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WARNING: The following has minor sexual content.

Chapter 8
"Hormones"

After hours of driving, They arrived in Boston. Bobby gave Logan directions to his house, Rogue was still asleep, Kitty woken earlier but she still rested against John's shoulder. John sat there, desperately waiting to stretch his legs but he seemed to relax by fiddling with his lighter and resting his cheek on Kitty's head holding her close. The pyromaniac was lost in his thoughts, mostly about the happy times of his and Kitty's relationship. Like their late night study sessions, as much as he hated to admit it but with Kitty they were fun, especially her tutoring him in biology. John managed to keep his grades just slightly above average enough to pass, that night with biology was a different story. That night Kitty phased down into his room, the night before John managed to learn about chemical bonding at least, between making out on his bed. The difference between this study night than the others is that Kitty decided to dress rather outside her normal fashion routine.

This time she was wearing a skirt, her hair was down, straight and perfectly brushed, her face remained free of make up and had small hoops hanging from her ears. John could smell the subtly sweet perfume as she walked by.

She smiled at him, "Ready to start biology?" She asked.

"Isn't biology simple stuff? I mean its just about studying about the human body." John said. But Kitty being the smartest student of mutant high...

"No, it's the study of ALL life - Plants, bacteria, animals etc."

John sighed, "Great... Well lets do this then." he flopped down onto his bed.

"You know you're going to start writing down notes, right?"

John pulled out his notebook, "I'm a writer Kitten, jogging down a couple of notes is no different."

"Ok, but your exam that starts next month is only about hormones, so it'll be pretty quick."

"So I was right, it is about people." John mentally kicked himself. 'crap..'

Kitty grinned and passed him a biology book, "No, you also need to cover plant hormones too."

"Believe me Kitten I know what hormones are." He said with confidence. Kitty's cheeks turned bright red.

"I don't think you know what hormones really-"

"They make people and now plant's wanna have sex." John answered. Kitty's whole face turned red, but her 'nerd' self kicked on and she stood with her hands on her hips,

"First of all, Plants don't have sex, second of all Hormones are chemical messengers that go between cells, and they induce all sorts of things besides lust. For example, fleeing or fighting." As she went on, John subconsciously started writing down notes on hormones. He sat a little straighter, resting against the headboard listening to his girlfriend tutored him.

"Everything is hormones?" John asked. Kitty nodded, John reached across his bed and pulled her in close, "Something like this?" He asked as he pressed his lips against hers. The kiss heated in passion as Kitty allowed him to devour her as tongues collided, She was incredibly beautiful that made the pyromaniac just throw it all in and began feeling every inch of her body, Kitty moaning to the touch of his warm hands. John managed to skip second base and go straight to third, Kitty shuddered after feeling John's hand slide up her skirt. She wanted him, and he wanted her, but something snapped in Kitty that caused her to phase out of John's grasp and sit at the edge of John's bed.

"John... We can't." She got up and left not looking back. John face palmed, hard. He didn't mean to upset her in someway, Kitty forgot her book, which John surprisingly started to read, cover to cover.

"We're here." Bobby said as they pulled up to his house. John without question hopped out and stretched every muscle he had in his body, and sighed in relief. Kitty giggled a little, John smiled at her and rolled his eyes and held her hand as they all walked up to the front door to Bobby's house.

Bobby unlocked the door, "Mom? Dad? Ronny?" He called. There were nobody home. John continued flipping the lighter cap on and off, which made Bobby turn to him, "Don't burn anything." He said, John just glared at him. John, and Kitty borrowed some of Bobby's clothes while Rogue used his mother's. Logan tried using that communicator contact storm. While Bobby and Rogue were in his room. John began looking at family photos of Bobby's family on the wall, Kitty hugged him from behind. Seeing their reflections in the pictures, their images surrounding the picture frames made John's eyes water and he sniffed back the tears. The thought of him and Kitty being happy as the family in the picture made angry inside. Having a family with Kitty, something he wished for was being threatened, how was he going to explain this to the one he loves, he can't break her heart, not like this. He needed a way out, a way that Kitty would rebound, but what? He spent the whole ride over here thinking about it, staring into the flame of his zippo, clinking the lighter on and off didn't help, he prayed to god to give him a way out.