Kitty knew when not to press a subject and this was one of those times. They could agree to disagree, and that was about it. She smiled at his comment about the weather and shook her head, deciding to play along. "The humidity must have been murder on your hair. How Paige lived down there for so long, I'll never know. I'd end up with an afro by the end of the day if it were me." Though she was glad Jean-Paul was home, she'd be glad when Piotr came back as well. Things were still a little strained between him, Kitty and Theresa when he'd left. She wished she could have really fixed things before he'd gone.
Lakota snorted her disapproval at being ignored and still covered in soap, so Kitty climbed back up on the stool and reached for the curry brush in the bucket to finish her work as she talked. "I know. I thought it was pretty much an unspoken rule that I come before everyone and every thing. Because, you know, I am just self-important enough to actually believe that." In reality, she knew Warren would come to her when he was ready. Kitty could be patient. June was another story. "That's okay, you don't have to join. Just promise me you'll come to our first recital. I promise it won't be just ballet. There'll be jazz, hip hop...all sorts of good stuff." Clearly, she was excited about getting the whole thing up and running.
With the horse now scrubbed enough to satisfy Kitty, she grabbed the hose and turned it on to gentle spray and began to rinse her off. "Oh he didn't do anything to me. He's just an arrogant jerk. I went into the rec room one day and he had a kiddie pool in the middle of the floor. He was sitting in it, half naked and drinking some kind of booze. In the middle of the day." The memory still made her a little hot under the collar. "He doesn't really care about anyone but himself, he makes all these smart-ass comments, especially about the females of the school." Lakota was fully rinsed now as well, so Kitty turned the hose off and grabbed the towel to dry her. "When I told him it wasn't allowed he actually threw a copy of the rule book at me and told me to find where that was written. I swear half the people here don't take me serious because I still look like a fourteen-year-old."
If Ororo elevated her to second, though, that would change. People would have to take her a little bit more seriously. She wasn't just the female R.A. and the computers instructor. Kitty had a brain and she was confident in tense situations. Growing up with seasoned X-Men, being trained by them didn't allow for anything but. "You don't have to stay with me," she said after a minute of drying. "I'm going to take her out for awhile after she's dried, and I'm sure you want to see Ro and get settled in." She smiled warmly. "But I'm glad I got to see you first. I am the first, aren't I?"