Author's Note: Okay, here's another chapter and I know it's short but it's kind of a filler. In the next chapter I introduce my OC… but don't worry, she will in no way take over the story. There will be TONS of ROMY and some KIETRO too. No worries. I hope you like it.

Making a Connection

by, Caliente

Chapter 2 – The Newest Recruit

Kitty's POV – About 3 P.M. on Saturday afternoon at the Charles Xavier Institute for Gifted Children

A girl approached the Charles Xavier Institute for Gifted Children. Her long curly dark brown hair with natural light brown highlights was twisted up with curls spilling over the back of a clip. Her pale grey eyes were accentuated by dark black eyeliner. The girl was average height with light tan colored skin. Her ears had two studs each and the left ear had two silver hoops in the cartilage (A/N: top of the ear). She wore a silver thumb ring, bunches of thin black bracelets on her wrists, and a silver necklace with another silver ring with an intricate design resting on her chest. She had on an orange ¾ length baseball style shirt on, light orange in the center with dark orange sleeves and a pair of black drawstring cargo pants. The shirt clung to her curvy figure while the pants hung loosely. Her outfit was finished with black combat boots that added an inch to her height. She had a dark green duffel bag slung across her back, the strap on her chest, and approached the door looking slightly antsy.

Knock, knock. The door creaked open on the large mansion.

"Hello?" her voice echoed in the large hall. She pushed the door open further and took a step in. "Is anybody here?" she tried again.

Suddenly a head came up from the floor. It was a girl with brown hair pulled into a neat ponytail and deep aqua eyes and appeared to be wearing some kind of spandex uniform. The new girl's eyes widened significantly as the rest of the girl appeared above the floor.

"Like, hi," she said in a Valley Girl accent, as if it was normal for people to appear out of the floor. "Can I help you? Oh, I'm Kitty Pryde."

Before the girl could respond, Professor Charles Xavier's voice came into Kitty's head.

Kitty, please show our guest to my office. Also, assemble the others in the Briefing Room when you have finished. Oh and please do not phase any more around our guest.

Like, okay Professor. No problem the girl answered happily.

Kitty took the girls hand and silently led her into the Professor's office. The Professor nodded curtly when the two girls entered. Kitty took that as her cue to leave, silently shutting the door behind her. Before she left, she thought she heard the Professor say "Hello Christina" but she wasn't sure. After leaving the room, she phased down into the Danger Room and approached Logan and Ororo in the control section.

"Mister Logan, Miss Monroe," Kitty began cautiously, "the Professor wanted to, like, assemble the X-Men in the Briefing Room. He's talking to this girl in his office."

Logan grunted in acknowledgement. "Alright kids," he said into the microphone, "today's session is over. Please change and assemble in the Briefing Room in 10 minutes."

The kids began to chatter curiously and Kitty phased down to join them. She was immediately bombarded with questions.

"Is something wrong?" started Scott's worried voice. His face showed concern behind his visor.

"Ah thank if there was a problem, the Professah would have warned us himself," Rogue responded sarcastically in her Southern Belle accent.

Cyclops glared at her briefly before turning back to Kitty expectantly. Scott was still miffed that Rogue no longer gave him the attention she once had.

Kitty stifled a giggle. 'I bet that guy that she met with last night is the reason Scott has suddenly dropped of Rogue's radar.' It had taken a while for Kitty to get it out of her roommate, but she finally got Rogue to all but admit that she had finally found an attractive guy that she liked. The perky Valley girl was ecstatic for her best friend.

Kitty, focus! Jean abruptly invaded Kitty's thoughts. What's going on? Who was at the door?

Jean! Like, get outta my head! Kitty answered angrily at the red haired telepath. She glared at Jean, focusing her angry energy at the girl. Jean just sighed and put up her hands in surrender.

"Keetty," Kurt's German accent interrupted her telepathic fight with the Jean. Kitty turned to look at the fuzzy blue boy with three fingers on each hand and two toes on each foot. "Don't leave us hangin' gurl!"

"Like, leave me alone!" yelled Kitty, finally having enough. "I don't know what's going on! All I know is that some girl, like, totally, showed up at the door and the Professor asked me to show her to his office. I think he might have called her Christina or something. Then he said to gather the others in the Briefing Room." She sighed out of exasperation with her teammates.

Cyclops, regaining control of the situation, decided to take a course of action. "Okay team, let's change and go to the Briefing Room like the Professor told us to."

'Like, duh,' Kitty was at the end or her rope. 'Isn't that what I said? Whatever!' She huffed out of the room, followed closely by Rogue. The rest looked after her for a moment before deciding to go themselves.

"Geez, vhut vus dat all about?" Kurt murmured to himself before he teleported out too.

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