The next morning, Rogue danced out of her room. She felt so good to be normal again. But as she walked through the building, none of the other kids looked at her, as though avoiding her. Slowly, her anxiety was returning to her. Rouge made her way toward the kitchen. Inside, Katherine and another girl started walking out.
"So, he died just by running into a wall?" the other girl asked laughing.
"He broke through so many other walls before, but without his power, he just cracked his neck." Kitty giggled in her shy way. Although she wasn't the most assertive person, she had a strong will; she could be forceful when she needed to be. Kitty looked up and saw Rogue. She waved goodbye to her friend. "See you later. Oh, hi Rogue," she said with a smile. After their victory against Magneto, she always seemed to be happy.
"It's Marie," Rogue said.
"You…. you…. you took the cure?" Kitty asked, her face becoming more serious.
Rogue didn't respond. She was embarrassed.
Kitty broke an uncomfortable silence. "Did you tell Bobby?"
"Bobby knows. It might take him a while to get over it though." Then she smiled and said, "We had some catching up to do first."
Suddenly, Kitty became very solemn. "You guys didn't….um…."
"What?" Rogue noticed Kitty was becoming very nervous.
"Never mind, I'll see you later Rou… um Maria." Rogue waved her off. Kitty quickly went past trying to hide her face. She walked down the hall and approached her room. She took a deep breath and willed her particles to avoid others as she phased through the door, fell on her bed, and sighed. She could usually control her feelings.
But the longer she laid down the more tense she got. She didn't want to think of Rogue and Bobby kissing. The truth was, Kitty secretly liked Bobby. After becoming a mutant, her life could be so chaotic. She felt very different than others all the time. She had friends, but none of them very close. Many felt they couldn't trust her because of her gift. Everything around her was changing. Her parents looked down on her. Xavier, her biggest father figure, was dead. But through all of the destruction around her, Bobby shined a beacon of hope through her heart. He was a few years older than her, and sometimes she felt like a little girl thinking about him; but he made her feel so happy in her times of pain, he was solid ground when she was unsure of herself, he was such a good surface to fall back on, and though they didn't know each other very well, he was her closest friend.
So many things were trying to pull her down; and sometimes it was so hard to keep standing strong. But standing strong was what she did best. Her entire life was hard and confusing, but she always kept her cool and did the right thing. She would never give up. She wasn't a quitter. Unlike Rouge, she thought to her self. Rouge decided to take the easy way out of her troubles, changing who she was, and she still had Bobby. It wasn't fair. Kitty had stayed with Bobby, even when Rogue wouldn't, even when it was so tempting to go the easy way. Now she was still where she had been before. Others still feared and hated her because she was different, Xavier was still dead, and she still didn't have a shoulder to cry on when she felt overwhelmed. But Rogue, a quitter, was respected by the world for being normal, was unfairly beautiful, and still had Bobby. Rogue was so lucky, everything so perfect for her.
Kitty felt a couple of warm tears roll down her cheeks. She cried for the injustice in her life. All the pressure held in throughout her life burst out of her. She wanted Bobby. But everyone still believed he should be with Rogue. Bobby probably didn't even like her, she was just a little girl.
Kitty, still lacking a supporting shoulder to cry on, curled up in a ball, squeezed her pillow, and cried into it.
A few minutes passed and Kitty's crying slowed. She had tolerated all of the misfortunes throughout her life. She would just have to get over this, just as she had done everything else. She sniffled and tried to settle a little. She hated being so lonely though.
Another tear fell out of her eye when she heard a nock at the door and a voice outside say "Kitty?"
It was Bobby.
