The next day Vixen woke up even later than usual. She drowsily pulled a pair of sweat pants over her pyjama bottoms and started out of her and Jade's room and down the stairs, noticing that Silencia had already got up and dressed because her nighty was lying on the floor next to her pillow.

When she got into the kitchen, most of the breakfast had been tidied away, but she managed to swipe a bowl of chocolate cereal which she took with her as she made her way into the ballroom where the party had taken place.

She vaguely remember going back to the party after Pietro and her had disappeared, then him kissing her goodnight and leaving sometime around 1 a.m.

She yawned as she watched Jubilee, Roberto and Sam picking up pieces of tissue paper and plastic cups from the floor.

'Good afternoon!' said Jubilee moodily as she scrunched up a bit of plastic cup and shoved it into the bin bag she was clutching in her other hand. 'Do you know what the time is?' she continued glancing at her watch. Vixen shook her head as she continued to munch in her breakfast cereal.

'It's 2. 30!!!' exclaimed Roberto standing up and glaring at her. She smiled sleepily. 'We were up at midday.'

'I'm just surprised she got some breakfast.' said Sam who picked up a couple of dirty napkins and threw them into Jubilee's bin bag. 'I thought Jean and Bobby cleared it all away.'

'They had,' Vixen replied with her mouth full. 'but I managed to pinch this.' Jubilee leered at her incredulously, but Sam just smiled.

'I saw you dancing with Bobby.' said Roberto meaningfully. 'Is there something going on there?' Jubilee laughed sarcastically and Sam gazed at her with a sort of sideways smile.

'Not to me.' replied the blond girl mixing her bowl around, trying to get the milk covering all the cereal. 'I don't know if he saw something in it. It was just a dance.' The others went back to their chores and Vixen walked away back to the kitchen where she put her bowl back in the sink.

'You'd better wash that up!' exclaimed Bobby heatedly, in a pair of washing up gloves and an apron. Vixen sighed exasperatedly and poured a little water on the bowl and spoon. She guessed the dance hadn't meant anything to him either.

'Fetching outfit.' she taunted. He looked sideways at her exasperatedly, she shrugged, grabbed a sponge and started scrubbing.

She put the bowl and spoon away and made her way back up to her room. She quickly got dressed and looked around to find something to do.

The phone rang somewhere below her but she took no notice. She never got any calls anyway. She heard Scott call up the stairs for Kitty as usual.

She looked down the hall and saw Kurt looking just as bored as she felt. She smiled and he smiled back.

'You bored too?' he asked making his way over to her. She nodded slowly, still smiling. 'Good party last night, don't you think?' he asked.

'Yeah…' she replied keenly… but then she remembered their dance together and the kiss that never was. 'Good party…' She got the feeling he also remembered their moment. She smiled uncomfortably, and he returned the awkward smile.

'Listen…' he started uneasily, looking at his feet and twiddling his tail. 'About last night… I… umm… didn't want to… err… I didn't mean to…' she looked at him disappointedly. 'I'm sorry I didn't mean to… when we nearly… you know…'

'I get it…' she said, trying to ease his embarrassment. 'I didn't mean it either. It… I… it must have been the music… or something…' she trailed off.

'Yeah.' he replied with what looked like a fake smile on his face. 'I… yeah…' there was a long and uncomfortable silence, in which they both twiddled their clothes.

'Well…' started the young girl, 'I… I'd better get going… and err… you know…'

'Yeah…' replied Nightcrawler, glad of something to say. 'Me too… I must erm… you know…' She turned and walked slowly down stairs.

After a moment she looked around to see if he was still there… unfortunately he was, and he was watching her. They both smiled embarrassed at each other and Vixen turned and hurried down the stairs, cursing her curiosity.

She snuck into the lounge where she found Xavier reading and Storm filing her nails. Both looked up uninterestedly as she came in but made nothing of it. Vixen made her way to one of the three computers the students were allowed to use and switched it on.