Kitty turned away, hiding her upset-ness. "Wha…What are you doing here? Don't you have a lot of things on?"
Lance felt really bad. Kitty was a nice girl. And she did so much, trying to get him back. He knew he still loved her, and he knew she loved him too. But something else was in the middle.
Something that didn't want them to be together.
"Kitty…about what happened just now at the-."
"I don't want to know what happened, you big jerk." Kitty pulled at his shirt. "I took so long to find you and in less than a sentence, you try to get me off your back."
Lance looked down at her. He knew lots of guys liked Kitty in Bayville but never admitted it. And moreover, no one knows why Kitty would like and go out with someone like Lance. It's either Kitty got some damage done to her head or that maybe, it is Love.
"Kitty," Lance grabbed onto her wrist and stopped her from what she was doing. "Kitty, I admit it. I do love you. Because you're the only person who really knows me, understands me and would be with me. I've never met anyone like you and I've loved you since we met in Illinois, when I saved you from the falling hawk, when I joined the X-Men because of you. I really do like you, Kitty, and nothing's gonna' change. But…"
"It's true, isn't it? You're just a lousy guy Rogue and the others kept warning me about. You, for one, are just afraid. Afraid of what people would say, afraid of what Scott and the rest would remark, afraid of facing my parents. I hate that in a guy, especially you. I…I don't know what I'd do with or without you." Kitty screamed at him, and slammed the door in his face loudly.
Lance just stared at the door, with the words "236" on it. And he bowed his head down. Being 8, he was already a failure. Being 18, he's still a failure. And now that he was 22, he didn't seem to have taken a rest from being one still.
Nope, he didn't like it one bit and he knew Kitty didn't either. Of course, one day, he'd like to earn enough money some day, buy a ring, ask for Kitty's hand in marriage and get a family. How funny…someone like him? A family?
It wasn't very funny to him. Lance listened to the sobbing inside the room, on the other side of the wooden door.
It was still true.
He could never ever give Kitty anything.
Except maybe his love.
"Kitty? Kitty, I know you can hear me." Lance knocked on the door, softly yet firm too.
"Go away," Kitty yelled back. "I don't know you. And if you see the real Lance Alvers anywhere, tell him that he was better than his duplicate I just met. The old Lance would never do this to me, make me suffer and make me cry. I hate the new one here, that piece of…of junk. And Kurt was right. You are just some rockslide scenario guy. And you would never learn to love anybody."
Ouch. Lance felt his heart ache, hearing such words.
"Kitty. I…I really want us to be together. Too many things changed and happened. I just…no, you and I both need time to think." Lance pushed his hands right down to the bottom of his jeans and walked away.
Kitty opened the door slowly, fixing her eyes on the spot where Lance stood at less than a moment ago.
She felt more tears come out and for that; she hated herself even more than ever.
Kitty slammed the door shut and with tears still stinging her eyes, what she thought she needed most right now was a walk.
She didn't even realize that Lance was just standing behind the pillar, looking at her. And ready to follow her.
"Ah told ya, we can't bust in the Lecture Theatre already, why didn't cha' listen ta' me?" Rogue scolded at Kurt.
"Hey, I was kind enough to help you find Avalanche. We couldn't possibly find him in such a dark place! And you sneezed! That was why Mrs. Mckelvin found us!"
"It was yer' fur, Kurt." Rogue unlocked the door. "Now, be quiet. If Kitty sees ya', she'll…"
Coming face to face with her was an empty room, with the blanket on the floor and Kitty's bag on the table.
"Vhere is she?" Kurt asked, "I thought you said-."
"Ah know what ah said. We are s'pose to find her now!" Rogue marched out of the room.
"Are ya' coming or what?" She shouted at him.
Kitty dragged herself down the very empty street. Of course, nobody really goes out of University in the afternoon. Except her.
Kitty looked into the shop window of a bridal store. The gowns were beautiful. A sample picture of a couple smiling sweetly at each other got her smiling too. Kitty felt like phasing her hands through the thin glass and touch the silk. But no, she couldn't blow her cover.
Kitty cried some more. She didn't expect breaking up with someone would hurt her so badly. She always thought that once she found Lance, they could continue being with one another. Well, it was all of Lance's fault, that stupid…stupid rocky thingy. She ran out of bad words to call him already.
Lance stared at her. He was at least smart enough to keep out of her distance. If she saw him ever again, she'll blow.
Kurt got out of the University too. "She couldn't have gone very far."
"Ya' think?" Rogue looked around. But all she saw was Lance.
"Hey, there's Lance, that jerk!" Kurt ran forward and jerked him back. "Vhere's Kitty?"
Lance saw both Kurt and Rogue and yelled back, "Look, can't I come out for a walk myself? Bodyguards?"
Kitty turned to look who had shouted and when she saw Lance; she felt more tears coming out. Why did he have to be at everywhere?
Kitty saw Kurt and Rogue too. The idea of just pulling them back and don't look at Lance crossed her mind. Just don't look at him. No biggie, right?
Kitty started to cross the road, her tears blurring her vision. As she stopped halfway to wipe her tears dry first so Lance won't see them, a truck came driving up.
"Kitty!" Lance rolled his eyes back, "erupting" the ground. The ground "heeded" his comment and broke up. The truck overturned as Kitty's eyes widened with shock.
Lance just saved her from getting ran over. Many people stopped to see what was going on.
The driver in the truck called for help, his legs stuck. Kitty ran up to the truck and phased herself through. Saving the person was more important.
"I…I got cha'," Kitty strained to pull him out.
"They…they're mutants!" People looked at one another.
"Uh-oh. We're busted again." Rogue sounded very much pissed off.
Lance ran up and pulled Kitty away. "Kitty, let's go."
Kitty nodded, forgetting her problems with Lance. She took his hand and got back to the roadside.
"I think we better split." Rogue started to run away when people blocked her path. Soon, people surrounded them…as if they did something wrong.
"We want mutants clear of our place!"
"Go home!"
"We don't need mutants here! Go back where you came from!"
The comments made them four panic. "Grab on to me!" Kurt shouted.
Rogue, Kitty, even Lance grabbed onto Kurt as he ported them back to the University. Kitty looked up at Lance before she found herself in Rogue and her shared bedroom. He still looked the same. He still looked like…like Lance.
And she still loved him a lot.
Only now, they had to deal with another city of mutant haters.
Sorry, Got way too many things to do so didn't update this week. The next chappie...hmm...I hope I can "produce" a little earlier. Well, make do with this one for now then...