Thanks to shark ranger for coming up with this story's name.
This story is written for my friend Kim.
Chapter 1June, The beginning of the summer semester.
Sofia Mantega sat on her bed as she watched her blonde roommate and her best friend; Laurie Collins pulls clothes out of a dresser drawer and places them in a suitcase on her bed. Forgetting about the drawer, Laurie moved onto her closet. Sofia looked at the drawer and used the wind coming from the open window to shut it. Sofia's a sixteen-year-old Venezuelan mutant with the power to control the wind. Formally sweet, young Laurie has the power to send pheromones from her body that alters peoples emotions. Both teens attend a school for mutants in up state New York called Xavier's school for gifted youngsters. It's a place where they could learn to use their powers along with taking regular High School classes without fear of persecution from non-mutants. It's the first place Sofia's thought as home since her mother died.
"You sure you won't reconsider spending the summer with me and my mom?" Laurie returned from the closet with an arm full of clothes. She laid them on her bed and began folding them. "I hate to think you'll be here all alone for the summer."
"I will not be here all alone." Sofia said standing up from the bed and helping Laurie fold the clothes. "There are other students staying." The brown haired girl folded a pair of jeans and laid them on the bed. "Besides I volunteered to help Dani with the June summer camp. I don't want to go back on my word."
Laurie nodded and put the clothes in the suitcase. "I'll write you daily."
Sofia smiled. "You better. Dani and I need you to be our only link to what's happening in the outside world."
Laurie laughed and zipped up the suitcase. She looked at the alarm clock on the bed stand between the two beds than back at her friend, biting her lip. "I better go wait outside for my mom." She hugged Sofia. "Take care." Laurie grabbed her suitcases and left the room.
Sofia sat down on her bed, already sensing how empty the room felt.
The sounds of happy kids floated in through the open window making Kevin long for what they had. He didn't have any family to look forward to seeing on his school vacation. Both his parents were dead, his mother since he was young and his father when his power to decay organic matter emerged. He does have a few friends, but only ones on the Hellion Squad with him and they're only his friends because of Cessily. Red haired Cessily Kincaid had made it very clear that she had a crush on Kevin and it helped her case that the metal she was made of made her the only living being he could touch. Unfortunate for her Kevin did not return the affections. Kevin only had feelings for one girl. The blonde New Mutant, Laurie. Laurie had liked him once too. Than when she meet the mutant healer, Josh Foley, her feelings went from Kevin to him. Before any relationship could be started it ended.
Kevin put the blowtorch down on the table and walked to the open window. He watched as teens said good bye to each other for the summer and other bragging about what they had planned. Two girls sat down on the grass in front of the window, giggling.
"What did he say when you called him?" The one with long black hair and hawk like eyes asked.
"He apologized about what he called me when I made his TV implode within its self." If Kevin could see the brown haired girl's face he would see the smile her lips formed. "He said he wants to get back together with me this summer!"
Kevin rolled his eyes and slammed the window shut causing the two girls to jump. Kevin turned and went back to the table that held his metal sculptor. He put the welding helmet back on, lowering the faceplate and picked back up the blowtorch. He was about to turn it back on when he heard a female voice calling his name from the doorway.
"Kevin?" Cessily entered the room wearing a short skirt and a tank top with her long red hair down. "You going to be okay here by yourself? I could stay…"
"No." The helmet turned to face her. "You should go home and spend the summer with your family. I'll be fine. It'll give me more time to catch up on my art…. And to think about what we discussed."
Cessily smiled and flipped up Kevin's faceplate, so she could look at his face. "Thank you." She pressed her lips to his for a quick kiss than lowered the faceplate. "See you in September." She turned around and walked out of the metal shop.
Kevin turned on the blowtorch and grabbed a piece of metal from a pile on the floor putting it against his sculptor where he welded the metal to it.
