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Tabitha POV
"You better get away from me now you mutie freak, or I swear to god I will make you."
I watched on in disgust as one of the cheerleaders shoved Jamie on the ground in the cafeteria. He had only just started at Bayville High and he didn't need sluts like her giving him trouble.
"Leave it Tabitha," I heard Bobby hiss at me.
"Relax Ice I'm not going to hurt anyone." I walked over and stood in front of Jamie, who was on the floor gathering up his books that had fallen out of his backpack. "Is there something wrong?" I asked glaring daggers at the cheerleader, "because I don't think it's very nice bullying new students, whether they are mutant or not. You got a problem with him then you have a problem with me." I could feel multiple eyes looking at me and I swear I could hear Kitty begging me to leave it alone.
The cheerleader came right up in my face, "Listen here you bitc-"
Suddenly some girl, probably one of the cheerleader's friends stood between us and offered a hand to Jamie. "Hey you're Jamie right? Awesome I have been looking all over for you." She helped Jamie up and put a hand on his shoulder, and then turned to the cheerleader and I. "If you two could stop arguing please, school is depressing enough without any more problems." The blonde, bimbo cheerleader sincerely apologised to Jamie, gave the mysterious girl a hug and shot me a dirty look before we returned to our tables.
I sat down and everyone congratulated me for not punching her. I felt someone tap my shoulder and turned around to see Jamie standing there. "Thanks Tabitha, that was really awesome!"
"No need to apologise Jamie, did she hurt you?" Because if she did… Ok so admittedly I may be slightly overprotective but Jamie was too sweet and innocent to be bullied. As was Theresa Cassidy, the new student at the institute from Ireland. She had quickly become close friends with Rahne (her roommate), Jubilee and Jamie.
"I'm fine, no need to worry. Can you guys look after my backpack though? I need to go somewhere."
"Sure thing Jamie, where are you going? Who is that?" Amara asked pointing not so subtly at the girl who broke up the bitch fight.
"She's cute, is she in one of your classes?" Roberto asked Jamie.
It was Kitty who answered though, "No she's in my classes. She is pretty nice, she has an awesome accent!"
Jamie rolled his eyes, "It's because she's English Kitty!"
"So why are you spending lunch this girl?" Ray asked confused as everyone looked at Jamie expectantly. He laughed, "She is only helping me with my Spanish assignment, and she is apparently very intelligent when it comes to well... everything."
Roberto nudged Sam, "Hey maybe you might have a shot with her. She's your age and you need to get a girlfriend. Although she might be out of your league" We all took in Jamie's tutor's appearance. She was average height and was quite skinny but she still had some muscle. She had long, brown hair which had been dipped dyed blonde and was currently flowing down her back; reaching her bottom. She was wearing a green dress that reached just above her knees, a white cardigan that was slightly too big for her and brown, lace up ankle boots.
Sam shook his head and said, "I already have a girlfriend..." He and Amara started to blush furiously as all the girls, apart from me since I already knew, got very excited. I thought I heard Bobby mutter something next to me but when I look at him he was quiet. What aren't you telling me boy?
"I've got to go guys! See you after sixth period!" Jamie called as he walked away with his tutor.
Kitty POV
"I hate school! It's like totally unfair that Mr Smith gave us a Biology test on something we haven't even learnt about! We are only sophomores!" To say I was mad is an understatement. I was fuming. We all thought that things would be different for us all now that everyone had seen us stopping Apocalypse but no! We were still treated like dirt. Tabitha gave me a strange sideward hug to calm me down. To re-assure me things would be ok. I was glad she had moved back in.
Apart from school, things were actually really good. Life at the institute was normal, well as normal as life can be when you are living with hormonal, mutant teenagers. Alex Summers (Havok) and Theresa Cassidy (Siryn) had moved into the institute and Danielle Moonstar and Forge visited very often in order to gain better control of their powers. Even X-23 showed up from time to time to go on missions. Lorna Dane (Polaris) moved in too; she has green hair and is incredibly pretty, Alex has a special interest in her. Her power is that she can control metal, a gift she inherited from her father, Magneto.
Magneto was no longer our enemy. He helped us with our training and schoolwork and very loyal and protective. Logan still wasn't happy about him living at the institute but everyone else had warmed up to the idea, especially Rogue since it meant Gambit was around a lot more. Piotr was often around too which was fun. He is sweet.
Rogue had been making great progress. Her control of her powers means that she can now touch people skin-to-skin, which is great. But I did walk in on her snogging Gambit which was totally gross. It happened quite a few times so the Professor offered Rogue a room to herself, as long as she didn't do anything to inappropriate.
I wouldn't admit it to Rogue or the Professor, I'm sure they already know, but I miss having Rogue as a roommate. Rogue was my best friend, she was the big sister I never had and even though we still talk all the time it's different. I miss having someone to confide in at night when I can't sleep.
On the plus side we had a new student joining us today and I was desperate to get home and meet her since she was going to be my new roommate. Logan said that she was his niece or something and that she was really caring and smart. He sounded pretty excited to have someone his level in the Danger Room; he is such a show off.
Everyone arrived home at the same time, Rogue had driven the X-Van, Alex had driven his jeep and Scott had taken his convertible to college, when we arrived home the Professor and Logan was waiting outside for us all.
"Is she here Professor?"
They both chuckled, "Yeah she's upstairs half pint." I was about to speak again, "And yes you can go and meet her. She is looking forward to meeting you. Storm is helping her unpack upstairs; you can go to if you want."
"Okay." I AM SO EXCITED!
Logan said that his niece only had enough clothes for a week because the rest of them were burnt or something. I paused, Burnt? I thought Logan said her power was to do with water. Shrugging I continued to jog to my room. Storm and I were sent to the mall to buy her all the essentials, courtesy of Wolverine.
I opened the door and inside was a familiar looking girl sat crossed on the spare bed reading one of my magazines.
"Wait I know you." She looked up and grinned, "indeed you do Kitty, no need to looked so surprised that I'm a mutant." She started giggling, "Kitty, are you still there?"
I blinked and realised I had been staring, "Sorry I just thought you were like a mutant hater. But clearly you aren't."
She laughed somewhat awkwardly, "Nope, I love humans and mutants. It's okay though everyone assumes it. I grew up in a place that had a well... variety of inhabitants living there; I'm cool with whatever challenge people have to throw at me."
Challenges? Don't worry you get plenty of them here. I wonder if her lack of clothing and personal items was due to the inhabitants of her last home, maybe it was a prison…
"Thank you for the clothes and everything by the way, they are all wonderful and fit a treat. So Kitty Pryde, how about you tell me about life at the Xavier Institute. If you don't mind can I go get a sandwich too please? And I have to give Jamie back his Spanish book. Gosh I'm unorganised and I'm rambling. Sorry, I tend to do that."
She's funny. We left my… I mean our room, "Sure thing, all the students are probably like dying to meet you. Logan is probably stopping them from going upstairs. I don't think I got your name by the way."
"Oopsy daisy, I'm sorry. My names Florence Edith Barton, but you can call me Flo. I've been staying in a hotel for the first week of school until I was ready to live with screaming teenagers", she did a cute snort. "Oh lord I just snorted that is shameful. Anyway I am so glad to be living here. On the first day of school I had no idea what I was doing, you have to help me! I'm a mess there. I'm a mess anywhere over here. I am honestly trying so hard to get used to life in America but it's hard."
"How long have you been living over here?"
"For most of my life to be honest but my home was pretty isolated and I only ever got to talk to friends of my dad. Like Wolverine. I miss them pretty bad."
She looked pretty sad and I thought I had better avoid anything too personal, especially since we had just met.
"So you're Logan's like niece or something right?"
"Yeah, I'm his god-daughter but I call him my uncle." She was smiling again. "He's a sweetheart once you get past his tough demeanour believe it or not, granting his training sessions are a pain in the arse at first!"
"Tell me about it." We told each other jokes until we got to the door of the rec room where I could hear all the students arguing. "So Flo, think you can handle the chaos behind the door?"
"I'm not really used to other kids" she admitted, staring at the floor, which made me frown. How could she not be used to teenagers, it's not like they were toddlers or anything? Surely she was allowed to talk to the local kids at her old home?
"But on the other hand if I can survive having Logan as an uncle what can't I handle?" She smirked.
I grabbed hold of her arm and phased us through the door.
Professor POV.
Logan was pacing in front of my desk. "Are you certain she will get on with half pint? I mean she's not exactly normal."
I snorted, "Who Kitty or Florence? Honestly Logan she will be fine you seem to keep forgetting who raised her. Her family is known as the earth's mightiest heroes, trust me she will be fine."
not much of a cliff hanger but hey ho
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