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Resubmitted story with Rouge's accents right this time

Not A Good Day

Terrified Rogue tried to scream as she saw the flames surrounding her consuming her mother as she screamed in agony but as she opened her mouth to scream the smoke entered her throat and choked her. And the last thing she saw before she fell to the ground unconscious as the flames around her danced was the sight of her mother being roasted alive.

At the institute rogue woke up with a start and sat up and heaved a sigh of relief as she realized that she was safe in her bed in the room she shared with Kitty and as her eyes adjusted to the darkness she noticed her roommate snoring contently sound asleep in her own bed after almost 3 hours of talking to Lance on the phone. She looked at her alarm clock and realizing that it would ring in about 15 minutes she got off the bed and tiptoed to the bathroom to avoid waking up Kitty.

As she stepped into the steaming hot water of the bath her dream of the previous night or rather her nightmare replayed in front of her eyes. She could never see the actual face of the woman she thought was her mother in the nightmares. All she could see was the woman screaming in pain as the flames consumed her flesh. "Although," Rogue tried to reason "Ah'm not exactly sure that is my mother Ah mean how would Ah know Ah've never met my biological mother." But she just knew that the woman in her nightmares was her mother. In some weird unexplainable way she just knew.

She was interrupted from these thoughts by the ringing of the alarm clock in her. She shook her head and smiled slightly as she heard Kitty roll off the bed and land on the floor all thoughts of her nightmares and her mother forgotten as she hurriedly put on her make-up before Kitty came barging into the room.

"Hey Kit." She greeted her as Kitty untangled herself from her bed covers. Kitty sat up straight and gaped at Rogue with surprise. "Like hey Rogue. What are you doing up so early?" she asked the older girl. Kitty knew that Rouge hadn't been sleeping too well lately. She knew because she stayed up talking to Lance most of the night. Kitty smiled sleepily as she remembered her conversation with Lance last night. He was just so cute. Rogue just smiled at Kitty's goofy expression and told her to hurry up and get dressed before Scott decided to leave without her.

Rouge the proceeded to the kitchen where she grabbed a bowl of cereal and sat down relaxed relishing the silence in the kitchen. She was alone with only Logan and he just minded his own business as he sipped his coffee and read the paper. She was almost done with her bowl of cereal when most of the new recruits and x-men came bustling into the kitchen talking loudly about school and homework and baseball games and new malls and shopping ……(and well you get it) and so Rouge hurriedly finished her breakfast and headed for the rec room to wait for Scott to finish his breakfast and drop them off at school when she bumped into her half-brother Kurt who was dangling from the ceiling. "God Kurt you almost gave meh a heart attack." "Good morning to you too, mein shwestcher." He replied grinning and Rouge just ruffled his hair affectionately and walked into rec room. Just as she got there and sank into a chair exhausted Scott popped his head into the room and said "Rouge if you need a ride to school today you need to be at the car in less than 5 minutes alright." Rouge just nodded her head and sighed as he left the room normally she would have walked but today the lack of sleep and the training sessions were having their effect on her and as she got up to walk to the car and collapsed into the backseat every muscle in her body was aching.

The others arrived almost immediately and they left for the school. They arrived at school in a few minutes and Rouge gingerly got out of the car and headed straight for her first class. Math was her least favorite class. She just didn't want to figure out algebra first thing in the morning. She just leaned in her chair and closed her eyes trying to imagine she was somewhere when the teacher walked in and with him entered a new student. Rouge looked up as the teacher introduced the new student and she groaned as she took in the trench coat, the boots, the impish grin and the red on black eyes that winked at her. This was just not her day.

What do you think ? plz review. I need to know whether I should continue or not. I am awful with accents so plz correct me if you find something wrong with the story.

Thanks