Here is chap 2! I don't own Xmen but, still, enjoy . . .
Chapter 2 – "Oh, and drop the 'like's"
Rogue and Kitty were still sitting up talking 3 hours after Rogue had come in to go to bed.
"So let meh get this straight: you are tired of bein' seen as the pink wearin' bimbo ah only discovered yeh weren't really when ah got ta know ya?"
Rogue scrutinised Kitty as Kitty thought about it. Yes, she didn't want to be seen as someone she was not, but this didn't mean that she was going to change who she was. Kitty was sure that despite any dress-sense she would always be enthusiastic, fun-loving and any other distinguishing characteristics that she had, but this way people would not assume she was a couple of things that she wasn't. Besides, she had always loved the darker, more gothic styles, but just had never had the courage to try them!
"Um . . . yeah, that's, like, about right!"
she replied, chirpy as ever.
"Are yeh serious about this sugah?"
Rogue was still not convinced. When she first met Kitty she was sure she was just another boy-crazy annoying bimbo like all the others but as she got to know her Rogue realised that there was something else underneath her bouncy exterior: something more substantial. And now, it seemed, Kitty had realised it too,
"Is there any othah reason yeh're doin' this?"Kitty looked her friend in the eye,
"I'm, like, totally not doin' this for any boy Rogue! It's, like, all for me! I just . . . I'm just sick of the now me and I wanna be, well, different! Why not? I could, like, go Goth! Like you!"Rogue rolled her eyes, sickened by her enthusiasm for everything,
"Kitty, the world does not need anothah meh! Howevah, yeh could do yer own variation, at least loosin' the painful colours!"
Kitty brightened even more, if that was possible, at Rogues eventual co-operation,
"Oh, like yeah! Thanks Rogue! Will you, like, come shopping with me tomorrow? I need to get, like, a complete new wardrobe!"
Rogue's eyes were once again facing heaven-wards as she consented,
"Fahne Kitty-Cat, but fer now let's jus' get some sleep!"
The two girls settled down, both, in their own way, looking forwards to finding out what tomorrow would bring.
"Rogue! Like, wake up! Time to go shopping!"
Rogue groaned and rolled over in her warm and comfy bed,
"What time is it sugah? Coz ah swear ah'll kill ya if its not yet double digits!"
Kitty hesitated, but knew her friend too well to be daunted,
"Um, well actually Rogue, it's, like, 8am!"
Rogue sat bolt upright in bed and surveyed a fully dressed denim and pink Katherine Pride angrily,
"Sugah, the mall doesn't open until 9am! What are yeh playin at?"
Kitty looked sheepish,
"Well, I, like, woke up at seven and couldn't get back to sleep so I got ready. I figured it'd take you so long to get ready that if I woke you up now we could maybe be there when it, like, opens?"
Recovering her grin Kitty began to pull her friend out of bed,
"Fahne! Ah'm getting' up Kitty, leave meh ta get ready!"
"Like, OK! Thanks!" chirruped Shaddowcat as she began to phase through the floor to leave a very grumpy and very sleepy Rogue to wake up by herself.
Kurt was, as usual, hungry. He decided to bamf to just outside the dining room, as everyone always yelled at him if he appeared on the table, as he so often did.
BAMF
Kurt bamfed to the exact spot that Kitty was phasing down into! Kitty screamed and only just stopped herself solidifying in Kurt,
"Like, Kurt! Egh, get out of me!"
Kurt didn't need telling twice,
BAMF
he was beside and not in his good friend Kitty.
"Sorry Kaztchen, eet vaz an accident!"
Kitty recovered herself quickly,
"It's, like, OK, you just freaked me out, is all."
Both friends stood in an embarrassed silence for all of 30 seconds before Kurt's stomach grumbled its protest loudly. Giggling Kitty grabbed him and dragged him into the dining where he had presumably been heading.
Having already eaten breakfast, she waited for Kurt to collect half of the food that was on offer and pile it on his plate before taking her seat beside him,
"So, Keety, vhat are you doing today?"
Kitty looked embarrassed but smiled so quickly Kurt was almost sure he had imagined it,
"Oh, um, just, like, shopping and stuff, how bout you fuzzy?"
Kitty felt kind of bad at not telling one of her best friends the complete truth, but really she wanted her makeover to be a surprise. As she and Kurt made small talk she had no idea just how much of a shock it would be to the guys at the institute!
The drive up to the mall had passed quickly, to Kitty's thanks, as she couldn't wait to start trying on new types of clothes. As her and Rogue arrived and parked Scott's car (they had borrowed it much to his disapproval. Rogue had had to promise that she would drive there and back!) Kitty could hardly contain her excitement! Chatting constantly to Rogue they reached the entrance and Kitty stopped,
"What now sugah?" Rogue asked impatiently,
"Well," replied Kitty, "it's, like, kind of momentous, isn't it? You know, when I step through this door it is, like, my first step towards the new me!"
"You think too much!" laughed Rogue, pulling her through the door.
"Maybe," smiled Kitty, "but do you, like, think this will work?"
"Sugah, with a couple of shops, a lot of yehr money and an expert lahke me, yeh've got it made!"
Kitty grinned, and hugged Rogue, who added one more vital thing to their list before they began to shop,
"Oh, and sugah . . . drop the 'lahke's!"
Authors note: what do you think? Review me please! Thanks to my two reviewers so far!