Chapter 1

Finals week was one of the worst times a 24 year old could have. I was in my final year of college and so far it had been a breeze, until this semester. It seemed that everything had become ten times harder then when I had started out. Classes had gotten harder and people had become much more distant because of the stress to graduate.

I walked around my room trying to memorize every bone in the body and what it was used for. Trying to become a doctor was the hardest goal I had ever put myself through. But so far, it was working out.

As I walked around my room reciting the different types of bones through my mind, I formed a small ball of electricity in the palm of my hand. I did this quiet often when I was trying to concentrate. For some reason, having my mind control such a strong source of power helped me concentrate more.

I tossed the ball of electricity back and forth in my hands as I paced my room. My mind went blank as I tried to remember the bones that ran through the legs. I sat down at my desk and let the electric ball float into the air right beside my head as I flipped through my book. As I found my answer I heard the lock on my door turn and I quickly got rid of the electric ball. My roommate Lisa walked into the room with her books and bag full of food.

"Hey Tria." she said.

"Hey! What's up?" I asked.

"Oh nothing." said Lisa as she set down the bag of food along with her books. She opened the bag and pulled out a bag of doritos and a mountain dew and handed to me.

"Oh thanks. You are my life savor!" I said. I opened the bag of doritos and began scarfing them down as though I hadn't eaten in months.

"So how is the studying going?" Lisa asked.

"Oh you know, memorize a bone here, figure out what it does there. It is so boring I could scream."

"Ha ha I know how you feel. That's why I quit trying to become a doctor. It's to hard to try and memorize every single thing about the human body!" she said.

"Yea no kidding. But, I've gotten this far, why not finish it out." I said.

Lisa only nodded. We sat there for awhile, neither of us saying anything to each other as we ate, but then Lisa's eyes widened like she had remembered something and started waving her hands in the air.

"Oh I forgot to tell you!" she said after she swallowed her food.

"What?" I asked.

"Do you remember the one kid in our English class? He had black hair, blue eyes, kind of scrawny, really nerdy? He sat in the second row I think." she said.

I thought for a minute, trying to remember everyone in our English class. Then it hit me.

"Oh yea I remember him! He was the one that always asked if he could be your partner. Yea, why what happened?" I asked as I stuffed my mouth with more doritos.

"You will never believe this. He's one of those disgusting and vile mutants!" Lisa exclaimed.

I almost choked on my doritos that were in my mouth when she said that. I coughed, hopeful that I could dislodge the chips that were stuck in my esophagus. I finally managed to calm down and drink my mountain dew.

"What did you say?" I asked, my breathe not completely back from almost choking.

"I said he was a mutant! Chad said that while he was walking back to his dorm, he passed his room and saw him with a ball of fire in one hand and a ball of water in the other! Can you believe that?"

I sat dumbfounded, not quiet knowing what to say.

"What do you think?" asked Lisa.

"I don't know."

"Well I do. I can't believe that they would let someone like that into this school! It's disgraceful!" exclaimed Lisa.

"Well maybe they didn't know he was a mutant. He probably hid it so he could live his life without other people looking down on him everywhere he went." I said.

"What are you talking about? He should be kicked out as soon as possible! We can't have things like that roaming around campus! Do you know what could become of this place. It could become a zoo if we let things like that in!"

"They are not things alright! They are people just like you and me and I would really appreciate it if you would stop looking down on them as if they were some scum on the bottom of your shoe. Yea so what, maybe we do have some things that are different from you, but it doesn't make us any more of an animal than you!"

I stopped and realized what I had let slip. Lisa looked at me as if I had grown two heads.

"What did you say?" she asked.

"I meant that, they are people to,"

"You're one of them aren't you?" she asked.

"No! I'm just saying that I have met some of them and they seem as normal as we do."

Lisa gave me a disbelieving look and I knew I had to come up with something to cover my mistake.

"I mean come on, how long have we known each other, not once have you seen anything out of the ordinary? I mean, I look as normal as possible and you haven't seen anything weird for the past 5 years."

"That doesn't mean anything. Look at that kid, he was normal looking but could produce devilish things from his hands. Who's to say you aren't one of them? I mean, you could be hiding your powers from everyone." she said giving me a look that clearly stated that she was testing me.

I sighed. "You know what. I don't know what to tell you, I don't know what to do to make you see that I am not a mutant. You're just gonna have to believe it yourself." I stated.

Lisa only glared and looked me up and down trying to see if she could see anything that would scream mutant. But there wasn't anything. She stopped circling me and stood right in my face.

"I can't tell if you are mutant or not, but if you are and I find out, I will no doubt feed you to the dogs because I am not gonna let myself live with that trash."

She obviously said that to scare me, but I didn't flinch. I only glared back at her showing her I wasn't afraid.

"I wouldn't either." I said.

She only nodded and turned to her desk. She grabbed her books and placed them into her bag.

"I have a paper to write so I will be in the library if you need me." she said.

"Alright."

She turned and looked at me one more time, seeing if she saw anything that would classify me as a mutant. When she was satisfied with her interrogation, she opened the door and left.

I sighed and fell back onto my bed. I closed my eyes and prayed to every God that I had ever heard of that no one would ever find out about my abilities. If they ever did, I would be ruined.