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Chapter 17

Randomness

Lance had carried Kitty back to his jeep. She had fallen asleep somewhere along the line and Lance was still a little bit in shock that she had actually said yes. He set her down in the passenger seat and buckled her in. He then got in and took off.

They arrived back at the mansion and Lance carried her in and up to her room. He laid her down on her bed and gently woke her up. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Kit, you might want to change out of your dress before you go to bed." He said, moving a strand of hair behind her ear.

She closed her eyes and turned onto her side, facing away from him.

"My pajamas are in my top drawer." She said, yawning. "Could you get them for me?"

She felt the bed shift as he stood up and walked over to her dresser, opening up the top drawer; which happened to be her underwear drawer as well. He gulped, and then picked up her pajamas and slowly closed her drawer.

"See something you like?" Kitty asked, eyes still closed, but she was smirking.

"Kit, I swear," Lance began, but she cut him off.

"Oh, shut up and help me change." she said, laughing; she was so happy at the moment that she could care less about how odd she was acting.

She then sat up and looked at him. Lance was pale and his mouth kept opening and closing with no sound coming out.

"Unless of course, you don't want to help me." She said, pouting, enjoying what she was doing to him.

"Kit, have you lost your mind?" he asked as he set her pj's down on her bed as she stood up.

"I don't think so." She said, walking over to him. "Can you like, unzip my dress?" she asked, turning around.

He sighed and did as she asked.

"Alright, I'm leaving before I get caught doing something I wasn't." Lance said, turning to leave. But Kitty, who had put her hand on his arm, stopped him. "Kit,"

"Lance, please, stay with me again. I…I don't want a repeat of last night." She said, fighting back the tears that were threatening to fall.

"Fine." He said, pulling her into a hug. "But can I at least go change first?"

"I guess." She said, smiling at him, wiping away the tears.

Kitty then proceeded to take her dress off. Lance was still standing there, unable to move an inch, mouth wide open, as she put her pajamas on. He then watched her as she hung up her dress, unable to take his eyes off of her.

Kitty blushed and walked over to him. She looked up into his eyes and saw nothing but love. She stood on her toes and kissed him.

"Go change." she said, phasing him through the door.

Lance returned about five minutes later, wearing a white t-shirt and boxers. Kitty was dancing around the room to whatever was on the radio. Lance smirked as she grabbed his hands and started dancing with him. They danced for a few songs before they collapsed onto the bed.

Lance kissed her forehead and pulled the blankets back so that they could get underneath of them. After Kitty had lain down, he got up and turned the radio and the light off, leaving only the light from the lamp. He then laid down beside Kitty, turned the lamp off, and put his arms around her.

She snuggled up to him and was asleep within minutes. Lance, though, was just as content with listening to the sound of her heartbeat. But he too fell asleep, thinking about what was to come since they were now engaged.

Everyone was down at breakfast the next morning. Well, almost everyone; Lance and Kitty were still asleep. Logan didn't seem very thrilled at the fact that both of them were still supposedly asleep. He still didn't trust Lance, and he probably never would.

"Logan, I can assure you that they are both, indeed, asleep." The Prof. said, after hearing some of Wolverine's thoughts.

But the professor's face soon fell. It seemed that he didn't know that Lance was in Kitty's room; which was a first, considering he pretty much knows everything.

"What's wrong Chuck?" Logan asked, noticing that his demeanor had changed.

"It's nothing." He said.

Lance and Kitty came down about ten minutes later. They were holding hands and both seemed very happy; to Logan, a little too happy. He glared at Lance and a snikt was heard as he unsheathed his claws. And then before anyone could stop him, he had Lance against the wall.

"Explain yourself, bub." He said.

"I…I…" Lance babbled like an idiot.

"Mr. Logan, what are you doing?" Kitty shouted, trying to get to Lance.

"You have his scent all over you, and you hers." He said, nodding at Lance.

"Logan, let Lance go. Lance simply spent the night with Kitty, that is all." The Prof. said, moving over to them.

"Yeah right." He mumbled under his breath.

"I swear nothing happened. Kitty was afraid that she might stop breathing again, so I stayed with her." Lance said before he could stop himself. He then gasped, as he realized that nobody else, except Beast and the Prof., new about it.

"What?" he said, letting him go and turning toward Kitty as everyone became quiet. "When did this happen?"

Kitty looked at her feet and bit her lower lip.

The Prof. sighed, "Yesterday morning." He then went back over to where he originally was. "Lance had stayed with Kitty after her nightmare and when he woke up he found that she was not breathing. Beast managed to revive her."

The silence that followed was eerie. No one was expecting something like that to happen. It just didn't make sense that a perfectly healthy girl would stop breathing. And they especially didn't think that they wouldn't be told. A lot of them were upset that they hadn't been informed and were now turning to Kitty for an explanation. The only problem was, she was gone.

Lance had followed Kitty out of the dining room without being noticed. They went outside and walked around the mansion before taking a seat on one of the many benches. Kitty leaned her head on Lance's shoulder as he put his arm around her.

"I didn't want anyone to know." She sighed. "Cause now they're like, going to start asking questions…some of which might be hard to answer."

"Forget about it, Kitty. They won't bother you if you don't want to talk about it." Lance said.

"Well, I like, kind of doubt it this time." Kitty said as Kurt ported in front of them.

"Kitty, vhy did you run off like zhat? Everyone is vorried about you." Kurt said.

"I don't want them to worry about me, Kurt. Can you please like, tell them I'm fine." She asked, standing up and walking away.

"Is she really alright?" Kurt asked Lance once Kitty was out of earshot.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's okay." Lance said. "How about you go talk to her." He suggested.

"I don't zhink she vants to talk to me right now." Kurt said sadly.

"You'd be surprised." Lance said, and then he walked off in the opposite direction.

Kurt sighed and started off after Kitty. He caught up with her in no time and they sat down under a tree. They sat for a while in silence before Kurt spoke up.

"So Kitty, how vas prom?" he asked, glancing at her.

"Amazing. Kurt, you'll like, never believe what happened last night." She said, sounding excited.

"Vhat?" he asked, smiling because she seemed so happy.

"Lance like, proposed to me. It was…wow." Kitty said, staring off into space.

"Really?" Kurt asked, sounding somewhat surprised; but Kitty didn't notice. "Congratulations." He said, hugging her.

"Thanks." She said, smiling.

"So, vhen are you going to tell everyone?" he asked, while secretly planning a party for them.

"I don't know," she said uneasily. "I'm still like, underage, so probably after my birthday."

"But Kitty, you're birthday is in August. Do you really zhink you can vait three months? And I don't zhink anyone cares that you aren't eighteen." Kurt asked.

"My parents would. I just…don't know. But, um, could you like, keep it quiet for now though?" she asked.

"Sure." He said, standing up. "Vell, I'm heading in. Are you coming?"

"I guess." She said, taking his hand and standing up.

They walked inside together; both lost in their own little worlds. Kitty headed upstairs to take a shower and change out of her pj's and Kurt headed off to find Rogue and Remy. There was some major party planning to do.