When I got up to my room I saw a note taped to the door that said "Jason" on it. I started to read it:

Jason I can't believe you! You promised you wouldn't risk your life anymore but you did anyway. How stupid and self-centered can you get? You can get hurt now, you can die! I can't stay in a relationship with you if you're going to keep this up. I hate worrying about you and if you're powerless then I'm going to worry a million times worse and I can't handle that. Sorry Jason, but it's over.

I re-read it over, and over hoping that somehow I would find something saying that she didn't mean it or that the words on the note would change but as reality would have it: the note remained the same. Kitty had broken up with me. And in a note nonetheless. She didn't even say anything to me. I needed to give her my side of the story. It was only 10 so she was probrably still awake. I walked down the hall and knocked her door.

"What do you want?" Kitty asked in a rude tone when she saw it was me.

"Please just let me explain-" I started.

"There's nothing for you to explain," Kitty started to close the door.

I stopped her, "There is. I need to help people, you know how I am. I know that I can't go around fighting supervillians like Venom but I can still help people and I'm gonna. You won't have to worry about me, I know my limitations, I have the Young Avengers to back me up. I'll be fine."

"You're right," Kitty started. I was relieved to hear this. "I won't have to worry about you because our relationship is over." And my heart sank. Kitty walked right through me, literally.

"Kitty you're the one being selfish now. Not me," I followed her.

"I have every right to be selfish about this. You didn't take me into consideration when you decided to do this. You didn't try explaining it to me or anything! You just did it! Even when you promised that you wouldn't!" Kitty yelled at me tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Kitty... I'm sorry. It's just... you know I have to do this," I tried to tell Kitty.

"That's a load of crap. You don't HAVE TO do anything now. You're just like the people you protected now," Kitty argued. "Just don't talk to me anymore. We're over. You're not making this any easier." Kitty walked off wiping her eyes.
I wanted to go after her but I just stood there, frozen in what had just happened. Then I remembered what Mary Jane told me. "Kitty doesn't love me," I thought to myself. I wanted to hope it was just a bad dream but I knew this was reality. I moved lifelessly back to my room and dropped dead on my bed. I wasn't exactly asleep, more like I was resting and biding my time until 6.

"Kitty broke up with me last night," I told Kate while we walked to the gym.
"Oh, wow, umm... I'm sorry. You two were really good for each other," Kate gave her condolences.
"Yeah... but it isn't like there's anything I can do about it," I sighed. "She won't let me talk to her."
1 week later... Kate had helped me get into better shape, not that I wasn't fit, I just wasn't used to being a human yet. So Kate helped me just get used to working out for a few days then she started to teach me kickboxing.
"Come on Jason, you can do better than that," Kate said as she blocked one of my kicks.
I kicked at her again but she blocked it again.
"Get angry Jason. Hit me with everything you've got," Kate instructed. Before I got a chance to react Kate hit me, knocking me over. "Come on Jason. Are you really this pathetic? No wonder Kitty broke up with you."
I got angry, and I kicked Kate, hard and fast. She fell to the floor. "Kate, oh sorry. I didn't mean to hit you that hard, I just-" I helped Kate get up.
"No, no it's fine. I sorta desereved it, I went a little too far. But that's the idea, you've got to give all your hits your all," Kate explained.

Another week later... I'd finally gotten used to not having powers. I'd gotten used to using webshooters and kickboxing on enemies now and I spent most of my crimefighting with the Young Avengers, just to be safe. Things would have been just fine if I didn't have to see Kitty around the mansion.
"I feel bad for Jason," Cassie said to Kate as they walked down a busy street in the city.
"Why? It isn't like anyone in his family died... recently," Kate replied.
"No, but he's gonna have trouble getting over that girl. He sees her like half the day," Cassie explained.
"He seems fine if you ask me," Kate responded.
"Seems. When you get down to it Jason's never really gonna get over it unless he dates another girl," Cassie went on.
"Lemme guess. You wanna go out with him to 'help him get over Kitty'?" Kate predicted.
"Bingo," Cassie clarified.
"You can't go out with Jason," Kate said.
"Why?" Cassie persisted.
"Because he... you can't," Kate couldn't think of an excuse.
"See, you can't even think up an excuse," Cassie pointed out. "And we're passing by the comic shop he works at. I'm gonna go ask him out," Cassie ran off.
"Cassie!" Kate ran after her.

It was a pretty slow day at the comic shop today. Not too many people came in, no one had came in for an hour so I was sorta bored. I was reading some of the comics that were laying around to pass time. Then Cassie ran in, and Kate ran in.
"Jason!" they both yelled at the same time.
They started to talk at the same time and I could only make out a few words, "Jason... movie... no... her... but... no"
"Umm... could you guys talk one at a time so I can understand you two?" I asked pretty clueless on what they were trying to tell me.
"I was asking you if you'd want to go to the movies with me later on," Cassie said.
"Don't," Kate interrupted suddenly.
I looked at her, "Why?"
"Oh, umm... I didn't mean it like that, Cassie just forgot that she said she was going to the same movie with me tommorow," Kate gave Cassie a sort of rude look.
"Then just come tonight with me and Jason," Cassie gave Kate the same look.
"Okay then..." I simply said.
"Okay. Meet me at my house at 8," Cassie told me before she and Kate left bickering. I kinda just sat there wondering what that was about. I knew Cassie liked me and probably wanted a date but Kate was just acting out of character. She couldn't like me too, could she? Either way I'd find out eventually.

8PM "Jason! You came!" Cassie practiclly jumped into my arms when she opened the door.
"Of course I did," I regained my balance.
"Kate's not here yet," she told me.
"When's the movie start?" I asked.
"8:30, Kate said she'd catch up with us there. She got held up somewhere," Cassie closed the door behind her and we started walking down the street.

Throughout the movie Cassie kept leaning her head on my shoulder. It felt a little weird, letting a girl close to me again. Part of me wasn't exactly ready for a relationship yet but at the same time I didn't want to push Cassie away so I just let her be. Before we'd sat down Cassie and Kate had an arguement about our seating arrangement, in the end I ended up in the middle of the 2 so they wouldn't bicker. At this point I honestly did not want to try figuring them out.
After the movie Cassie and Kate weren't arguing anymore. While we were on our way to go get something to eat we heard alarms and saw that a nearby bank was being robbed. I looked to Kate and Cassie who nodded at me. We went into an alley and started to pull off our civillian clothes and put on our superhero costumes. Kate pulled a small crossbow out of her purse and a few small arrows.
"When'd you get that?" I asked.
"After school," she replied. "I've been wanting to try it out."
The 3 of us ran into the bank to stop the robbery. There were 5 gunmen. Hawkeye shot an arrow out of her crossbow at one gunman and I shot a webline at one of them to disarm them. We made sure to disarm the ones with guns, this left the other 2 who didn't but now we were targets to them. They started to target at us with their machine guns. I knocked over a table and pushed Hawkeye and myself behind it and Stature shrunk right as they began to fire.
"What do we do now?" I asked.
"We have to stop them before they either get through the table or hurt someone," Hawkeye instructed.
"Shoot me at them," Stature suggested.
"What?" Hawkeye and I asked at the same time.
"I'll get on an arrow and you can shoot me at one of them then I'll knock out the other real fast. They'll all be disarmed so it won't take too much work," Stature explained.
Hawkeye thought it over before lowering her crossbow to Stature and saying "hop on".
Hawkeye waited until she didn't hear any gunshots and quickly shot Stature at one of the guys but she missed and the arrow stuck into the wall. The robbers mearly ignored it so Stature used her opportunity, and grew as large as she could inside the bank and kicked the crooks aside, knocking them out.
I used my webbing to tie up the crooks and then the 3 of us left. Job done.