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8:27 am

Bayville Sunstone Mall

Lance parked the jeep and dropped the girls off at the Mall entrance. They all thanked him for the ride one last time and piled out of the vehicle. He watched them enter the building and waved a goodbye to Kitty when she looked back his way before following the other girls indoors. He wondered if that smile was for him, or just because he had done something nice for them. He sat there staring at the steering wheel, lost in his hopeful daydream.

--Buzz--

The alarm on his watch went off. ( 8:30)

‘Guess I should start my day.’ Lance said to himself turning the ignition on and pulling out of the parking lot. He had a lot planned for the day that he needed to get started on. He did not have time to daydream about Kitty, no matter how much he wanted to.

8:48 am

The Brotherhood Boarding House

--Knock, Knock, Knock--

“Uh…Hello.” Jamie beamed up as the door opened quickly, a bit nervous. Pietro looked around and was about to head back indoors when he looked down at the waving boy and blinked in confusion. Pietro just stood in the door way and leaned forward his arms resting on the doorframe, keeping him from falling.

“Who are you kid?” he asked quickly.

“I’m Jamie, I’m with the X-men.” he smiled up at Pietro. Pietro grinned, fighting back the urge to laugh hysterically.

“Heh, really, and what might a pint sized x-geek like you want here?” He asked the boy, his mind trying to decide if he wanted to shut the door in the kid’s face and continue watching TV with Todd and Fred or hear the kid out. The Television was looking better every half-second. Even if the cable was out.

“I’m suppose to ask you if you want to be apart of one of our top secret missions.” Jamie said trying to remember to say everything the way the others had told him. He didn’t want to mess this up.

“Secret mission? What kind of secret mission?-And what-makes you think-we’d-even-want to-help-you-Geeks?” Pietro asked, this was just barely keeping his attention, he was growing more and more antsy as the seconds passed on. He was close to slamming the door in the kid’s face.

“Well it does effect all of you, so it is only fair we include you in the planes, though we can do it on our own.” Jamie responded the best way he could, he couldn’t remember everything the others had told him, he was feeling really unsure of himself, but he wasn’t going to give up. He liked Kitty, she was always nice to him and didn’t treat him like a nuisance like the others. She was kinda like a big sister to him.

“So why bother asking us?” Pietro responded almost immediately after Jamie was done with his half-baked explanation, and then another question popped into the speed demons’ head, “ What-exactly-are-you-guys-doing-and-who-the-hell-is-doing-it?”

Jamie blinked, he wasn’t used to Pietros speed talk.

“Uh…Wha..” he started to ask but Pietro cut him off.

“What exactly are you doing and who’s doing it?” Pietro sighed to himself, he hated repeating himself, especially slowing down to do it.

“Oh, all of us kids except Jean cuz she’s out at a soccer practice and Scott, cuz he wouldn’t like it and he’d just try and stop us.” Jamie said with a smile, he knew the answer to that one. Suddenly a devilish grin formed on Pietro’s face, the kid had gained his full interest.

“Well I’m all ears-What’s the mission?”

“To get Kitty and Lance together!” Jamie jumped when he said it, excited that he had gotten Pietro’s interest, he wasn’t failing everyone. He crossed his fingers behind his back hopefully.

There was an odd second of still silence between them as Pietro absorbed what Jamie had just said.

“Hell yes We’ll help! This is great!” Pietro ran out and picked Jamie up in a wild hug. “You have no idea how much Lance-has-been-driving-us-crazy-with-his-crush-on-Kitty-the-fact-that-he-hasn’t-acted-on-his-feelings-cuz-for-some-stupidly- psychotic-reason-he-doesn’t-think-she-feels-the-same-way-when-everyone-else-can-see-it-plain-as-daylight-that-she-does.” he rambled on in his fast speech, but Jamie understood most of it.

By this time the other X-men, who had been watching Jamie from a safe distance, were running up the driveway to the Boarding house, thinking Pietro was attacking him. Jubilee was in the lead, but she stopped as she noticed Pietro was happy, not mad. Pietro was shouting with joy and practically dancing around the lawn, Jamie was just laughing as Pietro swung him around in the air.

Pietro put Jamie down and looked at the others when he noticed them standing in the drive staring at him in disbelief.

“I’ll be right back…” he said and disappeared in his speedy way back into the house, before the others could voice their concerns or questions, he was back with Fred and Todd standing beside him looking confused.

“These guys want to help us shut Lancey boy up and get him and Kitty together- - behind Summers back.” Pietro quickly explained, adding the ending part when he saw the start of disbelieving and unsure faces his teammates were forming.

“Seriously yo?” Todd asked.

Fredd scratched his head, “..Why? …How?...” was all he said. Pietro leaned on Fred’s arm,

“They are about to explain,” he said motioning toward the x-men, he wanted to know the plan too. The sooner the better.

Sam, Bobby, Ray, Jubilee, Evan, and Jamie exchanged mischievous smiles to one another and together they took turns explaining the steps of the plans that were to unfold during the course of the day.

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“You know, I think it’s great you guys are going to help us with this.” Jubilee said to Pietro as they walked to the Institute together. Pietro grinned,

“Oh no, thank you. We have been trying to get Lance to ask her out for months.”

“Really?! But you guys tease him for liking her all the time!” Evan exclaimed, shocked that the brotherhood would actually attempt something so, so nice.

“It’s fun to pick on him yo.” Todd explained, hopping next to Evan.

“Yeah, but what isn’t fun is listening to him mope around, complain, and daydream about Kitty- It’s enough to drive a person crazy. Besides we were getting bored at the house and needed something exciting to do. Why not this?” Pietro asked the x-men, fighting back the urge to speak rapidly so they could understand him. This earned him smiles from all the new mutants, who had a taste for mischief themselves.

“You know what the best part about this plan is though?” Bobby asked everyone, rubbing his hand together and grinning broadly. Everybody stopped and looked at him, raising an eyebrow. They weren’t exactly sure if getting Kitty and Lance together should bring Bobby this much pleasure. “Scott is going to go berserk!”

Pietro smiled his devilish smile again,

“I know, believe me, I know!”

They all laughed at the thought and started walking to the Institute again.

Bayville Sunstone Mall

In the changing room

“Amara you look great! Red is definitely your color.” Kitty said smiling as she and Amara compared outfits from the doorways of their changing rooms. They were waiting on the others to appear as well. Amara mirrored Kitty’s smile,

“Thanks, I like that outfit on you too! Those Jeans look great Kitty.” The girls felt really good about the outfits they had chosen.

Kitty leaned against the door so it wouldn’t close and lock her out. She had picked out a pair of long faded fashion jeans that had copper studs down the sides of the leg and on the back pocket flaps. She had a pink tank top on with a brown cotton knit camisole and a pink butterfly pendant necklace.

Amara had on a red top with a cream leather jacket and a fun patterned skirt of dark brown, black and red circles overlapping one another on a light brown background. The skirt reached just past her knees- she hadn’t picked out shoes so she was just standing there barefoot.

Rahne came out of her room next. She had picked a navy patterned T-shirt that had a gold griffon with a shield behind it and put a gold chain link belt over it with a pair fitted khaki cargo pants and navy converse shoes.

“How do I look?” Rahne asked, this was her first time out with the girls like this and she didn’t want to be bad at this. Kitty and Amara looked her over and smiled, they didn’t see anything wrong with it.

“You look great Rahne, you should like buy the whole outfit.” Kitty suggested, Rahne looked so cute, and the outfit kept to Rahne’s personality but gave her a mature look.

“I agree with Kitty.” Amara said. The three girls all smiled at one another.

“Thanks,” Rahne blushed, “you two look nice too. I love those jeans Kitty.”

“Well I guess that means I should get them, huh. Do they really look that good?” Kitty asked giving herself another look over in the mirror. Amara and Rahne assured her she looked great.

Rogue opened her door. “Well, here Ah am.” she said rolling her eyes. She had been given cloths by the other girls to try on since she had complained the store wasn’t in her ‘taste’.

She stood in the opening of her dressing room with tight dark jeans with black boots over them that reached up just under her knees. They had a slight heal to them and where leather with three buckle straps decorating them each. She had on a long sleeve tight hugging V-neck black shirt and over it a long green and black wrap top with a leather belt on over it around her waist. She hated to admit it, but she liked the look of the cloths on her, and it was something different, which was the point of the day.

Before the other girls could respond, Tabitha opened her door and popped out with her new outfit as well. She had kept on her jeans and just grabbed some carmel brown leather boots to put on over them. She had grabbed the same long wrap top as Rogue, but hers was light blue and grey and she had a grey tank-top cami under it. She had given in to Kitty’s suggestion and had taken her hair down and put in a dark blue thick headband that matched the dark blue beaded bracelets on her wrist. A quick glance around the room and Tabitha smiled.

“Well I won’t say this is hot, but we do all look good. But Amara, we have to find you something else to wear with that top- that skirt is killing me.” she said.

“Rogue you look awesome. And see, Tabitha, you look good with the headband.” Kitty said.

“You guys look great,” Amara said then looked down at her outfit again, “So what do you suggest I wear instead?” she asked her friend.

“Something with sex appeal for starters.” Tabitha remarked. The other girls laughed as Amara blushed.

“Alright, well lets change and finish up, we do have that appointment at the salon to keep, plus Rogue’s surprise.” Kitty said walking back into her changing room and closing the door.

The other girls stared at one another and shrugged, then closed their doors to change too.

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