Jen fancied herself to be a normal girl. Not too smart, not too dumb, not too fat, not too skinny. Completely average, and she was rather proud of it say the truth. Which means that like most people in America, she was rather disconcerted at the discovery of mutants. When they had been revealed to even be in the school-, well let's just say that she wasn't looking forwards to going back to on Monday.
But she did, and was surprised at what she saw. These mutants... didn't look like mutants. She was expecting something like- oh, extra limbs or strangely colored eyes or hair. But, that wasn't the case at all. They were her classmates, people she's worked alongside for years in some cases.
She did an art project with Kitty, has helped Evan in English before. Are these the monsters Principal Kelly had warned them about in the morning assembly before the day started and the mutants came?
Jen remembers the first day Rouge had come to school, how alone she had looked. And how content she had looked on the first day of coming to school with the Xavier kids. She remembers how happy she had felt when Jean and Scott had finally come to school hand-in-hand after denying their feelings for so long. She even remembers seeing Lance and his gang hanging out behind the school, laughing and messing around just as any group of adolescent boys would.
Those teens, they're the people that made her mother watch the news with a fearful eye, or made her father even more irritable than usual?
It just didn't add up.
But watching them walk down the halls, insults and jeers being thrown in their path, she knows it to be true. She feels like she should stand up, do something, show them that at least she knows the difference between a monster and a mutant, but since she is entirely average, she simply stands back and does nothing.
High School has never taken kindly to those who are different.