Disclaimer: i do not own any of the X-men characters. Only Rai and Harry.
Rai wandered around the one room which was her shared flat. Trying to find matching clean socks was a pain even with such a small place to lose stuff in. She lifted up old take away boxes and turned her small clothes pile upside down trying to find a decent pair. Glancing over the tip of a room her eyes scanned for the annoying item, then back to the run down mattress that was hers and her friends joint bed. She had tried to move her friend's butt out of bed twice that morning but had failed miserably.
"Harry! wake up were gonna be late for school." She grumbled nudging the cocoon of covers that was her friend.
"Gggggrrrrhgh!" was Harriet's incredibly articulate reply as she curled up deeper into the duvet in defiance "What you looking for an why are you being so loud abou-it?" Rai gritted her teeth and got a cheap megaphone that she used in the mornings as a last resort,
"WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD!" she yelled down it. "We have school and I don't want to be kicked out on the first day. By the way where are some damn socks in this place!" Rai circled the room once more and growled, raking her hands through her hair in growing annoyance. Harry retreated deeper into the covers but eventually crawled out the end of the bed, Her hair looking like a bird's nested in the small hill of covers.
"Screw school I'm perfectly happy being stupid and making a living without it!" she moaned senselessly in her sleep deprived state "Try your disgustingly organised pile of clothes." She grunted after a small pause.
"We cant get a decent job without an education dummy. Were lucky that mutants are now accepted into schools." Rai ranted finding the missing sock under the mattress and shoving it on her bare foot.
"Hah! Lucky! I might my own luck!" Harry burst out, her senseless and completely pointless stubbornness was exaggerated by her tiredness. She stumbled into the shower carrying the duvet with her. Rai stepped on the corner of the duvet making sure that she didn't take the thing with her into the shower. The zombie Harry just let go off it with a grunt and shut the door to the bathroom.
"Look we can barely stay living in this dump with our jobs as it is." Rai sighed stepping in front of the broken mirror to look at her tired reflection. Harry sighed in an unspoken agreement and got a quick shower with what was left of the mildly warm water, She came out looking slight less of a mess.
Rai brushed her ridiculously long white hair then handed her bedraggled friend the brush. She put the white strands in a ponytail and reached for her contacts. Rai hated being different.
Her eyes had turned crimson red when it was her 16th birthday. That was when her powers emerged. She needed to hide herself as much as possible. Make herself look normal. She had seen what some people did to mutants and that is why she was running and constantly cursing God for what he did to her. She grabbed her tinted contact lenses and put them on. The reflection now had muddy brown angry eyes staring back at her. She was so pale, quite skinny and short but she was glad to see she wasn't fat or lacking in the chest department. She was wearing a tight black shirt that said 'Deal with it!' written on in light blue. Over the shirt was a white and dark blue checked shirt and faded baggy jeans to finish of her look. She shoved her prize converse on her feet and tied the shoe laces. Rai moved aside to let Harry use the mirror. She stared into the mirror and constructed her usual day to day face over her natural bluish skin, she decided on fairly pale skin, startlingly green eyes and long wavy red hair, she stuck her tongue out at her reflection and then turned around to look for what to wear.
Harriet finally decided to shove on a tight black strap top on with a green and black checked shirt undone over the top exposing a fair bit of cleavage but not enough to be sluttish and tightened some plain black canvas shoes under her jeans before slinging a bag over her shoulder, heading for the door and fumbling for the key.
Rai grabbed her navy backpack and jangled the key in that was in her hand
"You never lock it properly, and you would probably loose the key even if you did." she sighed getting through the door and waiting for the tired pixie to walk out with her "Madam the pavement awaits thee, and it says get a move on!" She exclaimed in a snooty posh voice. Harry stepped out onto the pavement with astounding elegance before tripping over her feet and falling flat on her face.
"Wow graceful." Rai giggled helping up her shape shifter friend and dragged her into a run towards their new school.
Bayville High.