Kitty kept looking at Pete with a smile clearly shown on her face. Pete Wisdom.
She remembered how she had met him. Ok, here's a quick one…
Kitty was walking back to the institute, having bought her Carrie Underwood CD. Then, she didn't realize there was a car coming as she crossed the road, and before she knew it, a pair of strong arms pulled her across the road. Pete.
"Do you love me?" Pete whispered down her ear.
Kitty giggled, "Uh-huh."
"I think you better get going. Jean or Wolverine would get mad if you went any later." Pete said.
Kitty nodded, "Alright. You get going too. I'll, maybe see you tomorrow?"
"Deal." Pete gave Kitty a kiss on the forehead and then left the institute.
"Ooh, boyfriend." Laughed Jubilee from the back.
"What? Jubilation Lee how did you…" Kitty started to laugh.
"Not only her, us too." Bobby said, pushing the door back, revealing all the new mutants, all giggling and clutching their sides.
"That's enough. Back to bed, all of you. Don't forget your training session with Logan tomorrow morning." Scott said, his arms crossed, with a silly grin towards Kitty as well.
The new mutants roared with laughter as they charged upstairs.
"Kids." Scott said, as he turned his attention to Kitty. "How's it going with Wisdom? Good?"
Kitty beamed, "Yeah. Pete's been really nice to me."
"Well, you better sleep too. We still got school tomorrow."
"I guess I better myself." Kitty pushed her hair back.
"I think hanging out with Wisdom is much better than when you hang out with Alvers, isn't it? Anyway, g'night." Scott yawned as he slammed the door shut.
Kitty didn't know what she ought to say. She retreated back to her own room, full of guilt suddenly. They broke up, all because of her parents. They were the ones which objected them being together.
Kitty phased through the door and landed on her bed. Life was so tough to lead. Now that she was officially 18, life seems even tougher.
"Why da' look?" Rogue raised an eyebrow at her roommate. So far, only she and Kitty and Boom-boom and Amara shared a room. And she was dying to get her own; to finally get the thrill of what was called "privacy."
"Nothing. I'm just a not too glad to be working at the burger joint tomorrow night. And worse, it had to be on a night shift too." Kitty groaned.
"Well, ya' wanted to save enough money to fly back to Illinois." Rogue stated.
"Yeah, I know, Rogue. It's just that I always seem to feel so lousy whenever the professor pays for my trip. I want to make my own money and visit my parents. It's been a long while, thank you very much."
"Whateva' ya' say. Ah have a European history test fer tomorrow and if I fail, the professor would break ma' skull into half. Night'."
Kitty threw the covers over herself too, hearing that Rogue decided to turn in early for once, she might as well do the same. No harm having more energy for the next day. However, she remembered Scott's words from just now.
"I think hanging out with Wisdom is much better than when you hang out with Alvers, isn't it?"
Kitty closed her eyes. She actually enjoyed a lot being with him, because he was fun. He was nice, he was caring…and she had feelings for him.
Just to make him jealous and all, she begun hanging out with Pete. No, he wasn't so bad. A little like Lance too. Bad-boy attitudes.
But something in Pete was different from Lance.
She hung out with Pete because she wanted to make him mad, make him feel sorry. Well, it wasn't exactly his fault that they broke up, but it was also because he had nothing for her except him. But being with Lance was like…it was like a beautiful memory.
Kitty had just one single tear shedding down her cheek.
And that was what it was…
It was nothing but a memory.
Kitty realised her tears were free falling...but she could do nothing about it...
"Lance, good night." Crystal said with a wave.
"Anytime. Hope you had a good night." Lance drove off his jeep. But he felt absolutely bad inside.
Lance stopped at the side of the road, away from the other houses and got out. He leaned against the green metal door and stared at the sky, filled with shining and glittery stars.
Being with Crystal was really fun. She made him forget most of his things. She was a cheerleader in Bayville High and was tall, with long, straight yellow hair. But the feeling just wasn't really there.
All was in his head now were just he and…Lance gulped. Kitty…
He didn't want to admit she was actually hanging out with Pete Wisdom now. And that they were a couple too.
Pete was very much like him, just more to offer. At least, he had a more decent ride than he did.
Lance turned around and saw a loving couple, hand in hand, laughing and counting the stars in the sky. It irritated him and Lance got into his jeep and took off.
He felt a little sick, still thinking of that couple. Once, he and Kitty were very much like that. One of the usual night things they did were to count the stars that laid in the beautiful bed of clouds. And didn't they enjoy that?
Lance got to the brotherhood boarding house. It was his home, more like what Mystique gave, only she was very much gone right now.
"Toad, get away from me now!" Next, Lance saw a toad with blue shimmery thing surrounding him, flying out of the "living" room (mess). Oh great, Wanda's using her powers again, just as usual to get Toad off her.
"Hey, I'm back." Lance announced to the house.
All he saw was Wanda stomping up to her room, Pietro drawing silly faces onto Blob's face and Toad, very much "recovered" and hopping upstairs to re-bug Wanda all over again. Why doesn't he just give up anyway? He's never gonna' impress her, especially his stinking "never-took-a-bath-in-a-month" attitude.
Lance realized nobody cared in this house. And to think he did their laundry, their dishes, bought them food and did so much for this measly house and got nothing. (So, Wanda did help once in a while, when she felt like it).
Lance went upstairs and holed himself in his room. There was that usual mess from everyday. He couldn't understand why he always felt so lazy to clean out his own room, yet felt so determined sometimes to clean out the house.
Lance threw his bag on the table and knocked something over. Lance sighed. His room's light bulb had blew a fuse already and he didn't really bother to go get a brand new one. Lance got on all fours to see what he had knocked over.
He clutched around the whatever-it-was, and started to stand up when he banged his head on the table.
Lance cursed silently under his breath as he rubbed his poor aching head slowly.
He used the moonlight to see what it was.
The picture of Kitty's smiling face.
He sighed extra as he landed on the bed. He didn't know what to do. He only hung out with Crystal because he wanted to show Kitty that she was an idiot to dump him because of her parents. Yet, it seemed pretty childish and stupid to him. And he didn't really want anyone else but Kitty. He didn't feel like playing with Crystal's feelings either, just in case she got the wrong idea.
Lance felt hopeless and pulled the sheets over his head. His fingers ran across the picture, and even feeling the glass made him even more hurt than ever.
"Kitty…" Lance whispered, his voice low.
Silently, he cursed himself for being no good.
Not good enough for Kitty.
Wiping his tears away from the back of his hand, Lance wished that they never broke up at all in the first place…
I almost don't know what I can write, cos' every idea seemed to have been used up already. Hope this story doesn't ore you guys too much…Chapter 2 would have to wait, because I'm a lil busy lately…and sorry for changing Pete Wisdom's status...I just had to use that guy because he never seemed to be in any of the evolution stories I've read so far...