"Lance, it's 2:30 in the morning! We can't talk forever!"

Lance said, "c'mon, just 5 more minutes…I like to talk to you."

"Ok, just five, you. And I mean it too!"

"Yeah, Ok. I just hope this holiday didn't have to end that soon. Chemistry with Mrs.B would be like hell."

"But if you worked harder, you won't do so badly, you know."

Lance leaned back in his bed, "I suck. Mrs.B probably's dreading tomorrow, cos Lance Alvers is coming back, oh my god, that stupid shit kid is here to mess up my life again…" He faked Mrs.B's voice.

Kitty giggled, "Cut it out, Lance. She wouldn't treat you like that."

"Oh, right. I still hate tomorrow."

"Yeah, but we have Danger Room session tomorrow and…and I need my sleep, big guy."

"I knew it! You're just trying to pull yourself away from me just because I'm too hot for you. You need that…ice-guy to cool you off before you faint." Lance ruffled his hand through his dark brownish hair.

"Like, you wish! And Bobby's Iceman, not ice-guy. You are, like, so lousy with names."

"Nah…it's a gift. Alright, you better get going to sleep I guess. I'm kind of tired too."

"Yeah…uh, tomorrow, Ok?"

"Yeah…bye."

"Bye…"Kitty said, hanging up.

Kitty threw her head on her pillow. She must be the only mutant awake right now.

"Hmmm…how can I get Lance's grades up?" Kitty wondered.

"What am I doing here?" Esther asked herself. She couldn't imagine appearing in a huge room in a…silver Semi-Circled thing, buried in one end of Bayville. She rubbed her very sore and aching head. Getting tossed around in a giant ball wasn't very nice or comfortable either. Her insides seemed like they were gonna toss themselves right out as well.

There was a knock on the door. "Coming…"Esther wasn't very used to the place just yet. This whole place was weird and so were the people. Magneto, for one, keeps disappearing and reappearing again. Gambit was always alone, playing a stack of Pokka cards in his hand. Sabretooth (the worse one), always talked about something like, "kill…must kill Wolverine…" and seemed like he had just lost his mind. And Pyro. Esther sighed at the guy, which was a little (or very) mad. He always seemed to be laughing at every little thing. The most normal one was Colossus, even though he was really quiet but noisy when he moved things around the place.

Esther grabbed an oversized T-shirt to cover up the crumpled tank top and shorts.

"Yeah?" She said, yawning. It was only 7:55 in the early morning. She came face to face with Magneto…and another strange guy with white hair and a weird smirk.

"Magneto! I'm sorry I've…"

"Never mind. Meet Pietro Maximoff, my son. I'd like him to show you around the school I've enrolled you into. You begin today as I've said last night, and in future, I want you up by 7 o'clock." Then, he left.

"Who are you?" Esther said, "Did I ever tell you this place was solitary confinement?"

"No…" Pietro said. "And I'm Quicksilver to you." He zipped round the place.

"Wow! Super-speed. That's so cool, man!"

"Not as great as yours…uh, what's your code-name?"

"He called me…um…your dad, Magneto. He called me Blackdevil. I look like a devil to you?"

"Not really." Pietro said, glancing at his watch. "We gotta head off early today you know."

Esther sighed and slammed the door, "Got it, general. At least, let me change and brush my hair!"

"Can you find her?" Storm asked, stepping into Cerebro.

"Yes, and it appears she's with Magneto."

"Bad news, Charles."

"I know." Professor Xavier placed his hands on his lap. "However, I've got a reading she's in Bayville High already."

"That early? Even Evan's still at the breakfast table."

"Yes. It also appears to me that Pietro has brought her there."

"He is Magneto's son, Charles. And the only person in the school now is Ray and Bobby. Said something about Biology project? And, oh, Kitty. She needed to clear out her locker."

"Yes. However, it'd be too much of a coincidence if they met Esther there. After all, Bayville High is a very big school."

"Really? I doubt so…"

"Yeah, and this is your locker for the whole year. Enjoy lady…" Pietro said, walking away.

"Hey! So you're just leaving me here?"

"Uh…yeah!" Pietro sped off.

Good riddance to him. Esther opened her locker with a sigh. At least now, she'd lead a better, more fulfilling life. Uh…or not.

"Hi! New here?" somebody said from her left side.

"Huh?" Esther slammed her locker shut.

"I'm Kitty Pryde. You must be new cos' I haven't seen you on campus before."

"You guessed right. I'm Alson. Esther Alson. 16."

"17 coming 18 on 10th of May."

"Oh."

Kitty smiled, "so, where are you staying at now?"

"Um…at a…you know, old house of a friend's? She…um, agreed to let me stay…there." Esther stammered hard.

"Really? I stay at an institute at the end of Bayville. Those people there are cool and friendly." Then, she saw Lance at the background. Boy, was he early.

"Gotta' run. Lance is waiting."

"Who is he?"

"My boyfriend. He's a great guy. Well, bye!"

"Yeah, bye too." She watched Kitty run off.

"Who is she? Never met her before."

Kitty hooked her hand on Lance's arm. "New girl on campus."

"I see."

"She's cool but I just think she's lying on where she's staying. She stammered so hard then. Before and after that, she was so calm."

"Who cares?"

"Bobby! You've got that part wrong!" Ray said, pointing at the last part Bobby had written.

"Oh, great Einstein! Think you can do better? Your handwriting is just like-."

"Uh-hm! I believe this is a library? If you want to do something, please lower your volume. This is my final warning, gentlemen, and no more!" the librarian said, before turning her back and returning to her desk.

"See! Look at what you've done Ice-head!" Ray hissed at Bobby.

"Excuse me, but I think you-."

"Uh…is this desk taken?"

Both boys looked up. Esther. (But they don't know her then.) And the other desks are pretty much filled up too.

"Go on, we don't mind." Bobby shifted his gaze back to Ray, who had his eyes on the new girl.

"Pervert, huh?" Bobby whispered to him.

"Shut up, you idiot!" Ray warned him. "Get back to work.

But she's so pretty. Man, if only I got to know her…frankly speaking, never saw her before anywhere.

"Uh, can I ask if any of you guys are free during Lunch? Cos' I'm kinda' new and I don't know a lot about Bayville so…"

Bobby cut in, "I'm Bobby. Ray, here, would love to show you around. He's really free and he'd be delighted. Wouldn't you, Ray?" Bobby nudged at his friend.

"Oh, sure, not a problem."

"Great! I have to go find my next class, cos my friend, Pietro, dumped me at my locker just now. Can you meet me at my History class later on? Oh, thanks, Ray!" Esther dashed out of the library.

"But, isn't Maximoff with the Brotherhood? And he's Magneto's son!" Bobby said.

"Yeah. Does that mean she's a-," Ray mumbled.

"Mutant!" Both boys looked at each other with eyes the size of Ping-Pong balls.

Too loud.

The next word they heard was…OUT!

"Lance Alvers…well, well, well. The quiz you took was beyond my expectation. It was breathtaking, it was amazing and the best part was, you got the best mark any student in my history of 21 years of great teaching has ever achieved. It was so brilliant, your work, I almost died in my chair while marking." She threw a paper with an F- marked in red in front of Lance. The students, all except for Kitty, started laughing and sniggering.

"Mr.Alvers. I'm officially saying this to you. The next test will be two good weeks later on. If you don't pass it, I guarantee you will be taking your belongings and making your way out of this classroom. And I mean it too. You should start taking lessons from Miss.Pryde. I've never seen her get a single B+ in this subject, except As' and more A+s'. See that you get tutored by her, young man. Let me live longer, please. All this white hair is because of your brilliance. Now, let us resume our class…"

Lance grabbed the paper off her desk. He SO felt like rocking her off her stupid stockings and butt. To heck with Chem anyway. What was her damn problem?

Lance got back to his seat with a long sigh. "Lance?" Kitty touched his arm.

"Kitty, I told you! I suck so much that I can't it myself. I'm not this studying type."

"You are! Just, you have to try harder. You'll do it, trust me."

"Like how?"

"I'll tutor you."

"You really would, Kitty?"

"Hey, it's no big. It's like studying, only with a partner. It'd be good too."

"Two weeks, Kitty, I'm not very sure."

"Two weeks is enough, Lance. I'll make sure you ace this "stupid" test."

"Man, I'm telling you, professor. She's a mutant. Or how'd she get to know Quicksilver? Magneto's obviously behind all this. He could've got Pietro that ass to bring Esther here. It makes so much sense!" Ray said to the professor through his cell phone.

"Hey! I thought bout' that last bit, Ray. Where's my part?"

"Bobby, cut your shit out!" Ray hissed at him. He was becoming a pro at this "hissing" stuff.

"I want you to confront her with Bobby. Tell her we meant no harm."

"Got it, Professor. I'll give you my news later on." Click

"So, what'd he say?" Bobby asked.

"He wants us to confront her."

"What? No way!"

"It's his orders, dude. Take it!"

"Ok, but I don't really like it."

Outside History classroom…

"Guys! You're really early!" Esther said.

"So, how's History?" Bobby grinned.

"Boring, truthfully."

"Just like every other lesson." Ray said.

"Oh, I'm starving. But I brought some sandwiches and a soda. You both can have my sandwich cos' I brought 3. Just right."

"Uh…we know a quiet place." Bobby added.

"Perfect."

The guys brought Esther to the quietest side of campus. Only a tiny bunch of people could be seen from their view and nothing more. No one was around.

"This is good, guys. Quiet and peaceful."

"Uh, yeah, sure." Bobby sank on the grass.

"So, where are you guys from? I'm from Alabama, till my parents died. Then, I lived in a orphanage. Been there ever since."

Alabama. It struck a cord in Ray. She was the one he and Storm were meant to be looking for that day. No doubt.

Ray stood up and said, "What me and Bobby's gonna' say is going to shock you."

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"We know you're a mutant, Esther." Bobby said.

No! Impossible. She didn't use her powers at all today. How could they even…

"But…how?"

"Cos' we are too. I make electricity bolts shoot out of my hands and Bobby freezes stuff. We even have codenames. I'm Bezerker and he's Iceman. We're both New Mutants in the X-men."

"I…get away from me." Esther used her powers and threw them in a tree. Then she picked up her stuff and dashed off.

"Got a plan B?" Ray asked.

"Hey, at least we did try…" Only to be stuck in a dumb old tree.

"Magneto." Esther walked into his "dome"

"Blackdevil…what is it?"

"Who exactly are the X-men?"

"They are Charles Xavier's students. Our enemies. How did you know?"

"Uh…Pietro said something about them. Can I leave now?"

"Yes." Magneto watched her leave, with a very weird look on his face.

But they seemed so nice. Especially Ray. How could they be my enemies? How?

"Kitty, I'm not sure."

"Lance, c'mon. Jean and Scott went for some weirdo convention with Storm, Professor X and Logan. The new mutants are at the red earth wood forest with Beast. Nightcrawler's with Amanda, Evan's at his skate meet and Rogue's gone to the CD shop. It's only me here. I can turn off the security for awhile and you come here just because you want to study with me."

"I don't know. Why can't we be at McDonald's instead, like we always do?"

"Lance, it's noisy there and the libraries are all shut."

"Well, only this once I s'pose."

"Ok. I'll be waiting for you."

Kitty didn't have to wait for long. Lance arrived in his jeep really quick.

"Lance." Kitty let Lance into the institute.

"Fine. Where do we study?"

Kitty laughed, "of course it's me and Rogue's room, what do you think, in front of the fireplace? Don't be silly…"

And that was just what I was thinking! Rats…

Lance and Kitty did study a lot. She quizzed him; they had popcorn for snacks and Lance showed clear improvement too.

"Great! You got all of these questions right! Lance, I can't believe how well you've improved!"

"All thanks to you. I never thought how good a teacher you'd make, Kitty."

Kitty laughed and slammed the thick book shut. "I think you'll ace the test tomorrow."

"I'll die if I had a C for once."

"You're missing confidence, Lance."

"Like real. So what do we do now?" He looked at Kitty.

"Don't know. Anything you want." She sat next to Lance on her bed.

Lance looked at her. And they drew closer. Soon, they were already kissing. "Kitty…" Lance's kisses traveled lower and lower. His hand went into onto her jacket and soon, he was unbuttoning her jacket.

Kitty's eyes widened when she realized what he was trying to do. "Lance, please. Stop this." She pushed him away and re-buttoned her jacket.

"Kitty! I'm sorry. I was out of control. I really didn't mean it, it was all but an accident, I swear! You have to forgive me, I…"

"Lance." Kitty placed a finger on his lip. "I trust you. And it's getting late. I don't know cos' Evan and the others may arrive soon…"

"I got it. I'll…leave," Lance pulled his vest on.

"You sure you're not angry or what?"

"I believe you. And no, I'm not angry."

"Good. I'll make my move now."

"Yeah, you'd better."

Kitty watched Lance go from her balcony. She believed him. Lance would never take advantage of her. And she trusted him.

Because she chose him.

Ok, that was my first fiction. I loved it like crazy, and I hope you do too. I love the Lancitty relationship. It's always fascinating to me on why Kitty always falls for her enemies and I love Lance too. His good heart never failed to impress me on why he picked Kitty. Well, Please tell me how you feel bout' this fiction, Ok? Even flames are Ok...and I hope you don't mind the new character I've placed in this story. Every new mutant seemed to have a girlfriend or boyfriend, except for Ray and Jamie. So I've decided to "make" a new character for Ray...I hope you guys don't bother.