ShadowCat And The X-Men (Book 1)

Chapter 17

A long time passed and Anne settled down very well.

She is really enjoyable to have around.

We hit it off the moment she entered the institute, that's why professor suggested we may share the same room.

We totally agreed on it, my room felt empty anyways.

Anne requested us to call her Rogue from now on.

It was kind of hard at the beginning to get used to the new name, but it was her decision and we respected it.

Rogue and I were now hanging out at school, walking down the hallway heading for our lockers.

"You read the novel I lent you?" She asked as we walking.

"Yeah, I loved the ending, that she actually turned into a werewolf herself!" I said and she nodded.

"I loved that part, too, I was looking for Kurt, the previous period, to ask him if he would like me to lend it to him next, but I couldn't find him," she said kind of disappointed .

"Oh, I was with him. He left because he had a problem with his watch, if you know what I mean," I said referring to his image inducer.

Before Rogue could respond, I accidentally bumped into someone, and all my books crushed to the floor.
I looked up at the person.

It was Jason from my drama class.

"Oh, I am sorry," I apologized and kneeled down to pick up my books and the posters that had fallen off his hands when we crushed.

"It's alright, let me help," he said and bent down picking up some of my books and his posters.

We finally got up with our stuff settled.

"Thank you," I said with a ghost smile.

"You're welcome!" he said and stood there, he was staring at me and I looked at Rogue, making an expression, like what do I do?

But she only shrugged.

"I am putting up posters for the new school play, The Dracula, we need girls who can sing and dance and I was thinking, that you should totally try out," he said taking me by surprise.

"I don't know," I answered, but really, I don't think I want to go back on stage, my show days were over.

"Oh, come on Kathryn, it would be a shame if a beautiful girl like you didn't show up on stage," he said flattering me, I blushed a bit.

"I'll think about it," I said and he nodded finally walking away.

"So, are you gonna do it?" Rogue asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh no, no, I am not " I said not looking at her.

"I knew it!" She said smirking and I looked at her taken aback.

"Excuse me?" I said in confusion.

"You can't do it," she said getting close to my face challenging me.

"What do you mean?" I spoke more aggressively now.

"I am saying that you don't want to try out because you can't dance or sing like Jason asked you to, and that's why you denied his proposal," she said still smirking.

"May I remind you that I worked as an acrobat my whole life?" I said, feeling sudden confidence taking over me.

Well, I wasn't really an actual acrobat I was part of the show once or twice, but that's it .