The mystery of Dear Johnny's death, lead us to the one place, we wished we never had to go to.
Rogue rolled her eyes and rang the doorbell. The white haired lady from the café opened the door.
"We need help." Wanda stated. Storm looked at her.
"I don't know boys; I'm a little blue today." The girls looked at Jean who held the money box thing.
"Go on," Kitty urged. "Give it to her." Jean sighed.
"Maybe this will cheer you up." Jean said bitterly. She reached in and handed Storm 10 bucks. Storm grabbed it casually. She looked at them before stepping inside and walking away.
"Is that an invitation?" Kitty asked. Wanda and Rogue sighed before walking in.
"We need to speak to someone."
"I know."
"Really? I couldn't guess."
"There is a strong spiritual presence here with us."
"Really? 10 bucks sure couldn't say."
"Silence..." Storm closed her eyes. "Now who is it you want to speak to?"
"Dear Johnny."
"Oh yeah, that was some great move." Jean muttered bitterly once more.
"Shut up." Rogue growled as she walked beside her bike.
"Oh no, I will shut up. Once I tell you that we lost 10 BUCKS FOR NOTHING!" Jean screamed.
"SHE SAID SHUT UP!" Kitty shrieked. Jean huffed and started to mutter incoherently behind them.
"At least we got a clue." Wanda said darkly.
"And what was that?" Jean growled behind them.
"He was murdered."
"He said we could visit." Jean said as she put the phone back on.
"Great. Now we can just ask him about Dear Johnny and get kicked out again!" Kitty huffed.
"No. Uncle Charles is nice. He wouldn't kick you out if that was the last thing he could—"
"EEEK!" Kitty squealed as something dashed past her. They looked behind them to see Jamie lagging along at his bike, huffing and puffing.
"Hey Jamie, where's the fire?" Rogue asked.
"The soccer field. Softball game!" He puffed and kept his pace.
"Should we go?" Rogue asked.
"It's going to be all boys!" Jean whined.
"So what are we waiting for?" Kitty grinned.
The girls watched as each boy hit and got out or had a home run. Rogue watched with boredom as Kitty watch in interest. The boys mind you. Wanda looked at Rogue and caught her eye. Wanda smirked and nodded towards the game. Rogue understood. With a smirk in place she jumped off the wall and swayed her hips to the first base.
Remy watched from the distance as Rogue swayed her hips and smirked.
"Hey guys!" Remy shouted. "Move in! Looks like we got company." The boys laughed and moved closer as Rogue put her hands on her hips and glared at Remy.
"Give it up. Girls can't play softball." A voice behind her said. Rogue spun around.
"What?" She growled.
"I said. Girls can't play SOFTBALL." Lance said on his spot on the wall. Rogue glared at him and stalked towards him.
"What's she doing?" Scott whispered as Rogue got into Lance's face. Before he could do anything, she delivered a punch to his face.
"FIIIIIGGGHHHHTTT!" Fred shouted. Rogue grabbed Lance by the collar and threw him to the floor.
"Rogue wait!" Kitty shrieked. Rogue in response put Lance in a head lock while shouting threats at him. Wanda pushed through the crowd that had made a circle around them, and pried Rogue off Lance. Well, tried to.
"I'm going to hit you where it hurts until it bleeds and make you suffer so bad you wished you were getting hit by a wrestling pro!" Rogue screamed.
"Rogue get off him!"
"Come on Rogue, remember what your mother said!" Kitty shouted pulling Rogue off. Rogue's eye flared and she stilled but didn't let go of Lance.
"Get her off me!" Lance choked. Rogue glared at him before releasing him.
"This isn't finished." She growled. Lance coughed and glared back.
"Rogue! your hair." Jean stated while combing her hair.
"It's too bad your mother taught you." Lance growled. "You'll grow up just like them. Bitches."
Rogue growled. Wanda cracked her knuckles. Jean eyes flared. Kitty hissed.
"Oh you're going to get it." They said in unison. A few boys stepped back. And as one, the girls pounced.
That night at Rogue's House-
Rogue entered the house and nodded at her dad who was lounging in his couch. He grunted a response.
"Hey Rogue, anything I missed from the softball game?" Evan asked coming out from the kitchen.
"Not much Spikey, but you missed a helluva fight." Evans mouth dropped at the sight of Rogue.
"Ya might wanna close that mouth if you don't want to catch some flies." Evan blinked before responding.
"What the hell happened to you?"
"Softball game."
"Dammit, I knew I shouldn't have left."
Kitty's House -
"Hey Kitty." Kitty turned from the movie and smiled at Wanda who was climbing up the tree.
"Hey." Wanda jumped onto the roof. She stumbled and fell onto her knees.
"Shhh, I don't want them to know I'm up here." Kitty said before patting the seat next to her.
"Why aren't you down there?" Wanda asked as she sat next to her and got comfortable in the pillows and blankets Kitty brought.
"Too much people. Plus the movie's good." Kitty said as she turned her head to the big screen.
This way Kitty's way of enjoying her time when her parents came over. She would climb the roof, bring pillows and blankets, popcorn and watch the drive-through movie that was playing every single night.
"Popcorn?" She asked.
"Thanks."
"Wanna go down the tree-house?"
Meanwhile -
Rogue threw the ball in front of her and caught it as it bounced off the wall.
"KURT! GIVE IT TO ME!" Her cousin shrieked inside the house.
"No way!" Her idiot of a brother replied. Rogue sighed. One day-
"Seems like a movie's playing in your house." A voice said behind her. Rogue sighed.
"Hey Remy." Remy moved and sat down next to her.
"What's up?"
"Instead of the sky? The stars." She said sarcastically. Remy chuckled.
"Bad mood?" He said looked up.
"What made you guess?" Remy looked at her. Rogue felt his stare and turned. "What?"
"Nothing..." he breathed. Rogue could swear she could smell spices and cigars. Though that could be her imagination.
She didn't realize it and he didn't know it, until their lips met.
"Hey Kitty?" Wanda said as she stared out the window.
"What?" Kitty said as she inspected the house.
"Do you hate your parents?" Kitty blinked. The question came out of nowhere, she pondered for her answer.
"I guess. I don't know my parents much, you know that." Kitty said as she stood next to her.
"Yeah, but do you hate them for that?" Kitty paused.
"I could call them idiots. After all, they weren't there for me all the time. But they still bought me stuff and fed me. And I'm fine with that."
"I guess."
"Why? What's wrong?" Wanda paused. Could she trust her? She was her friend. Well...
"My parents broke up." She whispered.
Rogue eyes widened and she pushed him away. She broke off with a gasp. Remy stared at her from his position on the floor.
"Um..." He started. Rogue glared at him.
"You tell anyone about this, especially your crew; you're going to wish you never lived."
"Hehehehehe," Remy started nervously. "No hard feelings?" Rogue stared at him and rolled her eyes.
"Course not." She said before she pounced on him.
Kitty smiled in pity as rain started to pelt down outside.
"Parents suck don't they?" Wanda chuckled humorlessly and looked away. Kitty paused before taking off her necklace. Wanda looked back at her.
"What are you doing?" She asked as Kitty bit into her long necklace. "That's your favorite accessory." Kitty then procceded to snap the necklace in half.
"Here," she said as she handed Wanda the other half. "You can have it." Wanda smiled before grabbing it.
"Thanks." She whispered. Kitty held her pinky out.
"Best friends?" Wanda stared at her pinky before hooking with Kitty's.
"Best friends." They smiled at each other before looking outside.
"We better go." Kitty stated as she stood.
Josephine: Well I finally got that finished! Geez, I did this chapter for more than a month. Geez, I hate this chappy. - Hehehhehe, Review! Yeah...