Author Note: Okay, so I started writing chapter 8 only to realize that something was missing in chapter 7. So I came up with this stroke of genius. Bobby and Rogue having a date isn't complete without meddling from their best friend. I really love Kitty Pryde.

Disclaimer: Still don't own X-men, still don't live in Jamaica.

Kitty knew what was up. She removed a twig from her hair as she watched the whole scene in the foyer. Sneaky little devils, thinking they can hide their rendezvous from their best friend. How can they just leave her out of this big secret? Kitty frowned, her code name was Shadowcat for a reason. They didn't even know she was there the whole time.

Kitty stepped out of the kitchen for a second to go find her cookbook. When she arrived she saw Bobby and Rogue discussing eating dinner outside. Of course, at first Kitty felt betrayed. How can her friends betray her by not eating her cooking? She had made soup, and eggplant parmesan for the whole mansion. Granted that she had day dreamed and phased the pot through the metals coils. Closer to the fire meant it cook faster right? So what if the soup overheated and splattered over the walls. There was still some left, and Kitty thought it tasted fine.

Mutiny, this was mutiny.

But as she continued to hear, her body fleshed against the refrigerator she found out that Bobby finally did it. Bobby asked Rogue out for dinner and Rogue accepted. Maybe Rogue didn't know she agreed to a dinner date, but heck that was closest Bobby was going to get to a real date. Kitty jumped up and down in fits of giggles.

Her best friends were finally dating.

Sort of.

But Bobby, was so…Bobby. He would totally screw up a date with Rogue if he didn't have guided assistance. He was like, twenty shades of annoying, too much for the spitfire southerner to take. All the pinning over her the last past year would be for naught. So that's why Kitty thought she would tag along, in secret so he didn't screw up.

That's what best friends are for, right?

Kitty tagged right behind them in Logan's car, sporting her incognito clothes. You know, the trench coat, cute black sunglasses and black scarf over her head? Looked like one of those sexy mysterious bombshells from old James Bond flicks.

By the time they hit the mall, Kitty was sliding from bush to bush. She watched as Bobby stopped at a stall and pointed out Frozen toys. Kitty rolled her eyes. That guy was obsessed with the movie, swearing Elsa was his twin sister or something. Just because they had the same powers, didn't mean they were twins. Elsa is so much cuter than Bobby and totally a bigger bad ass, Kitty thought. Rogue face looked bored as Bobby held the Elsa toy up to her.

Doesn't he like know Frozen is not Rogue's style? Like, Bobby didn't understand the intricate mind of the Goth. Rogue liked black roses, horror movies and probably read Twilight. Of course she would never admit the last part. She was so not into Disney movies. Well Kitty did see her watch Beauty and The Beast, which caused Rogue to sigh a lot. When Kitty found out she was threaten with a pillow.

Kitty never knew a pillow can be so threatening. Especially when it was promised to be stuck half phased through you. Her best friend sure knew how to make the most mundane objects threatening. Like the time she promised to pull Kurt's eyelids with salad tongs after he used her hair brush.

Everyone in the mansion stayed clear away from Rogue for days.

Kitty was about to get up and yell at Bobby. Someone needed to stop him before he messed everything up. He needed to be romantic, Rogue type of romantic. Which involved black roses and pledging his love on top of dead bodies. When Kitty was about to blow her cover she heard a slight pop near her. Kitty jumped out of the way, phasing into the bush.

"Like what the hell was that?" Kitty grimaced. She got up rubbing dirt off her trench coat. "This is like, a new coat darn it…." Kitty fumed.

Kitty looked around the mall but no one else seemed to hear the small boom. Kitty frowned, it sounded like one of those small Chinese fire crackers they sold during New Year's. Maybe they sold them early this year: a kid around the mall playing with them? She looked around her and found Bobby and Rogue ahead. She continued jumping from bush to bush as they headed their way to the restaurant. Kitty frowned.

"Like, now what? I can't just go in there…" Kitty looked around trying to find a vantage point.

She looked up at a tree. Perfect, she really was a genius. Kitty held her breath. She was not a good climber, but it was best to practice her air walking. Kitty took one shaky step up, trying to think of herself just lighter than air. She moved the other leg forward, to see herself just inches off the ground.

She continued to climb up to the tree, until she was able to reach a tree branch. She flipped herself over and laid belly down.

"Oh my god, they having a sale at Freedom?" Kitty gasped.

Wait, was she doing up here?

Oh, yeah...Rogue and Bobby's date.

Kitty took out her binoculars and pointed them to the Thai restaurant. Kitty sighed, happy that Bobby got the outside seats. He did one right romantic move. It was boring at first as the two seemed to talk and while they order was getting ready. Bobby didn't seem to be doing too bad.

Kitty squinted as she saw Bobby blush. She looked over a Rogue who was scarfing her food down. Like didn't that girl breath. Kitty was in disgust and horror. She never seen Rogue eat her food like that. I am like the best cook in the mansion too. What best friend you are! I'm revoking your card!

Kitty wished she could shoot laser from her eyes like Scott. Then she like fry Rogue's hair or something. That would teach her to avoid her cooking. She guided her attention back to Bobby who seemed in deep thought. His eyes seemed to be focused at one area. Kitty followed his line of sight and-

Ew.

Ew, ew

Omg, Bobby I thought you were more mature than that.

Bobby cleared his throat and Rogue seemed to notice. Like, girl go punch the guy out or something. He was totally checking you out.

Rogue and Bobby continued to have a conversation until Rogue gave him her big puppy dog eyes. Kitty watched as Bobby adjusted his pants.

Okay, just ew.

"Oh my god, Bobby! You like totally hounding on my best friend!" Kitty yelled, furious.

Kitty scrunched up a pamphlet she got when she entered the mall. She was about to aim the ball straight to Bobby's head until she heard rustling from the tree. Kitty cursed, as she went plummeting to the floor. She held her breath and hoped for no impact. She hovered a few inches from the floor and she sighed only to slam against the floor a second later.

"Ouch…" Kitty said removing a twig from her hair. "I need to work on that." Kitty rubbed her head and looked at the branch that fell next to her.

The branched didn't seem to fracture from someone's weight. It was a clean cut. Kitty picked up the branch and saw that it had slight scorch marks on the outside. It wasn't burned off, but more like sliced by a hot butter knife. Kitty frowned, who would be able to do that?

She thought that maybe one of the people from the mansion was following her. Kitty tried to think of all the mansions occupants. No one could have really done this. Sunspot or Magma would have set the whole tree on fire if they tried. This was way too precise.

Kitty got up rubbing her sore butt. Someone was stopping her from spy-, helping out Rogue's and Bobby's date. The only thing Kitty didn't get was why? Kitty looked up at the tree. Her eyes scanned the tree top hoping to see her assailant. Kitty saw no one, no one at all. Everyone in the mall seemed normal sighed, she would think about that later. She frowned, spying was hard work.

There was a Freedom sale right?

Kitty sighed pulling the last bit of twigs from her hair. Kitty dropped her Freedom bags on the floor as she looked at Bobby. Bobby looked at the stairs Rogue just walked up to. Kitty couldn't help but see him as a puppy. A poor wet, love sick puppy. The one they cast in those ASPCA commercials. She could just hear 'In the Arms of an Angel' playing in the background.

She walked over to Bobby and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"It's like, about time." Kitty gloated.

Bobby looked at Kitty in shock. "I um…don't know what..you'r-"Bobby mumbled.

"Cut it out, like I already know. I mean the whole mansion knows." Kitty nodded "It's like hot gossip."

"What is?" Bobby rubbed his neck.

"You like Rogue!" Kitty shouted and Bobby quickly covered her mouth.

"Kitty, like calm down." Bobby sighed letting go off her mouth. "How…how did you know?" Bobby rubbed his neck in frustration. He just figured out his feelings minutes ago. How the heck was this common knowledge?

Kitty squealed jumping up and down. "Like, it so obvious the way you look at her! I mean how can I be your best friend if I didn't notice?" Kitty shook her finger.

Bobby bit his lip and looked at the stairs Rogue went up just a moment ago. "Then do you know how she feels about me?"

Kitty bit her tongue. Oh, boy. Now that was a loaded question. Kitty was sure that Rogue still had feelings for Scott until two years ago. For a while she thought maybe Rogue had a thing for that bad boy Gambit for a while. Even if a sentence with his name in it began and ended with a long stream of curses that would make a sailor blush. Then when the whole Scott incident happened, Rogue was right beside Scott almost every day.

Rogue never once looked Bobby's way.

Even when he was there comforting her.

"Well…." Kitty held her hands behind her back. She looked at Bobby who looked slightly dejected. Girls were never hard for him, Jubilee and Amara showed him immediate interest. Rogue wasn't the type of bee that was lured in by honey.

Kitty wasn't sure exactly what she was lured by.

"I can't discuss my other best friend's feelings. It's like against the best friend code, you know?" Kitty gave a nervous laugh. "Now we like need a plan to get you guys dating."

Bobby frowned "I don't-"

"Shush! I'm like thinking here." Kitty rubbed her chin.

Kitty tried to think back at all of the guys Rogue seemed to be interested in. Kitty could only think of Scott and Gambit. Scott was play them by the book type of guy. He however had a mutation that Rogue can relate too. One of your senses being completely fatal to another human being. Then there is Gambit, he was so not Scott. He was bad boy from Louisiana, who apparently sort of got along with Rogue because they were both from the South and had been used. Kitty looked at Bobby.

Bobby was from Boston, and looked like the poster child for America during War World I. He had as much depth to him as a kiddy pool.

Then Kitty had a stroke of pure genius. Seriously, this might work.

Kitty jumped up." I got it!"

"Oh boy." Bobby frowned.

Kitty grabbed Bobby's arm and started pulling him up the long staircase "Rogue has the Road to less emo, you are going to have Road to Rogue's perfect man." Kitty smiled

Bobby shook his head. This sounded like a bad idea. An extremely bad idea. But this was Rogue, and no one knew Rogue better than Kitty. Nothing can go wrong, right?

Author note: Poor Bobby, that helpless fool. -shakes head- Who is Kitty's assailant? I think I made it pretty obvious this time around who it is. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. The reigns will be handed back to Rogue for the next chapter. It be more action packed, but I am still in the middle of writing it. I am so having bad writer's block when it comes to the next chapter. Hope that I get it done before finals.

I really like to hear your guys thoughts! How do you like the story? Is there anything I need to approve on? Is there any inconsistencies? Feel free to put them on the review section. Also happy Gobble-Gobble Day!