The Audition
The time to auditioning for the school production passed quickly. " I'm nervous, Lance." Said Kitty trembling with nervousness. "You'll be fine, Kitty-Kat. We rehearsed every chance we got." He replied with confidence. Lance had practiced their lines just about every minute of the day. "Pietro, are you nervous?" asked Jean while helping him with his voice projection problem. Meaning Pietro needed help learning how to project his voice for the audition. "Not really, just excited. Where's Rogue?" "She's doing some last minute line rehearsing. She'll be out in a minute." Replied the telepath. "Lance, Kitty you guy's are suppose to be on stage." Said one of the classmates as she was walking backstage. "Let's go Kitty-Kat." said Lance with an encouraging smile. They went out on stage and put on a good performance for the drama teacher. "Great job you two." Said Scott as Kitty and Lance walked backstage. "Thanks, Scot." said Kitty. "Pietro, Rogue your turn." Said the drama teacher. Rogue and Pietro calmly walked onto the stage. After their performance they walked backstage and got their books and went to the next class. Alan caught up to Pietro and Rogue. "I saw your audition, Rogue. You were great." He said smiling. Rogue had heard him, but she just continued walking. When school ended all the drama classes went to te cafeteria to see who got the parts of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo- Pietro Maximoff
Juliet- Marie D'ancanto
First Juliet understudy- Kitty Pryde
First Romeo understudy- Lance Alvers
Second Juliet understudy-Amanda Sefton
Second Romeo understudy- Remy LeBeau
Rogue and Pietro had slightly shocked expressions on their faces. "Wow, Congratulations Pietro." Said Fred after reading the list. "Thanks." The speed demon replied with a smile. "Oh." Said Rogue still wearing a shocked expression. "Remy made it too. I knew he'd come in somewhere." Said Toad. "Freaky." Said Kitty also looking at the list. "I can't wait to tell the prof." Said Evan looking at Rogue. "Our little Roguey is growing up so fast." Said Lance. This even made Rogue chuckle under her breath. "Cool I made the list." Said Remy coming up behind Rogue. "Don't ever do that. You scared me to death sneaking around like that." "Sorry. Who is Marie?" Rogue imedealtly looked down to the floor. "That's your real name? It's nice." "Stop flirting with my girlfriend cajun." Remy let it go at that. "I knew Kitty could do it." Said Jean. "I'm ready to go home," said Pyro as he walked up, "I'm worn out, mates. Now I know why teens today hate school." The large group of mutants headed to cars that they went to school in. "Scott, someone wrote on your car with paint. Scott looked and sure enough written in blue paint were the words
Go Home You Freaks!
"That is so wrong." Said Evan. Rogue couldn't take it anymore, with all the problems with Alan really scarring her and now mutant haters bothering her and her friends. Tears stung her eyes, but she didn't try to hold them back and they just came down like a waterfall making her fall to her knees racking with sobs. At that minute the Brotherhood all walked out of the large school carrying their books under their arms. "Rogue what's wrong?" asked Toad. "That!" Rogue replied pointing at Scott's red car. "That's never gotten to you like that before." Said Lance walking up and knelling down next to the goth. "I wasn't a stupid vampire before. I've never been so scared before with some maniac after me." She said between sobs. Lance pulled her into a comforting hug to calm her. "Times are hard. Things will get better though, I promise you." He said calmingly "I just want to be just a mutant again, not a mutant/vampire. I hate this." She said while wiping tears off her cheeks with her gloved hand. "We want you back to normal too, but we got to get some explanation first as to why Alan wants you. If we can we could try to get all the answers we need out of that cused vampire." Said Pietro knelling next to his girlfriend. "We're here to help you get through this. We'll try to figure out how to revert your transformation." Said Scott smiling comfortingly. They all got into the car and drove to the institute.
