xp_logs | Angelo and Kitty, backdated

He goes looking for her to claim his hug, and they talk about how he is, her time in Chicago, and university.

Since he was feeling at least somewhat better, and with more of a grip on things, Angelo decided to go in search of Kitty and the promised hugs. After checking a few places, he found her in the library, making a start on the new semester's reading. He walked over to her desk with a slight smile and a
quiet, "Hi."

Kitty looked up slowly from her book, but when she registered who was standing there she shot out of her seat. "Hey!" she said, wrapping her arms around Angelo. "How are you doing?"

Angelo, despite having half-expected it, still blinked for a moment at being hit by a Kitty-cannonball, then his smile grew a little and he returned the hug."...Better", he answered. "Definitely better."

Kitty-cannonballs were a house speciality, as Jamie could have told Angelo. As it was, Kitty just tightened her grip. "I'm so glad to hear it. Insert promise of vengance here, and then, if you want, we don't ever have to talk about it again."

Angelo nodded, thinking that over. "I don't know about ever... but not just now - and I appreciate the promise of vengeance. It's good to have you back."

"Any time you want. It is absolutely wonderfulto be back," Kitty said, releasing her death grip hug and grinning at Angelo. "I've missed you. I've missed everybody, but it's fantastic to see you."

Angelo took a small step back, since she'd let go,returning the grin tentatively. "Missed you too -wasn't quite the same without you in the mansion.
Hope your summer wasn't too borin'?"

"Boring as all get out, interspersed with moments of screaming and a couple actual good times. Things are much better now that I'm back, though."

Angelo nodded wryly. "Well, there's not much chance of things bein' borin' around here for long, at least."

"No, indeed not," Kitty said, her grin slipping a little. "They certainly haven't been yet, and it's only been a week or so."

Angelo noticed the fading grin, and was sorry for it. That hadn't been his intention... "Hey. We always come through, don't we? One way or another? Now, tell me about these good times you had in Chicago...?"

Kitty's smile firmed quickly, though. "True enough. Always here for each other, even when it's crazy. As for Chicago... Well, I met some relatively nice girls,
went swimming a lot, took dance. It would have been a perfectly normal summer, except that I'm not used to perfectly normal anymore."

Angelo chuckled. "I don't think I ever was used to that kind of normal, but I get what you mean. You get used to powers trainin', an' all the kinda random
classes they teach here, an' all that stuff, bein' here."

"Indeed, you really do. Not to mention, I could hardly tell my friends in Chicago that my boyfriend was taking a short summer vacation trip to Asgard, or even that I normally take a powers training course. Never even told them I was a mutant, which was odd in and of itself."

Angelo nodded with a faint grin. "Yeah, I can see how Asgard would be hard to explain. An' you didn't tell any of 'em? Mind you, I s'pose with you it's not
obvious, so there's nothin' says you have to. Must've been a pain rememberin' never to use your powers around them, though."

"Yeah, I can pass," Kitty said, "and I didn't know who would care and who wouldn't. So, I just... didn't mention it. I mean, my power's sort of... not the
thing you use in social situations, anyway, so it wasn't that hard remembering."

Angelo tilted his head. "Even in your house? No more runnin' through the wall into your bathroom without thinkin', or straight through the door 'cause you've
forgotten your key or whatever?"

"Not really, no. I shared a bathroom with my mom at her place, and in my dad's apartment, too, so knocking was always a good thing, and since I was always the
one leaving last in the morning I'd be the one locking up anyway, so I couldn't really forget my keys. It just... never really seeemed needed." And, it never
really seemed to fit, doing something so blattently strange in what amounted to hometown America.

Angelo nodded and answered, "Fair enough", casting around for a change of subject. "What courses are you takin' this semester, again?"

Kitty grinned at that. "Oh, you know me. The usual overload of large amounts of science, mixed in with a liberal helping of dance type things. And English, to
make my mom happy." She wrinkled her nose at that, although it was more of an amused motion than anything else.

Angelo chuckled. "Somethin' that's not science? I'm amazed. Although I can't see why she'd insist on it, since science is pretty obviously what you're gonna
end up doin' for a career."

"Oh, she fears I am not well rounded in my girl-geniushood, and always wants me to take more humanities. I personally think it's because she doesn't understand when I start talking science with my dad, but it would be petty of me to say so."

Angelo frowned. "But that's just dumb. Either way. If science is your thing, an' it obviously is, she should just let you get on with it. Why make you do a
class you might not be as good at, 'specially the year before college?"

"Well," Kitty said with a sigh, pulling up the memories of all the 'discussions' she'd had about this over the summer. "Colleges do want to know you can do things besides your particular specialty, or, at least the good ones do. Additionally, it's stifling to limit your self and working on your weaknesses makes you stronger. Anyways, it's just an English class. It will hardly kill me."

Angelo nodded. "Well, it's your call. I should probably think about what I might wanna study at college, an' where. Should have the credits by the end of this school year."

"Well," Kitty said, "if you don`t want to worry about housing, and you don`t want to leave the area, the local`s really a pretty good little school. They`ve
been putting up with our wierdness for a while and haven`t given any of us trouble for it. Mind, I`ve only ever taken correspondance courses there, but Doug and M-A are taking real classes and I think Marie was planning on applying there. And, if you don`t want to stay here but want to stay in New York, there`s all the schools in the City, and half a dozen other fantastic private schools and really good SUNYs."

Another nod. "I would like to stay here, at least now- but a lot could change in a year. For the minute, though, I'm definitely thinkin' local college. You goin' to stay on there when it's time, d'you think?"

"I`m not sure," Kitty said. "I kind of want to go to Columbia or even Cornell, but it will depend on a lot of things. Jamie, for one, and how well the credits I already have will transfer..."

Angelo grinned and answered lightly, "Oh, they'd jump at the chance to get you an' you know it. Girl-genius is right."

Kitty couldn't help but match Angelo's grin. "Well, yeah, I guess I'm not that worried about being accepted. Just, I don't know, deciding."

Angelo nodded. "Yeah, I can see how it'd be a hard choice. Still, you got time yet."

"True enough."