Chapter Fourteen.
Scott leant against his car waiting for a sign of Evan. Jean, Rogue, Kurt and Kitty all sat their waiting - patiently (as if!).
"Scott will yuh just leave the porcupine, he can just board it home!" Rogue screeched, obviously getting annoyed.
"I just want to ask him he needs a ride home. Oh here he comes!"
Evan walked up to the group of mutants, basketball in hand.
"Hey Scott man, thanks for waiting. Basketball practice got cancelled so..."
"Yeah, yeah! Just get in spyke head so we can all go home!" Rogue gave him an annoyed scowl.
Kitty sat there in silence, twiddling her thumbs. She had avoided eye contact with Rogue as much as she could because she knew she would really lay into her if she found out. * But why should like Rogue care what goes on in my life? I don't go poking around in her love life - or telling a certain someone about her crush on him! *
The silence between the teens was deafening - including Evan and Kurt - so Jean decided to pick a random subject to talk about.
* Talking about belly button lint would be more interesting than this! * she thought sarcastically.
"So... Winter Formal's coming up soon; do you guys have dates yet?"
"Oh yeah!" Kurt and Evan cried in unison.
"Okay I take that as a yes. Rogue how about you?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah Jean, I can hardly wait. I'm even thinking about going to the mall and picking out a pretty pink dress and having my hair done! And then when I'm done with that maybe I'll go stick my head in a meat grinder!" Rogue rolled her eyes. "Oh brother what a doltz!" she whispered.
"Alrighty then! Kitty how about you?"
Kitty didn't answer, obviously wrapped up in her own thoughts.
"Kitty? Kitty? Hello??????? Earth to Kitty!" Jean frantically waved a hand in front her eyes.
Evan and Kurt made whirring noises - "Beep, Beep, Beep... Houston we've got a problem!" Jean continued calling Kitty's name, each time her voice growing louder.
"Looks like the love birds made up!" Rogue said a little louder than she realised when she noticed questioning eyebrows rise at her comment. Scott being the one driving gave her a questioning glance.
"What was that Rogue?" Jean asked her. She glanced at Kitty and saw her face buried in her hands.
"I... I said why doesn't Scott slow down and let them catch up!" This comment was countered by the same reaction. She laughed nervously. "Uh... never mind!"
Turning her attention back to Kitty, Jean asked her again about the Winter Formal.
"So Kitty, how about it? Who's the lucky guy that gets to escort the beautiful Katherine Pryde to the Winter Formal?"
Kitty hesitated for a moment. "I'm not going." She said in nothing more than a whisper, almost inaudibly.
Everyone turned around to look at her - obviously surprised but nothing could capture the expression on Rogue's face on hearing the young brunette's answer to the pleading question.
"You? You're not going to the dance?" Evan asked in disbelief.
"But Kitty you love to dance! I even volunteered to help with the decorations, I was going to ask for your help!" Jean protested.
"Well like not this time okay! I'm just gonna stay home and I don't want to talk about it! Gosh you people like want to over analyse everything that's going on with me!" She crossed her arms over her chest.
Scott pulled up into the driveway. Kitty phased out the car and ran to the large mansion doors, closely followed by her roommate. Evan jumped out the car and smacked Kurt behind the head, letting out a hysterical laugh. He began boarding up to the house when Kurt bamfed in front of him and the two competitively started goofing around.
Scott and Jean sat in the car discussing Kitty's strange behaviour. It was puzzling to them to see her act this way, she was usually so bubbly, full of life and spirit. Kitty was usually the one helping others out of their depression, shedding an optimistic light on a bad situation - giving it a different spin so to speak. Now everything's changed. The mansion had been dull recently - no constant bickering between Kurt and Kitty, no Kitty yelling at Evan because he left spykes on the living room ceiling again; no fighting with Rogue over privacy and property issues.
"So do you think it's time to get the Professor involved?" Scott asked Jean invitingly.
"I don't know Scott, you promised Kitty you'd stay out of her personal life. She'll come to us when she's ready or if she needs anything!" Jean gave him her 'serious' look.
"I didn't say I was going to mention anything to him! But you have to admit that he may have some idea what's going on with her, being the world's greatest telepath and all!" He gave one of those 'well duh Jean' looks.
"I have a feeling he already knows but I'm sure he respects Kitty's decision to figure it out ON HER OWN!" Jean stressing the last three words of her sentence.
"Yeah but..."
"Whatever Scott! I'm outta here; I've got a 5:00 Danger Room session with Logan and if I remember correctly, you do to! I'll see you inside." She gave him a small smile and walked off. As soon as she disappeared through the mansion doors she sent him a message,
# Oh and Scott, please don't go and do anything stupid! #
Scott sighed and got out of the car walking up to Evan and Kurt still on the ground competitively punching at each other. Evan having a really hard time due to Kurt's constant bamfing; an optic blast quickly separating them, slightly singeing Kurt's fur.
"Hey vatch it vith that!" Kurt yelled out.
"Come on guys we've got Danger Room practice, save it for then!" Scott held both guys by their collars.
"Hey Evan I'll race vou!" Kurt quickly said and bamfed out of Scott's grasp.
"Hey no fair man!" Evan ran to the mansion doors.
"Oh brother! Here we go again!"
Kitty sat on her bed with both index fingers stuck in her ears listening - or rather trying to not listen to Rogue's constant lecturing for the past twenty-five minutes now. Obviously she had dragged the truth out of Kitty. She had been going on and on about how she tried to do something nice and it all goes to waste. * And she says I like ramble on and on! *
"After all the running I did - and for what? To have yuh blow it like that! I mean I actually felt sorry for the bozo so I decided to help him out - not to mention help myself during the process - with you moping around here and all for who knows how long! And you didn't even give me a good reason as to why you didn't work things out with him..."
* Like there she goes again! Urgh.... I'm gonna like jump out the window - anything would be better than like sitting here and listening to this! *
"Kitty I want to know the real reason why yuh didn't make up with him because yuh told me yuh understood everything about the stupid bet and yuh've accepted all that! And don't give me yuh just don't find him interesting anymore crap..."
"Just like drop it Rogue... some things just weren't meant to be, that's all."
"If yuh don't tell me the real reason, I'll throw yuhr Nick Carter cd out the window!" Rogue picked up the cd and stalked over to the window. She held it in between her thumb and index finger, giving the motions to drop it.
"You wouldn't like dare!"
"Try me!"
"Rogue it took me a while to get that cd, it's like still brand new!" Kitty squealed excitedly.
"It's yuhr call!" she narrowed her eyes dangerously.
"Alright, alright I like give. But I'm not saying a word until my cd is safe in my hands."
"Kitty do I look like Jean? I don't think so! Now out with - or pretty boy here takes a serious nose dive!"
"Fine! I like didn't make up with him because I'm afraid of what everything will think - what everyone will say if they like find out we're together. Scott will like freak Rogue - not to mention Evan. I don't know if I can like take all that pressure! I mean I love Pietro - more than life itself - but I'm like the one who has to live in this mansion day in and day out! The questions, the stares, I don't know if I can like handle it!"
Rogue now held the cd safely in her hands and tossed it over to Kitty.
"See I'm sure yuh feel better! Well Danger Room session in fifteen minutes, shake a leg!" Rogue walked over to the closet and pulled out her uniform.
"Didn't you like hear what I just said? Don't you have anything to like say to me?" Kitty plopped down on her bed, as if she'd lost all hope.
Rogue sighed and walked over to her.
"Listen Kitty - yuh love Pietro so it shouldn't matter to yuh what anyone else thinks about yuhr relationship. As long as yuh have each other and yuh trust each other completely everything else will work itself out. I mean people will talk for a while and obviously it will get to yuh but it will all die down - talk always does, finally everyone will learn to accept it. So don't throw away something special just because yuh're scared of what other people might think! Yuh've been blessed with the chance to love and yuh've found someone special to share it with - don't take it too lightly. Some of us, (referring to herself), aren't that lucky." She got up and walked to the bathroom - flashing Kitty a smile.
Kitty just sat on her bed thinking about what Rogue said.
* Maybe she's right! *
TO BE CONTINUED.
Scott leant against his car waiting for a sign of Evan. Jean, Rogue, Kurt and Kitty all sat their waiting - patiently (as if!).
"Scott will yuh just leave the porcupine, he can just board it home!" Rogue screeched, obviously getting annoyed.
"I just want to ask him he needs a ride home. Oh here he comes!"
Evan walked up to the group of mutants, basketball in hand.
"Hey Scott man, thanks for waiting. Basketball practice got cancelled so..."
"Yeah, yeah! Just get in spyke head so we can all go home!" Rogue gave him an annoyed scowl.
Kitty sat there in silence, twiddling her thumbs. She had avoided eye contact with Rogue as much as she could because she knew she would really lay into her if she found out. * But why should like Rogue care what goes on in my life? I don't go poking around in her love life - or telling a certain someone about her crush on him! *
The silence between the teens was deafening - including Evan and Kurt - so Jean decided to pick a random subject to talk about.
* Talking about belly button lint would be more interesting than this! * she thought sarcastically.
"So... Winter Formal's coming up soon; do you guys have dates yet?"
"Oh yeah!" Kurt and Evan cried in unison.
"Okay I take that as a yes. Rogue how about you?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah Jean, I can hardly wait. I'm even thinking about going to the mall and picking out a pretty pink dress and having my hair done! And then when I'm done with that maybe I'll go stick my head in a meat grinder!" Rogue rolled her eyes. "Oh brother what a doltz!" she whispered.
"Alrighty then! Kitty how about you?"
Kitty didn't answer, obviously wrapped up in her own thoughts.
"Kitty? Kitty? Hello??????? Earth to Kitty!" Jean frantically waved a hand in front her eyes.
Evan and Kurt made whirring noises - "Beep, Beep, Beep... Houston we've got a problem!" Jean continued calling Kitty's name, each time her voice growing louder.
"Looks like the love birds made up!" Rogue said a little louder than she realised when she noticed questioning eyebrows rise at her comment. Scott being the one driving gave her a questioning glance.
"What was that Rogue?" Jean asked her. She glanced at Kitty and saw her face buried in her hands.
"I... I said why doesn't Scott slow down and let them catch up!" This comment was countered by the same reaction. She laughed nervously. "Uh... never mind!"
Turning her attention back to Kitty, Jean asked her again about the Winter Formal.
"So Kitty, how about it? Who's the lucky guy that gets to escort the beautiful Katherine Pryde to the Winter Formal?"
Kitty hesitated for a moment. "I'm not going." She said in nothing more than a whisper, almost inaudibly.
Everyone turned around to look at her - obviously surprised but nothing could capture the expression on Rogue's face on hearing the young brunette's answer to the pleading question.
"You? You're not going to the dance?" Evan asked in disbelief.
"But Kitty you love to dance! I even volunteered to help with the decorations, I was going to ask for your help!" Jean protested.
"Well like not this time okay! I'm just gonna stay home and I don't want to talk about it! Gosh you people like want to over analyse everything that's going on with me!" She crossed her arms over her chest.
Scott pulled up into the driveway. Kitty phased out the car and ran to the large mansion doors, closely followed by her roommate. Evan jumped out the car and smacked Kurt behind the head, letting out a hysterical laugh. He began boarding up to the house when Kurt bamfed in front of him and the two competitively started goofing around.
Scott and Jean sat in the car discussing Kitty's strange behaviour. It was puzzling to them to see her act this way, she was usually so bubbly, full of life and spirit. Kitty was usually the one helping others out of their depression, shedding an optimistic light on a bad situation - giving it a different spin so to speak. Now everything's changed. The mansion had been dull recently - no constant bickering between Kurt and Kitty, no Kitty yelling at Evan because he left spykes on the living room ceiling again; no fighting with Rogue over privacy and property issues.
"So do you think it's time to get the Professor involved?" Scott asked Jean invitingly.
"I don't know Scott, you promised Kitty you'd stay out of her personal life. She'll come to us when she's ready or if she needs anything!" Jean gave him her 'serious' look.
"I didn't say I was going to mention anything to him! But you have to admit that he may have some idea what's going on with her, being the world's greatest telepath and all!" He gave one of those 'well duh Jean' looks.
"I have a feeling he already knows but I'm sure he respects Kitty's decision to figure it out ON HER OWN!" Jean stressing the last three words of her sentence.
"Yeah but..."
"Whatever Scott! I'm outta here; I've got a 5:00 Danger Room session with Logan and if I remember correctly, you do to! I'll see you inside." She gave him a small smile and walked off. As soon as she disappeared through the mansion doors she sent him a message,
# Oh and Scott, please don't go and do anything stupid! #
Scott sighed and got out of the car walking up to Evan and Kurt still on the ground competitively punching at each other. Evan having a really hard time due to Kurt's constant bamfing; an optic blast quickly separating them, slightly singeing Kurt's fur.
"Hey vatch it vith that!" Kurt yelled out.
"Come on guys we've got Danger Room practice, save it for then!" Scott held both guys by their collars.
"Hey Evan I'll race vou!" Kurt quickly said and bamfed out of Scott's grasp.
"Hey no fair man!" Evan ran to the mansion doors.
"Oh brother! Here we go again!"
Kitty sat on her bed with both index fingers stuck in her ears listening - or rather trying to not listen to Rogue's constant lecturing for the past twenty-five minutes now. Obviously she had dragged the truth out of Kitty. She had been going on and on about how she tried to do something nice and it all goes to waste. * And she says I like ramble on and on! *
"After all the running I did - and for what? To have yuh blow it like that! I mean I actually felt sorry for the bozo so I decided to help him out - not to mention help myself during the process - with you moping around here and all for who knows how long! And you didn't even give me a good reason as to why you didn't work things out with him..."
* Like there she goes again! Urgh.... I'm gonna like jump out the window - anything would be better than like sitting here and listening to this! *
"Kitty I want to know the real reason why yuh didn't make up with him because yuh told me yuh understood everything about the stupid bet and yuh've accepted all that! And don't give me yuh just don't find him interesting anymore crap..."
"Just like drop it Rogue... some things just weren't meant to be, that's all."
"If yuh don't tell me the real reason, I'll throw yuhr Nick Carter cd out the window!" Rogue picked up the cd and stalked over to the window. She held it in between her thumb and index finger, giving the motions to drop it.
"You wouldn't like dare!"
"Try me!"
"Rogue it took me a while to get that cd, it's like still brand new!" Kitty squealed excitedly.
"It's yuhr call!" she narrowed her eyes dangerously.
"Alright, alright I like give. But I'm not saying a word until my cd is safe in my hands."
"Kitty do I look like Jean? I don't think so! Now out with - or pretty boy here takes a serious nose dive!"
"Fine! I like didn't make up with him because I'm afraid of what everything will think - what everyone will say if they like find out we're together. Scott will like freak Rogue - not to mention Evan. I don't know if I can like take all that pressure! I mean I love Pietro - more than life itself - but I'm like the one who has to live in this mansion day in and day out! The questions, the stares, I don't know if I can like handle it!"
Rogue now held the cd safely in her hands and tossed it over to Kitty.
"See I'm sure yuh feel better! Well Danger Room session in fifteen minutes, shake a leg!" Rogue walked over to the closet and pulled out her uniform.
"Didn't you like hear what I just said? Don't you have anything to like say to me?" Kitty plopped down on her bed, as if she'd lost all hope.
Rogue sighed and walked over to her.
"Listen Kitty - yuh love Pietro so it shouldn't matter to yuh what anyone else thinks about yuhr relationship. As long as yuh have each other and yuh trust each other completely everything else will work itself out. I mean people will talk for a while and obviously it will get to yuh but it will all die down - talk always does, finally everyone will learn to accept it. So don't throw away something special just because yuh're scared of what other people might think! Yuh've been blessed with the chance to love and yuh've found someone special to share it with - don't take it too lightly. Some of us, (referring to herself), aren't that lucky." She got up and walked to the bathroom - flashing Kitty a smile.
Kitty just sat on her bed thinking about what Rogue said.
* Maybe she's right! *
TO BE CONTINUED.