Author's Note: Harvey Nilsson's view on the world before he became a teacher at the famous Academy for Gifted Students (previously Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning)
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I observed the world around me in dark shades. All the different colors were dulled by my sunglass but I felt lucky that I can still see the shapes and patterns of my surrounding.

Several friendly, polite people passed me and I greeted them with cautious smile. They were mostly my neighbors who always sympathized me for my 'condition'. My parents told them I was born with sensitive eyes, so I needed to wear sunglass all the time.

It was only half-truth and utter bullshit of course. In fact, I remember removing my mom's sense of smell when I was four. I stared at her for one moment and the next thing I knew, my mom panicked at her inability to smell anything.

I did not realized the truth until few hours later when the same thing happened to my uncle. Only he lost his hearing.

This ability to take away physical senses by staring at the others' eyes terrified me. For a while, I closed myself from the world. I did not dare to look at others for a long time.

This concerned my parents but not as much when they have their own problems such as mom's sudden inability to smell.

It was not until I found the miracle of sunglass that I learned my power can be nullified by the barrier of the dark shades. After that, I persuaded my parents and everyone else that my eyes were sensitive and required sunglass.

For the next few months, my power would be uncontrollable so I was glad for the sunglass. But two years later, at six, I have learned to control my power by sheer will.

I can finally decide when to take someone's senses away. But I kept the sunglass on, continuing this little charade.

Until a certain neighborhood bully found out about my secret. How Jason knew, I did not know. All I knew that moment when he confronted me was that I should do something about it.

I should keep Jason from revealing my secret to the neighborhood and the world.

With that in mind, I took my sunglass off after a two years of wearing it in public. I stared at Jason and sharpened the focus of my power on him.

I only had one goal that moment – to eliminate the problem. It was pretty cold-blooded but I had no regret.

People like me, mutants, were not welcomed in this world. And I did not want to jeopardize my only chance of happiness in the neighborhood.

So, I removed all of Jason's senses. I took away his sight, smell, voice, touch and hearing. All of the important, crucial physical senses.

I remembered seeing Jason's mouth opened and he looked like he screamed. Except that no one was able to hear him as his voice was gone.

Jason then tripped and got injured pretty bad. That was when I took my chance and create a simple story on him losing all his senses by 'accident'.

His parents did not seem sceptical as they were too worried fussing over Jason. But no one else seemed to question my story so I kept the little charade on.

I needed to if I wanted to continue living happily here.

I always knew I was different from the rest of the kids in the neighborhood. In the end, they were nothing compared to me and my power.

ENDS.