What a great way to start a day. Rogue said quietly, "Come on, Kitty, let's just leave." Kitty gave a nod but then, none of the Brotherhood boys wanted to move.

Lance mumbled gruffly, "I just want to talk to Kitty."

"Yeah, yo. Move outta' the way." Toad jumped up and down.

Kitty looked at Lance with sad eyes and said, "We don't have anything to talk about. Not anymore."

Rogue raised her voice, "Y'all heard that?" She grabbed Kitty's left arm and tore her way through Pietro and Lance.

"Bummer, we tried. For this, Mystique can't get us, right?" Pietro crossed his arms.

Lance looked terribly frustrated, "Shut your trap, Pietro. We've got to get Kitty back."

"For what, man? Didn't cha' see how she treated you just now? Don't let a cat make your head go ballistic, Lance. She not even worth half of you." Pietro said.

"I'm doing this for our team. In fact, we need her to take down the X-Geeks."

"You mean, you need her because you like her, don't you? You care peanuts for the Brotherhood."

Lance felt he would never get through the Brotherhood in this way. "I'm wasting my breath on you. I'm gone."

Walking down the noisy hallways, Lance practically glared at everyone he saw the past him. He didn't know why but that was just what he was doing now. On passing a couple holding hands, Lance felt his temper rise up even more.

A freshman (okay, a complete dorky lookin' guy) hit Lance as he past by, reading and the worse was that, uh, he kept reading? Lance grabbed him by the collar and slammed the poor guy against a locker door. "Did you just hit me? What, you like to kick me aside too? Does my face write dump me? Huh?" A tiny tremor shook as Lance mouthed these words at the freshman. "S…Sorry…"

Lance pushed him to the ground and cursed something in the air. "Shut up. Everyone's the same. They do something and they all say sorry. Well, F--- them."

Kitty couldn't believe her eyes. In fact, Lance had such a crowd; no one dared say anything anyway. This was when she felt her presence is, like, needed.

Kitty practically elbowed her way through, "Uh, excuse me." She was directly in front of Lance by now, by Lance was still at the nerdy freshman's case. "So I look funny to you? Or what? To hell with everybody else…who even bothers even if I tried?"

People felt this guy was going haywire in the head. Obviously, he had lost a bunch of marbles inside, or how else would he be screaming off the hook non-stop? This was insane!

Lance stopped all of a sudden as he lifted his head and caught sight of Kitty and felt awfully weird and quiet too. Kitty looked at the people and said loudly, "Ok, show's over. Like, you can all leave now." The people practically rolled their eyes leaving and the poor guy on the ground gathered his books up as quickly as he could and dashed away, mumbling something.

Kitty gave her best grin of all and said, "Didn't get enough sleep last night or were you just trying out for pro-star wrestling auditions?"

"Uh, no, I don't like it anyway." Lance said under his breath.

"Like, you don't look like your usual self today, you know."

Lance nodded, "Yeah, I wonder what gave me away." They stared at each other in silence.

"So, how's with the geek instituted? Are they okay?"

Kitty smiled, "Uh-huh. They're pretty good people and pretty fun too, especially Kurt. Rogue's kinda' quiet though, and Storm's a wonderful teacher."

"Awesome. Looks like you can do fine without me and the other guys huh?" Lance shrugged.

Kitty felt sort of offended, "Lance, I'm just telling you what I felt. The X-Men are good people and they care for me. I'm not, like, saying you don't. I just felt the Brotherhood was…you know, not for me. But I'm not saying you or anything and I hope you understand."

"Does that mean it doesn't have anything to do with us? You know Summers and Red would never allow me near you and all, and three-third of the mutants walking in this school belongs to the X-Men. Including you too, Kitty." Lance argued.

Kitty slapped her forehead, "Lance Alvers, you big ego-tripper! I'm not saying we can't go out together anymore. We still can and-."

"Kitty, do you think I don't want it? But it's not like they would allow it. They hate the Brotherhood. They hate me."

"But I don't. In fact, I-." Kitty stopped immediately. "I wish we could still be together. Like before." She finished off.

Lance walked away silently. It wasn't as if he didn't know the consequences of dating a X-Man. They would never, ever let her near him.

And if they did, it would be a miracle.

Kitty looked around in the crowded lunchroom. Where the hell was Lance when you want to get that guy anyway?

"Kitty! Kitty, over here! Hey, K-girl!" Evan waved and the rest of the gang signaled for her to come and sit with them. Well, since Kitty couldn't find Lance, she decided it couldn't do much of a harm to sit with them.

"Cool! We saved you a seat, Kitty." Jean said, half-laughing.

"Uh, like, great. Thanks, guys." Kitty settled down for lunch. Kurt pointed to the back, "Uh-oh. The Loserhood is here."

The Brotherhood boys (all of them) glared at the X-Men with eyes that killed and the rest of the X-Men chose to ignore instead. Kitty focused on Lance and he looked at her with sad, hazel eyes.

When they were gone, probably getting a table of their own, Kitty asked, "Uh, can, like, any of the X-Men date an, uh, like a Brotherhood or something which is our "enemy"?"

Kurt looked at Scott and he looked back and Jean almost spilled her juice. "What?" Evan scratched his head.

"You all heard what I said, right?" Kitty asked.

Jean sighed louder than anything, "Kitty, if you were just talking about Lance, then I think we all think it's a no."

"How do you know what I think anyway?" Scott asked. "Stupid question. She's telepath. Of course she knows." Rogue nudged at him.

"Yeah, sorry guys." Scott grinned form side to side.

"But I don't really, like, think it's a huge crime to date someone of a different side. After all, we are all mutants."

Scott became pretty serious, "Kitty, for your own safety, stay away from any of them. They are nothing but the word trouble, get it?"

Kitty's eyebrows knitted together.

Lance was indeed right.

He was a Brotherhood boy and the X-Men would never allow her to date him.

Sorry if this fic was too late!