Thank you everyone for your reviews, and sorry about the humongous delay in my update, it's exam result time and I've been a bit preoccupied. Plus I've been trying to think about where exactly I'm going with this story, and I've got to say that I have absolutely no idea.
A special dedication to ChereBelleRogue who gave me a much needed kick up the derriere to get the story moving again. Thanks. :-)
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She had just walked back into the room and placed the roses in the vase when Kitty walked in and saw the rose in her room mates hands. "Like, oh my god Rogue! Who are they from?" She squeled, running over to her, inspecting the flowers for a card of some kind.
Rogue just shrugged calmly, as she finished putting them in the glass. "Ah don't know Kit. Ah just found them lying on mah bed when ah walked in." She told her. She glanced over to Kitty's bed and smirked. "Although from the looks of things, you've got your own admirer there sugah." SHe told her, nodding in the direction of her bed.
Kitty turned to look where she was indicating, and saw a bouqet of all different pink and pale purple flowers. Kitty's face split into a huge grin and she clutched the flowers to her. "Oh my god, this is like, so sweet." She gushed as she spun around in the room, clutching the flowers.
Rogue chuckled. "So Kit, who you get them there flowers off?" Rogue asked, although she had a good idea already.
"Er, lets see. Oh, here's a card. It says: 'Dear Kitty, you looked beautiful in your dress last night, and I wanted to thank you for dancing with me all night. You are a very good dancer, and I hope that you wouldn't object to meeting up with me again before you leave town.' Aww, that's, like, so sweet." She gushed.
"Wow, KitKat. Looks like we should have been keeping our eyes on you. What's all this about?" She asked her, teasing her friend.
Kity just blushed and mumbled something before running to the bathroom to find another glass to put her flowers in, leaving Rogue chuckling as she watched her. Neither of them noticing the pair of gray eyes that watched the pair.
When she walked back into the room, Rogue was sat on her bed, waiting patiently for Kitty so that she could find out who this guy was, so that she could check him out with the Cajun swamp rat when he came to pick her up in half an hour. "So?" Rogue asked, watching her expectantly from her bed as Kitty blushed and turned the flowers this way and that on her nightstand.
"What are you, like, talking about Rogue?" Kitty asked, feigning innocence.
Rogue grinned, enjoying the way that Kitty was blushing and trying so hard to avoid talking about this. However Rogue was far too used to this kind of thing. "I think you know KitKat, so I suggest you come and sit here and tell me all about what you were up to last night whilst our eyes were elsewhere." She suggested.
Kitty looked over at her friend and roomate and knew from the look on her face that she wasn't going to be able to get out of this conversation, at least, not with Rogue. With a sigh, she slumped down onto the bed, next to Rogue and fiddled with her hands nervously. "Well, do you remember me pointing out that guy as we were walking to the table? You know, the tall one with the blonde hair, the blue eyes?" Kitty reminded her.
"The pretty one?" Rogue checked, remembering the way Kitty had been pointing out all the pretty boys. She smirked slightly at the eye roll she received from that one but managed to keep Kitty from seeing.
"Yes, the pretty one. Well, after the first dance, he came and asked me to dance with him. He was really sweet and everything, and whilst we danced we started talking." She explained a happy grin on her face. "He's amazing Rogue, he writes poetry in his spare time, loves all kinds of music, mostly going for songs instead of groups, but said that Nickelback are really good to listen to with some of the stuff he's seen." Kitty told her, before blushing slightly. "And I could just get sooo lost looking into his eyes." She added.
Rogue chuckled at her friends enthusiasm, pleased that this guy liked her and she liked him, although she couldn't deny that she was a little worried about what would happen when the time came for them to leave to go back to New York. She was also more determined than ever to check this guy out with Remy so that she could make sure he wouldn't break her heart. 'Lord knows, the poor girls been through enough of that already what with that idiot Lance.' She thought to herself with a mental sigh. "So, does Mr Blue Eyes have a name or what?" Rogue asked him with a smile.
"His name's Carlo." Kitty told her with a huge grin. "Isn't that a beautiful name. I love the way it sounds. Carlo." She stated, smiling as she repeated it.
"Very snappy." Rogue nodded, mock seriously.
Kitty caught the tone and giggle, before shoving Rogue slightly and grabbing a pillow to whack her with.
Not going to stand for that, Rogue grabbed the other pillow on the bed and began sotting Kitty wih it, the pair laughing as they continued to hit each other, especially when Kitty had opened her mouth to say something to Rogue only to have it filled with pillow, causing the pair to dissolve into girlish giggles so badly that there were tears streaming down their cheeks and they didn't have the strength left in them to whack.
Outside of the room, the owner of a pair of grey eyes felt a smirk cover his face. He'd found her. After all this time he had found her. 'Boss is going to be very pleased.' He thought to himself, as he watched the pillow fight in the room and saw Rogue's eyes go to the flowers on her bedside table. He's seen her reading the card, and was pleased that he had gone into the room before she'd entered so that he knew who had sent them.
As the pair sat up on the bed, he saw the younger, brunette girl come towards the window, and ducked underneath so that he wouldn't be seen.
When Kitty opened the window he was able to clearly hear what was being said inside. "Big mistake Roisin. You should know better than that." He whispered to himself.
"So, you're going shopping wih Remy?" Kitty stated, and he knew just from her tone of voice that there was a smirk on her face. 'Guess this Remy guy is a crush or something.
"Yeah, ah broke Tante's glass, ah have to buy her a new one, it's only polite. If ah get to give him a few heart attacks whilst ah'm at it, so much the better." Rogue shrugged, trying to be nonchalant.
"Sure, more like buy the first glass you see then spend the rest of the night making out somewhere." Kitty told her, squealing when Rogue threw a pillow at her.
"Ah don't know what yah mean Kit." Rogue retorted, with a secret smirk. She glanced at the clock and sighed. "Do yah think this'll be ok to go in, or should ah change?" She asked her.
"You look great Rogue, besides, if you really want to convince him that this shopping trip isn't a big deal then you shouldn't change. It'll just make him think that you see it as something more than a shopping trip." Kitty told her.
"Yah right. Ah'll stay in this, although ah think ah'll change the shoes. Flats are easier for shopping and running, so ah can lose him in the mall." She chuckled, easily able to imagine the look on his face when she disappeared.
Kitty laughed. "Are you serious? There's no way Remy's going to let you out of his sight. You won't get further than 3 feet before he's caught up with you." Kitty told her matter of factly.
"True. But on a more serious topic, how do you think weh're going to sell the rehearsal to the others tomorrow?" Rogue asked her.
"What do you mean?" Kitty asked, curiously.
"Well, weh told Marianne that we'd be in her show right?" Rogue explained, wating for Kitty's nod. "Well, weh can't just go down to breakfast tomorrow and tell the others 'weh're in a dance show so weh've got rehearsal's all day so weh can't hand with yah.' For starters can yah imagine the look on Logan's face?" Rogue told her, both girls shuddering slightly, easily able to imagine the over-reaction of the older man.
"Well ,we could, like, say that we want to explore?" Kitty reasoned.
"Not unless weh want Jean and Scott to invite themselves along." Rogue pointed out. "We can't say dance class either, no matter what type somone'll want to come with us." She added with a slight sigh.
"Oh, I, like, see what you mean." There was a moment's silence as both girls tried to come up with something that would get them out of having to spend the day with the others and also without anyone wanting to tag along. "Well, what about saying MercY invited you to spend the day with her, and you're taking me so that you're not on your own?" Kitty suggestd.
Rogue thought about it for a minute. "Yah know that might just work." Rogue realised. "Nice one Kit." Rogue told her, high fiving her. "Ah'll talk to Remy and see if he can arrange her to cover for cover for us or somethin'." She promised her.
"Ok, well, you'd, like, better get down to the lobby. Remy'll be her any minute and you cna gurantee that Logan and Scott will be down there, like interrogating him or something totally bogus like that." Kitty told her.
"Shoot, yah're right. Ah'd better go. Yah be alright?" Rogue checked as she stood, grabbing her purse off the bed.
"We'll be fine Rogue, Kurt and I are going to see that filme remember?" Kitty assured her.
"Ok, well, enjoy, and ah'll see yah later." Rogue told her, waving as she walked out of the room, quickly checking her purse to make sure she'd got the key with her.
"Same to you, just don't deny your attraction too much Rogue. Why bother?" Kitty chuckled at the face Rogue pulled as she closed the door.
Outside the window, grey eyes watched Rogue close the door, before dropping down from his spot underneath the window onto the fire escape and quickly, running round to the front of the building so that he could see her walk out with this Remy guy.
Back inside, Rogue reached the Lobby to find Remy already stood there, a rather amused expression on his face as Logan and Scott stood there, lecturing him about the do's and don't's for this shopping trip. She caught his eye as she came down the stairs and he waggled his eyebrows at her, making her chuckle.
Rogue fought back the blush threatening to cover her face at the way Remy was watching her, his eyes never leaving her as she got closer. He seemed to be the only one who'd noticed her presence though as Scott and Logan were still continuing with their sermon. "And if we find that you've laid a single finger on her bub, you're cajun shishkebabs." Logan growled at him.
Clearing her throat, Rogue raised an eyebrow as the pair turned to look at her, not even having the decency to look sheepish about having been caught lecturing Remy. "If yah've quite finished, weh'll be leaving now." She stated, walking past them and grabbing Remy's arm, pulling him with her outside.
"So, ma cherie, where are we goin'?" He asked her with a smirk as he stepped forward and held open the car door for her, bowing slightly as she walked forward and slid inside, chuckling at him.
Remy shut the door behind her and quickly moved round to the drivers side and got in behind the wheel, the car roaring to life as he waited to be told where he was going. "Ah thought the mall'd be a good place to start." She shrugged, smiling at him. "What happened to yah bike anyway?" She asked as Remy pulled away from his parking spot and weaved his way expertly through the traffic.
"Remy borrowed Henri's car. He 'as too many anyway. He won' even know it's gone." He assured her with a smirk, making Rogue laugh. He was glad that he could do that, and amazed by how beautiful it was.
He had kept his eyes trained on the front entrance to the hotel, knowing that any minute know she would be walking out he here with some guy. He was getting impatient. He wanted to get back so he could report the good news to his boss and get some rest. There was going to be a huge reward in this for him and he couldn't wait to see it. "Bingo." He breathed, as Rogue walked out with Remy. He chuckled when he saw the guy. "Well, well, well. The Prince of Thieves Remy LeBeau." He shook his head. "She made this way too easy."
With a quiet chuckle, he turned and slipped into the darkness, keeping to the shadows as he hurried back to deliver his news, his targets blissfully unaware that he was watching them. He knew that if either of them had seen him they would have recognised him, especially Rogue. Little did he know what lay in store for them.