Note: Hi! It's been a while since I wrote the last chapter of this story. Please excuse my sloppiness but a lot of things have come up. But enough of my life-story. This is the fourth chapter of the story, and it's about to get a little romantic. I'm thinking of coming to a conclusion soon and then changed the narrator to another character from the X-Men. I promise that I will concentrate on making a good ending on this little relationship before rushing on to something else, though.

Well I hope you enjoy this part of the story of Kitty and Lance. I was listening to a lot of Alexi Murdoch while writing this story (especially "Orange Sky" and "All Of My Days") and I'm thinking you might want to do the same thing. I stole this idea from another of the other writers here on FanFiction. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of this writer's User or stories but all credits for that idea goes to this exact person. Now on to the story of Kitty and Lance.

The sun was nearly setting when I got to Reilly Forest. I'd never appreciated anything as stupid as a sunset before, but after Kitty got in to my life I was a little happier about everything.

I didn't have any idea of what I was going to say to Kitty when I found her. All I could think about was seeing her. Her smile was like a bottle of wine to an alcoholic, I was addicted. I felt closer to her than I'd ever felt to anyone in my entire life, which was actually kind of tragically, giving I'd known her for a couple of months and had only talked to her a couple of times.

I hadn't really thought about the fact that Reilly Forest was a huge forest and it could be a little difficult finding a person out here when you had know idea where to look. But apparently someone somewhere had decided to give cut me some slack, 'cause I found her after merely a couple of minutes. She was standing near a huge oak tree. She was wearing a dark-brown top and denim shorts. She wore her hair in a ponytail, and a camouflage-colored cap was placed on her head, the shade turned to the back of her haid. She was listening to her iPod and she couldn't hear me when I called: "Kitty?" I walked closer and called her once again. Still without any answer from her. Walking even closer to her I realized how perfect she really was. It was as if I wasn't just walking voluntarily towards her, but like I was being attracted to her like a magnetic south pole, to a magnetic north pole.

I walked in a way that I would define as "loudly". I didn't wish to scare her. I reached for her shoulder with great caution and touch her with as little force as possible. Something that I didn't quite expect happened.

I faced through her shoulder and fell to the ground in front of her, and felt her foot press against my neck. Apparently they taught pretty decent self-defense at Xavier's Institute.

With my face pressed against the dirt of Reilly Forest i murmured: "Hi". "Oh my God, Lance, I'm so sorry!" she nearly shrieked at me. "I thought you were someone else..." she continued. "Kitty, it's okay, nothing happened but I would appreciate it if you removed your foot from my neck", I said, or rather tried to. The pressure on my neck was increasing as Kitty got more and more nervous. "Oh, sorry", she said and blushed. She then removed her foot, and I quickly stood up.

"So, Beast said you were working on a Biology project. Care for a little help?" I asked. "Actually, I just got it covered before you got here. But thanks", Kitty said, glancing over at me. "Okay then. Are you heading home?" I asked. "Well I was, but now that you're here we could hang out?" she asked, and I realized that with the smile she added to her question, I would have done anything she wanted me to. "Sure", was all I could get across my lips. She grinned at my inability to continue speaking and then she took my hand. Reilly Forest suddenly turned into some kind of paradise. I had no desire to ever return to the realistic world where amazing girls like Kitty wouldn't even talk to guys like me. I tried to enjoy the moment, but it was hard not to concentrate on her amazing beauty.

We continued walking through Reilly Forest without saying very much. Sometimes I would glance over at her and she would smile at me without saying a word.

It might have seemed a little strange, us not talking to each other, but was as if we were communicating on a different level than the simple verbal one. It turned out Kitty actually had a goal with the enjoyable walk. After a couple of minutes she dragged towards a bunch of trees standing very close to each other. It didn't seem to be an ideal place to pass through. Nevertheless Kitty continued to walk in their direction. When we stood in front of them she must have seen my skeptical look and she decided to explain her choice of destination with actions instead of words.

I felt a strange sensation running through my body as I, apparently, entered the world of facing through solid objects which Kitty was so used to. She started dragging me towards once again, this time not just stopping in front of them, but going right through them. I knew that I was going to go straight ahead without bumping into the trees, but I still couldn't help closing my eyes.

When I opened my eyes again, I was standing in the most beautiful place, I'd ever seen in my entire life.

We were standing in front of a huge waterfall, in a paradise of green plants. Kitty turned around to face me. "So... What do you think, beautiful right?" she asked, looking almost like a student presenting her science project. "Yes", I said, and I wasn't just talking about the impressing waterfall and the plants around us. She seemed to the meaning of my ambiguous answer, because her cheeks turned slightly red. Without really considering anything at all, I reached with my right hand for her waist and pulled closer to me. I closed my eyes as my lips advanced toward hers.

RIIIIIING! The sound of Kitty's cell phone made me jump back from her. She quickly picked it up and said: "Jean, what's up, something wrong?" To my great pleasure she looked a little annoyed with Jean's decision of calling her right this moment.

"Okay, bye", Kitty said, as she hung up the phone, focusing her beautiful eyes towards my slightly embarrassed face. "Beast wanted the herbs I was gathering now. Apparently, that brilliant mind comes with a great amount of impatience". "Well we're gonna have to return to this", I said, once again, not just thinking about the surroundings. This time I wasn't sure she got it, she was to busy mumbling things. Apparently about Beast's lack of patience when it came to schoolwork.

We returned to my bike so we could ride to the Xavier Institute. I gave her my helmet and started the ignition, but she insisted I wore a helmet myself, so I had to get my spare helmet from the small trunk on the back of my relatively old bike. Kitty seemed a little scared of riding a bike. She clung to me with unnecessary power. Therefore I stayed well under the speed limit.

The sun was almost gone below the horizon as we turned into the yard. I parked my bike and left the key sitting in the ignition. I now had sudden feeling that I had reached a certain level of trust with the X-Men. We walked inside the mansion with our hands united in a grip that felt impossible to break in any way.