"What are you doing here all alone?"
I looked up.
"Shouldn't you get back to your family? They're probably looking for you."
I snorted. "What do you make of my family,hmm? I'm sitting on the side of the road, starving and in rags? Do you think they care?Don't you get it old man? I've been disowned, abandoned, left for dead..I'm in gosh darn rags. Rags! For Pete's sake!"Wiping dirt from my face, I frowned. "I'm a freak! I blinded my father! I injured my own mother! I can't control it, I don't know what it is! Go ahead, leave, pelt me with rocks, it's not like they haven't done it all before." I said as I threw my hands in the air, angrily.
"But, dear, you're anything but a freak. I can help you, as you see I am one of you. We... you and I, are mutants, we have powers humans do not possess. I can help you control your power, and with time will not be a curse but a gift. Follow me, I know this swell school, where us mutants are neither discriminated, nor abandoned."
Hesitating, I got up as he continued to roll slowly down the dirt path.
