X-Men Evolution: Rogue Evolution

Sanctum 2.6

The evening's sun was beginning to reflect off the screen of Anna's new laptop, so she was forced to reposition on her bed till she could better shield herself from the yellow haze. She was surrounded on all sides by her newly acquired horde of clothes and back-to-school supplies. All of which she had the greatest intention of putting away - that was until she came across the bag with the laptop. It was sleek, touch screen, and could load up a web page in less than a second. It was basically everything her old Dell desktop wasn't back at home. The thing crashed buffering a video and it was a miracle it didn't burst into flames every time it booted up. A laptop too was a novel idea. Something portable. Something she didn't have to have cables twisting over wires wrapped around a monitor just to try and watch something from her bed. Finally, she was getting a glimpse of the future, and it was a six-core behemoth that was barely over a pound.

So enthralled in her new 'strictly school work computer,' she hadn't noticed the door to her room open till there was the face of a girl not six inches from her own.

"Heyyyy roomie!"

"Huh!" Anna flew back into her pile of clothes, clutching her laptop to her chest like it was the final life preserver off a sinking ship. When she looked up, she saw a short petite girl with curly brunette hair smiling so wide and so bright her many teeth reflected the sun's rays.

"Hey-yo, what's up! I've been literally dying to finally freaking meet you! How you doing - how's it going? How you setlin' in?" Her voice was unlike anything Anna had heard before. She had a valley girl way of speaking, yet there was an unyielding earnestness that was near suffocating. Like she was hugging a kitten so tightly that its eyes bulged out of its head.

"Uh -"

"Girl, I've heard you've had a time! I mean like - geeez!" The girl perched on the edge of the bed where Anna had once sat. "So like, what - you're living in the middle of nowhere and you get these 'okie - spooky' powers and the hillbillies start throwing rocks at you, or what? Gawd! That sounds so scary! I don't know what I would have done! When I got my powers, I was all like - 'oh my gosh, everyone knows and everyone is going to freak,' you know? Like, is that guy looking at me funny? But he probably wasn't, but he could be? But like, more than likely not. But how do you know because you suddenly have these powers and, like, how do you know! You know?"

The girl spoke at a clip that would rival any auctioneer that Anna had ever heard of or seen. Her lips were almost a blur at the rate at which they moved.

"Anyway, what's it been like? I mean like here? I mean, I want to hear what else it's been like, like before at home and stuff. But like I said before - how you doing?" She paused for the first time. "I'm Kitty by the way!"

"Uh... Anna."

Kitty's mouth split into an even greater smile. "Anna! Oh my gosh, I love that name! It's like Bell's name from Beauty and the Beast - except of course it's not, her name was Bell - but like, it's the same sort of vein you know? Gosh, I love that movie!"

"Yeah..."

"Yeah? Yeah! I mean, yeah, right! Anyway, how are you?"

"Fine, ah guess?"

"Ho-ly accent! Oh my god, your accent is so freaking cute! Where are you from, Alabama or something?"

"Mississippi."

"Mississippi! You from the South - South. Like, where the confederate flags are made and stuff. Ohhh that sounds spooky. Don't know if I could do that. I'm from Illinois. Deerfield to be specific, but who cares about specifics like that right? It's not like you're visiting my dumb old hometown."