WHEN I LOOK IN THE MIRROR

Kitty

Kitty was finishing putting her hair into a ponytail in the mirror. She looked at herself and realized just how different she was from a year ago.

That Kitty was shy, and afraid of a lot of things. She remembered how she was so physically weak he was failing gym and those two girls Amy and Riley from her old school making her life miserable everyday.

Then when her mutation kicked in, she freaked. She was so scared. She also remembered how she was so unsure of herself and how she was frightened of Kurt.

She would always be ashamed of how she treated him, at first she was so scared of him, now he was her best friend.

There was also her relationship with Lance. At first she was attracted to the whole bad boy thing, and the fact that he was a mutant too. But that didn't end well.

Then she saw the good side of him, like when those trains were going to crash he was the only one of the Brotherhood who helped. And also at the battle against Magneto when he was under the control of Apocalypse, he showed it there as well.

She couldn't understand why their relationship keep going up and down, sometimes she didn't know if it would last, and she used to never think about a long term relationship before.

Yes she had come a long way in such a short time for her.

She was living in a mansion, had a whole bunch of new and great friends, two of them both a fuzzy elf and her sister a Goth (someone she would never have socialized with before) were her closest friends.

She was more athletic too. Hell she did stuff in the danger room alone that anyone else in her gym classes would be scared to death about doing. She also wasn't so timid and shy and had grown up a lot here, for the better.

Sure now that mutants were common knowledge she was hated and feared by complete strangers for no reason, and it hurt. But she had her friends by her side and was glade to be here.

She liked who she turned out to be, she was way better for it. She wanted to be normal at the beginning, but she realized normal wasn't as fun and a lot more boring too.

She turned to around and saw Lockheed still curled up into a ball sleeping away. She smiled down at him.

And if she were normal she thought. I never would have such a cute little dragon for a pet also.