I decided to add a dash of angsty Lancitty in this chapter just for kicks. Please review and I'll put up more chapters.
"Whooo! Go Amara!" Tabitha yelled out at Amara who just spiked the ball scoring another point for her and Pietro.
"Grrrr…" Lance grumbled pushing himself off the sand angrily after he had just dived to trying to save the ball on Jubilee's side of the court.
"Ooops, my bad!" Jubilee giggled as Pietro and Amara high-fived. Volleyball was not Jubilee's sport, as it was plain to see after the first eight points she scored for the other team.
"Ha! Sucks for you Lance!" Pietro cackled devilishly.
"Serve the damn ball!" he yelled back, tossing the volleyball over the net. His torso was bright red from sliding on the sand, but he was going to make sure that Pietro suffered a lot more pain on the car ride home. Pietro served the ball Lance was about to hit it back when something distracted him. The ball hit him smack in the forehead, but he didn't even notice, even when the others laughed loudly at him. A girl was quickly approaching them, and it only took Lance a second to recognize her.
"Kitty?" he mumbled, staring at her with wide eyes, his anger melting away. They had broken up months ago, but Lance had never stopped caring about her, and now here she was running up to him. Lance just gawked at her before he realized that she wasn't coming to him, but wait, what was she doing here in the first place? Lance wondered about this, going to the beach was a trip well out of the way of the Institute, and the Brotherhood Boarding House for that matter. Suddenly it hit him. Jubilee and Amara were X-Men, that's where Tabitha met them, but if they were here then Scott and the others weren't far behind. This was not good.
"Amara, Jubilee! What are you doing?" Kitty asked them. Her face was slicked with tears, and her brown hair whipped around in the sudden breeze. She shivered a little from the change in the weather in her pink two-piece, and Lance had to stop himself from hugging her to make her warm.
"What do you mean? What's wrong Kitty?" Jubilee asked walking over to Kitty's side.
"There was an accident; Evan's going to the hospital. We all have to meet now," she answered wiping the tears from her face. She didn't bother trying to explain to them about how the Brotherhood and the X-Men were enemies; there would be time for that later. At this news Pietro's face lit up with happiness and he was about to make a smart-ass comment when Tabitha clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Aww, that totally sucks," Tabitha said making an effort to look upset, when she really couldn't care less.
"Yeah, well…let's go guys," Kitty mumbled to Amara and Jubilee, not making eye contact with Lance or Tabitha. Kitty never liked the way Tabitha acted, it made her uncomfortable, and so she was secretly glad that Tabitha wasn't around the Institute anymore. Tabitha was an instigator, always causing trouble and being the badass party girl bitch that she is. The guys ate it up, but it was an attitude that Kitty didn't care for.
"Kitty, wait, why don't you play with us for a little? It'll be fun, and it'll take your mind of Evan," Lance suggested, putting a hand on Kitty's shoulder as she turned to leave.
Kitty shook her head, refusing to look him in the eyes, "I can't…we have to check in with the others."
"Come on kit kat, play with us, or are you too much of a goody-goody to be seen with mutant trash like us?" Tabitha asked her. Kitty didn't respond, but she pulled Amara and Jubilee by the hand to show them it was time to go.
"Kitty please, can you just at least stop acting like we're enemies and look at me?" Lance pleaded with her, desperate to find out if she still cared about him the way he cared about her.
"Lance," she said turning around at looking up at him with her sad blue eyes, "This really isn't a good time…"
"When is a good time then?" he asked her the anger creeping into his voice, "You never answer my calls, and you're always with them." The way he used the word 'them' was an obvious attack on the way X-Men acted like they were almost a different species from the Brotherhood.
Kitty's eyes started to water, "I don't know Lance, but I have to go." With that she pulled away from him running off with Jubilee and Amara right behind her.
"DAMMIT!" Lance yelled kicking the sand before he knelt down in the sand with his head in his hands.