Once inside the apartment all three girls breathed a sigh of relief. The slow journey back in the bus had been painful. They hadn't found any empty seats so they had to stand the whole way and that added up to the 3 hours they had spent on their feet at the restaurant had left them exhausted. The three girls retired to their room to wash up and change into their pajamas and laze around all day. After about half an hour each of them came out of their rooms cleaner and considerably happier. Tabitha disappeared into the kitchen to check if there was anything they could possibly eat for lunch. Rogue and Kitty in the meanwhile piled up pillows on the couch and dug through Tabby's videos to check if there was anything worth watching. After quite a long argument it was decided that they would watch "Autumn In New York". Or at the least Kitty decided that they would watch that movie and Rogue simply sat on the couch and sulked but there really wasn't much they could do about it since Kitty had won when they flipped the coins so she got to choose.

Finally Tabitha came out of the kitchen her arms laden with packs of potato chips and dip and soda and of course lots and lots of chocolates and two large buckets of ice cream. The other two girls hadn't exactly been expecting this for lunch but nonetheless they cleared space on the table for Tabitha to dump all the food. She shrugged in response to their questioning looks and said "Everyting else in the kitchen was already older than it's expiry date and apart from this there was only some cereal and pancake batter left." The other two just grinned before they put the tape into the player and grabbed a bar of chocolate before they settled on the couch. Before long they had finished the chips and about half of the chocolates and were just about to dig into the ice cream when someone rang the doorbell and pausing the movie Tabitha got up to open the door. She screamed "It's just Lance and Pyro" before she turned right back and ignoring the two boys completely settled back into the spot on the couch. Lance pushed her off the couch.

"Girls you can have your slumber party later. Right now me and Pyro are starving and are desperately in need of some food after a long days work and so why don't you go whip us up something in the kitchen." He said stretching his legs and placing them on the table. For a second there was complete silence and then the three girls pushed him off the couch and were using him as a punching bag. Lance pretended to be severely wounded and begged John to help but the psychotic aussie just stood by and watched until the girls were bored of torturing Lance and turned their attention back to the movie instead. Lance sat up on the floor nursing his bruises and said, "So did you two get a job yet."

"Yeah. We started work today."

"Ah yes that would explain the violent nature of you three when we asked you for some grub. Never mind we'll jus find something ourselves." So saying the two boys went into the kitchen and stayed there for quite a while and the girls wanted to know what they were doing in there for so long but were too lazy to leave their spots on the couch and go check on them.

The girls were clearing up the mess on the table and were taking the tape out of the player when the two finally emerged from the kitchen. They had eaten cereal and pancakes for lunch but had left the kitchen in a huge mess so Tabitha made them clean up the kitchen. Rogue pulled her aside and said " Ah've made an appointment at the doctors and we have to be there in about 45 minutes so we really should get changed and leave now. Kitty walked in right then and the girls were alarmed to see that she was very pale and looked like she was going to faint.

"I don't wanna go." She said in barley a whisper and he two girls looked at each other unable to think of anything to say that would reassure her. Rogue tried to calm her and after about ten minutes had managed to send Kitty to her room to get changed. In the meanwhile Tabitha explained the situation to the two boys and left them to clean the kitchen as she left to change herself. They were ready within about ten minutes and stood shuffling their feet nervously as they waited for the bus.

The bus finally got there and before they knew it they were standing in front of the hospital unsure of what to do next. Tabitha went to the help desk and before long she led the three of them to the waiting room. Kitty looked like she was having a nervous breakdown and there was nothing the other two could say or do that would have really helped. So they sat for about 15 minutes in silence before the nurse announced that it was Kitty's turn.

With a horrible sinking feeling in her stomach Kitty managed to make the long walk to the doctor's office. She sank into the chair that she indicated and sat nervously until Rogue and Tabitha finally managed to convince the nurse to let them inside. Just as soon as they were inside they flashed encouraging smiles at her but that didn't help much and it certainly did not help when the doctor told Tabitha and Rogue to "Kindly step out for a moment while I examine the patient."

She managed a steady flow of conversation with Kitty while she examined her. And Kitty didn't feel as uncomfortable as she had expected to feel. When the doctor Mrs. Jones was done examining her she got up and sat swinging her legs while she waited for Rogue and Tabitha to come back inside. They came in with questioning looks on their faces and Kitty smiled to indicate that all was fine at least until then. She then had to go through an ultrasound scan.

At first she couldn't make out anything on the screen but then she began to make out the body of her baby. She could make out that the baby was moving and all of a sudden with no warning tears began to stream down her face. She felt happier than she had ever felt before and for the first time she felt completely at ease. She did not want anything right then except to just look at her beautiful baby.

But Mrs. Jones witched off the computer in a while and declared that all was well. Kitty got up hurriedly. She went into the changing room and changed back into her clothes. She came out grinning from ear to ear and thanking the doctor the three girls left. They didn't say a word on their way home. Kiity was filled with an unexplainable glow when she thought of her tiny little baby. She knew right then that she would try to be the best mother ever. And now that she was here she had a second chance. She had her chance to turn things over. The other two were just awed at the very thought of being able to have that little baby to call your own.

When they came back to the apartment they saw that the boys had left. Tabitha switched on the lights and her eyes fell on a little envelop lying on the ground. She turned it over and saw that it had Rogue's name on it.

"Rogue there's something here for you" Tabitha yelled at the top of her lungs. Rogue came out of her room and took the envelope from her. She went back into her room and when she opened up the envelope she saw a red rose that had been wrapped in a letter. It read

Chere.

Meet Remy at the street behind the hotel.

Remy'll be waiting.

She stared at the letter disbelievingly for a few seconds but a smile spread over her face. She changed and read and re-read the letter about ten times. Something like this had never happened to her before and she just didn't know how to react. But she did know that in some weird was she was happy about it.

That 's all for now. Sorry I've been so long in updating but things at school have been hectic. But I will try to update faster in future. Thank you for reading. And please REVIEW.