"Hi I'm Bradley." Bradley introduced himself as he stuck out his hand to Piotr, who shook it.

"I'm Piotr. I'm guessing that Jessica Tell had convinced you to come here. My question is why? Where are you from, why had you come here, how do you know Jessica, and how come, you're not intimidated by me?"

Bradley thought for a minute as he lay on his bed. "Well, I was born in Detroit, but adopted to a family in California. I went to school there my elementary and high school years… oh… don't tell Jessica I have already graduated and eighteen. I only said I was seventeen, just so she would keep talking to me."

"You might want to tell her as soon as possible, not that it's going to make any difference she is turning sixteen soon anyway." Piotr suggested.

"Hmm. Well, anyway… I met Jessica online in a chat room and when she said she was living with some "Special People" I knew she was a mutant, so I just eased the conversation to her and her mutation, I told her mine, and we talked every night after that. My parents kicked me out of the house when I was 16 when they found out that I was a mutant I met Jessica a year later when using the library computers. She helped me get through being a mutant and such…"

"Yes, she loves to talk. You can imagine the conversations she has with Katya."

"I bet their long. Well, I had also found out by some research that my birth great-grandfather was a mutant, by looking at some records from the California Earthquakes and a small group of people protesting against the unnecessary neglect of mutants. I put two and two together and figured out that the Earthquakes were caused by a man named Nick Carwell, a mutant that could harness tiny amounts of the Earth's core, and cause the Earth, or very small amounts of it to shake and overlap; it also turned out that the name of my birth father was the grandson of that man."

"Wow. It looks like you have a famous background. You should be proud of that." Piotr grabbed a towel out of a drawer and walked toward the bathroom for a shower.

"Yeah, well…. and to finish this… I am not intimidated by you because I saw the way you handled Kitty. A man that you fit the stereotype of would not act like that to a little girl like that, unless you like her or you were raised that way from a child. My guess is that it's both."

"How do you come by that?" Piotr asked.

"Because from what I hear around here, from other people; you are the biggest role model around. And when I asked Ororo about you, she said you came from a very loving family and besides the dark past; all you want to do is help people… and also I saw Kitty wink to Jessica as you literally swept her off her feet." Bradley fondly remembered the comical moment.

Piotr just stared at him. "You talk too much. You know that?"

Bradley snickered as he got his iPod out and started flipping through songs as Piotr took his shower.

"OH MY GOODNESS!!! I LOOK NORMAL!!!!!!" Snake aka Joe "the fang" Hoyte exclaimed as he looked in the mirror, he looked at Jimmy and was on his knees thanking him.

"Um you're welcome?" Jimmy stated confusingly.

"You'll have to excuse my roommate. He isn't used to looking like a human. I'm Jacob Tresma, or Bug as the others call me. I would shake your hand but if I get too close to you, I can't control the insects in the room."

"Hi, I'm Jimmy."

Logan entered the room and started to explain the rules the four boys had for their room setting. Jimmy slept on the far bunk and bunked with Vamp or Ryan Hoyte. Snake was bunked with Jacob, because they were the older ones and could control their powers to a degree. After Logan left, Jimmy told the others all about the cure and his life at Alcatraz. About two hours later, all four mutants went to sleep.

"Sooooooooo, What do you want to do?" Kitty asked Jessica as she let Lockheed sleep in the closet after she played with him for a while.

"Whatever you want to do… I can't sleep so we might as well do something stupid to make my day complete." Jessica took a sip of her soda.

"We could spy on people, dye Beast's fur bright pink, play tag on the lawn, prank the sleeping students…" Kitty suggested.

"Well, you wanna talk for a few minutes and then we can do something outrageous?" Jessica asked as she lay on her bed.

"Sure, so, like, ask away."

"Ok, first question. Do you love Piotr?"

"Uhh…. I guess so… why?"

"Because he is literally breaking his back for you in love and you just seem to be in this illusion that you still want to be with Bobby."

Kitty thought about this and found it to be true. Piotr and she haven't really had a good one on one talk ever since… well… never.

"So what am I supposed to do? He has his own life with guys his age, he could even go to collage and have a regular girlfriend his age. I am just a fifteen year old kid who has a crush on a twenty year old. And what makes it worse, is that he is almost twenty one and can do what he wants... even leave the mansion if he wanted to and leave me." Kitty started to cry. Jessica stood up and grabbed Kitty's hand.

"Come on. I have an idea." Jessica took Kitty down the hall to the Guys Hall and knocked on Piotr's door.

Bradley opened the door to find Kitty crying and a smiling Jessica.

"Hope you don't mind but Kitty and I, like wanna stay up with you guys for a while." Jessica informed as she jumped into Bradley's bed.

"Oh ok… But Piotr is…" Just then Piotr excited the bathroom with a towel around his waste.

"PIOTR! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME. I LOVE YOU AND I WANT TO BE WITH YOU AND I WISH THAT I COULD BE OLDER SO I COULD BE WITH YOU WITHOUT WORRY AND…" Kitty bawled as she ran up to him and hugged him.

"Katya. Please don't cry. I'm not going anywhere, and I will always be here for you. I do not care about your age, because I see a young woman in you that is mature. Katya I love you too much to leave you. And as for you wanting to be older… you will be, but it makes no difference in how much I love you at this moment." Piotr sat Kitty down on his bed, got some night cloths to change into, and retreated to the bathroom once more.

"See? He isn't going to leave you. He probably thinks of you whenever he has to go to class or stuff, because he won't be able to see you." Jessica stated as Bradley lay down next to her.

"He won't stop talking about you. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT before he goes to bed, he always says how beautiful you are and such. In my opinion I think he does it to much." Kitty nodded to Bradley's comment and lay down on the queen sized bed that supported Piotr every night.

Piotr walked into the room and slowly climbed into his bed, trying not to disturb Kitty. She was deep in thought about what he saw in her and didn't notice Piotr as he shifted in the bed. Jessica and Bradley were listening to his iPod with duel headphones and were laughing and humming along.

"Feel better?" Piotr asked. Kitty looked over at a smiling Piotr.

"Piotr… can we talk. I mean really talk about things." Kitty rolled over to face him. He nodded and she took a deep breath.

"Piotr… I don't know what you see in me… but I know that you love me. I love you too and sometimes I feel like this is just a teenage phase. I mean, you are twenty and almost twenty one. I am only 15 and it's illegal for…" Piotr held a finger to her lips.

"Those rules were for humans. Yes they do apply to mutants, but if a man and a woman love each other, age shouldn't get in the way."

"Piotr… are you sure about this? Sometimes I feel like its wrong and I should stop this before it hurts us both."

"I have also had those thoughts, Katya, but I push them aside so I can look at you and feel happy. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me so far, and I would never trade you for any girl in the world."

"Piotr…" Piotr bent down to kiss Kitty for the first time. This time he wanted it to be special for her, since it was her first kiss. He lifted her chin and finally kissed her on her small lips. She was in awe and Piotr was happy that he was the one she had chosen.

("Piotr I love you…" "I love you too Kitty." "Smooch, kiss, hug, moan…" WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!) Jessica thought to herself as she felt two arms around her waist. She turned around to see Bradley smiling back at her. "I'm guessing that we are actually dating… right?"

"Well, I came here looking for you, so I guess our first 'date' was reading in the library together." Bradley gave a small hug.

"What a lame first date! We just sat around reading until the X-men came back from their mission. WHERE IS THE ROMANCE IN THAT?"

"I thought it was pretty romantic watching you read. I didn't get past page one because I was looking at you the whole time."

"So are all California guys' stalkers?" Jessica giggled.

"Only the surfers." Bradley chuckled at that. Jessica snuggled up to him and fell asleep in his arms.

Piotr also fell asleep, but Kitty was WIDE awake. She tried to go to sleep, but every time she opened her eyes, she saw him, sleeping peacefully with her in his strong arms. She just thought how lucky she was to attract an older guy that had the body of a Greek statue and the shy personality that made her squirm with delight. She gently felt his strong jaw and played with his hair. "He kissed me… he really, REALLY kissed me." Kitty mouthed as she scratched underneath his chin like she always did with Lockheed. He just moaned and gave a slight snore. Kitty smiled and looked at the clock. It was one in the morning and school was starting in two weeks, so she decided to sleep. She closed her eyes and cuddled in his arms.

Everybody say "aww" "AWWWWWW" THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO ONE REVIEWER THAT LOVED MY LAST CHAPTER: Teardrops and Roses. I am eternally thankful. (sorry if this chapter takes back that perspective lol…)