocked an eyebrow.

"Gifted?"

Toad just laughed and did a flawless double backflip, landing what could almost be a described as delicately on his untied sneakers. Kitty's mouth hung open.

How did he...?

Toad's grin widened.

'She ain't seen nothing yet.' He laughed to himself.

He balanced on one hand in the air, then spring boarded himself onto a nearby tree, followed by him jumping down, landing in a crouched position.

"You..how..?"

"Heh- like I said, I'm gifted."

They both stopped when they realized that they were no longer at the school. Unless the Victorian-style house that stood before them was part of the school.

"Like, Where are we?"

"I guess we weren't really paying attention to where we were goin', cause this is where I live," Toad said, hoping they could get away from the place. He didn't want Mystique scaring away the only person who had talked to him without threatening to kill him.

"Then why don't we go inside?" Kitty asked walking towards the front porch.

"Nah, don't you gotta go home?" he asked nervously.

"No, come on! It'll be fun! We can, like, get a soda or something."

Toad's eyes went wide, "We're fresh out! Come on Kitty." If she saw Mystique, she would flip out!

"Then let's get some water. I'm, like, totally parched!" she replied, walking inside.

"Kitty, wait!!!" Toad cried hopping in after her. He had to stop Kitty from seeing the blue woman.

Kitty walked inside, looking for the kitchen. She saw a sink in one room and continued into it.

Until she ran into someone.

She looked up with wide eyes, and cried out.

"Lance?!"




*Read and Review* Is this to much of a cliffy? Heh, sorry! I really wanted this chapter to be longer, and am hoping to make it up with the next chapter!!! ThanX so much for reading.

~~~ Yah! Just saw the X-Men 2 movie trailer in theaters! WHOO HOOO!!!~~~