"What?" Haley snarled. She had thought that Kitty was her friend. And in less than a week she'd already proven that she couldn't be trusted.
Kitty glared at her for playing dumb. She whisper-screamed at her so that no one would hear. "Pietro?!"
"Lance?!" she shot back. The venom in their voices were matched.
Kitty's heart sank. "What?" How had Haley found out about that? Had Kurt told her?
Haley advanced to her. "Oh, I know all about your little secret. However, you have the audacity to tell me who I shouldn't date…" Each word she spat out was no louder than a whisper, but they stung.
"I didn't…" she tried to defend herself.
"You didn't what? Think I'd find out? Think it mattered? Of course it matters. Do you think that you have the right to date whoever you want, but I don't?"
Kitty, taken aback, decided to attack Haley. "You were kissing a guy you don't even know."
She blinked, not sure how Kitty could have known about that. "Who, Pietro?"
"Yes!"
"He kissed me!" she cried in her defense.
Kitty crossed her eyes and glared. "You were definitely not trying to stop him. Kurt almost saw."
Haley furrowed her brow. Was that really Kitty's best attack? "What does Kurt have anything to do with this?"
"He likes you, and you just go around kissing any smooth-talker you meet," she blurted, not even realizing it.
"Kurt likes me?" Haley blinked. Kurt like her. He liked her. Did she like him?
Kitty slapped her hands over her mouth. "Shoot… Please don't let him know you know! That was an accident!"
"Yeah, whatever…" Haley said walking out onto her balcony. Her mind now preoccupied with other thoughts. She didn't feel like fighting with Kitty anymore. "Just close the door on your way out."
Kitty put her hand on Haley's shoulder. "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to blow up at you. It's just Kurt is like my brother. I don't want to see him hurt." She expected her to turn around, but she didn't.
"It's okay."
"And you know that I can't let everyone around here know about Lance…" Kitty continued, trying to make Haley see where she was coming from.
"I understand."
"So, what are you going to do?" Kitty asked as she lifted herself up onto the balcony railing, trying to see her expression. Haley's face was void of feeling. She looked stuck in her head.
"I don't know…"
"Do you like Pietro?"
"I don't know…"
"Do you like Kurt?"
"I don't know…" She had given the same response three times in a row. Kitty wanted to shake her in frustration, but restrained herself. She also wanted to fulfill the threat she had told Lance, but she decided against that too.
"You sound uncertain," Kitty tried, wanting to get some information out of her.
"I am."
"Well, just think things through."
"I will."
Kitty sighed, finally figuring out she wasn't to get much out of the girl right now. So she left Haley to her thoughts.
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At the Brotherhood house, Pietro sat on the couch, arms folded with a very smug smile on his face. He still hadn't told anyone what he had done and didn't plan to yet.
Lance eyed Pietro whose smile and deepened since he got back from school. Whatever he had been planning, Lance was sure that Pietro had followed through and succeeded.
He started walking upstairs, wondering if tomorrow he would find Pietro in Fred. Lance stopped and smiled at the thought. He began hoping that that would actually happen.
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Kitty hoped that no one had heard the spat that she and Haley had just had. It would be a bad thing if the entire mansion knew about this. However, no one showed any signs of having heard anything.
When Haley came out from her room she had put on a brilliant façade so the others would not notice that her mind was somewhere else. The only time that it became pretty evident was during the Danger Room session that day, but she was able to cover up her flukes nicely.
After the DR session, the X-men had some free time. It was towards the end of the semester, and while most school would pile on the homework, Bayville High currently didn't have a principle. The teachers wanted a little bit of a break too, so they were taking full advantage of the lack of authority by not giving assignments that would needed to be checked.
"Kurt, give it back!" Kitty squealed as the elf hung upside down on the chandelier with her i-pod in hand.
He wagged one of his six fingers at her. "What's the magic word?"
"Now!" she growled, stamping her foot on the ground.
Rogue walked past the two and shook her head. Sometimes the other mutants in the manor could be completely unbearable. "What is wrong with y'all?" she muttered to herself.
"Come on, Kurt, that's no fair!"
"Seems pretty fair to me!"
"What is wrong with you two?" Haley shrieked as she saw the two arguing. She had a headache from all the thinking and wasn't exactly in the mood for their antics.
"That's what I would like to know!" Rogue called from upstairs.
Kitty crossly folded her arms. "He took my i-pod."
Haley held up her hands as if surrendering. "I would help, but water isn't too good for electronics."
Kurt teleported behind Haley as if for protection from Kitty's anger. "She's right. There is no way you're getting this back." Haley turned around and tackled him. Kitty's i-pod flew up in the air. Luckily she managed to catch it before it crashed to the ground.
"Hey!" Kurt screeched, angry that he had been tackled. He then teleported back up to the chandelier.
"What the hell?" Haley cried as she was brought up there with him. Kurt hadn't realized that he brought her with him, so he wasn't holding on to her. This led to the inevitable fall of Haley Wilson.
The other two mutants stared in awe, both frozen in their spots. Kitty snapped out of her daze. "Help her, Kurt!"
However, he found himself unable to move. Kitty realized that she was the only one who could help. She lined herself under the girls falling body. Closing her eyes, she prepared herself for the shock. It never came though.
After a few seconds, Kitty opened her eyes. Haley was suspended in air right above her. She was so glad that Jean had been able to get here in time. Kitty looked around, but didn't see Jean anywhere.
"Uh…you guys…" Haley finally managed. "I'm not…falling anymore…"
"You're right…" Kitty said slowly. "Are you doing that?"
"Doing what?"
"Not falling…"
Haley looked down at Kitty, incredulously. "Well obviously," she replied.
Kitty shook her head, realizing how stupid she sounded. "I mean, are you, like, causing that?"
"I, uh, guess so."
"Alright…do you want to come down now?" she asked, not quite sure what to say or do.
"I don't know how to…"
She sighed. "Kurt, you wuss! Come and get Haley down."
He finally snapped out of his shock. "What, Kitty?"
"You want to help her down?" She was worried for her fuzzy friend.
"Who?"
"Me, remember?" Haley said, waving up at him.
His eyes widened. "Oh, yeah!" A few seconds later the two were back on the ground. "Sorry about that…"
They both looked at him funny.