"That was completely unacceptable Kale!" Scott said, his face red with anger. I looked up at him, wincing before sliding my sunglasses back on.

"She came at me." I stated evenly, I realized that whatever I said wouldn't make an inch of difference but I had a tendency to try regardless. I could see that we had gathered a crowd, some looking at me horrified, others with a mix of pity and disbelief. I quickly searched the crowd and saw Bobby bouncing near the back, at least he was on my side.

"She isn't as trained as you! You know better!" Scott hissed at me.

"Apparently I don'." I said and stood. After waiting a moment for him to say something I walked away, back around to the front of the mansion and opened the U-Haul.

"Well I wasn't expecting that." Bobby said appearing behind me after a few minutes. I just shrugged. "Um, the professor says you're in Room 17B. I wanted you to be in my wing, but I guess other people don't."

After taking everything out of the U-Haul that I could manage by myself I collapsed against the side, pulling my knees to my chest and resting my forehead upon them.

"You okay smallpint?" Bobby asked sitting across from me. I shook my head slowly.

"Dis is too hard." I sighed, my voice wavering slightly. I hear him slide next to me and wrap his arm across my shoulders.

"Hey, it'll be okay. I promise okay? That chick had it coming right?" I chuckled softly at his attempt to cheer me up. "Come on, I'll help you decorate your dorm room."

It took most of the day to move all of the stuff out of the U-Haul and up into my room, then into Bobby's room. I noticed that my room was a double, but the students wouldn't be arriving until later so I was fine for a bit. I walked back downstairs to the U-Haul to find only Papa's bike left in the back. I wheeled it out with a sigh and pushed it all the way over to my old house, where I'm guessing Papa and Rogue were inside. I left it in front of the garage and began to walk away.

"Kale?" a voice asked, calling me back. I turned around to find Rogue standing on the front steps. I shook my head and went on walking. "Shugah, if youd jus' go an' talk t' him."

"Nothin' t' say." I said maintaining a pace.

"Ah jus' don' want him t' hurt!" she called after me as a last resort. I spun on my heel with a sneer plastered in place.

"Den you shouldn' have left non?" I said and then continued walking, I heard the familiar creak of the front door and then the click of the lock. Satisfied, I walked back to the mansion and lounged in my chair beside the pool.

"Hey, you want to go for ice cream or something?" Jubilee said plopping down beside me. I raised an eyebrow inquiringly. She just shrugged. "Everyone likes ice cream."

I smiled and nodded; there was no arguing with that. Everyone did like ice cream. So I walked with her to Michael's car, which I'm assuming she was borrowing. We got in and drove to a little ice cream place by the mall.

After we ordered we sat down under an umbrella and ate in silence.

"So you had fun right?" Jubilee said cautiously after a few minutes. "I mean, everything was cool while you were away?"

I nodded slowly. "Well, I mean, I missed everyone. But at de same time I didn'." I shook my head slowly. "Dat prolly doesn' make any sense."

Jubilee just shrugged. "So you just ran into Bobby or something? 'Cause I don't remember him being around when you were around."

I rolled my eyes at her again, she was trying to get gossip already. " Non, when I was prostituting myself on de streets of New York, he rolled up wit' his Escalade an' hired me. Den he offered me three grand t' spend de week wit him. An' I did, den' we fell in love after all his friends found out I was a hooker an' we had a massive fight. He drove up hangin' out de top of a limo with music from La Boheme blasting through de speakers, he climbed up de fire escape of my apartment dat I was sharing with my friend de crack- addicted hooker an' he said 'Vivian! Vivian! Princess Vivian, come down!', an' I did an' we lived happily ever after."

Jubilee cocked an eyebrow at the end of my story. "Your name isn't Vivian."

I chuckled at her. "Non c'est pas."

"You got that from 'Pretty Woman'." She stated. I chuckled again and nodded. Couldn't put one past her. "So what actually happened?"

"Nancy referred me to his place so I could crash one night. An' den I stayed." I said with a sigh. After a few moments of thought Jubilee replied.

"The first story is better."

There was no way I could not laugh.

"How was evert'ing when I was gone?" I asked digging a crater in what was left of my sundae. Jubilee shrugged.

"Quiet." She stated shooting me a smile. "They went looking for you a bunch of times. Your dad especially, he called everyone he'd ever known. Everyone was super worried. I mean you just up and left. I think your mom blamed herself mostly, so a lot of the time she tried to stay away from us. Thinking we would lash out at her or something. I'm pretty sure the professor knew where you were the whole time. Even though he said that he couldn't even find you with cerebro. You dad and him got in a massive fight over that one. He called him a liar and a fake. That's when everything turned around, and he was just bitter. He's been like that for the last week or so."

I wanted the world to swallow me whole so I could just disappear. "We should be getting' back non?"

So we drove back in silence. I immediately went to my new room and collapsed on my bed. Laying and staring at the ceiling, trying not to think of anything at all. Why did I think it would be okay to come back?

A soft knock on the door interrupted my train wreck of thoughts.

"Come in." I said and shut my eyes again.

"You okay?" Bobby asked after he swung the door open. I nodded slowly. "Want to do something?"

I sighed. "Like what?"

Bobby didn't say anything, he just held up a brand new copy of Moulin Rouge and a silent smile spread across his boyish features. I couldn't help but smile with him and nodded. So the video into the VCR and we sat on the edge of my bed and watched the opening sequence, saying every single word that Christian said. And suddenly everything was forgotten, there weren't any problems for me here, it was just like home.

When Bobby and I belted out "The hills are alive with the sound of music!" with Christian for the first time we both erupted with giggles. The next thing we know we were singing and dancing the entire Moulin Rouge scene at the top of our lungs. So loud, we didn't hear the knock on the door.

"May I come in?" Jubilee screamed over top of the volume. We both looked at each other with Cheshire cat grins.

"Yes you can, can, can!" we sang and laughed again. She laughed at us and flopped down across my bed with Michael in tow. We collapsed with an irritated groan during Satine's song.

"You two are nuts." Jubilee stated. We nodded and recited all the spoken words between the lyrics. "How many times have you two seen this movie?"

"Way too many for our own good." Bobby answered. We watched song with disgusted looks on our faces.

"Jus' faint already!" Bobby and I both yelled at the television, completely satisfied when she did. I think Jubilee enjoyed watching us act out the entire movie more than she enjoyed the actual movie.

A couple people walked by and looked into the room with concerned looks on their faces. Jean and Ororo eventually joined Jubilee and Michael on the bed, in the spectator area. Even the Professor came to watch our final scene as we acted out, very melodramatically, the end of the movie.

"Kale may I see you in my office?" The professor requested as the credits rolled. And back to reality I went.

Bobby gave me a sympathetic look before I trudged down to his office. I flopped down in the chair across from his desk.

"She came at me." I said, in a lame attempt to defend myself.

"I know that Kale, that's not however why I called you down here." He said with a small smile. "The dorms are going to be quite a change for you this year."

I lowered my eyes, so this was going to be one of those serious talks. I nodded slowly.

"And just like all of our other students, you will have to attend the groups sessions twice a week with your wing leader. Before you say anything, no you are not in Bobby's wing and that was my decision. You are going to be in Kurt's wing. And since you have gone here and lived here for almost your entire life, I'm expecting you to participate and help the other students. Whether or not you choose to eat with the staff or the students is up to you." The professor rambled on and on about things that I really didn't feel like thinking about until a loud sound that can only be described as a 'bamf', echoed through the office.

I looked around and saw a Kurt Wagner, the small and furry blue mutant with a funny grin.

"Den I take it I be in his wing?" I asked, speaking for the second time during this entire meeting. Kurt smiled wider and nodded.

"I hope that is okay with you?" he said in an accent that I couldn't quite place.

"Dat would be fine." I said with a grin, I liked him. "Can I go now?" I asked making the largest puppy-dog eyes that I could manage. The professor smiled and nodded.

"Everyone is in the game room Kale." He said and Kurt took my spot in the chair. I half walked and half skipped down to the game room where I saw everyone lounging around.

"KALEY!" Bobby said skating over to me on a skateboard that he found. "Look what I found!"

I took it out from under his feet, making him fall on his ass and skated around the room. Bobby had expertly made a couple rails and things out of ice that decorated the room, but in my boots the only thing that I could attempt was a couple board slides. I stopped in front of him and he grinned.

"Show off." He said. I stuck my tongue out at him as he took the board from me and skated around the room.

"Kale, a little 8-ball?" Jean-Luc asked and held out a pool cue for me. I turned around and took the pool cue, lining up for a break.

"Maybe dis time you win." I said with a smile as I broke. We played for a bit, ending in Jean-Luc beating the pants off of me. Which led me to wonder why he let me win in the bar, but I let it go, everyone has their reasons.

"Supper." Jean stated standing up from her card game and everyone walked towards the dining room. I bit my bottom lip and let everyone go before retreating to my bedroom, I was way too tired to try and keep face in front of everyone.

I was listening to my stomach growl when Bobby knocked on the door.

"You know, when you're called for supper, it's customary to come..." he said leaning in the doorway. "Come on down smallpint, it'll be fine."

I had to trust him that's what friends do, so I followed him downstairs and walked into the dining room only to be seated between Bishop and Jean-Luc. I ate in silence until someone decided to turn the attention to me.

"That's a very flattering haircut Kale." Ororo pointed out.

"Thank you 'Ro." I said with a smile and tried to go back to eating ym soup in silence.

"So tell us about your summer Kaley, there must have been some interesting things." Jean said looking acroos the table at me with a small smile.

"Yes dear, how did you meet our beloved Robert?" Ororo asked me. I couldn't help but grin and repeat the same story I told Jubilee, making everyone laugh. Maybe, just maybe home would be okay for while.